andYears ago, on March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced Covid-19, a global pandemic. In the decisive years, more than 7 million people The died around the world has been reported from Kofid. For most people, life, as they remember it, before the disease is out of the disease, returned to what it was before. However, the respondents on a trustee explanation method reflects a more complex image of those who are still affected.
While many have reported to feel happy because working from home allowed a more flexible balance in work and life and that eating more healthy and exercise has become a priority, many others described how they still live with what happened.
Among the dozens of people who participated with the guardian how Kofid affected them, many mentioned the development of Kovid Tawil. Others who suffer from immunodeficiency said that they feel more isolated because there are no longer fixed precautions for those who suffer from weakness.
Those who lost their loved ones to feel still sad. Some people who lost their jobs and struggled financially and found that it is especially difficult to deal with the cost of living. For parents whose children were absent from their school, the consequences of their development were irreversible.
Here, six people in the UK are considering the roads that are still affected by its Covid’s outbreak after five years.
We are used to climbing mountains, and now we only stay house’
Jade from Sheffield with her partner, *Tom, both 37, for nearly 19 years. Before the epidemic, they lived in a car and traveled throughout Europe. “We are used to climbing mountains and seeing the world, and now we are at home,” said Jade, who spends most of her time as a career.
Like many people, they relaxed and relaxed, but in June 2022, Tom caught at work and did not recover completely.
Tom said, “If we look back, I feel that I have been misled about the risk of Covid,” Tom said. “We didn’t really get to know the long risk of long.”
According to the numbers of the National Statistics Office (ONS), nearly 2 million people in England and Scotland said between November 2023 to March 2024 that they had suffered from a long coffee, as more than 50 % of those who said to their symptoms for at least two years.
Tom said he was “shocking” by “abandoning” weak people and considered himself “excluded” from public life.
He added: “I miss society and be spontaneous – that dealing with fatigue seems to be as if I brought life itself.”
Based on Tom’s experience, Jade participated in the founding of Sheffield with her friend Chloe in April 2024, which hosts events with safety measures reinforced for those who are still cautious about getting Covid.
“People do not want to remind them of what happened, which is what I understand.” “But we are not yet, we are after the laying. Kofid is still here.”
*Margaret, 50, feels “unable to get out of the closure” although there are no restrictions at home. She said that part of this feeling comes from her 13 -year -old son, who suffers from autism, and is not able to enroll regularly to school since 2020.
“He has found it difficult to learn at home,” said Margaret, one of her 27 -year -old son and daughter. “He was frightening his teacher’s vision on the computer and would hide under the table.” She said they faced difficulties such as obtaining Covid, applying for an educational, health and care plan (EHCP), and to find a school that could meet his needs-and all made it difficult for him to return to full-time education.
In the academic year 2022-23, about 1.6 million students were registered “Constantly absent” In England, which was defined as such by the Ministry of Education as missing at least 10 % of school sessions.
Her son has just started in a new school, but Margaret is concerned about his development. She said, “They are mixed emotions for me.” “I really want to work for him, but a healthy sense tells me that he is impossible because he is behind him away. He loves to learn but he is in a secondary school and cannot do the schedule for him – he completely lacks social skills.”
“I don’t think I have been dealt with properly.”
In March 2020, 64 -year -old Father Rosie suffered from influenza -like symptoms. His wife, who worked in a school, was the first to get sick but shortly after that. He was of asthma and within a week he died – after his death, he was tested positively for Kofid. “He did not wake up one morning,” said his daughter Rosie, 34, who works for their own account in the creative industry and from Yorkshire.
Less than 227,000 people died in the UK, where Kovid was listed as one of the reasons for their death certificate. On Sunday, hundreds of events occurred throughout England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to celebrate those who died.
Rosie and her husband traveled from Leeds to the lake area for the funeral of her father, but they were unable to wake up and returned home immediately after that.
She said, “I felt surreal.” “I was unable to give my mother hug at the time, I was mistaken. I think the shock of all of this carried me but I don’t think I dealt it properly.”
In light of the death of her father and a wider culture from remote work, it ended with Rosie’s follow -up in his footsteps by starting her own work in the creative industry in 2023: “I realized that life is short and you have to do what makes you happy before it is too late.
“Inability to discuss things with my father is a constantly sharp reminder that he is not here. It is sweet and passed.”
“I don’t feel part of society.”
Over the past five years, Peter Arosmith, 69, feels “isolated” and “was ignored” due to the muscular nervous condition with which he lives. As a person who suffers from COVID deficiency and weakness, he recently started leaving the house.
“Many friends and relatives were not ready to take a simple side flow test to give me some reassurance, and since the fascism began, I have seen only people in three families, as well as store workers and merchants,” said Arrowsmith, a retired accountant of Rushdenshire.
He was diagnosed with a rare condition called muscle weakness in 2013 that causes muscle weakness and can make simple tasks such as raising things and walking.
“They do not feel that they are part of society” and as a result “he is no longer tolerant” for those who do not respect his health needs, “said Arrowsmith. “I still wear a mask when I go out, interrogate me and confront them by other people on this.
“This makes me angry, the impression is that Covid is over when it’s not so.”
“I felt that I could not forget the names of the deceased.”
When Zoe Clarkson, 35, from London, started working in an administrative role in NHS in 2016, she never imagined that she would fix, disinfect and classify the property of the deceased after four years. “I have not been ready for what I see and do,” said Clarkson, who has been re -published to work in the hospital morgue during the epidemic, and since then, has now been working as a great clinical director.
Her experience was left with the symptoms of post -traumatic disorder and is still struggling with anxiety and feelings of isolation. “I kept running the names of people in my head and I felt that I could not forget them because it will be not respected.” Clarkson, who is now in treatment and medications, feels still looking for closure but she does not know if she will get it. She said, “I am essentially angry now.”
“I feel that I have lost a lot over the years and now with the anniversary, I have repeated many memories and feelings. It is difficult to move forward.”
“I am still suffering from broken debts,” said *Astrid, 49, who works for their own account from Sari and who was not eligible to obtain self -employment support because of her role as a limited director of the company. Unable to work regularly or apply for a vacation, she got a loan bounce, but she is struggling to pay it.
Its financial situation has deteriorated significantly over the years. She was unable to pay her taxes on time (later fined), and she was signed on pension payments and has a weak credit rating. Its debts are still about 20,000 pounds.
She added: “The effect of the epidemic, along with the cost of living and interest rates, made it difficult to keep my head over the water.” As one father of adolescents, Astrid said she was concerned about finding herself in an unstable financial position again as she cannot work.
People, like me, have already entered the cost of the living crisis on the back foot. I still have not recovered from 2020, but it seems that there is a stigma about talking about financial repercussions myself and others are still facing. I constantly remember what happened – fear does not disappear. “
*The names have been changed