If you look at UK hospitalisations, they aren’t really going up atm.
Infections aren’t the correct indicator. It’s hospitalisations.
Edit: we can maybe add some extra measures, to slow things down a bit more.
Ik ben voor. Wat nodig is, is nodig.
Anderzijds ben ik er wel zoo klaar mee…
The bark seems worse than the bite.
After 18months the public can choose for itself.
They are panic rushing.
Let’s discuss this for the rest of the year so everybody can live in uncertainty wether they can see there family or not…
Look, if we all agree we won’t visit our MIL ever again, isn’t that a compromise everyone can get behind?
God no!
Fuck another lockdown, time to make the vaccine mandatory. The numbers are going down and even if they go back up hospitalisations and deaths aren’t nearing anything they’ve been before. Most people are vaccinated and booster shots are getting injected at a very rapid rate. [Closing everything down once again will make sure I’ll spend the next few months on suicide watch for a few friends.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCGlClSpNI)
I have adhered to regulations because of civility and solidarity. But I also have concluded that the same experts and political groups are decided for us for the last two years. And despite very brief moments of curtailed “relaxation”, surprise after surprise. I have lost trust. I cannot care anymore. I am depleted of hope and trust. These decisions after two years of struggle set me walking in circles.
I have a duty to my fellow citizens, but as time goes by, I realise that I have a duty to myself either. We cannot be a functional society if we are constantly locked, threatened and afraid.
I was a healthy and joyful person and I am becoming gradually more and more sad, disconnected, lonely and irritable. I cannot internalize these anymore. The better good has failed. Sometimes I think of suicide and this is not good for me. I feel trapped, estranged, at the mercy of powers I cannot withstand. I need to do something for myself and I long for human contact, to breathe freely, and not to feel like a dangerous person. 3 vaccines, mask on and distancing, yet I feel like a walking box with viruses. I tried, but I failed now. I can not anymore. I am sorry to all of you that you keep on, but I need to breathe.
IMHO It’s time to come up with a more permanent plan. The whole world has been in this mess for 2 years now, we should have learned a thing or 2. Let some clever specialists ( virologists, economist, sociologists, psychologists, politicians ) work out a minimal harm strategy which outlines which measures need to be taken when certain events occur to minimise the impact on physical and mental health, economy, etc… . Maybe something like a level system, where level 1 means ‘all clear and everything goes’ and level 10 is a full lockdown. I’m just freewheeling here.
It would at least give people a clearer view on things. Because the biggest annoyance, from what I hear around me, that’s anecdotal though, is not really the measures taken. Most people understand the necessity, but it is the uncertainty about what they actually are and what to expect. If we know we go in lockdown when X threshold is reached, it would be far less stressful than the uncertainty we experience right now.
I think we should realise by now this whole covid thing will not go away anytime soon. We will have to deal with it for several more years, at least. New mutations will occur and treatment/vaccination strategies will, by their very nature, always play catch-up to the events. It’s also safe to state this kind of pandemic can happen again with a different virus strain given earth population density and global travel so it makes sense to look into a more permanent way to deal with things so we can tackle this in a more proactive manner then the panic reactions we are now doing.
LOL @ the Dutch understanding the clear communication and measures of the Dutch gov’t. Sure, thats’ why they riot in the streets and come to Antwerp en masse
Media is basically frothing at the mouth for a new lockdown. Saves them from having to do real journalism I guess.
The question is how long untill the next person posts another lockdown post ?
After 2 years people should really stop letting it living rent free in their head.
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Pff can’t we wait until we really have too?
If we go into lockdown, it will be until spring.
If you look at UK hospitalisations, they aren’t really going up atm.
Infections aren’t the correct indicator. It’s hospitalisations.
Edit: we can maybe add some extra measures, to slow things down a bit more.
Ik ben voor. Wat nodig is, is nodig.
Anderzijds ben ik er wel zoo klaar mee…
The bark seems worse than the bite.
After 18months the public can choose for itself.
They are panic rushing.
Let’s discuss this for the rest of the year so everybody can live in uncertainty wether they can see there family or not…
Look, if we all agree we won’t visit our MIL ever again, isn’t that a compromise everyone can get behind?
God no!
Fuck another lockdown, time to make the vaccine mandatory. The numbers are going down and even if they go back up hospitalisations and deaths aren’t nearing anything they’ve been before. Most people are vaccinated and booster shots are getting injected at a very rapid rate. [Closing everything down once again will make sure I’ll spend the next few months on suicide watch for a few friends.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFCGlClSpNI)
I have adhered to regulations because of civility and solidarity. But I also have concluded that the same experts and political groups are decided for us for the last two years. And despite very brief moments of curtailed “relaxation”, surprise after surprise. I have lost trust. I cannot care anymore. I am depleted of hope and trust. These decisions after two years of struggle set me walking in circles.
I have a duty to my fellow citizens, but as time goes by, I realise that I have a duty to myself either. We cannot be a functional society if we are constantly locked, threatened and afraid.
I was a healthy and joyful person and I am becoming gradually more and more sad, disconnected, lonely and irritable. I cannot internalize these anymore. The better good has failed. Sometimes I think of suicide and this is not good for me. I feel trapped, estranged, at the mercy of powers I cannot withstand. I need to do something for myself and I long for human contact, to breathe freely, and not to feel like a dangerous person. 3 vaccines, mask on and distancing, yet I feel like a walking box with viruses. I tried, but I failed now. I can not anymore. I am sorry to all of you that you keep on, but I need to breathe.
IMHO It’s time to come up with a more permanent plan. The whole world has been in this mess for 2 years now, we should have learned a thing or 2. Let some clever specialists ( virologists, economist, sociologists, psychologists, politicians ) work out a minimal harm strategy which outlines which measures need to be taken when certain events occur to minimise the impact on physical and mental health, economy, etc… . Maybe something like a level system, where level 1 means ‘all clear and everything goes’ and level 10 is a full lockdown. I’m just freewheeling here.
It would at least give people a clearer view on things. Because the biggest annoyance, from what I hear around me, that’s anecdotal though, is not really the measures taken. Most people understand the necessity, but it is the uncertainty about what they actually are and what to expect. If we know we go in lockdown when X threshold is reached, it would be far less stressful than the uncertainty we experience right now.
I think we should realise by now this whole covid thing will not go away anytime soon. We will have to deal with it for several more years, at least. New mutations will occur and treatment/vaccination strategies will, by their very nature, always play catch-up to the events. It’s also safe to state this kind of pandemic can happen again with a different virus strain given earth population density and global travel so it makes sense to look into a more permanent way to deal with things so we can tackle this in a more proactive manner then the panic reactions we are now doing.
LOL @ the Dutch understanding the clear communication and measures of the Dutch gov’t. Sure, thats’ why they riot in the streets and come to Antwerp en masse
Media is basically frothing at the mouth for a new lockdown. Saves them from having to do real journalism I guess.
The question is how long untill the next person posts another lockdown post ?
After 2 years people should really stop letting it living rent free in their head.