Covid-19 is the reason we should be dealing with mental health, but instead we are choosing to ignore mental health. It is rather remiss considering mental health stands between us and illness, in many cases a terminal illness and death.
Covid-19 and Social Isolation
In the pandemic, we've seen a ginormous dip in mental health. There is still an increase in social isolation for specific groups and communities around mental health and health and wellbeing. With lifting restrictions, people are still being disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
It is important to continue to mitigate personal health
We're still living in a pandemic, therefore it is important to continue to mitigate our personal health and its effects. The pandemic, is still being talked about on social media, parents talking about the lack of mitigating circumstances in schools, reinfections and their children getting sicker and sicker. Children have died from Covid-19.
Children are getting sicker
Every day their children go into school, they're having to continually mitigate the effects of personal health risk factors. Covid-19 isn't done with us, and yet the majority of us are ignoring it, like it's gone.
'Treading Water'
Currently, I am treading water. Trying to fit into my life with the virus is something I struggle with. I don’t want to reside in the past, because that’s not healthy and I’m struggling to move forward, because I am having to continually mitigate for my own health, while the UK government are ignoring it.
Like many people caught up in the same mental and emotional struggles, I'm just wondering what it is going to take for perceptions to change?
What a very good question. I'm not really sure of what it will take to change people's perceptions, but I'm sure it would have to be something very drastic.
I am seriously struggling myself. I would love to get back out there for my AA meetings, but then I still worry about Covid! There are so many people who still don't take it seriously, and I can't risk bringing the virus home to my fiance.
It's beyond frustrating. I would also love to be able to do things like travel the world to meet you, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.
Unfortunately, we can only hope and pray that people will do the right thing, so that we can all remain safe and be able to move on and have a life!
Thanks Randy. Yes, we're on the same page, and that's good. I read somewhere the virus will become an endemic, which can't come soon enough.
Until that time comes Randy, you and I will have to wait and continue to take the necessary precautionary measures. It looks like nothing will change, until that changes. In the meantime all we can do is mitigate the effects on our personal health.
I manage the salon with an FFP2 mask and am comfortable with that now. Is that something you would consider Randy for your AA meetings?