Sat crying. This isn’t ending or getting better

[Napqueen1234]

So sick of this. Back into tier 3. We have followed all the rules. No one in the house since March. I can’t do this all winter. I have two small children and I’m going insane with no family help. People say it’s going to get better but it isn’t. Or it’s months and months away. I can’t stop crying I just want to see my family.

Tier three before lockdown, and still tier three. Oh well.

@IceCreamAndCandyfloss

You çan see people outdoors in tier three as long as not more than six in total meeting so you can still see family and friends.

Lots don’t have family help in normal times so have to rely on their partners if they need a break etc.

Oh this is a helpful thing to say to someone who has posted in distress. I’m sure OP with 2 small children hasn’t really been to a park or other public open spaces in the last 9 months so that’ll be a treat for her.

Tier 3 for us to. I'm supposed to be havung a Covid restricted wedding at start of February and I see very little chance we will go to Tier 2 before then.

Having a good old cry and trying to remind myself people have it worse than me, life just feels like it's on hold.

Most of the country is in Tier 3 now. What is the POINT of ending lockdown?

My district in Devon currently has 60 cases per 100,000 and we're in the same tier as my sister who lives in Portsmouth with 197 cases per 100,000.

I don't think the whole of Devon should be put into Tier 2. I understand it'd be a pain in the arse to tier each district but it's still what a little part of me was expecting.

I'm so upset to be honest, I'm really struggling with my mental health at the moment and all I want to do is be able to 'legally' spend my weekends off with my partner and other family members😂😂

to all of you in England. We got our increased restrictions in Scotland last week and I’m in a tier 4 area (anything Boris can do, Nicola just has to do better ). I felt like I was making a major improvement to my very poor mental health by getting out for a swim at lunchtime on my work days and now the gyms are shut. Not allowed to leave our tier so no more wee trips to the blustery beach with my 3 year old DS. Everything for him has been shut for ages anyway and the weather is awful. My birthday night away cancelled as hotels and restaurants are shut. I was crying all the time last week and now that it’s sunk in just feeling sad.

You’ve all just had your news and I feel for you. It is utter shit.

I'm so sorry for those of you with small children who face weeks and weeks more of this. It's really tough and you are amazing.

Ive just ha a complete WTF moment from moving Tier 1 to Tier 3. Feels like they've just gone for broad strokes. The only plus does seem to be that we could get tests...

We've gone up to tier 3. My family are over 300 miles away. We moved in September so no friends to see outside. My two year old struggles with the cold weather and it all feels pointless. I'm just sat waiting for another call that one of the older kids has to isolate and homeschool for another 2 weeks. I can't do this and I don't know how I'm going to cope. Ive tried to hard for so long to keep everyone here positive and all I want to do is curl up and cry. I dont carw that its going to end eventually. Whats the fucking point? It's awful now and that's where we are.

Napqueen I’m with you. I’m
So bloody fed up of this virus and the lockdowns. So many of my friends have lost their jobs, and I feel
So helpless. I’ve followed all
The rules and nothing is getting better. I overeat and have bad sleep.

@wigglerose

Most of the country is in Tier 3 now. What is the POINT of ending lockdown?

Tier three is far more lenient than lockdown!

Most of the country is in tier 2, though.

@Poppynit

My district in Devon currently has 60 cases per 100,000 and we're in the same tier as my sister who lives in Portsmouth with 197 cases per 100,000.

I don't think the whole of Devon should be put into Tier 2. I understand it'd be a pain in the arse to tier each district but it's still what a little part of me was expecting.

I'm so upset to be honest, I'm really struggling with my mental health at the moment and all I want to do is be able to 'legally' spend my weekends off with my partner and other family members😂😂

Similar area to you, there’s one small area where cases are high, I live rurally where cases are very low but we are tier 2 because it’s based on the county as a whole . I’m guessing it’s similar with every area, big towns are going to have more cases but surrounding rural areas with low cases.

From tier 3 to tier 2. I can't wait to go shopping next week in Liverpool.

Also tier 3, although on 11th Nov, they announced no deaths in my town for two months (not seen more recent figures). Other areas of the county are higher risk, hence higher tier. Depressing.

4 cases in our village. Tier 3 ☹️

So many people are now latching on to the vaccine as being the light at the end of the tunnel. We've no idea when it will be released, and I think anyone that thinks it'll be any time before June 2021 is fooling themselves.

I don't care about vague things like, "the vaccine will be available for some people by Christmas" or "the vaccine will be available for some people in early 2021/by March 2021". Unless you have an appointment booked to have it, it's naive to pay any attention to those timescales and take it into account.

I think I'm going to give myself to wallow and then try and be bright again tomorrow... I was letting myself hope a little bit for tier 1 because our numbers have fallen a lot. Tomorrow I will make plans to see people outdoors and try and be happy about it but for today: I'm 29 weeks pregnant, have SPD and a toddler. I am so fucking sick of taking him to the park, currently the thought of having to feed another duck makes me want to go on some sort of duck-hunt massacre, and I am so fucking sick of standing around with my parents with our teeth chattering rather than just sitting down and having a cup of tea. If someone tells me I just need a new coat because 'there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes' I will scream.

I’m done now too OP. I shall be seeing my friends and family and allowing my poor teenager, who has had everything fun and enjoyable about his life taken away to protect a tiny minority, to do the same.
If I get caught, I’ll pay a fine. If I get ill with something else and there is no hospital bed for me because it’s full of Covid patients then so be it. I’m done.

How often will the tiers be reviewed? 3 weeks?

@JacobReesMogadishu

How often will the tiers be reviewed? 3 weeks?

They just said ‘weekly in a Tuesday”.

@Standrewsschool

Also tier 3, although on 11th Nov, they announced no deaths in my town for two months (not seen more recent figures). Other areas of the county are higher risk, hence higher tier. Depressing.

That's mad - my area is tier 2 and is consistently having 5 deaths from Covid-19 each day! Are you in Scotland?

So so so pissed off with it all.
I have teenagers and live in an area which we hoped was going into tier 1 but is in 2. They are depressed and fed up and I don't blame them.

When people say it's only a year or whatever... Do they forget what it was like to be 16 or 18? A year is a long time. All my 17 year wanted was for his girlfriend to be legally allowed to come and watch a film at home. Instead they have to continue socially distances walks in the cold.
I'm not a right wing conspiracy theorist.... But when the fuck did we give up our freedom? If you are vunerable to respiratory viruses then I can see why you wouldn't want to socialise. But if you are 17 then the benefits of being able to socialise and live your life massively outweigh any risks. Our young people are bearing the brunt of this. It will have massive long term impacts on their social and emotional development. Plus the economic impact of this and Brexit on their early working lives will be huge. Fucking mess