Sick of the uncertainty

[olivehater]

Either lock us down or don’t.But tell us one way or the other.
It’s my daughters birthday party on the 8th Jan. She’s so excited about it. She didn’t get one last year. I just want to know. I don’t want to let her down at the last minute again. It’s disgusting they way they are constantly leaking little bits of info and not telling us what they are really planning.
I’ve had enough of all the bullshit and spin.
One things for certain she will be celebrating with friends one way or the other. She’s missed enough of her childhood milestones. Not partaking in this shit any more.

@olivehater

Don’t tell someone who is clearly upset andventing on a forum about something that is affecting their family to grow up. It makes you look smug and nasty. I do everything I can to deflect this shit away from my kids. Doing my absolute best to not give them a complex about it all and have a normal childhood.

I understand OP. It's bloody hard right now trying to protect them and give them a normal childhood while also dealing with the uncertainty. You don't want to make plans and then have to let them down. It's just crap.

We should be in full lockdown already but Boris can't break his Xmas promise for the 2nd time so everyone will spread it about and hospitals will be inundated.....as a hospital worker I cant wait.

I’ve pretty much locked myself down for the foreseeable. I tend to follow medical experts not Boris about this.
Good luck all over next few weeks. Whether locked down or not and whether seeing people or not. We will get through this.

@olivehater

Don’t tell someone who is clearly upset andventing on a forum about something that is affecting their family to grow up. It makes you look smug and nasty. I do everything I can to deflect this shit away from my kids. Doing my absolute best to not give them a complex about it all and have a normal childhood.

In fairness, an AS shows you give it out a fair bit. Especially on Covid/restrictions/vaccines. Some interesting ideas from someone working on the frontline.

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

We should be in full lockdown already but Boris can't break his Xmas promise for the 2nd time so everyone will spread it about and hospitals will be inundated.....as a hospital worker I cant wait.

Surely if you work in the NHS you can see that there need to be staff as well as beds, for all the patients coming in affected by the usual winter viruses and covid?

They are stringing us out and treating us like idiots

This time, I think the opposite. We've had nearly a week of 'here are the risks, please make responsible choices'

Perhaps too much of the population is indeed idiots for that kind of response to fly. The right wing libertarians of course don't make it easy for the more measured voices to be heard.

I can't believe how unkind some of the replies to your post are. Telling you you're a disgrace and part of the problem!!!!!

The problem is the government's incompetence. You have every right to criticise them.

In fact I'm grateful you are because the people blithely telling me, with apparently no interest in my views on what the best approach is that we should have another lockdown are doing my head in, frankly. And it worries me how compliant so many people are with a clearly, corrupt and incompetent government.

I say this as someone who wears FFP3 masks, is vaxed and boosted and vaxed against flu and (temporarily) stopped my contact with other people at the beginning of March 2020, before the government made it compulsory.

How they have the gall to be so authoritarian and guilt-tripping when they failed to prepare for a pandemic and deliberately stripped the nhs for private profit is beyond me. I don't understand why more people aren't furious.

I’d go ahead with the party tbh. They’ll be back at school together by then anyway most likely.

I think that the only way you can remove the uncertainty is to cancel now.

This is what I have done with a similar event I was due to hold in January. It was disappointing but I felt much better once the decision was made.

She can be like the Queen and have two birthdays!

Sorry about your childs party and the uncertainty. If your childs class is anything like my sons then the majority in class have probably already had covid and isolated more than children that age should have to in their lifetime. Its particularly hard for them when all the summer/autumn birthdays have been able to have parties.

@olivehater

First of all they are talking about keeping schools open so that point is moot. And second obviously I’m not going to have a class party because I can’t. But if people think we should keep her at home and not see any friends or family on her birthday again then they can piss off.

So what does it matter what they decide ? You are going to do what you want anyway .

They are watching the figures .

It depends on deaths and hospitalisation and absenteeism in vital public services .unfortunately it is the virus that is affecting those figures not the government.

Be angry , but at the pandemic because anything else is just blowing into the wind .

I know the not uncertainty is awful, especially for people with plans hanging in the balance.

There are some good reasons they’ve not told us yet (that there isn’t that much evidence to work with) and some bad ones (Boris is terrible at taking serious decisions that make him unpopular, Rishi Sunsk doesn’t want to have to reintroduce furlough/payments to businesses etc).

But if they do bring back restrictions we can be pretty damn sure they’re needed.

There’s no use bleating “we had our vaccines” (they’re not as effective vs Omicron) or “are we going to do this for every variant now?” (No, we didn’t do this for Delta - Omicron is WAY more contagious, that’s why it’s so serious!).

We’ve had a child’s birthday party we were supposed to be going to voluntarily cancelled this week. We’ve all committed to coming together to celebrate it at a later date, birthday girl obviously disappointed but understands.

My DS has a late March birthday so has ‘missed out’ on two birthday parties now with this. It sucks yes but in the grand scheme of things it’s a minor sacrifice.

@mibbelucieachwell

I suppose you are blaming every other government in Europe as well ? Some of which have had much stricter lockdowns than us , compulsory vaccination , green passes before you can even get into work ?

And not a worldwide pandemic?

That would be logical .

@olivehater

First of all they are talking about keeping schools open so that point is moot. And second obviously I’m not going to have a class party because I can’t. But if people think we should keep her at home and not see any friends or family on her birthday again then they can piss off.

Go for it then. Have the party at home. You'll not be the only one. DS has a birthday later in January and he certainly won't be going without a party.