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We are fucked

295 replies

WindChimeTinkle · 20/10/2020 16:36

The country is falling apart, mass unemployment looming, unrest, mental health crisis, education of a generation screwed, people in care homes isolated and alone......what the fucking hell is going on. I can't take anymore

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oakleaffy · 20/10/2020 21:45

@Zaphodsotherhead

What I always quote here is the Foot and Mouth crisis back in 2000.

Here in the countryside it was devastating. Farmers lost their whole flocks and herds. There was a mass mental health crisis and financial crisis in the whole industry. People couldn't travel, couldn't go on holiday (in this country). Farms were locked down, no travel in or out. It was horrible, awful. Huge impace.

And now? Almost no one remembers it. Farmers have new flocks and herds, new bloodlines. The countryside isn't overgrown acres of unowned land (as was predicted by all the farmers going out of business). Everything bounced back, apart from a few souls who were so shocked and devastated that they went out of farming altogether.

We will bounce back. Humans want the status quo restored as soon as possible. Give us a vaccine and we'll all be back out there pubbing and clubbing as fast as anything. New businesses will take the place of ones that went out of business. In twenty years, this will just be a memory.

Yes...I remember foot and mouth...it was grim. We will get over this as a species.
dollychopss · 20/10/2020 21:48

@Undercovermuvver

I walked outside of the station in London and took a picture of all of the offices. The commuters are not coming back. The offices are empty.

It’s a very small snapshot.

We are coming back next year it will go back
Babyroobs · 20/10/2020 21:51

We are getting through it ok, but then we haven't lost jobs ( yet). My work is actually easier as I have no commute. I worry about my elderly dad on his own and I worry about my kids and there futures but agree with others that Brexit and climate change will make covid look like a walk in the park.

jasjas1973 · 20/10/2020 21:52

Hardly anyone works in Agri, plus a lot of people made a heap of money.

Not really a relevant comparison.

Bollss · 20/10/2020 21:58

@PumpkinetChocolat

An inconvenience? Well if that's all this has been for you then are are very fucking lucky indeed aren't you?

I am still waiting to read what anyone has experienced that was more than an inconvenience TrustTheGeneGenie. I don't mean the dramatised version, just the real heartache that a few restrictions have caused.

I agree about Brexit destroying the country - but that was an outcome chosen by the majority. I am still unsure if that makes it worst or better, but we are getting everything we deserve there. We knew what was happening before the vote!

NHS treatment being unavailable or delayed, not being able to see a dying or I'll relative, watching your loved one in a care home visibly decline in health whilst being unable to be there, losing your job, losing your home, having no or v little education for 6 months. I could go on. Open your fucking eyes.
MereDintofPandiculation · 20/10/2020 22:01

What I always quote here is the Foot and Mouth crisis back in 2000. Ahem! 2001.

(I remember it).

RedToothBrush · 20/10/2020 22:02

@BillywilliamV

We’ll bounce back, worse things have happened!
Steady now. Its only October. We've a while to go yet on this crisis yet.
HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 22:08

After watching the Manchester's mayor speech I'm really worried about social unrest

So am i. Especially with fireworks on sale now.

YouveGotMeWhosGotYou · 20/10/2020 22:10

I just hope that we can learn to leave animals the fuck alone. It would not all erase viruses i know, but we have had too many outbreaks related to the meat and dairy industry for it to be worth the health and climate costs.

HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 22:12

We were told it would take months and several lockdowns

Lockdowns are the new Slimming World. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Nat3kids · 20/10/2020 22:15

YANBU

I just found out my grandma has got Covid from her care home. Feel very sad and helpless about it all.

annabel85 · 20/10/2020 22:16

@KittCat

Yes, please stop voting Tory. We've got a no deal brexit to look forward to yet, yay!! 😧
I think that's disrespectful to particularly older people who vote Conservative more. They've earned the right to vote who they want.
Heyahun · 20/10/2020 22:23

The whole world not just this country ! It will be fine - step away from the news and maybe Mumsnet and do something fun and get on with it - not much else you can do

Worrying about it isn’t helpful either

jasjas1973 · 20/10/2020 22:28

I think that's disrespectful to particularly older people who vote Conservative more. They've earned the right to vote who they want

No they have not, once you have reached 18 (in the UK) your right to free will in your choice of vote in scracrosant, age holds no favours.

onedayinthefuture · 20/10/2020 22:33

@YouveGotMeWhosGotYou

I just hope that we can learn to leave animals the fuck alone. It would not all erase viruses i know, but we have had too many outbreaks related to the meat and dairy industry for it to be worth the health and climate costs.
Absolutely agree, it's so quiet on the animal rights front.
HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 22:34

Our grandparents went to bed at night ,not knowing if a bomb would drop and they would be blown apart in their sleep.
They managed without a load of mental health problems

My grandad had to fight in the Italian Army in WW2 He didnt have a choice. So my DM as the eldest child had to work the fields from the age of EIGHT., While my gran ran the house and cared for the younger children. After a life of jobs on her feet which started at the age of eight and ended at the age of 79 she couldnt get treatment (she was due a blood test in March and it wasnt done till the end of August) DM lives in the UK and has done since 1960 She cant do telephone appointments due to being hard of hearing, Shes furious at being stopped from seeing family members again. Is she allowed to be considering she lived through both WW2 and this?

merryhouse · 20/10/2020 22:37

@Isolatedizzy you might not be able to go to a Remembrance service - I know we're not holding one (apparently even "a simple wreath-laying ceremony" would involve too many people).

We're planning on making various alternative resources available but there won't be anything like the normal event.

HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 22:48

@Dawnlassie Do you mean workfare? Because that ship has sailed. You cant use rhetoric like "we are all in this together" and then enact something like that.

HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 22:53

Ah the be grateful you are not living in a war torn country argument. How very Grazia.

RedToothBrush · 20/10/2020 22:55

@HeIenaDove

Ah the be grateful you are not living in a war torn country argument. How very Grazia.
Can't afford food, housing or clothes?

Be grateful I've got netflicks and you haven't got bombs dropping on your head. Yep I personally love that argument.

Lovely1a2b3c · 20/10/2020 22:56

@grenouilleescargot

Get a grip. You are not living in a country where you have no access to clean water, where you have no access to medical care and not enough food. People are not dying from a famine here, people are not being killed in a civil war. We have wall to wall entertainment, good quality food to eat and houses to live in.
Some people in this country DO live with inadequate access to water (e.g. people who are homeless) and with not enough food!!! (That's why food banks exist and some parents have to decide between heating their houses or feeding their kids). The wealth-poverty gap is set to increase massively in the next year- malnutrition is a real thing in the UK.
Porcupineinwaiting · 20/10/2020 23:02

The truth HelenaDove ks she can go out dancing, or visit family members or go on a pub crawl as long as she's happy to have her turn with COVID. No one will stop her.

PracticingPerson · 21/10/2020 01:51

Lockdowns are the new Slimming World. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

No, they are doing the same thing and expecting the same result: a reduction in infections, which subsequently reduces deaths. Only people who believe in magic are expecting something different!

Newjez · 21/10/2020 03:57

I really don't think this is the winter rush.

I think this is just the universities going back, and it will settle down.

I think winter will be much worse. Will hit Jan end.

Sorry.

IronLawOfGeometricProgression · 21/10/2020 06:04

@Newjez

I really don't think this is the winter rush.

I think this is just the universities going back, and it will settle down.

I think winter will be much worse. Will hit Jan end.

Sorry.

I agree with the part about January being bad.

But I expect us to be in Lockdown by then.

"Local Lockdown" but everywhere.

Exponential spread won't just spontaneously "settle down" whilst 90% of us are still susceptible though, will it?