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!

I thought couldn't be more angry with the Government but they've managed it.

@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?

Carry on as you were going to abs have your mum over for how many days you were before today's announcement.

What is wrong with you all? This isn’t forever. Death and COVID related side effects are! Yes it’s terrible that you can’t see your family or friends but it isn’t forever. I have seen none of my friends or family since March, i have had a baby and I have spent most days with only her to talk too. But we are safe, healthy and their is a vaccine in sight.

Just do it. It can't be policed. I certainly won't be changing any of my plans for over Xmas and New year.

We are now just changing seeing my PIL to Christmas day as opposed to the Sunday.

The traffic is going to be dire.

Selfish and irresponsible. The rules are clear.

That’s three households though. That’s within the rules.

What difference does the extra few days make? Is her daughter less contagious on Christmas Day? It’s a fucking farce.

I think after all the attempts at lockdown we can't blame everything on "people ignoring the rules", sick of "we just need a PROPER lockdown just like in China* and it will all magically go away"
*Genocide hopefully not included

I am waiting for the police to announce they aren’t getting involved

One day is no use when DD and DSiL are a 5 hour drive away, even though nobody is in Tier 4. Sitting in the supermarket carpark in tears over it all. At least it got called just before I'd lashed out £40 odd on her favourite gin and not just after... 😭

I can't see anyone sticking to this. It's ridiculous less than a week before Xmas. People and businesses have had enough now.

Fuck it, just do what you like. It's bollocks anyway.

Just go and see them and have a lovely Christmas. i don't think anything's going to get us out of permanent lockdown other than mass-scale civil disobedience. Let's just do it, and end this bullshit now.

@Bewareoftheblob

Fuck it, just do what you like. It's bollocks anyway.

Yup.

I don't really understand the rules.

I live in a tier 2 area with DP. Was planning to get the train to my DFs on Christmas Eve in his tier 2 city 20 mins away for dinner. Then back home.

Then my DM was coming from a tier 2 city to our house for Christmas day lunch. She wants to go and see her DM quickly in the morning. Is this all allowed?

My DF lives alone as does my DM and her DM. She's in a bubble with her DM.

There are no hospital beds available in my area (Kent). Hospitals and nhs staff are on their knees and the numbers infected are rising. It’s a low key Christmas in my house.

@ivfbeenbusy I'll be sticking to it. My DM is in the high risk category as she is dealing with cancer. It will be Christmas via zoom for us. No big deal.

"Yes it’s terrible that you can’t see your family or friends but it isn’t forever." Unless of course you're in the position of someone I know with a parent with weeks left to live.

End the bullshit , by making things worse even worse ?

We have been isolating too and now banned from seeing anyone despite it not being physically possible for us to have it and pass it on. And now DP stuck eating a massive turkey on his own as I don’t eat meat Raging!

We're in tier 4 now. My parents are in tier 2.

Just phoned them and cried about how shit it is. Have to explain to the kids that they won't see their grandparents (again)

And for the record, I couldn't give a fuck about eating turkey. It was seeing my parents I cared about. To have hope raised time and time again that I could and time and time again it's dashed.

Fuck this shit - hand me the wine (and I don't drink)

Let's be logical here. The rules are for the sake of stopping Covid not for their own sake. If you have isolated for 10-14 days to see your family for Christmas, do this, you don't pose any risk in terms of passing the thing on. That is what I plan to do.

@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?

I have been very blaise about covid for a long time. However right now with the end in sight and only 4-5 months away it just seems silly now to risk families health for the sake of one day!

Yes befor I didn't foow all the rules but that's when there was no end in sight atall... We are nearly there now especially with Oxford being approved befor new year.

Are you in different tiers? And if so what tiers?

Us too. We had all been isolating and paid for private tests, only seeing one household. I don’t think we were taking unreasonable risks. Now left with food all going to go to waste, presents being delivered to wrong places and very very sad children. Genuinely hate Boris. Surely he’ll never recover from this.