Establishing the Global Feelings of People Who Sought Online Support Throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic

When the Irish self isolation support group became busy on Facebook throughout the Covid-19 pandemic it attracted over two thousand people who sought support from over 100 other countries. As a result of the group being created and led from Ireland the leaders decided to welcome all people from around the world who were not only seeking positive support within the group but who expressed their views about the happenings throughout the pandemic also. From then the group was renamed the International self isolation support group. Consequently, the group population grew from 3,342 members to 5, 558 members by late 2021. That meant that there were an extra 2,216 members from over 100 different countries outside of Ireland who were researched about their feelings about living through the pandemic. This paper establishes the global feelings of people from all countries other than Ireland who sought online support within the group throughout the covid-19 pandemic. By learning the opinions and feelings of people who sought support from all around the world at this time the researcher was able to discover what global support will be required by people internationally when unpredicted pandemics spread throughout the world. The results of this research within the International self isolation support group showed that people wished to be around more people in real life and wanted to support people during Christmas 2020 when many were alone for Christmas for their first time. It also became clear that people were nervous to be around public houses at times but wanted to have a real-life party at a time when the virus would not be considered harmful to them and others. There was evidence of anxiety and depression and feelings of being dictated to by various governments too.