Anyone else getting tired of it all?

[mr_spock]

paulguitar said:

Uggers said:

I don't know what the odds are on that Paul, but you must be an outlier by a massive margin.

Yes, you're right. It caused something of a stir here a year ago when I said I'd lost three work colleagues. It was an outbreak on a ship, which is, of course, something that very few people will have any experience of.

Nonetheless, those three deaths, the subsequent family friend death recently, and seeing my folks very ill have been my experience over the last year.

As I said, I'm not hiding at home, I am making sure I get out every day. I lost my job and my whole industry has been put on hold. I'm separated from my other half and have been for a year. She's in NYC, I am stuck here. It's been a st situation. In my world I can only really see the vaccination program as the way out.

I don't know you're that much of an outlier. I lost two mates, both younger than me (40s and early 50s), one relative (elderly, went into a home after a fall, caught it and died), and two other guys I knew as friends of another mate. My wife is also in the US, haven't seen her since November. Work is pretty unstable, but at least I have some possible job openings I can apply for. As a keen amateur musician I miss rehearsing and gigging, it's like losing a big outlet for stress.

[anonymous-user]

I was never that bothered about catching normal flu, bird flu, swine flu, ebola, AIDS or any of the many previous scary things that we were meant to be terrified by. I classed them all much the same as the new ice age, global warming, acid rain, meteor strike, nuclear war, ozone hole, giant hornets, etc. I seem to have survived them all - or they didn't happen quite so much as predicted. So I can't really get too worked up about this latest virus. It's probably no worse than anything that has been hyped before. There will be another one along soon enough - new mutant strains are already being eagerly sought in case the original didn't frighten you enough, or gets cured ahead of schedule.

I am not denying COVID exists, but I don't have any personal experience that suggests that it is serious except to the old, fat and otherwise unhealthy. Even the official figures back that up. I might feel a bit uneasy if I was older, fatter, or living in a care home. But I'm not, so I don't.

But to answer the question in the thread title - yes, I am very tired of it all.

In the last year, I have not:

• been to a shop
• been on holiday
• driven my car for fun
• been to a restaurant or cafe
• seen friends
• worked
• really done very much at all

None of the above through choice (apart from the not working one). I would have been perfectly happy to take my chances and just carry on with no lockdown, no masks, no social distancing, etc. If I'd got it wrong, and got fatal COVID, I might have been a bit pissed off at being an idiot, but I would have had to (not) live with that decision.

At the start, I was annoyed and angry that my life had been put on hold for no good reason. Then a period of looking forward to things getting back to normal. Now, I have finally accepted that normal won't ever come back. And, although tired of it all, I am now fairly content to never again go to a shop, go on holiday, socialise, play sport, go out, etc. Most of those things were really just habit. A habit that has now been broken - along with most of my spirit.

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 2nd March 17:42

[mcelliott]

We are slowly coming out of our lockdown here in Guernsey, I'm back to work and my wife is WFH, all in all it's been not too bad, I have done loads of exercise and stuff, the better weather a has helped me no end, little things like keeping my diet clean and decent sleep have also helped, just longing to go out and meet up with friends for meals and stuff, that would be lovely.

[mike80]

I thought we saw pictures from Guernsey a few weeks ago of pubs full of people etc. Or did you have to close them again?

[Ashfordian]

mike80 said:

I thought we saw pictures from Guernsey a few weeks ago of pubs full of people etc. Or did you have to close them again?

I think that was the Isle of Man. However they are about to go into a 3 week lockdown again as they have discovered some cases.

[mcelliott]

mike80 said:

I thought we saw pictures from Guernsey a few weeks ago of pubs full of people etc. Or did you have to close them again?

You're right, we were fine from June last year until the 23rd of January this year then someone came in with the Kent variant, 300 odd people became infected so we went back into lockdown, hoping the coming weeks see a return to normal.

[croyde]

On the news programme that I work on, they were talking about the Bristol and Liverpool variants.

WTAF.

It'll be postcodes next. I've got a touch of the SE25 4FA variant.

Currently my ex-wife has it, actual Covid that is, not a postcode variant.

She's been pretty rough for almost 10 days now but says she's feeling better. No sign that our sons have caught it or her boyfriend.

I'm sitting here after another typical day. Work then home alone to telly. Trying not to drink again but had a glass of wine and now eyeing the scotch.

I'm soooo fekin fed up, miserable and bored. Sooo fekin bored.

I want to see my brothers, my friends and my poor old mum in Holland.

Sorry folks, I find the evenings the worst. Just waiting to go to bed and get rid of another day.

[HappyMidget]

croyde said:

Sorry folks, I find the evenings the worst. Just waiting to go to bed and get rid of another day.

Wife is on the phone (vid/speaker call) to her friend in Israel so having been on the whisky thinking about a herbal smoke and bed. Just like every night.

[Levin]

croyde said:

On the news programme that I work on, they were talking about the Bristol and Liverpool variants.

WTAF.

It'll be postcodes next. I've got a touch of the SE25 4FA variant.

Currently my ex-wife has it, actual Covid that is, not a postcode variant.

She's been pretty rough for almost 10 days now but says she's feeling better. No sign that our sons have caught it or her boyfriend.

I'm sitting here after another typical day. Work then home alone to telly. Trying not to drink again but had a glass of wine and now eyeing the scotch.

I'm soooo fekin fed up, miserable and bored. Sooo fekin bored.

I want to see my brothers, my friends and my poor old mum in Holland.

Sorry folks, I find the evenings the worst. Just waiting to go to bed and get rid of another day.

A macabre new postcode lottery where the winners live. And if it's anything like the traditional postcode lottery, the small print will exclude Northern Ireland. What's up with that, anyhow? I don't know what you drive at the moment, but I feel like I've seen a thread for your E36 being sold on here at some point recently. How did that go? In any case it has not gone to me and I am bitterly disappointed because I have a persistent notion for a six-pot saloon to run as an occasional and fun car. If you own something rewarding to drive at the moment, could you take it out for a blast another evening seeing as it's getting lighter each evening?

Any possibility you could get your family on FaceTime or something? It's 100% not the same but would perhaps alleviate some of the suffering by allowing you to see a face and hear them too. Read or watched anything decent lately? I know this post probably isn't 'helpful' as such but perhaps replying will occupy you for a while at least.

[croyde]

Levin said:

A macabre new postcode lottery where the winners live. And if it's anything like the traditional postcode lottery, the small print will exclude Northern Ireland. What's up with that, anyhow? I don't know what you drive at the moment, but I feel like I've seen a thread for your E36 being sold on here at some point recently. How did that go? In any case it has not gone to me and I am bitterly disappointed because I have a persistent notion for a six-pot saloon to run as an occasional and fun car. If you own something rewarding to drive at the moment, could you take it out for a blast another evening seeing as it's getting lighter each evening?

Any possibility you could get your family on FaceTime or something? It's 100% not the same but would perhaps alleviate some of the suffering by allowing you to see a face and hear them too. Read or watched anything decent lately? I know this post probably isn't 'helpful' as such but perhaps replying will occupy you for a while at least.

Cheers.

Yes the BMW sold a week ago. Went to a very eager 19 year old lad whose insurance was £3000

Mine was £170.

I now have a brand new Duster. Needed something practical, easy on fuel and ULEZ compliant.

It was only £10.5k brand spanking new!!

I lost twice as much on a Landrover in 3 years.

It has a tiny 999cc 3cyl engine but it's actually quite fun and pretty zippy as well as being happy at 80 on the motorway.

It's good but not something I'd take out just for the drive. One day I'll get a toy.

[mike80]

mcelliott said:

You're right, we were fine from June last year until the 23rd of January this year then someone came in with the Kent variant, 300 odd people became infected so we went back into lockdown, hoping the coming weeks see a return to normal.

That sucks, from what I remember it looked pretty normal, crowds of people stood in the pub etc. Don't think we ever got to that stage last year!

[anonymous-user]

What's this about furlough being extended to September, when things are supposed to be returning to normal in June?

More moving of the goal posts? No one is gonna listen, surely?

[Flooble]

Levin said:

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Any possibility you could get your family on FaceTime or something? It's 100% not the same but would perhaps alleviate some of the suffering by allowing you to see a face and hear them too. Read or watched anything decent lately? I know this post probably isn't 'helpful' as such but perhaps replying will occupy you for a while at least.

Ha I have the opposite problem! The parents discovered Facetime (and WhatsApp Video Calls, and Alexa Video Calls ...). There is now no escape, as they are so bored.

Video calls mean you can't even put a headset in and do something else while they tell you (for the fiteenth time) about Mrs Miggins at number 32 who had a fall ...

Would you like me to lend you them?

[yellowjack]

ThrottleLine30 said:

What's this about furlough being extended to September, when things are supposed to be returning to normal in June?

More moving of the goal posts? No one is gonna listen, surely?

Government Psyops is busy "selling" us the idea of various 'new variants' of Covid which may or may not be more transmissible/more virulent/more deadly* than the current vanilla Covid. Which probably means that the government has no intention of letting things "get back to normal" any time soon. No sooner will we lift lockdown than a 'new variant' will be discovered somewhere, and we'll have to reset the clock again. The longer this goes on, the more convinced I am that the cure is, indeed, worse than the disease. So yeah, the goalposts aren't so much being moved any more. It's more like they've been made fully portable and vehicle mounted so that they can move further, much faster than ever before...

...me? Today I decided that the government, plod, and New Forest NIMBYs Inc. could all go to hell. And I went out for a 62 mile/100 km bicycle ride all through said New Forest. I've had enough of "playing the game" and following guidelines. From now on if it isn't expressly illegal, I'm doing it.

ETA: If I hadn't procrastinated so much this morning it'd have been a 100+ miler too, all the way up to Salisbury Plain and back...

Edited by yellowjack on Tuesday 2nd March 23:31

[RSTurboPaul]

croyde said:

On the news programme that I work on, they were talking about the Bristol and Liverpool variants.

WTAF.

It'll be postcodes next. I've got a touch of the SE25 4FA variant.

LOL


Be scared, people, be scared!!


It is ridiculous that they think we can keep being repeatedly scared by invisible bogeymen. isaldiri pointed out on the Cure worse than the Disease thread that they were going on about the Brazil (?) variant being 'twice as transmissible' or 'twice as deadly' or 'twice as [whatever it was]' to make it sound scary - because the original was only 0.1% and the new variant was 0.2%, which are not exactly scary figures...


I remain hopeful that the plummeting cases and deaths (due to seasonality and with no obvious link to any measures) will make even the most rabid 'karen' ask why we are still under restrictions for another 4 months or so (!!) when new cases are low thousands a day and deaths are under 100, and when all the vulnerable groups are vaccinated.


The reason they are so desperate to string everything out seems to be because they need to create the narrative that all the measures, all the cost, all the pain was for a reason - if, as it seems, having no restrictions brings exactly the same outcomes (ref: Florida vs California, Sweden vs UK) then Govt are going to be lynched for spending half a trillion quid for no actual benefit.

Oh, and stringing things out until they can get 'vaccine passports' rolled out to 'save us' means a nice lead in to digital IDs and all that entails (ref: WEF, Tony Bliar, Gates...)


Government is in a race to roll out their desired long term control tools before the virus disappears of its own accord and shows their game for what it is. That's why the rush for a vaccine so quickly - if Covid does as the 1918 Spanish flu did, it will simply disappear after two years, and the 'need' for a vaccine (and vaccine passports, and yearly revaccination, and central databases of 'refuseniks') will have gone. Getting the vaccine rolled out after 12 months means, like lockdowns, they can claim 'it worked!' and then obfuscate / bury / class as 'misinformation' any data that shows their measures had zero or only marginal effect.


ETA:

This is why I refuse to be swayed by deliberately manipulative messaging, and why we all just need to get back to normal. The chances of being pulled up over something is so marginal as to be humorous, were it not a reflection on the poor state of policing in this country, so JFDI, I say Pictures from various newspapers showing people out and about in the sun is a good sign - the large and silent majority will just start to go about their daily business the longer the nonsense goes on when it is blatantly obvious it is for no good reason, which is what we need to happen. Be one of those people! Our mental health and wellbeing is our concern and Govt doesn't give a st about us - the sooner we all start prioritising looking after ourselves and our families, and ignore obvious Govt diktat designed to further their own agendas, the better!

Edited by RSTurboPaul on Tuesday 2nd March 23:51

[RSTurboPaul]

HappyMidget said:

croyde said:

Sorry folks, I find the evenings the worst. Just waiting to go to bed and get rid of another day.

Wife is on the phone (vid/speaker call) to her friend in Israel so having been on the whisky thinking about a herbal smoke and bed. Just like every night.

Interesting - do you know your wife's friend's views on their rabid 'vaccine passport' mania in Israel? Strangely the BBC aren't reporting the protests against them...

[HappyMidget]

RSTurboPaul said:

HappyMidget said:

croyde said:

Sorry folks, I find the evenings the worst. Just waiting to go to bed and get rid of another day.

Wife is on the phone (vid/speaker call) to her friend in Israel so having been on the whisky thinking about a herbal smoke and bed. Just like every night.

Interesting - do you know your wife's friend's views on their rabid 'vaccine passport' mania in Israel? Strangely the BBC aren't reporting the protests against them...

She is pretty happy about it as it means she can return to some semblance of normality.

It appears that some of the more Orthodox communities are being led by Rabbi's saying not to get the vax. They have also had quite a few mass gatherings for funerals etc which hasn't helped the infection rates.

[Drive it fix it repeat]

I agree that the government is desperately trying to cover its own arse and make it appear that they have saved us all. I’m not convinced we would have been any worse of if we just let the virus run it’s course.

I’m going to sound nasty now but people die, the majority of those that the virus has supposedly killed I’d wager would have been dead within a couple of years without the virus. I’m not sure it’s been worth the astronomical cost to save those who likely wont last long anyway. I’m aware that some otherwise healthy people have died but the numbers are microscopic.

It feels a lot like sacrificing the masses to save the few, when you look at the big picture and forget individuals that is just stupid. I have lost friends and family related to the virus so I’m not denying it’s existence I’m just not at all convinced the government measures will have done alot of good in the grand scheme of things but have deffinetly cost us dearly.

[Uggers]

Drive it fix it repeat said:

I agree that the government is desperately trying to cover its own arse and make it appear that they have saved us all. I’m not convinced we would have been any worse of if we just let the virus run it’s course.

I’m going to sound nasty now but people die, the majority of those that the virus has supposedly killed I’d wager would have been dead within a couple of years without the virus. I’m not sure it’s been worth the astronomical cost to save those who likely wont last long anyway. I’m aware that some otherwise healthy people have died but the numbers are microscopic.

It feels a lot like sacrificing the masses to save the few, when you look at the big picture and forget individuals that is just stupid. I have lost friends and family related to the virus so I’m not denying it’s existence I’m just not at all convinced the government measures will have done alot of good in the grand scheme of things but have deffinetly cost us dearly.

I try to tell myself that there is more than we know who think along similar lines. They just do not say anything to avoid been tarnished with the heartless granny killer tag. The minority do tend to be very loud on SM circles, which echoes around the main stream media as it's easy news for little research. But maybe a lot of the 'shy tory' effect going on.

I've realised the demographic on Pistonheads is considerably older than I thought. Only a jump into a few of the vaccination threads will show just how old some of the posters are. So maybe it's understandable their fear to a certain degree, but I still maintain proportion has been lost.

When you you are at an age where you have young kids, are mid career and you see the economic and social stshow that has descended on us it's only natural to feel rather anxious and what the future holds. Older people to a degree, much more insulated from it. Some just want us all to stay indoors till 100% of the population is vaccinated, regardless of social/bills/mortgages/education costs.

[Pete102]

Some of you may recall I'm in the middle of applying for a job in Switzerland, we was in the process of trying to organise a 3rd and final face-to-face interview but contending with current WFH mandates (in Swiss), mandatory quarantine and entry restrictions, it was proving to be a bit of a challenge.

Anyway, yesterday I had a follow up meeting whereby I was offered the role without a 3rd interview!

First reaction - Joy and happiness.

Second reaction - fk, it just got real!.

I'm taking a couple of days to let it settle in and then I'll start to make a plan, its a permanent role so I have a lot of stuff to sort out.