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

Not scared, more disparing

The NHS is close to collapse and we are opening schools next week. It's insane. The government has proved it's incompetence repeatedly .

@Mrbob

People seem to think they just shut down the NHS and if they’d just got on with it then cancer etc would be treated (the non treatment is awful and I have HUGE sympathies for anyone whose management is being delayed) Covid is survivable BECAUSE of treatment like oxygen in hospitals. I am entirely confused by the anger for the hospitals having to stop elective procedures. The alternative is leaving all these people at home dying for want of some oxygen. If you didn’t admit anyone it WOULDN’T have such a high survival rate. There seems to be limited logic from some people

This is a really important point and one which many people (me included) keep forgetting. When we think about the low mortality rate, that is in part thanks to shielding, lockdowns and to excellent hospital treatment.

PS I may have accidentally reported that post instead of quoting and replying. Hopefully my button click didn't work, if it did, apologies Bob and mnhq.

NHS staff and yes definitely more scared, exhausted, depressed.

The claps have stopped and sentiment from the public also. Less compliance and covid deniers.

And while some people choose to mix and get on with their lives some hospitals are entering disaster medicine....this is so much worse.

We have a vaccine rolling out, please hold on and follow the rules for a while longer

I am weeks away from 50, CV, and about to go back to my tier 4 class of primary year 6. I'm beyond scared. If I get it i'll likely be very ill and transfer it to my CV mum who lives with us. My two teens stand a chance of losing their mum and nan because "primary schools remain open". Our rates are rising by 195% a day currently. Most rapidly in primaries according to the last available data and second only in number to secondaries which are thankfully closed to my children for a few weeks at least.

Anyone who thinks they are safe in primaries needs their head read. I'm fatalistic at the point. I've made a will and thought hard about what to do with my children. I've written a resignation latter and if I can find any new job doing anything else by February i'll hand it in and end a career that's lasted over 2 decades.

@phlebasconsidered

I am weeks away from 50, CV, and about to go back to my tier 4 class of primary year 6. I'm beyond scared. If I get it i'll likely be very ill and transfer it to my CV mum who lives with us. My two teens stand a chance of losing their mum and nan because "primary schools remain open". Our rates are rising by 195% a day currently. Most rapidly in primaries according to the last available data and second only in number to secondaries which are thankfully closed to my children for a few weeks at least.

Anyone who thinks they are safe in primaries needs their head read. I'm fatalistic at the point. I've made a will and thought hard about what to do with my children. I've written a resignation latter and if I can find any new job doing anything else by February i'll hand it in and end a career that's lasted over 2 decades.

Go and get signed off

@PurBal I’m sorry for your losses

We need to start writing to out MPs and letting them know we want our freedom back, that we don't want to keep wrecking the economy, that our kids need to be in school and all of it. Tell your MP and keep lobbying them.

@queenofknives

We need to start writing to out MPs and letting them know we want our freedom back, that we don't want to keep wrecking the economy, that our kids need to be in school and all of it. Tell your MP and keep lobbying them.

Well duh.

How do you propose doing that?

Just opening things up, will not solve the problem.

Unfortunately whatever happens at this point we are screwed. Thats the nature of the beast.

But by all means write an utterly pointless letter asking for miracle work if it makes you feel better.

Unrealistic expectations aren't going to be entertained.

@queenofknives

We need to start writing to out MPs and letting them know we want our freedom back, that we don't want to keep wrecking the economy, that our kids need to be in school and all of it. Tell your MP and keep lobbying them.

Queen what would you do with all the people who need treatment?

I’m not scared about COVID but again long term effects on society and individuals. Had to tell ds his primary is not going back and I think this hit him hard on top of ldn tier 4 restrictions meaning seeing any cousins or gp even briefly was cancelled.
His behaviour has changed he is 8 yo and is either sat on one of us or charging around manically. If we ask him a question or to do anything he screams lockdown. A word we haven’t used in line with current tier 4 restrictions. I am truly scared for what is going on in his head. We’ve tried to not let him see our emotions abs say it’s to keep everyone’s GP safe but he’s finding it hard to understand and he is usually a sensible well balanced boy 🙁
This on top of 50% of my team being signed off with mental health issues 2021 scares me personally and for those I love.

Obviously mean Christmas seeing relatives so he had Christmas cancelled and now seeing friends at 8 he’s finding it too difficult 😥

Yes I am. I'm a primary teacher with asthma. In March I could work from home whereas next week I have to go into school, mixing with 60 households.

Yes, I think I am. Until the research into the response of the vaccines to the new variants is concluded, we do not actually know whether the vaccines currently being rolled out will be effective protection. If that research shows that full protection will be achieved (for both the UK and South African variants) I might relax a bit.

The huge numbers of new infections of the past two days (presumably as a result of social mixing at Christmas a week ago) will inevitably translate into more hospital admissions and more deaths. The hospitals in many areas are already full.

The first few months of 2021 are going to be very challenging indeed.

Not scared but furious. Angry at government dragging its feet again, angry at the 'oh Covid is the only thing people think of what about other things' crowd who don't seem to have a clue, angry at all the Covid denier cunts who still pop up on every thread - go and fuck yourselves you absolute melts.

Not scared but very ground down.
Which is not like me at all - I’m usually the Pollyanna in any scenario.

Yes anger not fear is the primary one I'm at.

Especially since you could see the situation coming a mile off.

Our hospitals were always going to be overwhelmed as we as a country pay less tax for health care per head - and from the look of another thread running today dont want to pay more.

This despite all the support for the bloody brexit 350million pound buses and people bleating on about 'but look at how x country is handling it' (normally Sweden) even though they have more healthcare capacity.

That's what pisses me off. Cakeism.

Our national unwillingness to accept difficult decisions and unpopular choices that benefit actual people rather than politicians.

No not scared. Bored - definitely.

I am more scared- have been all winter. Not just of the virus... for our collective mental health, for those in need of other life-saving and life-lengthening treatment (my brother is one of many), for our post Brexit/pandemically screwed economy which will not get a free pass, no matter how many musicals you sing along to.

My GP DH (you know, GP- doctor-?as in those people being complained about in those myriad of ‘WTF are GPs actually doing?’ threads? Ring any bells) is upstairs in our bedroom, moaning with a pain he’s never fought and powerless to the war raging inside of his body, fighting a virus it doesn’t recognise, Covid.

Meanwhile, I live with heart failure and manage it medically. We have 3 kids and the pets.
All of my middle class comfort won’t promise protection from the unknown. I am terrified- in a very measured way. I am quietly shitting myself.

This illness didn’t come into our home through school. It came in via DH’s practice where 5 staff members, and counting, are positive. These are the people meant to vaccinate us and they’re in bed, knocked for six (is an understatement) fighting Covid.

This is a terrible virus. Shit’s a little real. I cared about schools up until the 26th. Now, it’s the furthest thing from my mind.

Concerned about another full lockdown & people not complying? Yes.
Scared? Far less than I should be, being CEV.

A mixture. I am scared of mutations and possible resistance to vaccination. I am less scared of lockdown - I have coped so far and have more strategies now. But the ongoing nature of it all starts to change your resilience. I took DS6 for his 3rd test last week. Up until that point I had done pretty well at keeping a good front for the children but dragging my poorly child out in the freezing rain to face crews in masks and stick things up his nose had me in tears in front of him for the first time / my resolve just momentarily broke and I sobbed because it’s just shit. I’m worried about my parents (who have pretty much isolated throughout) mental health and I can do nothing to help. I’m worried about DH losing his job which gets more and more likely.
That fear went away last Summer but it’s back now. I am better at living with it all but I’ll believe the “it’ll all be alright by Easter” when I see it. There are a lot of people having a very tough time in this thread. So sorry for you all.

Acceptance will help to ease anxiety and fear. There is no point trying to deny what we are going through, live as best as you can in these trying times because we must adapt.

@queenofknives I hope you are piss-taking with that ridiculously immature comment. Open the economy up and get kids in school? Are you on another fucking planet?

We are in this mess for the long term, any MPs recieiving such stupid letters will think you’re writing from the loony bin.

Yes, purely because my area had a very low rate of infection then, and it has a shockingly high rate now. Also, I've lost a lot of work lately, and my housing situation is precarious. A full lockdown would be really hard for me at the moment. The first one was much easier for me.
But, in spite of all that, I have hope. Light is in sight, in a few weeks or months. I haven't got that new year, new beginning feeling today. Feels like more of the same at the moment. I'm saving that for when we're out of tier 4 and so on. That'll be the time for me to celebrate...

Today I am scared and angry. We had covid back in March, my DH was hospitalised with it. He's now 60 miles away looking after his family because his terminally ill Mum caught covid in hospital and they're all testing positive now. My FIL is in intensive care. I haven't seen my own Dad since August but I can go back to work in a classroom with more than 20 households on Monday! (Tier 4 🙄) it's shit!

@kittyhelp I'm sorry your family's been so badly affected

Good reason to be scared according to this epidemiologist:

twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1344774555718590464

If the government try and paper this over with the totally ineffective lateral flow tests in schools, it could get a lot worse.