To feel like we are just existing now

[Ghostlyglow]

In a miserable, joyless world of queues and masks. A couple of friends have lost their jobs this week. Where are we going with this?When will it end?

@Teateaandmoretea yes.. it's super creepy.

Haha nice try. In normal circumstances I work 28 hours a week and spend the rest of the week with my children. Doesn't mean I have to love being confined to a house pretty much alone with them 24/7. Being overly involved in your children's lives is damaging. They need to learn to socialise and do their own thing which they currently can't do to their detriment.

@TheGreatBritishLockdown

I never understood these people who only had children because they could avoid them, dump them on other people and being involved as much as possible. Why bother in the first place?

And I am a working mum.

Well I would have taken mine to work with me when she was younger but apparently children are not allowed by law to operate machinery and there was also much frowning about leaving a 7 year old at home alone during school holidays. The children's home wouldn't take her so it had to be her Gp's. But you're right, who has children then gets somebody else to look after them whilst their parents earn money for frivolous things like a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs and clothes on their backs? Selfish bastards.

So, you heard that, heathens and demonspawn and other Bad People out there? If you struggle with lockdown, it means you don't love your kids and shouldn't have had them! It means you're a melodramatic idiot who thinks triffids are coming to kill us all! It means you're a low-down, amoral ingrate who couldn't possibly ever have had anything bad happen to you before! Did you hear that, you in the back? You too! None shall be spared!

So join me, because I am also A Terrible Immoral Person for the same reasons. TheGreatBritishLockdown and the other ones whose names I can't remember and don't care about enough to check back can enjoy their direct trip to heaven for being Better People than you and I. The rest of us will be in hell, of course, but I've got enough Factor 5000000 for us all and anyway it's better than lockdown. See you there, fellow Bad People! We have biscuits and the coffee never goes cold!

See you there, @ShebaShimmyShake.. I'll bring the toasting fork and dump my dcs off with passers by as usual on the way.

I am getting very depressed. And I'm a nurse still working. Work is super stressful and there's nothing to mitigate that. It is easy sleep work repeat. I feel completely flattened by it. I'm desperate for the government to reduce the social distancing to 1 metre. Until then no semblance of normality can be felt.

eat not easy

@Mascotte

See you there, *@ShebaShimmyShake*.. I'll bring the toasting fork and dump my dcs off with passers by as usual on the way.

Don't forget to rip the arms off their teddy bears first.

@sourcreamnchives

I am getting very depressed. And I'm a nurse still working. Work is super stressful and there's nothing to mitigate that. It is easy sleep work repeat. I feel completely flattened by it. I'm desperate for the government to reduce the social distancing to 1 metre. Until then no semblance of normality can be felt.

Small aside...thank you to you and all the other essential workers. Whatever normality and comfort the rest of us have found has been down to you all.

I never realised until this how many parents don’t really want their children to have freedom or time outside the family until now.

nice try, but no one is questioning encouraging your children to have a life and a happy busy childhood, my comment was replying to people who are forever complaining that they have to entertain and take care of their own children.
It was bad enough before lockdown, it has become ridiculous.

ShebaShimmyShake
as the lockdown is pretty much lifted, not sure why people are still making so much drama out of it...

Out of curiosity, what are you going to moan about when things are truly back to "normal" within a month or 2?

@TheGreatBritishLockdown

ShebaShimmyShake as the lockdown is pretty much lifted, not sure why people are still making so much drama out of it...

Out of curiosity, what are you going to moan about when things are truly back to "normal" within a month or 2?

I don't know, but don't worry, there'll be something. Message me then and ask. And if you decide to take pity on me, you can dig a hole from heaven and pull me through. But I warn you, I'm carrying so much lockdown weight that you'll need a crane.

@TheGreatBritishLockdown

I never realised until this how many parents don’t really want their children to have freedom or time outside the family until now.

nice try, but no one is questioning encouraging your children to have a life and a happy busy childhood, my comment was replying to people who are forever complaining that they have to entertain and take care of their own children.
It was bad enough before lockdown, it has become ridiculous.

Serious point...if I had realised just what a shock lockdown would be to the system, I too would have sealed myself and my family into a sensory deprivation chamber so it didn't seem so bad when it came. Kudos to you, that was indeed smart.

TheGreatBritishLockdown I'm intrigued as to how you would enjoyably entertain two or three under 5s without being able to do anything other than go on walks. Could you just give me an idea of how to fill 13 hour days, maybe break it down into 10 minute chunks because that's how long small children concentrate on activities for? Maybe we could all be better mothers then. It's ok for some of us to have a bit of a moan about how monotonous life is right now, you know?

Lockdown has lifted? Says who?

My entire industry is still on halt.
I cannot attend a funeral next week.
The schools are not taking children back except in limited circumstances and then only for a few days.

Lockdown wouldn’t officially be lifted for me until I can work in my office again.

"Lockdown is pretty much lifted".

No it isn't; I wish it was!

Lockdown is not over until we're back in the theatres, cinemas, leisure centres, swimming pools, playing recreational sports, and staying at each other's houses without being criminalised, and above all, children are back at school.

We want these restrictions to be TEMPORARY. But if we start saying they're over when they're not, that is how they can become permanent, by stealth. I can just imagine Boris the clown declaring "Lockdown is over!!!!!!…. but I'm keeping the leisure centres and schools closed, for your own good." Ditto the phrase "new normal": it's conditioning us into the idea of the restrictions becoming permanent, and also restrictions being brought in with no end date. WE MUST NOT BE COMPLICIT IN THIS HAPPENING.

Same here, @HelloMissus I can't see my sector bouncing back quickly, even if we were told the whole lockdown thing was just a big joke and was over now... It has been comprehensively fucked, for want of a better word.

If GreatBritishLockdown found lockdown so easy and thinks it's largely over, I can only assume she hasn't actually been doing it!

This is all shit. But you know what's worse. It's the fact that other countries locked down earlier and harder than us, had a lower death rate and aren't coming out with a 20% dip and no sign of schools returning.

Apparently we elected this government and trusted them to make the right decisions.

But it's ok because our track and trace program will be world beating. When it's up and running in 2025.

FFS

didireallysaythat

Pretty much sums it up.

You’re right, in the sense that life was so much nicer before this.
However, I consider myself really lucky.
I’m a front line nurse who has been redeployed back to critical care because of the the Covid 19 crisis. I’ve seen so many lives irreparably changed because of this cruel disease that frankly eat, work, sleep repeat seems like a luxury.

ShebaShimmyShake
or maybe that lockdown or not, I always had to feed and look after my kids and holding a full time job, so what else is new?

The schools are not taking children back except in limited circumstances and then only for a few days.

Your schools maybe, others have reopened full time. Some schools never even closed in the first place.

Yeah I am fed up. I want lockdown to be over. I don't think lockdown should have been this long. We've seen good news with decline of deaths and infections, yet still lockdown as too many people are worried about catching something with a very low chance of killing them.

I think most of us are depressed now. I feel bad for my kids. I can't teach my son like they would at school. My kids are missing interactions with everyone. And what for really? I've seen the stats, there haven't been 100,000 thousand dead like predicted... So what are we still doing locked down. Facing a depression, huge levels of unemployment, a huge percentage of buinesses going out of business, and our children's education severely effected. Very sad times.