ADs may have buggered boilers but we haven't got the clap

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The saga continues to continue with more sequels than a trilogy of trilogies...

Dropping the kids off at school and skipping away (this may have happened in September... )
Going camping
Eating out
Going into houses to socislise
Having my 39th birthday spa day (I will be 40 by then)
Just turning up to places because you feel like it.
Being with my Brownies
Having a big 40th birthday party... even if I'm 41 by then
Races/ parkrun
Being able to look at random people in the face, hear them clearly and lipread.
Not have to carry around a stupid visor and have it steam up in my face.

The medical director of one of our local hospitals just posted a weekly update.
152 people with a positive covid test in hospital, when you take into account people who have subsequently tested positive in hospital its 255.
So 103 people in hospital with covid in this hospital caught it in there?
That's about 40%
Why is there never a conversation about hospital acquired infection?
And he had the absolute fucking nerve to end it telling us all we need to stick to the rules

I hate saying this but my prediction is there will be a backlash against the NHS after all this thanks to that medical director and ppl like Chris Hopson.

Reporting in after having driven to Norfolk from London and back (I’m knackered) for my uncle’s funeral.

In 7+ hours of driving I saw a grand total of 2 police cars and one ambulance and near-normal traffic levels. It actually cheered me up as it showed the impossibility of large scale enforcement with most people quietly getting on with stuff they need to do.

I bumped into a fellow dog walker this morning who tends to be an arch-D - I told him I was going to my uncle’s funeral and he asked in hushed tones ‘did he die of Covid’ and when I said ‘with not of’ he was obviously discombobulated as it then wasn’t a sadly death

It's really weird though @MercyBooth the way that the wording is cushioned I had to rewind it and relisten before I clocked what he was saying.
When he went on about people sticking to the rules I just wanted to scream "get your own fucking house in order first dickhead"
He seems to have obtained Whitty style adulation here.....

There's just no end to it - I've got 4 hours of basically teaching myself a unit of uni to do before the end of the week, trying to slog through assignments and trying to rearrange really tedious but mandatory days for the couple of days I've managed to get the kids into school. My mental health is horrendous - but as I prioritise the kids - they're not vulnerable enough and DH's helpfulness is beginning to wane somewhat already. I'm just exhausted however much I sleep and my back is in agony from sitting at the same chair day in day out (and a regular sciatica flare up). DD1 is starting to bubble up - she has been utterly brilliant this time around so far - but you can just see her starting to lose the composure and of course the hurtful comments when they come are directed at me, and I'm at a low ebb anyway.

My list is
Hug my parents
Go to the theatre/ cinema
Have house to self
Sit in a coffee shop and watch the world go by
Go out for dinner

Good news my DM is having her vaccine this weekend, I’m so relieved. That will be both parents done.

@AllPlayedOut

I'm following rules(even though so many are completely illogical) but I'm really starting to not give a shit about Covid. I don't see why Covid is still the only thing that matters or why I'm supposed to be any sadder about people who died of it than I am about people who have died of other causes throughout this pandemic.

It was exactly this thought that banded us all together in the first place.

When I'm dealing with a case of a 32 yo mother of two murdered by her partner, but you know, she was staying home so that's all that matters.

No, we should have women everywhere shouting that lockdown is KILLING them! It is killing their children, their teenagers, young adults.

But no, only sadly covid deaths matter.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

It's really weird though *@MercyBooth* the way that the wording is cushioned I had to rewind it and relisten before I clocked what he was saying. When he went on about people sticking to the rules I just wanted to scream "get your own fucking house in order first dickhead" He seems to have obtained Whitty style adulation here.....

People have been fooled. There won't be a backlash against the NHS. Nor will people get informed re infection control.

What a lovely idea @CruCru
My list
1 Visit my UK based family more, don't take them for granted
2 Have an extended trip to Greece to visit my family there
3 Have DS' friends for a sleepover
4 Go out for tea once a week

SpaBaby - I was thinking to get stickers printed but I doubt anyone would do the job.

Then I'd get sent to a gulag.

And the story of how people can discharged into nursing homes etc once they are 90 days past their positive tests.

Now, the way I see it, it's widely known that the virus is picked up on tests for up to 90 days even when you've recovered.

So why have they been keeping these people in past this point before now?

The NHS really aren't helping themselves are they?

Or am I being a bit thick

I'm just fucking stressed. Work has been insane yet again today.

I have one customer who is very vulnerable who rings me to question me on stuff that happened months ago as he can't stop thinking about it. Really, he should be speaking to his mental health team but he says they dont call him back, but he knows I will answer the phone.

But added to this the fact we're all working twice the caseload we should be and it's a constant battle to get info from the Police, or Environmental Health, or Mental health services which means cases take longer to resolve. But our complainants dont understand, they want their problem solved yesterday. To them, it's their sole focus in their life and I cant help feeling this is partly because everyone is home all day every day

I've eaten WAY too much today so feel disgusting. Just fed up.

I hope that the poor bloke recovers. I absolutely hate the moralizing about who gets the virus and who doesn't, it's crap whoever gets it. When I hear all of that stuff it makes me think of my mum getting really cross about how badly the sex workers who were killed by the Yorkshire ripper were treated. She remembers a police officer saying how sad it was about two of the later victims as they were nice girls - basically insinuating the other victims were more deserving of being murdered.
On a selfish note, if it can get through the eyes maybe I am lucky to be so short sighted I need to wear glasses all of the time!

Yes, that pretty much sums up the point I have reached too. I'm not even that bothered if I catch it anymore. I've run out of whatever it is that kept up the 'scared' in me.

I can't say that I blame you.

I've never really been anxious about it, probably because I spent the best part of two years confined to my home due to anxiety, so I'm all burned out. I can understand why people are though but I am at the point of no longer giving a shit. I've had it and I have "long Covid" which isn't a surprise to me as literally every time I have a simple cold it takes me 3-4 months to recover, so although it's far from fun, it's just the same old to me. Also I've lost a lot of family members very suddenly and to me this is just one more thing amongst a multitude of other things that could kill me and my loved ones.

Obviously experiences differ but now I'm far more concerned about the lack of civil liberties and freedoms that we're losing. To be perfectly honest if half the population keels over the other half have got to get on with their lives so I'd like there to be some quality of life and an economy left for those who are still around.

I'm not dismissing people's losses but I don't see why a Covid death is any sadder than the deaths of other people who have died of non Covid related causes, including a friend who died due to delayed cancer treatment. I don't think that she's any less worthy of a tribute.

• see family
• see friends
• masses of hugs
• singing!
• mountains
• art
• Girlguiding etc in person
• London wandering
• cinema
• ending-in-0 birthday celebrations (somewhat delayed)

I am going to hug and kiss 5 beautiful grand children.

Then will book a meal at a local pub who have a private room upstairs with a massive table that seats 14, we will then celebrate so many birthdays missed. presents, cards, cake, balloons the lot.

Will go over to Anglesey for the day walk the beaches with the dogs, eat in our favourite restaurant.

I will also shop in real shops, something I used to avoid most of the time but now crave.

@BogRollBOGOF - it is a very daydreamy sort of time!

Re: hospital infections - my friend's vulnerable relative caught it in hospital (now somewhat recovered).

The good news here is that hospital infections do seem to be falling as a percentage of the total amount (0.1 % of cases in the last four weeks of 2020, for hospices, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, from 0.2% in the previous two weeks, according to the PHE report mentioned above) but obviously that is still a lot of cases.

Those with long Covid might be getting support from the Gov used to suit their narrative and from a lot of the general public now but wait until they start applying for disability benefits after all this is over.
The narrative will be completely different. They SHOULD get support just to clarify but things will revert back to type and the scrounger narrative will come back into play.

A rude aubergine for you all. DH commented that he wished he hadn't chopped the ends off 🤣.

And I will go to bookshops and cafes and every museum I can.

@ISaySteadyOn

A rude aubergine for you all. DH commented that he wished he hadn't chopped the ends off 🤣.

That doesn't even look real! 😂😂

@ISaySteadyOn thanks for sharing! I take my amusement where I can at the moment, and a rude vegetable is always amusing.

It was very tasty .

My list:
Hug my parents,
Eat out with my parents
Take DS abroad by myself (he's been abroad but we've always gone with other adults not just us)
Stay in a static caravan somewhere with a pub & a park on site

I've also run out of whatever kept me scared too. To be quite honest I really don't care much about anything at the moment. I'm clutching onto the only bit of 'normal' left (work&school) and I think if they go i might just give up altogether.