Anyone else feeling really fed up?

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Before I start pleased don't reply with "but we've got to save lives" I get it but this isn't what this thread is about!

For the last week I've been feeling a deep sense of bleugh and couldn't put my finger on why. I've started running again in a bid to cheer myself up and healthy eating but nothing has helped. My husband and I have good jobs and touch wood, we're not at risk losing them thank goodness. DS is back at nursery and loving it. So all that combined I should be happy, but I'm really not.

I woke up today and really thought, what's the point? Whilst in a good job, it's pretty stressful and I'm at my desk from 8-5 with barely any breaks (I'm trying to stop that but hard when meetings are just shoved in the calendar). I'm used to travelling with work but won't be doing that again....great!

The weekends are a write off because everywhere you go there's a queue and even the joy of a trip to the supermarket has been taken away because of bloody face masks.

So what is the point? We're basically turning into some kind of socialist/communist society where we work but can do nothing else and are dictated to about what we can and can't do. This wasn't what I signed up for.

I thought the whole point of lockdown was to flatten a curve but now we seem obsessed with eradicating Covid, how bloody long will that take? Why can't we now just use common sense? If you want to shield and stay away because you're vulnerable then do so. But what about those of us that just want to get on with their life and take the risk?

Probably more a bit of a rant but feeling in a very dark place and can't see a way out of it.

We don't drive either which has been a complete nightmare with three DC's and living in a tiny village. Relied on public transport completely before. First thing on my list when this is over is learn to drive!
It's going to be a long summer .

The comments about men really resonate with me, as I've been thinking about this for a while. The things the men enjoy - pubs, football - given priority. The things the ladies enjoy - theatre, tennis - no chance. Why is football allowed, when the players regularly knock into each other, and yet tennis, which involves no contact bar shaking hands at the end is not. Admittedly there is the passing of balls to consider, but even so, it's really starting to annoy me.

I’m tired of constantly feeling stressed about what is ‘allowed’.

Have three adult dc , dc1 lives on London and is very strict about the guidelines , am worried that they are actually taking things too strictly if anything . They seem very obsessed and I don’t think working at home in a very small flat is helping .

Dc 2 (21) is very shy , has few friends and has had a bumpy time and has at times been very lonely , but was just beginning to find his feet socially and start to be invited to things, the lockdown has been hard for him as his friends now seem to be having parties going to bars and things and he keeps asking me what I think , and the answer is I don’t know . My instinct is to say you shouldn’t go because it’s not in the guidelines, what if you brought it home, I have asthma etc etc but I also know that if he keeps saying no they will stop asking him and that will be very bad for his social development.

Dc3 is going away to Cornwall with school friends, they have all voluntarily self isolated at home for 14 days before, but they are sharing cars travelling which of course is not in the guidelines as is staying all together albeit in separate tents .

PIL seem to have gone from total lockdown to wanting to take my elderly parent out to lunch . My elderly parent us to keen and I am having to mediate .

It’s all so hard when you are sharing a house with young people , they want to and need to get back to seeing each other but I am nervous because we are also responsible for elderly members if the family .

Dc1 keeps quoting the guidelines at me , dc2 is increasingly sad and isolated and dc3 has retreated to their bedroom .

And I haven’t even got into work and all that

Just to add we live in a County with one of the lowest infection rates , although we are in a holiday area so no doubt that will rise a little in a few weeks .

It’s just utter shit. The face masks thing just caps it off for me.