Anyone feel like their head is fried over all the variants and media scaremongering?

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I've got to try a media blackout. Between the news, social media, politics shows and newspapers (which I only dip in and out of anyway) my head feels battered by it all. Especially as not knowing what will happen now later in the month as a result, travel plans completely up in the air all summer, not knowing whether i'll back to the office or not, as my work are dependent on government guidance and the will they won't they keeps disrupting our plans.

I felt more relaxed when we were all locked down for months (although it's great having things open again). The uncertainty is just so crippling and anxiety inducing.

Are people really still quoting plandemic lol

Things wont just open up in England on june 21st. The government are clearly trying to gently let people know this with all the scare stories around. It would be much better to just tell people what is actually planned ..although that would involve planning and forward thinking which seems to be tricky for the Government.

@Daisy829

No. My head isn’t fried and I say this as someone who had go on anti anxiety tablets last Oct as I was nearing breaking point. I’m now at the stage where I can’t believe every variant is going to restrict us & lead us to panic. They always said this virus would mutate as the flu does so surely that’s what’s happening. I just live within the rules and as normal as possible. One of my friends had covid symptoms & tested negative, her hubby had the same symptoms & tested positive a week later. There is no rhyme or reason & im over making myself ill for this situation.

Your friend tested too soon.

@ssd

Things wont just open up in England on june 21st. The government are clearly trying to gently let people know this with all the scare stories around. It would be much better to just tell people what is actually planned ..although that would involve planning and forward thinking which seems to be tricky for the Government.

This is how it seems.

I can deal with being told straight. I can't stand all the mixed messages, smoke and mirrors, good news followed by bad, day in-day out.

Exactly. People should be told straight and we wouldn't be messed up. Its actually cruel what they are doing to people. Yet the tories got a majority so can do as they please. I'm in Scotland and whilst our first minister got pelters on here for not setting an opening up date, we aren't all fixated on one date that people in England seem to be. And as another poster pointed out, the airports were letting in thousands of travellers from India when the country was rife with covid, so us being told to wash our hands etc made no difference. And that was because Johnson was trying to do a trade deal with India and didn't want upset them.

@2021Vision

No my head isn't fried. I am moving forward. I have had covid and 2 jabs. Going forward I will be doing everything I can that is 'allowed' within government restrictions and is therefore restricted by closure e.g. if cinemas close again I won't be able to go however I will be implementing my own 'rules' at home and that are in my control. My home is now open to groups of friends and family and this will continue unless I am reported to the police. I will walk with friends when I want etc.

If this government can let unrestricted people travel to a country ridled with a new variant, bodies piled high and allow them unrestricted to rush back in then they have lost any good will I had around covid. It would seem that many of the people who travel overseas also refuse the vaccine. This variant is now running rife within our young people. I can only hope that long covid doesn't affect them. We should all be up in arms, instead the focus is on holidays in Portugal. Well done for the government using the 'look over there' tatic.

This

It’s all on purpose. Confusion and anxiety is a well known tool used to generate unquestioning acceptance.
I now just laugh at everything I see on msm, it’s so ridiculous it’s funny. Here is a prime example. Us lowly citizens returning from Europe need to pay upwards of £300 per person for day 2 and day 8 tests and quarantine for 10 days. However, if you are an MP, you get to take part in a handy new scheme where you can take a free of charge lateral flow test each day, totally avoid quarantine and any uncomfortable and expensive pcr tests!! Ffs.

@ssd I would have thought hers was a false negative but what I don’t understand is that she did a second test with her husband a week later & that was also negative. I was under the impression that if you had covid you test positive for a couple of months afterwards.

I don't think that can be true, or they wouldn't say with the home pcr tests that you need to do the test and return it within 7 days of showing symptoms.

I think it's possible that you may test positive for longer than that, but I don't think it's inevitable.