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....

Yanbu definitely can get to you after ready the news this week. At least I got a laugh at least from this tonight

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/snake-salford-bus-swinton-manchester-18935508

@OfficeMonkee

Yanbu. They need to drop it now, just let us live our lives.

The reality of how many people are this stupid is the most terrifying aspect of the pandemic. I don’t know how society functions at all.

This may not help at all. It's a jigsaw kind of comment really. But I'm reading a book about Victorian England, "The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper". It's so wonderfully written and so descriptive of life back then for the working classes. It's made me very, very grateful to be alive right now in these times of comfort for most.

I fear we’re heading for full lockdown again, and that will be unbearable in the gloom of autumn and winter. I live in an area with a stricter lockdown, and it’s so bloody depressing, I can’t even see my mum or dad inside or out. The infection rate just keeps climbing. There’s nothing to look forward to, holidays, Christmas or family get togethers, coupled with the spectre of redundancy hanging over. It’s fucking shit.
Talk of ‘long’ Covid side effects like heart and kidney damage, WTF is this virus that has been unleashed? The air is poisoned.
Neighbours being encouraged to grass each other up, talk if ‘mingling’ is chatting in the street being illegal and getting criminal records.

It won't go anywhere no matter what we do. It's here to stay. So we need to be allowed to get on with our lives.

what @ssd said. It's so hard for late teens, young adults. No social life, no jobs, no internships, no ice-breakers and mixers for uni freshers, no chance to reconnect with people they half knew in first year uni last year before covid cancelled the term. No travel. No parties. So much we took for granted in our early adulthood has vanished over night. And we couldn't and didn't prepare them for this.

The man, who appeared to be using the large reptile as a face covering
Jesus wept

yes I feel kinda low today too:(

People aren't going to comply with another fucking lockdown.

Batshit I agree, I dont think there will be another one

They need to drop it now

Good plan. Let's also just drop cancer, heart disease, facism and depression. Would make life so much better.

I'm just exhausted by it now. After six months of DS who has SEN being off school, he went back briefly and then him and DD caught a bug which meant they had a very high fever for two days. That means we had to go through the hassle of getting them tested, so now waiting for a negative test so he can go back to school. Am now back in the thick of it, homeschooling while working from home and juggling a very active and curious toddler who can't entertain herself for a minute. Thank god the weather has been OK this week so they can run around the garden.

Honestly, if the schools close or there's a full lockdown, I don't know how the hell I'll cope. I feel like I'm falling to pieces already.

I’m 24. I’m so unbelievably fed up. If there is a second lockdown, and furlough ends on the 31st of October as planned, DH and I will be homeless within weeks.

Due in part to the relentless uncertainty of covid, the state of the economy, the lack of opportunities for young people, and the impending threat of ecological disaster, I will not be having any children. I won’t inflict this life on anyone else.

I think this is brewing into a new sort of WW1 - absolutely colossal fucking up by our elite "superiors", with social upheaval and change bribes to avoid revolution at the end of it.

Yanbu.

I've had the frigging virus but it's not my main beef with what's going on.

Before I used to go out, go to the free museums in zone 1, or catch an exhibition at the Tates, then I might have lunch at the museum cafe or a nearby pub. When I was depressed, the National Gallery was my bolthole. I would sit in front of Whistlejacket by George Stubbs and do my mindfulness exercises.

Now I have to know what I'm going to be anywhere, when I want to eat, or drink...I get told where I have to go, what route to take...I have to register on a fucking app (which never works) or give the person my name and number just to drink half a fucking pint of Camden Hells.

All the roads have been narrowed to enable greater social distancing meaning traffic is snarled up. The Mayor and TfL blather on about the new cycle lanes but conveniently forget we also have buses and tubes to carry us around.

My good friend is low contact with me because he lives with an immunodeficient relative. I haven't see him since March. My dad is about to go into hospital for major surgery so I'm banned from visiting him. He is shielding with my mum. My brother isn't even allowed to go in the back garden, and he lives a 15 minute walk away.

I cannot go abroad much. I want to go to Spain for a few days to help my daughter experience Spanish spoken in its native land but we cannot fucking go. (She's doing a Spanish GCSE). I haven't been on holiday, nay, left the fucking M25 area since March.

I'm pissed off with it all.

The whole thing just makes my anxiety worse.

Goodness there is so much doom and gloom being spread here and all around.
Look at the positives in your life. What you CAN do during this Covid pandemic. Take pleasure in the small things. Make new routines. Think of alternative ways of celebrating Christmas or whatever festival you celebrate. It COULD be a lot worse. We have been lucky in the past not to suffer like other countries have with other viruses. Worse viruses may appear and make Covid look easy. Live for today and try and stop piling on the doom. It does no one any good.

Yes

Yes, it's making me very grumpy! Everybody is on a downer, I'm grumpy enough without bloody covid!

nevermorelenore I have total sympathy for all families with special needs children. They have had their lifelines ripped away and as always they are the forgotten victims.

Barryisland - excellent point, especially the taking pleasure in the small things, which is where my jigsaw comment comes in - but I don’t think it was well received

If this is a thread where posts about jigsaw puzzles get deleted rather than debated, what really is the point?

I am so fed up of it (and I was ok with it for a long time). I’m fine if the kids are in school but after only 4 days one DC came home as someone in the bubble (DC never had contact with) tested positive. Now another DC at home with basically a rotten cold but who would dare send a child to school like that in this current environment. They are supposed to start group drama lessons soon (outside school) but think we might cancel as will open up us to another bubble and more risk of getting sent home for 2 weeks. At least if it’s school bubble sent home they are all in it together. Constantly trying to assess what to do. Also, low availability of testing really pisses me off. Why has the gov not organised this properly. Why is it so hard for them??!

YANBU - I'm so fed up. I cannot see a way out or the point of life.

This is the lowest I have felt.

I don't understand why you can go fox hunting, but can't see family.

@Barryisland

Goodness there is so much doom and gloom being spread here and all around. Look at the positives in your life. What you CAN do during this Covid pandemic. Take pleasure in the small things. Make new routines. Think of alternative ways of celebrating Christmas or whatever festival you celebrate. It COULD be a lot worse. We have been lucky in the past not to suffer like other countries have with other viruses. Worse viruses may appear and make Covid look easy. Live for today and try and stop piling on the doom. It does no one any good.

Yeah but I'm stuck in my house.

The only jigsaws I have are those old Early Learning Centre ones, and they've got pieces missing. And there were only about 50 pieces to start with.

CathTurnbull That’s because people WANT to moan. They don’t want a solution to the problem. They don’t want the situation to ease. Everyone seems to want to outdo each other on the Covid depression scale! If you are alive if you have food and shelter and access to healthcare in an emergency be grateful and try and make the world a more positive place.

It's a weird state. Having the DCs at school and some of our activities back means that I finally have a familar structure in life at last.

But it's illegal for me to have my car full of passengers

I can't go and sit in my elderly mum's garden even though we both live in wards with case rates of 0-2, just that there is a spike on the opposite side of her city. I also live in an area that's been 0-2 since localised data was released in May.

It's pretty much against the law for my DCs to visit their only cousins, or go for a walk with a family of friends. But a grouse shoot would be fine.

It's the lack of escape. I go to a shop and either risk panic attack within a minute if I cover my face, or verbal abuse by self appointed Covid police if I don't. Adverts for masks everywhere. Sanctimonious bullshite memes being dredged up from the spring again. Even classic literature is too near the mark Jane Eyre (half the school dies of typhoid) Handmaids Tale and Harry Potter (restricted social freedom)
Kipper, Biff and Chip shamelessly flouting the rule of six and social distancing with Wilf, Wilma, Aneena and Nadim

I've said from early on that we need to learn to live with it. Virus control measures are not worth the risk to mental and physical health, employment and education. Human life is fragile and that's all the more reason to live it well while we have a chance because all kinds of shit can happen and Covif 19 does not have the monopoly.