We are fucked

[WindChimeTinkle]

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

I just hope that we can learn to leave animals the fuck alone

Tell that to China.

@needanewidea

Completely agree with your post on Page 2

Come Jan 1st we'll be goin' to hell in a handcart with a no deal Brexit instead of the 'oven ready Brexit deal' that was promised.

Shopping will become become very expensive with all the tariffs on goods. There will be a lot of 'traffic' in Kent. And I have concerns about medicine and drug supplies for my patients.

And then there's global warming which really does put everything else into perspective... not in a good way.

I'm getting through the next few months by doing A LOT of cross stitch and crochet AND paint by numbers - plus have a big stack of books to read.. Also I feel very fortunate to have a job and able to support my own family.

Everyone is in the same rough seas at the moment, but people have different boats. Some are in really dodgy craft - no use lecturing them on how frickin' grateful they should be.

People mentioning climate change which could be devastating.

I think the boomers definitely hit the jackpot as a generation. Life is never easy or all roses for anyone or any generation, but they missed the wars and the 30s depression. They saw the height of mass travel and the joys of air travel as it was just really 'taking off' and before it had helped to destroy the climate. They had the best era of music. They reaped the benefits of rising house prices after they bought their properties. They got the benefits of capitalism before it destroyed itself (2008 onwards).

But who knows what the next 50 years has in store, good or bad? it could be great.

Even with a vaccine tomorrow, the shockwaves from this pandemic will last years.

@annabel85

People mentioning climate change which could be devastating.

I think the boomers definitely hit the jackpot as a generation. Life is never easy or all roses for anyone or any generation, but they missed the wars and the 30s depression. They saw the height of mass travel and the joys of air travel as it was just really 'taking off' and before it had helped to destroy the climate. They had the best era of music. They reaped the benefits of rising house prices after they bought their properties. They got the benefits of capitalism before it destroyed itself (2008 onwards).

But who knows what the next 50 years has in store, good or bad? it could be great.

Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?

If this had happened then nobody would even know about it. It would have been considered a bad year for flu, probably.

According to this www.decadeofhealth.co.uk/ it’s all going to be great in the next 10 years. Keep seeing the advert on channel 4.

@annabel85

People mentioning climate change which could be devastating.

I think the boomers definitely hit the jackpot as a generation. Life is never easy or all roses for anyone or any generation, but they missed the wars and the 30s depression. They saw the height of mass travel and the joys of air travel as it was just really 'taking off' and before it had helped to destroy the climate. They had the best era of music. They reaped the benefits of rising house prices after they bought their properties. They got the benefits of capitalism before it destroyed itself (2008 onwards).

But who knows what the next 50 years has in store, good or bad? it could be great.

I agree they had the best music for sure BUT for many 'boomers' and I speak of my parents it really wasn't rosy at all. Perhaps middle class boomers had a great time but the working classes had a tough time in the 80 and 90s. I remember the recession back then very well and my dad having to retrain onto a very different career path. Child abuse was covered up, let's not talk about children's homes and convents, there was no protection for those kids. Sexual harassment and sexism was rife with no comeback. It wasn't good times for all by any means.

As a boomer, I agree with onedayinthefuture. 'Single mothers' were othered, and the sexism was off the scale.

let's not talk about children's homes .... there was no protection for those kids off topic but this is still very much happening now, btw.

This is certainly not fun but people go through so much worse. My mother in law lost everything to war and became a refugee. She had to leave her country. Try that one as a comparison...

@IsurvivedbutdidI

This is certainly not fun but people go through so much worse. My mother in law lost everything to war and became a refugee. She had to leave her country. Try that one as a comparison...

Oh please. Stop negating everyone else's experiences. There will always be someone worse off than you it doesn't make it any less hard in the moment.

@onedayinthefuture To be fair i was talking more among the middle classes. The working poor will always have it tough.

I was being a buy tongue in cheek as well.

@Zaphodsotherhead Totally agree. We have had two world wars also and many terrible outbreaks such as small box, measles, polio and look at thousands due to flu once. This Covid is nasty but we will recover. The news likes to use scare mongering so I don't bother watching it.

For goodness sake why does my phone change my spellings!!!

@TrustTheGeneGenie definitely not saying that this is not a terrible time for people. In fact before reading this thread today on the school run I was thinking what awful times we are going through. I think the reference to people worse off is a mechanism for me personally to cope. It just helps me to think of worse situations to calm down a little bit.

It wasn't great for boomers at the time, house price inflation has made many of us quite well off but it wasn't great when we were paying 16% on our mortgages.

The 50s were bloody miserable as well, I can't imagine many people on here wanting life in the 50s. I went to school in one of our great cities, we had no inside toilets and no running water in the school, we had kids who would be periodically be sent off to open air schools where their bruises would heal and they would put on weight and when they were well they would return to their slum homes and desperate parents. Kids with polio, queuing up in small pox epidemics for hours to get a vaccination. Yes it was all great fun. Don't forget that as women you would have been earning a pittance, I worked in a finance office in the 60s, the work was divided into two processes, six men doing one part and six women doing the rest, arguably the women's part was technically more skilled and we earned half what the men did but hey we got a hamper at Christmas so that was OK.

10pm curfew bothers you, in my city all pubs had a 10pm curfew, I remember it changing to 10.30 in the 60s. One TV channel in the 50s and I think TV ended at 10 as well, the epilogue might have been after 10.

This govt is thriving on division, rich against poor, old against young, north against south. Buying into is empowering them not you.

I forgot the miserable time single mothers had. Do you get child maintenace into the bank? In the 60s you'd have queued up at the local court every Friday to get your ten bob or whatever, sometimes they queued and got nothing but the main thing was having a boss who'd let you have time off to go and get your money as they shut at lunch time and closed the doors at 5.

Life wasn't much fun if you were gay and risking arrest or a woman getting a back street abortion.

Haunting of Hill House.

Little Fires Everywhere

The Sinner

Oooh, there's so much good stuff on Netflix!

Ooopps, wrong thread. Ignore my last post. Sorry!

Dong so many pandemic and viruses have stemmed from the meat industry. On our own soil. Pigs/bats etc put us all in a vulnerable situation.