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?

@WouldBeGood it's nonsensical to me. I'm double jabbed, happy to book booster, have children isolating due to +ve tests, have tested negative throughout but can't go to work because of kids. And I work in NHS

@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?

To be fair, you don’t have to self isolate for two days. It’s between day 0 and 2, you could get tested upon arrival and go straight home and have your results by the same day.

That is bonkers @blackcurrantjam.

And people wonder why the NHS is under pressure 🤷🏻‍♀️

I've no intention of not seeing my immediate family at Christmas, and I don't think many people would agree to that either. In fact, bollocks to covid, I'm sick to death of hearing about it full stop and am struggling to give a shit whether I get it or not anymore. I've been tripled jabbed, I can't do anything else.

Having a completely asymptomatic child at home bouncing off the walls for 10 days and not passing it on to the rest of the family despite no social distancing or any change of behaviour may have also changed my views now.

I look forward to the day when we stop testing and isolating healthy children and adults.

A focus on obesity and the health of the nation going forward may be a good long term strategy.

Keeping healthy kids indoors for weeks and weeks is the opposite of that. Not to mention all the education they have missed.

Count yourselves lucky you dont live in southern ireland..masks enforced non stop for 19 months. The longest LD in europe if not the world. Antigen not used at all only pcr up to a week ago. Talk of masking kids over the age of 9 here this week. Its nightmarish living here . Covid hysteria non stop !!! Night curfews on hospitality and more coming. No child can get antibiotics from the gp unless negative pcr where now test centres are full with no availability while ypur child gets sicker. Vaccine passports enforced. Our lives are near destroyed and not one mention of personal freedoms restored any time soon. Its just neverending !!

@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?

Mentally drained I am so glad ppl feel the same which sounds selfish

Oh, @Radyward that’s awful. I thought we had it bad in Scotland! I’m actually grateful for Boris, as I loathe him but he’s curtailing tHE SNP from taking similar steps here.

@WouldBeGood it makes no sense whatsoever . The kids aren't even really ill but I'm the only one that can look after them because they're +ve. I think double triple jabbed should be left to get on with it. I'd even say people who have antibody tests could get on with it. Then life could go on. I could get friends who are jabbed/just had it to look after kids maybe, or they could go to school where they belong and get on with their education, and I could go to work and see my extremely ill patients who are definitely not in favour of masks or lockdowns because they are extremely vulnerable to things like psychosis and just want the treatment they need given reliably and consistently. And that must be the same across the NHS. The disruption is worse than the virus now imo given the stats we have on how the vax works.

@Delatron

Having a completely asymptomatic child at home bouncing off the walls for 10 days and not passing it on to the rest of the family despite no social distancing or any change of behaviour may have also changed my views now.

I look forward to the day when we stop testing and isolating healthy children and adults.

A focus on obesity and the health of the nation going forward may be a good long term strategy.

Keeping healthy kids indoors for weeks and weeks is the opposite of that. Not to mention all the education they have missed.

Yes. This.

I despise the SNP and Nicola S. She has to look 'safer ' than Boris.She is like a cranky toddler!! No care on kids mental health atall and thats stupid irish govt. Too
So scared of making a decision thats common sense and has some perspective so do what the scientists say
.its an absolut joke .
All secondary school kids in ireland are masked and no end in sight at all. Poor teens.
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@Nimchinge

Well they weren't. And now all that's being asked is you wear masks indoors. I mean...come on. It's what the rest of the world has been doing for a year 🤷‍♀️

Tell that to people that lost business etc and could not afford rent jeez

And I also had to lose another 10 days of pay to look after said well child. And piss of a lot of clients. @blackcurrantjam I sympathise and is it any wonder the NHS is under more pressure due to all this ongoing testing and isolation. Is it a case of the cure is worse than the disease?

Seriously. Deaths aren’t shooting up, hospitalisations I think are falling. Cases haven’t hit anywhere near expected. 40 somethings (who weren’t really at risk of serious disease) will have had three vaccines!! And still we’re dealing with all the threat of restrictions and uncertainty on travel and seeing loved ones.

Piss off not of!

@Neverkins

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.

This

@Delatron I couldn't agree more. The isolation of children and healthy adults is maddening. My mum is much older, triple jabbed and also thoroughly fed up. She would like to live her life and take her chances.

And yes cases are up but hospitalisations are down!!!!

@Delatron

And I also had to lose another 10 days of pay to look after said well child. And piss of a lot of clients. *@blackcurrantjam* I sympathise and is it any wonder the NHS is under more pressure due to all this ongoing testing and isolation. Is it a case of the cure is worse than the disease?

Seriously. Deaths aren’t shooting up, hospitalisations I think are falling. Cases haven’t hit anywhere near expected. 40 somethings (who weren’t really at risk of serious disease) will have had three vaccines!! And still we’re dealing with all the threat of restrictions and uncertainty on travel and seeing loved ones.

I agree bit also the close contact with omicron in schools makes me nervous. My dc have had Covid positive recently and that they might be back to healthy and isolating is not being thought about much.

I hope recent high delta does something to slow it down and they stop this at review if no issue

@Delatron

People talk about ‘stopping the spread’. You can only stop the spread if every single person in the entire world stays in their houses for weeks.

You could maybe ‘slow the spread. With lots and lots of harmful measures. With your end goal being tweaking the vaccine?

But people need to think long term here. This isn’t going away. How do you want to live your lives for the next 10 years? What’s your solution? Because zero Covid isn’t an option.
We’ll probably all be exposed over the next few years. So get your boosters and maybe get on with your lives.

Oh and there won’t be a lockdown at Christmas. They won’t even close the pubs or the nightclubs. I do think people need to start getting their heads round this now.

Travel will be annoyingly disrupted but that’s about it.

Someone taking sense thank you

@JesusIsAnyNameFree have a word with yourself my god

@Radyward

Count yourselves lucky you dont live in southern ireland..masks enforced non stop for 19 months. The longest LD in europe if not the world. Antigen not used at all only pcr up to a week ago. Talk of masking kids over the age of 9 here this week. Its nightmarish living here . Covid hysteria non stop !!! Night curfews on hospitality and more coming. No child can get antibiotics from the gp unless negative pcr where now test centres are full with no availability while ypur child gets sicker. Vaccine passports enforced. Our lives are near destroyed and not one mention of personal freedoms restored any time soon. Its just neverending !!

Oh my god wtf is going on over there

Kids masked all day every day in Scottish secondaries too @Radyward. It’s truly shocking

As I said on a previous post there will be countless more variations of covid..I'm being sensible but I am back on the office and won't ever wfh again and I will be seeing elderly relatives and friends whenever I want to provided they want to.We haven't stopped wearing maske in Scotland

@WouldBeGood

Kids masked all day every day in Scottish secondaries too *@Radyward*. It’s truly shocking

Calls for this from teaching union today too.

Don’t think it’ll be listened to tg, and will be corridors only

I agree with a pp. if they keep bringing back restrictions for new variants (and there will always be new variants) then I think vaccine compliance will fall. Because what’s the point if lockdowns are looking despite everyone being jabbed.