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.

I’m sad that my kids are growing up through this and the fact they’re only little once and missing out on all the fun things they liked doing as a family, my youngest is almost 2 and I think back to my other two at that age we’d be at soft play, toddler groups, classes etc. But he’s had nothing.
My eldest is 7 and has changed a lot this year. I just feel sad that the so called best years when the kids are young is and has been shit and doesn’t look like it will be normal again for years

Wouldbegood why am I not surprised by that. The people I know of who have been ill or died have mostly been connected with hospital.

Also hate how this way of living is starting to seem so normalised. It’s gone on so long I’m stating to forget what real normal life is like.

Welcome @Theonlyoneiknow the more the... ahem.. merrier? 😂

It is good to vent. This is hard!

And @LetItGoGo yes, it’s quite stark when you see that. And those cases will spread into the community. Might be better to tackle that than the quarantine hotels

Thanks for the welcome! Anyone else still find themselves catching their own thoughts and are like Is this actually real or just a very bad dream! Some days I just can't get my head around it!

It’s a total bag of shit. Someone needs to actually provide some sort of opposition to Sturgeon and let her know these are our lives not hers and she has to get her act together and get it all sorted PDQ

@Theonlyoneiknow

Thanks for the welcome! Anyone else still find themselves catching their own thoughts and are like Is this actually real or just a very bad dream! Some days I just can't get my head around it!

All the time. It seems so weird to think this time last year I was doing x, y, z and it shouldn't bloody well feel like that.

Well my young adult child flipped tonight after being very calm for weeks. I think it's the realisation that vaccination of the older folk is not going to bring much background. ( Well pubs / clubs / seeing friends and going on holiday are the main concern. I had a lot of sympathy tbh.)

Hello, can I join you all?
Utterly fed up.
Still upset and angry only some children are returning to school - I have a P4.
I'm knackered.
I'd give anything for a day of shopping (not the food shop), lunch, cocktails and a trip to the cinema.

Oh and some live music!

Or just anything apart from the fucking park

@letitgogo that's weird my youngster who is no quite an adult (16) in a few months.. Flipped tonight as well.
I think it's dawning on them after a year it's looking like they are further away from getting their life back than ever

Thanks for the thread @WouldBeGood it’s good to just vent without accusation of being a covid denier, anti vaccine, unionist, selfish, ungrateful etc, etc.

Really feel for the young. Tired of hearing ‘they’re resilient, they can bounce back’ Bounce back to what exactly? I hate all the arbitrary rules- such as staying in your council area, hot food can’t be sold inside, shop once a week, meet only one other person so as a couple you can’t go to meet a single friend or elderly relative who might need company on a walk. P3 can go back but not P4 who might only be a few months older in age. Don’t stop walking to chat with your (takeaway) coffee in hand, because then it’s socialising and you could kill a relative. Just ridiculous, sick of not being treated like an adult and having to follow made up rules.

@hilbil21 a definite positive for me is having at least a tenner left the day before pay day. Having money to pay off debt and not feel guilty and sad that I constantly had to tell dc that we couldn’t afford xy&z. And for once my children don’t have to hear about everyone else’s summer/ October holidays abroad.
So yes the positives for me are that my children don’t feel different from others. Don’t think that’s in the least bit saintly.

@Bytheloch totally agree where has the evidence for these rules come from?! Was there any track and trace data saying for eg picking up a takeaway inside causing problems. And yeah bounce back to what - is there even a plan to get everything going again (once we can) feels like staring into the abyss

Thought you guys might appreciate this

Also fed up of how polarised and angry and vapid all the conversation around this has got, especially on here. Can’t complain about how shit life is without getting scolded for whinging. Can’t have a discussion about when restrictions should be lifted without being accused of being one of the covid-denying lunatic fringe.

It’s like people really think we must all firm into two orderly queues, the “mustn’t grumble, even if we all need to stay locked up until 2026 I’ll do it with a smile!” side and the “this is all a nefarious social control plan that all the world governments have secretly agreed on and there is no ‘virus’” side. When really most people aren’t on either extreme and just want to be able to react like human beings.

@titsbumfannythelot

Thought you guys might appreciate this

yes!

@titsbumfannythelot

Thought you guys might appreciate this

that is so spot on

Hello fellow misery guts

I'm doing ok with most things. Don't care anymore about shops and restaurants being shut and there being nothing to do. I think my soul has been crushed to the extent that I no longer expect to have fun with any of that stuff.

The main thing that is pushing me to the edge of my sanity is working with 2 small children at home. Like in thousands of households, we don't qualify for key worker places (I'm one, DH is not) but we are expected to work in incredibly full-on difficult professional jobs and produce the same output that we would in normal circumstances. No possibility of furlough and in both of our jobs have got harder/longer hours during the pandemic. All the while with children at home who are being ignored, snapped at, fobbed off all day long. It's horrible and makes me despair in all honesty.

My sister does qualify for key worker status and texted me this morning to say her DC (same age as my oldest) doesn't feel like going in today so she's not going to send her. I would give my left arm for that space!

Meanwhile my kids have another day of iPads/paw patrol/quavers and bring shouted at to be quiet while we're on a call. I cannot take this any longer

In the same position here with kids and working StopTouchingYourFairyGarden. It is so so shit.

@titsbumfannythelot love this so accurate

I don't pay a single bit of attention to the local authority crap....for being outdoors, who cares?!

Me neither. Just go wherever I want to walks, supermarket, takeaway coffee etc as a way to retain a tiny little bit of normality.
I've sort of quietly removed my consent for any of this. Its an internal struggle as in my former life I was someone that hated breaking rules and very definitely didn't walk on the grass when told not to.
But it feels important to my own sense of humanity that I can't let myself be dictated to to that extent.
I'm not doing anything more likely to spread infection btw. Just the usual allowed activities.