I never tire of writing, and speaking the universal truths. I write so I can feel better. Living with autism isn't easy. In the pandemic, my biggest issues is the UK’s handling of the virus. Where they're making mistakes, they've paved over the cracks.
The Covid-19 Highlights
Covid-19 is a highlighting showcase for the human species. As the government's decisions have had a bearing on mental health, people have taken to social media to tweet and highlight their concerns and about how they feel.
Getting back into our lives in Covid, means we should think about change, so others can stay protected. It is important to be sensible.
The Covid-19 vaccine difficulties
The Covid-19 vaccines aren’t without their difficulties, because with each passing day they are less protecting. Luckily, we have become adept at understanding how to function in the pandemic. We know face, space, hands protects.
The Covid-19 vaccines should continue to protect
There needs to be a vaccine that continues to protect, so we are more protected. For those who were the first in line to have their double jabs and booster, they will have very little protection now, unless they have continued with a 4th booster. That's a lot of vaccines and in a short period of time.
Not everyone has full immunity
With the current vaccine, not all of us will have full immunity and with the double jab and/or booster jab, we can't all have the same level of protection. Also, if you deal with a pre-existing condition, you are already immunosuppressed and your level of protection is much less. The government haven't highlighted that, but the independents have.
Those who are high risk
Those who are high risk, are still home. Where we're not exactly being told directly we don’t matter, and where we are indirectly being ignored, it is very clear from the start that we don't.
Moving forward seems to be a foreign concept right now with the way things are.
People are refusing to do the right thing even if it quite literally kills them and everyone else around them, just because someone is telling them to do it.
Here in the US, they talk about us being able to order free home test kits, when the mail isn't even getting to a lot of us, so what good is that going to do?
It annoys me, seeing as people who can't afford to get the virus, are pretty much forced to be prisoners in their own homes because people are refusing to do the right thing.
I would hope people will work together so that we can go back to what resembles a normal life, while we still have time to enjoy it.
I'm hearing you Randy. They may as well be talking to us in a different language. They may also come across as caring, but what they're doing is rather insulting to the intelligent and they take us as fools.
Although I can't speak for the US, the UK government have already broken their own rules, and parents are being fined, for home-schooling their children, when they're forced into school.
The paragraph where you talk about people who can't afford to get the virus are pretty much forced to be prisoners in their own homes - irritating to say the least.
Like you say, it is important to work together, so that even if we can't go back to 'normal' we can have something resembling a life. We should all be on the same page.
If you didn't have anxiety before the start of Covid-19 you may now.
The news headlines in the UK is that infections have slowed and we 'have turned a corner' and should now accept we will have to live with the virus in much the same way as we do colds and flu. The most vulnerable will continue to be vaccinated but the rest of us need to get on with our lives now.
This just ignores the fact that by getting on with our lives, we are making matters worse for us all, and in the UK, unless you want to have a party with your mates at No. 10, the rules don't apply.
I suspect Boris Johnson's days are well and truly numbered and I hope we get an adult in the post, so that all of our lives can return to some normality safely, as Randy says.
Thanks. Yes, like Randy you have common sense and can see what the government know, but are choosing to ignore.
I hope that all governments will take heed of what is happening in the UK. The world needs to work together on this.
Covid-19 isn't something we can or should ignore and if we do it's to our peril. We're kidding ourselves if we think we're through the other end and we can get back into our lives normally.
I hope moving forward things are set to change. As you rightly say, we need an 'adult' in charge, one who doesn't have his own agenda.