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... whilst waiting to see if the kids are or are not going to school next week and walking with imaginary cows.

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A lot of the public are realizing that whatever they do and whatever they sacrifice it will never be enough to please some others. If Christmas was "cancelled" people would not accept a January lockdown and you would get very low compliance if they did both.
And NHS CEO Chris Hopson has got a fucking cheek with his tweets. Many NHS workers have been bullied and emotionally blackmailed into coming into work when ill pre Covid. So the NHS management etc should get their own fucking house in order rather than using the same emotional blackmail tactics on the public that they use on their front line staff. I suppose the higher ups are frightened they will actually have to do some work for their bloated pay.

Quite, Mercy.

Agree completely

@ISaySteadyOn

Our school is closing tomorrow. FFS, they were already closing early on Thursday.

@DominaShantotto, . Why do people do that?

To be fair it was a geriatrics specialist doctor who is literally at the face of this with the increased risk to the elderly - and a lecturer who was interested in it - but it's knocked me for six completely.

We can't end this. I can't take much more. And my tumble drier's broken as well.

I would actually rather they cancelled Christmas than do a January lockdown. I can't take much more of this, I've already written off December and I'm just clinging onto the small hope that things might start to improve in January.

I'm in such a flat grumpy mood all the time now, everyone is annoying the hell out of me and I just want to be left alone. I'm going shopping and out for lunch on Thursday and I told the husband today that I don't want to be contacted unless there is an emergency. He has a habit of ringing me up anytime I'm doing something fun without him to ask what I'm doing and it drives me up the wall. He needs to get himself some fun stuff to do and stop bugging me. No doubt he will be tracking my every move on Google maps, if I turn my location off he gets stroppy about it because he says he's worried about my safety. I'm feeling so smothered by everyone!!

Bubble down at school... "fortunately" for me it's looking like the class between my two and there isn't any sibling overlap that I'm aware of so I'm hoping that it doesn't spread, although it is the class that pairs with DS2's on timings.

I had noticed a slight rise on local cases, but there will be a time lag on data showing. We've probably hit our max dip from the decrease since the end of Oct. We're at the level where one family can cause a significant increase in percentage growth.

@TrustTheGeneGenie there’s a great website called The Free From Fairy - multiple allergies and tags every recipe accordingly. Some brilliant stuff on there.
DS was dairy free for the first 7 years (only 8 now!!) so I got good at dairy free. If you are subbing dairy free spread for butter, reduce the quantity a bit, as the water content is higher.

[quote DrDiva]@TrustTheGeneGenie there’s a great website called The Free From Fairy - multiple allergies and tags every recipe accordingly. Some brilliant stuff on there.
DS was dairy free for the first 7 years (only 8 now!!) so I got good at dairy free. If you are subbing dairy free spread for butter, reduce the quantity a bit, as the water content is higher.[/quote]
thank you! I will have a look at that, and thanks for the spread tip! I may have to do a practice this weekend!

New strain. New strain? How... convenient.

I'm feeling under some new fucking strain, I can tell you that for nothing.

London here, so about to be Tier 3.

All roads just lead to more lockdown, don't they?

Cases going down -- ahh right, it must be because lockdown is so gosh-darn spiffy, so have some more lockdown.

Cases going up ahh right, you are naughty people for seeing each other and shopping at The Range and look I've just pulled a handy new variant out of my arse which will turn out to be milder--, so have some more lockdown.

I can't decide whether to be furious or devastated. I'm on a knife-edge and could go either way.

 @NastyBlouse and anyone else moved (I refuse to say plunged a la the Mirror online 🙄) to higher Tiers.

Which has now got ppl talking about how we shouldnt stop until there is zero Covid.

@NastyBlouse - I hear you. Not London here but totally just done in with the whole thing. New strain my arse.

@MercyBooth

Which has now got ppl talking about how we shouldnt stop until there is zero Covid.

This is the problem. It's the likes of Nicola Sturgeon saying "1 covid death is too many". No, no it really isn't. People die all the time, it's just another thing they can die of. I'm sorry for people dying but let's get some perspective here.

Ta @Sonicthehedgehogg Im Braintree so in Tier 3 from Wednesday although technically im closer to Bocking, just twenty yards out..................

god this is utter shite, isn't it?

You're right - everything leads to more lockdown doesn't it?

Even a vaccine - because oh its only x weeks until everyone is vaccinated so we cant ruin it now. YAWN. I am utterly fed up.

I’m so fed up with this now. I want to know the criteria for the tiers, what is the aim of them and what is the government’s exit strategy. It feels like they are lurching from one knee jerk reaction to another and there is no logical thinking involved. Everything is always the fault of the general public never government incompetence. I want my life back - my old one not this semi existence!

There is lovely butter substitute from Sainsbury’s, it a block and there is spreadable one too. Doesn’t have palm oil either.
I want Christmas! I want to go in my DP’s house. My DM can’t talk at door for long and it’s not fair on her. It’s freezing here and today was the first time in ages that it hasn’t bloody rained. Tier 3 feels just like lockdown, just with more shops.
I don’t fucking care anymore, every day is Groundhog Day. Life is boring and shit. I have few friends (2)and a small family and in normal times only see people who I like. It shouldn’t take a pandemic for people to grow a backbone and say bloody no!

Fuck Boris.
Fuck Matt Hancock.
Fuck Dominic Scummings.
Fuck their fucking lies and scaremongering.

Bring on the fucking riots.

I knew the vaccine was bad news - “now we have to keep locking down until there is zero covid”.

If they do now “cancel Christmas”, I will be disobeying as a matter of principle.

@NastyBlouse my thoughts exactly! They weren't getting the necessary compliance so threw in that little nugget which may or may not be true but is certainly enough to cause panic in an already overwrought population .

In the Blobby house, DD has been told to isolate as a precaution as someone she trained with at the weekend has had a positive test. The suspicious part of me says that this person must have known she had symptoms before training so why the f* did she train? DD is just chucking in training and internship until after Christmas and driving home tomorrow as she is 'allowed' one journey home but then not allowed out until Christmas Eve.

Eldest comes home on Sunday after 3 months deployment and will also be isolating for two weeks even though he had Covid whilst out in Middle East and should be immune. Waiting to see if middle child is 'allowed' out of London via train next week to come home for the 'allowed' five days over Christmas.

I'm just so glad that mine are grown up - really don't know how those of you with young children and jobs are managing.

i want to see the data on this new variant

How the fuck can we hit back at these clowns and bring them crashing and whimpering to the ground?

Did anyone sign the petition for pubs and restaurants? We all signed here. It got it’s 100 000 signatures.

@Blobby10 - it feels slightly like living on a knife edge with the kids. I can cope with anything as long as they remain at school. I can also cope with the occasional 14 days at home but if it goes back to how it was in the spring and summer, particularly with shocking weather, I will lose the plot.

It's the not knowing that is so difficult. I don't know if we can plan to go to my parents in case we get "the" email from school, I don't know if we will be able to have any days out to look forward to as we might be moved a tier, I don't know if I will have a job in 3 months time as I'm in an industry which is completely screwed.

Yes, “new variant” has “quick, we need to stir up panic among the plebs” written all over it.

@wanderings

Yes, “new variant” has “quick, we need to stir up panic among the plebs” written all over it.

It really does.