Is anyone else finding it all a bit much now?

[champagnesupernovainthesky]

Constant doom mongering on the news..... constant fear of school bubble closures.... stress of getting available test if need one...feel like nothing to actually look forward too.... the list goes on....

I suppose I just want to have a moan..... it all just seems to be going on and on with no end in sight again....

@Zyzxyz

I started a garden on city land, no permission. So far 3 avocado trees and some green onion making lovely progress. Making plans to expand. It's fun to see something actually growing in such a doom and gloom world. Be safe, be happy. Don't let our dysfunctional, incompetent governments rent space in our heads.

This was nice to read I like to he sound of your guerilla garden @Zyzxyz

You're not the only one, actually it's Brexit and government corruption is worrying me more than covid. Plus my 90 year old MiL has been in and out of hospital in the last month.

Anyone watch David Attenborough the other night? Extinction: The Facts. Everything else happening right now pales into insignificance in the face of what’s going on with the planet. Absolutely and utterly terrifying. And to hear that it’s the breakdown of the environment/our ruination of the world that has caused this virus and that there will be more and worse viruses to come left me with a completely sleepless night. And I’m normally really cheerful! I’ve been feeling sad that I probably won’t ever be a grandparent (both adult sons autistic), but honestly I’m so relieved. There will be no sustainable planet to live on in just a few decades. We are so fucked and governments are not doing anything really. Deeply terrifying.

I'm glad schools are open, but my DD been off with a cold this week. What started making me feel despondent was when government kept insisting schools were safe and then the testing fiasco on top of that. Just feels like we've thrown away a huge chance to stop a lot of chains of transmission. Family of five. I'm on mat leave. It feels like lockdown with a school run thrown in. Fully expecting to be in and out of house arrest this winter. I'm feeling pretty trapped.

“You’ve got to get yourself together, you’ve got stuck in a moment and you can’t get out of it”

Listening to this a lot lately.
It makes me feel better. Especially the last line:

And if your way should falter
Along the stony pass
It's just a moment, this time will pass

The 2 weeks if your DC gets a cold snd cannot get tested or someone in their huge 250 person secondary school year group who your own DC may never have met gets a positive test is awful: not even leaving the house for exercise! Meanwhile the rest of society can go on and is allowed out and about, including the vulnerable. It seems unfair and the balance is wrong now.
And I don't want to hear all the lovely indoor pursuits you are treating yourself to. I have not time to sit and turn on the TV for a minute, let alone do any exercise since schools went back, and I must work, and there is masses more washing with daily uniform washing and wiping everything down etc. I would love to do a jigsaw puzzle...

Thank you i just really needed to vent it helps when other mothers are supportive it makes me feel like i,m not alone.

Yes also just venting. When life isn't fair and is barely bearable it does help that there are some unjudgemental ears out there. I will try to smile and get on with it, but it is still crap and much much worse for many others

@MrsPumpkinPie

In 30 years, they’ll be no planet? Am I reading that right?

I love that song

Do not watch the news every day for a start... They live off bad news and their narrative of it!

Most people do not trust the media or their narrative in this country any longer... There is a reason for that!

I'm ashamed to say I didn't watch the David Attenborough programme the other night. It would have been the thing that finally pushed me over the edge. It's not so much the virus that is bothering me, although that is bad enough. I find it terrifying that I am stuck in a country run by Johnson (and of course Cummings). I don't trust those two one little bit, and it is making me very nervous about the future. I feel so sorry for the younger generation.

Yes add in climate change and brexshit too, plus the fact that most people in the country voted for it and the clowns in government...

This thread is disappointing. I thought I had found my people. I was looking forward to reading some lovely posts, covid and politics free but no sooner had it started than it dissipated into the same old moan about covid, brexit, the government with all sorts of political slants. That’s it - I’m done. I am going to read Mills & Boon (stopped reading it at age 16 many moons ago) and watch rubbish reality TV. I am very vulnerable - was told to shield last time and will be shielding again if things get bad. My life has only just got back to normal and it looks like it will be disrupted again. I can’t deal with all the negativity.

It's the third night I've dreamt my mum will die of covid, I'm so anxious it's affecting my sleep, YANBU I've had enough

I agree,but i think it worse because we have Brexit to deal with,and we have a government who couldnt run a p....up in a brewery

I went out for a meal tonight in my city,.with 3 friends ok we had to register,but it felt normal.quite a few people in our local Bella Italia, then you can feel its normal.One friend and i who live near walked home,that seems normal.Thats all i,want to feel ,normal.

YANBU. So hard trying to stay positive, feel some days it’s kind of suffocating me and see no end of covid in sight . It just seems or feels like we will never be near normal anytime soon or at least till a vaccine becomes available and no doubt like everything else that will have loads of hiccups along the way . Will people take a vaccine which usually takes min 5 years , be happy for one that’s taken 12 months 🥺

Don't despair! Get rid of your satanic overlords and send us (USA) your organic cheese. Your cows make great milk products. There is a giant market over here. The British economy saved by its cows....Too funny!

Can understand but we are the midst of a global pandemic - what do you expect? Lives/peoples health is at risk and we have to deal with the consequences and not be p*ssed off because Christmas won’t be the same or we can’t plan a holiday abroad. People around the world continually live in worse circumstances throughout their lives, may be at our expense.

On the other hand, I don’t think the gov are handling this particularly well. The rules around social distancing etc seem a bit random. There has also been a lot of mixed messaging which has served to get people’s hopes up, but then bring them down again. Not sure they know what they are doing...?

I cant really say my real feelings cos I get accused of being way too grumpy/negative so I just keep it to myself. Weirdly I'm not so worried about covid (except the impacts to the economy etc.) Its more other things; the environment, Brexit, the NHS etc. But everyone seems to have forgotten about all that for now with all the covid focus.

[quote Whatnext2018]@MrsPumpkinPie

In 30 years, they’ll be no planet? Am I reading that right?[/quote]
Well, no, there will still be a planet earth and 30 years wasn't explicitly stated but from everything that was said, it would appear, clearly to me, that in a few decades crops will be failing, temperatures will be unsustainable to much life, more fires, more floods etc etc, unless we do something right now. But the something right now required is not going to happen across the globe. It honestly is terrifying. Watch it.

@MrsPumpkinPie one of the only positives of lockdown was the decrease in emissions from cars and airplanes, but the government spent all summer trying to get people to travel again, not WFH and jet about the world on holiday! So even that small positive has been lost.

I’m over it. I’m sick of queues and delays and everything being so much harder to organise than pre COVID days. It almost makes me want to stay at home than get out and about.

Beauty spots are crowded, restaurants are a miserable experience with staff in visors and arrows on the floor, shopping is joyless with masks and no fitting rooms.

And I hate WFH. My house is big enough & I live with someone but I hate attempting to do my job over Zoom and Teams.

@dayslikethese1

I cant really say my real feelings cos I get accused of being way too grumpy/negative so I just keep it to myself. Weirdly I'm not so worried about covid (except the impacts to the economy etc.) Its more other things; the environment, Brexit, the NHS etc. But everyone seems to have forgotten about all that for now with all the covid focus.

The environment is, apparently, better for so many countries having been in lockdown.

Brexit - blimey yes, people have virtually forgotten about it; very convenient for BloJob who tries to make sly negotiations in the hope that no body will notice. Reality check Boris! We are watching you.

The NHS will recover when this government is voted out.

You're not being unreasonable. It's been devastating for those who have lost loved ones to the virus.
I understand the measures and know that social distancing needs to continue for the foreseeable future, but I'm ready for some normality now.

I dont agree with pubs being open, gyms, cinema etc but no support for theatre and entertainment industry. I just dont understand the logic. Likewise schools and workplaces all going back in high numbers and yet i cant meet more than 6 people.
All to benefit the economy rather than thinking of peoples mental wellbeing.

Increase in cases blamed on people meeting in their homes yet you can get on a plane and go on holiday, be back by a certain time to miss the new quarantine restrictions.

My husband has been made redundant as his company did most of their work with west end theatre companies. So we don't even know if we will be able to keep living in our house as I work part time. The jobs market seems so slow at the moment let alone if another national lockdown were to happen.

Yet there are those who dont see the point in social distancing and have been carrying on as normal in lockdown and its just all been a minor inconvenience to them. I just want some more stability and to be able to see my family.