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

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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.

Oh and sorry for coercing folk into jabs - ffs.

@MasterGland

I'm taking the "it could be worse approach". Imagine if it had been bovine anthrax that had crossed to humans or perhaps a disease that used an animal vector AND spread by aerosols, like Yersinia pestis (only at the end when you were on your last legs). The Black Death was actually both these diseases, occurring at roughly the same time. That's a bit shit. They also had some lockdowns, and a labour shortage. Count your blessings people...and hope the next pandemic isn't worse!

Yep! We were due a big one, and thankfully - although it doesn't feel like it - it's 'just' this, considering how much easier it is for disease to spread globally these days.

(Despite it being tragic and depressing, my brief period of being obsessed with epidemics and my longterm love of Plague Inc makes the last 2 years a fascinating look at how absolutely devastating the next really, really awful pandemic will be.)

OP, you baffle me. "It's not right that cancer patients and mental health patients aren't getting prioritised" - okay, so you think if we just let loads of people get covid unchecked, the hospitals will suddenly be ....less busy? Interesting logic.

"We have to accept the death rate now"- Jesus. So do we just stop admitting people to hospital then? Just leave them to die?

Ok that's fine. It probably isn't done with us though.

@ChequerBoard if I was being a ‘sulky toddler’ do you really think I would have put myself through 3 vaccinations? I’m perfectly entitled to ask how many more they expect us to have (hypothetical as no one knows) and also to feel that I can’t go through with any more.

I don’t have any other vaccines regularly so I’m entitled to think about whether I can put myself through it every 6 months or whatever.

@housemaus

If we all stopped complying, things don't just 'get better' - you might not be wearing a mask or getting a jab, but there will be a fuckload of people ill.

Some of those people end up in hospital - a lot, if there are a lot ill. So the hospitals are full to the rafters (my cousin who's a nurse redeployed to a covid ward has lost 2 colleagues to suicide this year, because they are exhausted and scarred by watching people far too young to be dying die).

So then people like my uncle, who last weekend spent 3 hours waiting for an ambulance while he was having a heart attack, might die too.

And people like my dad, who has cancer and has had an operation pushed back to January because the hospital is cancelling anything not urgent (and it's not urgent now, but who knows how much it'll have grown by January?), might die too.

All the social workers looking after people like the tragic children you mentioned, how do you expect them to be on top of it when they're going off sick with Covid, or long covid, or getting ill because other things aren't being treated beause the medical system is flooded with covid? Or because they're off with stress and exhaustion, because their loved ones have died?

If by, you're sick of it, you mean you're sick of caring about anything except yourself, that's fine (if not selfish). But it won't magically fix anything if we all completely dropped all restrictions now. It would be absolute chaos, for a fair amount of time, with lots of excess deaths.

It's fucking shit. I know. But it's a pandemic, this is what happens, and we are in it for the long haul either way - to me, it's better to accept some mitigations to avoid unnecessary deaths of other people. If you feel differently, well I find that quite weird.

And I'm not sure why having booster vaccines bothers you so much, to be honest... would you not rather have it and be slightly safer, even though it doesn't stop you catching it altogether?

(Also, lol at the person saying 'we can't stop viruses, except smallpox' - yeah, you know how we did that? Vaccination.)

Brilliant response. You're spot on .

They told us vaccines were our root to freedom..what they didnt say we would have to be jabbed every 6 month.

I have never took the flu vaccine out of personal choice, i should be able to not have boosters every 6 month.

We take risks day in day out. Over indulging in alcohol, cigarettes fatty foods will most certainly result in health conditions, possibly treatments on the NHS ..do we put restrictions on them?

Where does this stop? Weve been told for two years if you we would just do this...just do that..ever changing goal posts.

@costco because not taking these steps eg masks and vaccinations means the virus gets to spread more easily and is more likely to mutate. Not that difficult to understand.

Most people who end up very ill are those who were not vaccinated or have vulnerabilities. Apparently a lot of hospitalisations are pregnant women

@ChequerBoard apologies for telling you to fuck off, I accept that was sulky toddler behaviour (or maybe sulky teenager!)

@keepOutOfTheFridgeDerek

I agree with you. But you'll get lots of hateful replies here from people who believe any kind of shit as long as it's on the news or from the government. But on here if you argue against the narrative, you'll be labelled a conspiracy theorist. Although really a 'conspiracy theorist' is actually just someone who questions shit they've been told. IMO the stupid ones are those who just accept what they are told, do what they are told and never questioned the insanity of this situation.

This

I only had the vaccines because we have been coerced into having them. I won't be having the booster until I physically have to, before they threaten more restrictions.

As soon as mask wearing is no longer mandatory again, I won't be wearing one.

There are things I can't do because I'm not rich. There are hobbies and projects I can't do because I work. There are activities I can't do because I'm no longer young. So effing what? I get on with life as best I can, because there is still plenty to enjoy, and I don't spend my time moaning and digging for the things I can't have.

I've sent covid to the naughty step to reflect on what it's done. I gently explained that Omicron behaviour was totally unacceptable and we were all very disappointed in it.

I'm expecting a sincere apology and life to return to normal within 24 hours.

Honestly, I don't know why someone didn't do it sooner.

Sorry everyone covid says virus gonna virus whether we like it or not.

@Chanel05

I only had the vaccines because we have been coerced into having them. I won't be having the booster until I physically have to, before they threaten more restrictions.

As soon as mask wearing is no longer mandatory again, I won't be wearing one.

Lol, what a child.

@yellowgreysocks

Every one is fed up of it.

Pandemics last years - you need to reframe your mindset and come to terms with it.

And this is the first pandemic of the modern age. We didn't have people flying halfway round the world during the last one (the few that did went by ship, which took weeks), most people didn't routinely commute long distances to work on public transport, the population was far smaller so our towns and cities weren't so densely populated.

There are far more opportunities for transmission in a modern, industrialised society than there were in 1918/19. That could mean this goes on longer than the Spanish Flu pandemic, as new variants will be more widely transmitted.

@NothingSafe

OP, you baffle me. "It's not right that cancer patients and mental health patients aren't getting prioritised" - okay, so you think if we just let loads of people get covid unchecked, the hospitals will suddenly be ....less busy? Interesting logic.

I read a quote somewhere

You can’t use logic to get someone out of a position they ignored logic to get into

Also, I'm told I must wear a mask around the supermarket, a place where I can avoid being near to people much of the trip, yet I can be in a classroom of 34 all day long with young children who are in my personal space for most of the day, all whilst being mask free.

I'm totally fed up with it too. But the thing is, if one day, say in the next few weeks, me or my DD or DP had a serious accident or maybe had a stroke and got to the hospital only to be unable to get a bed in ICU because they're all full with COVID patients, I'd be mightily pissed off.
Because that's exactly the sort of thing that will happen if everyone just decides to say fuck it I've had enough.
FFS. It's not all about you.

@DismantledKing, I meant muzzled as a figure of speech.
People see it as it's just a mask. It's not, it's a piece of cloth over your face, that constructs your breathing, talking, affects your skin along with the fact theres not a single shred of evidence that they actually work

Wes Streeting summed this up earlier in the week, watch this clip.

I don’t know why this has to be explained again and again.

We need to protect the NHS and prevent it from toppling over.

@riveted1 You wrote - "There are no credible epidemiologists who are recommending against vaccination of the general population."

You are wrong.

Geert Vanden Bossche, DMV, PhD, independent virologist and vaccine expert, formerly employed at GAVI and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said:

"Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants."

People don't understand the difference between sterilising and non-sterilising vaccine. They also don't understand the differences between infections diseases. Respiratory corona viruses are prone to mutations and are difficult to control.

ever changing goal posts
Lots of people say this.
The virus is changing. The situation is changing as we introduce vaccines and learn more about how the virus is spread, and how to stop it.
So the advice is changing.
This is logical and not something any government or scientists can help.
The governments and scientists would love it if they could deal with this without having to come up with new ideas and approaches. They would much rather come across as in control and having all the answers from the start.
But that is impossible. They have to give new advice when it's required.

@DismantledKing 👍

[quote MrsHastingslikethebattle]@DismantledKing, I meant muzzled as a figure of speech.
People see it as it's just a mask. It's not, it's a piece of cloth over your face, that constructs your breathing, talking, affects your skin along with the fact theres not a single shred of evidence that they actually work[/quote]
Oh you poor lamb. Have you had to wear a nasty mask? You poor thing. Try working in full PPE for several hours a day.
How fucking pathetic.