Anyone else done now?

[VeryMuchSo13]

Know I'll get slated but I'm so past caring.

Anyone else just completely done with it now? Ran out of LFTs ages ago and I'll never do another again, wouldn't even go for a PCR now with symptoms tbh. I'd stay in until I felt better like I do with everything else and then crack on.

The only reason I wear masks in shops is because of people moaning if you don't. As soon as it's no longer required that'll be in the bin.

I actually took it really seriously the past two years and did everything we were supposed to. Triple jabbed etc etc... But I can't be arsed giving it anymore headspace now. I'm sick of hearing about it, sick of seeing it on the news, sick of people talking about it.

From today on I highly doubt I'll ever voluntarily think about Covid again, in a way that restricts anything I do anyway.

I live in Taiwan.

Mask wearing was a normal part of life here before covid - if you have a cold you wear a mask.

So, for me, I just don't find wearing a mask to be a big deal.

Personally, if I was in UK I'd continue to wear a mask in some places because (as far as I can tell) the science is pretty solid for arguing that if you do get infected, they can reduce the viral load and result in a milder infection.

But equally, if people just don't want to wear a mask that's none of my business. It really isn't.

Incidentally, Taiwan has been covid free and completely normal throughout most of the pandemic.

However, omicron has made it in and is spreading. With 100% mask compliance here (not kidding, it really is 100%) I guess we'll soon see how much of a difference it makes in stopping the spread.

Although, to be fair, Taiwan being covid free and managing to stomp out the outbreaks that have occurred is probably more to do with having the best track and trace system and pandemic preparedness in the world (system they developed after being affected by SARS).

Although, to be fair, Taiwan being covid free and managing to stomp out the outbreaks that have occurred is probably more to do with having the best track and trace system and pandemic preparedness in the world (system they developed after being affected by SARS).

I think the Track and Trace systems which have been so successful in SK and Taiwan would not be possible here due to data protection legislation.

I've been done a while but unfortunately I live in Scotland,and and the Chief Mammy will keep the reins on us as long as she can.

@Twitterwhooooo

I desperately want to be done with covid.

Unfortunately, one of my children has just tested positive and the other has symptoms, so at least one is back on the SI train...

Sorry to hear that!

I'll never test my DC again so wouldn't know whether they needed to isolate now or not tbh 🤷‍♀️

Yep! I'm done

Mine are secondary school age, so are more than aware that testing when you have symptoms is what people are being asked to do at the moment.

Neither of them would be comfortable about going into school with symptoms and not having tested tbh.

My being 'done' with covid won't stop me wearing a face covering in shops etc, as I honestly don't find it a problem.

Yep I’m done too. I have followed all the rules, triple jabbed etc but that’s it now.

I know some will call me selfish but I genuinely don’t give a shit anymore. My priority is my family and their well-being.

@VikingOnTheFridge

And I can't believe people are still saying that reduced capacity in venues is no big deal. It clearly is to the thousands of people whose businesses depend on full capacity at least some of the time

I can.

There's long been a tendency for people to be fine with restrictions on things they're less bothered about. That mentality hasn't gone away just because those restrictions haven't stopped Omicron cases from rocketing.

You mean like the people who are fine with the spread of diseases that they're not bothered about?

Why is that 'fine' ok but being fine about certain restrictions isn't?

So much BS about everyone having sacrificed things 'for the vulnerable'. Keep telling yourself that if you like, but the sacrifices were to avoid nightmare scenarios of people dying in hospital car parks and at home from preventable causes of all kinds due to hospitals filling up with covid patients. We made sacrifices for ourselves too, because a fast spreading disease that needs a lot of medical care threatens how society functions, even for people who don't get the illness badly themselves.

@mintfuschia

So much BS about everyone having sacrificed things 'for the vulnerable'. Keep telling yourself that if you like, but the sacrifices were to avoid nightmare scenarios of people dying in hospital car parks and at home from preventable causes of all kinds due to hospitals filling up with covid patients. We made sacrifices for ourselves too, because a fast spreading disease that needs a lot of medical care threatens how society functions, even for people who don't get the illness badly themselves.

They built nightingale hospitals that never got used. That tells you all you need to know. If 'people dying in hospital car parks' don't you think they'd have used the nightingales for their purpose?

but the sacrifices were to avoid nightmare scenarios of people dying in hospital car parks and at home from preventable causes of all kinds due to hospitals filling up with covid patients.

Thankfully we never needed the Nightingale hospitals that were specifically built for these covid patients!

I would still question whether the sacrifices made by the young, including missing school, having exams cancelled for two years, watching Uni lectures alone and online, suffering mentally etc were justified!?

They built nightingale hospitals that never got used. That tells you all you need to know. If 'people dying in hospital car parks' don't you think they'd have used the nightingales for their purpose

Some of them were used but we didn't need all of the capacity because we had lockdowns/restrictions/masks and then the vaccine

So much BS about everyone having sacrificed things 'for the vulnerable'. Keep telling yourself that if you like, but the sacrifices were to avoid nightmare scenarios of people dying in hospital car parks and at home from preventable causes of all kinds due to hospitals filling up with covid patients. We made sacrifices for ourselves too, because a fast spreading disease that needs a lot of medical care threatens how society functions, even for people who don't get the illness badly themselves.

So what you are saying next time round sod the vunerable as we don't care apparently. Ok fair enough then.

Some of them were used but we didn't need all of the capacity because we had lockdowns/restrictions/masks and then the vaccine

The closest one to me was the Harrogate nightingale. It cost £29million to build and never treat one single patient.

£29million wasted that could've been ploughed into our struggling NHS.

*You mean like the people who are fine with the spread of diseases that they're not bothered about?

Why is that 'fine' ok but being fine about certain restrictions isn't?*

As a society we've been fine about it every flu season.

I bet you have too.

You mean like the people who are fine with the spread of diseases that they're not bothered about?

Why isthat'fine' ok but being fine about certain restrictions isn't?

Nope, I'm talking quite specifically about restrictions here. The reason for that is that as a society we've done much more in the way of talking about the impact of covid than of the impact of restrictions. There's also that willingness to give the benefit of the doubt to restrictions, hence we still quite commonly see people claiming as that poster did that these 'minor' interventions can actually keep numbers down, even in the face of a highly transmissible variant and nothing but assumption about what works.

So the assertion that limits on events is a minor restriction that could have a real impact comes from a very specific context that isn't mirrored anywhere else. It's that I'm referring to.

Wasn't one of the issues with Nightingale Hospitals was lack of staff. Also were they meant to be the step before the mortuary, so I suppose we should be grateful they weren't needed.

The one near us, was used for a while, but not for COVID but diagnostics

@toomuchlaundry I've heard the staffing might be an issue but if they'd really been needed they could've moved armed forces staff in. I mean, they wouldn't have wasted all that money on hospitals they weren't sure they could staff properly, would they.

I was done with it since we all had Covid a few months ago. I will not test unless I am required to do so nor will I ever engage with the Test and Trace farce that is some young lad working for a private firm masquerading as the NHS calling from his bedroom, gathering my personal details, interrogating me and the constant harassment. If I am ill or have symptoms I will be careful and respectful of others and stay away from them. I don't need a test or some kid in his bedroom to tell me this.

@SilverGlitterBaubles when we had covid I had to block 3 different numbers to stop them harassing me. Absolute farce. The 4th number that called I answered it and asked how they'd like it if they were ill and were being spammed with calls and voicemails, especially as they knew we'd all tested positive so that was myself and my DC, and I had better things to do than speak to a call handler. I KNOW he was just doing his job, but he seemed shocked that I was unwell, which tells me the majority of people he'd spoken to clearly weren't. That number got blocked too. And then the council sent someone to knock on my door to see if I was ok. They sent 2 council wardens to the home of someone worth a known positive covid result. Absolutely bonkers. I knew then I was done with the whole farce. That was this time last year.

*with not worth

The phone call I had with the T&T person was farcical. I wasn't ill at all with Covid when I had it but if I had been I'd probably have put the phone down TBH.

then the council sent someone to knock on my door to see if I was ok. They sent 2 council wardens to the home of someone worth a known positive covid result. Absolutely bonkers. I knew then I was done with the whole farce. That was this time last year.

They sent someone round to my mil house as she didn't answer the calls. She didn't answer the calls because she was in hospital on a COVID ward having caught it in the hospital in the damn first place. Oh and the letter sent was breathtakingly rude. An 89 year old with covid had a high probability of being ill, letters sent to the house threatening all-sorts was insensitive at best and absolutely harrowing at its worst.

T and T has become an increasingly farcical concept.

T&t hounded me when I was at home quite poorly with COVID in Oct 2020 . I was quite ill for first 10 days and had 3 children home having to isolate also . T&t rang multiple times a day as my number was used for each child so I would get harassed constantly - they said they couldn't do it all in one call ? If I didn't answer once they would keep on ringing .