Misery after 8pm announcement

[WilsonMilson]

I’m just so fed up. It feels like Groundhog Day now. Worried about business, worried about ds’s schooling. Doing dry January too - thinking about scraping that tbh. How’s everyone else doing?

Total clusterfuck.

Is imposing this Dry January and obsessive dieting of any use to anyone.We are adults,we can make choices.I choose to survive the best way I can.

Schools have been closed all xmas and its made fuck all difference.

@MrsMiaWallis

Schools have been closed all xmas and its made fuck all difference.

Exactly

No Christmas mixing here too.

We might inch down or be static but fuck

MrsMiaWallis

“Schools have been closed all xmas and its made fuck all difference.”

Some posters were insisting on another thread that numbers in their area were going down now (following the 3 week holiday).

I'm so fucking fed up at this point...I could cry or just scream

I feel terrible for children trapped in abusive homes but don't meet the criteria to go to school.
Of course, but if they are not known to SS then how would you get them in school? If teachers are concerned they could offer a place under vulnerable provision for another reason and hope the parents accept.

@CuriousaboutSamphire I couldn't agree more .
All those playing the blame game , if you think we are in this situation because of something we did or didnt do then you are seriously deluded . This was always going to flare up in the winter and this was always going to mutate because that's what viruses do .
We were in it for the long haul from the start

@Doublefaced

So angry with the deniers. So, so angry and exhausted. My poor kids

What do you mean?

Fed up 🥺 feel trapped at home now I can't go to work. I feel panicky and suffocated and my m.h is not great anyway

Fuck this shit

@HumphreyCobblers

I am gutted. Have a seven year old with SN and lockdown is terrible for him, absolutely awful. He needs the variation of school or of going out and about - he has little language and no sense of narrative so cannot watch tv, read books, play imaginary games, draw/paint or access online learning in any meaningful way. At least in the last one he could play outside most of the day.

I could absolutely cry. He regressed so much last time.

I thought children with SEN are allowed to go into school? I would certainly contact the school and push heavily for it!

@wanderings

Ten miserable months later, we're back to square one.

Thank you, Saint Boris, thank you SO FUCKING MUCH.
You failed to control the virus. So much for "we can turn this virus around in twelve weeks".

Now will you resign?

It's people breaking the bloody rules . If they had adhered to what he said then maybe things would be different. Sick of people tweaking rules for their own benefit. Nothing will change if people do what the hell they like . What is Boris supposed to bloody do ??!!!

I have no words. Dh and I are sat in stunned silence.

It's like groundhog day.

So frustrating, we could all see it coming! Cases up for weeks, schools weren’t coping since before xmas when numbers were lower...they could have prepared us all mentally to this instead of another last min u-turn 🙄

37 weeks pregnant with my first baby. Now it’s going to be born into a lockdown. I had always prepared myself for this eventuality, and the good news is that DH will be at home with me more, but it still isn’t what I envisaged :(

Now anxious about whether the guidance for hospitals allowing partners in for labour etc will change again...

It's like being in fucking prison.

@WilsonMilson

You’re not very bright are you.

Fuck all of the care staff and their families then, yeah? Screw you and your children if any of them need a hospital bed because the wards and corridors are heaving with dying Covid patients, yeah?

@mbosnz

Why cowardly?

You don’t want lockdown or you wanted it earlier ?

I don’t see the difference .

They did not manufacture the new variant ?

What exactly would you do ?

Ignore the fact that the meeting revealed that the hospitals are now at breaking point ?

@Cripesitsthegasman19

It's like being in fucking prison.

At least if I was in prison I wouldn't have so much fucking housework to do

^have quoted the wrong person there, sorry

I'm fucking sick of this never ending bullshit. I don't give a fuck that it could be worse right now.

Feeling down also. Doesn’t help that dh and dc like to over-analyse everything and debate it all. They must have spent half an hour earlier speculating on what was about to be announced, and the difference between levels and tiers. Why didn’t they just wait for the announcement?!

It sounds really stressful for your family (and lots of others).

Honestly, I'm relieved with respect to the actual virus though- my parents are both vulnerable and I'm scared for their health/lives.

Following the science will get us out of this and help us reopen schools.

Sorry if I've said it before but it's true. There is hope. And the vaccine will help us open society again.

It is shit though.