Oh god. Back to having a walk then???

[ssd]

As the highlight of the day.

AKA another lockdown looms....

@Redolent is that like the tsunami of patients in ICU during March and April?

Oh, that’s right, didn’t happen.

Why do people say the lockdown was only going to be for 3 weeks, it was just going to be reviewed after 3 weeks?

I can’t take this anymore

@Ranunculi

It’s just ripping the plaster off faster That will involve the breakdown of essential services because too many people will get sick at once. The electric and internet will go off. Possibly the water too. Shelves will be empty because food hasn’t been delivered. Emergency services will be unavailable. People will panic and there will be anarchy. We need to keep infections at a level that allows society to keep running.

What like all that large percentage of people who are asymptomatic? And the 80 or so % for whom it's not a life-threatening illness? Talk about catastrophising.

Although I have to admit, Covid is like a Tory wet dream. It's allowed them to sweep the real shitstorm that is coming, no deal Brexit, right under the coronavirus rug. Genius!

Everyone squabbles and catastrophising about C19, turning on each other like rabid weasels and not the thing that could really cause the lights to go out: having nothing but WTO terms to source most of everything.

Wow some of the comments here are disgusting. What selfish, entitled people are coming out of the woodwork.

Restrictions and lockdown are hard but so is turning away dying people from hospitals.

@BexR you mean like my friend who has cervical cancer, meant to have an operation in April which was cancelled.

But are you imagining a zombi apocalypse style banging on the doors while desperate nurses and doctors fight to save 100s of people lying all around them?

What scenes!

Sadly real life is considerably less melodramatic, and the people who genuinely have been “turned away from hospitals” are young people with a lot of life left to live fighting horrendous illnesses such as cancer - and now doing it alone and with limited options.

RTB - if you are still here - or anyone ...

I see that a lockdown is now that only way to contain the out of controlness of this virus. BUT if government had not gone so full steam ahead with back to business/school/office etc and IF Test and trace had actually worked - a 2nd lockdown could have been avoided couldn't it, or at least delayed?

Why has this been allowed to happen?

And lastly - could we do it the Swedish way? I thought that was how our government wanted to do it in the first place. There seems to be evidence that there is some immunity now. It's working in Sweden. Why can't we avoid another lockdown and just do the same as they did?

trying to give 85 year olds who are close to death and extra couple of non quality extra months.

What a vile, self-centred thing to say. An 85 year old is just as entitled to their life as you are to yours.

No trick or treating, no fireworks, no Christmas parties, will we even be able to see family at Christmas?

I guess thats one plus. No little shits knocking my door after free stuff.

halle fucking lujah

@Carycy

I am starting to think fuck the rules. If it leads to an increase in infections then fine. It’s just ripping the plaster off faster. Good.

Agreeed!!!!

@HunkyPunk

trying to give 85 year olds who are close to death and extra couple of non quality extra months.

What a vile, self-centred thing to say. An 85 year old is just as entitled to their life as you are to yours.

They could stay home?!

@Mrslafayette me too. Its really affecting me not being able to hug or comfort my parents or sister .

Friday & Saturday I mainly spent crying feeling so hopeless with it . Time is so precious and i have no idea how long my children & i have my parents for .

And no deal Brexit.

Yeah, I know Batshit. I was crying about that before Covid. Now it's hard to believe we're going to go ahead with further tanking of the economy. It was unbelievable enough that we'd voluntarily fuck our own economy over before this. Now it's the most colossal head-bender of my life. I feel like I've been transported to some parallel universe where I now get to play out my life on terms that were even shitter than the ones I was grappling with before. Far, far shitter, in fact. I didn't sign up for this.

@Dustballs

RTB - if you are still here - or anyone ...

I see that a lockdown is now that only way to contain the out of controlness of this virus. BUT if government had not gone so full steam ahead with back to business/school/office etc and IF Test and trace had actually worked - a 2nd lockdown could have been avoided couldn't it, or at least delayed?

Why has this been allowed to happen?

And lastly - could we do it the Swedish way? I thought that was how our government wanted to do it in the first place. There seems to be evidence that there is some immunity now. It's working in Sweden. Why can't we avoid another lockdown and just do the same as they did?

For months now, over-70s in Sweden have been told to socially distance and avoid all indoor contact with others. They are meticulously complying. You really think people would do the same here?

Sweden is a country with almost 90% (voluntary) voter turnout in elections. It’s incomparable to the UK in its deference to state authority.

No trick or treating, no fireworks, no Christmas parties, will we even be able to see family at Christmas?

I guess thats one plus. No little shits knocking my door after free stuff.

halle fucking lujah

What a kind thought, DawnLassie. We can all sleep soundly tonight feeling heartened that you are pleased that little kids have been denied this small once a year pleasure.

There are some vile attitudes here toward NHS staff.

Seriously you have no idea .

Why do people say the lockdown was only going to be for 3 weeks, it was just going to be reviewed after 3 weeks?

Because it was to flatten the curve and protect the NHS, which was clearly not in danger after 3 weeks - it never was.

What a vile, self-centred thing to say. An 85 year old is just as entitled to their life as you are to yours

I said 'an 85 year old close to death'. Most 85 year olds will survive covid. Its the ones who are going to die from the other stuff they have wrong with them who will quit this mortal coil slightly sooner due to COVID.

If you care si much about them, what measures were to taking all the years prior to protect them from flu, eh? EH!?

@BexR

Wow some of the comments here are disgusting. What selfish, entitled people are coming out of the woodwork.

Restrictions and lockdown are hard but so is turning away dying people from hospitals.

This. Exactly

Hospitals are turning dying people away? Really now? 😂 I call bullshit on that.

Hospitals are turning dying people away? Really now?I call bullshit on that

I broadly support lockdowns but my brother in law is now dying because his cancer didn't get treated quickly enough

Wow some of the comments here are disgusting. What selfish, entitled people are coming out of the woodwork.

Restrictions and lockdown are hard but so is turning away dying people from hospitals

This didn't happen. It wasnt going to happen. Admissions slowed too early for it to have been lockdown that slowed them.
The Nightingale hospitals were not used.

How can you still be parroting this tired old narrative 6 months on!?

People like you and your support for the lockdowns are the reason that we are still threatened will them.
The country is being dictacted to by idiots.

@Juniperandrage

Hospitals are turning dying people away? Really now?I call bullshit on that

I broadly support lockdowns but my brother in law is now dying because his cancer didn't get treated quickly enough

Hush now, only Covid deaths matter.

Another couple of weeks lockdown, and what then? Will the virus have disappeared? Nope. We’ll come out of lockdown, infections will rise, 6 deaths a day, then dragged back into lockdown, rinse, repeat. It’s just so pointless.

anorangeaday i know how you feel. please reach out to someone

red ditto re nothing to look forward to as the days get shorter.

major mental health toll coming.