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

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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

In some posts she’s minted, in others she’s povo, whatever one suits her twisted narrative it seems.

Ha 😂 well "hun" I think you'll find a few more than 5% of the posters replying agreed with me but like in the height of covid hysteria a lot of them have been shouted down by the lockdown zealots and outside mask wearers

But yeah okay I'm "furious" if that gets you through your day thinking I even care one stuff about what some internet randoms think 👍🏻

@LuckySantangelo35

I was skint in lockdown yeah as I said in my op. but when I retrained my course went on a credit card not that it's any of anyone's business

And yeah I'm pretty okay for money now thanks to my new business. and making damn sure I save and save and also pay extra to my mortgage etc in case the government pull any more shit like lockdowns

My heart goes out to you because I lost a parent around the same time and feel nothing but hatred towards Boris Johnson. We were one of the lucky families that got to choose one family member to sit with our dying parent. It was a difficult choice to make but at least we had that choice. Many people died alone.
Reading on here how OP feels unfairly treated because she refused to wear a mask..... seeing what care home staff went through, many of them moving into the care home to reduce cross contamination. The mind boggles.
OP it was hard for all of us. Think about the ten people round the graveside in my family with no wider family to support us. Think about the fact that we had to drive ourselves to the funeral because funeral cars weren't allowed. Then think about the fact that your choice, because it was a choice, meant that your child couldn't arrive and leave school with the rest of the children.
Some of us had far less choice where sacrifices were concerned.

It’s cracking me up that you feel compelled to personally respond to lil ole me because I dissed your decor when you’ve already stated on here you won’t be responding to anyone who disagrees with you 🤣🤣.

I think that speaks volumes about your priorities in life and your low emotional intelligence.

Enjoy your wildly fluctuating bank balance dear.

Wearing a mask for aesthetic work while apparently 'knowing' they're useless? If they're useless, it doesn't matter how close you are, your mask will surely still be doing sweet FA?

If you don't care what randoms think though (well, seemingly apart from the 5% you mention who agree with you), AIBU isn't the place to be. 🙈

I think some socks got out of a drawer

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yabu for saying you weren’t personally scared of covid. I was a very active, healthy person before covid. I caught it in the first wave, was ill for a year and I’m still suffering some symptoms.
Just because you weren’t personally bothered doesn’t mean you get to endanger others by not following the rules.

Which studies prove your argument? Masks contain holes bigger than the virus (and that's ignoring the gaping holes at the sides of most masks). All but properly made surgical masks were and are completely pointless.

OP I’m so sorry. I try and block out just how awful it was and how vile people were. The lockdowns were an unnecessary over reaction and that should have been realised early on when it wasn’t the killer zombie virus people first thought it was. Lockdown was people at it’s truly most hideous, I hope people are ashamed at how they behaved. The utter losers calling the police on people having their elderly mum round. MN was the worst place for it!

I think people see lockdown as too black and white because lIVeS weRe SAvEd. They don’t see the nuances of the damage done by lockdown that will be felt across all generations for years. The long term effects of lockdown weren’t worth the ‘lives saved’ IMO and we also need to STOP acting like death is something unnatural or offensive as well.

Are idiots still trotting out this complete bollocks about masks? Christ, haven't you tired of your own bullshit yet?

The irony is the ‘kind’ people who clapped on Thursdays and ‘stayed at home’ happily as introverts (in their fancy 4 bed with huge garden, financially comfortable and on furlough) make out to be the kind ones. When I found they were the biggest cunts of lockdown because they expected everyone else to absolutely be the same and overjoyed at being cooped up, even if they lived in a bed sit with no garden.

Masks were pointless though and especially pointless outside. I have to say when is we people wearing masks now outdoors I assume they’re either stupid, neurotic or they have COVID

@JuneBridie

What can I say june ? You're special 😆😆😆

Happy Saturday !!! XX 😘

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They weren't, You're an idiot.

Totally agree with this

In my experience everyone that was okay with lockdown and all for it was in this or Similar situation with jobs that were very secure usually public sector that could easily be done wfh

@Aishah231

masks will still have been helpful cos of all the grotty gross people who can’t sneeze or cough into their elbow but have to spray it everywhere

likewise masks were good for stopping those people who were always chewing their fingers then picking up produce in the supermarket

OMG it’s like turning back time 3 years with the OTT insults and “If you don’t agree with me I shall declare you’re thick”.

Masks effectiveness has been debunked for some time now.

Yes. And they’re also people who hate the company of other humans. Some of us like the company of other people.

Honestly I reckon too many people (and they ALL cane on MN to cry about people being in their gardens) would have happily been in lockdown forever even if that destroyed the lives of others.

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