Guilt free railing

[WouldBeGood]

The place to vent, moan, rail, cheer: whatever you’re feeling about Covid, and the rules, and life and the universe.

I’ve started this as I’m feeling scared and fed up with increasing restrictions despite vaccines. I feel that what should be a more positive time is instead bringing more and more doom.

I want the simple pleasures of life back, as well as all the big stuff.

What's bugging you most would?

I miss my pals and having a purpose to my day.

I'm just increasingly hacked off about being told what to do when I'm bloody already doing it and it's shite.

I was chatting to friends on line as it was one friends birthday, single parent to an adult teen boy and I just wanted so much to just meet in a pub, good music good vibes and a hug and I'm neither a drinker or hugger.

Just feels like they've managed to control us and they like it and want it to keep on. I'm so sad for the young adults that are missing out on first adventures in life, boys/girls holidays, nights out, meeting partners, getting jobs etc and at the other end of the scale, the elderly that want to see their families and enjoy what could their last year or two.

Sorry for the multiple posts, I've been holding stuff in.... 😁

Does that feel better now?

I want dd to be back at school.
I also want to be able to arrange to meet friends for dinner and drinks. I can't remember the last time I was in a pub it might have been October!!
I'm finding it hard to remember what life was like pre covid.

Yes to all of the above!

The quarantine hotel thing has really scared me. I’m fearful that I’m really not going to get my life back. I feel like I’m in a nightmare that never ends.

I’m normally quite cheery, honest! But this has all sent me spiralling.

I feel better already though that other people are fed up too 😂

Honestly? It does a bit 😉

Fucked off with the fact we have a lying bastard if government that everyone and their granny wants to make excuses for.

Can't do anything for my partners birthday, my little girls birthday or my own! I want to go to a restaurant eat a big fucking bowl of pasta and have a large white wine. Preferably La Vita with all the hustle and bustle then maybe a bit of karaoke before the blue lagoon and the last train home

We have a vaccine and low numbers yet told restrictions will be in place for months to come. You want to shut the border? Couldn't do it? Aye you bloody well could it would seem. You shut them you open everything up here!!!!

Thank you that was cathartic 😂

Yes yes yes to school.

The work DS is getting is good, but high school boys shouldn’t be locked up with their ancient mother for months and months. We get on really well but it’s not right

The highlight of my days before extra rules was meeting 2 friends for a walk and a laugh. So, physical exercise and mental health. Can't do that now and it's really not the same in twos.

Now worried about being reported which I would never have bothered about before as to me it was always a low risk.

I'm more concerned that that is how I think now.

I cried this morning. The baby wouldn't stop crying, I'm just so desperate for life to go back to normal. For ds1 to be able to go to nursery / gymnastics / swimming / soft play and for me to be able to go to some baby groups with ds2.
Almost a quarter of ds1 life has been stuck in this horrible pandemic. Who knows what the long term consequences of this will be.

I fear biscuits are the highlight of most of my days these days! The snow is nice at least.

We were watching Sopranos the other night and Tony tells Carmela to get her coat and they'll go out for dinner and DH paused and then said "I just thought there that how we're they going for dinner when everything is shut? " It's seeping into everyday consciousness now.

@WaxOnFeckOff that is rubbish.

I want friends over for dinner. I want to go up to the modern art gallery and have a wander followed by cake in the cafe.

Get my arse kicked into gear at the gym.

@shouldistop I can’t even imagine how hard it is with little ones. I used to go to at least one thing each day just to keep me sane.

@WaxOnFeckOff I’m watching the Sopranos for the first time- absolutely loving it. The writing is amazing.

Apart from school, I think the latter primary kids are at least out playing together. I can't remember what's allowed as doesn't impact me, but all the roughly age 7 upwards dc in the street have been out playing together. Little ones it's harder and older ones not allowed to have groups.

I want them to acknowledge that, after being locked down for a year, and in the majority, following the rules, we deserve to be told what the plan is from 15 Feb. What figures do we need to hit in order to get some lockdown restrictions lifted?

Glad you are enjoying Sopranos. We have it on dvd but I've not watched it. Luckily DH barely remembers what happened. We watch an episode of something with DS (20) just to get him out his room. At the moment we alternate a disc of sopranos with a disc of game of thrones which I've never seen either.

@toucancancan yes! It's been almost a year. Numbers are falling, people are being vaccinated. Wtf do we have to do?!
What happened to the 'route map out of lockdown', what happened to the 'levels'? They just seem like they don't have a clue what they're doing.

I'm completely and utterly fed up. Anyone who can find anything positive in this now is a saint in my eyes.

Hey everyone

Jumping in after lurking for the past few months, hope you don't mind a newcomer.

I agree with all of the above.. I am fed up beyond belief, exhausted by the fact that no matter how many restrictions we get landed on it, it never seems to be enough.

I'm tired of being stuck in the house, on calls for work most of the day, squeezing home education in where we can. It's so tough as I just feel like a total failure as a parent.

Three kids, 6, 4 and 2, none of them getting the interaction or attention they need and deserve.
Toddler has developed a squint, was referred in December and told she can't be seen for the foreseeable future. P2 is on waiting list for ASD assessment, and she is just not coping.
Then there's the poor preschooler, suffering from (what I can only describe as) depression, she loves nursery.

We have no family or close friends, so it's just us and the kids. Day in. Day out.
Time feels like it has stopped, but at the same time the relentless merry-go-round routine is making me feel like everything is spinning.

/Rant over

Oh and I also want Nicola to do the same as Boris even if it's not a great decision on Westminster's part as even when she goes a step further with stuff it seems to make feck all difference.

Does anyone know where I can find the cases per 100k historically in Scotland?

There's 129 per 100k in my area just now, I'm pretty sure that's almost as low as it was in September.