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.

It's a valid point @PassingStranger. I watched some of the BBC program last night, and was struck by how stuck in grief some of the families were. There's no other cause of death whereupon it'd be deemed 'healthy' for the loss of a 90 year old to still be a 'daily struggle' 5 years later.

My Mum died of cancer in April 2020, at just 73. We had the entire lockdown loss experience, only 10 at her funeral, all sitting apart. If not for the NHS becoming a covid health service, we'd've had my Mum for longer. I've refused to be bitter, my Mum's 73 years of life meant too much to make it all about us. What does anger me though is when the media is saturated with assertion that the loss for families like ours was somehow 'lesser' because it wasn't covid she died from. There was no bereaved families support for us (which on reflection is probably a blessing - my Mum would've booted my arse if I'd still been moping 5 years later!).

Ah yes the "hierarchy of death" that was prevalent at the time. When mum died of covid (the anniversary of which is next Monday), we had all the "oh that's so awful" type comments that seemed never-ending. When dad died 7 months later (6 weeks after his cancer was found), the comments ranged from "oh that's a shame" to....and I shit you not....."well at least it wasn't covid, that would have been awful for you".

The language used around reporting covid linked deaths didn't help either....people "sadly" died wrt covid where as they "just" died from anything else.

All the people who worked through and suffered through it may prefer to have it commemorated
I personally had a pretty good lockdowns financially, practically and health wise so I will shut up and take my lead from those who didn’t

Thousands of us can’t move on because we’re still unwell with long covid. We’re the lucky ones as we’re still here.

Did they know the details of it? There was a media blackout, doctors were told not to panic people and minimise it, even to nursing staff, except for Spain, which is why it was called the Spanish flu. It was very interestingly covered on Upstairs, Downstairs. So if you watched that programme, you knew about it.

@ACabaret our local hospitals have cleared the Covid back log. Within the NHS, it will never fade, those staff, who have had it repeatedly, are now needing antibiotics for chest infections they would have shaken off. It's left many health issues in hospital staff.
I think that in fifteen years time, we will see much more poorer heart/lung health in 35-55 year olds.
@soupyspoon everyone is talking about obesity. It isn't the be all and end all when it comes to health, though.

I remember being taught about the Spanish flu pandemic at school. COVID will be the same. It is part of the history of this era. It is still affecting the way people live and work, and children who were born or in education at the time. It is naive to just say it is over, move on.

Erm no, people are talking about how to lose weight for themselves, which is good

What isnt being seriously spoken about from an NHS and government end is the devastation that obesity is causing this country, individually, economically and socially.

What is the game plan for this? Theres no discussion about it and about how we need to act pretty fast.

OP have you considered just turning the radio or TV over when you don't like what's on?

The reason why anniversaries of Spanish flu are not usually commemorated nowadays (I've no idea whether the 5th and 10th anniversaries were) is, I am sure, that the pandemic coincided with the end of WW1, and people commemorate that instead, Though the pandemic actually killed even more people than the war,

Whatever your view on Covid, it was a completely unprecedented global event that affected everyone for a long period of time. I assume you talked about it at the time , maybe even banged a few pans together at 8pm every Thursday.

As a country we are still feeling the economic effects of Covid and every third post on MN is about WFH, a direct consequence of the time.

Historical events especially of this magnitude are often talked about on the anniversary. What is it you were expecting?

At least now, we have the option of ignoring it, and tuning into something else; I'm a firm believer in ignoring the news. I abandoned Radio 4 in 2020 when I had heard "corrrrrrrronavirus" once too many, and I've never looked back.

In 2020, we didn't have that option. The propaganda was EVERYWHERE. You couldn't even go for a walk (and the "only one hour a day" finger-wagging was never true) without signs about social distancing everywhere (and the scientists have since admitted that "two metres" was made up on the spot, with no basis in science). You couldn't even watch TV to escape it: it made its way into every kind of programme.