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I know IABU but I am totally fed up of lockdown

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detachablehoof · 28/04/2020 00:18

So. I know I have an awful lot to be thankful for. My family are all in good health, we have no change in our income (yet), my husband is able to work from home, we have a big garden and had plenty of nice weather to enjoy it. There's just us two and our toddler in our house. We're a lot more fortunate than many.

But... I quite honestly don't know how much longer I can stand it. I'm grieving our old life, missing my parents so much, and finding it SO HARD to keep my toddler occupied at home.

I just want to go back to normal 😭 and it doesn't look like there will be a "normal" for a while. It's all just so uncertain and indefinite. It feels like there is nothing to look forward to any more and every day is a chore.

Anyone want to offer some solidarity?

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Cantata · 28/04/2020 22:35

I think people who say shit like “we’re all in this together” live in nicer places

Yes. We really are not all in this together!

catinasplat · 28/04/2020 23:19

Reading about the care homes situation has made me feel even more despair. We are being lied, to yet the Government expects us to trust them and continue to give up our civil liberties without question.

disconnecteddrifter · 28/04/2020 23:28

I'm lucky. I dont have much materially and no garden but live near the woods, have 4 kids and feel better not having to juggle everything. I wish I didnt have to work so much and I suppose going to work gets me out of the house but I have no other family and lockdown stops me from having tomo about other people having social lives, families, holidays. I'm finding peace and time to process instead of distraction. Sort of finding myself, albeit in a too late at 34 kind of way. I'm scared of lock down being lifted before I find peace

LilacTree1 · 28/04/2020 23:31

Cat the care home situation will keep is one lockdown even longer as they add on the figures

disconnecteddrifter · 28/04/2020 23:31

I meant fomo not tomo

LilacTree1 · 28/04/2020 23:31

*us in

disconnecteddrifter · 28/04/2020 23:34

I think they are easing it anyway more businesses opening. Less stopping people going out. Just no travelling in uk or out of it unless necessary

catinasplat · 28/04/2020 23:40

Yes, you are probably right Lilac. I think the Government should be a lot more open and publish the "science" that they say is leading their decisions. I feel like they are just making it up as they go along and trying to hide stuff from us (such as not including the care home figures until forced to).

LilacTree1 · 29/04/2020 00:15

cat “ I feel like they are just making it up as they go along and trying to hide stuff from us (such as not including the care home figures until forced to).”

They are.

Biscuit0110 · 29/04/2020 05:37

lilac Please contact the GP and talk to them about support, yes you are always in control, but this will soon be over. Please hold tight and get some real life support.

The economy may well bounce back. Lets wait and see how it all pans out. One step at a time.

Figmentofmyimagination · 29/04/2020 07:15

I’m the same. If I didn’t have my dog for company I don’t know what I’d do. My worry is if this circles the globe and comes back again. This is starting to really preoccupy me (sorry). I was walking the dog yesterday in the rain - park much emptier than normal because of the miserable weather - thinking, it’s bad now but how much worse if it comes back in December, and no funds left to furlough anybody and all the winter pressures on the nhs. The Spanish flu came back 3 times. I’m really struggling to see an end to this. It feels pretty hopeless.

I can see why Johnson is concerned about a second wave, but I’m not sure that extending this lockdown is what will stop it. I think the situation in already poor countries with no health care systems will bring it back to us. How can we keep it out?

MarginalGain · 29/04/2020 07:47

The Telegraph reports this morning that the fifth rule has been softened to avoiding a peak such that 'the NHS can cope'.

Mikki2019 · 29/04/2020 07:51

This virus is here with us to stay - May as well get back to work and not bankrupt toe country as it’s something we will have to Leann to live with

derxa · 29/04/2020 08:06

I told him that he was a lovely dog. I speak to my orphan lambs every day. Their endless enthusiasm cheers me up.

IvinghoeBeacon · 29/04/2020 11:05

There was /is always going to be two or more “waves” - it’s unavoidable after lockdown

MarginalGain · 29/04/2020 11:14

There was /is always going to be two or more “waves” - it’s unavoidable after lockdown

Of course. This, along with many other principles of common sense, have been lost in the Coronavirus Shuffle.

MarshaBradyo · 29/04/2020 11:33

Probably just one. People will find it harder to reintroduce restrictions to get two.

LilacTree1 · 29/04/2020 11:35

I think there will be waves of infection and waves of lockdown

I have resigned myself to this.

they seem to have no intention to be realistic about how immune systems work and determined to run the country into a toilet.

MarginalGain · 29/04/2020 11:37

I think there will be waves of infection and waves of lockdown

Lilac I'm a bit worried about you - I was feeling down yesterday but feel better today. Did you see the re-wording of the fifth test?

LilacTree1 · 29/04/2020 11:38

Marginal - yes I did see that, thank you.

MarshaBradyo · 29/04/2020 11:38

Lilac I don’t think so, I know you feel down about it. It’s more likely we’ll have some measures to get to end point, this has cost so much already.

LilacTree1 · 29/04/2020 11:42

Marsha - I don't think they are worried about that

Deciding to add in care home deaths is their way of upping the drama and extending lockdown.

MarshaBradyo · 29/04/2020 11:44

They are, even Sunak has said there is a limit (good). It does feel like a never ending hand out atm. Which is wearing.

I can handle this ok (ish had a bad day on Saturday) but I really don’t want to see furlough extended again and when that’s done it’d better be it. Not doing it all again. Keeping some measures and SD in place fine.

Pringletastic · 29/04/2020 11:47

@LilacTree1 (waves hello from the other thread!), @Cantata, @Mascotte and @ anyone else who is feeling so thoroughly and utterly fed up and hopeless and despondent, I want you to know that even though I don't know you, haven't met you, that I for one, hope you get through this in one piece and know that you can rant and rave as despite numerous heartless souls people on the internet (this thread included), there are many, many more who are in the same situation as you, and perhaps gain a little bit of comfort from reading similar posts and realising they are not the only ones to feel this way.

It's horrible what we are going through, and everyone deals with it in their own way. I have had enough of the vast majority of the threads on here, but have also laughed myself silly at others, so I keep coming back, like a dog to it's own vomit.

Do what you need to in order to stay sane and get through this. The government and it's guidelines is not going to stop me being as human as possible. We are not statistics or collateral damage.

iamapixie · 29/04/2020 11:53

Pringletastic: 'like a dog to vomit' - LOL.
It is good to know that not everyone has totally lost all perspective.
Feel like I'm living in a parallel universe most of the time but just a few threads here and there show me that I'm not totally alone.

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