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

Yes indeed. The people accusing others of being sheep were amusingly ignorant of the fact that they were indeed ‘sheep’ themselves, just following a different leader with a different message.

It's made some changes to the way people live and work, or rather hastened ones that already existed. Remote and hybrid working are both very firmly established now. We're seeing difficulty recruiting in many of the roles that are less flexible because they need to be done at a set time and place. The 2019 labour market has well gone.

Agree the backlogs in the education and healthcare sectors are a real problem for workers, and likely making those roles less attractive.

Are people still going on and blaming Covid? It was one year of your life. If there were problems, it was there long before. Yes there are some extreme cases, but according to Mn it's the root of society today! When kids got back to school a few months in and it was all back to normal. Sorry but it's been 4 years now, time to get over it.

I asked one of my friends who was spouting this stuff on Facebook for a link to the information that she had access to, in the spirit of trying to understand rather than make assumptions that it was all rubbish.

It was a YouTube video to a woman claiming to be an expert in various types of medicine and politics, with a link at the bottom to donate money, talking absolute nonsense. She had put lots of things in her ‘bio’ which made her sound impressive but the bare minimum of googling and critical thinking showed that she was the Covid version of Dr Gillian McKeith (or to give her her full title Gillian McKeith)

Aggressive drivers
Three times this week I have been in a situation where I have experience such extreme aggression from other drivers, it was actually scary. My crime? Refusing to be bullied into reversing on a narrow road when a passing space was less than 6 feet from their car. Don't get me wrong, I live rurally, I am perfectly able and willing to reverse my car and do it many time each day on my way to and from work. But when my option is to reverse 25 feet and theirs is 6, I find it so disgusting that other drivers will drive at you, and flatly refuse to move. I had one turn off his engine and then when I did reverse for him, his diatribe of swear words made passers by stop and stare in shock (this was in town). It is almost like you are trying to imasculate them by asking for Road manners. I am so sick of this alpha driving (it is usually men but not exclusively) and bully tactics to get their way. Am I just being unlucky or is this something others are experiencing too?

Often misinformed messages at that.

Sorry, but if you think it all went back to normal when kids went back to school a few months in, you don't know what you're talking about.

What an uninformed and uneducated comment.

When I see the word 'sheep' in discussions about covid, it makes me switch off. Same with selfish and clot shot.

I hated every minute of it and couldn't wait to get back to normal
Some people seemed to love it,IME people who didn't go out or go on holiday and enjoyed everyone being in the same boat

vulnerable loved ones all got Covid and faired better than ds,dd, and myself.

Covid for them was a light cold.

For the rest of us it was a horrible infection that lasted weeks and the post viral fatigue was something that wiped us out

Trust me, many of us were far from “safe and cosy” in our homes. You have no idea what others had going on or how lockdown negatively affected them. I think you need to check your own attitude actually.

I swear I’ve read this exact OP word for word at least once before. Is it just copied and pasted every few months or something?

This.

The post you quote was fair enough until that point. But there's no excuse for not knowing, in 2024, how lockdown also meant trapping some people in the home with their abusers. Don't recall those people volunteering to put their lives at risk for the benefit of wider society.

I'm a volunteer dog walker and even I was designated "key worker" at the time!

I understand. I also agree that entitlement has increased. Teaching as a profession has certainly changed post covid in a negative way (children's behaviour and especially parents' attitudes to learning, absence and teachers in general). Sorry you're feeling this way as a front line worker. We shoukd be grateful there are any of you left working after the conditions you faced.

I loved it, the weather was amazing, ds was home for a few months, we spent loads of time in the garden and it was so quiet and peaceful with hardly any cars on the road. I could do that for a few months every year tbh.

Ok Doctor

Cleaners too especially hospital domestics. I was one in covid. Many of us lost our lives to working on covid wards.

we are the worst treated amongst NHS staff.

Ill never forget a comment that a colleague told me about a nurse who rudely told her to clean down a bed next to a Covid patient in a room full of Covid patient, she said that’s your next job, that’s what your there for, you get Covid so we don’t have to.
unfortunately for her a consultant overheard her and absolutely wiped the floor with her, said that if it wasn’t for us there wouldn’t be a hospital to work in and for patients to get better.

there were a lot of twats around before covid, twats in covid and even bigger twats around now.

and as for all the saucepan banging and hand clapping on a Thursday ugh

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

I experienced the exact opposite. I had a newborn and was suddenly cut off from spending precious days with my family. I missed my friends and their children, I missed the little community I'd carved out for myself in my town 200 miles from my family. I missed my best friend, whose mental health was getting worse and worse until she eventually moved back to her home country and hasn't come back. Friends had elderly relatives left alone in care homes, some of them dying alone. Funerals in isolation, weddings cancelled.

I know what's important. Family, friends, community, caring for each other. Lockdown obliterated that, it didn't suddenly make me realise that it mattered

People were arseholes during covid, just like they are at any other time. Do you not remember all the supermarkets being stripped bare? Or people calling the police on their neighbours for exercising too much? Just have a look at some of the thread on here from the time.

It was not back to normal a few months in. DCs were still being sent home to isolate if one class member tested positive. The whole household had to isolate and contacted by test and trace. They locked down again pre Christmas. GCSEs and Alevel exams were cancelled. The disruption to education was more than a few months.

Yes. It really opened my mind to how petty some people could be. I had many middle-class friends happy with their comfortable stockpiles, judging anyone who didn’t do the pandemic the exact way they did. An eye-opener.

There are people who were able to remain fairly oblivious to the nastiness going on during the pandemic, because they weren't easy targets.

Exactly. The lockdown killed my mother. She became mentally unwell, abandoned by the NHS and was given a powerful drug that likely killed her. The inquest was inconclusive.

My child's education was ruined.

I'll never get over the effects of lockdowns.