Have people forgotten about covid and what's really important?

[Beautifulweeds]

Just this really.

Covid...working or non working parents had to have online teaching at home (for working so much more difficult). Teachers had to do these lessons online while supervising their own kids being taught online.
It showed how many parents found it difficult teaching their own and so sad some suicides of single parents having no escape.

Supermarkets...
In fear of covid but worked through, online delivery went through the roof, all working. A close relative with parent on chemo hadn't got the official document through so had to keep working and go home to a highly vulnerable person. Took several weeks to sort, otherwise woukd have lost job if refused to go in.

NHS, I remember the days just before it was announced and A and E staff having a more than full waiting room of coughing before mandatory mask wearing.

The impact...stay at home, if you could. Celebrities showing off, non essential things like false eyelashes, fake nails, any form of plastic surgery etc stopped.

The world realised what was important. Now it has too easily gone back to the superficiality it was before and people complaining about everything.

Thank you for reading my long post, just needed to put it out there.

I, for one, as a frontline worker and human being, am so disappointed at how so many people have gone back to being so rude and entitled, when they were relying on us at thay time to help them live. X

Hmm I don't really remember that being a side of covid that I saw!

I don't think it was ever going to change how the world was, a lot of people were incredibly unhappy during covid and couldn't wait to get back to normality - I'm not sure it really did any good for society.

Not sure what your point is? It was crap, end of

It was mostly all nonsense and lies.

U ok Hun?

People were being dicks during the pandemic, I can assure you.

I don’t understand what you are trying to say.

Thing that annoys me the most is people calling themselves'frontline' workers. Calm down love, you're not exactly in the trenches, about to go over the top.

I'm not sure what your point is either.

I wanted the world to go back to the way it was before Covid and I'm really struggling with the fact that it won't. It seems like all the really appalling qualities people showed during Covid are here to stay.

Or in some cases people have quietly become very strange, more due to lockdown, and that has seeped into all areas. I blame lockdowns much more than Covid.

but pre Covid, I was annoyed by lack of handwashing and now that seems to be the one thing that didn't stick! Ffs.

@ILikeItWhatIsIt I totally agree and my daughter is a nurse! She was embarrassed by it all, all the clapping on a Thursday nonsense!

I always wondered why some people thought it was ok to push past others, reach past them breathing heavily down their neck to get something in a supermarket. I nearly punched someone once when it was all a bit hectic because she reached by me actually getting her arm pit in my face to get something off a shelf.

I was reminded of that this week when I was queued up to pay for my shopping at Lidl or wherever. All my stuff was on the belt and as always I hang back a bit from the person in front - not like things are going to go faster if I'm smack up behind them. And someone comes along, wearing a mask as well, and jams my stuff forward and is basically reaching past me, breathing on me to get their stuff all jammed onto the belt in the most compact way possible. Eventually I turned around and shoved all their stuff back about 6 inches.

I mean - one of the things I always do is put heavy stuff on the belt first and then the light, bruisable, squashable stuff last so when I pack my bags the soft loaf and eggs are on top not crushed under the potatoes. I don't want someone putting their 2 litre bottles of fanta on top of my eggs! And I don't want anyone, sick or otherwise breathing all over me. Not me being precious but it's just not polite!

Attelina · Today 23:08
**
It was mostly all nonsense and lies

Not if you had a vulnerable loved one. How nasty are you?

The 2.5 years I spent in bed with it says otherwise.

I that was funny about the hand washing too.

The one thing that probably really had an effect, I still see some people masking despite limited evidence of efficacy.

But I suppose it is and was difficult even to get medical personnel in hospitals to treat hand washing as seriously as they should - it's like people have a bit on a mental block against it.

@TempestTost whhyyy though

mum was saying that the run on soap made her wonder if people didn't wash their hands before, but I wondered if people like me, always rigorous hand washers, had stocked up madly on it!!!

People have always been rude and entitled

During Covid they were furloughed or isolating....they were still there

Why is she nasty?

I think most people were just desperate to go back to normal.

It all feels like a horrible dream now.

The lasting effects seem to be mostly for kids who lost out on early years learning, a friend of mine is a teacher and says there's a marked difference in pre and post Covid reception children in terms of social skills

That's the million dollar question!

If I knew I would create a revolutionary program for hospitals and sell it to them for lots of money.

God, these threads make me wonder how many MNetters would rather lockdown happened all over again.

It's like they remember it with rose tinted glasses and any time now, they'll wheel the piano out and start singing Vera Lynn songs.

The world realised what was important.

No it didn’t 😂

Boris and his mates in number 10 were partying whilst telling all us plebs to “stay home, save lives”.

We were also told to stay home but at the same time “eat out to help out”.

Selfish people raided the supermarket shelves of pasta, baked beans and toilet roll. Going to the supermarket for essentials was like going out for basic rations in WWII.

Small business owners lost their livelihoods, whilst the mates of the Tories were awarded hundred million pound contracts to supply PPE and profiting millions.

There was so much hostility. Neighbours turning on one another. Reporting each other to the police for “breaking guidelines”. Whilst our lovely Tory politicians were also breaking the guidelines but gave no fucks about it. And gave no fucks for ordinary working class people.

It was an entire fucking shambles.

Now it has too easily gone back to the superficiality it was before and people complaining about everything.

The country was shit before the pandemic. Was shit during the pandemic. And still is shit after the pandemic.

I think people have the right to complain when the standard and cost of living in this country is (and sorry for repeating myself) shit!

@Beautifulweeds what is the stuff you feel the world realised was important at that time?

Now it has too easily gone back to the superficiality it was before and people complaining about everything.

I think this is part of human nature. It's a bit like when you're unwell. You tell yourself that you'll be thankful every day once you're better. Or when your kids are ill, that you'll remember to enjoy being around them when they're well. Or when your baby isn't sleeping, that you'll never complain about anything ever again if only you could get a full nights sleep. Or that when a week of a funeral or when the debt is paid you'll feel lighter and happier.
In reality we move onto something else to worry about, or the kids start annoying us again, or we resume bad habits that know increase our risk of illness.

Or maybe that's just me....

The empty roads were wonderful -that was the only good bit.

My brother had a ''key worker'' job and sent a dash cam of driving as the only vehicle down a motorway for miles- it was like something out of the apocalypse.

OP, that is some self-indulgent, finger-wagging cringe-fest but I hope it was at least cathartic for you.

In Ireland they had windscreen badges with Front Line Workers written on it. Many left the badges on their cars after restrictions lifted. They were still basking in their new found glory, thinking they were the bees knees.