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?

@MrsFezziwig

DS has GCSE’s to worry about.

Not now he hasn’t.

But unless they simply award every child sitting GCSE's a basic pass grade this year then it is all still worrying. My ds, Y11, is at an Academy in special measures. No formal assessment since Nov 19. Back to back isolating. work sent home last time was appalling (some subjects sent the wrong exam board work, some sent Twinkle type stuff, none was marked, no F2F / Zoom etc). How can he be fairly assessed now?

We all need to do our bit. No endless bubbles and stretching the rules. Masks for EVERYONE over the age of 12, no exceptions. No going to the shops en masse or couple shopping. Stay in the car if you really cannot do it on your own or don’t trust your partner to do it.

Shops need to actually reinforce this.

It has been nearly a year since my father died. We have had no funeral, no chance to scatter the ashes and now any hope of doing it any time soon is impossible

@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.

Oh Humphrey, that’s hard. You have my sympathy.

ragged 😂 don’t know what she said as it’s been deleted but you gave me a laugh!
clink to everyone

@blueangel19 you claim other people are stupid whilst using global and pandemic in the same sentence. You might want to look up the meaning of pandemic.

Then google New Zealand or Australia to see how they are getting on.

I also don't have faith in this stupid vaccine, I bet it'll wear off after three months or they'll be some other load of BULLSHIT to come just like this new variant.

[quote AgnesNaismith]@Unsure33 because Bozza said YESTERDAY schools would stay open.....a sentence he repeated again THIS MORNING.

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THIS IN BIG BOLD CAPITALS.

You know what? I'm not absolutely bloody livid we're going into lockdown. I'm bloody livid because our PM has been insisting schools will be staying open and then suddenly announces no, they're all closing, AT 8PM THE NIGHT BEFORE.

I work full time. I can't be furloughed. I'm a single parent. Now, with less than 12 hours to spare, with no way of contacting my boss until morning, I have to suddenly deal with having to homeschool them tomorrow out of nowhere.

God only knows what the actual teachers themselves are feeling like. Presumably they've got this evening to come up with a sute of lessons and resources for 9am tomorrow.

Yet, there are people actually out there who actually think Boris is doing a good job?!!!

I'm also gutted for my Year 13. He was prepping for his exams and loves the social side of school as he is an only He is feeling the isolation really badly, even with his lovely parents - wants someone else to look at and talk to apparently!

@wanderings

Cummings ? Really .

How boring and also out of order to attack a man with a special needs child.

But that just about sums up some posters on here .

Not blaming the thousands of people ( lemmings) that broke the rules and used that as an excuse .

@CarlottaValdez

We just have to take a deep breath and convince ourselves that this really is the beginning of the end. Because it is...

I don’t know how you can be sure of that. I feel like it’ll never end and I wish I wasn’t here.

I really don't hate him. He seems quite amiable but also is

• dishonest
• incompetent
• stupid

and so on.

I'm sure that in conversation he would be very charming and amusing.

I can understand that he commands a large fee as an after dinner speaker.

Can't understand why anyone would vote for the idiot though, however droll he might be.

Pretty bloody rich for Johnson to say he'd sent kids back today as he 'values every day of education'. No, not for the masses he doesn't.

@baldisbeautiful

Anyone else have second year uni students wanting to return to their private rentals? DD was planning on driving back this Friday for the term as car being mot'd Thursday. Can she still go? Her course is all online for the foreseeable but she wants to return to her house? Thx

Here you go

Just did the boris bingo drinking game. Disappointed at lack of war references...
Seriously though in scotland so grateful that FMgave us plenty advance warning. On mat leave so also grateful can home school . The end is in sight though...the end in a good way. Wine is making it admittedly easier tonight.

@AgnesNaismith

Yep. I’ll work full time whilst homeschooling two children, failing at both my job (who give no shits) and parenting.

Just sooooooo pleased they’re vaccinating old people who live in homes and never leave them.

Completely this on the vaccines. My husband just said Indonesia are prioritising the working population.

@TossCointoYerWitcher

Being kept off the night before is relatively positive.

Lots of people sent their kids in today.

Can you imagine all the hugging etc of their friends in primary school after being apart over Chrismas?

The is government will be responislbe for extra deaths just because of this.

Arseholes.

Thoughtless stupid arseholes.

We kept our child off as CEV and it was recorded as an unauthorised absence.

I honestly have no words.

"Pretty bloody rich for Johnson to say he'd sent kids back today as he 'values every day of education'. No, not for the masses he doesn't."

Indeed I know many who it has totally screwed over. Friends who use their parents as childcare so they can work.... except today their kids went back to school, so now can't be with the vulnerable grandparents for two weeks. Had he closed schools yesterday, the children hadn't seen anyone, so would have been safe to go to grandparents. I wonder how many others are in a similar situation??

Dear friends, we wouldn't be in this mess if you had supported safe schools in the first place

Do people honestly think this is down to schools being open? If so, can you explain why wasn’t there a huge surge in numbers back in September?

It’s a virus, this is what they do. It was always going to be much worse in winter.

Gutted!! dd 7 was sooo excited about starting school tomorrow and was looking to football club

Forward

Feel your pain OP it’s an absolute nightmare in every way. When you’ve got younger kids it’s absolutely hellish

As long as they don't use the bloody algorithm again, every year 11 and year 13 who have worked hard will be fine. It was the algorithm which messed everything up last year. Time to trust the professionals. Didn't he say Gavin was going to sort it? My GS is year 11, I don't think he's got much faith in Gavin.

I feel like I’m at breaking point. My Dc just constantly bicker and argue. I can’t do it again.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

It's not Boris

It isn't the dickheads flouting the rules.

This would have happened whatever precautions were taken. We were told so last March. It's a virus doing what a virus does.

What has NOT happened is a total overwhelming of the NHS. What has happened is a slowing down if the rate of infection. What has happened is some societal changes that have helped slow down infection rates.

Many countries with variations on a lockdown theme are experiencing the same changes.

The GOOD NEWS is that vaccines are already being rolled out. There is something proactive that can now be done.

We just have to take a deep breath and convince ourselves that this really is the beginning of the end. Because it is...

@CuriousaboutSamphire what a refreshingly sensible post! Among all the 'Boris is a cunt' comments on mn nice to see someone say no, it's what a virus does (particularly in a densely populated country).

I disagree on it isn’t the dickheads flouting the rules though, the lack of compliance has been a problem imo.

@Robbybobtail

Dear friends, we wouldn't be in this mess if you had supported safe schools in the first place

Do people honestly think this is down to schools being open? If so, can you explain why wasn’t there a huge surge in numbers back in September?

It’s a virus, this is what they do. It was always going to be much worse in winter.

It doesn't happen immediately, schools was the one place that was open for mixing in this way.

Also, there is an argument that the new variant developed in England because schools were open in this way.

It doesn't seem a good idea looking back, does it.