Tier 4 - I cannot take this anymore!!!!

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My job is hanging by a thread due to Covid and if I lose that (which I almost certainly will) I will lose my home. Celebrating Christmas with my family was the ONE, the ONLY thing I’ve been looking forward to for weeks - it’s literally the only thing that’s kept me going. I feel sick to my stomach at the thought that this could be banned now too. I’m highly likely to lose my livelihood and my home and now I can’t see my family either. And for what - a virus with a death rate of about 0.1%. There’s no point going on any longer - I fucking give up and can’t stop crying.

I'm so sorry :(
It's beyond shit

What the HELL was the point of that last (extremely damaging financially) lockdown when we’re now facing MORE restrictions?!?! It’s absolute shit.

I dont know what to say, we feel so down as well. hugs

I'm so sorry. It really is a shitshow.
My sibling is losing their job due to all this too. They already have mental health issues and the anguish they are in is impacting the whole family.
I hope things will improve for you.

Thanks everyone. I can’t even take this in, I’m shaking and so shocked that they would do this. Just when I thought this year couldn’t get any worse, it has done by a million.

Oh op I feel the same. I am sad, angry, scared

Bloody hell @Wakemeuuuup why on earth would you say that. I for one don't want ANYONE in lockdown. I want us all to be back where we were 18 months ago. Happy. Busy. Living individual lives.

What the HELL was the point of that last (extremely damaging financially) lockdown when we’re now facing MORE restrictions?!?!

It seems the new virus is too infectious for tier 3 restrictions to be enough :(

@Wakemeuuuup, I can assure you that isn't the case. My whole family are in tier 4 and I take no pleasure in that whatsoever.

I'm sorry OP. Please keep on keeping on

Don't let it win! Don't let it beat you x

@Wakemeuuuup give your head a wobble. This isn’t about us and them. Everyone is feeling it and there’s no need for spiteful comments

I'm so sorry OP tier 4 here to! I feel like it's a dream. A really bad one.

@Wakemeuuuup

Me too. I hope everyone in the north of England is happy London and the South has in lockdown but they're not. It's what they've wanted since March

Twatish thing to say

It's just awful OP. I want to see the 'science' on the impact of unemployment, poverty, depression, suicide, domestic violence, loneliness....

I imagine the entire country will be in tier 4 come the 1st January.

Tier 4 here too. Very depressing.

@Wakemeuuuup

Me too. I hope everyone in the north of England is happy London and the South has in lockdown but they're not. It's what they've wanted since March

WTF!

Way to evaporate my sympathy for you.

For everyone else in the south east, who isn’t a bitter twat. I really feel for you. I can only imagine how horrific this is.

My area is staying tier 3 but this news has made me feel like I'm about to throw up somehow.

I imagine the entire country will be in tier 4 come the 1st January.

That was always going to be the most likely outcome.

An incredibly infectious virus and an incredibly inept government was never going to be a good mix. Throw in a large section of the population who willfully ignore any attempts to control the spread and you've got yourself a recipe for years of shit like this.

@Wakemeuuuup I'm in Tier 2 in North Yorkshire and we know we're on the cusp of being plunged into lockdown again any day now. If anything, you've got a head start. I doubt very much that we'll make it another 5/6 days without it happening.

Those of you affected by the announcement - please remember that the 25th is just a date on the calendar. You can still have your Christmas Day with your families once this is all over. I know it's still really shit, (especially if food & booze has already been bought) but some people are alone either way. My child & I will be alone this Christmas anyway as my mum is too frightened to mix). Try to make the best of it.

I'm sorry to be a geeky bore, but maybe a reminder of history could help some of you gain some perspective right now.

Christmas in 1939, 1940, 41, 42, 43 & 44 were a HELL of a lot worse than any of this for most in this country. Husbands away at war with a high chance they may not return, never ever knowing if they'll still have a home for their family by the next day, not being able to guarantee their children's safety. Then as if that wasn't hard enough, from 1940 right up to 1954 (almost 9 years after the war ended!), food, fat & sugar rationing (as well as clothes rationing and even fuel rationing) made Christmas unbelievably tough and often tasteless for everyone. Gifts they could buy for their kids for Christmas were rarer than hand gel was in March!
I realise this may not make these restrictions any less of a bitter pill to swallow. However we all could benefit from reminding ourselves how fortunate we are to even be safe & well fed at Christmas. To have Zoom. To have each other and a roof over our heads....

Grow up @Wakemeuuup
People in Manchester just wanted it to be fair. If London had been put into tier 3 after November lockdown as it should have been based on the rates and spread at the time, we might now be in this mess
I have many friends in Tier 4 and I have nothing but sympathy for them