To not be over what happened to me during covid/lockdowns

[ifyougochasingrabbits]

Just a few of the things I went through

Losing my cleaning business i had built up over years overnight due to everyone cancelling us

Being humiliated by the headteacher at DC school shouting at me in front of other parents because I refused to wear a mask outside . My little girl being made to start school late and finish late because I was unable to wear a mask to collect her (school run was all outside I may add and I had no problem wearing masks in shops etc but I drew the line at in the fresh air outside)

watching thousands of pounds of income disappear at an alarming rate. while wondering if we’d still have jobs and be able to keep the house we’d worked our arses off for for years to buy. Going through six months of trauma with H furloughed and depressed because his work could not guarantee he'd still have a job at the end of it. He was on half pay as furlough was only paid up to about 30k salary iirc and if you were on more it was employers discretion to pay the full salary which his work didn't. He was even applying for jobs at supermarkets and delivery driving etc and getting no where despite having a high level job at a major house builder.

Watching selfish morons stockpiling at the very beginning

“Friends” dumping me, one Cos I dared voice out loud that I wasn’t personally scared of covid and was struggling with restrictions and did not agree with them.

Having to deal with the fact that many of my (remaining) friends had views I completely don’t agree with and accepting they probably feel same about me.
And having to cope with the fact they supported restrictions that were destroying our lives and mental health

Having my business absolutely trashed all over social media and being called a dirty bitch and worse by local people. Fake bad reviews etc. The “reason” was they took exception to me saying on a local page post that I didn't believe in masks in school (this was due to my kids really struggling with them) My 14 year old said he agreed and some of them then found him on fb and messaged him insulted his looks and called him stupid and a fucking moron etc. This was actual grown adults.

a random person inboxed me on Facebook due to seeing my business ad and threatened to "smash my face in" because she thinks i was “endangering lives” by working

My neighbour reporting us to the police for having an illegal gathering. This "illegal gathering" was me, my H and our 3 dc having a bbq in the garden. Needless to say we all live together

Being put on medication for panic attacks and anxiety in fact I minimised it to the gp. I was actually suicidal and the only reason I am still here is because of my kids and the fact my husband and parents had the same views as me. But I would secretly hope to die in my sleep and almost every day I would wake up and cry because I was still here.

Watching my 3 Kids completely fall apart due to schools being closed. While not only having to deal with seeing posts all over fb about how well other kids were doing and coping doing all their work, managing great. And knowing some people I care about actually wanted schools shut. One of my kids is still very unwell mentally and it all started with lockdowns

Oh and to add final insult to injury, in November 2021 I had to pay £5700 (which was part credit card and part all of our savings) privately for an operation that should have been freely available on the nhs. But cos covid they could not give me a date and I was getting more and more poorly and could not wait.

I am still angry and maybe I should get over it. But I can't. And There's probably more but these are the stand out moments. I'm doing okay now and I have a new business and I'm doing well, H has a new job as he could not trust his old place after covid. but I've been very low again recently with the anniversary of it all

Sounds like you had quite a run of the mill experience.

I’m afraid I don’t think refusing a mask at drop off and pick up with reasonable

I don’t feel over the lockdowns either but more because the way single adult households were treated in lockdown 1 was awful

I know of people living alone, completely isolated and scared. Someone who lost a parent whilst working for the NHS themselves. Many people had a worse time than you did.

Im a teacher. Working at a school with children who had parents like you who didn’t believe in Covid was hard because we had to accept it. The head was annoyed at you because we couldn’t protect ourselves and the least you could do was wear a mask!

This is frustrating though @ifyougochasingrabbits

Full sympathies to those that couldn't wear a mask.

But you were choosing to not wear one to make a point, which probably went along with your views that you "weren't scared of COVID".

Masks were one way to reduce transmission. They've become hugely politicised and a lot of focus on trying to identify to exactly what degree they do this. I have a much stronger opinion on them being used in schools (where arguably the benefits are higher, but so are the negative consequences), than on a adult popping one to drop their child off. You were choosing to be difficult about this.

This !!

I did claim it but did not get anything for months and the seiss was generally much less than furlough .

because we couldn’t protect ourselves and the least you could do was wear a mask!

outside?

Agree

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I would say refusing to wear a mask at a detriment to your daughters education is attention seeking behaviour. You sound incredibly self centered and lacking in empathy. I'm not surprised people took issue with you. Seriously grow the fuck up.

Here she is…..STILL only replying to people who agree with her!! Bore off love

Masks outside were purely performative though. Particularly masks outside to drop off children who were about to spend all day together inside.

Brainless idiocy

Yet another thread I have read where some of the people commenting are judgy snotty fucks. You literally get flamed for saying anything on this site!

Whilst I am sorry that you have suffered financial consequences as a result of covid lockdowns I am afraid you chose not to wear a mask rather than weren't able to and you should have realised the amount of fear and distress you were causing to others. (Whether they were needed etc is a different issue which may or may not ever be resolved). The reality was they were required at the time and you made a choice and cant really then be upset that you purposely upset others.

You wouldn't put your child first and stick on a mask for all of five minutes? That says a lot about you as a person. It's not an easy life, it's putting your child first.

This

I don't remember seeing the OP say she didn't believe in Covid?

The school were doing it purely to shame people who refused to go along with the mask outside farce . Cos they did not like us standing up against the bollox

I wasn't doing it but as I have stated I wore masks indoors and I wear them still now for my work

Oh and my little girl was only 6 at the time and she used to laugh at people wearing masks outside and when they put their ridiculous biohazard tape in the playground she went round pulling it off. And i didn't stop her. She is almost 9 now and a strong clever feisty girl who takes absolutely no shit. I wish could say same for one of my older ones who is a mess 😔

EXACTLY

Why are people saying I'm some sort of covid denying conspiracy theorist when I'm not and never have been 😆😆

Everyone struggled with covid and lockdowns- some more than you, some less.
Your post serves as a reminder of the risk of sharing controversial political views on social media and the impact on your life, both private and professional.
as you can see from this thread many agreed, more agree after the fact but the reality was we had to get on with it with the information we had.

I was anti covid restrictions, didn't wear a mask and unvaccinated. I got the Delta variant in Dec 2021 and thought this is just like a chesty cold no big deal. Little did I know what was to follow. I got the the worse neurological long covid my GP has come across. I was bedridden for six moth and was taken in by ambulance to hospital at least 15 times. I had:

Tremors, seizures, heart rate shooting up to 180 randomly, extreme vertigo, constant nausea, extreme cluster headaches/migraines lasting for days, loss of vision, left throat closing up, symptom of heart attack every single day, loss of sensation in my body, paralysed legs, unable to walk (brain & legs didn't function together, extremely out of breath (when my legs did work), sleep apnea, brain zaps, painful electricity waves shooting trough my left body and brain, stroke like symptoms, unable to hold my head upright due to pain/electricity waves in my neck/brain, constant vomiting, abdominal pains, rapid weight loss, unable to perceive my body parts with my brain, loss of consciousness, very low blood pressure, burning sensation in my body, circulation problems (feet would go white), hallusinations all about death, insomnia (every time I was drifting off to seep I got woken up by brain zaps, once I was awake for 72 hours, When I could sit up I could not use my voice at the same time without my heart rate shooting up, If I wanted to say something I had to lay down). All these symptoms which kept coming and going and alternating left me suicidal and psychotic . All I could do was staring into a wall or keep my eyes closed. I felt like I was being abused internally. My mum had to come and live with us for 6 month to look after me and my young children. I begged my mum and my GP to help me end it as I couldn't do it myself. This is just the short version of what happened to me and I will never be over it.

There are so many people out there still suffering from long covid. Some of them are in a wheel chair still unable to walk.
What the government asked from us was a short time in our life in order to protect each other from this horrible virus until people got the protection from the vaccination.

Thank you 💐💐

It really is I'm earning more money than I ever dreamed was possible in a successful business. Doing a job I absolutely love that makes a positive difference to my clients and I am finally creating financial security by paying my mortgage off quicker and building savings. so if any bullshit like lockdowns happen again I will be better equipped

OP - and the few posters they are responding to - are assuming those of us disagreeing aren't self-employed; didn't lose business and weren't furloughed. That's not the case. We just weren't arses who made public stances and then cried when those stances had obvious consequences. Being an adult is about taking responsibility. OP would prefer to blame everything on others. Even when it's clear her own actions caused a number of her issues and created issues for her DCs.
Being an adult is also about keeping a sense of perspective. People died because of Covid. The NHS was brought to its knees. People couldn't see their loved ones. And yet the OP - and their enablers - think making arsey comments and getting arsey responses is on the same scale of tragedy and loss.

You sound utterly vile. These people were potentially incredibly vulnerable or worried about someone very vulnerable. You should be ashamed of yourself and your daughter.

Why are people saying I'm some sort of covid denying conspiracy theorist when I'm not and never have been

Because that's what happened during covid...any questions or independent thought process that deviates from the official line and you are a conspiracy theorist nutter

And yet you're still whining.

Absolutely disgusting

My then 11 year old could not wear a mask due to panic attacks and dizzy spells but she got so much abuse

I am sorry 💐