I'm totally fucked and had enough of home schooling now....

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And it's appears half the people on my FB feed are feeling the same. I don't even have young kids but the fact I have to force my teens out of bed, remind them to brush their teeth and get dressed is a battle itself. I have one child who refuses to go out and another who refuses to stay in. I'm so done with this shit. How our kids will ever catch up at school and the unseen damage this is doing to their mental health is just unimaginable. Sorry just a rant but I have given up nagging them as it's not helping any of us 😔

It’s a very complex issue though.

I think the government have prioritised being able to keep some sort of functioning health service, plus, as a government you can’t prioritise one group over another when it comes to life/death stuff. They have some sort of constitutional obligation to every citizen, whether they are 8 or 80. Civilised society doesn’t just let one group die.

Does seem to be a problem of affluent, wealthy counties having good enough healthcare, leading to extended life expectancy and therefore huge numbers of older people who are alive but have health conditions and compromised immune systems due to living past an age where they become vulnerable to disease.

And then we are duty bound to keep them alive. Even those with no quality of life. Which also means you vaccinate them first, even if they never go out of the house. I can see why people are angry.

It doesn’t help that they don’t know how it will pan out. So it might have been only three months, which nobody would have complained about.

I personally have a massive issue with this having dragged on for a year now. I can only think that the government knew quite early on that there was a good chance of a successful vaccine and always planned to vaccinate their way out of it, but didn’t tell us this because of the implications of the timescales, which would have freaked us out.

Given the timescales (which could have been even longer) I absolutely don’t support having effectively locked our children up for so long as a means of keeping us in a holding pattern. Dread to think what would have happened if the vaccines hadn’t proved effective.

I think the government threw our children under a bus socially, and that’s what I can’t forgive them for. That and having not been stricter on the definition of keyworker (even though we are both NHS ourselves) so that people completely took the piss, meaning some kids did get to mix socially whilst those parents with some degree of integrity had to sit watching their children suffer.

I think the government did the best job they could, but it was a bad job. Those in power are busy, important people with a sense of purpose to their day. They don’t understand for a minute how hard it has been for parents, it pisses me off when they claim that they do.

But people who all want the schools open? What is the solution? What happens when the NHS is over whelmed again? Or do you just believe bthat that won't happen? Genuinely asking. I am fed up of life too atm. But what is the alternative? Are people suggesting to let the virus go through the population unchecked?

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But people who all want the schools open? What is the solution? What happens when the NHS is over whelmed again? Or do you just believe bthat that won't happen? Genuinely asking. I am fed up of life too atm. But what is the alternative? Are people suggesting to let the virus go through the population unchecked?

Well either the vaccine prevents the nhs being overwhelmed or the vaccine doesn’t work in which case we are fucked because we cannot live like this indefinitely. I’m

It's very hard. My 5 year old misses school but she's not day to day really sad about it. She's mostly slightly bemused that all screen time limits have been lifted and she's allowed a lot more Jammy dodgers than she used to be! We get more emotional outbursts than normal but generally I feel she's okay. Same for most of my friends. Maybe naive but I think she'll be fine.

But I do think I'm more emotional than she is about what I perceive her to be missing and stressed about trying to balance working, having the baby at home (sick) and dd to homeschool. Dh is much more practical and thinks she's enjoying trashing the house, she'll enjoy going back to school, better not to overthink it. Just get through each day, it's only a few more weeks.

But I think schools will open on 8.3 looking at the data and the political pressure. So it's only 3 more weeks with half term. Wine, chocolate and cake.

What only fools said.

But @OnlyFoolsnMothers is then a case of survival of the fittest? The general population is nowhere near being fully vaccinated.

@Cheeeeislifenow

But people who all want the schools open? What is the solution? What happens when the NHS is over whelmed again? Or do you just believe bthat that won't happen? Genuinely asking. I am fed up of life too atm. But what is the alternative? Are people suggesting to let the virus go through the population unchecked?

I think there is a balance to be made and that they should give all the headroom to it now - even if they are getting back part time etc

We aren't expecting all schools back as normal I shouldn't think.

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But *@OnlyFoolsnMothers* is then a case of survival of the fittest? The general population is nowhere near being fully vaccinated.

Majority of people don’t end up in hospital hence why we have a vaccination order. It’s enough now, there are a million situations worse than corona!