Wish they stop talking about Covid?

[PassingStranger]

It's 5 years as we know since lockdown.
Talking about it on the news and radio.
Wish they wouldn't.
Will they talk about it in 5 years time because it's the tenth anniversary.
Do we need reminding?
AIBU.

This is so funny! 😂

It was and still remains shocking. It was the date of the first lockdown. I know a lot of people didn't agree with it,a lot of people disagreed with mask wearing and refused. I had retired but my old hospital and colleagues and friends were on their knees. Some of them dying. It will be remembered,as 9/11 and Grenfell, the ww, the plague. I signed up for a 5 year COVID study at Queen Mary's University, and when it finished early this year, I felt very emotional and privileged to have done a little bit to help with future research.

Yes. It's inevitable.

People died and many lost loved ones not to mention those who have long lasting side effects. It profoundly affected many lives. It will and should be talked about. Don't listen and don't read if you are not interested.

While benefit recipients are being constantly bashed, very few are discussing those who took billions for providing very little. Few of them have been held accountable. One example 'Baroness' Mone and her husband who were involved in the provision of PPE. The Government was due to sue them for £122 million plus costs but hasn't done to date. There are many others who should be investigated.

Yes. That will happen, and keep happening until the next big pandemic demotes Covid to "the previous pandemic"

The only thing that will give me any closure on the cruel lockdowns, the blatant corruption, scandal after scandal, the parties and the unforgivable state of fear is for the biggest cheerleaders and culprits to admit to the massive harms these things caused, and for some politicians to end up in prison. (Ordinary members of the public can be jailed for far less significant crimes, such as lying about who was driving a speeding car.)

Until this happens, I intend to keep talking about these things, so they are never forgotten, no matter how hard the establishment tries to pretend the harms never happened. Those behind the cruelty are hoping we will forget; I have no intention of doing so, because until lockdowns are roundly denounced, there is a possibility they might happen again, possibly for a totally different reason.

It cam from a lab, funded by Fauci. They knew it all along and lied. The jab was not safe and effective. Lock down caused more harms than it averted. Ventilators were a death sentence. Big stuff for many.

Surely that is obesity? Yet no one wants a serious conversation about that.

Some of us will never forget it, I lost my lovely Uncle who’s dedicated his life to looking after to others, and another relative who was young and still a servicing Police officer.

It's still circulating and making people ill and a significant proportion of people who catch it experience long term after effects. There's extensive evidence to show it makes things like RSV and Strep A worse, and that it affects the heart particularly badly. You should probably expect people to be talking about Covid for a while longer.

Lots of people think we shouldnt do that, how long will that go on for? Are we still commemorating the end of the Boer war, Crimea, Napoleonic?

And when people are mentioning how big the pandemic was and therefore thats why people are talking about it, they're mentioning a lot of other big events including the wars of course, but no one references Spanish flu, killing millions.

The reality is we are picky and choosy about which bits keep getting anniversaries. Im not sure why.

My goodness, what a tiny world you must live in. Covid-19, as a subject, is not all about the lockdowns. People are still catching it and still dying of it. Look at hospital statistics. My sister in law didn't get it when the pandemic was at it's height, but she's had it twice in the last 6 months. Other people I know are struggling with the effects of long Covid and probably will for the rest of their life. Nor was it just about UK. It was a global pandemic. Other countries are having their own discussions about it. It's also not so much about an anniversary either. Our legal processes work very slowly and people who are trying to sue the government, hospitals and care homes are now having their cases made public. What about having some compassion for those who lost people they loved in horrible circumstances? Why should they stay quiet just because you have a very weird aversion to facing the truth? You're going to have a very miserable time in 2026 when the final findings of the government enquiry are due to be published.

Covid had a massive impact that continues to be felt so no we can’t stop talking about Covid.

It will be mentioned in the history books for many years to come and children will learn about it. Maybe even a set topic for GCSE or A level in history, sociology or psychology.

It was a global pandemic and important.

I do wish people would stop saying it was a
'global pandemic'

The definition of a pandemic is “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.

@PassingStranger from what point of view do you wish they would stop talking about it?

It's already crept into some of the A Level work from what I've been told

The first lockdown began 5 years ago - a lock down which lasted several months, was slightly lifted before plunging back into full lock down again for several more months. The lock down wasn't really lifted properly for over a year and small restrictions and rules like masks kept changing until 2022.

2 years of rules and restrictions which massively affected lives and raised serious questions about whether they were needed.

And, as there was no real "end" date that could be marked, using the first lockdown gives a definite "date" to remember on.

It will become less remembered as time goes on, as only the bigger anniversaries counts, as those who remember begin to die. Just like we only mark the big anniversaries of the events in the war and don't mark those from things that are well beyond living memory.

Millions of people, including children, have been left disabled by it. Would you like them all to be ignored and forgotten? How about the millions that died, shall their lives and the loss of their loved ones also be dismissed? It's nearly 4 years since the last lockdown, who cares about loved ones dying alone or the lives that have been ruined. Some people just dwell in the past, ay.

It will eventually fizzle out of course. And as newer frightening world events happen, the pandemic will start to fade in people’s awareness.

For me, it is the social impacts of Covid that still seem to persist. The shift to working from home, how people view schools and education, the dire consequences for the NHS now in terms of waiting lists, etc. It is definitely not over in terms of what it has left in its wake.

And this is proof that when people say 'move on' they mean I feel sick of hearing it or uncomfortable so stop talking as this is about me not you.

Basically you tell others to move on because you are fed up. People can talk about whatever they want to. That is the world we live in.

Its weird, my grandfather and grandmother who survived the 1918 flu pandemic that killed 50 million people approximately, on top of the huge losses of WW1, never, ever spoke of it the whole time I knew them. They were adults during that time.
They avoided any questions about it too.
Covid seems like a strange dream to me now. I can hardly believe it happened.

Don't mention the war. I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

(Shameless Fawlty Towers reference).

This is what the healthy not bothered about Covid say. This voice is louder than that of people who had family and friends die, who suffered when having covid, who have life long effects. All the there should never have been a lock down comes from those who didn’t need medical care, weren’t turned away by hospitals, survived and don’t give a care for others.

It’s not as if Covid has gone away - I tested positive yesterday and can hardly stand. I’m feeling every bit as ill as I did when I first caught it in 2022, despite being fully vaccinated. The virus had such a major impact on so many people, of course people are still going to be talking about it five years later.

It was a global pandemic. A pandemic does not mean it's worldwide. If it was limited to the UK but affected the whole of the UK, it would still be a pandemic, but a national one. If it affected only the Southwest but did affect all of it, it would be a regional pandemic. This time we had a global pandemic because it spread worldwide.

Of course we will. It changed the world forever. Just as we talk about other huge events on anniversaries. Why should we remember and reflect on something that had huge implications around the globe?
Why exactly is it that you feel like it shouldn't be remembered?