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Feeling so down about this - here we go again!

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julieca · 03/12/2021 18:08

This is beginning to feel like early March 2020. Social things are being cancelled, face masks are back and the government are meeting tonight to talk about possible further restrictions. Alongside this cases have risen a lot in the last few days.
Apart from the fights over toilet roll, it almost feels like the start again. And we don't even have nice sunny weather. Instead it is cold, dark and miserable.
I have just been feeling so down about it today. Anyone else?

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userxx · 03/12/2021 20:35

@lololololollll Bloody hell, it's true. Sky news is reporting it.

DirtyDancing · 03/12/2021 20:36

@lololololollll

I've got a new business that really won't survive a lockdown. I wish I could unsee some of the doom and gloom on here and bury my head in the sand. Def not a dig at you personally, you're free to post what you want, I just wish I didn't keep seeing it as I'm trying to be as positive as I can
This makes me sad. DH has his own business which is hanging on by a thread. I am sorry to read this.
wheresmymojo · 03/12/2021 20:36

@julieca

Have you missed that some of us had made plans, and others have cancelled them? Totally tone deaf.

No, I didn't miss that.

It doesn't stop you making new plans.

godmum56 · 03/12/2021 20:37

@julieca

I saw it on the msm newsfeed. It doesn't mean there will be new restrictions yet, but it said they are meeting to talk about it.
they meet more than once a week to discuss what is going on with the pandemic and have done for some time. I find MSM (if you mean microsoft) very fake newsy
lololololollll · 03/12/2021 20:37

[quote userxx]@lololololollll Bloody hell, it's true. Sky news is reporting it. [/quote]
Oh my god! That's bad

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julieca · 03/12/2021 20:38

This is the article I saw in MSM. I didn't even read it as it depressed me so much, only the headline. The meeting is in Ireland, not Britain. So I was wrong. But it really isn't relevant to my post.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/cabinet-micheal-martin-covid-ireland-government-b1969197.html

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ShatteredDream · 03/12/2021 20:39

It’s definitely feeling like a set back but I really don’t think it will go back to how it was pre vaccine. I don’t believe we will lockdown again, the government will avoid it at all costs.

lololololollll · 03/12/2021 20:39

Thank you @DirtyDancing. I was rather stupid opening after (well during) the pandemic but really thought it was going to be fine and a leap of faith would be worth it. It's been going so well but I don't have enough reserves to be closed

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julieca · 03/12/2021 20:40

@wheresmymojo I will be honest, I dont want to book tickets for anything else. Organise stuff in each others houses - yes. But I cant stand the uncertainty of whether to look forward to something.

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julieca · 03/12/2021 20:42

@ShatteredDream I don't know. I remember being in ALDI in early March at the checkout and some young adults talking about the lockdown that was coming. I was shocked and thought they were overreacting.

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KurtWildesChristmasNamechange · 03/12/2021 20:43

[quote julieca]@KurtWildesChristmasNamechange I know what I do in my own home is up to me. But I was really looking forward to an event next week that is cancelled. I cant do anything about this.
Its the uncertainty I hate.[/quote]
That's fair enough, as I said if something gets cancelled that sucks. Everything going ahead as planned so far here through, and if plans do get cancelled we'll make new plans 🤷🏻‍♀️

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julieca · 03/12/2021 20:48

@KurtWildesChristmasNamechange It has been a small number of days since Johnson's announcement, we have had 2 events cancelled already.

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forinborin · 03/12/2021 20:52

It does sound like SAGE recommends early and strict interventions - just read the minutes from Monday published today. So I totally get why people feel like it is March 2020 all over again.

theDudesmummy · 03/12/2021 20:52

@lololololollll it is absolutely true.

lololololollll · 03/12/2021 20:54

[quote theDudesmummy]@lololololollll it is absolutely true.[/quote]
I know now, just couldn't believe it. Awful

weddingguesttbc · 03/12/2021 20:54

Ireland are in a very different position to us (at the moment)

I anticipate WFH and vaccine passports to come in before they forbid other things

theDudesmummy · 03/12/2021 20:55

RTE news : At a glance: New restrictions ahead of Christmas

www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/1203/1264716-covid-ireland-latest/

GreenClock · 03/12/2021 21:11

I imagine that WFH, curfews and widening of vaccine passports will be the next step. Maybe schools will go online for the last week of term. Lockdown would be a last resort which I can’t see happening tbh.

I agree with OP that it feels like early March 2020. But I don’t think that it’ll turn into a replica of late March 2020. I’m relatively optimistic.

DaisyNGO · 03/12/2021 21:22

@Sparklingbrook

It really does not feel like March 2020 Confused
It really does for me.
bluetongue · 03/12/2021 21:25

Bloody Covid. I went to my work Christmas do just to say ‘fuck you covid’ but it was pretty dire (not Covid related dire) and I left fairly quickly. The venue was average and the food on offer was questionable. Pretty sure food poisoning was a bigger danger than Covid Grin

Fingers crossed work end of year lunch still goes ahead. That actually sounds decent and is at nice restaurant.

Sparklingbrook · 03/12/2021 21:39

It doesn't for me @DaisyNGO, there's a lot more knowledge now and AFAIK nobody is fighting over the toilet rolls and pasta, or queuing to get into the grocery store.
I don't see why people think we are starting again, we're just entering a different phase of the pandemic. Such drama.

DaisyNGO · 03/12/2021 21:44

@Sparklingbrook

It doesn't for me *@DaisyNGO*, there's a lot more knowledge now and AFAIK nobody is fighting over the toilet rolls and pasta, or queuing to get into the grocery store. I don't see why people think we are starting again, we're just entering a different phase of the pandemic. Such drama.
I think they will fight over it again, I was literally just thinking about what the supermarket will be like tomorrow...
DaisyNGO · 03/12/2021 21:47

@bluetongue

Bloody Covid. I went to my work Christmas do just to say ‘fuck you covid’ but it was pretty dire (not Covid related dire) and I left fairly quickly. The venue was average and the food on offer was questionable. Pretty sure food poisoning was a bigger danger than Covid Grin

Fingers crossed work end of year lunch still goes ahead. That actually sounds decent and is at nice restaurant.

Oh dear

A waiter actually got fired during a xmas lunch I went to once. We wondered if they did for dramatic effect or distraction because the food was so bad 😂

I was in a couple of posh shops in the City today, not places I go. They were very chatty - and very worried. Said trade plummeted since omnicron press conference.

DaisyNGO · 03/12/2021 21:48

To add
Not places I go so I don't know how many customers is normal but insanely quiet, just like pre lockdown.

Northsoutheastwest76 · 03/12/2021 21:51

Not seeing it at all. I have a full schedule of events booked up tilll Christmas. Only thing cancelled is a Scouting event.

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