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WouldBeGood · 10/02/2021 14:11

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.

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DeepfriedPizza · 12/02/2021 09:10

StopTouchingYourFairyGarden Congratulations!

What’s pissing me off today was triggered from the Melbourne thread about their 5 day lockdown. Lots of people moaning that they are worse off etc. Half the folk moaning are the ones that had pubs open for booze before Christmas and were allowed to do other things (mainly England). I was thinking about it and we (in the central belt)have been mostly kept in since the end of October and before that it was just shitty little things we were allowed! Fucking October! That was ages ago!

titsbumfannythelot · 12/02/2021 09:27

I must say that annoyed me too, it's shot for anyone being locked down but if the bold Ns told me to stay at home for 5 days and that'd be it I'd bite her bloody hand off.

anon444877 · 12/02/2021 09:43

I heard that on radio 4 too - stay inside for 5 days folks. Ok! Can do.

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WouldBeGood · 12/02/2021 09:45

Yes, actually, a really short focussed lockdown when there’s an outbreak would be much more bearable.

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littlbrowndog · 12/02/2021 09:55

I know. It’s the never ending lockdown with no end in sight

Goes on and on

Sweetpotatoaddict · 12/02/2021 09:56

It feels like some degree of amnesia has set in with regards to the length of our lockdown.
We locked down in March last year, only got out of it mid July. Then we’ve been in lockdown again since the end of October, in the central belt. It’s a long long time.
I would take 5 days happily!

Chasingamy · 12/02/2021 10:13

5 days! Will be avoiding that thread Hmm difficult with all the speculation about the roadmap and how long the measures will have to last. Always worried to see what England is planning as generally rules in Scotland have been even stricter and slower to be relaxed

RaspberryCoulis · 12/02/2021 10:19

I was really surprised to see Mark Drakeford, the Welsh first Minister, on telly this morning saying they need to start opening up.

This is the guy who oversaw the roping off of the non-essential shelves in Tesco. He's out-gloomed Sturgeon from the start.

Tide starting to turn?

titsbumfannythelot · 12/02/2021 10:30

I think part of this all is electioneering now. If we make good progress in next few months people will remember this at the ballot box.

Imicola · 12/02/2021 10:47

@StopTouchingYourFairyGarden we had a nico at home last year for our tenth anniversary. It was lovely. We got the "best of" meal, so each course was a different type of food. Very easy to prepare, but you will need to use a lot of pans! I tried to wash up after each course, which also helped to space out the food a bit, as there is a lot!

Sweetpotatoaddict · 12/02/2021 10:50

Fingers crossed, I'm reaching the end of my tether now. Uncertainty, lack of hope. Slow vaccine role out, which has now ramped up but means slower to see the effect.
I'm lucky I'm out at work, I have absolutely no idea how people deal with homeschooling and home working.

It scares me that if I do contract covid through work I'm in a worse place to fight it than before. Mentally exhausted, none of the simple methods I normally use to destress are available to me. Weight gain, as the only destress is wine and food. Physically in the worst shape I've been in my life.
I know I could exercise outside, but I can't motivate myself. I normally mountain bike or hillwalk, neither of which is legal at the moment due to my location. The weather is not exactly conducive to pounding the pavements at the moment. There are places I could go, but they are not my 'happy' places. I normally love where I live, short drive to the city to bars and restaurants on a rare occasion. Good live music. Friends all around the area within a short drive. Against the great Scottish outdoors, skiing in just under 2 hours for a day, mountain bike trail centres within an hours drive.
I didn't realise how much I was missing all of this until a big fat tear landed on my keyboard.

I'm sad for my children, "it takes a village to raise a child" our village was a slightly bigger geographical size but very much existed all the same. Which I think is similar to lots of people, we might not be friends with all the people where we live but our children had lots of friends that we enjoyed spending time with. Now we are locked in our local authority and can only meet one other adult, which means parents are apart if you wish to meet another family. My DC today couldn't remember who one of her friends were that she used to catch up with pre-covid.

I just need that bit of hope, not endless images of people on tv on ventilators or oxygen who potentially contracted it through no fault of their own, but now they have they are terrified and are left wondering if they did something wrong or worse still terrified they may have infected other people. Cause there's a blame rhetoric about covid that I'm not aware of existing with other infectious diseases.
Theres a balance to be had and I'm suspicious it did exist around end of October when level 3 was in play and numbers peaked and then started a slow fall.

This is like war and peace but I do feel better after typing it.

shouldistop · 12/02/2021 10:54

@Sweetpotatoaddict I'm not sure where you live but remember you can be 5 miles from the border of your local authority area for exercise. In case it helps.

qate · 12/02/2021 10:56

Yeah, jumping on for a non-guilty rant! DH and I are both working abroad and haven't been home for over a year now - we couldn't travel last year due to a complicated pregnancy with suspected fetal anomalies on multiple scans and repeated bleeding (thankfully all worked out OK and DD is perfect), and couldn't even get home when my dad had a serious heart attack (on the mend now thankfully). We'd hoped to get home in Feb, then postponed that to April, and then set a long stop date of July/August and said we'd take unpaid leave and come home for 4-6 weeks so DS4 and DD

qate · 12/02/2021 10:56

Whinge over!! Grin

shouldistop · 12/02/2021 10:58

@qate I'd also be happy to quarantine in order to travel, but only in my own home. I couldn't subject my kids to a hotel room for that length of time either.

Sweetpotatoaddict · 12/02/2021 11:05

I wouldn’t quarantine in a hotel, I would construe the risk as being too large to my family both in terms of contracting covid abs also mental well-being etc. Perhaps there should be an option of paying for security outside your house or a tag, I imagine for some families it would be a cheaper option!

shouldistop · 12/02/2021 11:09

@Sweetpotatoaddict yeah I wouldn't even mind being tagged Grin

qate · 12/02/2021 11:09

Exactly - when we quarantine on the way back we have the option of paying a supplement to get an adjoining room so at least the kids can get a change of scene and they're not staring at the same 4 walls 24 hours a day. But it feels selfish to drag them back to quarantine in a premier inn even though I think the time with grandparents would be worthwhile. We've thought about booking a holiday cottage for two weeks in England and quarantining there but that's a bit pointless if there are still travel restrictions throughout the UK so we couldn't see family anyway! DH and parents keep saying we'll see how things are looking but it feels like our parents have given up on seeing us too which is getting me down even more. The irony is that we'll be vaccinated by then but the ScotGov have said that won't exempt us from quarantine as it would be "discriminatory towards those who can't get vaccinated yet". Surely that shouldn't matter if the restrictions are imposed on public health grounds and the vaccine is by that time shown to reduce risk to us and more importantly to anyone we come into contact with when we're back!

LetItGoGo · 12/02/2021 11:10

Didn't Germany have a system from the start where they'd check up on you quarantining at home?

qate · 12/02/2021 11:11

@Sweetpotatoaddict

I wouldn’t quarantine in a hotel, I would construe the risk as being too large to my family both in terms of contracting covid abs also mental well-being etc. Perhaps there should be an option of paying for security outside your house or a tag, I imagine for some families it would be a cheaper option!
I'd happily be tagged!! Or GPS monitoring via phone. Or pay an uplift to get extra space in the hotel. Anything but a 4x4m room for 11 days Sad
theotherfossilsister · 12/02/2021 11:11

[quote qate]Yeah, jumping on for a non-guilty rant! DH and I are both working abroad and haven't been home for over a year now - we couldn't travel last year due to a complicated pregnancy with suspected fetal anomalies on multiple scans and repeated bleeding (thankfully all worked out OK and DD is perfect), and couldn't even get home when my dad had a serious heart attack (on the mend now thankfully). We'd hoped to get home in Feb, then postponed that to April, and then set a long stop date of July/August and said we'd take unpaid leave and come home for 4-6 weeks so DS4 and DD

LetItGoGo · 12/02/2021 11:13

I didn't realise they had anticipated vaccination and deemed acting on it as discriminatory. My mind is boggled again.

qate · 12/02/2021 11:14

@theotherfossilsister exactly how I feel!!

WaxOnFeckOff · 12/02/2021 11:16

Anyone currently in Aberdeen that can tell me what current driving conditions are? Was messaging with DS last night and he's clearly worried about driving in the snow and I'd reminded him to get stocked up with food so he didn't have to go out. His girlfriend starts a wee part time job today and it's not walkable and a nightmare by public transport so he is going to drive her but as i say sounded worried. Getting any facts from him as regards how deep his snow is etc weren't helpful. It's not that like him to be worried, he is a good driver and quite confident. Sorry for the intrusion :o

qate · 12/02/2021 11:18

@LetItGoGo

I didn't realise they had anticipated vaccination and deemed acting on it as discriminatory. My mind is boggled again.
Yup 😔 this article is a bit vague but didn't fill me with confidence: www.scotsman.com/news/politics/comprehensive-system-managed-quarantine-promised-nicola-sturgeon-3127813