Support bubbles

[MiaMarshmallows]

Feeling really anxious that they will stop the support bubble system. This then means I won't be able to see my partner for 3 months at least. Please someone tell me that they won't? I am so anxious

Support bubbles have been in place since the very start so I highly doubt they will change this!

Why 3 months?

I'm hoping they don't remove them either. The childcare/children under 1 bubble wasn't in place during the first lockdown as I had my baby in April and nobody could meet her until she was 2 months old. I had no support back then.

I live alone and they can piss off if they think I’m losing my support bubble for however long this shit storm is going to go on for. My mental health is important too. I don’t think they will though, it’s gone on too long and no real end in sight so it would be inhumane.

Before anyone jumps down my throat about saving lives and the NHS is more important than my mental health - have you lived alone and wfh all alone for the best part of a year?? It’s been horrendously lonely, even with a support bubble. I can totally empathise with your anxiety but I really do think it will be ok

@dingoesatemybaby

Support bubbles have been in place since the very start so I highly doubt they will change this!

No they haven't, they began on 13th June.

That said, I doubt very much that they will remove them.

Exactly the same flip flop, I feel somewhat gypped that it wasn’t in place as that was heartbreaking for me, I’m glad that it’s recognised for others now.

They won't remove them, they know damn well people won't obey as this is some of the only human contact some people are having.

I really hope you lot are right

No they haven't, they began on 13th June.

I think they started earlier than that.

I went to my parents'on 24th April. I used the "provide support for vulnerable person" exception as dad was end of life and mum was struggling to get the carer visits they needed. He died 27th. I stayed to end of first week of June. My then bf started mithering me about being his bubble before I came home and I told him I couldn't as I needed to be mum's bubble as she is 80, CEV and newly widowed (he got the hump).

I think they came in May.

I live alone. Bf and I split up, though there's never been a time we could have seen each other anyway (except for a walk) as I have had to remain my mum's bubble, she lives three hours away so I've been to stay another five more times. It's bloody miserable. I want another support bubble to support me, all I have is me supporting her (and her moaning at me and then deciding she wanted my brother for Christmas, not me).

I'd quite like it if they did take them away. Or at least tell my mother they no longer exist!

Don’t think there would be any point in taking bubbles away. I’d ignore and carry on.

Reporter on R4 just said they expect support bubbles to stay .

It didnt start for carers till 2nd December so has only been in for just over a month.

We will continue with ours as my mental health will be gone otherwise

I'd be gobsmacked if they do - they've been here since the start.

Schools however....

They can't! Either way I've made an arrangement for my kids to go and live with my retired parents if the schools close as they're my childcare bubble and without that I can't work! If the last lockdown is anything to go by my work will continue to be open even if schools are closed because the announcements just aren't clear enough or enforced.

@VanGoghsDog

No they haven't, they began on 13th June.

I think they started earlier than that.

I went to my parents'on 24th April. I used the "provide support for vulnerable person" exception as dad was end of life and mum was struggling to get the carer visits they needed. He died 27th. I stayed to end of first week of June. My then bf started mithering me about being his bubble before I came home and I told him I couldn't as I needed to be mum's bubble as she is 80, CEV and newly widowed (he got the hump).

I think they came in May.

I live alone. Bf and I split up, though there's never been a time we could have seen each other anyway (except for a walk) as I have had to remain my mum's bubble, she lives three hours away so I've been to stay another five more times. It's bloody miserable. I want another support bubble to support me, all I have is me supporting her (and her moaning at me and then deciding she wanted my brother for Christmas, not me).

I'd quite like it if they did take them away. Or at least tell my mother they no longer exist!

I promise you they started on 13th June, I have a very good reason for knowing the date (apart from the fact that I went 23rd March to 12th June with touching another human and without seeing my DP indoors). Prior to that,from May I think, we were allowed to meet one person outdoors socially distanced. The support for a vulnerable person exception was always there but wasn't a support bubble

They can swivel if they think I'm not keeping my childcare bubble. Regardless of the rules.

Apologies, just reread your post and realised you weren't saying care for the vulnerable was a support bubble, you were saying bubbles started in May. But I stand by that they began 13th June.

They definately didn’t come in until June!

You were allowed to provide care to the vulnerable before then but support bubbles did not exists before June!

Meeting people outside your household didn’t come in until the end of may, that was the first time I’d met someone socially or supportively. I know bubbles weren’t around for the first couple of weeks, of going for social distanced walks!

Support bubbles have definitely not been in since the start - I'm single and live alone and I remember crying with relief when my mum and I were allowed to bubble, a good couple of months in.

I don't think they'll take them away now they've remembered we exist, OP.

From what I have seen, they are still continuing so I can still go and see DP.

They were announced on 10 June. My whatsapp was suddenly full of family members bidding for my company