Has anyone else lost the will to care?

[whatToDoHerre]

I have. I barely care about anything anymore. I don't know what we are fighting for - if this is life then is it worth living? We are not living, we are only existing at this point.

We could be in for months and months of restrictions and there's even talk of a third lockdown. Because the first two worked so well?

In a few short months a whole year of our lives will have been restricted.

If there is light at the end of this tunnel it's a very long tunnel, and I don't think we've travelled very far.

@MaxNormal

This thread was brilliant, thank you all. I'm so sorry the usual fanatics have turned up to tell us how awful we all are. It makes me want to go and breathe on their grannies.

I delivered a few Christmas cards by hand AND popped into the cornershop thod morning. That must have polished off at least five 90 year olds

It’s like repeatedly posting in the EastEnders board about how much you hate EastEnders but love Corrie. Why would you? It’s fucking weird.

I delivered a few Christmas cards by hand AND popped into the cornershop thod morning. That must have polished off at least five 90 year olds

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I delivered a few Christmas cards by hand AND popped into the cornershop thod morning. That must have polished off at least five 90 year olds

🤣 🤣🤣 I hope that was a gloved, sanitised hand mind!

Love this thread, thank you!

I delivered a few Christmas cards by hand AND popped into the cornershop thod morning. That must have polished off at least five 90 year olds

Oh my god why can't you just STAY THE FUCK AT HOME

I’m currently sitting next to MIL on my sofa. MIL and FIL were going to come to my parents house for Boxing Day (as part of the ‘Christmas bubble’) but they’ve decided that on balance, it would be best to just see us separately so they are only mixing with one household. Breaking the rules but probably more safe 🤷‍♀️

@Pootle40

Well for everyone who was enjoying this thread and taking comfort from the safe space to have a rational conversation without the dementors joining us....unfortunately we've been infiltrated for now. If we stay quiet they might get bored and go away.

Oh I see, your enjoying the drama of division and pretending you’re in some sort of resistance movement? Are you sure you wouldn’t prefer a playground to a forum?

Nowt as queer as folk although I would really love it if you would in fact stay quiet. I doubt that you’re capable tbh though.

So refreshing to read all the posts here. I really do think we will be looking back on this whole thing wondering wth were they thinking? It’s been totally blown out of proportion.

Ooh I like playgrounds. Particularly the slide and swings. Sadly our good local one is still taped up because FUN KILLS!

@Flaxmeadow

They closed a couple of days before lockdown. Not 2 - 3 weeks before

But people were already aware they were to close. People had begun to take it seriously in the weeks prior the 23rd.
Widespread criticism of the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead on the 10th of March
We knew we would follow Italy, lockdown 9th of March
Rishi Sunak budget 11th March, when he set out unprecedented measures
WHO declared pandemic 11th March
Spain going into lockdown 15th March and people scrambling to get back to the UK
UK advise all non essential travel to cease 16th March

This was allover our news before the 23rd

Are you denying that the first lockdown worked by bringing down the rate of infection and deaths?

You can’t just accept that you were wrong by stating that the deaths dropping within a week of lockdown was not to do with the lockdown, can you?

I do accept the lockdown brought down numbers. Whether it was worth it now is less clear. Maybe things should have opened sooner and we could have had our second wave in summer as opposed to now.

OP thanks for starting this thread. I’ve been feeling as you describe for months now but don’t want to get too drawn into the debate as since April I’ve wasted far too much time arguing on various other threads. Life is sterile, grey and joyless now, and I’m really only keeping going for the sake of my partner and DD.

We stuck to the rules fairly rigidly at first but are now seeing both sets of elderly parents and are flouting the restrictions in other minor ways. Really don’t care any more, with all the goalpost shifting and fear/guilt messaging. Mostly what I feel now is continual impotent anger, and I think these feelings are shared by a large and growing sector of the population - certainly most of our immediate friends and family now feel that the rules, and many people’s interpretation of them, are generally pointless and disproportionate - especially as the many and varied harms of lockdown come to light. But since our opinions don’t fit the prevailing ‘Covid is king’ narrative we have learnt to keep our own counsel.

FWIW I think the first lockdown was a ‘success’ in great part because it coincided with the beginning of our spring and better weather. I also think that history will judge us very poorly for the heavy handed actions we’ve taken in a futile attempt to ‘control’ a virus which is just doing, very efficiently, what viruses do.

@Iheartmysmart

Ooh I like playgrounds. Particularly the slide and swings. Sadly our good local one is still taped up because FUN KILLS!

Well that’s not representative of everywhere, playgrounds have been open here in my commuter belt town since they reopened. We’ve only stopped going since they’ve all turned into their usual winter mud baths.

Sounds more like a problem with your council than a national issue.

I feel the same! I haven't seen my 92 year old grandad all year apart from once through a glass window and one of his careers gave it him early this month, really what's the point 🤯

Luckily after a couple of weeks in hospital he has survived and is back home, apparently he dealt with covid really well but had other health issues that were the main issue.

@MassiveSalad

So we couldn't even have just the one thread then, clearly.

You can't expect misinformation to go uncorrected

What misinformation?

@Flaxmeadow

They closed a couple of days before lockdown. Not 2 - 3 weeks before

But people were already aware they were to close. People had begun to take it seriously in the weeks prior the 23rd.
Widespread criticism of the Cheltenham Festival to go ahead on the 10th of March
We knew we would follow Italy, lockdown 9th of March
Rishi Sunak budget 11th March, when he set out unprecedented measures
WHO declared pandemic 11th March
Spain going into lockdown 15th March and people scrambling to get back to the UK
UK advise all non essential travel to cease 16th March

This was allover our news before the 23rd

Are you denying that the first lockdown worked by bringing down the rate of infection and deaths?

And yet our own government downgraded Covid's classification as a HCID on 19th March.

Totally fed up. Feel a bit numb to it

More economic damage yeh great how shit is that

Covid stats blasted

Jan is going to be ridiculous. Better hurry up with vaccines

You can't expect misinformation to go uncorrected.
The thread title is about whether people don't care anymore. How is it misinformation to feel shit about a situation?

You can't expect misinformation to go uncorrected

What misinformation?

That it isn't a deadly virus for most people? That's fact.

This thread is about people who have had enough. That isn't misinformation it is the feelings of real people.

I am sure there are plenty of threads you can jump on to "correct" people for their wrongthink.

Honestly, I think we have to ignore this lot if we want to have a thread for people who feel the same to be able to talk.

I think you are right @MassiveSalad. I am just ignoring them now. There are many like minded people IRL. I am sooooooo looking forward to seeing my two friends indoors tomorrow. Will be so good for all of us. I will not be STFAH!

There is a very knowledgeable page on
Facebook called adapnation where the facts and figures are shown and that has been very refreshing for me.

@Lostinacloud ty for your kind words. I am feeling a bit more calm today. My children have finished school and hopefully we can all relax now and switch off from the media and just try and make the most of it x

@MassiveSalad

I delivered a few Christmas cards by hand AND popped into the cornershop thod morning. That must have polished off at least five 90 year olds

Oh my god why can't you just STAY THE FUCK AT HOME

Its ok. I soaked the Christmas cards in bleach for 24 hours first. Yes they came out a bit strange looking but Can't Be Too Careful.

Anyway I see Boris is threatening us with another lockdown. As someone already locked up in the northern Tier-3-for-eternity prison I for one am underwhelmed.

Hope you wore gloves Somewhere? I had a nasty hair incident a while ago while bleaching my hair without gloves. Seemed to lose my fingerprints for a while. On the plus side with a mask on I could have had a brief but profitable life of crime.