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.

Btw I expect to see an increase in membership of my Freedom For Smokers campaign. Looks like several on here don't value living long lives. Smoking might kill you younger but clearly that's ok - seeing how you're only viewed as a ready to die inconvenient burden if you don't die off younger. At least smoking, unlike Covid, gives pleasure to the user - and is a massive source of tax income. See you (in masks) at the next campaign meeting.

As to accepting the death rate, words fail me, that someone is ok with family members dying because they are ‘done with it’

It’s part of the circle of life. We certainly can’t save everyone, and shouldn’t be trying to.

I was due to have surgery in the 21st December. I've had weeks of appointments - echocardiogram, MRI, pre op assessment, 2 appointments with the surgeon. I've been really stressed, have had to accept that Christmas would be very different this year. But I was also looking forward to getting it done and hopefully being in less pain and able to do more.

But this afternoon I had the dreaded call from the surgeons secretary to say that all surgeries apart from emergency ones are cancelled for at least 4 weeks because of the impact of covid. I feel numb, deflated.
My life is on hold until I have this surgery and get through the long recovery.
To be honest I'm frustrated and angry with people who aren't prepared to do what they can to stop the spread of covid.
I can't imagine how much stress has workers are under and how tired they must be. The waiting lists for appointments, treatments and surgeries are scarily long.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going with this pain, with my life being on hold.

@paranoidnamechanger

As to accepting the death rate, words fail me, that someone is ok with family members dying because they are ‘done with it’

It’s part of the circle of life. We certainly can’t save everyone, and shouldn’t be trying to.

They're not. The growing numbers in ICU are younger healthier (until Covid) patients. The more frail aren't strong enough.

Btw welcome to the Freedom For Smokers group paranoidnamechanger

Isn't it a pointless discussion? The respective positions are so entrenched, discussing only leads to further division and anger. I'm really frustrated by antivaxxers, and can see the realistic issues with running out of healthcare, but I also feel like we're being fed a load of panic on a regular basis, without many facts or any relative perspective (eg. "all beds full" - ok, aren't they full every December?). Surely the wholesale binning of preventive medicine in in favour of boosting some 25 year olds is mad.
I mean I can't do my 8 year old's asthma clinic because they've been told only vaccinate. It didn't need to be sped up that much. We should have been buying the treatments and working out how to deliver to vulnerable people as soon as Covid+

@Tealightsandd

Btw I expect to see an increase in membership of my Freedom For Smokers campaign. Looks like several on here don't value living long lives. Smoking might kill you younger but clearly that's ok - seeing how you're only viewed as a ready to die inconvenient burden if you don't die off younger. At least smoking, unlike Covid, gives pleasure to the user - and is a massive source of tax income. See you (in masks) at the next campaign meeting.

Well I'm up for that after yet another failed quit attempt that is due to the stress covid and the shit show that was social care anyway, before all this, has caused. The upside is not only the tax I pay on the cigarettes, but I won't be around to add to the demand for social care, once I've finished propping it up by working in it, because I'll be of no earthly use then, as I only exist to provide care for others. (But that's an entirely different thread!)

I'm sorry @Maverickess
It's disgusting the way we don't value people doing the very important work you do.

Poor pay and bad working conditions. Yet the money's there somewhere. There are billionaires making millions from the UK care homes they own.

@Tealightsandd

Yes it's sacrificing the vulnerable but...

....But you don't care about your eugenics lite attitude towards the elderly and young disabled because they're Other People.

After dementia, one of the conditions with the highest Covid death rates is Downs Syndrome.

Many are not anywhere near elderly.

There is some sickening ageism on this thread coupled with disgusting disablism.
(Which I won't report because it says more about the poster than anything else).

I have the same attitude toward my own life, I live for now not tomorrow.

I also don't oppose vaping (smoking stinks) which is cancer causing it's up to people if they want to take that risk, same as the large gin and tonic I will be poring tomorrow night.

You seem to think we should all live to 90yrs old regardless of what quality of life that is. I don't support that at all

Totally agree with you @vickyc90 spot on.

I understand your frustration with missing out on the social side of life, Op. I've had a gutful of it.

Still don't see the issue with wearing a mask though. A no-brainier surely and only a minor inconvenience in the grand scheme of things.

[quote Cornettoninja]@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.[/quote]
It was 24 hours, not days.

The clamour surrounding the story wasn't about the fact the deceased was left in the house, as that's normal in Italy, it was the fact that the family weren't given any advice about what to do themselves as it was one of the first Covid deaths in Italy. Lockdown hadn't even started when the story broke.

text from GP today don't bother calling us, we are focusing on boosters. Urgent appts only.
what a joke tnis is
its time everyone collectively stopped listening to the fear messaging and says enough of this

@milly74

text from GP today don't bother calling us, we are focusing on boosters. Urgent appts only. what a joke tnis is its time everyone collectively stopped listening to the fear messaging and says enough of this

Well yeah, makes sense for a couple of weeks to only call if urgent.

lol a couple of weeks? i can guarantee it will be longer than that
the covid health service now

@milly74

lol a couple of weeks? i can guarantee it will be longer than that the covid health service now

What is it you expect the drs to do? They've got to get these jabs in people's arms. There's only so many of them. lol

it needs a doctor does it, to do vaccinations?

@milly74

text from GP today don't bother calling us, we are focusing on boosters. Urgent appts only. what a joke tnis is its time everyone collectively stopped listening to the fear messaging and says enough of this

Seems fair to be honest a lot of people call GPs when pharmacies or selfcare would be sufficient. I got a text three days ago off our school saying DS had tooth ache suggesting I needed to book a dentist appointment....the offending tooth is going under his pillow tonight.

I agree with most of it but I'll comply with masks & social distancing.

@milly74

it needs a doctor does it, to do vaccinations?

It needs everyone who is trained to inject people frankly

i don't think nhs criticism is allowed on here it seems

Yeah, the NHS is definitely the problem here. Let's shut it down and make do with home made poultices, leeches and potions.

Evening, all. We don't think any organisation is beyond criticism but we did feel that given all the NHS workers that became ill and even lost their lives in the last 18 months, and looking at what's happening now, we don't think some of the comments here are in the spirit of the site and we have deleted a couple.