Today's the day!!!

[november90]

Thinking of all of those struggling with the lockdown and the virus today. If you need to vent, justified or not, or a listening ear, there's space here ❤️

Venting here - I just hate the way the top news for like the last 5 days has been there will be an announcement on Monday, which has led to 5 days of built of anxiety of the unknown. Dd has been offered some work over oct half term and I don't know if its right to make her agree as if it gets cancelled (again) then she's going to have those happy excited emotions then that crushing disappointment and she's has struggled so much during the first lockdown, her mental health really is fragile and its just not fair. Why do they have to drag this shit out? Why can't they just make the announcement when they decide to make the announcement like days ago? Why all this build up? Its messing with peoples minds and emotions and is just putting an entire society of edge all the time. I fucking hate it.

Vent over. Have a lovely day 😊

@ahipponamedbooboobutt I'm sorry your DD is going through that. It is a shitty situation.

The literal reason the government leak the news a few days ahead of time is so that when it's finally announced people feel a brief sense of relief that 'it' has happened (like the consultation period during a redundancy process, you know it's coming and when it finally comes you're like... "Well at least that's over").

It also means that the press get to shoulder the responsibility of telling the masses, so Boris can turn up with a Nando's colour chart, a graph or two and a new three-term-phrase and be seen to be bringing order to disorder.

It's all theatre, really. And sometimes it works better than others.

It's very therapeutic this thread, I good vent is needed to let it out. I agree, the build up is driving my anxiety up, we are being turned into a nation on the edge. DH is working in Germany ( looks like his last job as his industry has been massively affected by covid). He and his team have people watched and talked to residents of the town they are in and realised just how much more anxious and paranoid us Brits have become about the whole thing, hes had breakfast at a restaurant this morning and a big group of over 60s/70s were greeting each other with hugs and cheek kisses and he and his team sat there in shock. I'm in the North east and unusually very down right now. I have a weeks holiday from work, it's my birthday tomorrow, I'm missing my daughter and granddaughter terribly. Im very tempted to bend the rules and see them as technically as DH is is working away I'm on my own so could form a bubble, but I've become so used to following the rules now, even seeing others breaking them i have still followed. Either that or I will pop to town and have a browse, I've only been once this year. I would never be down about spending time on my own, I'm usually so happy go lucky but this build up to news and the thought of having to be separated from my family for such a long period, again, is pushing me to far now.

Anyone else really trying to follow the rules and getting frustrated when family members so blatantly break them?! Cousin went on a stag do at the weekend, 15 ppl. Pics all over socials of them all in one hotel room. Invited DH who didn't go bc...corona. Feels selfish when we have elderly shielding relatives to consider. Irony is that he's a police officer so should be upholding the law!

This morning I’m just angry. Not something that happens very often.

My mental health has been teetering. Being able to go to my very clean well organised gym is what has been keeping me sane. Now it’s looking highly likely that is going to be taken away and I worry about the impact on physical and mental health. Not just mine but for everyone in the area.

The lack of science to back up what is being said is really pushing me over the edge

Sirzy I think it is mad to close the gyms. I am in a local lockdown, but more along the lines of the suggested tier two restrictions than tier three, so everything is open including the gym. I feel safer in the gym than the supermarket, everyone strictly adheres to the rules and everything is super clean. Have there been any instances of outbreaks in gyms?

I feel for you, I really do. Going to the gym helps my sanity.

Not exactly venting, but Distinctly Miffed that the half-leaked restrictions inbound has been going on so long.

I'm trying to sort out if it will be safe to visit either set of GPs over half term, which is getting close. If it's not going to be permitted, I want to know. Waiting with uncertainty can be harder than dealing with the adverse

I'm finding this drip feeding, wait til next week approach is making me feel anxious all the time. Our postponed wedding is due to take place in a couple of weeks ...... or is it ? We've recently done 14 days quarantine and that's fair enough because we travelled from a country that went back on the list but one of our extremely entitled neighbours has also just arrived back from a country on the list, absolutely has no intention of doing quarantine and was out at the pub first day back. Its people like him that are making it so hard to control this whole thing. Rant over.

I m feeling annoyed this morning as I don’t think the three tier system will work, it will make life miserable for people complying but there are so many who will just do as they please and go to neighbouring counties for pubs, entertainment etc. I think the circuit breaker over half term was the best idea, but the government have now missed the chance of that and it’s just going to get worse between now and Xmas. If no one had anywhere to go and the kids are off school maybe it would slow the spread somewhat? Although I don’t think two weeks is enough and I am adamant schools shouldn’t close again. I m not sure what the answer is but the number of people saying they aren’t going to take any notice of the new restrictions is so depressing.

I hate it all. My anxiety is through the roof. I comply, wear masks, nothing works.

Sick of this 1/2 life, if they just enforced the restrictions then there just might be a chance, but no one gives a shit.

I had a hospital appt last week. Loads of under nose mask wearers, some not wearing any, one shouting into her phone with no mask. In a hospital. All ignored. All the staff were wearing them though

I just hate the way the top news for like the last 5 days has been there will be an announcement on Monday, which has led to 5 days of built of anxiety of the unknown.
I agree. It is ridiculous and I would really like to know who leaked the info to the press. Why can't announcements just be made and then reported on after the event? 5 days of waiting to find out if I have to cancel my UK holiday or if it can go ahead has been unnecessarily unsettling.

Leaking Govt information/actions should have massive fines/imprisonment for the stress it causes to the nation.

Couldn't stop crying all weekend and I've woken up sad again today. Living alone and apart from all the people I care about, plus my ex left me just after lockdown happened and I've not been able to see my usual support network anywhere near as much as I'd like because no one has bubbled with me. How sad is that? Every day I wake up and do the same thing over and over again. The only time I get to talk to people is online or when I go to the shops. Haven't hugged my dad in 8 months because he's shielding. I feel like life has been on hold since March, I just want things to get better and it breaks my heart to see so, so many other people struggling.

Oh bless you all, I'm so sorry to read of all others struggling!
My husband left me late jan when I was 24 weeks pregnant and I had my baby in May so I've been juggling all of this along with my 3 year old and living at my parents throughout lockdown with my ex constantly emotionally and finically abusing and threatening me! It's been horrendous. I hate to complain but I just want to be able to get up and on with my life but I feel like I'm just stuck in limbo land because I can't do much or see anyone!
I'm so blessed to have my two boys, I know it could be so much worse. But like I said... I just want to get on with my life!