I’m getting so frustrated - finally snapped.

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I finally snapped at a friend on social media today, I have really vulnerable 7 year old and we have had a crap time recently. She has extensive treatment and because of covid and our hospital being hugely I lacked treatments were difficult / halted / paused etc including not being able to get a theatre slot due to it being used as an icu bed.
Anyway hospital is now settled with obvious restrictions in place, but treatments back up and running etc
So today my friend who is now slowly turning against covid wrote a post using vulnerable people ( including those with the illness my daughter has ) as a defence as to why she won’t follow covid rules etc and why it’s all shit.
Speaking for us on terms of delayed treatments etc because covid was more important when it was wasn’t in the end because it only killed 40 odd thousand people.

I tried to explain that actually the hospital was in a state back in April / may / June and the impact of the virus is what lead to lack of treatment so if it hits again in the winter where things are already a struggle then it will be exactly those people you are talking about that will suffer .
She knows my situation well and replied with “ try talking to a family who has had delayed treatment “
I was so stunned like want the actual !
If the numbers get worse than they was back then it will be those families who end up losing loved ones even for other reasons !
Surely this is not that hard to understand.

Maybe you are better off not having such a friend perhaps as they don't sound very supportive or understanding.

Can understand your cross. Perhaps block her posts and just concentrate on what you can do for your daughter and if you have a chance to talk IRL calmly explain and debate the issues then. It's so easy for arguments to get out of hand and positions to become entrenched, we are losing the means to calmly debate issues in real life, with factual evidence, if it exists.

Concentrate on your IRL people.

I’d ignore her. She sounds like the type not to listen and write what she believes is true and no matter how many times you’d talk to her she still wouldn’t listen. Hide her feed for a while and focus on your family. Hope your dd is okay.

Your friend sounds very insensitive. I am seeing a lot of posts on SM by what I thought were pretty sensible people either ranting about Covid being a hoax and citing conspiracy theories or the opposite end of the scale thinking we should all stay locked up indoors forever. It's been a long rough road, things are pretty rubbish, there's no certainty, no leadership and no confidence that the government have control of the situation let alone a plan. While your friend was very unkind I think in general people are angry, frustrated and afraid and it is causing a lot of reactions like this.