What a shit time to be alive

[Mylittlesandwich]

I know we're all supposed to be keeping upbeat and accepting the new normal but it's bollocks.

Obviously we're all being screwed in different and inventive ways, personally I had DS in November by the time I'd fought through my PND cloud and felt up to facing people we were in lockdown.
We had planned our budget for mat leave perfectly. Then DH was furloughed.
We had scraped through lockdown and he was back at work when the Scottish circuit breaker popped up and he was let go.
We are so skint it's unreal. I'm working from what should have been a nursery as many hours as I can get my hands on to try and keep us afloat and I can't even spend a couple of hours at my mums to re-charge.
Feel free to add the ways covid has screwed you over.

But you're the one saying we shouldn't complain about a situation when other have it worse - or had it worse 70 years ago!

Where have I said anywhere that we shouldn’t complain? I’ve said myself on this very thread that 2020 is a shit year!

then logically you have to agree that someone living a fairly comfortable life in an English town in the 1940s didn't have the right to complain

See my post above to @MaxNormal.

Not really a bizarre thing to say if I'm not the only one who's picked up on your logical inconsistencies Dongding

But that's all a bit of a side issue. The point is that people are frightened, and suffering, and having their lives turned upside down right now, and if you can't muster up even a modicum of compassion for that then that is on you.

Not really a bizarre thing to say if I'm not the only one who's picked up on your logical inconsistencies Dongding

You can’t tell me where I referenced people living in the English countryside because I never said it. Stop making things up and putting words into my mouth that I never said.

and if you can't muster up even a modicum of compassion for that then that is on you.

What are you on about? I’ve said about three times on this thread what a shit, depressing year this has turned out to be.

Lost my job (luckily I got another)

Husband’s work randomly keeps getting closed by the government and he hasn’t earned a full wage since March

Dad can’t get his cancer treatment

Autistic son hasn’t had a proper high school transition

It’s a total and utter shambles. Everything we do and all the sacrifices we make are not enough and the government just expect more and more and we get nothing back.

I think some people are more likely to look on the bright side. I think it’s great for example that Covid does not seem to affect the young so I don’t have to worry too much about my children getting sick from this virus. The Spanish flu killed a lot of young people so in my books that was a worse pandemic. Perspectives are important in life and it’s nothing wrong pointing that out. I have got my own shit going on during Covid too, but I am not going to lie down staring at the ceiling.

I own a bridal shop...that’s all I have to say really 😥🤯😖😫

Sympathies to everybody who is having a hard time right now.

@hopsalong can you contact your GP again and see you're still waiting for an appointment so can they give you something else? Hugs

@WuthPP that sounds awful. People are allowed to see each other on compassionate grounds, so could your children come to see you?

@popcornlover

Life’s not easy OP. If this is your greatest battle then you should consider yourself blessed.

Massively patronising and unkind comment.

You obviously are not one of the people who've been driven to suicide because they are shielding and going insane with lack of contact.

@RationalOne

"Funny how history paints a picture. In the future, no doubt this period will be reported as a time when we re-learned simpler living, and new hobbies and lifestyles, slowed down blah blah blah. But it will all be a lie. I often think about the reality of life in WW2. All this stiff upper lip, blitz spirit etc. It's just bollocks."

It's not bollocks and a lie though. Some people really do dig deep and get on with it for themselves and family and friends. Some don't. I recall my grandmother saying that she didn't see her husband for 2 years - no face time - no internet - nothing but she dug deep looked after my mother and uncle and made it through. She says it was very tough but she didn't have a choice - it was that or give up. She was never a quitter!

Yes, but I bet she wasn't in solitary confinement the whole time, was she?

I also bet you have some people around you to keep you company, don't you? To save you from going mad?

I was shielding for 5 months and didn't hug anyone or see anyone I knew during that period because they were too far away.

Fuck off with your unkindness and smugness. You're adding to the world's misery today.

@bookworm14

Why, when someone posts a thread like this in genuine distress, does some twat always pop up to say ‘well, the war was worse’? How does it help? What are you trying to achieve?

Because they're unkind people.

Total bastard more like.

A lot of people feel that way though. It's the reason I couldn't tell my parents when I had PND. Mental illness is a personal failing and a moral weakness.

It's a shitty attitude.

*Yes, but I bet she wasn't in solitary confinement the whole time, was she?

I also bet you have some people around you to keep you company, don't you? To save you from going mad?

I was shielding for 5 months and didn't hug anyone or see anyone I knew during that period because they were too far away.

Fuck off with your unkindness and smugness. You're adding to the world's misery today.*

This nonsense about who it's worse for is part of the problem though. This comment puts quite the context around your others on this thread asking people to be kind

Having people around you doesn't stop you going mad though.