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.

(and before anyone jumps on my post, "crack" is the term CW used)

@milly74 thanks. There's lots of things that have been pretty dreadful about the 18 months since. But the deification of the NHS is annoying on top of all that tbh yeah.

Unlike the OP I see this (the fact our health service is fairly poor and was shut down for PR concerns) as more reason to be careful and try not to put each other at risk even though it is pretty fucking soul sapping and not easy at all.

We can't rely on our politicians and we can't rely on our health service. We can only rely on each other.

@ThisissoSHIT

I'm in Melbourne. Life has not been "normal" here for a long time.

@worriedatthemoment

Change isn't all bad. This is strange and awful time in our lives but humans are great at adjusting and keeping going.

I think the whole world is with you in having had enough and wanting to get on with life. But simply pretending it's not there isn't the answer either, is it? It's attitudes like this that are prolonging this pandemic

[quote milly74]So the vast amounts raised by Captain Tom. People saw "NHS" and donated by the bucketful. It was NHS Charities. Not "The NHS."

metro.co.uk/2021/02/02/what-the-millions-raised-for-the-nhs-by-captain-tom-moore-was-spent-on-14009294/[/quote]
Thanks. I think it was pretty misleading that people who thought they were donating to the NHS were donating to charities. There ought to be some accountability.

@AbsentmindedWoman

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

I understand OP.

But kind of in reverse.

I have disconnected from the likes of you whining and bleating about how you're done with it all and don't really give a fuck about anyone vulnerable. You honestly believe you're something special - someone so much more worthy of a full and rich life than vulnerable people who you dismiss as collateral damage with a wee shrug.

I'm numb now, to your slack-jawed bewilderment and disappointment at how shit life can get. Past caring, as you say.

THIS BY THE BUCKET LOAD ^

Sick and tired of reading the moaning tantrums in the ‘I’m done’ echo chamber, they have no idea how pathetic they are and their absolute lack of empathy for other people is just mind blowing.

MN is awash with some very shady folk. Some are definitely operating bot accounts to try to influence and drive public opinion. Which ones though I wonder…. 🔍

I think we're all fed up now. However the majority of us aren't acting like selfish twats over it! For those of you who thought having 3 jabs would magically stop us all getting Covid, more fool you. The flu jab doesn't stop you getting the flu it lessens the severity of it and the potential need of hospitalisation. As for masks no they don't prevent you from breathing. I as many others do wear one for 12 hours a day at work. We haven't suffocated yet from wearing them. Yes they might cause some people spots but hey ho at least you can hide them behind a face mask. Honestly I've seen better behaviour regarding wearing a mask from kids than I have adults. Being selfish doesn't just affect us by increasing the amount of work on the NHS it also affects people when delivery drivers can't work because they have Covid. And unless you want to starve, have no diesel or petrol again etc etc I suggest you put up and shut the fuck up

Im in Melbourne. Life has not been "normal" here for a long time.

Different states, it varies.

My family in SA have been having close to normal life for over a year.

An old school friend in Perth even more so.

@RainbowBabyForChristmasPlease some people do struggle to beathe or it causes panic attacks , why can't people accept that
Its not a normal thing and many would not chose a job that you have to wear one
I can wear one but also appreciate for some its hard
This is really bringing out peoples judgemental sides

@Thewiseoneincognito maybe some people are in deeps state of depression and mental health is low have you ever thought of that
Yes its hard on all of us but some may find it harder
Im hanging on by a thread right now
I follow the rules , i get the reasons , that doesn't mean i can't see how others feel though

@Cocogreen this sort of change is
Sorry not being able to see family for months , having no job and now being in debt for years , loosing people you love and watching from afar people going through tough times when you want to be there to hold their hands
None if these are changes that are for the greater good

[quote worriedatthemoment]@Thewiseoneincognito maybe some people are in deeps state of depression and mental health is low have you ever thought of that
Yes its hard on all of us but some may find it harder
Im hanging on by a thread right now
I follow the rules , i get the reasons , that doesn't mean i can't see how others feel though [/quote]
I completely agree some people are struggling and I appreciate its particularly horrible for many.

But there is a decent size cohort of posters who deliberately drive discussions around this subject and restrictions, minimising the impact of Covid, claiming it’s nothing to worry about, labelling those with concerns as hysterical etc to suit their own agendas.

When you’re on the coronavirus threads as much as I am it soon becomes very obvious.

@Tealightsandd

Im in Melbourne. Life has not been "normal" here for a long time.

Different states, it varies.

My family in SA have been having close to normal life for over a year.

An old school friend in Perth even more so.

Those states are TOTALLY different from Victoria and NSW in what's happened over the last 20 months. They're really fortunate!

Some fortune involved yes, but also a hefty dose of doing taking sensible basic infection control measures.

It's a shame there aren't more Mark McGowan's around. I sure wish we had him over here in charge in the UK (not that he'd want to).

@Thewiseoneincognito fair enough
I know a few in real life too unfortunately ,

Eastern Australia is entering a worrying new phase with NSW letting it rip just before Christmas.
I think the OP has conflated a couple of issues. The systemic underfunding of the NHS is surely a result of the baffling decision to keep electing Conservative governments.

@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...

And don't forget having a snark at anybody else who unfortunately isn't "done with it" as much as they'd like to be.

So the whole thread was really just a callout for the refusers/deniers/NHS bashers/let us have our parties posters.
Who, let's face it, came flying in.

Yep @PAFMO, it seems it was a call to arms and even a bash at Sir Tom Moore got in there somehow.
This topic just keeps on giving.

@Cousinit

I think the whole world is with you in having had enough and wanting to get on with life. But simply pretending it's not there isn't the answer either, is it? It's attitudes like this that are prolonging this pandemic

But OP still lives a partially restricted life, which suggests she is aware of what’s going on

Is OP supposed to care about complete strangers, I wonder? If so I find that a really strange concept.

Do you? I find it odd you wouldn't.

No, so why don’t you explain why you do, assuming you do?

@coatilove

No I’m not done with restrictions because I too want to get on with my life. I also want other people to get on with their lives, and to have a healthy life - so we can all function together again as a community.

If hospitals cannot function because they at full capacity, or are severely understaffed - or the infrastructure supporting the hospital collapses - you end up with a situation where all its services - across the board - are inadequate. This includes having a bed space and resources for a pregnant mother, bed space and resources for a child with meningitis.

If the World Health Organisation have designated Omicron a variant of concern, then governments worldwide need to react to that and put in preventative measures.

My education and knowledge about viruses is very poor, so I’m more than willing to listen to what the global consensus of medical thought is regarding Omicron.

The thing is that COVID isn’t just about dying. We are still learning the nasty long term health impacts it can have, even with a mild dose. For example, in September of this year, urology experts in the US produced evidence showing that COVID leaves some people with severe de novo problems of urgency, frequency and nocturia (8+ times a night). Speaking as someone who has been periodically plagued with all of these for spells of up to 10 days since having COVID in March 2020, I suggest to you that you should continue to be cautious with this virus, because some of the neurological effects are still very much unknown. It’s not just about death, horrible as that is.

Very good posts @Beadebaser and @Figmentofmyimagination

There's a weird 'devil may care machoism' about covid. Invariably you get those posters piling on threads who claim they were never frightened about getting covid, it's nothing more than flu and they are young and fit so low risk. As if it's some kind of badge of honour and survival of the fittest to not give a s**t. And the intimations that it's only fat, old or unfit folk who become seriously ill with it when actually it's also people with autoimmune conditions, type 1 DM and those undergoing chemo.