ADs skipping to school - and that's only the parents

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@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito
was having this thought yesterday (maybe? The days still blue together a bit) when some government scientist was wanking on about having to learn to live with the virus - brilliant, I thought, he'll be talking about getting back to normal while accepting a level of personal risk. But no, he was actually going on about learning to live with the restrictions - local lockdowns, restrictions phasing on and off over winter. Fuck that.
It was Chris Witty who said that. It hadn't occurred to me either that he meant anything other than living a normal life yet accepting some people might be susceptible to covid but we'd manage. I think most people I know think it meant getting back to normal. They still talk about being able to have the holiday they cancelled this year moved to next year, for example.

I feel duped, & a bit stupid. Bugger!

@WouldBeGood @TheOrchidKiller

Thanks. It's the first time I've thought of complaining, they've been so good throughout my eldest's illness. But missing vaccinations is really dangerous, and there was no sense of apology in her voice at all. I'll try tomorrow and if not will ask for the practice manager. He's missed (as have i) so many things as a newborn. Luckily he's the third so I know what I'm doing. I dread to think of all the babies who have slipped through the net.

If we (and in this instance I mean the people of the UK) knew in March how this was going to play out and that we would still be facing restrictions now what would have happened?
I think there would have been far more suicides (worse). Businesses would have shut up shop despite furlough, (better - if it was going to happen anyway).

But I really think, and hope, that we would have got ourselves organised with the sensible scientists and told them to shove it where the sun don't shine.

Or at least I would have thought that then - now I am no longer sure. All the crap in the past from dissolution of the monasteries to bloody Hitler are now so much more believable - I am trying to hang on to my long held belief that people are good and circumstances make them bad but it's bloody hard.

Please reassure me that it is fear that is driving thing in most people (politicians are irredeemable and, once elected, motivated purely by power) and not just fucking nastiness

@TheOrchidKiller that made me laugh our covidfinder general would LOVE to have Matthew Hopkins inspecting each toy for remaining traces of the pox after the treble sanitation process.

Please reassure me that it is fear that is driving thing in most people (politicians are irredeemable and, once elected, motivated purely by power) and not just fucking nastiness
Fear for dome but dome of the stuff I have read us just pure "I am better at this than you so do the fuck what you are told you pleb." bullying, self aggrandizing bile. They really do walk among us!

I think a lot of it is a complete lack of critical thinking and a weird compulsion to be told what to do.

I was having this thought yesterday (maybe? The days still blue together a bit) when some government scientist was wanking on about having to learn to live with the virus - brilliant, I thought, he'll be talking about getting back to normal while accepting a level of personal risk. But no, he was actually going on about learning to live with the restrictions - local lockdowns, restrictions phasing on and off over winter. Fuck that. When is it enough?? I can't drag my family through a winter lockdown. Spring & summer with a garden and local countryside walks made it bearable - just. I can't do it in the winter.

I know, I’m starting to get more and more worried about how to get through it.
On the plus side, I’m booking things up like hair appointments and lunches out just to do it while I still can. If everyone goes a bit mad like that maybe the recession can be halted!

A day will need to come where we draw a line under the sand and just move on with our lives but I wonder if it ever will in a way. Will they ever get rid of half these laws? I just struggle to see the government announcing that you now no longer need to isolate if you have symptoms, the dementors will go nuts. Maybe just remind us less and less until it fades from our day to day lives?
And when will be stop counting the deaths and the amount of cases and broadcasting those numbers daily? We don’t do that for anything else although I think we should.

If it was announced on the news how many people died yesterday of sepsis and cancer and heart disease and flu and pneumonia it would probably put things in perspective a bit.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck back to no more than six per gathering. It's only the 8th of September, and they're already putting us back by months. I can't stand this. They're going to put us back into lockdown. I can't.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Fuck fuck fuck fuck back to no more than six per gathering. It's only the 8th of September, and they're already putting us back by months. I can't stand this. They're going to put us back into lockdown. I can't.

Just saw that. I’m despairing too.

Sarah Vine has had a go at the dementors a very good article.

www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8711411/SARAH-VINE-courage-lives.html

Fuck
Ha
Just organised DD1s birthday party with 3 other kids and their mums
Guess that's fuct now

This new rule is a bummer, but I'd rather that restriction than having the children not being at school.

Oh Christ. This is insane.

I can just about live with this; I have no social life and the birthday party of 3 kids I had sorted for Dd1, well. I had even gotten a magician. She's so excited.

But please don't let them take away schools again. For me lockdown only ended when I could take the kids out and didn't have to keep them trapped at home all day.
I said on a different thread: I can't do a winter lockdown but if they close everything schools parks soft play playgrounds shops - where can I go?

I really can't face this

If I could just take something now that would take me out of all this forever - I definitely would.

I can get out, I know I can but it takes organising and I don't want to do it to my adult kids but If I could just take something and it would look natural I really would

Presumably this means that schools will stay open. I live in hope.

@RobinHobb I’d be tempted to still do it

I don’t have a huge social life but we’ve had some small gatherings over the last few months and I have no idea what the precise rules were at the time and I hadn’t a clue then either.

Just have your birthday party Robin
I know it will depend on the other parents but if they're up for it just do it. They can't keep fucking with people's lives like this and taking every tiny little bit of joy and pleasure from us

I’d just do it too if they will. If not can you just have the children?

Well today can just fucking do one.

I will finally be taking the plunge tomorrow and raising a grievance with hr about my line manager. I know these things hardly ever work out well for the people raising the grievance but I cannot go on like this for much longer.

Dear ADs, give me the strength to see it through.

for you @RobinHobb

Bloody hell. Bloody hell. Bloody hell.

Hold on tight everyone. Please, everyone hold on tight.

ADs let’s get through the rest of this shitshow💐

I've had enough

for everyone struggling tonight be it the general situation or something more personal.

We are not going mad, it it the world that is fucked up.

So many times now, you feel like there is some kind of progress and bam, there's another step back from a different angle.

This week has been looking like my first quasi-normal week in 25 weeks. I have a reason to be out of the house in the morning and the DCs are having an education. Swimming, karate and Brownies back (Scouting on hold and my two don't Zoom). Last night's news on parkrun was a lovely boost. I'm just hoping that all being formally organised stuff, it can all continue, and it's the informal side where distancing can easily slip that is being focused on...

I'm so tired of this shadow existance of a half-life.

I think we need to just carry on quietly as we have been after all we are not attending parties, nor raves, we do the masks, social distancing, hand washing, sanitiser, remind our loved ones to do the same. What else is there to say really.

Oh and stay off the dementor threads they are having a field day tonight with the news.