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 🙄

I appreciate the thread OP. We need to remember the people that have died in the UK, died WITH Covid 19 not necessarily DUE TO. As has always been the case - speaking as someone whose mum died with Parkinson's. The elderly with other conditions are always at significant risk of anything which puts their immune system under challenge. So there will many more today who died as WITH pneumonia.

Love2cycle - well said. It's nice to see the voice of reason amongst so much panic.

And I do feel sorry for people who have holiday plans cancelled. Yes it's a small sacrifice but it is part of a healthy mental state so is also important to many.

Indeed and fully agree.
My father has COPD, dementia due to a bleed on the brain and at 71 is incredibly frail. If anyone is a prime candidate for covid it’s him.
So...as I’ve been saying all evening, I have enormous sympathy and concern for those within these catergories.

Those that are not and are panic buying meaning people go without, those that are so up their own derrières and cannot conceive of someone else’s alternating opinion and those that are creating extreme panic within society, can essentially...go fuck themselves with a big wooden spoon.

My immediate family is not within the expected death ratio of covid therefore the repercussions of it are inconvenient. Annoying. Irritating and so on. I stand by that.

Doesn’t mean I stick my fingers up at anyone who gets it/may get it and suffer from it.....no matter how hard some might try to insinuate.

@Sotiredofthislife I’m curious, who has been telling your child they are going to die?

I’m curious, who has been telling your child they are going to die?

Really? That's what you are curious about. My DC talk about it at school all the time and I have to reassure them a lot. I assumed that was normal.

I am surprised you don't see your father as immediate family OP. I know you say that by the time it looks like it is going to wipe out your family you may prioritise it. Will be a bit late then! Also a little self centred to be more concerned about your holiday while others are already dying. I agree the panic buying is extreme. It should be focused on the most at risk initially.

also, a PP said
Seriously though, sneezes and runny noses are NOT symptoms of CV-19, it would be helpful if the public could remember that.

They can be actually, would be really really helpful if people could remember that. They just aren't main or universal symptoms. I attended a hospital today where 'runny nose' and 'any flu like symptoms' had their own tick boxes and anyone who ticked them could not enter.

If you're bored and frustrated already, when it's only just begun, I hate to think what you'll be like in weeks/months when things are worse. The economy is now completely buggered too, so probably another 10 years of austerity to pay for the losses, not to mention an almost inevitable house price crash, high unemployment due to business closures, etc etc.

Grow up and see the bigger picture. This could make or break us all.

21 extra families who have watched loved ones die (which is awful) on top of all the other poor families who watch loved ones die every single day and every single day we moan and groan about ‘stuff’, and so today can we still moan about stuff? I’m still moaning about a cancelled holiday in 2011 tbh, these sort of things are crap, life isn’t all about only ever being allowed to moan if there is no one else in the entire world with it worse than you.
If any of my friends have a cancelled holiday i’ll be upset for them and sympathise. I’m not just gonna think/say ‘well no one has died’ and I doubt any of you protesting posters would either.

@Helmetbymidnight my kids don’t think their gonna die! I don’t know any that do (not of this anyway)

It's boring, frustrating and frightening. There's no right or wrong response because we'll all have different concerns and issues. I mean, the other day i found myself worrying about whether Eurovision was going to be cancelled which is hardly major priority. But it's here and it's happening. It will be here for months so I think the best thing is to try and appreciate that we can see this in different ways. But to be kind to people who have different emotions, whether that's fear or boredom or irritation.
It's hard to get our brains around this because it's so unusual and not something most of us have experienced. I'm keeping a diary (not online but private) to try to understand how my fear/boredom etc develops and to remember how it feels when we are out the other end. Patrly I'm trying to distract myself and partly I'm thinking 'I'm just going to trust the experts, because they are experts'.

@Helmetbymidnight my kids don’t think their gonna die! I don’t know any that do (not of this anyway)

So you don't think an immunosuppressed child would what? - Be aware of their own health condition? Talk to friends? Listen to the news occasionally?
Most parents are having to reassure their children about this - I would imagine a child who is immunosuppressed might need extra reassurance.

OP, instead of focussing on your inconvenience, focus on your civic responsibility.

Yes, you and your family may be fit and well, but this is why the virus is so dangerous. By having little or no symptoms in most people, it is unknowingly transmitted to those who are likely to be killed by it. You may well be infected and take that with you to Disneyland.

We have no extended family near us, have little or no contact with anyone elderly but have been at home for 48 hours and will be staying here for the foreseeable future. We have cancelled a holiday to DH's home country next week, a visit from my DM for Easter and are homeschooling our kids.

Not to keep ourselves safe, but it is what we have been told by experts to do to help keep others safe.

Of course the panic buying is awful, particularly things like baby formula and shops should bring in some control for that.

But if we all focus on being part of the solution instead of part of the problem, lives will be saved. Surely that's worth the inconvenience?

@Helmetbymidnight. Of course - job of parents - to ensure their children’s mental wellbeing

😂😂 I must have my phone set to Russian because no ones bothering to read what I say instead inserting their own thoughts into it.
Thank you to those with higher functioning brains who have.

Of course - but you seemed to think it was odd that an immunosuppressed child might be anxious in the middle of a pandemic.

I have a 3 month old baby and am struggling at the moment to get nappies and formula. Shelves completely empty. Same with loo rolls

Some provinces in China have got active cases to zero.

An example:

Anhui province, not too far from Hubei province.
Size: Just a tad larger than England.
Population: 62 million
Total cases since beginning: 996
Active cases now: ZERO
Current mindset of authorities: possibly reopening schools in a couple of weeks (I teach dozens of students from this province online)

VS

England:
Total cases as of today: Likely 1000+
Predicted cases: 20 million?

I am fed up too op.

I very much care about those at risk. Im washing my hands till they are sore. Dp and ds are doing the same.

We will self isolate if we get ill. We will try our absolute best not to spread it.

What else can we do?

If schools/nurseries close ill accept it. If its until september we will be in a very very bad financial situation (if i am not allowed to wfh) but who cares eh?

Millions of hungry children arent a concern apparently.

I am equally concerned about the poverty that will be caused by this as i am the deaths that will be caused by this.

The main group in the supermarket on a saturday aft were pensioners!! Clearly giving no shits. (I wasnt even supposed to be in the sodding supermarket but asda didnt deliver half my shop cos of the panic buyers!!)

No I think it’s f@“ked up that a child thinks that - I would not be happy that they have people around them feeding info that that would happen, and if they are that poorly I would reassure them I would continue to take the same measure I always had to keep them from catching, viruses, bacteria’s etc that they cannot be exposed to.

People being ill is soooo booooorrring.

ANyway I came on here to agree - holidays are important and I’m gonna miss mine - but now I’m signing off as I can’t here one more person focused on the if what maybe doom and gloom that actually we are trying to avoid!

Yeah me too. I’ve got masterchef to catch up on. Thanks everyone!

OP, if you are convinced so many people have misunderstood your message, perhaps you should question whether you communicated it very well.