That's it I'm done

[babasaclover]

Right that's it I'm done. I've been locked in this house since January. First due to health now Coronavirus. I'm done been positive and thankful for having a garden etc - i need to MOOOOOAAAAANNNNN.

Anyone else thoroughly fucked off with it all? Never thought I would miss work and mundane stuff.

I am WFH trying to manage a team of 12 also working from home. I am lucky to not have financial worry, but the stress from work has been unbelievable.

But mostly I’m so so lonely. I live alone. I miss my family, my friends and most of all my bf. I have no idea when I’ll see any of them again

Living alone is wonderful until you’re forced to be alone 24/7

I haven't seen DD since January because of work schedules clashing (she lives a 3 hour drive away). I'm fed up of people saying "oh well you can facetime/skype/whatever, so it's not that bad". No it's not "that bad", it's bloody worse because when she needed a hug the most, I couldn't give it to her, and I miss her. I'm fed up, bored and grumpy today.

...to stop what are mostly old and sick people dying al at once now though they may well die next years

No no no. The shielding group are NOT all old and going to die soon. Very many have chronic conditions that under normal circumstances are not life limiting, and it is very hard to hear this myth perpetuated everywhere. The shielding group have very specific conditions (including Pregnant with heart disease for example, and blood cancer at any stage of treatment...which can mean active treatment completed years ago) and have previously been playing a full role in the economy and community. Please stop with the "Well you were going to die soon anyway" trope.

No no no. The shielding group are NOT all old and going to die soon.

They never said "all", they said most, which is absolutely true when you look at the ages of people dying.

Most not all. Also this is all about balancing the greater good - not easy and not easy choosing between who will live and who will not of course. Very difficult. I think we have the wrong balance now.

But the story is still "let the weaklings die and we can all get back to normal".
Eugenics anyone?

That is how doctors and the NHS and most cultures have always worked. It is not eugenics. Eg most 80 year olds you would never put on a ventilator as it is not a good use of resources or good outcome. Babies who are very sick you often would not operate on. Doctors make these choices all the time. Pregnant with 5 babies and your doctor will usually suggest killing a few of them to help ensure some of the others live. there are not new issues.

The current police s not o reduce who gets covid ultimately but just to ensure the deaths and NHS need is not all bunched up at the same time for those few you get it who need medical treatment (most don't).

I suppose the question is how much of a pay reduction say 50% or 60% would a nurse or teacher accept next year to pay for saving mostly older and very sick people now?

I reiterate, the shielding group are not necessarily "very sick". They just have immune systems that are not working very well. In normal circumstances this doesn't matter and they lead fully and economically active lives. You don't get to be "Shielded" just by dint of being 80!

We only finished paying for WW2 in something like 2007 and I didn't see people moaning about that.

I reiterate, the shielding group are not necessarily "very sick". They just have immune systems that are not working very well. In normal circumstances this doesn't matter and they lead fully and economically active lives. You don't get to be "Shielded" just by dint of being 80!

^ this. Added to which many an elderly person who has died from this might have been able to live another good and happy 10 - 15 years. Michael Rosen is seriously ill and I hope he gets better. He is only 73.

Those at risk aren't all ancient and on their way out, there will be many who make significant economic, social and cultural contributions to the greater good. Imagine eg a businessperson in their 40s who has recently undergone chemo but who is otherwise expected to make a full recovery, my immunocompromised colleague in her 50s who tutors widening participation students into medical programmes.

It's not as simple as Gran shuffling off 2 months early.

anyway CV can still piss off please as I'm DONE with it.

There’s been no update since April 5 re Michael Rosen

@ILoveAnOwl
What you said. A thousand times over.

My shielded person is in his early 40s and due to become a dad in July. I'm a public sector worker and would obviously take any level of pay cut in order to keep him alive

In any case, as custodiandiscount said, CV can still fuck off. I'm still done with it. And I'M STILL FUCKED OFF THAT I CAN'T HAVE WINE

My shielded person is in his early 50s and has been in full remission for almost three years.

I have an autoimmune disease which is well managed with no drug interventions.

Neither of us at risk of imminent death from our underlying conditions, thank you!

The shielded people I know best are

• A very successful businesswoman in her 50s
• Two children, aged 8 and 9. Both have conditions that would normally give them life expectancies well into late middle age - so not only not expected to die soon, but not expected to die for about half a century under normal circumstances....

I’m fed up, I have a lot to be thankful for, secure job, decent sized garden, good wifi (!) but I miss having a proper drink in the pub with my friends, going for a brew at work and gossiping in the staff kitchen, I even miss the school run! I’ve got a Y6 child as well and she’s heartbroken about all the stuff they had planned slowly going down the tubes day by day

I was fine until my DSD messaged to say she's going into hospital this evening to be induced.

The thought of not seeing them both until the 12th of never has really set me off! 😭

Yes deffo fed up! And this bad weather makes everyone feel even more rotten. I advise building a play tent, so you can hide in it away from the children.

I’m fed up of not having a garden just a public green so my children do nothing but complain they can’t play outside ALL DAY!!! Even when it’s raining. Im also really really fed up of not seeing my mum and my best friend.

I want to go out and see my friends and go to the pub and just be around other adults! I’m fed up of watching telly presented from people’s kitchens. I long for the days I’m rota’d on at work and I get to sit in another room that isn’t my lounge! I want to squish my nephew’s belly and get drunk with my best friend.

Yes had enough of 3.5 weeks of suffering with probable coronavirus. Sick of sitting like a blob on the sofa every day as I'm too ill to do anything. And silently seething at all the people on SM cooking/creating/exercising and having a whale of a time while my kids run wild. And many other things I'd love to have a good moan about

Yep fed up, but know I’m lucky to be just a bit fed up. Missing my mum hugely, not sure when I’m going to see her again, the thought of that is really depressing. I had been in total support of the degree of lock down that we were having, but now it’s going on for another 3 weeks I do wonder if we should have done what China done and locked everything down and hopefully for a shorter time, , because it seems to me that some people are locked down and others are carrying on as normal (work wise) and perhaps the severity is not being shared across the population of the uk equally. Some people have real struggles at the moment and they really could do with the lockdown to be a shorter time rather than longer.

@Sazza75 I'm dying to go to the pub. Also it's been a lovely day here too so I know exactly what pub I want to go (proper English beer garden none of your hipster crap) and the gallons of beer I want to drink.

FUCK OFF coronavirus you coroney little wanker

I’m fed up too, got 2 teens & a 9 yo, I can’t see my eldest DD or GD, my DH works in food & is working 12 plus hours a day so I’m feeling a bit lonely regarding some adult company, I would love a mooch around my local town & go into my local shops & go to work but I can’t, I just hope things improve soon

I’m fed up too. We’ve been at home for five weeks, kids took a sickness bug with a temp two weeks before schools shut so by the time they’d recovered and we’d stayed off due to high temp the schools had shut.

Don’t know why I’m so fed up. Sometimes panicky and anxious to boot. I feel stupid for feeling that way. I have so much to be thankful for - nice house and not cooped up together, nice little garden. And I actually like being at home generally speaking? I’ve always wanted to try homeschooling, but this is obviously not how I would have wanted the world to be while we were doing it. I don’t especially miss anyone, been chatting to people over FaceTime etc which has been nice. But my sister works in A&E and I worry about her all the time. I’ve stopped even reading the news and tried to cut down on what I read here as it was making me worse.