Are you taking this seriously?

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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?

I've lost two people I know to suicide in the last 10 days. I'm trying to work and homeschool. I am on my knees mentally and going to some very dark places. I'm drinking too much to cope. Why can't you understand that I have no mental capacity to care about anything beyond the next 15min or so. I'll wear a mask in shops because it's easier than not, with all the comments and looks. Beyond that, I'm doing my best but no, I don't really care that much any more.

I'm not vulnerable, but I am in my late 40s, overweight and have taken this seriously back to when the CV threads appeared last January.

We are very fortunate we can WFH and have a garden. We get online deliveries.

However, previously tier 4, 20% of both my children's secondary school classes infected, so one of my children inevitably caught Covid.

And when they return I expect the other one to as well given the high risk of our inner city schools here.

We take it seriously, but with kids at school and possibly a return to the offices without vaccinations, not sure what else we can do.

@OrangeBananaFish

I really can't bear this "I'd rather die" nonsense from anyone under the age of 65 and certainly not from anyone with children. It's absolutely pathetic. This might be - at the very worst - three years of an otherwise long life.

Must be wonderful to have great mental health. Unfortunately a lot of people haven't and this is really taking its toll on them. Yes me included.

@OrangeBananaFish agree with you.

I'm taking it very seriously to protect the old and vulnerable. If I get it then the high probability states i'll be okay, so I don't fear getting it too much. I fear it more while the hospitals are overwhelmed because I don't want to risk making this situation worse.

Everyone needs to be responsible right now.

Once the vulnerable and elderly are vaccinated then we need to start living again, though. Even if it means tighter border controls for a while, like we've seen in Australia.

@BonnieDundee yes of course - I clearly say that in my post. If you're older or got a short term to live due to, say, cancer I do understand.

I also do understand mental health issues are exacerbated by this but the idea that the pressure of home schooling means some people "would rather die" and leave their kids without a parent is frankly sensationalist hyperbole which is stirring up the dangerous anti mask crew. It makes me angry. I don't believe that many people who post this on here really actually mean it

How lovely and privileged to have great mh, support system and resilience. I don't. I already have a mental illness. This shit is making it worse. I know many normally very positive and resilient people who are struggling.

Studies show that compliance is generally very high so most of us are taking it seriously. I certainly am, due to knowing otherwise healthy people who have died from it and others who are struggling with long covid. Long covid in particular is really worrying as we don't treat chronic conditions very well anyway so once you're in that bracket you're fairly fucked.

Part of me is angry that it's still rumbling on quite as badly as it is in the UK. Our government and our health chiefs have both let us down. There is no way that we should have had 90000 dead from this and a lot of the excess deaths are down to poor executive decision making.

But given that - ie that the people who are literally paid to make good decisions and keep their population alive aren't doing so - it behoves the rest of us to try even harder to do what we can to stop it spreading and to protect each other, because we can only rely on each other.

Somebody told me that if I didn’t believe that face masks work, mine wouldn’t work and people would die. Because science is based on magical thinking!

Whilst following da roolz, I’m not scared. Some people seem to think only Covid matters and you have to sit around in sackcloth and ashes, sobbing and shaking.

I mean it @YukoandHiro. Trying to work full time and homeschool two dc, one of whom is autistic. Whilst also living with my stbxh. It is either carry on somehow drinking myself into a stupor, shouting and eying all the time because I cannot do everything. Or die. Dying seems way better option than living like this for much longer.

We have followed all the rules, self isolated when necessary, we try to get everything delivered etc. But we haven't gone beyond the rules. Nurseries are open and we are sending our children. Some on here would say that was not taking this seriously.

If anyone really feels like you can't live another day you owe it to your kids to seek help. Your kids need you.

I don't want to die. But I need this to stop. I cannot continue with this level of stress and cortisol for much longer. I can feel myself shutting down.

Of course I don't want to leave my children. But I daydream of becoming ill enough to need a coma or something so I can sleep through a few weeks or months without being the person on charge of a million things for a while. I just want this to end.

@GalesThisMorning where do we get help? I'm already on medication. The crisis team in my area have no capacity and are only seeing the most vulnerable. Because I live with my twat of stbxh, I don't qualify. There is no capacity in my care anywhere. Even the Samaritans are struggling to answer even a small percentage of calls.

Yes, we are. I don’t want us to get it nor contribute to others getting it. So we stick to the rules and guidelines and will continue to do so.

Sadly many are too selfish to do the same and we don’t all seem to be in this together and protecting others.

I'm CEV and haven't shielded, didn't want to, never will, even though I should. I've worked throughout and will continue to do so in an extremely high risk work place. Nor am I having the vaccine due to severe allergies.
I follow rules for the benefit of others but for myself I have absolutely no worries whatsoever, firstly, much worse things have happened to me than covid and secondly I have much more risk from the illnesses I have. Covid doesn't fuss me in the slightest. I've followed rules when I'm at work for the benefit of who I work with but in summer and previous lockdowns my kids have played with others and I've seen friends.

@GalesThisMorning

If anyone really feels like you can't live another day you owe it to your kids to seek help. Your kids need you.

Tried that. There is no help out there. I have antidepressants which make me numb enough to to get through the day. Apart from that, been told tough luck, there are no resources.

I'm not taking seriously the 500 bloody posts a day saying people aren't taking it seriously. Enough already. I sick to death of all the virtue signaling going on.

I feel like I'm walking a tight rope. Trying to keep myself sane and act in the greater good for others.

@DappledOliveGroves

I don't care if I get it. I don't care if I'm seriously ill. Don't care if I die. All I know is that I cannot live in lockdown much longer.

Clinically vulnerable

No. Nothing is worth lockdown. I don't care if I die, I have to consider care for my elderly mum but that is not exactly something that makes life worth living.

I have been seriously ill with pneumonia before and have probably partly become CV as a result. But nothing is worth this.

Wasn't there a Bon Jovi song "dying ain't much of a living when you're young"? Well, it's not much of a living whether you are young or old.

My cousin is CEV, double organ transplant. He is nearly 50! He wasn't expected to live anything like this long. He has nearly died quite a few times. He wants to get on with his life. Otherwise what's the point of anything?

Sit in your flat and wait for....what?

I do what I’m meant to which is bad enough

Follow the rules

Think about risk no more than that but can see the damage

If, for whatever reason, they opened everything up tomorrow at the current rates of infection , I'd still be in a packed bar in a minute. I just want life back and have given up caring tbh.

I don't care any more tv off when the propaganda is being spewed out had enough

I don't get the 'I don't care if I die' attitude.

How do you think family and friends would feel if you died? Or does that not factor in any more?

It's hard, it's hard for everyone. If you aren't fed up and exhausted then you're either exceedingly lucky or not following advice adequately.

@secretllama

If, for whatever reason, they opened everything up tomorrow at the current rates of infection , I'd still be in a packed bar in a minute. I just want life back and have given up caring tbh.

This is me

@secretllama God yes. Or more simply I would run and hug and adult human. Man for some physical contact.