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

I have two jobs & worked both throughout Covid. One I worked from home instead of office based & the other was caring for Keyworkers children in my own home. Childminders were the forgotten Keyworkers. Teachers were praised for online teaching & adapting lessons, whereas Childminders were never praised for having Children form different families coming to our homes to allow Teachers, Hospital staff, Police etc to do their jobs. We weren't as protected as other keyworkers. I received one plastic face visor & a handful of masks as my protection pack from the LA, that was it the whole way through Covid. It still bugs me now that Childminders never got any recognition for their efforts during lockdown when we were putting ourselves & our families at risk by inviting children from parents who were still working with the public into our homes. I didn't receive any government grants either as I was employed as well as self employed so didn't qualify for any financial help even though my salary halved because not all my families were keyworkers could attend.

What are you basing this on? Because you’re completely wrong.

I didn’t realise childminders were a thing in Covid, to be honest. I suppose it stands to reason now that you mention it.

i kept mine at home - I probably could have argued key worker status but i was worried it wasn’t safe for them and wanted them at home with me. It was absolute hell trying to work with them at home but I think my two are closer for it. On balance, I’m glad we had that time (although it nearly destroyed me mentally).

@SpiffingOldBean
People sometimes was rhapsodically about WW2 and the Blitz spirit, but I think that's missing the point a bit. There was a stronger sense of community in the 1940s, a sense of the individual being part of things. Society is now much more fragmented, much more polarised, we are more suspicious of one another.

I think this is an interesting point. From my POV, there was an element of Blitz spirit about it, at the start. People offering to do neighbour's shopping if isolating, community groups springing up, chatting with strangers (2m apart!) in the supermarket queue, all the amusing memes and chat, keeping our spirits up, in various (international) Facebook groups I was in. At some point I started quietly breaking the rules and saw a couple of neighbours (indoors) who have remained solid friends - not loads of time together now, but that connection you get when you go through something together.

But the big difference was, just as everything else dropped away and we most wanted to cling to our fellow human beings, we had to do literally the exact opposite. The longing for connection in our fear was thwarted by brutal separation. And over time it got boring and frustrating rather than scary, and we turned on each other instead.

It is the greatest tragedy to have seen the seeds of what humanity is capable of in the best way - including global connection - that turned into the most divisive and socially destructive thing.

One daft thing I came across during the covid era was going to buy school shoes for my daughter. She had to try shoes on as she has a narrow fit.

Went to Asda. We weren't allowed to try them on in store (got told off) - but as I live 10 miles from town it would have meant buying a pair, taking them home and then returning them if they didn't fit. I couldn't afford multiple test pairs to buy so it would have meant several round trips - and a lot of petrol costs - or simply buying a pair, trying them on outside the store, coming back in, taking to customer service for a refund, and repeat until I found a pair that fit properly. We would have had to interact with many more people and had them in our possession far longer if we'd had covid than just trying them on in store!

It is the greatest tragedy to have seen the seeds of what humanity is capable of in the best way - including global connection - that turned into the most divisive and socially destructive thing.
The lockdown zealots need to be made to write that out for every day of lockdown that happened. Along with that mother of oxymorons - "social distancing". With the figure of 2m which the scientists admit they made up on the spot.