ENOUGH.

[Beccatheboo]

Simply, ENOUGH.

Feel free to fill in the missing words.

@StarCat2020

Our delightful council have been posting this on social media and local press

That's so awful that I also thought it was fake. Has there been any backlash, or is this kind of emotional manipulation just acceptable now?

*I'd sacrifice a lot of this not to watch my elderly parents die horribly.

And yes, you are selfish.*

@thedancingbear

Not sure how you gathered that I am selfish from that.

God yes. Enough of those bloody adverts. What an intellectually vacuous, over-emotive piece of utter shit they are.
(I'm also overusing the 'utter' and 'utterly' - they're very good words to emphasise the level of duty I'm currently suffering from )

Enough of the public being blamed while companies get to do as they please, cover up security hacks, make vulnerable people wander round in the snow to several shops to try to get electric keys that the shops dont stock, then cut off the electric of people on pre payment meters because the customer cant get through to them on the phone as the key dosnt work.

Enough of people including doctors ignoring the fact that THIS WILL actually create a public health issue while screeching at us to double mask because one isnt good enough.

Maybe take a look at your own attitudes before asking why people arent having the vaccine. Because these attitudes towards the public wont be helping.

Enough of having to follow the rules in my personal life while my (NHS) employer doesnt stick to the rules to keep us safe

"I'd sacrifice a lot of this not to watch my elderly parents die horribly."

For millenia, until March 2020 many of us had to do just that. And we didn't ask other people to sacrifice their livelihoods, education, social lives, hopes, mental health and so on to try to avoid doing so.

I'd sacrifice a lot of this not to watch my elderly parents die horribly.

What sacrifices did individuals demand were made by the nation prior to Covid in order to protect each individual from this?

My nephew had to watch his really very young father die a lingering and painful death a number of years ago - where was all the outrage then?

Or does it only matter when parents die of Covid?

Enough of our freedoms being removed for a virus with a low infection rate and a high survival rate
Enough of the lies from the government and their minions
Enough of this half life
Enough of people losing their livelihoods and homes
Enough of the exploitation of children and young people
Enough of the economy being tanked
Enough of the stupid waste of money at things like track and trace
Enough of the testing with dodgy tests
Enough of protecting the nhs
Enough of sick people having to go without treatment from the nhs

I could go on
Just Enough now

@grapewine

I'll probably get shot down for this but

Enough with the "Look them in the eye" public information ads.

Not by me you won’t That’s just one of the reasons we don’t watch tv, news, briefings or ads

@amicissimma

"I'd sacrifice a lot of this not to watch my elderly parents die horribly."

For millenia, until March 2020 many of us had to do just that. And we didn't ask other people to sacrifice their livelihoods, education, social lives, hopes, mental health and so on to try to avoid doing so.

This ^

There is no dodging mortality. Death is horrible.

Enough of not being able to get my hair done.

@TooManyPlatesInMotion
True

Watched mum and auntie die horrible deaths owing to dementia
Made all the worse because it’s not an illness that completely comes under the care of the nhs
So despite paying into the system all their working lives..they got to pay again at the end.

This is one abomination that needs sorting

@amicissimma

"I'd sacrifice a lot of this not to watch my elderly parents die horribly."

For millenia, until March 2020 many of us had to do just that. And we didn't ask other people to sacrifice their livelihoods, education, social lives, hopes, mental health and so on to try to avoid doing so.

Absolutely.

Flu was the old man's friend because it killed you off earlier than otherwise and meant you didn't live on for worse things like dementia. When you get very old it is not always the case that the longer you live the better. My father's dementia was awful. He talked about these things decades in advance. We were lucky his physical health gave out and that killed him as life with that disease is worse than death.

Enough of determination to open schools even though it puts everyone at enormous risk. Enough teacher bashing. Enough snitching on your neighbours. Enough not being allowed to drive to go for a walk when there’s zero risk and we come into contact with nobody. Enough competitive isolating. Enough cavalier attitudes. Enough ineptitude from the government and prolonging this by opening up too soon.

I agree @Xenia

My mum said "they keep you alive too long" more than once.

Enough of people saying things like "only 118k have died".
This

@Xenia

Flu was the old man's friend because it killed you off earlier than otherwise and meant you didn't live on for worse things like dementia. When you get very old it is not always the case that the longer you live the better. My father's dementia was awful. He talked about these things decades in advance. We were lucky his physical health gave out and that killed him as life with that disease is worse than death.

Totally agree about dementia in t

@Xenia

Flu was the old man's friend because it killed you off earlier than otherwise and meant you didn't live on for worse things like dementia. When you get very old it is not always the case that the longer you live the better. My father's dementia was awful. He talked about these things decades in advance. We were lucky his physical health gave out and that killed him as life with that disease is worse than death.

I'll try again! Totally agree about dementia in the later stages, but I'll add an enough of my own with regards to that - Enough of 'people' (some HCPs, family and society at large) getting shitty and accusing care assistants of just wanting a quiet life when we ask for something to help palliative care and end of life patients that are scared, in pain and distressed. It's not a damned chemical cosh, it's not us being lazy and can't be arsed, we have to look after these people and watch them suffer and when we try to advocate for them and get them pain relief or something to make their last weeks not full of pain, fear and confusion, we're accused of just wanting an easy life. Enough of that.

The elderly are treated worse than family pets.

Enough of the people who don’t want lockdown or to take the vaccine but somehow expect this all miraculously go away if we just ignore it.

Maverick I agree and my doctor father certainly made sure he told everyone decades in advance he would not want his life prolonged if it were all getting very bad. I don't want to distract the thread from the enough topic but some older people do say "enough". I have no problems with dying even now (except now in my 50s I still support my children so it would be better it were in my 70s) but what I don't want is any long period of suffering before I die.

However I do feel we have had "enough" of lack of tolerance of the views of others. I respect the views of those who want an even stricter and longer lockdown whereas my views since March 2020 have been very different. People on both sides (as indeed on both sides of the brexit remain divide (I voted remain) are good people and Labour/Tories - there is not some big bad wolf that the "other" is different and horrible most of the time.

Keeping the right to express views is important even those expressing them have views I detest.

It is also useful for people to have sites like mumsnet where they can get things out and complain and then get back to their normal difficult pandemic lives.

Enough of people being impatient and thinking we can complain the virus away.

@Ocsetldil

The elderly are treated worse than family pets.

I agree keeping someone with end stage dementia alive at all costs and not allowing family to see them on case they get a virus...locked away to further slide into the abyss ...but you know covid is worse

The thing is we don't allow family pets to struggle on for years gradually getting worse do we...