To ask regarding COVID - what does 'we just have to live with it' look like in real life?

[Fay2121]

I keep hearing the phrase.

What is the reality of 'we just have to live with it'.

Ahhhh, bloody COVID ruining our family holiday. Child too ill to travel, virus transmitted at school. Two weeks in the sun....gone.

So much mess isn't there. Empty shelves, delays with postal items, can't get a GP appointment ( and when I did he shone a torch at my sore mouth....from about 20ft away...😂😳), hospital appointment for DF can't happen for 6 months, train cancelled mid week (staff shortages) and I couldn't get home from work. AAAH!

Perfect storm - COVID - on the back of BREXIT- on the back of severely underfunded public services.

@peaceanddove

It's very curious. People I know who have made a huge meal out of Covid are precisely the people I would have predicted to make a huge deal of it. They seem to have caught it multiple times, lots of residual health issues, they read every word about it and are 100% up to date with all the latest research. It's almost become like a hobby for them.

Whereas, the people I know who have pretty much breezed through Covid, are exactly the ones I would have predicted to. They pretty much all had it, but very mild symptoms and no talk of Long Covid. They're not remotely interested in the details and just want to get on with their lives. Covid just isn't discussed in any social or work setting.

I think that says more about you than anything else.

The people I’ve met who have had covid have generally been affected badly (I was a paramedic during the first wave) and many of my colleagues who were not the sort to make a huge deal out of being I’ll have been in intensive care and have long covid. It’s really unpredictable and people and how they reacted to it really can’t be put into simplistic boxes like that.