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

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coatilove · 16/12/2021 20:47

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.

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PAFMO · 17/12/2021 20:15

@HebeMumsnet

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.
Well said. Brew
ChequerBoard · 17/12/2021 20:26

@HebeMumsnet

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.

Here here!!

ALightThatNeverGoesOut · 17/12/2021 20:29

My cousin's 80 year old mother repeatedly phoned the ambulance service when my cousin was ill with Covid in early 2020. Each time she was asked a succession of questions: is he breathing? - yes, but not very well; are his lips blue? - yes; can he stand unaided? - no; can he watch television? That question was, she said, when she knew she was alone with this. They were basically asking if he was conscious. He was, so they didn't send an ambulance. He died a couple of days later. She is now raising his fatherless daughter. She trusted "our" NHS and believed in it right until the point it denied treatment to her dying son. The local hospital wasn't full. It hadn't run out of oxygen. It just wasn't taking in patients.

Delete that Mumsnet.

Sparklingbrook · 17/12/2021 20:33

@HebeMumsnet

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.
Totally agree.
ALightThatNeverGoesOut · 17/12/2021 20:35

There are multiple reports of the same happening around march/April 2020 anyway even if you do delete so this information is out there even if you keep it off your website. There are lots of bereaved families who are asking questions. Of course it's up to you if you choose not to give them a voice.

Cocogreen · 17/12/2021 20:36

OP life is not going to return to what it was pre-Covid for years, if ever. We are in a new era. We haven't even overcome the pandemic yet!
No use crying for the moon.
That world is gone.
The entire world has been affected by this.
Accept reality and you'll be so much happier! Adjust, pivot, adapt, change. Don't be a dinosaur.

Thatusernamewastaken · 17/12/2021 20:39

People’s lack of resilience is embarrassing, quite frankly.
For most people, for a couple of years they’ve missed out on seeing friends as regularly as they used to, a few Xmas parties have been missed and they have had to wear a piece of material over their face indoors sometimes and get 3 injections in their arm.
Deary me. Let’s hope for all our sakes there is never another world war, if only to avoid the tedious whining.

Lucillesbigsister · 17/12/2021 20:42

@Thatusernamewastaken

People’s lack of resilience is embarrassing, quite frankly. For most people, for a couple of years they’ve missed out on seeing friends as regularly as they used to, a few Xmas parties have been missed and they have had to wear a piece of material over their face indoors sometimes and get 3 injections in their arm. Deary me. Let’s hope for all our sakes there is never another world war, if only to avoid the tedious whining.
I agree with this.

We went through hell during the first and second lock downs - trying to care for my mum who had dementia, but who was also shielding. I won’t go in to detail as it’s outing but we had a horrendous year during which she then also died.

So when I hear people moaning about trivial things I struggle.

PAFMO · 17/12/2021 21:11

@Lucillesbigsister Flowers

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/12/2021 21:14

Let’s hope for all our sakes there is never another world war, if only to avoid the tedious whining.

Fucking hell, not only do people keep harping on about WW2 and the Blitz, they've started on about future wars that may or may not happen!

Wizzbangfizz · 17/12/2021 21:42

What a load of crap, you can't compare what is currently happening with the world wars Hmm

For a start pulling together for the collective good made sense (blackout blinds etc) very little about the current set up and guidance makes any sense.

The only analogy to the war I see is that we should all be pulling together to protect our own liberties rather than give them up to save a failing system (the NHS) and to prevent the spread of a disease which the majority sail through unscathed. The "cannon fodder" of this war are the children dying because SS aren't investigating properly, the millions whose mental health has dived, the rise in addictions and not least the poor hospitality industry and the people they employ.

Gilead · 17/12/2021 21:44

Crying out loud, the flat Earth era are out in force.

milly74 · 17/12/2021 21:44

@ALightThatNeverGoesOut

My cousin's 80 year old mother repeatedly phoned the ambulance service when my cousin was ill with Covid in early 2020. Each time she was asked a succession of questions: is he breathing? - yes, but not very well; are his lips blue? - yes; can he stand unaided? - no; can he watch television? That question was, she said, when she knew she was alone with this. They were basically asking if he was conscious. He was, so they didn't send an ambulance. He died a couple of days later. She is now raising his fatherless daughter. She trusted "our" NHS and believed in it right until the point it denied treatment to her dying son. The local hospital wasn't full. It hadn't run out of oxygen. It just wasn't taking in patients.

Delete that Mumsnet.

i am sorry. Our sainted NHS has abandoned and let down so many
milly74 · 17/12/2021 21:46

@HebeMumsnet

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.
wow. i mean wow when the press reports inquest after inquest of people denied care, neglected. refused appointments, by the NHS. Their voices are silenced.
LookslovelyinSpringtime · 17/12/2021 21:52

@Thatusernamewastaken

People’s lack of resilience is embarrassing, quite frankly. For most people, for a couple of years they’ve missed out on seeing friends as regularly as they used to, a few Xmas parties have been missed and they have had to wear a piece of material over their face indoors sometimes and get 3 injections in their arm. Deary me. Let’s hope for all our sakes there is never another world war, if only to avoid the tedious whining.
You grossly underestimate the impact Covid has had on many many peoples lives.
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coatilove · 17/12/2021 21:54

@Cocogreen

OP life is not going to return to what it was pre-Covid for years, if ever. We are in a new era. We haven't even overcome the pandemic yet! No use crying for the moon. That world is gone. The entire world has been affected by this. Accept reality and you'll be so much happier! Adjust, pivot, adapt, change. Don't be a dinosaur.
Fair point, you're probably right but I'm trying to fight it
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coatilove · 17/12/2021 21:55

@HebeMumsnet

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.
Seriously 😒
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coatilove · 17/12/2021 22:04

@HailAdrian

*Chris Witty: "There are several things we don't know - but all the things we do know are bad. It is moving at an absolutely phenomenal pace."

OP: "I am DONE with Covid, Omicron..."*

This isn't true either though, is it? The evidence so far still suggests that this variant is comparable to a 'severe cold.'

Honestly. Im done with what Chris's witty or anyone else has to say. Never watch the briefings and never will. I feel almost numb to it all - past caring. I appreciate my stance offends people but I have disconnected from it all
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pucelleauxblanchesmains · 17/12/2021 22:05

@Lucillesbigsister And how are you to know these people aren't also at the end of their tether and it's the little things pushing them over the edge? Have some charity.

Sparklingbrook · 17/12/2021 22:07

I feel almost numb to it all - past caring.

And yet here you are on MN starting a thread, wanting to discuss it and how you are done with it...

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coatilove · 17/12/2021 22:08

@Sparklingbrook

I feel almost numb to it all - past caring.

And yet here you are on MN starting a thread, wanting to discuss it and how you are done with it...

Because I'm past caring doesn't mean I can't discuss it.
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ChequerBoard · 17/12/2021 22:16

What's the point discussing it with if your are engaging in listening to any of the new and emerging information any more?

There's no debate to be had if you are just sticking your fingers in ears and singing 'I'm done with it'.

Pointless.

Porcupineintherough · 17/12/2021 22:18

Being past caring is a pretty privileged position to be in OP. How nice for you.

Barbie222 · 17/12/2021 22:18

Im done with what Chris's witty or anyone else has to say. Never watch the briefings and never will.

So you'd like some discussion, just without any news, data or recent thinking, OP? You might be on the wrong forum.

Sparklingbrook · 17/12/2021 22:19

Because I'm past caring doesn't mean I can't discuss it.

Why would you want to discuss it if you're past caring about it, what's the point in that? it seems you care more than you thought.

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