Guilt free railing

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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.

Thank goodness for you guys.

TWA are notW as a distraction as we flee is genius 😂😂

I think she can’t stop us going to England as it’s not an international border.

That's what got my goat fluffyugg, geared up for schools good news and we immediately got a slap down about things opening up even slower than last summer's glacial pace. That and the fact we probably won't see any family at all til what, October half term if we are lucky at this rate if we do what we are telt...

Well by the sound of it we'll be able to see at least DH's part if the family. We've been nowhere apart from some local camping since 2019. And even 2019 was a holiday in Scotland because we had a baby and thought we'd do something local. In hindsight we were idiots! 😂

The holiday thing is really crushing. What’s the actual point of the vaccine??

I agree that this will be hard to sustain if Boris opens up. I never thought I’d see the day I was looking to him for hope 😱

I’m glad I went to France and, gasp, England! Last year

I think she can’t stop us going to England as it’s not an international border.

You'd think that but it's currently illegal to leave your council area. The snp are rubbing their hands with glee at all of these powers

There does seem to be absolutely no acknowledgement of the seriousness of these restrictions and their impact.

Taking away hope is the worst.

and despite all of this, there are still folk who love Nicola Sturgeon!

@jabbathebutt I just really struggle to understand why. It’s like a religion.

Ahhh, I see Linda Bauld was talking to Good Morning Scotland about ‘staycations’ being maybe possible in summer a few days ago. Is that why it came up today?

At any rate Linda Bauld has also said that we’ll ‘have to’ wear masks for the rest of the year and for all winters in the future, and frankly, fuck off with that. People have made huge sacrifices to stop mass death and overwhelmed hospitals, but that doesn’t mean we signed over all rights to normal life in the aim of nobody ever getting covid ever again.

Am a bit puzzled as to when public health stopped being about harm mitigation and cost/benefit balance and trying to work with people not against them, and became “yes we can put in place laws to stop you hugging your family and don’t you complain because it’s for your own good”?

@Callisto1 yes we too had a Scottish holiday in Summer 2019. The one non sunny week of the holidays spent in Caste Douglas, which was misrepresented to me as somehow being like the Lake District.

If we ever escape from this Dystopian hell I won't be making that mistake again. Although there was a very nice chocolate shop.

As of it wasn’t bad enough, for some strange reason every time I flip to this page her statement is wittering away in the background. Waaaaah, make her stop

Linda Bauld can take a massive fuck to herself quite frankly. She's not an epidemiologist or indeed any kind of scientist.

Wait, isn’t she? What’s her background then?

Political science. Which, unless they include some very surprising modules, doesn't incline me to think she's particuarly well qualified to pronounce.
Devi Sridhar has a background in philosphy also if you're interested.
These are the people informing our policy.

I'm not a huge Whitty fan but ffs.

Do you think I would be allowed/ be justifiable to go down over the Easter period to see my 78 year old mum on the south coast of England whom I haven't seen for a year? I would need to go down on the train. She lives on her own and has no bubble. She has worrying signs of dementia/forgetfulness/confusion. She has had the first Oxford vaccine a few weeks ago.

I feel so miserable about it all.

@GoldenOmber I read that as “Linda Bauld has also said we’ll have to wear masks for the rest of our lives”.

I’ve got to the stage nothing would surprise me

@Aurea providing care for a vulnerable elderly person. It's a specific exemption so I can't see how it's against the rules.

Thanks!

It's a ten hour train journey so I would worry about passing something on to her from the train. I'm not brave enough to drive that far.

Also I have to pass through London. It's a difficult decision.

clearly I should apply for the Setting Down Rules About Covid job myself...

I would expect people with a politics/philosophy background to know a bit about constructing sound arguments, though. Like “we’ll have to wear masks” - surely the bit missing there is “we’ll have to in order for what”? Because if it’s “we’ll have to in order to stop hospitals getting overwhelmed”, then that’s one thing, but if it’s “we’ll have to in order to stop anyone getting covid at all even after vaccination” then I feel ‘have’ is carrying quite a lot of weight there.

It does feel like our national approach on this has not quite taken into account how much vaccines have changed the game. So much about not repeating the mistakes of last summer and not wanting to end up like last spring, lots of “wish we’d gone down the New Zealand route back in March, but it’s never too late!” - it is too late, and now you’re fighting the last war.

@Aurea that is an exemption and is allowed now. I understand why you will be worried about train travel but Your mum will likely have had her second jab by then. We need to start having faith in the vaccine.

Nicola will be hoping furlough will be extended so that she can get away with keeping us locked up for longer.

Do we think Rishi will do it? One last fulough extension until the autumn when most adults have jag no 1?

Dh hasn't been abroad for a holiday (not work) since 2018 thanks to geriatric dog - he's still resisting contacting holiday company and trying to rebook for summer 2022. Can't blame him but think writing is on the wall.

Unless there's a shock and the SNP somehow do badly but people seem to think tough restrictions are vote winners.

I've posted this before but here's our government's bright idea about boosting mental health.