I’m not doing this shit anymore

[struggling8888]

I’ve had enough!!!!!!! I’m sick to death of walking around my boring area, sick of the muddy fucking park and having to feed my baby in the cold because we’re not allowed indoors.

I hate the fact we’ve gone into mass fucking hysteria over a virus where 1/3 of people who get it don’t even realize and the vast majority of others get mild flu symptoms AT MOST.

I thought the vaccine was going to be our way out of this shit but no - suddenly there are new variants, it’s not good enough for the whole of the UK to be vaccinated - the WHOLE WORLD has to be vaccinated before we’re truly safe, and we’re now aiming for zero fucking Covid which was NEVER the original aim.

I just want family and friends to come round my house, indoors. I want to go to shops and sit in a cafe and not have to stand in a bloody queue to get in. I want someone to take my baby off me for one bloody afternoon so I can have a bit of peace and quiet.

I thought I’d feel better now the warmer weather’s here but I don’t at all. DP and I had a row earlier because he said it’s hard for him too and it’s not all about me. I never said it was, but surely I’m allowed to have a rant about how shit this is to my own partner?!!

I want the madness to end, now.

You tell someone suffering to "get a grip" and then have the gall to tell others to show respect?

Yes I picked up on the tremendous irony in that post too.

@struggling8888

You miss the piont utterly re this disease but I get the feelings.
I live alone try that.

It will be over in four months I hope

I sympathise OP, feeling pretty awful myself today. My FIL was hospitalised last week non Covid related. Yesterday we learnt he had tested positive. He had the first vaccine dose 4 weeks ago, it has really shaken my confidence. I know the vaccines only mean you won’t get the disease seriously ( I hope) but being confronted with the reality is hard.

@Fembot123 I used the cafe analogy because the OP used the example of not being able to go to cafes or shops without queuing in her first post.

[quote Daisythecow34]@Fembot123 I used the cafe analogy because the OP used the example of not being able to go to cafes or shops without queuing in her first post.

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But to boil it down to just that is disingenuous.

@Peaseblossom22 I hope your FIL benefits from his vaccination and gets less serious symptoms

@Thewordgame

Agree, its getting fucking ridiculous, so now, the effects of the lockdown are actually far worse than if we were to allow covid to run through the population. Its pathetic, we were supposed to be protecting an Nhs that if funded correctly beforehand would have been able to cope, fuck knows why people are still complying, it’s an absolute joke and we will pay the price in other ways

There are so many people at the end of their tether but, lockdown should be lifted slowly and carefully. If it’s rushed then increased amounts of the virus will circulate in the younger members of the population, who have not been vaccinated. Some might argue that it wouldn’t matter, as they don’t get really ill and die. We’ve mostly vaccinated the vulnerable, we’ve protected the NHS, so let’s get on with it!

But, wait a minute and think. If there’s an increased amount of the virus in circulation, what will happen? The virus will mutate, there’s no doubt. With large amounts of virus, there’s more virus that will mutate. At any time a new variant will emerge which is able to by pass the vaccine and bingo, we are back to square one.

Vaccinating all adults ASAP and slowly lifting lockdown is the answer. With smaller amounts of virus circulating, the scientists can keep track of it and prevent a new variant from spreading.

This thing will end but we have to be patient.

Thanks to all those who’ve posted kind and supportive words. I can’t reply individually as I’d be here all night, but thank you for being so nice x

The rest of you can sod off quite frankly!

If my electric goes (due to Eons incompetence) so does my lockdown compliance and my willingness to take the vaccine. Poorer people are being screwed over because certain companies are acting like its business as usual. Duly noted. Because if they can................ People have been forced to sit in their homes without electric/gas or forced to try shop after shop to get new keys which the shops dont stock and then EON send out which they could have done in the first place. This has been going on for WEEKS. If this is the thanks we get they can shove it.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4143223-WTF-is-going-on-at-EON

And this is after they swore blind last year that it wouldnt happen.

The virus will mutate whatever we do. It’s what viruses do.

@Thewordgame

Agree, its getting fucking ridiculous, so now, the effects of the lockdown are actually far worse than if we were to allow covid to run through the population. Its pathetic, we were supposed to be protecting an Nhs that if funded correctly beforehand would have been able to cope, fuck knows why people are still complying, it’s an absolute joke and we will pay the price in other ways

Do you think that children would have been at school more if the virus had been allowed to ‘run through’ the population? Do you think that there wouldn’t have been an effect on the mental health of the population watching the horror that would have ensued? Do you understand the concept of exponential growth? Flip to your calculator and keep multiplying by 5. The effects of the lockdown are categorically not far worse.

She’s feeding her baby outside because nowhere inside is open!

I sympathise OP, I’m a ‘lockdown baby mum’ too. It’s really hard.

@struggling8888

Really feel like I’m going to go mad if it doesn’t end soon.

This isn't ending soon, even after mass vaccination their will still be social distancing and mask wearing. Boris has said last lockdown but he can't promise that. No one knows if vaccine will work with new strains.

@JustFrustrated

I have a theory that we start to give up, when we know we can.

People that have fought after an accident that suddenly crash or go into stock when help arrives/they go to hospital....for example. It's because subconsciously their mind knows that other people will save them/help them.

It's the same with this, the end is...just...so ....near ...our brains are giving up on keeping us going.

In the last two weeks everyone in my house has had a breakdown of some sort. Including my husband, who normally is Mr Stable...Mr laissez-faire.

Today my 8 year old sobbed for so long and so hard, I had to change my t-shirt. This girl hasn't cried more than 5 times in the last 2 years. She is the happiest human being anyone has ever met normally. But today, she couldn't, she couldn't do anything but sob into my neck, which made me sob. All because "she wants Covid to go" and she misses her friends. Her teaches.

So yes, whilst I'm very sorry for everyone who's suffered due to Covid. That doesn't stop it being fucking awful for the rest of us.

My work colleague commited suicide. Because he's single, and his parents bubbled with his sister who had a new born. He' was furloughed. For months the only interaction he had was via a computer screen. This otherwise fit and healthy young man, in his fucking 20s still, who loved life....gave in.

It's done. I'm done. My bloody 8 year old baby is done.

OP have a very un Mumsnet hug

And anyone who comes on here to to bitch that other people have it worse? Fuck off. It's not needed. And we'll be so far into a MH crisis in 6 months there won't be a recovery, if people aren't allowed to talk, aren't allowed to rail and moan and scream and cry when they need to. So yes, I'm heart sore for those directly impacted cause of Covid. But Covid doesn't stop other people having illness and tragedy and a life.

But people on this thread... The high and mighty......will call your work colleague selfish if he didn't follow the rules to a tee.

I've certainly felt extremely down in a similar way to the OP. I've had 9 months of adoption leave... Half of that in lockdown.... And the past 12 months in lockdown. My toddler hasn't had hardly any contact with his new family.

He does go to childminders 4 hours a day and his cousins go there. Im taking covid seriously but I'm forming a support bubble with my sister as our kids already go to the same place.

No one knows if vaccine will work with new strains

But it probably will, we may need boosters or annual jabs but the chances of a new variant coming along that we need an entirely new vaccine for is so small!
Why be so pessimistic? How does it help to have this view?

I agree OP.
The ones promoting lockdowns are not the ones suffering because of them. They all have safe jobs or are on furlough.
Join the Great Reopening group on Telegram to find your local group supporting those who want an end to lockdown.

@Daydreamsinglorioustechnicolor

No one knows if vaccine will work with new strains

But it probably will, we may need boosters or annual jabs but the chances of a new variant coming along that we need an entirely new vaccine for is so small!
Why be so pessimistic? How does it help to have this view?

It’s not even a little bit helpful. The vaccine can be adjusted for variations, just like the flu vaccine, and it seems to be reducing transmissibility too. Some people seem to be really enjoying taking the blackest view possible.

@Sadsiblingatsea

I agree OP. The ones promoting lockdowns are not the ones suffering because of them. They all have safe jobs or are on furlough. Join the Great Reopening group on Telegram to find your local group supporting those who want an end to lockdown.

This is so true

Scientists are developing a range of second-generation Covid vaccines aimed at expanding protection against the disease.

Candidates include one version that could provide immune defence against many different virus variants, while other researchers are investigating vaccines that would generate responses aimed specifically at blocking transmission of the disease.

Other projects include research into the creation of multiple vaccines that could each tackle different virus strains but would be administered as a single jab in a manner similar to annual flu jabs, which currently combine four vaccines against different strains of the influenza virus.

My work colleague commited suicide. Because he's single, and his parents bubbled with his sister who had a new born. He' was furloughed. For months the only interaction he had was via a computer screen. This otherwise fit and healthy young man, in his fucking 20s still, who loved life....gave in.

Absolutely devastating.

This is shit. Boring, hard, lonely, miserable, feels hopeless at times. But I don't understand people having to justify feeling rubbish by saying Covid isn't all that serious. Just reading another thread on here about someone's husband being at deaths door, her two young children waiting to see if their father will live or die. And that's what thousands of people have been through in the past year. And yes I think losing a loved one or having to see them ventilated is worse than being sick of lockdown. We're all sick of lockdown.

I think the majority will continue to comply with the rules because they want to stay healthy, get out of this lockdown and keep people alive.

The lockdown sceptic's whinge really annoys me. If you don't want to follow the rules then don't.

And we'll be so far into a MH crisis in 6 months there won't be a recovery, if people aren't allowed to talk, aren't allowed to rail and moan and scream and cry when they need to. So yes, I'm heart sore for those directly impacted cause of Covid. But Covid doesn't stop other people having illness and tragedy and a life.

100% this.

@struggling8888

They introduced support bubbles for a reason, all new Mum's need support, I had my second baby before lockdown 1 but he was still young enough at the start of the lockdown for me to miss that vital family support. If he had been my first baby during the lockdown I probably would have gone mad. Your baby is about to turn 1, you are still a sleep deprived mum of a young baby with limited avenues of places to take your baby to seek support, libraries are closed, most baby groups are not running or were open only for a limited time last year. Do not underestimate what you have been through over the last year. Yes, some people may have had worse experiences over the last year but with respect to others your post is about you and your circumstances, so do what a right for you and your baby, go and see your mum. I wish you all the best, you have done a great job surviving this year for your baby.

It isn't fun filled anyone op. My heart sang when the phone pinged tonight with tomorrow's homeschooling tasks. Dd3 probably SEN doesn't engage but I am confident the worst is over. The vaccine will cut hospital admissions and we will have to learn to treat it like a nasty flu with regular boosters if new variants cause issues.