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.

@StopTouchingYourFairyGarden hello, fellow lawyer 😃

They did say they're hoping to expand provision for vulnerable children today. So hopefully that is what will actually happen.

I hope so, no kids shouldn’t feel grateful to go to school, and parents shouldn’t need to bankrupt themselves to care for their kids.

equality has gone so far backwards. its the women mainly doing the childcare, giving up their jobs, losing their jobs and just struggling to manage in this shit pandemic.
BAME communities more at risk and less likely to get the jag.
Also disabled people like me who are more at risk, having to shield, struggling with face masks and social distance.
Being refused entry if you don't wear a mask and being asked to prove you are disabled.
Yet you can't prove you are disabled because firstly a disability might be invisible and secondly because your GP will refuse to give you a letter of 'proof'.
Why? Cause its illegal to force someone to disclose a disability.
It is meant to be voluntary disclosure
This whole lockdown is a fucking equalities nightmare.

@jabbathebutt surely you are not getting refused entry that is disgusting? Your are exempt and that's that.

This whole lockdown is a fucking equalities nightmare.

It is - I know you have bigger struggles but I'm autistic and struggle with masks too. I can manage to nip to a shop but I ended up getting pretty unwell last time I went to the hairdressers and had to wear one for a couple of hours. But equality has gone well and truly out the window. Mind, this current govt seem to have some pretty batshit attitudes to equality so can't be surprised.

It’s a complete nightmare equalities wise, so little consideration for folk who can’t wear masks, who need assessment for support or care needs, for people with caring responsibilities - I don’t know how we’re coming out of this.

Not to mention that p1-p3 full time returns are only for kids in mainstream. Disability discrimination.

@StatisticallyChallenged I am too and its so weird with masks, I'm mostly okay in short bursts but yesterday the damn thing felt like it was itching me and I kept having to claw it off and scratch at my face.

Had to cut my B&Q trip short and I love B&Q.

And while we're on discrimination, everyone needing treatment for a medical condition that's not Covid.

@WouldBeGood you can't move on MN for lawyers. I find it somehow very soothing

@anon444877 is that definitely the case? We have an anchor base at our school surely they are prioritised? I thought any kids with additional needs in P1-p3 would be in just the same? Am I wrong and if so who the fuck do I right to because that is vile

I'm doing my own thing from this point onwards. I have never stuck rigidly to the local authority thing. I've had my sister in my house once since Xmas and in-laws (vaccinated) are coming for dinner. Hoping to stay over at a friends in a few weeks time. If we can go on holiday we will be regardless of rules. End of the day if you're pissed off about you just need to make a decision you are comfortable with for the sake of your sanity and your family's sanity. A lady (who is a friend of a friend) is 42 or so and dying of cancer. We need to put all of this into perspective. You don't need to follow these rules. Nothing bad is going to happen. The 'community CASES' (what is a case?) are not high that is a downright lie. Many more CASES are in hospitals. Regain your freedom within limits. If family and friends want to see you and you want to see them just do it.

@Pootle40 yip I'm the same! Done now. Have fulfilled my duty to the NHS

Yep. Life’s too short

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 certainly is true for some ASN schools, looking at a group I'm on. It seems to depend on the council a bit and I hope it'll get sorted out as outrageous to me that any p1-p3 kids would be left out from the return.

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 glad to hear it.....sometimes I think it's just me. I always considered myself a rule follower but this is utter madness.

Surely most people have reached this point. Although I notice when people ask for walk suggestions in our local Facebook groups there’s always one or two people who feel the need to berate anyone who dares to suggest anything even 1m outside the local authority boundary really gets my goat!

I think more and more people will be thinking that @Pootle40 and it will have to end

@Pootle40 I am the same always someone who just did what they where supposed to do. My tolerance is over. I know I have a couple of lawyers if I get fined @WouldBeGood and @StopTouchingYourFairyGarden 😂

Seriously though enough. I'm just doing my thing now.

@anon444877 I will keep an eye out in our school and will have no hesitation raising it if I don't see the kids in school. That is discrimination especially if early years and P1-3

Pootle40 same here. I'm quite reclusive anyway due to various medical stuff or I'd probably push it even more.

I’m quite rebellious by nature but have been pretty obedient.

Not now. Though there is bugger all to do!

I want to go for a swim and a shower, then a coffee and a bite to eat in the cafe watching the other swimmers through the big window feeling all blissed out. Then maybe have a nose in the library, perhaps see if they have the next installment of whatever it is I'm reading at the moment, or something ds might like.

I want to go the games cafe and play board games and drink cheap overpriced tea and eat Costco cookies with my friends (which will never happen again with one of them because stupid fucking cunting covid killed him and its JUST. NOT. FAIR).

I wanted to see my best friend before she goes off to uni at the tender age of 30, the first in her family to do so. I wanted to hug her and wish her good luck and tell her she's going to be a bloody brilliant nurse.

I want my poor lonely little boy to be back in school with his friends and children his own age. I want to get his feet properly measured for new shoes not just me guessing and seeing what sort of fits in asda.

I want the families back in the care home I work in. The residents are dropping like flies from lack of sheer will to live and its fucking heartbreaking.

I want the bone tiredness I still have from having covid myself to just go away. I want to sleep and wake up refreshed. I want the survivors guilt to go away too.

I want the disaster capitalists who've made a fortune off the whole shitshow to come and see face to face the reality of what has happened to ordinary people.

I want to actually see my mum not just talk to her on the phone.

I want dp to be back in work. I want to not have to work 60 hours a week just to make ends meet.

I am fed up of it being winter too.

I have had enough now.

It can all just get in the fucking bin.

Thanks @IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021 I'll keep an eye on the chat on the page too.

All of that billie 🥰🥰🥰