Utterly fed up (covid)

[ExpectingLady93]

I'm totally fed up. I don't doubt for a second everyone else is. It's now been a couple of years, we've had our jabs... just doesn't seem to be putting us back to normal like we were 'promised'?

It still doesn't seem to change the fact that there is now a new variant and they are not 'ruling' out another lockdown, and right before Christmas also. I worry for my friends and family (and everyone else). My parents are getting on a bit and I think it would break my mums heart if they put us into lockdown again before Christmas like last year.....

How is everyone else feeling?

[quote WheelieBinPrincess]@Gerlais they have to put the willies up people to get a general level of compliance.[/quote]
Anyone else suddenly got a very nasty mental picture there?

@Confusedteacher I'm fed up yes, as well as the majority of people but that doesn't mean for one second I can and WILL go out and freely do what I want although I do miss those days!!

Sorry to hear you have covid. I'm pregnant and terrified that I'm going to get it.

@Wannakisstheteacher

I’ve reached my limit. Why do I now need to quarantine for 2 days when I’ve had the vaccine, which I didn’t want? Now a booster too? No way. There comes a point when you, surely, just say I can’t live like this anymore. All 3 of my children have had school closures or periods of isolation since September. None of them have been ill at all. Why is their education still being made to suffer?

Because there's a variant which the vaccine may not guard effectively against. Why do people find that so difficult to understand?

@Nimchinge

The UK lockdowns weren't exactly restrictive though were they?

No. Nothing compared to other countries. A relative lives in south America, restrictions there were very strict with consequences if you were caught not sticking to them.

@hangrylady

I'll be seeing my family this year lockdown or not. I'm double vaccinated, so are they plus booster. I've followed the rules so far but not this time if there's another lockdown.

Precisely why pandemic continues

Utter selfishness and arrogance.

if you have children, are you happy setting such an example - ignoring rules and the effect your actions may have on society?

I’d put money on there not being a lockdown this Christmas. Mask mandate and some social distancing but I’d be gobsmacked if there was an actual lockdown.

The faster people take up their boosters the less likely it is.

You know what to do…

@Nimchinge

The UK lockdowns weren't exactly restrictive though were they?

What were you hoping for?

And if the government had just said there’s no need to do anything people would be wining about that and predicting a wave of deaths.

No-one has said we’re going back into lockdown. Most people with half a brain never stopped wearing masks.

@Confusedteacher

FFS it’s a pandemic. The restrictions are there for a reason. Not that there are many at the moment, wearing a mask is hardly difficult!

Currently laid up in bed with Covid, despite being double jabbed. It is very real and it is horrible. I just keep thinking if I feel this bad, being relatively young, healthy and double jabbed, it must be absolutely terrifying for those with real health complications.

But no, if you’re ‘fed up’, just do what you want…

100% agree with this. I had covid 2 months ago, I am relatively young with no known underlying health conditions and it was awful and I still have impaired sense of smell and taste and get tired very easily. If we have to wear masks to prevent more people getting it then how can we possibly complain. I don't agree with everything the government have done but they can't just magic this away.

I don't understand how people can say things like "just doesn't seem to be putting us back to normal like we were 'promised'?

What restrictions have there been for the majority of the summer and now into autumn? In Scotland we have masks and, err, that's about it. The couple of times I've been to England it feels like the pandemic never happened.

There was always a risk of vaccine escape but at the moment the media are massively overegging it. We don't know if the new variant is more transmissable or not. We don't know if the current vaccines are ineffective and there are promising signs that it causes less severe illness.

I've had enough too. We don't count other deaths obsessively. We haven't got into a state of fear about other illness which may also kill the vulnerable - we just accept that there are risks.

Frankly it is more shocking to me now that there isn't more of an outcry about other preventable deaths eg the two young women who died from a herpes infection after giving birth, the people who died in the Glasgow hospital from water bourne infections etc.

My DS has lived with Covid for a quarter of his life now. There are experiences we have lost and he is too old for them now (Santa experiences). He has lost parties with friends, so much school. I'm in Scotland and we've never lost the mask mandate. Time to get Covid in perspective and get on with life.

Blame the idiot vaccine refusers

It's not just you, OP. The so-called "freedom day" in July was said to be irreversible. Couldn't be guaranteed, I know, but it IS only 3 known cases of a supposedly mild variant. It hasn't taken much. Given the back-and-forth of last year, it's not hard to imagine there might be more to come, which is probably what sets people on edge (me included).

To the ConfusedTeacher ranting, we know you're ill but it's no excuse to be so rude. OP's feelings don't make her some sort of weirdo deviant 🙄

Sorry to be harsh but don't get the point of this thread or the others like this. You say you are pregnant and terrified of catching covid but on the hand moaning about restrictions. Despite comments up thread no one knows much about the new variant, particularly whether the vaccines are as effective. At the moment we are only being asked to wear a mask in shops etc so no great inconvenience. No doubt in the near future we'll find out more about it and how much a danger if any it presents. No need to wind yourself up about it.

I'm not bothered about wearing a mask but I absolutely would not comply with any "stay home and don't see family" restrictions again so even on the small chance they bring those in it won't matter to me.

I’m feeling like shit.

I’m dutifully triple jagged, and it’s got me precisely nowhere. I will ignore any further restrictions but I don’t want to see family, I want to do other stuff so it’s hopeless. Wasting my life.

@spitneybrears

It's not just you, OP. The so-called "freedom day" in July was said to be irreversible. Couldn't be guaranteed, I know, but it IS only 3 known cases of a supposedly mild variant. It hasn't taken much. Given the back-and-forth of last year, it's not hard to imagine there might be more to come, which is probably what sets people on edge (me included).

To the ConfusedTeacher ranting, we know you're ill but it's no excuse to be so rude. OP's feelings don't make her some sort of weirdo deviant 🙄

Yeah, but let's be honest - the tories going on about the ending of restrictions in July was only believed by utter idiots. There was always a risk of things going backwards.

feeling completely miserable and a bit lost. Was so excited about the vaccines and new treatments thinking the end in sight. Wondering now if it ever will be the end

I don’t think many people care anymore.

@SusieBob well in terms of restrictions, my DS still doesn't get any active schools stuff, plus no school lets allowed to outside bodies, his swim class hasn't reopen (school pool not available to let), restricted numbers at activities so still on waiting lists to take part, some organisations just folded during various lockdowns, library still closed as it is a covid testing centre, no school trips, no school assemblies, no school plays or choir.

Yet I could go to the rugby, to restaurants, to the pub. It's so unfair on the kids now

I don't know where you live, Nimchinge but not being able to meet even a single other person outside your house for months at a time struck me as pretty restrictive. That was March 2020 in England.

@Confusedteacher

FFS it’s a pandemic. The restrictions are there for a reason. Not that there are many at the moment, wearing a mask is hardly difficult!

Currently laid up in bed with Covid, despite being double jabbed. It is very real and it is horrible. I just keep thinking if I feel this bad, being relatively young, healthy and double jabbed, it must be absolutely terrifying for those with real health complications.

But no, if you’re ‘fed up’, just do what you want…

Equally, I had Covid in August and it was barely even a cold so I could argue the opposite.

I’d also like to know why we should ‘blame the idiot vaccine refusers’ in comment above?

I’ve had three jabs, by the way.

How has that led to current issues? Explain

Ah, yet another brand new username starting an anti-mask thread.

You'd think Lozza Fox and his mates would have better things to do...

Why don't people understand that the reason for caution is because the new variant could be more transmissible which in turn could allow further (more dangerous) variants to mutate if left unchecked? You can have all the boosters you like, until vaccine inequality and low take up rates are dealt with, this will continue. Only around 25% of the population is fully vaccinated in SA, hence it's a good spot for lots of cases and therefore mutations, just like the UK with the so called Kent variant and India with the Delta variant.