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Doom and gloom. ENDLESS

200 replies

Florelei · 20/01/2021 10:07

I have had enough of all this doom. Just when you think there might be a bit of hope you see headlines such as ‘the vaccine won’t work’ ‘mutant strains’ and what has actually TIPPED ME OVER THE EDGE TODAY ‘lockdown until June’

WHAT ON EARTH.

How can we be locked in our homes and isolated for six months when we are vaccinating over 200k a day AND lots more are getting immunity through recovery from infection.

I understand things are bad and I have always done everything I can to protect the vulnerable but seriously we can’t be locked in our homes until June can we?

Can anyone talk some sense into me please because I feel like going into my garden and lying on my lawn screaming.

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OwMyNeck · 20/01/2021 14:38

and the fear campaign has been extremely manipulative and clever

Christ. Why not just shout "I'm a Covidiot!"? Don't be a tit.

LegoAndLolDolls · 20/01/2021 14:42

For this first time in my life ( except for PND) the first thing I thought when I woke up was "what is the point?"

I'm going to ignore the news and quite frankly pretend the world stops outside of my village. I go nowhere. I see no one. Dispite kids I feel sense of purpose this week.

Turning the news off is sometimes what is best for MH

MarshaBradyo · 20/01/2021 14:43

@Thewiseoneincognito

January was a horrendous month in the old world, it’s even more depressing in this new world. I’m resigning myself to the belief that his is our lives going forward.

The only way around it is to literally double our hospital capacity and have a vocation purely of covid nursing and doctors. Then we can go about our lives with some semblance of normalcy but the medical system will be able to cope with the extreme burden covid brings just without the lockdowns. I think we are slowly being drip fed the news that the vaccines are redundant.

Why do you think last sentence?
lollipoprainbow · 20/01/2021 14:46

I'm feeling it today bloody shitty gloomy wind and rain and cold and the sodding lockdown it's crap.

tatutata · 20/01/2021 15:03

OP I felt tipped over the edge on Monday. My youngest is having a terrible time of home school, can't do the simplest assignment. Not the end of the world. But then I want to do some other stuff we'd usually do, otherwise unremarkable stuff like take them swimming. Or see granny. Or a playdate or really anything at all to give their lives meaning, and there is nothing. I totally get that people are dying, but it doesn't really make any of it feel better. So no judgement from me at all, it is shit and the fact it could be worse doesn't make it magically good!! Oh and NB I nuked that rude language from a certain other poster.

Sharww · 20/01/2021 15:07

I have a one year old and it’s just so shit isn’t it? Just because others are suffering doesn’t mean you and I and many others aren’t too. The fact others are dying isn’t supposed to make us feel better, we’d be sadists if it did! Agree with everything you say. Sending hugs if you want them. This past year has been an unimaginable toll on so so many of us Flowers

Sharww · 20/01/2021 15:10

I waited years to have my first and likely only child and it seems unfathomable that two months after finally becoming a mother this all happened. It feels unreal that I can’t do the most simple thing like see my parent or go to soft play or have a trip out or go sit in a coffee shop when the loneliness gets to me. It’s truly horrendous, and I have no time for people who can’t handle others feeling that way just because they believe everyone should be as ‘strong’ (in denial?) as them. We all started this pandemic with different capacities for stress, coping strategies, resources and stressors. I really feel for you: every day I feel like I’m in a nightmare that never ends but I have to keep going for my son and it’s extremely hard Flowers

tatutata · 20/01/2021 15:10

@TempsPerdu

Last summer we visited family, went to Thorpe Park, shopped, ate out, had friends over for bbq's and went to Cornwall for a week. DC were back in school from September and they had hockey club etc going on. Had friends over (rule of six) and ate at McDonald's

I did all of that and more over the summer tbh (including my fair share of afternoons clambering round a soft play with DD!) and still felt restricted and claustrophobic due to all the planning ahead, sanitising and lack of spontaneity. Certainly nowhere near normal.

Much better than now though, admittedly! Grin

That's the thing, although it was better than now, lots of stuff was just too much of an arse. Booking ahead for everything, endless queues, swimming lessons couldn't happen anyway, can't just go somewhere if you've not booked and planned, getting shouted at for not knowing the roolz in every different venue (eg where their frigging hand sanitiser is, I wasn't trying to dodge anything), fuck that. Sometimes I see the pictures coming out of Brazil and think... Hmm yeah why not.
OwMyNeck · 20/01/2021 15:14

That's the thing, although it was better than now, lots of stuff was just too much of an arse

Then it was your choice not to bother. Doesn't mean you can whine about being locked up for a year, when you weren't.

MarshaBradyo · 20/01/2021 15:15

Summer was better than this. I’d welcome that back when it can be. Tier 2 or whatever great for Spring, or Summer even

tarapinn · 20/01/2021 15:25

Owmyneck - that's what I mean. Just because some people couldn't be arsed to queue at attractions etc doesn't mean they were closed. We queued to get in at Thorpe park but when in, did every ride we wanted to.

And to the pp who said these things all cost money. I know they do (although a McDonald's, play dates, shopping in Poundland hardly cost the earth) - my point was, they could still all be done if one had the will/money/inclination to do so. We weren't locked up.

The opportunities were there last summer, unlike now!

OwMyNeck · 20/01/2021 15:26

You know the doom and gloom that you're moaning about? You're it.

I mean, "I'm in a nightmare that never ends"...get some perspective! IT's the 20th of Jan, as near back as Xmas and right before it you could go out and about, see friends and family,. have dinner out, drink in pubs, all kinds of things.

If you're so sick of the doom and gloom, maybe start with yourselves?

OwMyNeck · 20/01/2021 15:27

Owmyneck - that's what I mean. Just because some people couldn't be arsed to queue at attractions etc doesn't mean they were closed. We queued to get in at Thorpe park but when in, did every ride we wanted to

I get you. I meant you as a general you to mean all, not specifically you

GirlCrush · 20/01/2021 15:30

What will actually be left when we do eventually ‘open up’ again?

Few small businesses will survive. Our hairdressers locally have already gone.

Spacecadetagain · 20/01/2021 15:30

It’s tipped me over today too .. I’ve been suffering with long covid symptoms for months and my gp has actually asked to see me today and instead of being relieved .. I’m terrified because now they are saying the new variant is so contagious I’m terrified masks will mean nothing ., I feel sick

Blimeyoreilly2020 · 20/01/2021 15:42

Do you think there’s any hope that when the next pandemic occurs (in the far far off future!) they’ll shut the borders & introduce supervised quarantine Australia style until the population/vulnerable are immunised as it’ll cause a lot less economic meltdown & chaos in the long run?....or do you think we’ll still be stuck with incompetents who refuse to learn lessons from the past?!

LetItGoGo · 20/01/2021 15:51

What's the WHO (currently) saying?

Puzzledandpissedoff · 20/01/2021 15:51

I think we are slowly being drip fed the news that the vaccines are redundant

I wouldn't say "redundant" exactly ... more a drip feed that, just as there's no point getting depressed over the endless doom-mongering, it's perhaps unwise to believe that the vaccines will make enough difference

Sooner or later I'm convinced that we'll have to come to terms with the point that it won't always be possible to save everyone, from everything, all the time

LetItGoGo · 20/01/2021 15:55

So not really redundant at all then.

Prof. Chris Whitty has already said that there will come a point where deaths from Covid19 are at a low enough level for society to accept just as we do now with flu and other viral pneumonia.

Ellieboolou33 · 20/01/2021 16:01

@OwMyNeck

You know the doom and gloom that you're moaning about? You're it.

I mean, "I'm in a nightmare that never ends"...get some perspective! IT's the 20th of Jan, as near back as Xmas and right before it you could go out and about, see friends and family,. have dinner out, drink in pubs, all kinds of things.

If you're so sick of the doom and gloom, maybe start with yourselves?

Well my friend has lost her job, her house is in the process of being sold as can no longer afford it, she is on the verge of losing her sanity , but hey ho let's just think positive as it was only a few weeks ago we could see family.

People have different perspectives dependant on how this situation has hit them, obviously your ok so we should all be Confused

Allispretty · 20/01/2021 16:04

Good god the I've only read half the thread and it's just a load of posters telling each other to fuck off 🤦🏽‍♀️ this is what lockdowns and restrictions has now done to society...everyone out for themselves not a bit of compassion for others.

The media absolutely love feeding off this crap, they know people are holding onto every last line they write. Take no notice and wait to listen to the government. There's not a cat in hells chance torys will keep the economy locked down until June, furlough will absolutely be whittled out towards end of April they'll likely reduce it further as they were going to last time before it ending completely.

It's the shit storm afterwards that I'm dreading, the impact of all these lockdowns on people with long term conditions, mental health and job losses...were in for a very gloomy few years IMO

Mousehole10 · 20/01/2021 16:05

@OwMyNeck

You know the doom and gloom that you're moaning about? You're it.

I mean, "I'm in a nightmare that never ends"...get some perspective! IT's the 20th of Jan, as near back as Xmas and right before it you could go out and about, see friends and family,. have dinner out, drink in pubs, all kinds of things.

If you're so sick of the doom and gloom, maybe start with yourselves?

I couldn't see family at Christmas, we were put into tier 4 before then.
ethelredonagoodday · 20/01/2021 16:05

It is shit, and depressing. At lesser in the summer the weather was semi decent snd being outside was a pleasure.

I don't really care about all the gigs and trips away, stuff like that's been cancelled, although obv that awful for those who depend on them for income. It'll be lovely when those days come again, but what I really want is to be able to see friends and family, not all in a big group, but just maybe one family at a time, and for my kids to be back at school.

I am trying to stay positive and be grateful for the situation that we as a family are in, but it's not always easy.

ethelredonagoodday · 20/01/2021 16:06

*at least

LegoAndLolDolls · 20/01/2021 16:12

@Allispretty MN is doing my head in more than normal this week.

We need to all get into a room with rubber bats and try some anger management therapy.

Maybe MN needs to be added to the news ban. I dont know anyone half as angry in real life 😉

I do think some people are coming on just to wind people up for a reaction.

On that note I might start a AIBU on " Who's life and finances has benefitted from covid as much as mine?" just to set off the mushroom cloud of imploding rage. Because if not that far off that now anyway.

JOKING!