I'm done

[nomore33]

I cannot do this anymore. I work in an industry that has been completely destroyed by Covid and me, DH and our young DC are now facing an extremely difficult future financially. I have no option really but to retrain, which could take years - and I don't know where to start or whether there will even be any jobs at the end of it.

We've lost almost everything we've worked so hard for (including our home, which is now on the market) for a virus with a death rate of 1%. It's beyond soul destroying and I'm so tired and sad. I feel completely beaten down by life and like me and my family don't matter - it's all about Covid now. Honestly, what is the point?

Well you clearly have no idea what's actually been going on then flaxmeadow.

You are just denying reality if you didn't notice the NHS basically shut down in the first lockdown. Haven't you heard from all the people who've suffered? Even on here there's been posts from people who have lost loved ones because they didn't get diagnosed/treated in time with non-covid conditions. At that's only the extreme end of things. Didn't you notice even the things in the news about discharging patients last March, operating theatres turned into intensive care and so on? Appointments, where they happen, being over the phone even where they need to be fact to face?

Social services did not keep "functioning" at the same level. It's disgusting that they suddenly decided (already patchy) care for disabled people no longer needed to be legal requirement "because covid".

And you've completely missed my point about people being off work self-isolating, and asymptomatic people going to work. My point is, if we hadn't tried to contain covid it wouldn't matter that asymptomatic people were passing it on. And people wouldn't be self-isolating, they'd only be off if they were actually too ill to work.

Managing the deaths and palliative care would have been a challenge, but they had resources to throw at furlough and so on so why not that?

You clearly don't understand psychology either. It's a fact that people are more likely to be traumatised and affected long term by things that are man-made not natural. Covid is like a natural disaster, lockdown is man-made. I didn't say people wouldn't be sad or affected by the deaths, just likely to be less so. Plus the whole calculation around how many people must suffer and lose everything for each life. You seem to think disregarding all that pain in favour of life at all costs is the compassionate stance; I do not.

I do not believe services would have been overwhelmed to such a degree that it would cause as much damage as cancelling everything has. Not to mention that people would have changed their behaviour a bit regardless, not wanting to attend large gatherings, and taking care if they believed themselves to be vulnerable.

AnniversaryScaresMe

I'm not denying that services have suffered or that people have suffered. It's a tough hard situation. A crisis

My point is, that if we let the virus just rip through the population then the suffering would be much much worse

This virus is strong, it's adaptable, it's thriving and ATM if left to it's own devices, it has the potential to shut down the health service within a matter of weeks, for ALL of us

What do you think would happen then?

@Flaxmeadow

AnniversaryScaresMe

I'm not denying that services have suffered or that people have suffered. It's a tough hard situation. A crisis

My point is, that if we let the virus just rip through the population then the suffering would be much much worse

This virus is strong, it's adaptable, it's thriving and ATM if left to it's own devices, it has the potential to shut down the health service within a matter of weeks, for ALL of us

What do you think would happen then?

There’s plenty of other alternatives to lockdown. The government, influenced by SAGE and Neil Ferguson, panicked and look where it’s got us.

There’s plenty of other alternatives to lockdown.

Such as?

@Flaxmeadow Such as those in vulnerable groups shielding and letting everyone else go back to normal! Why was this not even considered? The government should pay the vulnerable to stay home and let everyone else get on with it. I had COVID and recovered quickly and completely. Must do. The U.S. is providing stimulus checks to most of the country to make up for the economic destruction. Would have been way cheaper to give a meaningful amount of money to the relatively small group of vulnerable to genuinely enable them to stay home while the rest of us work and keep the economy afloat.

*most not must

I'm done with and lost a parent and one of my in-laws to it.

All too late now. The govt needs to step in and help the people who are losing their homes, livelihoods etc. We have demolished the economy for what?

I am not in the UK. I live in a town with population of 130k, we are in the middle of the strictest lockdown with curfew and only supermarkets and chemist's open. The number of people admitted to hospitals per day in my town is 1. FUCKING ONE. one person a day ends up in the hospital but we are locked down and they're talking about opening up in June!!!
Fuck this shit.

Lonelysam Where are you?

@tryingtryingandtrying NL but my area has super low infection rate.

@lonelySam

I am not in the UK. I live in a town with population of 130k, we are in the middle of the strictest lockdown with curfew and only supermarkets and chemist's open. The number of people admitted to hospitals per day in my town is 1. FUCKING ONE. one person a day ends up in the hospital but we are locked down and they're talking about opening up in June!!! Fuck this shit.

Where?! Though my Bulgarian friend reports similar. She is in a small city there. V v low numbers. Everything shut.

hamstersarse

moronic scaremongering
Moronic scaremongering, e.g. @OakSnows

Two of my comments were deleted (various thread, not necessarily this I’ve) for using that “m” word.

I’m feeling picked on now.

Not necessarily this one

That was 😁 btw. I’m not seriously feeling picked on.

@nomore33 Thank you. There are no words to express my sorrow for your dire situation. My heart goes out to you and your family and I wish for a miracle to happen.
My best friend, after years of financial problems, landed her dream job, only to find herself unemployed two months later when the pandemic started. She had been diagnosed with depression years ago, and this situation doesn't help her mental health at all.

@Beaniecats

I also think in years to come it will be looked on as greatest over reaction of all time but I do think social media fuelled the hysteria . Govt propaganda helped The destruction of vast sectors and education, move of NHS to a covid nhs only Its utterly ridiculous For a virus

This is brilliant! You’ve just been popping up all over the vaccine threads complaining about not being vaccinated and wanting to get it! For a mild fake virus with an incorrectly reported death rate and we are being lied to and lockdown had never happened ranting. But desperate for the killer microchip vaccine. Just brilliant. Bonkers and brilliant.

@nomore33 I’m so sorry this is happening to you, I have no words of advice but didn’t want to not hear you and say it is all utterly shit. I hope you manage to find something to do as a career ans aware that anything I say as something that I think is helpful will just sound wrong and patronising as I’m not in your shit shit situation. I hope things turn a corner for you.

Perhaps I think I should be called for the vaccine as I am entitled to it. It would be fabulous to actually get some health care from the GP.

DP was made redundant in June after being furloughed
We don’t live together but it’s impacting me too as there is no way he can live on UC, the shortfall on his rent alone means he has no money for food - I’m helping him out with rent top up, car expenses, phone and broadband etc
I’m also worried about his mental health