I'm DONE with Covid, omicron and want to get on with my life - is anyone else with me?

[coatilove]

Honestly at this point I'm done with it, I'm surprised people are complying so much with mask wearing and everything else - I thought the vaccine was freedom. Turns out I was wrong.

I've had enough - I'm not wearing my mask indoors and hope if there's a lockdown every business keeps its doors open and boycotts the decision.

I'm really surprised people are being so compliant, even if they have natural immunity and have been jagged (I have now had Covid and both jabs)

I can't be selfless anymore and keep getting boosters to protect others and stopping life, constant anxiety, life I feel should be going on now. Enough sacrifices have been made.

Aware I'll get flamed, but at the end of my tether with all of this now.

There are plenty of diseases that kill people, we have to accept the death rate now enough is enough.

If you've been vaccinated then what else do you intend to do? If you haven't then more fool you.

I'm doing what's legally required but that's it.

Of course you've been flamed because you're supposed to do more according to many on here - vaccines several times a year, staying home as much as possible, restrictions every winter (and the threat of more restrictions every winter). This compliant, non-life suits many and the subtext being we have to accept this because we can't accept that people will die, we just can't, so we have to try and save everyone.

I'm done with the whole shitshow as well.

I feel I am getting on with life, I'm just getting on with life alongside making some adjustments to reduce the spread of a virus. Wearing a mask and getting vaccinated really doesnt interfere with my life much.

I am getting on with life too, and have been through the whole pandemic whenever possible. I’ll wear a mask around, but if I’m honest that’s just me trying not to catch the super cold that’s going around rather than Covid. However, I have cancelled my social calendar for this weekend and next week due to Omicron because we are trying to go overseas (who knows if the country we are going to will ban us like France though) and I really don’t want to test positive and not be able to go away. If it wasn’t for that, I would be much more relaxed. I have recently had Covid, and am double vaxxed, so I don’t think I would have bad symptoms - I just don’t want that positive test!!

@bigbabs but if people aren't doing as Boris is telling them then who are they following?!

I agree the NHS is on its knees but the reality is that its just not fit for purpose anymore, we were overwhelmed long before Covid, everyone did as we were advised and to find out that the leaders who were fining people for meeting where having a good old laugh at our expense.

It probably is slightly childish to feel fed up but how much more can people take? The NHS will soon be overwhelmed with issues such as Mental Health, missed Cancers etc all resulting from Covid.

@AutumnAlmanack good for you. I'll be visiting as many shops as I need to and going out for meals when I want and living my life as normal as I can do. Because as I said, I'm done with it.

I will wear a mask sometimes - if I remember to Bring one which half the time I forget.

Childish, probably. I don't really care anymore. Like I said, I'm done. And before anyone starts 'yeh but the virus isn't done with us'. I don't care anymore, sorry if that angers people but it's truth.

And actually just to point out I'm not completely reckless - for example I won't be out clubbing every weekend and going out of my way to contract Covid. Happy to social distance, will even wear a mask if I remember to bring one to the shop but I'm relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now.

But it's really not difficult to wear a mask is it it's a small measure that you can take which actually has been proven To be highly effective in reducing spread.
Just sounds like you want to be controversial for sake of it

@TheHairyFrog

My cancer surgery has twice been cancelled because of covid: once because of staff shortages and once because a member of my household had covid symptoms which include every cold bug symptom under the sun, especially in winter.

I appreciate you're sick of restrictions, OP, but if you and people like you just keep your mask on in the supermarket, at school pickup or in shops, for a bit longer, we can take the pressure off the NHS and I can get my fucking surgery.

You think you're "having a wobble"? I'm scared for my life.

Really think all of you that are "done" need to read this and absorb it.

Hope you can get your surgery very soon @TheHairyFrog

The problem with the NHS (apart from more funding required) is that the goalposts have moved massively since it was established in ?1947. The population of this country has increased from around 50 Million then to nearly 70 Million today and the infrastructure simply cannot cope with a 2/5 addition. I really can't see how the situation will ever improve without massive extra funding - and where is that going to come from, particularly in a post-Covid UK?

" relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now."

Oh fuck off.

[quote coatilove]@AutumnAlmanack good for you. I'll be visiting as many shops as I need to and going out for meals when I want and living my life as normal as I can do. Because as I said, I'm done with it.

I will wear a mask sometimes - if I remember to Bring one which half the time I forget.

Childish, probably. I don't really care anymore. Like I said, I'm done. And before anyone starts 'yeh but the virus isn't done with us'. I don't care anymore, sorry if that angers people but it's truth.

And actually just to point out I'm not completely reckless - for example I won't be out clubbing every weekend and going out of my way to contract Covid. Happy to social distance, will even wear a mask if I remember to bring one to the shop but I'm relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now.

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OP, I agree so much with all of your posts on this thread, I think MN needs more people like us, quite frankly.

Within the current rules you can do whatever you like, guidance is largely advisory so there’s no compulsion to listen.

Do what you like. What are you looking for? Do you need people to agree with you to justify your decision? Why would that be do you think?

Make your choices and own them. If your choices involve climbing over others (metaphorically) then that’s just who you are. You don’t need to justify it or seek validation.

"Happy to social distance, will even wear a mask if I remember to bring one to the shop but I'm relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now."

Anyone who thinks it's OK to accept that the NHS will be overwhelmed has absolutely no idea what that would actually mean.

Hospital doors closed because they are unable to treat any more people. Calling 999 and no ambulances available. People dying of all kinds of treatable conditions (heart attacks, strokes, bleeding out after injuries etc) because there is no healthcare available.

Imagine that - your loved one needs urgent help and there isn't any. It's you and your best endeavours at home.

If you think that's an OK situation you are either dumb or incredibly naive.

Really think all of you that are "done" need to read this and absorb it.

Whose fault is it that people aren't getting cancer treatment? Ours?

My mum was diagnosed with cancer last year, she didn't experience delays, sorry that's not everyone's experience. She flouted the rules during her last year of life and thank goodness she did. I guess she was 'childish ' too though. 🙄

Do you think people who are more compliant than you are so because they are less fed up with it all and don't mind?

We are all bloody fed up!

You talk about accepting risk of death. What you really mean is you accept the risk of death of someone ELSE you don't know nor care about.

Not you, your elderly mum, your great aunt. If someone you love is admitted to an ICU you would feel differently sharpish.

[quote coatilove]@AutumnAlmanack good for you. I'll be visiting as many shops as I need to and going out for meals when I want and living my life as normal as I can do. Because as I said, I'm done with it.

I will wear a mask sometimes - if I remember to Bring one which half the time I forget.

Childish, probably. I don't really care anymore. Like I said, I'm done. And before anyone starts 'yeh but the virus isn't done with us'. I don't care anymore, sorry if that angers people but it's truth.

And actually just to point out I'm not completely reckless - for example I won't be out clubbing every weekend and going out of my way to contract Covid. Happy to social distance, will even wear a mask if I remember to bring one to the shop but I'm relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now.

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Erm .... ok love.

@ChequerBoard

"Happy to social distance, will even wear a mask if I remember to bring one to the shop but I'm relaxed with the rules now and am just less caring of the whole situation, even if it's costing lives and overwhelming the NHS perhaps we just need to accept that now."

Anyone who thinks it's OK to accept that the NHS will be overwhelmed has absolutely no idea what that would actually mean.

Hospital doors closed because they are unable to treat any more people. Calling 999 and no ambulances available. People dying of all kinds of treatable conditions (heart attacks, strokes, bleeding out after injuries etc) because there is no healthcare available.

Imagine that - your loved one needs urgent help and there isn't any. It's you and your best endeavours at home.

If you think that's an OK situation you are either dumb or incredibly naive.

Honestly cannot imagine how frightening it would be to turn up at A&E with a seriously ill or injured child/parent/partner and find that the doors are shut and you can't get in to access medical help.

@HailAdrian

Really think all of you that are "done" need to read this and absorb it.

Whose fault is it that people aren't getting cancer treatment? Ours?

My mum was diagnosed with cancer last year, she didn't experience delays, sorry that's not everyone's experience. She flouted the rules during her last year of life and thank goodness she did. I guess she was 'childish ' too though. 🙄

People aren't getting cancer treatment because the NHS is busy treating all the patients admitted with Covid. That's ADMITTED with Covid - people who are very ill and struggling to breathe.

Whilst that situation is ongoing we all need to comply with masks, social distancing and hygiene protocols.

Surely it's the very least we can do? And if you're answer is 'I'm done with it' or anyone the other stampy foot toddler nonsense then yes, frankly you are one of the reasons people can't get cancer treatment.

If you think that's an OK situation you are either dumb or incredibly naive.

Neither is it an OK situation to shut down great swathes of businesses, deny children education, deprive people of basic human interaction, stop people from seeing close family/friends so we can keep propping the nhs up to a barely functioning level.

The vast majority were prepared to do that as a short term measure back in March 2020. But now, almost 2 years later accept it as an ongoing way of life? No.

We will have to radically rethink expectations from state healthcare. This was probably coming anyway, but covid has massively exacerbated the situation.

But the answer is to have these difficult conversations now, not condemn everyone to leading much reduced lives to kid ourselves that what we have is still viable.

I am so done with the people who are done.

I am clearly a masochist as I keep taking a look at these ridiculous threads and then my blood pressure soars at the utter stupidity bashing heads with the reasoned argument. I know the two sides will never agree. No amount of fact or logic works. Endless arguments to no avail.

Have to stop torturing myself as I'm losing faith in humanity.

@ChequerBoard, I completely agree with everything you say. I can’t forget the man in Italy at the beginning of the pandemic who was left with his sisters corpse in his home for days because there was no one to take her body. If the worst case scenario happened that’s exactly the kind of thing people will be facing.

Worst case scenario it may be, but it’s a real possibility if the NHS is overwhelmed. I wholeheartedly hope it doesn’t come to that but these are all considerations for those who forecast the effects of disasters like this.

It doesn't seem to occur to a lot of people that the only reason the NHS wasn't TOTALLY overwhelmed up to this point (and it came close) is BECAUSE of lockdowns and other measures. So much cognitive dissonance on MN - "if lockdowns worked, why is Covid still here?" etc. Does anyone not remember the sad scenes from Italy last year? Stories of families having to store dead family members' bodies because funeral homes were full up? The army brought in to deal with corpses? Field medicine where those over a certain age were sacrificed so efforts could be focused on those more likely to survive?

We only escaped this by the skin of our teeth.

@Cornettoninja sad snap.

@EmmaOvary it’s all just stuff that ‘happens to other people’ isn’t it?

@coatilove just as long as the lives it is costing don't belong to you or your loved ones right? Bet you'd change your tune if your kid was diagnosed with leukaemia next week, or you were hit by a bus.