Today I feel incredibly angry

[awaywiththecircus]

I’m feeling incredibly selfish. My family luckily are all fit and well. If we catch CV we will in all likelihood be I’ll for a few days at worst. I see the impact this is having on us and feel incredibly angry. My dc should be at school, socialising, having fun. DH and I should be at work keeping a stable roof over our heads. But obviously it’s all gone to shit.
And all the fit people who are insisting they are going to stay locked up at home until there’s a vaccinationFFS.
Even my close friend with a shielded dc is feeling that we have massively overacted to this when weighing up the collateral damage we are causing. I know I’ll get flamed but I’m truly at the end of my tether.

Sorry, @hopsalong - *your number

I understand your anger. This has been so badly handled. Lack of PPE, no testing. Matt Hancock first announced his target of 100,000 tests I burst out laughing. Are we doing 30,000 currently. Too little too late don't you think?

and what about the football match at the beginning? and what about the airport still being open and people coming in?

I'm in the whole thing is a joke. I'm so angry!

@ hopsalong Also, given that only 215 healthy people under 60 have died in the entire country (as per the 6 May NHS 'total announced deaths spreadsheet) how can so many people know one of them? It's very improbable Glad you've noticed this too, it baffles me.

“Not true. Our multiple manufacturing sites have never stopped operating - all workers present and correct throughout lockdown with PPE and sensible precautions. Office workers have been wfh but will return in phases/teams with spacing applied. Maximum numbers in office at one time, no canteen, masks to be provided to all, temperature checks extended, sickness policy suspended to discourage heroics (ie people coming in with symptoms). Anyone vulnerable or living with vulnerable relatives gets to stay wfh.

Multiply by every large corporate in the land. It’s really not rocket science.”

Except that isn’t the rest of us...

I never get angry. It seems pointless. Futile. A waste of energy. I have always been like this.

What do you all achieve by being angry and how do you define your anger against an outer foe.

Do your enemies even know.

I think being in Tenerife two weeks before lockdown, getting plenty of sunshine and vitamin d protected us greatly
Especially when evacuated on a crammed plane and oh my god somewhere like 2000 to 3000 in that airport from hell
It’s why we’ve taken lockdown lightly
If we were going to get it, that’s when we would have done
6 friends came home all on different flights but same conditions
No one I’ll, no one infected their families
Even the woman who had a serious heart and lung condition and no spleen.. had stayed really well
Plus all of were well over 65

“ Like no flu or virus I have ever had before.”

So what. I have asthma and had pneumonia twice, amongst numerous other knock out bugs. I spent most off my 20s with it and found it hard to work.

I don’t expect society to shut down in case I get respiratory diseases on account of my asthma. It’s my responsibility to protect myself if I want to, not the other way round.

The mask thing is annoying now - in the past I knew to avoid masked people on the Tube because it meant they had something, if people start wearing masks habitually I won’t know. It was a very useful marker for regular Tube users.

Two of mum’s friends have died. Not a reason to shut down everyone.

It's frustrating, the government is a mess. Their handling of it has been a disaster but Boris has come out of it smelling of roses.

I need an urgent cervical cancer healthcare screening, but non of my local clinics are open. Only doing tel consultations. How many people will die waiting for the nhs to function and perform surgeries, treatment and screening? Why can't they find a way of continuing for those who need it the most?

Dh's firm is warning that it could close entirely this year and still people want to be at home and on 80% pay indefinitely.

“But between manufacturing and offices, I imagine a fair few of “us” are covered.”

Hospitality alone is about 10% of the workforce... most of that isn’t profitable with social distancing precautions in place.

The leisure industry will be pretty hard hit as well.

Hair and beauty... the recommendations being put about for those that other countries are adopting will push a lot of them into not making profit.

Some retail sectors - clothes, shoes... either people won’t be able to try things on, which is why most people go rather than ordering online anyway or they’ll need more staff than they can afford to pay.

Schools can’t have every pupil in full time without completely scrapping social distancing so anyone who needs schools as childcare can’t work.

That’s an awful lot of people who will not just be going back to work.

@awaywiththecircus
I agree and understand. I'm angry too

Power “ Boris has come out of it smelling of roses. ”

No he hasn’t.

“Saying “it’s all just too difficult so let’s stay on the sofa indefinitely” could put everyone out of work”

That’s not what I’m saying.

I’m saying ending lockdown won’t get the economy moving. Swapping furlough for bankruptcy and unemployment won’t help the economy. The industries where jobs are fairly safe are currently still operating anyway...

So as a reason for lifting restrictions it’s pretty blinkered.

I think Britain has scared it's population shitless and how the fear is totally out of proportion and we are going to struggle hugely to get people back to work. Our local tip is refusing to open as they say it's not safe. Well let me tell you , no fucker had ever helped me at the tip. They are outside. You couldn't be more socially distanced. Some people are never going to agree to schools opening, teachers will refuse to go back and unions will agree. It's going to be hell. I am a teacher btw

I was thinking of starting a thread to see if anyone was happy to admit they’ve gone from worrying to not worrying

But it will just be bombarded by the usual suspects telling me I’m killing their granny.

I agree OP we have to balance this and months of lockdown will crucify this country. There will be years and years of paying for this already.

I'm angry, it seems so RIDICULOUS that this has happened over something so small and insignificant as an animal in a market.

But I do think we need to be safe. My parents are in their early-mid 60's, fit and well other than DF has arrhythmia, but you just don't know. I don't want them to catch it. I'm lucky that they're the only ones I worry about really - I'm sure DH and I would be fine, as well as friends

So I'm not angry that we have overreacted, more at the damage something so small has caused.

Running “ Yep - even if granny is 102, demented and riddled with disease”

Mate of mine is having trouble, his father has dementia and now, during lockdown, has become violent. The carers have run off, understandably.

The covid chaos means my friend can’t even get his father assessed for a place in a facility. Lockdown isn’t taking care of the vulnerable.

I am angry. At the government.
Huge rising death toll, cases rising and they’re hell best in easing this weak lockdown already. I can only assume they’ve just given up trying to protect us, the hospitals are built for us to die in so they’ve just gone ‘fuck it!’.