Frustration with people and their views over lockdown

[Flossie44]

Is it ok to be so soooo fed up with people moaning about lockdown and how they can’t go on holiday, or go to the pub etc etc??!! Literally gonna loose my rag over it soon!!

Feel so sad that those people can’t look at the bigger picture. People have died. Families have been left, unable to attend funerals or able to unite in grief. People are alone to stay safe.

It seems, and I know I’m generalising here so don’t shoot me, but it seems the ones that predominantly moan, are those that are fit and well. Not those that are having to endure the loneliness of shielding.

We are shielding for my daughter, aged 11. It means her elder sister can’t go back to school when they open. It means her elder brother is isolating at uni, alone, in order to keep his sister safe. It means my husband is working from home, which isn’t easy. It means our nurses can’t come to our home and help with my daughters care. So I’m dealing with that myself. We are relying on volunteers to help us get prescriptions etc. I feel inadequate that I can’t go and do this myself.
And all this hasn’t got an end date, or an exit plan.

We can’t moan..we are doing this to stay safe. But boy oh boy, do I want to cry that it’s like this. It highlights that dd is ill.

So why do these healthy people who can still go and do their own shopping eyes get out, moan!!

@flossie44 when have I got personal and cruel?

I've told you my reasons why I'm sick and tired of lockdown, whilst stressing than I will not be breaking it but I am frustrated with it.

I have said in every post you have every right to moan about how crap your situation is, because it is crap. You are not, however, allowed to invalidate other people's crap situations because you think yours is crapper. Lockdown is crap for everyone. And it probably hurts when people like you invalidate my frustration and loneliness in lockdown because 'I'm young and healthy and have nothing to worry about'. I may have nothing to worry about health wise but I have a lot of other worries caused by lockdown.

You are making this a competition, your original post was literally can people who o think have it better than me stop moaning because Atleast they don't have to shield and can do X, Y, Z and therefore my life in lockdown is harder than theirs so they don't have the right to moan because I'm not.

Everyone who is finding lockdown hard has the right to moan about it. For some people not going to the pub is hard because it's the only human interaction they get. You have the right to moan that you can't go out at all because that is really shit, and I feel for you, I would find that hard. But you can't tell me because I can go out for a run I can't moan about not being able to do everything else I enjoy in life.

I am young an healthy as are my daughter and my partner and I am one of the moaners!

You wanna know why?? because my daughter is struggling with severe low moods because she misses her friends she misses her routine and her freedom! Do you realise how hard it is to see your daughter completely breakdown in front of you and not be able to say anything that will help or console her because you've no fucking idea when this is going to end and I can't be there for her because I am a key worker!

Stop generalising and accept the fact that people have all sorts of struggles as a result of this lockdown!!!

YOu watch the news each day for the general Covid stats of people dying from suspected or confirmed covid.

What about the stats you don't follow, the ones where "young fit and health people" are needlessly dying as a result of being in lockdown because they've lost their jobs, they've now no money, the ones who have saved all their lives for their house only to lose it due to being unable to pay their mortgage because they've no job to go back to. The ones on their own and the pub was their only social circe. The ones The ones that just need to be outside! You know the ones who commit suicide because they can't see an end to this!

Indeed. As the govt document states:

Workers in those sectors most affected, including hospitality and retail, are more likely to be low paid, younger and female. Younger households are also likely to be disproportionately hit in the
longer term, as evidence suggests that, following recessions, lost future earnings potential is greater for young people.

The longer the virus affects the economy, the greater the risks of long-term scarring and permanently lower economic activity, with business failures, persistently higher unemployment and lower earnings. This would damage the sustainability of the public finances and the ability to fund public services including the NHS. It would also likely lead to worse long-run physical and mentalhealth outcomes, with a significant increase in the prevalence of chronic illness.