Anyone else just feel like crying?

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I not a crier. But I feel like sobbing at the state of the world.

Nope
Life is good. It’s not as great as it could be. But it’s good.
Divorced single parent with no support network
But.... my children are happy and healthy
I have lovely friends
I am financially comfortable ish

As a history graduate With a focus on the Second World War... this pandemic is fuck all in the big scheme of things

I love this. I enjoyed lockdown (though unfortunately had to go out to work all through it). I wish we could learn to focus on the smaller, simpler things in life. It was not a tragedy that we couldn't go to Primark, it was a good thing. We shouldn't be able to buy disposable crap in shiploads. The environment is the thing that is really scary about the future and the world's governments are paying lip-service to that if at all

That’s fine if what you missed during lockdown was going to Primark and buying cheap disposable crap. I don’t do that anyway so I didn’t miss it.
What I did miss was spending time with my family and friends. For now I’m focusing on doing that (although as a family of 5 our opportunities are limited!), but if that is taken away again then it basically takes away everything we live for.
Im grateful for every day that my children get to be in school learning with their friends, and I focus on that when things get too much.

Yes. Not so much Covid, but the new Climate Countdown Clock which has gone up in Manhattan. COVID is taking up so much space and time and money that by the time we're through the other side, time will be up on humans being able to keep global warming under control.
I just hope there is enough kindness and humanity left in the population to deal with what's coming in the next few decades.

@The80sweregreat

Climate change is another huge worry. It's Bigger than this and that is very scary.

The real effects of climate change are going to make this pandemic look like a cake walk.

Yes feeling tearful.

I don't have elderly relatives living alone, but i heard on the radio yesterday that some might be left on their own at Christmas if having them with the family breaks the rule of 6. I really truly hope people break that rule so that granny/granddad/great aunt/uncle don't get left alone on what might be their last Christmas.

This is a really good piece about the 6 month wall from someone who has spent a lot of time trying to live and work in different national crisis situations across the world.

twitter.com/Natbat/status/1308074604389232642

The same person wrote a similar piece earlier in May which was interesting as well

www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/wisdom-from-a-war-zone-music-for-the-soul-1.5561208/lessons-from-a-war-zone-how-to-emotionally-survive-and-flourish-in-the-pandemic-1.5561209

@Prinstress an awful thing to go through at any time let alone just now. Hope things work out for your and your kid

a 51% leave 49% stay not taking into accound the people who couldn't vote or didn't vote is not 'the masses'

Those who don't vote because they couldn't be bothered deserve all they get and have no right to complain in any election. Before someone gets up on their hind legs to whine, I am not referring to any who for some reason couldn't vote.

@afibtomyboy Absolutely and it will be forgotten in a couple of years. As the 1957 and 1968 pandemics have been wiped from memory.

This has been an inconvenience but bombs aren't falling on our heads, we're safe in our beds tonight and there's precious little risk - for the vast majority - in going about our lives pretty much as normal.
As a generation, we've got off exceedingly lightly and made a huge fuss about it.

Thanks@bumblingbovine49, very interesting.

Have a cry if you need it.
It's shit. I am looking at TV series and movies, just from last year with a feeling of unreality. No sanitiser! No masks! No queues! No impending doom (or actual doom) about death, unemployment, debt or disaster.

Then I put my chin up, and plod on. It's going to get better. Either we will get through this, individually and as a species. Or we won't, in which case we will be beyond caring.

I had a proper breakdown on Tuesday when the new regulations were introduced. I was already worried about a couple things, wasn't feeling great, (sinus infection, and cramps), and I was PMSing. And then I saw what the new rules were. I'm in Scotland so there's no indoor household visiting, and the thought of not seeing elderly relatives just got to me. It was the cherry on top of a really shit cake, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.

Will it eventually burn out? I thought the thoughts were that it will now be around forever in various mutations and we would need regular vaccines for it? Which isn’t a great thought. I would like to think it would burn out and be gone eventually.

I am not bothered about staying in as I don't really do much anyway and feel lucky to have a big enough house and garden. I am in a constant state of worry that my dh will catch it as he is high risk, as am I due to obesity and age. I am petrified for my kids future and the impact this is having on them. Ds1 in final year at Uni and all his work experience ( sport related) has stopped and job prospects likely to be poor. Ds2 has been unable to secure any meaningful work after leaving college, Ds 3 and dd are still at school and education is severely disrupted. The economic prospects for the country are so bleak that I can't actually bear to think about it longer term.
The charity that the funding for my job comes from is losing millions and making redundancies so there are job worries for me.

During covid, I’ve been stretched to my absolute limit. Cried in the toilet at work
I didn’t want to confide in anyone else.We all have been so stressed I didn’t want to burden colleagues

Lavender, I think there is huge spot Light being shone on women left to give birth alone at the moment. I'm sure they are addressing that?

Brexit.

Climate change.

Extreme right populist governments.

All scare me more than covid.

But what's making me want to cry is the sheer amount of people out there spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation. It feels like the tipping point.

I was feeling this way too and was getting myself into a right state. My poor mil lost her life two weeks ago, she should have had treatment this year but it was put on hold because of this bloody ‘crisis’. My own mum is suffering from Alzheimer’s and my dad is really struggling with her but no help anywhere as the support groups have all been put on hold. No one seems to give too shits about them or others in their position, it makes me feel ill with rage for them.
But when I’m out walking my dog I try to take in the beauty of the world and being in nature grounds me. There are small things every day which we all need to be grateful for, to keep us grounded.
I was also thinking how horrendous it must have been for mother’s in the world wars, seeing sons and husbands go to battle and often never seeing them again, or loading your young, frightened child onto a train as an evacuee not really having any idea what the people are like where they are being sent to or when they may come back or if you’ll be alive for them to come back to. And a lot of this is still going on in parts of the world.
At least we have our children safe at home with us each night.

my dads died, my jobs gone...yep I feel like crying

I've cried more in the last couple of days than the rest of the time put together.

I feel a sap for saying this but I had been moaning about test and trace being crap - but I had thought it existed. Now the fact people can't even get tests has left me feeling hopeless.

The start of term has been really tough, it just doesn't feel right, and waiting for unis to restart, and just the numbers going back up.

I'm very weepy

for all

So sorry for you guys that have lost loved ones

@ivykaty44 I x-posted with you, as you've had a very tough time

Yes me (almost) today and I rarely cry.

I’m a TA in a large secondary school and this week two of my lovely TA colleagues have tested positive for Covid. It looks likely that it was transmitted from a teacher, who may have caught it on public transport. All three of them are feeling incredibly guilty not least because several hundred students are now having to isolate at home, as are many of the other TAs in our department. I think we had 12 TAs in today, out of about 30.

Although it was upsetting, it was no great shock to those of us left standing, because we had been working across huge year group bubbles - but thankfully we are going to be timetabled to only be in one year group each from next week.

I can’t wait for tomorrow evening when I plan to get completely plastered, and I’m no big drinker!

Acknowledging the posts from those of you who have lost relatives.
There aren’t adequate words.

Yes. I cried yesterday it was awful
Dh has been out of work as SE we barely manage anyway have been struggling paying as much as we can on bills
Got served eviction proceedings yest Seems like the LA were just waiting for 20 sep to pass