I’m not doing this shit anymore

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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.

word that’s also a very good point. I understand there is less obesity in India too?

The issue here is that anyone who suggests anything remotely alternative, be it zinc or turmeric or D, is told they are a trump supporter Q-Anoner. This is not helpful.

monica that’s shit. Utterly shit

@saywha

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.

You obviously don't realise that your viewpoint is a luxury many people can't afford after 12 months of increasing, genuine hardship. Like you probably can't imagine, and so lucky you.

Get off your high horse, there's no way this is black and white, as much as you clearly would prefer it to be.

Get someone to take the baby off you for the afternoon and break the rules. Take your own small risks like many other people are. Mental health is more important, the people that aren’t bothered by lockdown either have no children or loads of money.

@MonicaGellerHyphenBing

As someone living in Scotland it upsets me to see so many posts saying ‘you can have a support bubble with a baby under 1’. Great for you lot in England, in Scotland new mums have fuck all support. I have two children, the youngest just 8 months. I’m fucking done. A support bubble would be that one glimmer of hope but Sturgeon doesn’t feel we deserve it. Done.

That's so rubbish. I don't understand the inconsistency, it's not fair at all

Support bubbles only work when you have people to put in them. It’s shit but the English didn’t cause it.

@MonicaGellerHyphenBing that is so hard, I really feel for you x

@willowsandroses

Support bubbles only work when you have people to put in them. It’s shit but the English didn’t cause it.

Never said that they did.

Have you made a plan OP? Are you going to bubble with your mum?

@sleepwouldbenice

I understand how crap you are feeling.

But I have not heard a credible, tested alternative to what we are doing or planning. I really just don’t think people understand that there is no alternative. Minor changes, yes, radical alternative no

And those who are just now doing want they want are making it worse for everyone and we will stay in this mess. Saying there can’t be another lockdown and advocating changes which will cause another lockdown is just nonsensical

How about the Government's original plan, which was still in place as late as 27 February 2020: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/feb/27/what-are-the-uks-plans-for-dealing-with-a-pandemic-virus

It explicitly rules out most of the restrictions that have been put in place over the past year as very harmful to society and with no proven benefit. (Of course, there is no mention of "lockdown", as the word had not entered the vernacular outside of prisons and the idea was then unthinkable.) And this despite planning for a possible death toll of over 300,000 within a few months! It is based on decades (if not longer) of best practice, and its advice is reflected in pre-Covid-19 documents by the WHO et al.

This very plan is still the main document cited by the Gov in their Pandemic Preparedness materials as of today: www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-pandemic-preparedness/uk-pandemic-preparedness

Some of the plan's synoptic recommendations:

"Supporting the continuation of everyday activities as far as practicable."

"Upholding the rule of law and the democratic process."

"Promoting a return to normality and the restoration of disrupted services at the earliest opportunity. "

HA!

The notion that there was/is no alternative to "lockdown" is one of the self-perpetuating myths of this new ideology, parroted by people with the memories and historical awareness of goldfish.

But the UK Government joined rulers around the world in deciding to follow the leader, China - a hideous, one-party Communist dictatorship that is currently committing genocide and torturing over a million people in concentration camps - in adopting the extreme and untried strategy of "locking up down" entire populations. Because they could.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/people-don-t-agree-with-lockdown-and-try-to-undermine-the-scientists-gnms7mp98

Ferguson:

“It’s a communist one party state, we said. <strong>We couldn’t get away with it in Europe</strong>, we thought. And then Italy did it. And we realised we could.”

These days, lockdown feels inevitable. It was, he reminds me,     anything but. <strong>“If China had not done it,” he says, “the year would have been very different.”</strong>

Well the government's original plan was roundly and rightly criticised. Lockdown has shown to be highly effective in reducing deaths. We don't need a communist government to work together (most of us anyway) do the common good.

How have things been going in Sweden? Have they all died now? Or did they succumb to lockdown after all?

My sister in Norway is eating out and going for drinks with friends whenever she wants

Off to google