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 reached the state of mind you have many months ago op. Welcome, we can both be happy together

but in a supermarket where people are far apart anyway it's just getting frustrating

Supermarkets the week before Christmas where people are far apart?

@Theredjellybean exactly, why are children like Arthur and others dying because of mental health as result of Covid and cancer patients being left to die any less severe then people dying of Covid? Can someone please explain this?

I could see it two years ago it made Conplete sense. And I still believe in some restrictions I think some of you on there are missing my point. I'm not a non believer I know Covid exists. I'm just saying, I'm willing to take chances now - it is what it is.

Before the vaccines I felt very differently but since, if we cannot contain it by social distancing etc then we should just accept it.

I'm totally with you, OP!

@DaisyWaldron

I'm done with these stupid road safety laws. If I want to go to a party, drink a dozen cocktails and drive home, I'm just going to do it. I hope that pubs and restaurants will ignite any rules and just keep serving me. I can't carry on being selfless and staying sober or forking out for taxis just to protect other people. People die on the roads all the time, even with sober drivers. We have to accept the death rate. Enough is enough.

I'm also considering shitting in the street rather than go through all the hassle and stress of finding a public toilet, which is often so dingy and unsanitary that shitting in the street is probably less of a health risk!

I'm fed up of sacrificing my comfort, convenience and happiness to public health.

Love this! I also want to let my kids chain smoke, myself take thalidomide and I think now the schools are cold they should insulate the classrooms with asbestos. Oo lead paint probable comes in some lovely colours for the nursery. Would match my retro mercury thermometer which I’ll use to give my baby unpasteurised milk and feed rusks in a bottle from week 2. My body my choice.

Anyone who stomps their feet saying they’re “done with it” and won’t take even basic steps to prevent passing Covid on is a selfish idiot

@Floundery

I’m Also with the OP. I just don’t have another lockdown in me.

People aren’t buying the “save the NHS” look-aid this time either. A health service that isn’t treating cancer or providing primary care has already failed imo.

It has. It has been underfunded and understaffed for decades. Beds are being taken away and everyone has been shouting abo this for years. The public don’t work there and crack on, we were told to clap to make it a distraction form the shit show it is compared to other European countries doctor and bed numbers per capita.

@theredjellybean I am genuinely perplexed by your argument. You are front line NHS yet you seem to be saying that we shouldn't lock down/have restrictions because people without covid can't get treatment... I just simply don't follow. How would reducing restrictions (and therefore increasing the number of patients with covid) help doctors to treat more non-covid patients?

I’m fed up of covid as well. I am complying with mask wearing etc, but don’t want it to rule my life. Ie. Got a Christmas meal on Monday. Dh wants me to cancel but i still want to go ahead.

I work in the health service so have been mixing with people throughout. Dh has been wfh (which he also did before covid). He gets twitchy when there’s lots of people around.

My friend died last week unexpectedly from covid he was alone at home and he was 62. I think he would have liked to get on with his life.

[quote coatilove]@Theredjellybean exactly, why are children like Arthur and others dying because of mental health as result of Covid and cancer patients being left to die any less severe then people dying of Covid? Can someone please explain this?

I could see it two years ago it made Conplete sense. And I still believe in some restrictions I think some of you on there are missing my point. I'm not a non believer I know Covid exists. I'm just saying, I'm willing to take chances now - it is what it is.

Before the vaccines I felt very differently but since, if we cannot contain it by social distancing etc then we should just accept it.

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You seem to be ignoring every reply to this.

To quote the CMO, this is "an inversion of of reality"

Cancer prevention/treatment/long term care is not going to improve when hospitals & healthcare are saturated with COVID.

@Theworldisfullofgs

My friend died last week unexpectedly from covid he was alone at home and he was 62. I think he would have liked to get on with his life.

Sorry for your loss.

@Thethingswedidanddidntdo you're completely missing my point this isn't just about masks though is it. It's about regular jabs, when you probably don't even need it.

It's about threats of lockdowns, being told not to socialise.

Stop trying to make my post seem like it's just the masks I'm frustrated about.

It's the indefinite cycle of constraint requests to help stop the spread of Covid. After being told the vaccine was the last of it.

Now I'm questioning when the real end will be? No one knows so how long should I expected to comply?

We all die one day, not sure why humans seem to think we are so precious to be honest. And I'm including myself in that - I'm not immortal but it feels like some people think it's their given right to live forever or something.

Should we not accept Covid as a killer eventually?

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

Vaccines are how we get out of this

So we were told but how many are we supposed to have? I've had my first 2 and the booster but I don't intend to have one every 3 or 6 months. As far as I'm concerned this weeks booster is it for me, I can't keep doing it.

I agree with this, honestly. Two jabs and a booster, and that's it. I've never had the flu or the flu shot, and if three vaccines aren't enough to protect me against dying from covid, then I will take it to mean, for me, that I'm not meant to be here anymore.

[quote Thethingswedidanddidntdo]@theredjellybean I am genuinely perplexed by your argument. You are front line NHS yet you seem to be saying that we shouldn't lock down/have restrictions because people without covid can't get treatment... I just simply don't follow. How would reducing restrictions (and therefore increasing the number of patients with covid) help doctors to treat more non-covid patients?[/quote]
Same question!!!! WTF?!!?

With you op. I don't wear masks in shops ect. tbh besides the first three months of lockdown in 2020 my life has being pretty normal I've done nothing different.

Genuine question. Why can’t you keep doing it? Fair enough if a jab means you are bed bound for 3 months each time. But if it’s an hour out your day and one day feeling sucky, why is that a hardship for you?

I have a needle phobia.

I've also had shoulder pain since my second jab which I obviously can't prove is linked but the timeframe definitely fits.

twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1471450662630309893

Watch CW answer this exact question in the House of Commons @coatilove

No point talking to people like the OP.

[quote coatilove]@Thethingswedidanddidntdo you're completely missing my point this isn't just about masks though is it. It's about regular jabs, when you probably don't even need it.

It's about threats of lockdowns, being told not to socialise.

Stop trying to make my post seem like it's just the masks I'm frustrated about.

It's the indefinite cycle of constraint requests to help stop the spread of Covid. After being told the vaccine was the last of it.

Now I'm questioning when the real end will be? No one knows so how long should I expected to comply?

We all die one day, not sure why humans seem to think we are so precious to be honest. And I'm including myself in that - I'm not immortal but it feels like some people think it's their given right to live forever or something.

Should we not accept Covid as a killer eventually? [/quote]
Just reposting my replying to this...again. People keep replying and yet none of it seems to go in.

The issue with coronavirus has never been it being "deadly", and it's unlikely we'll have a new variant that is significantly more virulent

It's that it's highly transmissible & novel, so no-one has a good level of pre-existing immunity. There are huge issues with large numbers of the population having to isolate, being off sick, needing hospital care, long term treatment or dying.

We are slowly moving towards population level immunity, as I said in my last couple of posts which you don't seem to want to reply to, hopefully this will be the last Winter that is severely impacted, and from 2022 we can start moving towards treating coronavirus like 'flu.

I'd like to be done with it, too, but in reality this is the situation we're in.
Studies have shown masks reduce transmission, so I think that's a reasonable measure to take.
Things will look better in the spring, I'm sure.

I'm fed up too OP and I don't see anything wrong with voicing that or feeling that.

Our feelings are valid and it's important to acknowledge how we feel. We can't control how we feel.

Last Christmas was shit, proper shit. This one is better as we've planned to be just the 4 of us so nothing can stop that happening.

I hate that my son isn't at school tomorrow. I hate that we had to miss out on his first Christmas performance (recording it isn't a great alternative when you don't give consent for your child to be photographed / videoed) I hate that we missed out on the big holiday we'd planned for 2020. I hate that lockdown left my son with a fear of toilets. I hate that 3 vaccines doesn't seem to be getting us out of this. I hate that the news is all doom and gloom and no context around anything. I hate that only 1 person has died WITH omicron and we still have to go through this.

I'm sooooo done with this.

Before anyone says it, I've had covid twice now. First time was the worst. But if that didn't land me in hospital I doubt it would now given I've also got vaccine response on board.

You sound like a spoilt child. Everyone has had enough but we have to get through together.

@coatilove
I’m with you OP. I absolutely do not want to overwhelm the NHS but the reason it’s at breaking point is because of how underfunded it is. Not because of covid.

Perhaps if our government focused on preserving the NHS and funnelling the money into that instead of silly things like test and trace, we wouldn’t need to freak out every time there’s an illness going round.

Depressing that it’s been almost two years of this