Guilt Free Railing 7

[WouldBeGood]

Perhaps needed

Thanks I'll check stepping stones - although I can see it might be a good time to find a gym with a pool and lessons especially as it'll likely be a long domestic summer holiday.

I feel so much better now.

However the weather is shite and I'm fed up of shite weather.

I've taken next week off on the basis the Mercury is forecast to be 15 c + - this is looking foolhardy based on today's evidence!

I am probably being unreasonable..

But they set up asymptomatic testing in our town.. we had very few cases before it and now the numbers are jumping up . This has caused a panic with people saying close the schools as that is where the cases are and the local boys brigade has been suspended.

I dont understand why we are doing this testing now.. surely the time for this should have been this time last year

If you ask me they want to keep project fear going..

Like I say Im most likely being unreasonable but I'm just sick of it.. stop testing healthy people

frasersmummy even if cases appear to be high, if people are not becoming ill, then it's all OK, surely? Which would mean we as a society can function. with a high number of cases.
Heard on BBC that in England they'd had 58000 people at controlled mass events, and only 15 got CV. That gives me hope.

I’m with you @frasersmummy I do not get this quest to test to keep the numbers up. They’d be far better using the resources to vaccinate people.

I don't think you are being unreasonable either. Send out out mobile jagging units instead.

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst

frasersmummy even if cases appear to be high, if people are not becoming ill, then it's all OK, surely? Which would mean we as a society can function. with a high number of cases. Heard on BBC that in England they'd had 58000 people at controlled mass events, and only 15 got CV. That gives me hope.

Exactly. At this stage cases do not matter. Because the cases who would have developed a serious illness or died are vaccinated.

Cases are irrelevant. Hospital admissions and deaths are more relevant and are very low.

agree, mobile vaccine vans, that'd be so much better.

Anyone following the Cummings testimony? It's amazing that the cabinet secretary said in March 2020 that Hancock was an inveterate liar they couldn't work with and he's still in post...

The Cummings evidence is absolutely incredibly breathtaking.

I mean, quite apart from the fact that he's a self-serving little shit, and of course the lone hero in a world full of villains, if even half of what he says is true - and we know a lot of it is by contemporaneous reporting - the government essentially killed tens of thousands of people, both by choice, and through their vast inadequacies.

I’m loving the nuts about Carrie and the dog as seen in Twitter.

Bits! Not nuts! Dear god

Definitely a settling of scores going on with the dog swipe - it's pretty irrelevant to the select committee if funny!

Hancock does have to be absolutely dreadful for the cabinet secretary to try and get him removed, that's the most surprising bit as a lot of the other things do seem to have come out in the press quite clearly.

I’m glad I took the decision to go on the medication otherwise I’m not sure what I would have done to keep going this week.

Something has happened, (sorry I don’t want to say exactly what, i’m kind of struggling to understand it myself) but basically a result of the effects of lockdown and changing what friends are comfortable with doing/having in their lives and I know they won’t change their mind. Yet another thing where covid keeps on giving and feels like nothing is improving and slowly getting worse.

Sorry just feeling really upset and emotional.

I agree we shouldn’t be counting cases and never should have been. It’s people actually in hospital because of covid that matter not anything else.

I'm really sorry to hear that runningpink It does seem difficult for many people to adjust back. We've been living under such unnatural conditions for so long, that even moves to normality are feeling weird (and they still are weird, with the overarching threat of things getting worse, restrictions, booking, distancing, masks and so on). I think things will eventually get better, but I think it will take everyone longer than I initially assumed! I really hope you can talk to people in real life... much though you can of course rail guilt free here. And I'll give you some virtual and an awkward back pat.

Runningpink I hope the meds make you feel better soon.
I hope you are able to get out and meet new people. Lots Covid has tested many peoples resolve and will push friendships in many different directions.

Hey, @runningpink have another awkward backpat from me.

It’s all such a bloody mess. Glad you got meds. And you’re not alone.

It's been a strange time for friendships, quite divisive. Medicine is a good decision, brave, I know it's hard to do sometimes. Things will get better, even the weather is finally forecast to, this spring has been long and dull.

What I would say @runningpink is that I’ve actually been more in touch with people who I’d say were more acquaintances than friends and who are willing to “risk” venturing out and that’s gone better than with people I’d have thought of as better friends

Thanks for the awkward back pats and wine!

I have other friends and one who I can talk too. Also luckily have plans this weekend so hopefully that will keep my mind occupied.

This was my biggest fear that people would be happy sticking in their family bubbles and don’t care about mixing again which has now happened.

I think I’m finding it harder as they have waited until now to tell me rather than months ago when they had the opportunity too. Wasn’t expecting this at all

That's rubbish @runningpink, I think we are all cowards and take the easiest way out possible when we can.

Have another virtual hug from me 🌷

Hugs @runningpink

Aw I'm sorry @runningpink. If it's any consolation I spend most of the week feeling pretty lonely. There are other mums I could contact to meet up with the babies but anxiety about whether they actually like me holds me back. It's silly because I'm pretty sure they probably do like me well enough.

I'm railing again about the refusal to set up long covid clinics in Scotland!

Still unfit for work going through my GP (on the telephone) they have now put in a referral for physio to try and help with the daily muscle pain...... Except the physio will be on zoom..... 🙄

The whole thing is horrendous!

So I'm investigating private options where I can be seen and treated in person!
If they set up long covid clinics my fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain and breathlessness could all be seen in one place. Currently my GP has simply said you might not recover from the fatigue as we don't know much about long covid....... Pretty sure the experts in long covid clinics in England have been successfully improving patients!