ADs are braving the wind and the rain

[CruCru]

Hi all

I couldn’t find the new thread so here is one I set up. It’s windy out there! Glad I weeded my flowerbeds a couple of days ago.

@JamSarnie

It’s just the relentlessness of day after day with nothing to look forward to and no end in sight.

That's what is getting to me. Usually there is something enjoyable like a holiday or a nice meal out to look forward to. But now it's work, chores, sleep and repeat.

Same. Darent even book anything for next year!

Got up. Got shouted at by everyone in my house. I'm now back in bed and DH has had to take the kids to school as I refused to move.

Fuck em all.

I mean I have to get up and work in a minute. But I'm so done with it all.

I'm taking a sort of bleak enjoyment in all the posts saying things like, "the rules are clear," followed by a complete misinterpretation of the rules.

Have realised that is itself open to misinterpretation. I just mean that I find the irony amusing.

I also was shouted at yesterday and went to bed early left them to it, sod em.

I just want something to look forward to.

Despite always having Christmas with DH I know it's going to be tainted by all the news about what you can and cannot do which is everywhere. Even if you switch the news off there are so many signs about the rules it's in your face.

No point booking holidays anywhere for 2021 so even if things do change by next summer it might be too late to do what we want. So that's another year existing rather than living.

I know I am more fortunate than lots of people but I am someone who values quality over quantity so this 'new living' is just shit.

@MercyBooth We are a childless couple, we are also both over 65 and retired. This whole year I have only seen one member of my family - a niece, the rest live too far away. I miss them all.
In many ways we are fortunate in that we have plenty of room in our house and I can virtually go the whole day barely seeing my h, so no danger of driving each other up the wall. It's just the sameness of every day. Things that used to be a pleasure, like finding a few free hours to do some art and design, no longer feel like a pleasant distraction, but an act of desperate time filling. I have many free hours!
The trouble with being older, too, is that many of our friends have health problems that make them extra cautious, so they were reluctant to mix even during the summer. It's very depressing trying to arrange a get together and being told 'Oh, I don't think so thanks'.
Life is boring and rather lonely (and depressing).

I really need to disappear from this site again, but it's like a car crash - can't stop looking.
Keep reporting all the Covid posts which should be on the Covid board because I just think it's so thoroughly depressing to have a site which is meant to be supportive (haha!) allowing all this passive-aggressive nonsense to be foisted on everyone.
Also - and I know saying this really borders on the unnacceptable - people on MN seem to know an extraordinary amount of people very badly affected by Covid. I and many many friends and aquaintances have had it (and for me, wine tastes disgusting, so life is NOT back to normal!) but it's been a complete non-event for most, and when I say that I am counting the "a friend who knows someone whose cat's vet's uncle's mate was in hospital" in that count. How come so many Ds have so many close friends and family - especially young people - who have died or had long Covid? Sorry, I'll go and hide under a rock now for being such a cow.

@HitchikersGuide dear god, the wine thing has made me think we should be taking this more seriously! More lockdown ASAP!!

Posting here as it's safe and I'm so pissed off.
So dd gets notified by nhs app to isolate for 7 days as she has possibly been in contact with infected person. She does a test as she has a medical appointment this week. Comes back negative but says she still needs to isolate, but if she's had no symptoms she can go to work if she checks with her employer.
What a pile of contradictory bollocks.
She's at uni so will be pretty much isolating anyway, but us in desperate need of clean clothes ( the poor kid is on her period and knickers washed in sink are just manky)
We've told her to just go to the laundry, and leave her phone in her flat if she's worried. I'm also trying to persuade her to delete the app as she's going to have this nonsense all the time.
Or am I being irresponsible?
I've read today that the figures are fudged, and if the 8000 in hospital, half were infected in hospital. We are also in the lowest area of infection. She just needs to live her life, half baked as it is at the moment.
Sorry if I've ranted a bit long

That video @MercyBooth 😂😂😂
@HitchikersGuide I'm always so bloody skeptical of the "I know a thousand people who had it and now they're all dead or seriously ill" posters. Given the prevalence of the virus in the community, they either all know the same people or are full of shit.

For a while over there there was a huge thread started by a woman who couldn't breathe and thought she was dying, to the point she had even had to say some kind of goodbye to her child as the ambulance wouldn't take her. Turned out it was a complete crock (really? Never.), but the amount of people who piled on with "this also happened to me/my friend/my neighbour......I think its a great example of mass hysteria. And that board is full of mass hysteria. Terrified people lashing out in the hope that by controlling everyone and everything they will be safe.
For so long this went unchallenged (cos let's face it, who has the energy for the abuse that's coming) and so it created an echo chamber of hysteria which only got worse as they all fed on each others fears.

@HitchikersGuide I know four people who have had a positive test. Two were asymptomatic and it was picked up in a trial, one thought they had a cold and the other said it felt like mild flu. Admittedly I don’t know hundreds of people but if the virus is as prevalent as it’s being touted where are all these plague infested people?

I’ve woken up today feeling angry. Yesterday it was depression. The government have had months to get the country prepared for what was going to be a tougher than usual winter but instead they gave millions of taxpayers money to their incompetent buddies and now they’ve fucked us all over again. They are cunts!

Not a good start to the day/ week/ term. Masks now requested at school drop off/ pick up.
Rather upset. It's one of my regular points of social contact now ruined because I can't cope with direct face contact with people wearing them. Too much processing involved.

Mercy there’s not even an MNHQ response to that thread that I can see!

I was going to do a shop on my lunch break but everywhere will be heaving won’t it.

I’ll go at 9ish as I imagine during lockdown the supermarket will reduce opening hours.

Well both kids having the home working/school are complaining - they were told they'd be following the timetable but that doesn't seem to be happening.

We know - very loosely -someone who had covid badly and died - though DH hobby society which is several hundered people across the UK country - but I can't say I know many people who had it or had it badly.

Late to the party but ‘Selfish Angela and the Lurking Rut’ has to be a contender for the next AD thread title.

dingit she should definitely delete the app.

I read somewhere here that isolation from the app isn’t a legal requirement.

But this app will play havoc with lives and cause a knock on effect for people who don’t have it.

She should definitely delete it. It’s not an infection control measure, it’s just about profit.

It’s not an infection control measure

I've tried pointing that out to my DMum - she wanted it but all their interactions are ones they can't avoid and all it will do is be a worry for them if they did get a ping with it.

First time after lockdown they went out they had upset stomachs and cold sympotms despite interacting with no-one they were in their own car and didn't get out - they were convinced they had covid next day they were all fine and admitted it was probably stress related.

I can’t help but read the COVID threads, I can’t help myself. I don’t think as many shops will shut this time. I think they will take any loop hole to stay open.
Had a bad morning because my DD was made to get off bus(after paying) to get on the bus behind, but it drove straight past, then the next one drove straight past. So struck at bus stop in next village. Lucky we checked the app and found a suitable bus. Then she bloody had to pay again! I would have gone and picked her up and taken her, but I am waiting in for delivery( which hasn’t been),
I will obey the rules again but not the made up ones. Queuing is going to be so fun in the cold and rain/snow.

Usually, I've got a nice routine, certain days housework, certain days work, certain days looking after the grandchildren, certain days seeing my friends. At the moment it seems I'm in a rut of boredom, can't spontaneously decide to say sod the housework, I'll meet someone for coffee and cake as then I'll have to do track and trace thingy. (Not got the app, don't intend to).
I know I don't HAVE to do housework but there's not much else to do to fill the days. It's all a bit samey now.
On the subject of knowing people with covid, I work in a medium sized supermarket with about 100 staff, full and part time. I don't know anyone who's had it and we've got loads of people coming in every day.
I'm so fed up of it all.

The trouble with being older, too, is that many of our friends have health problems that make them extra cautious, so they were reluctant to mix even during the summer. It's very depressing trying to arrange a get together and being told 'Oh, I don't think so thanks'.

I bumped into a friend of my DM's in town a few weeks ago, and she was bemoaning this too, she thinks people are terrified and irrational, one of her friend's thought they should all take dustbin sacks to sit on in case they caught it from sofas (I asked her whether they were planning on licking the sofas!) I got the impression that I was the first person she'd been able to express her real views to!

I know quite a lot of people who've had it. DD and I had v mild symptoms. One of my friends ended up in hospital a couple of times, but she recently had cancer treatment so her immune system was probably all over the place, another who was fit and healthy appears to have long covid and thinks she's caught it a second time. Everyone else has had varying symptoms but have all recovered in time.

One of the main differences between this lockdown and the last is that many of us won't be as scared. I remember going to buy food during the early days of the last one, and being genuinely worried about running into anyone in the aisles of the Co Op. I even went shopping in gardening gloves (the only ones I had) which meant I dropped loads of stuff. Now most of us have been out and about and realised that we're not going to die if we walk past someone on the pavement. And that's going to make compliance a lot more difficult to enforce, I suspect.

I lurk on the covid board sometimes. It’s so extreme. It was getting my anxiety up but I’ve just decided to find it funny. (I do appreciate that not everyone can or wants to do this.) One of the regulars went so overboard the other day it was actually hilarious.

@Curlygirl06

Usually, I've got a nice routine, certain days housework, certain days work, certain days looking after the grandchildren, certain days seeing my friends. At the moment it seems I'm in a rut of boredom, can't spontaneously decide to say sod the housework, I'll meet someone for coffee and cake as then I'll have to do track and trace thingy. (Not got the app, don't intend to). I know I don't HAVE to do housework but there's not much else to do to fill the days. It's all a bit samey now. On the subject of knowing people with covid, I work in a medium sized supermarket with about 100 staff, full and part time. I don't know anyone who's had it and we've got loads of people coming in every day. I'm so fed up of it all.

Interesting to hear that re supermarket

T&T put paid to me going out, though I prefer to have people round, it’s quite weird when the option is totally removed.

@NastyBlouse

I lurk on the covid board sometimes. It’s so extreme. It was getting my anxiety up but I’ve just decided to find it funny. (I do appreciate that not everyone can or wants to do this.) One of the regulars went so overboard the other day it was actually hilarious.

If you don't know whether to laugh or cry, laughing is generally best.

Although plenty of tears this morning.

Right. Enough. Time to whoop some kettlebells in a gale.