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Utterly fed up (covid)

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ExpectingLady93 · 29/11/2021 08:13

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?

OP posts:
Whichjab · 29/11/2021 09:29

Has it been confirmed that this variant is more mild

No it hasn't, one medic has been mis quoted, they said they had observed it to be mild in a small group of young healthy people.

No one knows yet.

Bagamoyo1 · 29/11/2021 09:29

@Nimchinge

The UK lockdowns weren't exactly restrictive though were they?
This has got to be one of the most bizarre posts I’ve ever read. Not restrictive? I didn’t see my partner for months. My kids didn’t see their grandparents or their friends. Schooling essentially vanished for many. All social activities ceased. All sport ceased. People weren’t even allowed to sit on a park bench!

How can anyone think that’s not restrictive?

Neverkins · 29/11/2021 09:30

No, wearing a mask in shops (which I never stopped doing) and getting a vaccine (which I took as soon as possible) isn’t ‘onerous’ but people are still allowed to feel a bit fed up about what feels like a step backward. Having to wear a face covering to enter a shop would have been unfathomable to the me of two years ago, and it’s really hard not to think back to the time before COVID and not feel fed up.

I suffered a lot mentally during the first and third lockdowns and my anxiety has been increasing a lot in the last few days as I can’t help but think the worst and worry about being in complete isolation for another winter. Hopefully it won’t happen but it’s very very natural to feel upset about losing any perceived freedoms, even if you can understand the need for restrictions. There seems to be such a lack of empathy on both sides of the debate.

Confusedteacher · 29/11/2021 09:30

@spitneybrears how was I rude?! I pointed out there is a global pandemic (true). that wearing a mask is not very difficult (also true) and that Covid is shit and should be taken seriously (yet again, true!)

The OP and others are suggesting they would not follow further restrictions if they were put in place. I really, wholeheartedly disagree and think this is extremely selfish and reckless.

SusieBob · 29/11/2021 09:30

[quote ADreadedSunnyDay]@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[/quote]
Fair enough, there are still things like that and that is pretty shit, but a lot of those aren't due to restrictions but because of councils etc not getting their acts together.

Regardless it's hardly "don't leave your house apart for essential purposes" is it. Last summer I had to tell my children that they weren't allowed to go on the swings because they were, inexplicably cordened off.

Things are undoubtably better because of the vaccines, and we should challenge the idea that they aren't because the anti-vax twats don't need any more reasons to disuade people from getting injected.

Figgygal · 29/11/2021 09:33

I am fed up of people refusing to take measures which can improve things.

Other countries have much better rates of infection and deaths because they never abandoned simple mitigations and they have stronger healthcare and social care systems.

With our vaccination rate our death rates are a disgrace and has just become accepted because its not happening to our loved ones. Why are people so apathetic unless it's around this perception that they're being asked to do something unreasonable cam they not see how privilegedthey are to live in a country where the "worst" thing thats happened to them is being asked to wear a mask.

Masks are actually a route to this freedom that boris promised

Wizzbangfizz · 29/11/2021 09:34

Totally fed up and think this is an overblown reaction, viruses mutate that is what they do. I can't have another jan-apr like we did last year - and despite the lockdown lovers on here most people I know feel the same.

curlymom · 29/11/2021 09:37

How many more threads like this will we have to put up with?

WheelieBinPrincess · 29/11/2021 09:38

@curlymom I know, if only there was a way you could choose what to read or comment on…

SusieBob · 29/11/2021 09:39

@Wizzbangfizz

Totally fed up and think this is an overblown reaction, viruses mutate that is what they do. I can't have another jan-apr like we did last year - and despite the lockdown lovers on here most people I know feel the same.
How does this make sense?

You are fed up so you don't want the government to try to restrict the spread of a new variant?

Far be it for me to defend those useless fuckers but introducing incredibly mild restrictions at this stage until we have more information is pretty sensible. Last time out with delta they were rightly lambasted for sitting on their arses for weeks doing nothing.

spitneybrears · 29/11/2021 09:40

@Confusedteacher much of what you said (except masks being no hardship, lots disagree) IS clearly true and unless OP has been living under a rock she knows it, which is why your condescending, preachy tone was rude. You can acknowledge Covid and still feel fed up with restrictions, it's not a crime to moan. I'd argue it's normal!

OP did NOT suggest she'd ignore the rules so your last dig with the "Hmm" was ridiculous.

LittleBearPad · 29/11/2021 09:41

Everyone’s fed up and there’s a degree of sanctimony on this thread that’s not very kind.

WouldBeGood · 29/11/2021 09:41

Kindness went out the window last March.

curlymom · 29/11/2021 09:43

[quote WheelieBinPrincess]@curlymom I know, if only there was a way you could choose what to read or comment on…[/quote]
😂😂😂

I wouldn’t want to miss the wise words of all these experts

WorryMcGee · 29/11/2021 09:47

Yep, I’m panicking about all of it. I’m pregnant with severe tokophobia and if my husband isn’t allowed to be there with me at all appointments and the birth because of stupid fucking restrictions I don’t know what I’ll do. They’ll have to pin me down, give me a GA and remove the baby that way. I’ll probably get attacked on here for getting pregnant in the first place, but I’m so anxious about restrictions I’m past caring.

Confusedteacher · 29/11/2021 09:51

@spitneybrears this is what the OP said:
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.

My thoughts exactly... just can't believe it

So the OP, and several others are basically saying they would NOT follow any new restrictions because they are “fed up”. I think that deserves a bit of sanctimony and eye rolling.

godmum56 · 29/11/2021 09:52

@Palavah

Anyome who believed him when he said there would be no more restrictions was naive, but i think the government and health advisors recognise there wouldn't be compliance with a christmas lockdown this year in the way there was last year.
I don't think ANYBODY has ever said there would be no more restrictions.
Original poster
ExpectingLady93 · 29/11/2021 09:53

[quote Confusedteacher]@spitneybrears this is what the OP said:
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.

My thoughts exactly... just can't believe it

So the OP, and several others are basically saying they would NOT follow any new restrictions because they are “fed up”. I think that deserves a bit of sanctimony and eye rolling.[/quote]
I don't think so really. How can you blame people for being fed up?

OP posts:
Topseyt · 29/11/2021 09:55

I will be having a normal Christmas and also seeing my recently widowed and increasingly disabled elderly mother (and maybe sister too) during Christmas week and really couldn't give a shit if that makes me arrogant and selfish.

We lost my Dad last March ( not Covid related) and if I had followed all of the ridiculous rules then I would never have got to say goodbye to him at all.

That colours my view of lockdowns and the rules. I will never again be so foolish as to follow them unquestioningly. I'm just glad I finally saw sense during the initial lockdowns.

RobinPenguins · 29/11/2021 09:55

I’ll follow rules like masks and obviously if events get cancelled or hospitality closes I’ll have no choice but to go along with it.

But my family won’t be staying apart again. My parents are the most vulnerable in the family due to age and have been really clear that they will be spending Christmas with their children and grandchildren. There are other conditions at play (e.g. dementia) that mean isolating themselves for protection is no protection at all when considering their lives in the round.

neverbeenskiing · 29/11/2021 09:56

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'?

I find this attitude a little childish to be honest. The vaccine has been successful in that we no longer have hundreds of people dying of covid per day, children are back in school and people are able to go to work and spend time with their loved ones. But now people are stamping their feet because they have to wear a mask in the supermarket or on the bus for a few more weeks. Life has largely returned to normal but no one "promised" that covid was just going to disappear altogether and you'd never have to hear about it again.

Confusedteacher · 29/11/2021 09:57

Am I going mad?! Of course people can be fed up, we’re all fed up! But saying that you wouldn’t follow any new restrictions because of it is reckless. In my opinion. Not particularly directed @ExpectingLady93 but the many people on this thread who have said this, or words to that effect.

Wizzbangfizz · 29/11/2021 09:59

@Confusedteacher I'm what would be classed as a risk category and had covid last month along with my youngest, only tested due to lack of smell so agree with @Waxonwaxoff0 - DC had no symptoms and the evidence is it is relatively mild for the majority.

Silverswirl · 29/11/2021 10:01

@Nimchinge

The UK lockdowns weren't exactly restrictive though were they?
No restrictive? Wtf? Schools were closed and we were told to stay at home except essentials / have to work outside home and exercise. Your life must be very very dull if that’s not restrictive! Would not like to be you
spitneybrears · 29/11/2021 10:03

@Confusedteacher the only rule she's proposing to ignore (IF it's brought in) is not seeing close family at Christmas, because they've all been fully jabbed including the booster.

She didn't say she wouldn't follow "any new restrictions" - just that she'd see family at Christmas. Totally reasonable and normal position to take. I can't understand the sanctimony, indignation and eye-rolling at all.