Absolutely dreading another lockdown or restrictions

[Helenj1977]

Just that really. Really tearful today at the thought of not going to my parents house again.

I hate this. I wish he'd tell us the plans so we could prepare mentally. This is going to be the shittest winter.

I'm with you. My parents came to visit for a couple of days and I felt very deflated when waving them off, thinking that it might be the last time for a while. Not knowing what is just around the corner is very frustrating.

I'm with you. We've just had them announced for my area and I've spent most of the afternoon fighting off tears. Luckily I now wfh with no contact from another soul all day so no one to see me!

We all need to take responsibility, follow the rules and try and encourage friends and family to do so too. If we don't, then goodness knows when this will end.

I'm just getting used to a bit normality. The kids are at school, we're seeing people and now it's all going up again.

I hope they keep support bubbles. I can't see how they can keep people living alone cut off again.

How can he tell you the plans when he doesn't know how things are going to pan out? Its constantly evolving.

The unknown is crap but it will be like this for a while. I think we have to just try and accept it and all do our bit for not spreading infection.

News has just announced my area has now just gone into a ‘local lockdown’.

I am a secondary school teacher. I can teach over a hundred pupils a day, meet many more whilst I’m on duty but I can not see my family.

Look, it is what it is, and is there for the sake of everyone. I do realise it is not pleasant, but what do you actually want here? The reopening of everything and no restrictions, full hospital ICU units and so on?

I do understand the management of Covid has been abysmal, but still, we do need to keep ourselves and families safe. It's not worth it for a hug quite frankly.

I know others do not care, but those who do will be happier in the long run.

And if it means anything to you OP, I agree that Winter is not going to be a walk in the park at all. But you have to get your head around it. We all do, you are not alone.

Thing is having to isolate again and again (possibility with children at school) due to test and trace would be worse than lockdown. You would not be able to leave your house. So IMO there comes a level whereby infection rates are high enough that lockdown is the least worse option.

Been in tears today myself. Life feels so out of control. News this morning of lockdowns, circuit breaks, rushed vaccines. I don’t think I cant do this again, first lockdown almost broke me and my kids, and it clearly didn’t work as the second we start living normally it’s back to square one, so why is it the answer again!

@veryvery

Thing is having to isolate again and again (possibility with children at school) due to test and trace would be worse than lockdown. You would not be able to leave your house. So IMO there comes a level whereby infection rates are high enough that lockdown is the least worse option.

Yes, this. Spot on!

Considering how badly children have been hit by this with lack of education and older children's exams issues, if restrictions are to keep schools open then it seems selfish to not adhere to them (if they happen).

Haven't seen my family (live 300 miles away) since last Christmas, we have phones and speaking via video.

You will go to your parents' house, just not yet. However we really do not know what is happening nationally, it changes from day to day. I see no point in worrying about what might not happen. 'He' can't tell us what to do because he doesn't know!

I'm sure our prime minister would like to do a Trump and play it down so the economic wheels of the country start grinding again.

Let's see what happens on Monday.

In the meantime enjoy the fine weather.

Oh I get where you’re coming from. I live in Cheshire where new restrictions have been announced. Gutted is an understatement.

Yup. Our area has just had them announced with no warning what so ever. There were already restrictions in the south of the county but no murmurings up here. We’re rural with very few cases but DS has just started high school in the nearest city and my mum says some 6th formers at his school have it 😵.

Really tearful today at the thought of not going to my parents house again.

Imagine how tearful you'd be if you go, give them a virus and they end up seriously ill or worse dead? Then you'll never go back, rather than not seeing them for a couple/few weeks.

Sorry to be harsh, but younger people are now spreading the virus to older people.

Any future lockdowns are to protect people, they aren't taking the decision lightly. If they announce it too soon everyone will be "let's go and see grandma before it happens!", in the meantime they spread Covid to granny and then numbers soar again.

I think the evidence for lockdown being an effective measure once there is significant community spread is not as robust as people seem to believe it to be.

I agree with @Stellaris22. The difference in my kids since they started back at school is amazing. They are so much happier. I will go into as many lockdowns as we need to to keep them open.

Christ, in Spain we are just getting on with it and doing anything we can.

We wear masks without complaint. Everybody. No exceptions.
We lockdown locally without complaint
Schools shut without complaint if there is a dager of spread

We STFU and understand that governments are doing the best they can and there is a Pandemic. Nobody knows what to do except for trying to save lives.

Sorry you are in tears. None of us are ecstatic either, but the attitude in the UK is extraordinary.

I'll be OK, as long as the schools stay open. I'm used to and set up for WFH now so that part will be easier. Also the interaction on the school run and the opportunity for the DC to see their friends (and for me to have a bit of peace) really helps.

If the schools close, we really will be back to the bad old days. It's going to be a long winter.

I’m in a lockdown area already so not much will change for me!

I have spoken to loads of people who feel the same I am angry why this has been allowed to happen too

@motherrunner

News has just announced my area has now just gone into a ‘local lockdown’.

I am a secondary school teacher. I can teach over a hundred pupils a day, meet many more whilst I’m on duty but I can not see my family.
Results of test and trace have shown, as Matt Hancock stated earlier today, that people catch the virus from those close to them and not from strangers which, oddly, is apparently who people assume they catch it from.

I am in a 'lockdown' area too. Well, it isn't lockdown but we just cannot mix with other households. It's crap. If only people would comply with the rules then maybe this would be over sooner.

Haven't seen my family (live 300 miles away) since last Christmas yes, not seen mine since Feb, looks like it will be over a year now since that last time.
So desperate to keep them safe up to now, and now the gains of the last lockdown have been squandered and we are back to square one.

@xtinak

I think the evidence for lockdown being an effective measure once there is significant community spread is not as robust as people seem to believe it to be.

The evidence is all around us, yet here we go again on the lockdown merrygoround

People dont seem to understand that the only way to keep essential things going (which does carry a risk) e.g. schools, we have to minimise contact elsewhere. It's a balancing act. I do think pubs etc being closed is worth kids being able to go to school