Frustrated and bored of this now

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Am I the only one who finds the Coronovirus inconvenient more than anything?

My husband, daughter and I are all fit and healthy and had Disney booked for Easter. Now it’s looking like we can’t go which for us personally, is a total bugger. I can’t even get through on the lines to cancel and get my money back and have to leave it a week because the lines are jammed.

I went to the supermarket on Thursday and today to get hand wash and some other bits. The first was totally sold out of soap and pasta. The second...:it was like the apocalypse. No canned food.....no bread...the idea of hand wash, soap or shower gel was a joke and all the branston pickle was gone. Branston fucking pickle?!?!?

I over heard a lady saying she can’t get nappies for her kids because they are all gone.

Some kid sneezed at a flip out /trampoline place today and I swear I thought some of the parents were going to shoot him where he stood. The rate they were going on you’d think he’d been licking the hand rails or something.

If you turn the news on, all you hear is about covid (as if nothing else is happening in the world) and it’s so dramatic. Have you seen the screen the bbc put up with covid plastered across it? It’s highly inflammatory and not even slightly reassuring.

Before people lay into me about being selfish I totally get why SOME portions of the community are worried. I get it because my father and father in law are elderly and both suffer with serious health issues and presumably you and they would implement the measures they can but normal people in a similar situation to me have lost their fucking minds!!!!

I said this yesterday but people do realise that in order to stop this from spreading, everyone needs to be able to access some form of soap. What good is it doing if you are wading into your bathroom, knee deep in it all when the rest of the world hasn’t got any 🙄

Completely agree but someone will come on and say your totally unreasonable.
The panic buying is ridiculous. The hysteria is ridiculous I'm just fed up now .
I'm worried of course but I'm not going to panic and buy toilet rolls it's selfish.

Yes completely agree. They people panicking and bulk buying are making this whole thing worse

YANBU. The constant changes in policy are particularly frustrating because it makes it difficult to plan ahead. Very bad for business too. But I’m sure that the vast majority of people wish it hadn’t happened.

YANBU, I have run out of toilet roll, can't get any anywhere and will have to wipe my bum on a sock.

Oh of course. I don’t wish this had happened at all and I do grasp the severity of it....for some.
But it’s the constant differing opinions, the panic buying and total mania going around is driving me insane and if you don’t buy into it all, you get torn to shreds.

@floppybit 😂😂 that’s amazing.
I’ll post you some. £20 a roll

I think its everywhere as its serious and we often have a sense of entitlement. How dare it intervene our holidays.

Give it a while. This thing will be with us for many months. People will settle into the new normal and the panicking will lessen.

Yeah I'm more worried what I'm going to do if I run out of toilet roll than I am of catching Coronavirus.
There will be a thread soon I'm out of toilet roll what can I use ?

Yes it's fucking annoying. I'm worried about it in a serious way too (I'm pregnant and DP is immunosuppressed) but it's still frustrating and boring. No end in sight either

You are incredibly naive if you think you and your family are immune to this illness.

And it will be like this for months so we all need to suck it up and get used to it.

@Rosainryehead nobody said they are immune to it .
It's a valid point we need to stop the panic !!

@Scruffyoak exactly! How dare it 🙄

@idontlike789 goes off to set one up

@Rosainryehead did I write I was immune? I can’t see I did. Maybe I’m sleep typing again.

Anyway, maybe people who are panicking should take your advice and suck it up instead of sensible ones having to get to the lunatic level.

Not really sure what you mean by lunacy. Panic buying, naturally, but cancelling holidays etc? That is just good sense at this point and anyone who thinks otherwise is being shockingly naive.

Lunacy is panic buying. It’s literally within the definition.

It’s the people panic buying that are causing me the most stress; I’m worried about getting soap and all the things I need for my baby and feel pretty annoyed that some people obviously have loads

I never said it wasn't OP, but your post is mostly complaining you've had to cancel your holiday.

Exactly!!!!! There would be plenty to go around if people thought about everyone else.
Supposedly shutting schools etc is meant to be for the greater community but what good is that when they don’t have access to the stuff they need on a daily basis.

It’s selfish, manic and utterly absurd.
I feel so sorry for people like yourself who have teeny ones and need the basics.

This is life now.

So yes. It's frustrating. And boring.

But I think it's exactly why they didn't already put the UK on lockdown.

We're bored already and not even begun hardcore measures. So goes to show people wouldn't stick to it.

It's like a weird dream and kind of expecting to wake up but it's not going to happen.

Well, I'm in isolation in Spain, happened in 24 hours, we are all on lockdown.

Good luck to you if you think it's nothing of course DLP (which is horrible) is shut.

Weeks before this happens to you in UK, if not days.

You do realise a female healthy 29 year old doctor died in Wuhan don’t you. It was reported on main news?

Just saying be careful.

@Rosainryehead yeah and I’m inconvenienced and bummed out by it. I was looking forward to Disney but now the giant mouse has got it they’ve closed. It’s sad and frustrating.