Just moments ago on Twitter I saw a longish thread outlining a cunning plan to conquer covid. It was the same damn thing we’ve heard about once a week for months: crowds, closed spaces, close contact bad - contact tracing, self-isolating good. And it’s always delivered with the same Eureka! zeal. We all know how to do it. We don’t know how to make the fools who should be acting get off their asses and put the country first.
So that’s the specific thing I’m tired of hearing.
Yeah, not so much tired of hearing about the pandemic as much as tired of hearing about how stupid almost everyone is. It enrages me and that is bad for my health.
Back in March/April I sought refuge in watching live-streams of eagles and owls raising chicks. Not a lot of action until a fish or rodent was brought back to the nest. But to see spring arrive at the tree tops, to listen to the breezes and far off sounds was soothing. I feared for the runts of the nest and whenever a big storm rolled through I worried there’d be nothing left. Finally watched the last one fledge. Well it really kind of tripped and fell off a perch and disappeared but it did recover and soar away. 
It took my mind off the pandemic. A loved one however has COVID news on full blast. Always was a tad hypochondriac and it’s getting on my last nerve
Yeah, I’m tired of it. But it’s necessary. Like a lot of other things in life.
Like others in this thread, I’ve been selective about how much I expose myself to the news because it gets so repetitive. For example, I only read the NY Times for news now. And discussion here because it’s often useful and people link to useful articles from other sources. I don’t use Facebook and so forth, so I don’t have to deal with a flood of talk from social media
In my personal life, nobody I speak with seems to want to discuss it more than necessary. There was a lot of necessary talk surrounding my son’s HS graduation and plans for his freshman college year, but that is more about logistics than anything.
As the incoming (and now current) president of a large Toastmasters club, I found myself getting really annoyed by the constant jawboning from members about when we should or should’t switch back from Zoom meetings to in-person meetings. The previous president just gave a bunch of “we don’t knows,”. I nipped that in the bud by writing a letter in mid-June (before I actually took office) specifying that we are monitoring the situation and won’t be making any decisions or giving any updates until appx. July 13. I figured any questions/whining could be deflected until then, but just giving a firm date curbed the discussion. I’ve since given the update, with our plan for moving forward, including specific dates over the next couple of months. This seems to have worked well also as it minimized uncertainty. I think people were talking about it so much because they just wanted a firm answer. So I gave them firm answers. (Of course I specified that the plan was subject to change in case of any relevant new developments.) So yeah, I was tired of hearing about it, and I managed to find a way to minimize the talk while making people feel better. Go me.
My church did that, they already have announced we’re staying online only at least until January 1. While it sucks to ‘cancel Christmas’ at least people can start accepting it now in the heat of July.
Since this is the time for annual vacations (or at least well earned time off) this way they won’t have to come back to thousands of messages about it.
I made a solid effort to limit my news intake back in March. The problem I had with it was that the news media thrives on disaster, bad news, and hyperbole, and this whole thing was already big enough without pumping it up. I didn’t want to have to sort out the doomsayers from the optimistic.
One thing positive thing about Covid-19 news was how it pushed all of the other “sky is falling” topics out of the news…for a long long time.
Even after this all settles, I don’t think I’m going to go back to reading the news like I used to. Life is calmer without all of that sensationalism and exaggeration.
I’m tired of the whole situation. I don’t need to see the news or log into social media to see the effects of COVID-19. It basically fucked my career, which had just gotten back on track a year ago. No social life to speak of anymore (obviously). It’s not doing my marriage any favors. I’m just awaiting the nightmare of having to home school my kids in September if the schools don’t open up and I’m still not working (which looks extremely likely). And I’m not sure I even WANT the schools to open (although we seem to have things under control here in NJ).
I find it difficult to spend long hours binge watching TV or playing video games. I like doing that stuff as a way to unwind when I’m busy and have a few hours away from work and wife/kids. But since I’m not working and the wife and kids are at her parents, it just feels like a massive pathetic waste of time. Not judging people who do this. It just makes me feel really depressed.
I agree. I started a thread a while ago (MPSIMS) about digital detoxing, and I’m continuing to avoid the jackals and carnival barkers that pass as news media. I spent a week noting which stories conveyed information which actually caused a change in my plans, and it was as I’d expected. I don’t need any of their information in my day-to-day existence. My wife turned on the local news a few days ago and health expert number 45,723 was grimly informing us that: a) this is bad, and b) we should wash our hands more. Yeah, I got that back in Feb.
I’ve sworn off all national news for the last 3 years, and endure a few minutes of local reporting with the wife in the mornings. As soon as the subject goes to BLM, Covid, or whatever Trump did yesterday, I switch it off.
So yeah, I’m tired of hearing about all of it. It’s stress-inducing and none of the informatin is reliable or useful to me.