Can't cope with another lockdown

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There's talk on the media of Britain heading for a second wave of COVID s**t and it is really panicking me. I cannot cope with a second lockdown. I've got next week off work because it will be the first time this year for me to have a week off, and I want to actually be able to do something, not sit indoors. I f*****g hate lockdown. I need to see my mum.
Who the f**k are these people still getting COVID cases?

If I lose my job over this f*****g plague then I will commit suicide because I am NOT going back on the dole. I'll never, ever get another job in this recession that's to come. I hate being on the dole. Not happening. But if there's another lockdown then hardly nobody will be getting the buses, and the government can't keep paying to run bus companies forever.

This will end all retail, tourism, travel, services, everything. The government just want to f*****g turn everybody into f*****g screen slaves forever. Yes I know that is heaven for Aspies but not for me. I rather battle crowds in a noisy shopping mall than sit doing everything online for the rest of my life. I hate the internet. I wish it never existed.

Will the economy pick up after these lockdowns? Please someone reassure me. Yes, I am more frightened of losing my job than I am getting COVID. My job is my life, I enjoy going and it is the most Aspie-friendly place you could ever possibly find. Please tell me the economy will pick up eventually.

I know I may sound unsympathetic saying this but I actually despise people who are getting COVID after every all the precautions everyone is taking in public places. There I said it.

How will a second lockdown work? Will the government have to pay thousands of people furlough again for another 12 weeks? Will the NHS start neglecting cancer patients who urgently need treatment? It's all very well and good having a lockdown, but the money the government provides on lockdowns has to come from somewhere. My boyfriend really wants a job, he's been unemployed for 7 months and he's hoping to be able to get back into work now that the lockdown restrictions has eased.

The lockdown is just going to f**k everything up even more than is already f****d.

i think a second lockdown is the last thing boris johnson wants to do and i think theyre preparation what to do if the cases do spike so try not to worry too much

Caz is a bus driver.

I think she’s right about Boris Johnson not wanting a lockdown.

They delayed the lockdown in the uk in the first place, hence the spread

What you've said about keeping people at home, behind a screen, is definitely an agenda.

I very much dislike the idea of a second lockdown too, I'm being serious this time. You hear of some people complaining that it's the "youngsters" who are ruining it for everybody, but it is simply not true. I went to the beach today and old people were walking and standing *right* next to me and it made me uncomfortable. About half of people of all ages though, the very young, "youngsters", my age, middle age etc. were mostly ignoring the social distancing rules. For someone like me who understands body language, you would think other people would pick up on me standing back but no, they just stand closer to you like idiots. The arcades were open where everybody could touch the games machines - it's mental to me. I think lockdown is ridiculous in idea, and people should be far more hygienic and less selfish than they are in order to prevent a need for one. There, I said it - they're very selfish, or, sadly completely unaware. Especially when they complain about the whole epidemic. I mean, seriously??? People in my own town though are actually far more aware. I'm lucky that way.

I can't cope with the pandemic regardless if we're in lockdown or not. I want things to be the way they were before the pandemic.

Lockdowns are the ONLY thing any government can do until we get a vaccine that works.
EVERYONE hates the lockdown, but there is no alternative.
This disease/virus is deadly, is airborne, is affecting EVERYONE.
Where I am(America, California), many stores are going out of business and entire chains are declaring bankruptcy.
The Emergency Rooms are screening patients OUTSIDE the doors; those with possible/probable Covid are treated in a tent.
Seriously.
What the media says about this virus is true; it is bad.
I truly sympathize with your feelings, but driving a bus can expose you; if you are at home, getting an unemployment check, at least you are safe.

Sylcat:

1) People taking their masks on and off constantly while going in and out of shops, and not sanitizing their hands afterwards - exposure.

2) People not keeping to social distancing measures by instead walking right next to you - exposure.

3) People actually touching their cards on contactless card readers when all they have to do is hover them there - exposure. My friends do this too and it drives me nuts. One of them insisted we got tested as well and I was like...?! !! !

4) Different activity centres open where people can constantly touch machines or other equipment - exposure.

5) Buses for some reason not opening their windows already and other passengers having to touch the windows to open them - exposure.

6) Squeezing people into narrow spaces in entrances where everybody else is squeezed into and can't help but brush past in order to avoid...what, exactly?

7) Stores like Boots letting someone bleed on their counter and then not wiping it up afterwards, then expecting me to take the items I bought with me after they'd scanned them. Other stores like Tesco with their staff wiping the tips of their noses with their fingers and then continuing to scan items. Yes, both of these happened to me recently.

People remain unhygienic and instead of looking right at themselves they decide they like blaming others instead.

9) You're not allowed in shops without a mask, but you're allowed to eat in restaurants yet of course you have to take your mask off for this. I don't know the answer to this.

Locking everybody up for a month and then letting them do all the above again = a total waste of everybodys' time if you ask me.

Joe have you looked into the possibility that a local church might help with some of these issues? I don't think you'd have to be a believer. There might be group sessions. Thousands of your neighbors are going through the same thing you are. Luckily nowadays seeking counseling no longer requires one to actually GO anywhere.

I don't think counselling will help. I've had counselling before and it didn't help.