Pandemic fatigue

[MerinoFroggie]

I hear the term 'pandemic fatigue' and I presume it's to do with the restrictions to curb the spread of the virus.

When I heard about this virus last year, I thought that better not get out of China. A few weeks later I heard about an English couple on a cruise ship and I knew this virus was going to get serious.

The public health authorities were saying 'flu like symptoms'. I knew from the start that this was not going to be a flu type illness.

I had one aim last February and that was to do everything I can to protect my health and the health of my family.

My main aim and driving force continued right through Christmas. I wasn't going to let my guard down to go shopping or socialising.

I absolutely hate the restrictions and I miss my old life and I hate the restrictions. I worked all of last year without even getting a week off and same shit looks likely for this year too.

I hate the restrictions and the low contacts etc. I hate it but I have one aim and driving force to continue with the guidelines. My main aim since last year was to protect my health and my families health. The way I see it this virus is hitting people differently and you have no idea how it's going to hit you. I thought what sort of a quality of life is someone going to have if you are left in the position of being long term sick after covid? I don't care about writing off my life for a yesr or two. I still feel relatively free and I challenged my energies in my free time into exercise and hobbies.

Theres no fatigue with me and I have so much drive to continue with the guidelines. Its disappointing to see so many others writing this virus off as nothing but a mild illness and throwing old people under the bus in their minds.

I’ve not written it off at all and do fear covid but am starting to suffer from lockdown fatigue

Do you expect to avoid covid for the rest of your life OP?

I don't care about writing off my life for a yesr or two. I still feel relatively free and I challenged my energies in my free time into exercise and hobbies.

And that's absolutely fine. For you.

Others are finding this situation very bleak - and unlike you have not been able to draw a steady salary - and will want to get back to something approaching normality as soon as the highest risk groups have been vaccinated. You may go on channelling your energy into hobbies as long as you wish.

The lockdown is shit and I hate the lockdown and the ban on household visits but I do have huge stamina to continue to protect my health and my families health.

2020 definitely highlighted a fear of being sick for me and I have so much stamina to follow the guidelines as much as possible.

@MerinoFroggie

The lockdown is shit and I hate the lockdown and the ban on household visits but I do have huge stamina to continue to protect my health and my families health.

2020 definitely highlighted a fear of being sick for me and I have so much stamina to follow the guidelines as much as possible.

And that's fine.

But you can't impose your own fears on everyone else.

Well done, have a gold star. Keep up the good work!

I'm not happy in my job though and I have my own difficulties to contend to and I have been looking for other work for months but I am unsuccessful. Life definitely hasn't been a walk in the park for me but still I am doing my best to follow the public health guidelines.

I've been quite binary in my approach to this depending on the perceived risk level. Throughout March and April last year I was in a state of near panic 24/7 and was super compliant.

When things opened up again I quite quickly - once the shock of meeting people again had worn off -- let my guard down and it basically stayed down until December. At that point I was sensible but pretty relaxed.

I'm now back in a state of panic which is such that I'm doing really neurotic things again: have totally given up all support bubbles, took my daughter out of school voluntarily before I needed to and am wiping everything down that comes into the house.

For now I'm absolutely fine with total compliance and will remain so until I start to see the London hospitalisation numbers stabilise. At that point no doubt I will flip flop back and chill out.

That's how I roll really. But the government is clearly onto something by instilling a degree of fear: compliance depends to some degree on fear. In this instance not a bad thing IMHO.

but I do have huge stamina to continue to protect my health and my families health

Well bully for you op, but you clearly do not have huge reservoirs of compassion or emotional intelligence to match your stamina.

Many people have reached their capacity to some time ago.

I can also say that I most definitely WONT be doing this for years.

Oh piss off.

People have lost everything thanks to lockdown. You may be alright, but a lot of people aren’t.

[quote Scaredshitlessagain]@MerinoFroggie cut the holier than thou bollocks. FUCKING tedious[/quote]
Well you obviously just don't have enough drive and stamina to challenge your energies properly tbh
I find it inspirational and now know what I should be doing to beat this thing.

Do you have the same fear of illnesses such as sepsis?

Oh ffs 🤦‍♀️ you absolute martyr!!!

People have lost:

• Their jobs.
• Their businesses.
• Their mental health.
• Their children's education and futures.

And, while we are imprisoned at home, we have plenty of time to brood on this.

And the government are keeping ALMOST TOTALLY SILENT about this; just fobbing us off with "we can turn this virus around in twelve weeks"; "normalish by Christmas"; "it would be inhumane to cancel Christmas"; "I hope to see normality by Easter".

So, people are FUCKING FED UP, and wondering if this is going to end, ever.

While your resilience remains high, that is not the case for others.

I am still following the rules but living day in and day out on my own, not having touched another human being for months, not having seen close family for a year, it takes its toll OP.

Only on Mumsnet.

We’re living in unprecedented times where most of us are banned from seeing our loved ones. We have an incompetent government headed by a very unreliable PM. Some people’s lives have been destroyed, be that their livelihoods or their mental health, and there is fuck all to do. Is it any wonder people are feeling fatigued?!

Have your covid medal OP

Feel free to carry on isolating forever then op. I got one am sick of lockdown, and once the worst has passed and the most vulnerable have been vaccinated I won’t be so keen to keep on living life this.

How exactly do you think ramming your own agenda down the throats of those struggling with different aspects of lockdown to those which bother you helps strengthen their ‘stamina and resolve’?

If you are struggling to keep your job/business or are worrying about putting food on the table, a loved ones cancer treatments being halted or any of the other terrible side effects of lockdown, then prioritising the risk of an illness you may not catch and which will be mild for the majority is not exactly top of the list is it?

Give it a rest with the Sanctimonious ivory tower nonsense.

I'm not suffering from any sort of fatigue. I am depressed though. I don't like hearing about people becoming ill, or death, or that other people are suffering so badly from their own depression. I am also a bit scared now. For myself and others. As for lockdown, its boring what more can be said really, unless of course you are unlucky enough to be losing your job and or your home. Then its not just boring.

But the most depressing thing to me is just how superficial, selfish and entitled we are becoming as a society and as individuals, and also just how fucked we are as a country. We have more excess deaths per million population than the USA. Bojo should have his head put on a spike outside parliament.

What a weird post OP

So you worked all year but still had sufficient resources, time and energy for new hobbies, which I am glad to hear

I’m guessing that focusing all your efforts on protecting your health and that of your family didn’t help with gaining any sort of perspective on what other people’s lives are like. I hope your family are as fully on board with your strategy for their lives

Well done. You're brilliant

This is such a weird, passive-aggressive post. I can only assume your real point is to have a go at people who you don't consider to have the "stamina" (weird word) to keep following all the guidelines, as otherwise it's just to go online and say to a load of strangers "I'm doing great at this really hard thing". Er, cool?

@MerinoFroggie

I'm not happy in my job though and I have my own difficulties to contend to and I have been looking for other work for months but I am unsuccessful. Life definitely hasn't been a walk in the park for me but still I am doing my best to follow the public health guidelines.

That's great.

Now, what would you like us to DO with this information?