ADs don't want your freedom, ADs don't want to play around

[BogRollBOGOF]

🎵 Every day I hear a different story
People sayin' that you’re no good for me
Saw your lover with another
And she’s making a fool of you, oh

🎵 If you love me baby, you'd deny it
But you laugh and tell me I should try it
Tell me I’m a baby, and I don't understand

Go Wham!

@BloodyStupidJohnson I’m in for the AD cruise. Bliss of warmth and no Roolz and no obligations!

Speaking of tortoises, here's our girl, rather pissed off that she was moved into a small butter pot whilst I cleaned her cage out. I couldn't find the big pot so she had to go in a smaller one but I was worried she would climb out. Halfway through cleaning her cage I really needed a wee so she had to come with me, she was not impressed!

Amazingly I've "cruised off" or at least been ferried away out of the UK!
A fortnight ago we still didn't know if it was viable.

I had an upset as after a crazy early start, we got on the boat and found DS1's sticky prescription medicine had leaked over the bag gunking everything and hitting the book I got for my 40th birthday hardest. It was a full lockdown birthday and I didn't get many presents.
How bloody 2021.
I feel better after a nap though.

Lets see how the rest of the week unfolds...

Just given her her dinner, and she's still pissed off with me. She wouldn't come out of her shell when I got her out for her regular cuddle, omg she's cross!

@BloodyStupidJohnson, can I join the cruise? Trying to plan and book our trip away next week and it’s driving me nuts- how do I know what day I want to go to the Farne Islands? I have no idea what the weather is going to be like next Thursday!

Good luck with your trip, @BogRollBOGOF! Hope it improves

Just been ‘over there’ and it’s as scary as ever. When will the frenzy end?

"We're in this together." No we're not!

Also, "it's been hard for everyone." Not really.

"Don't be selfish!" (Agrees with removing all the support).

I've had enough!

I don't know, gestures at ADs. WE are in this together.

But I know what you mean

The tortoise is beautiful.
Went to see Jungle Cruise today really enjoyed it and no one sat next to me, was so relieved .
I am trying to push through my anxiety, I am frightened to think how bad I would feel now, if I haven’t always been out and about( always within the rules).
No one in cinema was wearing a 😷. Going to the cinema again next week, I’m living dangerously .

We are all in this together and the virus doesn’t discriminate….

…. except if you are black or ethnic, overweight, or trying to survive against the myriad of health issues caused by poverty ….

Hello all of you! I am struggling a bit at the moment, it should feel good as so many things are returning to normal but I am finding it hard not to believe that things will shut down again. I went on a family day trip yesterday and got a bit sunburnt and didn't feel very well so took a bus without wearing a mask and also went to Sainsbury's without one too. It's so weird, I hate wearing them, don't think they are the magic cure all that they have been oversold as but I felt ridiculously guilty for not wearing it! I think that highlights the absurdity of this whole thing - when can we be around other people without worrying like that?

@Wilberforce42

Just been ‘over there’ and it’s as scary as ever. When will the frenzy end?

Imagine living with someone who is in this state of fear it must be draining. OH had a few hysterical moments which I found chilling. Especially when he used the phrase germ vectors about children. Thankfully he's calmed down now

I know how you feel small . I went into a Tesco on holiday and was probably the only person not wearing a mask. Wearing one makes me feel really stressed and anxious, but not wearing one when everyone else is does too. I thought this stage would be easier but its not as much as I'd hoped.

I remember how difficult your DH was being at one point justasking111, glad he has calmed down. There is a person who posts quite regularly on the covid boards who has quite significant health anxiety and regularly asks the same question, I truly feel for her as she is stuck in a heightened sense of panic but it does make me wonder how much reassurance she's asking for from her DH. Have a lovely time on holiday BogRollBOGOF. Thanks for all of your sanity!

I used to feel sorry for the Covid anxious, but now just can’t be arsed with them, tbh. Our lives have been run in this crazed way because of irrational fear and it needs to change.

There are people considering doing LFTs on their dog 🤷🏻‍♀️

@WouldBeGood same. I find those that are really anxious are able to afford to be anxious.

I agree @chocolatesweets.

Bit of a generalisation. I'm anxious, really don't want to catch covid again as I've got long covid. Will be on half pay next month due to extended sick leave so financially very constrained.

I'm finding that those most in favour of restrictions are those least impacted by them but happy to make others pay the sacrifice.
Certainly applies to some of my ILs.

Had a good catch up with AD SiL last night.

Finding it awkward to know what to do due to the usual pre-booking problem.

1. it would help if the weather forecast was more clear rather than defaulting to showers at any given time.
2. we need to sort out seeing family then plan the rest around them.
3. our usual style is go for a drive in a direction and drop in on interesting things that occur along the way. We don't necessarily know what they are to pre-book, and trying to live to a strict timetable is stressful not a holiday.
4. how much mask-wearing is required.

It's a bit like being back in time to some point between April-May.
Plus far too many rules about who is clean/ unclean for my liking. We are on the right side of those rules, I just disagree with the principle of treating society differently according to consenting to medical intervention where personal benefit: risk is highly varied. Those rules even extend to how many people can visit your home which is a gross intrusion of privacy and highly unlikely to be complied with anyway.

It is good to be away from home though.
It's lovely hearing a completely different accent even if it takes me a few days to get up to speed and is 75% more incomprensible through a mask than the local accent I'm used to

I am glad that there are some good things where you are.

I am finding the prebooking annoying especially as my local leisure centres keep wanting you to download an app. I don't want an app. I have enough on my phone already.

As to anxiety, well, I am extremely anxious that I will be shouted at or refused service or anything really because I can't wear a mask. And I don't like seeing masks because it makes me think that everyone wearing them regards me with hostility and disgust. But I do my best and don't go round pulling people's masks off for my comfort.

I am just tired of it all.

I just remind myself that if I’m the only person showing their face in a shop, it might help someone else feel brave enough to show theirs.

The media has a lot to blame for anxiety. Someone at the weeken remarked that out of four people in a car, one presymptomatic with covid a(I’ll the following day) three of them didn’t catch covid, all tests negative. The media had convinced them that covid was extreme contagious and really really serious for everyone. And rather than question the narrative they put it down to luck or random factor.

Even when things are put directly under noses, people are still in a bubble of believing the media is honest and truthful and that the government have the best interests of the people at heart.

Do masks really make that much of a difference? It seems that mask wearing has almost become a religion or cult. People look at you as though you’re the devil’s spawn if you admit to hating them.

If masks were so widespread in the UK how come so many people still caught Covid.

I have just discovered that I may have an amusing cucumber in about a week or so. 🥒

I am sorry about your situation Effybriest that does sound hard. I hope you return to full health soon