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It feels enjoyment of life has become socially unacceptable

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inuet · 05/11/2020 16:25

Firstly I am.not against the current nor previous restrictions. I am aware of the sacrifices and difficulties faced by frontline NHS workers. I am also aware of the sacrifices made by those who were killed in the 2 world wars. But it is beginning to feel as if there is a nationwide perhaps even worldwide competition to see who can out misery the other. The utter utter drivel posted here during the Spring restrictions about how everyone's neighbours were having parties and how someone buying a chocolate bar would lead to bodies bursting out of hospitals, the sick sick air of Hyacinth Bucket meets Margaret Thatcher sanctimoniousness that seems to be everywhere, the compulsory addition of "the fuck" to the imperative "stay at home", the way young and poorer people have been thrown under a bus socially and economically, the "close pubs open schools" mantra. I'm just sick to death of it, & genuinely cannot ever see how a quality of life, friends, bars, concerts, trips away will ever return. It feels like everyone has turned into a curtain twitching moralist, it is illegal not to have a frontline NHS NHS worker in your family and we should never ever ever utter any words of sadness for the old life because people died in the Second World War. I hate what life has become.

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MushMonster · 06/11/2020 22:14

But there is not a new pandemic, omly the risk of a new mutation which has been picked up and been acted upon.

Completmentfille · 06/11/2020 22:14

No I can't, you can't force people to be decent.

Pollynextdoor · 06/11/2020 22:21

Worse case scenario is a new pandemic ( Quoting the Danish Serum Institute). It is not a risk of a new mutation. It is a new mutation.
Shame about all the cute minks.

Completmentfille · 06/11/2020 22:25

We know it's a new mutation. The virus was always going to mutate and it was always going to jump the species barrier again. This is not new or unexpected information.

Wemayhavemetbefore · 06/11/2020 22:32

Ok, as a distraction from the mink, op this part of your post interested me:

" the sick sick air of Hyacinth Bucket meets Margaret Thatcher sanctimoniousness"

There was an interesting twitter discussion a while back about what previous Prime Ministers would have done. I can't remember whether there was a consensus about Margaret Thatcher, but I think there were suggestions that she might have followed a different path from this govt. I agree about Hyacinth, obviously.

MushMonster · 06/11/2020 22:32

Yes, sorry the risk that a new mutation poses.
There is not a new pandemic at this point in time.
Now, aren't we a prime example of how the joy is taken away by all this covid thing? Even having a chat in a forum can be the opposite of relaxing!Smile
Is this part of this "new normal" thing?

Pollynextdoor · 06/11/2020 22:34

@Completmentfille, yes true agree with your last post.

Completmentfille · 06/11/2020 22:39

I don't believe it is necessarily a disaster though. It might ultimately be meaningless. There isn't the data to say at this point. That was my objection to your original comment.

MrsMomoa · 06/11/2020 22:41

Yeah, who needs 'quality of life' eh? Hmm
Just work and die and stop moaning.

Clearly us peasants need to get back in our corner!

Completmentfille · 06/11/2020 22:41

My Dad grew up in a dictatorship. He finds the current living situation pretty intolerable.

hamstersarse · 06/11/2020 23:40

There is an explanation of the mink story from Prof. Francois Balloux here

twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067

The media don't report the full story as is typical.

Completmentfille · 06/11/2020 23:43

I like Prof Balloux.

hamstersarse · 06/11/2020 23:48

@Completmentfille

I'm glad you do. Usually any scientist you point to on here that is not Whitty or Valance is instantly written off as a charlaton

AlaskaThunderfuckHiiiiiiiii · 07/11/2020 08:46

@Bathroom12345 I see both the government and witty/valance have been under the spotlight this week with regards to the figures and graphs used to sell this lockdown 😏

Pertella · 07/11/2020 09:23

This board summed up in one meme...

It feels enjoyment of life has become socially unacceptable
Completmentfille · 07/11/2020 09:35

But there is no evidence that the mink strains is more contagious or more lethal, merely that it may be more resistant to antibodies. But they don't have enough data to comment yet. Hence the caution. The caution in itself is not a reason to panic.

Completmentfille · 07/11/2020 09:35

Whoops wrong thread

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