Guilt Free Railing 8

[WouldBeGood]

Can’t believe it’s needed….

Thanks Latissi. It's given me the fear to be honest, as she's just so ill and has two young children. Really hoping she pulls through. Like you said, it's gutting as she was nearly there in terms of nearly reaching the end of the school year. I've been waiting to find out if I caught it from her but seem to be ok. My anxiety has been through the roof this past week and the fact that parents are still sending their children into school when they suspect they might have it is just mind blowing.

@ssd

Ive never felt as mixed up with anything as i do with covid. Everything i think changes day to day as every thought has a knock on effect somewhere else. I feel like my heads in a jumble.

Me too. Life is stressful enough without all this guff.

Sorry to hear about your friend @StarryEyeSurprise, I hope she recovers soon.

Thanks @titsintiers

Thats so bad starry. People are so bloody thoughtless. I've had the fear for ages ,since seeing dh struggle to catch a breath with covid last year. I think when the fear kicks in you've had it. Its the total unpredictably of covid that's hard to take. I know chances of getting ill ate small but they're still there and nothing you usually rely on helps, eg, don't smoke, young, healthy etc. There's no rhyme or reason to it. I'm trying to now live with it. I know its there but I've been double jagged and i need to get on with it. I need to work in retail and get on busy trains. I'm trying to handle my own risk. I don't look at the briefings or know whats tier 2 or 1 etc, i don't really care anymore. I'll just do what feels right for me, being cautious and watchful at work with customers in my face, literally. I think thats all i can do. I've only this week stopped wiping my shopping down, i even did it when dh was ill with covid. I know most will say I'm nuts but we're all different in this.
I really hope your colleague makes a full recovery....and soon.

Sometimes I really worry about the propaganda involved in all this. It always pops up when restrictions are maybe going to be lifted. Depressing.

Yes I'm wary of the propaganda and mixed messages sent out. Sometimes I think whats the big deal? Then i read about people like starrys friend, or people at work off for months, or a neighbour who was a runner and can hardly climb the stairs now. And i shit myself frankly, and have to have a media and mn blackout. Not because I'm unsympathetic, but because i can't handle anymore.

How do you mean @WouldBeGood ?

I'm really sorry about your friend @StarryEyeSurprise that's awful.
I think the longer it goes on the easier it is to feel like it'll never happen to you. Sometimes I feel like it's this very distant vague thread on the horizon; but then my colleagues parents both died, for example, and it seems closer again.

To whoever said it messes with your head, you're so right.

It messes with my head cos its real. I get people's frustration at the restrictions, or the government, or the daft crazy rules. I really do. Then i hear another rl story and i want to stay in forever.

Just that there should be proper reliable credible evidence for every measure, with a risk benefit analysis.

Sorry, that was to @SoMuchForSummerLove

I believe Covid is real snd that, rarely, younger people are ill and die, even more rarely young people with no underlying conditions.

But I see much much worse things at my work.

Bad stuff happens. It shouldn’t result in these restrictions.

@WouldBeGood

Just that there should be proper reliable credible evidence for every measure, with a risk benefit analysis.

I just dont think they're clued up enough to deal with this. Any gov in the uk i mean. I hope one of the things set up after all this is a sort if super duper group of scientists and worldleaders who decide how countries will deal with another pandemic on a global scale eg. One group looking at this worldwide instead of every bugger doing it their way.

Then there shouldn’t be restrictions. Restricting liberty is a massive thing and should be done only as a last resort and with proper evidence. And for the minimum time, in the least restrictive way, when absolutely necessary

What line of work are you in @WouldBeGood ? I agree, shit does happen on a regular basis. But at 50 odd, i kind of had my health worries in place with the stuff everyone worries about...this new virus and its unpredictably scares the life out me.

I’m over fifty. Previously had health anxiety so could not let myself spiral with this.

I’m a lawyer, was criminal now mental health

@ssd

Thats so bad starry. People are so bloody thoughtless. I've had the fear for ages ,since seeing dh struggle to catch a breath with covid last year. I think when the fear kicks in you've had it. Its the total unpredictably of covid that's hard to take. I know chances of getting ill ate small but they're still there and nothing you usually rely on helps, eg, don't smoke, young, healthy etc. There's no rhyme or reason to it. I'm trying to now live with it. I know its there but I've been double jagged and i need to get on with it. I need to work in retail and get on busy trains. I'm trying to handle my own risk. I don't look at the briefings or know whats tier 2 or 1 etc, i don't really care anymore. I'll just do what feels right for me, being cautious and watchful at work with customers in my face, literally. I think thats all i can do. I've only this week stopped wiping my shopping down, i even did it when dh was ill with covid. I know most will say I'm nuts but we're all different in this. I really hope your colleague makes a full recovery....and soon.

That must have been so scary, to see your DH like that. No wonder you've been worried, anyone would be. You're not nuts at all. Some people have no empathy. I think that a lot of people ( my own family included - who were always very cautious) kind of have the belief that the danger's gone as it's now legal to meet inside. That's good you've had your double vaccine, well done for still going to work throughout- it's not easy. ❤

Sorry, just being nosey, feel free to ignore me

Are you slightly disconcerted now @WouldBeGood?

Ah ok. Thats good you got your health anxiety sorted, I'm working on it...

😃that’s ok @ssd. I just sometimes sit and look at the stories before me and think, fuck, I’d take Covid over this. Tragic tales.

Thanks @SoMuchForSummerLove

Thanks starry. Yes it was scary. I bought an oximeter last year when he was bad, it was 35 quid from boots. I didn't tell anyone here as it would have scared them. I've still not even tried it. I just wanted it incase.

I think that a comparison would be count those dying because of the restrictions, like my BiL who had a late cancer diagnosis?

Not being serious really, but there are always horrible stories of people dying and being seriously ill, it's not all about covid. I don't have a young child but I doubt I'd be getting them jagged for something that poses such a low risk and for which they are most likely to already have antibodies to.

I'd be happy for them to have an antibody test.

@ssd

Thanks starry. Yes it was scary. I bought an oximeter last year when he was bad, it was 35 quid from boots. I didn't tell anyone here as it would have scared them. I've still not even tried it. I just wanted it incase.

My parents bought one. I nearly bought one last week. Like you said, we all need to do what we can to help both our mental and physical health.

Yes, covid has just taken over hasn't it? I sometimes forget there's still everything else out there. The missed diagnoses will be the next tragedy. I'm sorry about your BIL