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Does anyone else feel like they are just watching things implode?

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StealthPolarBear · 19/12/2020 18:17

Things are just getting worse and worse and January is going to be hell

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Bluewavescrashing · 19/12/2020 18:19

Yes. DH said, oh well, we'd decided to have Christmas just the 4 of us anyway, why are you grumpy? When I expressed despair at the briefing.

It's the whole situation though. Just because things haven't changed for us doesn't mean it's not a shitty time. He voted tory though 🙄

LucyLocketsPocket · 19/12/2020 18:19

It's going to peak in January.

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StealthPolarBear · 19/12/2020 18:22

What's going to peak? The virus? Or the shittiness?

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LizzyBennett · 19/12/2020 18:23

It just feels like March again

Hardbackwriter · 19/12/2020 18:24

I do - I feel like it's all falling apart and it's not going to get better. I'm 32 weeks pregnant and said to DH today that I regret this baby, which he was really angry/sad at me for saying but I do. I feel like I'm on the edge of not coping and about to fall off.

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StealthPolarBear · 19/12/2020 18:27

Oh hardback om sorry. I still believe that by the time your baby's walking you'll look back on this as a bad memory

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Bluewavescrashing · 19/12/2020 18:28

I'm really not looking forward to going back to teaching my class in January (from a health point of view--I bloody love my job). The risk will be high and I'll be stuck in a room with 28 little people all breathing on me, licking their water bottles etc as per usual. The rates will sky rocket and I do feel at risk, however setting home school learning is so much worse.

January is always a bit shit but this one will be extra mega shitty shit.

Bargebill19 · 19/12/2020 18:33

Yes. Apart from the words used - its back to square one. I doubt things could have been handled/made much worse, if the advice had been to ‘do whatever you want’ a la Cummings.

Ozzie9523 · 19/12/2020 18:38

Yep I feel the same, worse than March actually - 9 months later and it’s no better.

covetingthepreciousthings · 19/12/2020 18:42

It just feels like March again

Yep this. Sad
Except now we have a vaccine and we have still not got an end in sight.

MummaBear4321 · 19/12/2020 18:47

I feel irrationally stressed. I can feel it spiralling. I have been so logical and calm. Now I feel like shit is about to hit the fan and it's never going to end. My parents live abroad. Lord knows when I will see them again. I dont know how to cope with that.

tobee · 19/12/2020 18:54

Well I hope these new announcements will make a difference to January.

For those who like Chris Whitty, he said that it isn't the worst time in the pandemic.

For those who don't like Chris Whitty ignore the above.

It's not great but we really are further on. And I speak as someone very worried about cev Dh and elderly parents.

MerinoFroggie · 19/12/2020 18:55

Yes for sure.

I work as a nanny for a family. I'm following the guidelines to a T and keeping contacts low. The family I work for had many nights out over the past fortnight and sleepovers too and they have more plans for this weekend too. I think it's a little bit too much mixing with others. I can't understand how they weren't satisfied after one or two nights. I can't understand it because I have so much stamina to write so much off to keep myself and my family as safe as possible. I am happy and glad to have a roof over my head (just about), have some nice food and sit down to read a book. The family has a vulnerable member too where the child nearly died as a baby from an infection and mixing too much is too risky.

I don't live with my partner and I found 2020 hard. I was hoping on having him come over during Christmas. I'm not too sure about that now. He's working a new job in a bar and restaurant. The place is busy with tables and small functions booked. I'm very nervous about that. There's too much virus covid cases in the country and too much mixing between people, I am nervous he is going to be exposed to the virus. I'm so so so so so sad.

I don't know if I should ha e him over or if I should continue with the guidelines in case he has been exposed to the virus and he's in an incubation phase.

MarshaBradyo · 19/12/2020 18:55

It feels worse than March to me

Please let the Oxford vaccine be approved as is expected

caringcarer · 19/12/2020 19:00

@bluewavescrashing, how anyone voted does not change fact virus is here and it is no ones fault despite how they voted.

JesusInTheCabbageVan · 19/12/2020 19:00

I remember feeling that way in March. I just couldn't get my head round the fact that inside our house, life was carrying on as 'normal' (ish) but outside everything was silent, the streets were empty and the death rate just kept on spiralling.

These days I just feel... I don't know, desensitised I suppose. Things are still better than I thought they would be at this time of year.

Belepheron · 19/12/2020 19:03

Worse than March. The evident incompetence of the government, the attitude of much of the public, the sheer tedium of it, make this far worse for me. That and Brexit. Yes people who voted this shower in should be feeling uncomfortable

MarshaBradyo · 19/12/2020 19:05

I feel more numb to it but also aware we are drawing on near empty reserves generally

It will be ok soon-ish hopefully

Lindy2 · 19/12/2020 19:05

A bit. Our plans for Christmas were always very low key so have hardly changed. I do however, feel very low tonight and I am scared.

BaileyBoos · 19/12/2020 19:06

I feel like it’s going to be one last death shebang!!!.... sorry if that’s insensitive, but I feel that with a vaccine on the way they will let deaths spiral come January/Feb. I’m a TA, and I’m dreading January. This time last week I was supervising a wet play in a small classroom with 32 kids shouting and no windows open!

Today’s been a hard day. My husbands friend is 33 and currently on a ventilator. No “known” Health issues. Hits hard when you know someone personally, and so young. I’m praying hard he pulls through.

Couldn’t care less about Christmas, but very worried about Jan.

Thatusernamewastaken · 19/12/2020 19:08

No, not really. They need to get the vaccine up and running and focus on mass rollout. They will probably balls that up though as they are an embarrassing shambles. Next few month will be rough, but the vaccine is the shining light

tobee · 19/12/2020 19:10

I'm pretty appalled by much of what the government has done.

But I don't think it's worse than March. Think that's too doom laden. We know lots more now.

carlaCox · 19/12/2020 19:11

I just don't understand what the route out of this is? Ok we have the vaccine but apparently there's no evidence the vaccine stops transmission. And it'll take months (years?) to vaccinate the entire population. So what? We lockdown for another year? How many people will actually have a job at the end of that? What kind of state will our country's finances be in? Can someone give me some hope?!

MarshaBradyo · 19/12/2020 19:13

@carlaCox

I just don't understand what the route out of this is? Ok we have the vaccine but apparently there's no evidence the vaccine stops transmission. And it'll take months (years?) to vaccinate the entire population. So what? We lockdown for another year? How many people will actually have a job at the end of that? What kind of state will our country's finances be in? Can someone give me some hope?!
Vaccine only needs to be given to a smaller percentage to have big effect on hospitalisation rates

Then we can go back to being more normal

MarshaBradyo · 19/12/2020 19:13

Being more normal = life being this