I'm fucking done

[Twizbe]

I'm done. We've been isolating ready to see my parents and now we can't.

This is the third time now we've had to cancel plans last min and I'm sick of it! Totally sick of it!

Read the article

The cost of lockdown won’t fully be appreciated for years. The economic consequences, mental health implications, disruptions to education, essential services.

We will be paying for decades.

@midgebabe

And the costs of not locking down?

This is what happens when you cut NHS funding for years and years. And for the voters, this is what happens when you vote Tory.

Covid is a long term thing

The utter chaos and disruption that covid currently causes is not a long term thing.

By the spring vaccinations and the change in the weather will make next summer much better than this summer, which was much better than now, next winter should also be better, better than this winter , better than last summer

@OohImBlindedByTheLights

To quote the title of this thread, I'm fucking done with folk not following the restrictions in place. Yes it's shit, yes it's bad timing, but how would you feel if someone in your family died because you passed on covid over Christmas dinner? What's more important, Christmas dinner or your families health?

100% agree. Not the end of the world surely. Get some perspective.

Well yes, better NHS funding, I was always prepared to pay more tax for that but somehow no political party wanted to stand for raising taxes

The utter chaos and disruption that covid currently causes is not a long term thing.

The economic consequences will take decades to be sorted out.

Or how do you think we’re going to pay for all the borrowing?

@Cecily42

It comes across so ridiculous when people get angry with Boris Johnson. He is doing what he has to do and I actually think he is showing leadership. Never thought the day would come when I would say that!

Damned whatever he does.

But I've yet to see anyone who has criticised saying what should be actually done.

It will take decades, that was a given the moment the virus was born
No, that was a given in January when it was deemed too expensive to close our borders

@Leanandmean31

Are you actually Sorry?

No, I’m not. I have been isolating for 10 days. I don’t have Covid. I am driving there without stopping on the way. I am not going to infect anyone with it so why should I feel bad or sorry? I am putting nobody at risk. The people going to church or mosque or synagogue are though but that’s fine apparently.

Then why did you apologise in your first post?

@midgebabe

Covid is a long term thing

The utter chaos and disruption that covid currently causes is not a long term thing.

By the spring vaccinations and the change in the weather will make next summer much better than this summer, which was much better than now, next winter should also be better, better than this winter , better than last summer

Until a new strain that doesn’t respond to the existing vaccine comes along that is. I think you’re being very optimistic given that this has gone on for 9 months now with little sign of improvement.

It will take decades, that was a given the moment the virus was born

Based on what?

One lockdown sure, to give them time to prepare. After that it’s been government unable/unwilling to do anything hard and just ratcheting up debt for future generations to be saddled with.

@iwantmyownicecreamvan

@RealityNotEssentialism

Nice to hear the term ‘the mental health card’ being trotted out by some posters. This stuff really is showing people for who they truly are. Lots of smug middle class people with partners, children and cosy homes berating people who have lived in isolation for months or are really struggling in other ways. Accusing them of ‘playing the mental health card’ and patting themselves on the back for sticking to the rules (even though doing so isn’t particularly hard when you have support from your own household).

Yes. 100%. Lots of smug bullshit from people who have been able to WFH or furloughed on decent pay while they sit in their garden.

Variants to vaccines are easy. And actually 9 months is short term for a virus to be close to being run out of town

Covid is a long term thing

The issue is that it’s a new virus so we don’t know exactly who it affects, long term effects, transmission rates etc once we know then things can start going back to normal.

Most years we have new viruses appear like zika, swine flu, bird flu etc and there’s a bit of panic and then we find out more about it and put things in place to protect ourselves which is what we’re doing now it just needs a bit more time.

When people realised the link between infected beef and mad cow disease people didn’t just carry on eating beef like normal. It still exists today but people don’t panic about it anymore because measures were taken to make it more safe it’s the same with TB.

Yes people do care

The ons are monitoring suicide rates
They have not increased
The scientists are concerned that rates might go up as things get better
So mental,health is being considered
It's clearly not as fragile as people think

This is what happens when you cut NHS funding for years and years. And for the voters, this is what happens when you vote Tory

Yep. It's a tragedy that over a decade of the NHS being hollowed out by the Tories has left it on its knees to deal with a pandemic, while a populist fuckwit leads the response.

The most inexperienced, clueless government for decades, also hired to drag the country into the sunlit uplands of Brexit.

You couldn't fucking make it up. And people will vote for them again.

The average age of death from covid is higher than the average life expectancy in the uk!

I didn’t know this - unbelievable.

Looking forward to sorting out the mess in the new year

The ons are monitoring suicide rates
They have not increased

It’s not an immediate thing, which is the problem. Mental health deterioration. Livelihoods lost. Children’s chances devastated.

That will take years to work through the system.

Covid deaths are immediate. How can we take a long term view and compare the impact of the disease versus the ‘cure’?

How do you think we’re going to pay for all the borrowing?

That's another one that's rarely answered; the best we get is "without lockdown it would be even worse", which doesn't answer it either

The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that, when the hideous cost becomes really clear, those moaning most will be the very ones who shouted loudest for lockdowns ... all too often from the standpoint of enjoying secure jobs and finances

Did you read my next line? Like I said they are aware it is more likely to be longer term ...THEY ARE AWARE

Yep. It's a tragedy that over a decade of the NHS being hollowed out by the Tories has left it on its knees to deal with a pandemic, while a populist fuckwit leads the response.

Because Germany and Italy’s health services (the latter widely acknowledged to be one of the best in the world) have fared so much better - not.

The one thing I'm pretty sure of is that, when the hideous cost becomes really clear, those moaning most will be the very ones who shouted loudest for lockdowns

Abso-fucking-lutely