"Doing quarantine better than you"

[emkana]

Even if a situation like this people manage it...
Fb pics of children adoring homeschooling... craft in the garden... blah blah

Or people posting their fabulous schedule of yoga at 6 am followed by a light breakfast then a bit of work blah blah...

I'm just proud not to be drinking before 5!!

I know what you mean. Influencers will be busy Stylishly Isolating whilst baking, crafting, working, etc. And if they have kids, they will be posting a aerial-angle pic of their 1yo in the garden on a perfect picnic blanket holding a pencil surround by brand-new box of coloured pencils and felt-tips, arranged in front of some perfectly done twee drawing that clearly has not been created by a 1yo

@emkana - can I be your friend?

Try putting the whisky in your coffee/tea - turn you can start as soon as you get up and keep gently topped up all day, right through until bedtime. Not that I do anything like that of course....

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Tell me about it. I keep seeing these people having amazing days while I'm stuck in a flat with a 15, 12 and 9yr old who seem to hate each other. Getting them to do their work is a constant battle and we don't even have a garden to go in. It's our second week in as I'm coughing so tensions running high.

Everyone on our (recently moved to) Street is gardening like fury!! Sharing compost (while maintaining distances) sharing pics of their carefully nurtured seedlings sitting proudly out in borders. I’m still properly busy working from home, barely got the wet washing out before dusk :/

Someone I know posted a schedule her daughter wrote for her days at home...

From someone on week 3 ..It won't last. Good intentions happen then go out the window. In my household everybody now eats less . On the positive side DH and I are working our way through the wine that we had saved until we can appreciate it ( and we don't have to share it with friends )...

@Jayaywhynot actually I think you are doing quarantine better than me enjoy

I remembered why I only got two O levels at school- because I’m not very academic! struggled to help year 6 ds with his maths and science that was set by the school. He was looking at me like

So we gave up and watched Malory Towers instead - well it is about a school!

Our (primary) school parents' FB groups are full of people 'worried' that they aren't doing enough maths and science. It's day 1 people and we're mainly supposed to be keeping them alive and not messing with their heads too much!!

Our neighbour is a retired headteacher and she left a box of DVDs her grandkids have grown out of and a giant bag of Haribo on our step yesterday - that's my kind of teacher.

Yep, academics are excelling themselves in being even bigger wankers than usual. Very middle-class self-isolation involving posting pictures of the bread they've baked on Twitter, followed by post-structuralist analyses of quarantine.

I'm professional services at a uni, and I've been moved onto corona response. After a really horrible day of manic emails and trying to get people to give me the basic details I need to do my job in two hour bursts, interspersed with two hour bursts of caring for a 20 month old (DH and I are both WFH today and doing it in shifts), from 7am to 7pm, I saw on twitter an academic I know at the university posting pics of thei baking they've done today, explaining that no one should ever expect themselves to do any work or be productive in a pandemic, while opining on how the university administrators weren't doing enough to support students...

It's not good for health so ignore.

Day 1 was mostly getting up at 11. Leaving kids with my 16 year old to do a last dash for petrol and food. Got home and realised I dont to do the school run so had a gin. Then dh got home from work so I had a bath and now in pjs.

Pretty sure I will see people I know die so tbh I'm trying to be kind to myself and my kids.

Plus my sons gcses have just gone tonshit which brings home how pointless his whole education stresses have been.

FB feels even more vile than normal right now. Full of experts and self righteous arseholes. I had someone tell me they knew more than I did because they lived through a war. I hope that brings them extreme comfort in the months ahead I didnt know there was a global pandemic during the war ( when they was 1) 🤯

Day 1 ok here but it's early days.
We did jo wicks workout, 2 hours school work, meditation, bike ride, nerf gun games, Lego challenge, iPad time.

Just came on to say I love this thread title as well as "performance quarantining"

I'm on day 12 of self isolation and have had a "good" day.

I've made banana bread, worked, tidied in the garden, blah blah blah... all the rest.
What I don't put on my social media is my 3 year old doesnt play. He needs to be "productive" - to cook, to clean, to make, to do. There is literally no respite. He won't play duplo, cars, blocks...anything. I literally just have to work at it all day.

I have zero time to myself but my social media has some lovely pictures.

I was wondering if I could get away with claiming extenuating circumstances to open wine at about 11am today.

This was me as well and then again at around 3pm, when I said we might be able to go for a walk only to discover every other household had decided to all go for a walk at that exact time

I have zero problem with people enjoying the homeschooling and kids doing crafts in the garden. They're good, positive things. If someone got up to do yoga, good on them. The whole lot - if someone if feeling good about something right now, let them do it without criticizing and sneering.

There is SO much to worry about and stress about right now. I'm not about to waste two cents worth of energy on sneering at someone for trying to be positive about some aspect of their life.

They may have really grim crap to cope with too, who knows?

Comparision is the thief of joy and all that.

I've posted the nice things we've done. My anxiety is skyrocketing so focusing on the good things we've done really helps. I would have thought that we could
Just leave people to cope and record their experience how they choose without judging them!

FB feels even more vile than normal right now
Yes! Loads of aggression, preaching, putting everyone else down etc... I’m guessing it’s fear but it’s bloody unpleasant. I’m coming off it because it’s unhealthy.

I worked from home from 7am and I am still working now!
(our IT are doing a system migration - I am waiting for someone else to do their bit and getting paid to MN!)

Well actually now I say that Im not actually getting paid! - might get some TOIL................ to sit in the house.....

If they’re not tipsy by 11am I guarantee that they’re not doing quarantine better than me

I feel too sick to do anything, I’m vomiting left right and centre, I’ve lost it with poor toddler DS more than I care to admit... but my Instagram just shows a happy toddler playing in our pretty garden.

I'm just proud not to be drinking before 5!!
Ok - so you're doing better than me - enough already