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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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grenouilleescargot · 20/10/2020 17:05

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.

Alicatz66 · 20/10/2020 17:06

Have a news blackout for a couple of weeks ... listen to music .. read books
.. eat nice food .. go for a long walk ... it's a mess but don't carry the world on your shoulders .. focus on things you can change .. chin up OP !

hellisotherpeopleandhorlicks · 20/10/2020 17:08

It does seem hard to see a way out doesn't it
Especially with brexit on the horizon as well

EvilPea · 20/10/2020 17:08

Just keep plodding.
That’s all you can do.
Get up, have breakfast, sort the kids (if you have them and they are at that age), go to work, come home, do dinner, sort kids, go to bed.
Rinse and repeat. Interject with nice walks and the odd takeaway.
It’s all we can do right now. Don’t predict the future, you don’t know. So just keep on.

greeksalad · 20/10/2020 17:09

I also agree with pp.
We will bounce back. This is our generations 'war'. In years to come we'll say
"During the pandemic...."
Have faith sister Smile

OrigamiPenguinArmy · 20/10/2020 17:09

What’s your definition of fucked? Throughout history humans have faced so much worse than this, someone living through the Black Death suddenly transported to 2020 would see nothing but unimaginable luxury. It’s not that we’re fucked, it’s just that very few people currently alive in this country have lived through hard(ish) times like these.

We are not having a famine, a civil war, being invaded by a hostile enemy, being subjected to bombing or suffering from an extreme weather or geological event, and even those things have happened to countries and they’ve come out the other side.

Are things all roses and sparkles right now? No, they are not, some people are having a truly awful time. However, we are not, by any metric, fucked.

TheVanguardSix · 20/10/2020 17:10

I read the book First They Killed My Father over lockdown. It's about a girl's survival under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. Fuck me, made me appreciate our rearranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic. Suddenly that iceberg hit looked more, what's the word... manageable?

It's shit though, is it not? Hell in a handbasket.
It's like having a front-row seat to Disaster Capitalism Shock Therapy... The Musical.

PersonaNonGarter · 20/10/2020 17:10

Please get some perspective. Go for a walk, read a book, cook something nice for someone you love, and write them a card with a funny poem in it.

I am not being flippant but it is on all of us to try to keep our spirits up if we can.

EvilPea · 20/10/2020 17:11

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

I remember that, I used to travel a lot for work and used to drive past this field of sheep, I saw the gorgeous lambs growing. Then nothing. All gone. Utterly heartbreaking and I was only driving past!

I remember driving through the trays of disinfectant, it was a bleak bleak time.

DTIsOnlyForNow · 20/10/2020 17:11

And now? Almost no one remembers it. Farmers have new flocks and herds, new bloodlines

That was a tiny number of people, its not comparable.

UK is totally fucked, I mean, don't forget Brexit as well.

Tanfastic · 20/10/2020 17:12

@Heartofstrings

I think the thing that concerns me is this is GLOBAL. it's terrifying
Yes me too. Feels like the end of the world. Not that I'm being dramatic about it 😆
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79andnotout · 20/10/2020 17:14

You missed climate change. Everything else is pretty much irrelevant.

Humans are fucked.

TheLobster · 20/10/2020 17:15

MINOR INCONVENIENCE MY ASS

TheVanguardSix · 20/10/2020 17:16

Are things all roses and sparkles right now? No, they are not, some people are having a truly awful time. However, we are not, by any metric, fucked.

Everything you've said in your post is absolutely true. But the point is, the country may very well be hurled into a vulnerable position, a position where the worst case scenario can grow legs. You'd be amazed by how quickly a country can go from a prosperous, first world giant to a corrupt shithole run by crony capitalists. We've got the crony capitalists. We're half way there. We've been half way there for a long time, in fact. Brexit might be the straw that breaks. I really hope I am wrong and over-dramatizing this.

ancientgran · 20/10/2020 17:16

I read the book First They Killed My Father over lockdown. It's about a girl's survival under Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime. Fuck me, made me appreciate our rearranging of the deckchairs on the Titanic. It was a good film as well.

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ISBN111 · 20/10/2020 17:18

^unmarkedbythat

The darkest moment is before the dawn.^

Just because it’s dark, doesn’t mean dawn is coming any time soon though.

Sorry not to be a ray of sunshine, but i think it’s worth finding some small thing to anchor us in this; holding on for it’s going to get better imminently is just exhausting and futile.

One thing which helps me is gardening.

justgeton · 20/10/2020 17:18

A bit less of the drama and a bit more perspective. We're not seeing our kids and husbands off to war, we're not facing nuclear disaster. We were told it would take months and several lockdowns.

FurrySlipperBoots · 20/10/2020 17:20

I wouldn't stress too much OP. We were also fucked in the 00's, the 80's, the 70's, the 40's, the 30s, the 20s.... In fact thinking about it it's be hard to come up with a decade that has been all roses and rainbows!

Oaktree55 · 20/10/2020 17:22

Problem is our generation in West and one before haven’t faced any proper hardship so this seems catastrophic. I’m sure during WW2 the generation before talked of WW1. Perspective.

Zaphodsotherhead · 20/10/2020 17:24

@DTIsOnlyForNow

And now? Almost no one remembers it. Farmers have new flocks and herds, new bloodlines

That was a tiny number of people, its not comparable.

UK is totally fucked, I mean, don't forget Brexit as well.

It was pretty important to all those of us caught up in it.
PicsInRed · 20/10/2020 17:25

@greeksalad

I also agree with pp. We will bounce back. This is our generations 'war'. In years to come we'll say "During the pandemic...." Have faith sister Smile
Post war Britain wasn't post-war USA. The USA was grand after the war. Boomtime. The UK - and especially industrial UK - however, was absolutely fucked. People were still emigrating for a better life into the 1970s.

I don't want post-war Britain for my child.

caffeineanddryshampoo · 20/10/2020 17:25

It's bloody awful atm.

serialreturner · 20/10/2020 17:26

His PPT formatting was a bit shit.

I am either feeling hysterical or about to burst into tears.