Is anyone else more scared now than they were in March?

[Swearlikemalcolmtucker]

Everything just seems so dark, and even with the vaccines it’s got to get worse before it gets better.
I don’t recall feeling like this in March but I’m genuinely scared now. I’m hoping my health anxiety is at the root of most of it as I’ve been able to stay pretty upbeat and positive until now, I kept thinking vaccine, warmer weather, things will get better but now it seems harder to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Seeing the celebrations in NZ is like looking into another world

I'm not scared of catching Covid. But I am terrified about how stuck our lives are - I feel like a rat in a maze.

Yes. I’m a primary TA. Dreading next week.
Low morale. I’m fairly new to the school and the teacher I am working underneath seems unhinged. Atmosphere is beyond awful and I’m worried about covid. So short staffed I’ve been taking year five classes all alone. Wow!!... I am really not qualified to do so and have no idea what I am doing.

Feels very different to March.

I’m not scared. I’m very, very angry that this Government had the benefit of hindsight. Yet they let it rip through schools and now we have a nice mutation.

They gaslighted for months about safe schools and now they are the main driver, they’ve started closing them. Some schools cannot provide remote/kw/v provisos because of a lack of staff. I have 2 exam year children as I wanted schools to be open, I could see it was a fucking disaster about to happen.

I literally cannot believe they have made the same mistakes, again and again and they are hell bent on doing it all over again.

My only worry is the NHS. Young people are not dying but they are needing critical care. If you have an asthma attack, a car accident or chest issues. There is no guarantee you’ll get the help you need and that could happen to anyone.

People should be very angry.

I'm scared for how many more lives are going to be lost to suicide, cancer and many of the other causes that aren't covid because they aren't getting the help they need.

In the first wave the only people I knew with it were my friends who were health care workers. Now its family members. I feel like its getting closer.

I feel the same. I did feel anxious in mid March but once we were on lockdown I felt calmer even though it was a disaster financially for my household.

I feel incredibly anxious, my mental health is really poor. I couldn't sleep last night as I was having my first panic attack for months and felt like my heart was racing. I also worry about the mental health of the frontline NHS workers and the trauma they are going through right now.

I am furious at the government's response. It is unforgiveable.

No, not scared at all. The most dangerous time was January/February when Covid was brought into my DCs school and my workplace but nobody knew it was there.

It is a secret has said it all for me.

I think for me there was an element of ignorance was bliss last time. We know that there were likely way more people getting it than confirmed cases now but we had no testing. I’m not scared as I can do nothing about it but I cannot wait for this vaccine

I'm not scared of Covid, no moreso than any other illness, I am scared of the stuff around lockdowns etc

No. No point, I can't change anything and I'm not going to spend time panicking about things beyond my control.

No.

I'm much less scared of me or family getting ill as symptom recognition and treatments are better and most people are physically distancing. My elderly family are being very careful and my young relatives aren't out clubbing.

I'm more worried for the economy and people's social well being than I was back in March though.

I don’t know if I’m more scared, but I’m certainly worried. It looks almost certain that the NHS will be overwhelmed in most of the country, there are now a load of lockdown deniers pretending it isn’t happening and the government won’t take the action necessary in time. People who aren’t worried are either in serious denial or quite thick.

No. In March there were a lot of unknowns.
Now, we have effective treatments, a vaccine is being rolled out and the majority of people (generally) are still complying- even if there are a lot of idiots holding gatherings etc, most are not.
Numbers are starting to drop very slightly in some of the worst hit areas. Too soon to tell, but hoping they continue.

Yes, but I've just come out of hospital and am feeling haunted by all the suffering being experienced by people trapped there alone going through hell.

In some ways, no. In other ways, yes. I am scared for the NHS staff and what they will face in the coming weeks. I'm scared for the people who will have a bad death, I'm scared lots will die needlessly when they wouldn't if there wasn't a pandemic raging.

But I don't think getting stuck in fear is good for us - mentally or physically. It changes nothing and can make you ill. So I'm also sitting here thinking about the vaccine and spring and how there is a future beyond the pandemic. Humans are incredibly resilient and we will find a way through this. It isn't ok but it also is. I am going to keep myself as busy as I can as that helps a lot.

That's not to say I'm not worried, or not taking it seriously- but I'm less anxious than I was in March.

It's not the actual virus itself that's scaring me, but the wider damage...

I'm a mix of emotions. I don't think I am as scared as I was in March, but it feels like forever ago now.

I think the weather doesn't help either, it's a lot colder and miserable now at least the first lockdown we had sunshine.

I am worried about January and February though, it does seem bleak at the moment despite the vaccine..

Yes it’s certainly worrying. At the start of all this it didn’t seem real that we’d have 100k deaths. It now seems an inevitability within the next few weeks.

I’m scared that people still don’t seem to know that the NHS is getting utterly fucked by this. This is the thing we spent all that time trying to prevent and clapping about. This is what we saw footage of in Italy and were horrified about.

Now it is here and we seem ... indifferent.

I don't think a lot of people understood what we were dealing with in March.

I was more scared in September , but now I can see the end of this, I'm less scared now.

@Itisasecret

I’m not scared. I’m very, very angry that this Government had the benefit of hindsight. Yet they let it rip through schools and now we have a nice mutation.

They gaslighted for months about safe schools and now they are the main driver, they’ve started closing them. Some schools cannot provide remote/kw/v provisos because of a lack of staff. I have 2 exam year children as I wanted schools to be open, I could see it was a fucking disaster about to happen.

I literally cannot believe they have made the same mistakes, again and again and they are hell bent on doing it all over again.

My only worry is the NHS. Young people are not dying but they are needing critical care. If you have an asthma attack, a car accident or chest issues. There is no guarantee you’ll get the help you need and that could happen to anyone.

People should be very angry.

Exactly this. I am not scared but I am very angry. The government are fucking this up yet again by failing to act, yet again. They appear to have learnt nothing from the first wave and that makes me furious.

No, I’m less scared. I’m February I was reading up about wuhan and the virus and I was terrified. I thought people would be dropping dead in the street. I thought babies and children would be dying or getting severely ill so I was worried about my DS but I’m not as panicky now. We are in Yorkshire and our infection rate was scarily high last month. My exDP works in a school and practically the whole senior staff team, most of the teachers and support staff, along with most of years 9, 10 and 11 had it. All staff had to have a test as it was running riot. I also came to know many more people with the virus and in hospital/on oxygen.
Now it’s in the South and things have calmed right down here, we’ve gone from 500+ cases to around 150. Still following rules as we ever were though.

I’m very worried about how the NHS is being overwhelmed and what it means for anyone that needs health care ( and for the awful toll it must take on many of the staff and wants does that mean long term).

I had a really frightening experience at the start of lockdown when I couldn’t access healthcare for my young son ( partly as couldn’t drive and extremely long waits for ambulances). It was all ok in the end ( and maybe that’s the point!) but I will never forget the sheer panic I felt at not being able to get help.