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Is anyone else finding it all a bit much now?

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champagnesupernovainthesky · 15/09/2020 21:20

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....

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LucyRivers167 · 16/09/2020 13:09

Yep, totally agree. I'm going to go back on anti-depressants, because I'm so bloody unhappy, lonely, about to relapse into an eating disorder and worried I'll leave my boyfriend because I think he'd be better off without me!

I'm in Birmingham so can't mix households now either sigh

Mistymonday · 16/09/2020 13:11

@HMSSophie

It's what has been revealed about people, that has depressed me. How badly educated, illogical, and selfish we are. The majority of Americans don't know 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust - yet they vote for the worlds most powerful leader.

Plus this fucking UK government has plumbed new depths of incompetence and venality.

What depresses me is what Covid has revealed about how fragile capitalism is - how our role is to be consumers and that's all. How the poor, BAME, women, the vulnerable, are all at the bottom while white men get to fuck it all up. What a fucking awful mess humanity has made of this wonderful earth.

Agreed!
HeIenaDove · 16/09/2020 15:10

Yeah, think it was more about getting the hospitality industry back up and running after they'd been closed for 3 months solid

Beauty salons were closed for a lot longer and there was no extra help for them.
But................wimmins things innit?!!

Lemonyfuckit · 16/09/2020 16:21

Everybodysang very sensibly put. I know what you mean re. the catastrophising.

Sometimes the way I cope with something bad happening or feeling very worried that it will is to think through what the absolute worst-case scenario would be and working out what my plan of action would be in that event, to try and reassure myself that I would find a way of coping. Others need to keep reminding themselves of positives or that things could be worse (and I do that too) and feel grateful for everything we have, others do jigsaws, and sometimes we just need to have a massive moan and rant and get things off our chest and admit that things might be getting us down at the moment, and a bit of sympathy and empathy from others goes a long way. We're all just muddling through this in whatever way works best for us, be that positivity or a break from SM or doing activities we enjoy and find calming, or drinking gin. ThanksGin all round....

Lemonyfuckit · 16/09/2020 16:24

[quote squishee]I think this sums it up!

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=916426955466719&extid=O55azKrIZ0u3ka5w[/quote]
That sounds about right! Grin

Aristonandonandon · 16/09/2020 17:40

Yes it is too much. I am very worried about how long DS will stay in school. He really needs to be in school for his mental health, not to mention his competitive university course and career plan after sixth form. But his school already have one year group at home (despite the advice being to identify contacts only). I am scared to open my email now in case of emails from school about further bubbles.
And in the middle of pandemic, everyone is back on the road. I got stuck for 1 hour trying to drive just a couple of miles and it was 28 degrees, my air con was broken, the heat and stop-start traffic nearly broke my engine due to overheating, and I couldn't even open the window because the git in front kept spitting out his window.
It was a very bad day.

Queenie24 · 16/09/2020 17:42

I am finding it harder now than when we were in full lock down. I do not know what we can and can't do. My kids are in secondary school squashed on a bus with many not wearing a mask, in school all day with other kids their age and then they can't meet up with them out of school. Makes no sense at all to me.

user1472151176 · 16/09/2020 17:47

I feel the same ☹️ not much to look forward to and the impending bleakness of winter coming up. There's no light at the end of the tunnel and every day I send my children to school praying they're safe.
2020 is unbelievable and with the numbers rising again, I'm feeling fearful again. I'm trying to be positive for my family but inside my head I'm crying.

Aristonandonandon · 16/09/2020 17:47

By the way, the car journey was just the last straw in case you think I am being trivial. I have a fraction of the work I had pre-Covid and much less money, I haven't seen most of my family since pre-Covid as they are not that near and I don't want inadvertently infect the elderly ones, might not see them until all this is over, and lots of other never-ending crap. Plus the government and Brexit and just how utterly horrible this winter looks like it going to be.

thecatsabsentcojones · 16/09/2020 17:48

Yep totally fed up, seems like it’ll never end and will go on longer because of the total incompetence of our government.

FelicisNox · 16/09/2020 17:52

Everyone is fed up.

Aristonandonandon · 16/09/2020 17:56

I am more than fed up and so are many on this thread. It is a kind of desperation and despair now. Plus constant worrying and dread.

murakamilove · 16/09/2020 17:59

In a virtual meeting at work today, told to prepare for this lasting a lifetime!!! Confused
Help!

Aristonandonandon · 16/09/2020 18:01

And yes, pp is right lockdown was easier. Apart from key workers, most were at home. Everything largely stopped.
Now we are expected to work, get DC to school, deal with traffic (even though many are working from home - why is the traffic so awful?), deal with ill DC who need to be in school but just in case there is a one in ten thousand chance they have CV, they maybe can't go to school, pressure to go to afterschool activities, homework. During a pandemic.
Then if someone in a DC's bubble gets a positive test result, all home for 2 weeks, not allowed to leave the house at all. Repeat all winter long. I have always argued to protect the elderly in all this, but now we are out of lockdown they have it much better. They are still retired and can still go out for their daily exercise, excursions, anything they want. While those in work and school will be confined to the house for repeated periods of 2 weeks all winter long. All my neighbours are elderly, to the side and mostly behind too, so I am struggling on all day while they have been sitting the garden, entertaining in the garden etc. I have the threat of house arrest for 2 week if someone my DC may or may not have had any contact with gets a positive test.
The doom and dread is overwhelming.

NeedWineNow · 16/09/2020 18:16

YANBU

browneyes77 · 16/09/2020 18:24

YANBU.

I stopped watching the news months ago around the time all the news briefings stopped, because I got sick and tired of hearing the word COVID throughout 90% of them.

I’m in Birmingham and they’ve just put restrictions on us so that we can’t mix with other households anymore. As I’m a Single Adult household, I get to have a social bubble (erm..yay). But it means I’m back to having to choose between my partner (who I don’t live with) and my parents.

And as many people are back at work now, it’s left many of them in a right mess with childcare, as many rely on parents to help out and government are only allowing registered child minding services/nannies to take on childcare while these restrictions are in place.

It’s all so depressing I’m actually looking forward to my new cooker being delivered next week. I’ve never been excited over a cooker Grin Need it though to replace my broken one in case I need to cook a Xmas dinner for one!

WendyE · 16/09/2020 18:28

YANBU covid fatigue has been going on for way too long.
Going into winter is about to prolong it further.
I think most of us are feeling this way tbh 😩🙄

bellocchild · 16/09/2020 18:43

YANBU: it is dispiriting feeling that we were nearly through the worst of the pandemic and were nearly in sight of the end: but now we look as if we have slid down the Covid snake and are almost back where we started.

Aristonandonandon · 16/09/2020 18:45

@bellocchild

YANBU: it is dispiriting feeling that we were nearly through the worst of the pandemic and were nearly in sight of the end: but now we look as if we have slid down the Covid snake and are almost back where we started.
That is a nice way to describe it. Plus now we are back to the start with not enough tests, just for different reasons. Low virus levels achieved in June, low R rate. Now look where we are.
Dilovescake21 · 16/09/2020 18:50

Yep - totally agree with you. It's all ridiculous. My child has gone back to school and within 10 days he's got what I feel is a heavy cold and sore throat. I'm keeping him off because I want to monitor his symptoms but there's no chance of getting a test anyway. He's missed so much school and if it wasn't for COVID I'd send him in but if I do then the school will probably just send him home and tell me to get a test.

This rule of 6 is utter shit and the fact that Grouse shoots of all things are exempt is bonkers.

It seems that every company/doctors/dentist/etc use the excuse of COVID for poor or non existent customer service. If I hear another person say the word "unprecedented" to me then I think I'll totally lose my shit.

nicegirl73 · 16/09/2020 18:53

Yes it’s like it’s getting worse rather than better and all feels hopeless and lonely.

amieejust · 16/09/2020 18:54

YANBU.

Worried I will not mentally or emotionally survive the coming months.

Nothing to look forward to.

DH and I both unemployed, hundreds of people applying for every job.
We used to have a good life and lifestyle. There is no hope and no point anymore.

Only here because of my cats.

KeepingPlain · 16/09/2020 18:55

Very fed up and people here are starting to panic buy again. Shelves are starting to empty, can't get certain products anymore. It's bloody depressing. Sad

I now also can't see my friends anymore even for a walk. Thanks to all of you who had parties or can't wear a mask properly, we all hate you.

Ellsbells12 · 16/09/2020 19:01

@KeepingPlain

Very fed up and people here are starting to panic buy again. Shelves are starting to empty, can't get certain products anymore. It's bloody depressing. Sad

I now also can't see my friends anymore even for a walk. Thanks to all of you who had parties or can't wear a mask properly, we all hate you.

No way ?! What are they panic buying we didn't run out before
Bluewavescrashing · 16/09/2020 19:02

If I think too much about it I get really down. I'm a teacher and I've increased my hours to full time so I can be busier.

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