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

One of my brother's friends {a doctor} died of covid, in the early days when they were intubating people.

He caught it and died.

It was grim for the hospital staff.

I'm sure there were twats as there have always been, but I thought it was a positive thing that suddenly many jobs which are low paid and often looked down on as unskilled and unimportant suddenly got more respect e.g. carers, supermarket workers, food provision, bus drivers.

How cheerful 🤣

The funny thing was, every fucker and his wife was a keyworker by the time the second lockdown came around.

Mostly because their firms wanted them working.

The frontline thing was very overdone, all the freebies and discounts when they were amongst the few still on a full salary. Not very HCP was in covid wards, plenty doing bugger all in empty departments..

Actually, it was.
Many, many nhs staff died from it. Due to inadequate PPE at a time when very little was known about the virus.
Most staff were told that the flimsy blue masks were ok to wear all day ( because it was the cheap option and totally ineffective)

over the years our opinions have seldom been the same on things, but every now & then they align completely, ,t's bizarre!!

You were politer than I was thinking though!!!

I’m sorry that you feel people are not treating you well.
People were encouraged to be kind to neighbours, help out where you could etc. Frontline workers were more vulnerable as they carried on working whilst most stayed at home.
For me it was a horrible time. If you were vulnerable or have a vulnerable family, it was awful.
I still appreciate going out and everything being normal. I’ll never take it for granted.

I, for one, as a frontline worker

Frontline worker, key worker, whatever it was, was just a bloody phrase coined by the tossers in charge at the time.

You and everyone else wearing that badge were people with jobs and not more important than others.

Are you aware that some frontline medical staff did risk their lives or even actually die?

I would like nothing better than to forget the whole sorry episode happened.

All the long term changes that resulted (re online bloody everything especially at schools) I'm wishing didn't.

It accelerated all the bad stuff imo.

Christ how depressing.

I think the thing about Covid it showed who the sheep are. It also woke up a lot of people. Sad thing is many of those that it woke up are damaged from the side effects of the carrots. Real sad.

This isn't exclusive to covid though, viruses have left people long term ill for ever. Covid just got more press

Well it was nearly 5yrs ago. I think what most people realised was, is that life is short. Once things got back to normal, many people started to socialise more, wanted to get out of the house so happy to get back to the office etc. But for some, they struggled to start moving forward again. Covid will always be etched on our memories but we need to move on.

I remember on GCSE day (my DD got hers this year) they asked a head if this cohort should have got some adjustment as they
were the final year that had missed some of secondary school (DD was in year 7 when covid started) and he said that we cannot let covid define a generation. I agree with that, we all need to move forward, and we are. Doesn’t mean it’s been forgotten or lessons not learned.

Many public sectors workers have had a decent pay rise for the first time in many years, this year. Thanks to a change in government. Mine is over 5% which is unheard of. For many years we had a pay freeze, and then were lucky to get 2%. So i’m hoping there is more recognition of public servants, despite what the Daily Mail would like people to believe, most work incredibly hard and never get the bonuses or huge salaries seen in the private sector

It's happened and gone and most people including myself are back to living a normal life. The thing that got me then was the "keyworker" and "frontline" worker words being bandied about. I was just going to work as normal and even when covid hit the workplace just got on with it. Some people have always been rude and angry regardless.

Yes. I know ICU medics. It was so so tough on those wards.

Covid lockdown was awful amd way over the top IMHO. But it's over now time to move on.

Yes people have forgotten about Covid as far as they possibly can because it was awful. What is your actual point?

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.

Why have you posted this? I’m absolutely sick of the divisiveness on MN and its always around teachers.

I worked more during lockdown than I’ve ever worked (biotech) and also had to supervise DC when there were at online lessons and when they weren’t.

I’m the same as everyone else. Who decides who gets a special badge and had it harder? It was very difficult for lots of people for lots of reasons.

Just stop.

I agree.

Gal Gadot’s singalong was the worst