Are you taking this seriously?

[nolovelost]

Are there any people that aren't clinically vulnerable/vulnerale taking the virus seriously?

It seems like there aren't enough people thinking "well I'm not vulnerable but I'm taking it all on board and think the pandemic is horrendous".

It's all quite soul destroying, the whole thing isn't it but I'm hoping that people are rising above the relentless boredom and realising that the restrictions are for a good cause.

I know a few people that think everything has been exagerated and before the stricter mask rules came in the other week, refused to wear one.

I'm vulnerable, but not extremely clinically vulnerable, and was wondering how many on here think it's all a waste of time because they don't think they're at risk?

[quote nolovelost]@Sethy38 I love your post - very positive and real![/quote]
It's only 'real' if your life is all about pottering and cake baking.

I really think that the vast majority of people can cope living like this in order to save lives and allow the NHS to function.

For how long though? I’m afraid I don’t care about the lives of random people I don’t know to live this way indefinitely which is why once my parents and I are vaccinated we will be meeting freely.

What would you have been doing pre covid and what did you do today that makes current like so utterly shite and bleak. a lot of people have lost their jobs and businesses, or have been furloughed for months and don't know if they have a job to go back to. That's pretty shite and bleak.

I am not clinically vulnerable and am forced to comply, but after last year's airport farce and the exams fiasco, I am not taking the virus seriously at all. I will have the vaccine when they say I can't fly, and for no other reason.

I will give you fake smiles from behind the mask.

In the airport lounge, I must not sit down and must stand 1.5m away from the same people who will be digging their elbows into me and coughing in my personal space for 2 hours once we are through the final passport check.

Flying to England again in summer because Gav decided to cancel most exams but not IGCSEs, for reasons known only to himself.

Why would I take it seriously?

@IcedPurple what the other poster is saying is that she appreciates the little things in life and that things can wait. Just because you don't appreciate baking and and pottering...don't judge people!

@nolovelost @Sethy38

There's nothing more "real" about that post than there is about the people here saying they are so miserable and downtrodden that they would rather take the risk of dying from covid than living their life in this miserable existence.

What a horribly smug post @Sethy38 - I really think you should have read the room before posting that. You may be fine with being housewife/parent of the year and pottering and baking and all sorts of lovely things with frills on it but for the majority of people on this post that is not the reality. The reality for a lot of us is that even getting out of bed in the morning is a challenge, and the prospect of living any longer like this is so jarring that we're getting to a breaking point.

@nolovelost if we could all just appreciate the little things in life and it was that easy then a lot of people here would have no need to comment and weigh in.

[quote nolovelost]@IcedPurple what the other poster is saying is that she appreciates the little things in life and that things can wait. Just because you don't appreciate baking and and pottering...don't judge people![/quote]
Well no, that isn't really what she is saying.

She seems to have no understanding for the fact - and it is a fact - that for millions of people, lockdown isn't simply an opportunity to enjoy 'lovely Sundays' baking cakes. Many people have lost everything.

As for saying 'things can wait', for how long, exactly? And if your business, job or mental health is on the verge, maybe things can't wait.

@nolovelost it is also worth noting the little things in life for a lot of people are the things we can no longer do.

Shopping together with SO's/family. Going for a coffee after a long walk. Stopping on a park bench and enjoying scenery. Walking to your parents/families houses. Going out for dinner to celebrate something nice. Shopping for some new clothes or shoes.

They are the little things we are all missing.
Not everyone can take joy from baking a cake or pottering around their house like a stepford wife

What would you have been doing pre covid and what did you do today that makes current like so utterly shite and bleak

@Sethy38

I can't imagine what professional musicians did pre Covid, or why life is so shite for them now. I can't imagine what actors did, or theatre technicians, or events organisers. Or tens of thousands of other people who had jobs, homes and a decent income a year ago and who have none of those things now.

Still, we can always potter and bake.

If Bupcakes hadn't coined her username when MN was all just fields, I'd be nabbing it now.

Also echoing @IcedPurple

For mental health especially, things can't wait. The fact is, suicide rates have shot up - specifically for mental health things cannot wait

[quote StormcloakNord]@nolovelost it is also worth noting the little things in life for a lot of people are the things we can no longer do.

Shopping together with SO's/family. Going for a coffee after a long walk. Stopping on a park bench and enjoying scenery. Walking to your parents/families houses. Going out for dinner to celebrate something nice. Shopping for some new clothes or shoes.

They are the little things we are all missing.
Not everyone can take joy from baking a cake or pottering around their house like a stepford wife[/quote]
Exactly.

Just yesterday I got an email from my favourite online clothes retailer. Usually I ignore them because what's the point, but this time I clicked. And then I saw a dress in my favourite colour, in the style that really suits me, for a reasonable price. I instantly had images of myself looking just fab in it and was tempted to click on the 'Buy' button. I then thought: What is the point? When will I ever be able to wear it? I could be naked from the navel down on those wretched Zoom calls.

Just one example of the 'little things' I miss so very much, and have no idea when I'll be able to do again. But hey, I can potter and go for walks.

@trappedsincesundaymorn has very kindly replied for me, @Thewiseoneincognito

I've had poor mental health episodes throughout my life and I've had employers and 'friends' say to just cheer up etc. Now due to covid those people are not being able to go out drinking with their friends or go on holiday and they are finally starting to see just how bloody life destroying poor mental health/depression/anxiety actually is.

Perhaps (bit of a dream) but now maybe mental health services will recieve better funding and less stigma.

Those who just want to catch covid and die. Its not that simple. You get it and you spread it. To your family, to the paramedics, to the nurses or cleaners at the hospital. Its a bed you take up etc. So it's not just as simple as "just dying".

I do wonder how many posters would be saying that suicide is selfish or that people should just pull themselves together in "normal times".

@Sethy38

* just existing as other people have said*

Today I have done an online yoga, had a lovely breakfast with the children, baked a cake with my youngest, watched a film, taken the children out for a long walk, had a long catch up with a friend and now pottering about making dinner.

A lovely Sunday.
Did I miss not physically seeing family and friends? Yes but we spoke yesterday and we know that we will get together eventually.

What would you have been doing pre covid and what did you do today that makes current like so utterly shite and bleak.

All this mumsnetters that seem to have had such exciting lives pre covid!!

👏👏🏅🏅🏅

What would you have been doing pre covid and what did you do today that makes current like so utterly shite and bleak

Hmmm let's see...I could have been visiting my DD for the weekend, had lunch with my oldest friend, gone to the cinema, gone to a gig, had a weekend away, had a day out visiting a local tourist attraction with my sister, gone to dinner with friends, gone for a browse around the shops to list but a few things.
Instead I have gone for a walk (same as I did yesterday, and last weekend, and the weekend before that), read a book (the same as I did yesterday and last weekend and the weekend before that), cooked a dinner (the same as...well you get the idea). Everything is the same and it's dull, boring, shite and bleak.
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I forgot, if covid wasn't here then I would be back at university training to return to work as a nurse.

I've survived breast cancer, chemo and radiation but due to being Ecv I'm not able to go back to work/uni this year as I can get health clearance. I'm looking at sept 2022 now for uni.

[quote nolovelost]@IcedPurple what the other poster is saying is that she appreciates the little things in life and that things can wait. Just because you don't appreciate baking and and pottering...don't judge people![/quote]
Don’t WHAT???? 😂😂😂😂 Isn’t that the very reason and basis for your post.

[quote etopp]**@trappedsincesundaymorn* has very kindly replied for me, @Thewiseoneincognito*[/quote]
You're welcome.

Ha I can assure you that a a single wiring parent of two primary children - my life isn’t about pottering about baking.

But seriously - on a wet jan Sunday with children - what would these posters have been doing that was so unbelievably exciting pre covid, to make their current Sunday so utterly shit and bleak?

I am following the rules because there isn't a great deal of opportunity to do otherwise. But am over it so much now. It has been rammed down my throat so much I am just over it. Drained.

Covid very obviously splits down the middle those that will accept a situation is far from ideal but will make the most of whatever is thrown her way.

No bloody way am I depressing my children my mooing around exclaiming how thoroughly shit life is.

I carve out the positive where I can.

(And before anyone jumps on me referring to those suffering from depression and other mental health issues)

@Sethy38

Covid very obviously splits down the middle those that will accept a situation is far from ideal but will make the most of whatever is thrown her way.

No bloody way am I depressing my children my mooing around exclaiming how thoroughly shit life is.

I carve out the positive where I can.

(And before anyone jumps on me referring to those suffering from depression and other mental health issues)

Are you thick??

Every post needs to include a disclaimer

Not referring to those with mental health illnesses
Not referring to those that have lost jobs etc

Referring to the millions that are still in employment and don’t suffer from mental health illnesses

Who have children and yet still proclaim life is over and everything shit.

I think it’s shit parenting. It’s not Covid that will fuck up the children.
It’s having a parent that says there’s nothing worth living for

Are you reading the stuff you are writing? Or literally just typing any old crap 😂