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All this has to stop. We can’t live like this!

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SweetsMum3 · 20/06/2021 15:44

We need to learn to live with covid like we do with all other viruses, illnesses and diseases. The elderly and high risk are vaccinated… that was the goal, remember?! Like Hancock said, we will cry freedom when the over 70s are vaccinated!

There is no reason for mass testing when the young and healthy get covid mildly. My child is in tears yet again because she isn’t allowed to go to school for 10 days. A few students in her year group tested positive and all students are forced to be locked in their homes… again.

Are the sick?! No. Half have no symptoms. The others have a slight fever and feel a little tired.

This isn’t fair. This isn’t healthy. This isn’t sane. This is harmful and destructive to children. An entire generation has been betrayed. For what exactly? Over a virus which does not affect them. Over fear. Over people being immensely risk-averse. Over loss of control and people can’t take it.

It is time we live our lives and get back to normal before it’s too late. If our children hold us accountable and never forgive us, I will completely understand. We have not stood-up for them. Instead, we cowered in fear not giving a hoot about the collateral damage all these restrictions have caused. Shame on us.

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tinkywinkyshandbag · 20/06/2021 19:33

Totally agree with you OP 100%

Daisy829 · 20/06/2021 19:36

@Baileysforchristmas I saw this article but wonder what will happen with primary school kids? My 6yo dd is isolating due to someone in her class testing positive. I can’t work therefore don’t get paid so I’m hoping they won’t have to continue to go through this much longer.

Chailatteplease · 20/06/2021 19:37

The irony of some posters on here calling others “self-absorbed” Hmm

roguetomato · 20/06/2021 19:38

Why now? If we hang tight for few more weeks, the school will be out soon. Vaccination is progressing. We are approaching herd immunity. The end of this in our sight.
No point in rushing to drop everything now and suffer the bigger consequences later.

TheRainbow · 20/06/2021 19:39

Many young children have lost a parent due to Covid. That will affect them for the rest of their lives! A bit of caution and resilience now, will prevent that continuing.

Oblomov21 · 20/06/2021 19:40

I agree. This is just nonsense. Can't believe some of the stuff that is going on, alongside most people being vaccinated.

Who hadn't been vaccinated, over 25? No one other than those who can't for a medical condition. And those that don't want to, for whom I have no sympathy.

Baileysforchristmas · 20/06/2021 19:41

@Daisy829 I agree I don’t think healthy children should have to keep isolating. Don’t keep testing healthy children, does it really matter if they carry it if they don’t get sick.

Oblomov21 · 20/06/2021 19:43

"I have a teen out isolating due to a 2 minute conversation with someone who then tested positive. Literally 2 minutes and for that she'll miss all her mocks with her peers and will sit them separately on her own."

That seems ridiculous. Is that the current rules? I can't accept that.

TheVampiresWife · 20/06/2021 19:43

I can't get an appointment (even a phone consultation) with my rheumatologist and I'm in constant agony. I cannot walk. I'm taking the maximum dose of codeine daily and it's barely touching the sides but it's all my GP can do for me. The pain is so tiring and it's all I can think about. I keep having trigeminal neuralgia attacks which are often triggered by stress for me. I'm on antidepressants and self harming for the first time in over 25 years. The pain and worry has brought me so low.

I've done everything that's been asked of me covid compliance wise (apart from wear a mask - because of the TN I can't, which has made going out very difficult because of people who feel the need to judge, threaten, abuse and spit at me). I've had both my jabs.

I am sick of it all. It's ridiculous and whoever wishes to call me a tedious delicate whining snowflake can crack on and do so. But this is not living.

Pennypie · 20/06/2021 19:43

Completely agree OP.

MarshaBradyo · 20/06/2021 19:46

@Oblomov21

"I have a teen out isolating due to a 2 minute conversation with someone who then tested positive. Literally 2 minutes and for that she'll miss all her mocks with her peers and will sit them separately on her own."

That seems ridiculous. Is that the current rules? I can't accept that.

Yes 1 staff member with a positive resulted in 6 classes off due to 1 min contact.

It’s crazy and should be addressed

Getawaywithit · 20/06/2021 19:47

It’s shocking. My child in year 5 misses so much in school and can’t do any fractions etc.She says they never learned them properly - only did them for one day and that’s it.She doesn’t understand basic math- she missed 6 months of year 4 and 3.5 months of year 5.Shocking. What a life they will have! Will she says in 15 years time- I never learned this as we were off cos of COVID??????

Your child missed 12 weeks last year, 14 maximum depending on when her school had the Easter holiday. And 8 weeks this year. Not 6 months and 3.5 months.

And you are her parent. If her gap in learning is of concern to you, what are you doing to help close it?

osbertthesyrianhamster · 20/06/2021 19:47

Flowers Vampire. We are very lucky we can pay privately for my son's consultant care and meds. This month we'll see the consultant twice in one month due to his violent meltdowns increasing.

roguetomato · 20/06/2021 19:47

Oblomov21, there was a thread by a poster who's fully vaccinated family member developed no immunity due to weak immune system. How about those people?
It's almost there, if we stay cautious for a bit longer, we maybe able to suppress the spread. And we all feel a lot safer, not just healthy ones, but those vulnerable ones too.

Getawaywithit · 20/06/2021 19:49

Who hadn't been vaccinated, over 25? No one other than those who can't for a medical condition

I am in my 50s and only just double vaccinated. My 20 something colleagues have not yet had one vaccine.

winched · 20/06/2021 19:49

My DS ended up being my carer for a big chunk of 2020 due to covid. He saw me carted off in an ambulance in the middle of the night, was left alone in the flat wondering if he'd ever see me again. How do you imagine that impacted his mental health?

Sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation the same thing happened to my eldest DD when she was 5, and she's absolutely fine. I was in intensive care with an extended hospital stay and was touch and go for a while. Had to leave her with a neighbour until my mum could get there.

While horrible - and this isn't directed at you but more in general - we need to be wary of holding up examples of (while sad and traumatic) relatively common occurrences against unprecedented hardships that have been felt far and wide in society.

It's the common pre-covid VS unprecedented part I'm referring to here.

As if the children losing parents young, children seeing parents in hospital, children seeing grandparents dying, children being more vulnerable to illness etc were not all parts of life long before this.

Zotter · 20/06/2021 19:51

Near the end stretch but not all adult population fully vaccinated yet.

frumpety · 20/06/2021 19:52

It's only been a very long 454 days since the first lockdown.

Could it have been better ? , yes.
Could it have been worse ? , yes.

Are we nearly at the end ? hope so.

User135644 · 20/06/2021 19:53

@Tealightsandd

Interesting to note the 'protests' will be in London. Where protests are two a penny and so barely noticed.

One of them admitted on another thread that they wouldn't want to protest in a market town or village...because they wouldn't have the support of the locals. (Not that they have the support of long suffering Londoners either, but it's more likely people - and police - would be less tolerant of the disruption elsewhere). If they had widespread public support, they'd be able to hold the 'protest' anywhere.

They go for the day out. It's always a Saturday as well.
Zotter · 20/06/2021 19:54

@roguetomato

Why now? If we hang tight for few more weeks, the school will be out soon. Vaccination is progressing. We are approaching herd immunity. The end of this in our sight. No point in rushing to drop everything now and suffer the bigger consequences later.
Agree.
KevinTheGoat · 20/06/2021 19:55

Fuck the protestors. They harass people who wear masks and shout abuse at them and carry signs with conspiracy bullshit on them about 5G or Soros or whatever.

Awalkintime · 20/06/2021 19:55

What will happen to those children who are vulnerable?

osbertthesyrianhamster · 20/06/2021 19:56

@Izzypuss

Many young children have lost a parent due to Covid. That will affect them for the rest of their lives! A bit of caution and resilience now, will prevent that continuing.
No, it won't. People are always going to die from this. It's here to stay. My father died from it. My childrens' mental health is shot due to their sister's death.
LouLou198 · 20/06/2021 19:56

Have to say, I agree. I have seen the devastation first hand in the first wave as a front line worker, but we can't carry on like this. We are all just existing. Worried about going anywhere because don't want to be tracked, traced and forced to isolate, again, feel like we can't plan anything because we will only have to cancel as dc will be sent home to isolate, again. My dc have missed out on so much, not just school but also play outside our home with other people apart from myself and dh. I think a lot of people are done.

Oblomov21 · 20/06/2021 19:58

Roguetomato then those people need to continue to isolate, take care etc. Just not the rest of the population.