Comment on NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m not a child, but my anxiety levels during the actual pandemic were at my lowest ever (working from home, no annoying socializing, I’m kind of a shut-in). Now, though, they’re definitely higher than before, if only because I experienced how I could be in an ideal way before it was taken away.
match@pawb.social 3 months ago
the “society but different and better” was so nice
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 3 months ago
People were actually mindful. We had weekly applause for caregivers (an empty gesture, just pay those people correctly dammit) and now we’re, well, not back to usual but much worse than before).
Naich@lemmings.world 3 months ago
It started as a touching tribute to thank the people in the health service for their bravery and hard work. It then got jumped on by politicians and other arseholes as performative virtuousness, and eventually we had NIgel Farage smugly tapping his saucepan, at which point it became an insult.
frunch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Especially with the knowledge of how little regard many of our fellow citizens actually have for others health and well-being. I don’t know how eager i am to return to a society that can’t even agree on diseases being a bad thing.
Totally agree about the empty gestures too, which really stood as a reminder of how little respect they actually get especially considering how much they risk for everyone else’s sake
Naich@lemmings.world 3 months ago
It seems so distant now. To say that we learned nothing from the experience is not quite right. The people in charge learned that even brief glimpses of a better life have to be brutally stamped out to stop the drones getting uppity. Hence the push for return to office, abolition of LTNs, and the ridiculous histeria over 20MPH zones - anything that improves the lives of ordinary people must be stopped.