I'm fucking done

[Twizbe]

I'm done. We've been isolating ready to see my parents and now we can't.

This is the third time now we've had to cancel plans last min and I'm sick of it! Totally sick of it!

@DollyParton2

I’m still spending Christmas Day with my family - Tier 4.

Then if I said what I thought of you, I’d get banned from the site.

I’ll just say that you’re incredibly selfish.

@RealityNotEssentialism makes so sense whatsoever, does it??

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@BinkyBoinky

I'm confused. He said if you're visiting family members who are in danger of loneliness then that is OK.??

I'm in tier 4 and so is my mum who in her 80s. I have been isolating and working from home for weeks. She has been looking forward to Christmas for weeks and now will be alone? I also don't have a car so I can't go "just for the day" as there will be no transport.

So what do i do?

If your mum is in your support bubble you should be ok, a simple imagine, the support bubble rules will remain.

Fuck it. Fuck it all. We have maintained the same r rate for weeks in my area. Lower in fact. Nothing has changed.

We’ve been put on a harsher lockdown to soften the blow for London. Sick of it. Utterly done.

One rule for the north, one rule for the south.

We’re out of work, on the cusp of losing home, no savings left.

Nothing.

Fuck it all. No one gives a shit unless it’s London. They have no damn clue what they’re doing. It’s a joke.

I'm not going to lie, I was looking forward to saying we can't go to mils because my twat of a bil will be there but we're tier 2 so can still go.

I’m not special. But your PIL being 90 puts them in a much more vulnerable bracket. My family are not. Everyone needs to weigh up the very different scenarios / risk for themselves.

I’ll be following the rules but ultimately, they’re utterly unenforceable. Police don’t have the resources or inclination to break up Christmas dinners and mount roadblocks on the M1.

@DollyParton2 I agree with @Arboria as you are being incredibly selfish. I hope your neighbours report you for flouting the rules.

@DollyParton2

I’m still spending Christmas Day with my family - Tier 4.

How? You mean you are breaking the rules? We know who to blame when we are all in Tier5 !! FFS how bloody irresponsible!!

Being 'OK on Christmas day' isnt much consolation to those who are Care/Emergency Workers and are working on Christmas day so have to have their Christmas celebration on another date. this is now penalising them even further for keeping going over Christmas.

I'm still in tier 3. I don't know nor care what it means anymore. And I won't be changing my plans. DD1 is already on her way to mine and will be staying until Boxing Day. I have teenage and primary aged DC at home, so my exh will be joining us as usual on Christmas Day too. Fuck everything. This government has shown it couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

@lockeddownandcrazy

Being 'OK on Christmas day' isnt much consolation to those who are Care/Emergency Workers and are working on Christmas day so have to have their Christmas celebration on another date. this is now penalising them even further for keeping going over Christmas.

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@TheGremlinsAreComing

I'm still in tier 3. I don't know nor care what it means anymore. And I won't be changing my plans. DD1 is already on her way to mine and will be staying until Boxing Day. I have teenage and primary aged DC at home, so my exh will be joining us as usual on Christmas Day too. Fuck everything. This government has shown it couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

Selfish and irresponsible. The rules are clear.

@BinkyBoinky

I'm confused. He said if you're visiting family members who are in danger of loneliness then that is OK.??

I'm in tier 4 and so is my mum who in her 80s. I have been isolating and working from home for weeks. She has been looking forward to Christmas for weeks and now will be alone? I also don't have a car so I can't go "just for the day" as there will be no transport.

So what do i do?

Support bubbles in tier 4 are allowed so you can still go. People won’t follow the rules (I’m not judging or bitching) the families of the people who have all lost someone to this illness will have a worse Christmas than any of us. Whatever people do just take care we are all adults we all understand the rules/risks/how to keep our loved ones safe. I’m now in tier 4 and with a new baby. It really does suck!

@DollyParton2

I’m not special. But your PIL being 90 puts them in a much more vulnerable bracket. My family are not. Everyone needs to weigh up the very different scenarios / risk for themselves.

No you need to understand the risk you pose to others because the vulnerable and old cannot be totally isolated from society . So high levels of virus amongst people who will be ok ( and manage to avoid long covid ) leads to high levels of virus amongst the vulnerable.

So unless you are mixing by first all fully isolating for 14 days before ...no trips to a supermarket or takeaway or petrol station ...then you are putting others at risk

@OohImBlindedByTheLights

To quote the title of this thread, I'm fucking done with folk not following the restrictions in place. Yes it's shit, yes it's bad timing, but how would you feel if someone in your family died because you passed on covid over Christmas dinner? What's more important, Christmas dinner or your families health?

Yes, cos everyone is just bothered about the fucking turkey

There's loads of people who have no fucking support and these 5 days were there only bit of hope for a mental break of doing it all themselves.

And no, I'm not breaking any rules. I have to work so it makes no difference to me. I'm just fully aware of how many people are (like me) single parents with kids that are a lot of work mentally and how much of a toll that takes.

If this was essential then ALL indoor contact would be banned including weddings and collective worship and travel abroad for work. The number of exceptions show that lockdown is not essential and will damage some people irreparably.

The loneliness thing means support bubbles. People who live alone or single parents with under 18s. You can still have a single household bubble there.

I can't believe people are going to cancel
Their Christmas plans. Not a chance am I. I will still be seeing my family, as planned

@DollyParton2

I’m not special. But your PIL being 90 puts them in a much more vulnerable bracket. My family are not. Everyone needs to weigh up the very different scenarios / risk for themselves.

No. They need to follow the rules.

You are incredibly selfish for not.

I am so so upset. My mum has pretty debilitating MH difficulties and lives with my 18 and 10 year old brothers. They come to us every year for Xmas, so mum and the boys can have a bit of relaxing fun. They live 3.5 hours from us, how are we supposed to just see them on Christmas day?

He can’t ban travel abroad for work. He’s still got to get Brexit done.