Scotland- Enough is enough

[Bytheloch]

Starting this thread for those of us who are done. I don’t want to just rail or fight about it with those who still believe that government messaging is in our best interest. Enough is enough.

The sooner we start only testing people with symptoms meaning they need to be hospitalised the better. It just raises anxiety and gets folk behaving as if we need crosses on the doors and people out collecting bodies in the street.

Absolutely @RedactedTaeFeck. It’s just madness now.

But then they need to stop focussing on the positivity rate - if they're only testing people who are likely to have it, the positivity rate will go through the roof. Which is fine, as long as they don't use the positivity rate as an excuse to stop us doing things.

@Lockdownbear

I'm done too. The fan zone, in Glasgow has pushed me over the edge. 8 folk from different household sharing a table. 6500 using the same loos etc. While at the same time saying nurseries cannot hold Graduations for little kids indoors or outdoors.

Last year I was cynical on the its safe to meet indoors as long as it has a till but unsafe to meet in a private house with less people. Show me the science that says it safe to have a coffee in Costa (plenty) but not in my house?

Now I'm done with all the nonsense.

Graduations for little kids from nursery? Are you kidding? What insanity is this?

The nursery graduations are little shows - they usually sing songs and get a book, they're so cute and it is special, it's a big deal finishing nursery.

We don't need the positivity rate either. All that's needed is for the rate of people in hospital or icu because of covid to be tracked. If its got the point when most folk who have it don't get ill or can't tell if its hay-fever and the vulnerable have been vaccinated then it's time to shut down the restrictions and get back to normal life.

They're already misusing the positivity rate. Someone mentioned on here the other day the 5% positivity rate WHO talk about is for random community sampling.

Anything else is meaningless
Bit like saying 95% of people turning up at A&E need hospital treatment 🤷🏼‍♀️

Yes.. we need to know only of people in hospital because of Covid.

And I’d like to know what they’re doing to cope with the surge in demand caused by the backlog of non Covid cases.

I can cope with wearing a mask indoors, pre booking just about everything, limited people and days in the office, only meeting small groups of friends etc etc but if Queen Nicola thinks I'm not going to drive myself to Manchester to see friends and family after the way those football fans have been allowed to behave she can right off!

@emmathedilemma

I can cope with wearing a mask indoors, pre booking just about everything, limited people and days in the office, only meeting small groups of friends etc etc but if Queen Nicola thinks I'm not going to drive myself to Manchester to see friends and family after the way those football fans have been allowed to behave she can ** right off!

No shit! I'm driving to Lancashire.

@Haudyourwheesht

There are also a lot of 'STICK TO THE RULES ITS YOUR FAULT THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS IVE NOT HUGGED MY GRAN IN 3 YEARS THE THIRD WAVE WILL BE HERE SOON AND ITLL ALL BE YOUR FAULT' type posters.

Yeah, they can go and stay inside then.

I'm in.

It is now nonsensical bullshit

I can’t cope with the mask for more than a few minutes so I’m ditching it for anything more.

More than happy to keep my distance though 😃

Roddy Dunlop on Twitter saying the Manchester laws are shite

We are waiting on tenterhooks to see if the school can get through one last week without going into isolation. I reckon if the testers went through the school they would find loads of cases, but parents just can’t be bothered with isolation so we are just keeping outlet heads down.

My son is in P7, no transition, no visit to the new school. We can cope with that but if they don’t get their leavers assembly and party due to Covid isolation there will be a lot of devastated children.

I am one of those citizens who has been compliant since the start but now I am just wanting our lives to all return to normality. I want to be free to walk into a shop without thinking ' oh crap, I need my face mask'. I have forgotten what life was like before.

It is our children I feel so sorry for. What will they make of this in years to come.

@Whycangirlsbesonasty we are in the exact same position. DD has had most of her leavers’ events. There’s no transition. However I just want her to get her last five days without isolation. I’m not sure she will cope if she doesn’t have those days to process what’s ahead and have that opportunity to say goodbye. Children are resilient but resilience isn’t never ending. I can see her bounce back getting lower every time she hits another set back.

Been pretty done for a while but it's a strange sort of super scary variant that settles at a lower level than the areas it is supposedly spreading out to. Weirder still that Fife and Dundee are shaping up to be the epicentres when they have just got rid of their student "superspreader" populations

What's happening in Fife and Dundee? I live in Fife but have mostly shut off from the news these days so it looks like I have missed what is happening.

I think the way it spreads us weird. Or maybe its just the way it shows in the figures. Dundee has the highest rates now in Scotland but in a few weeks it could be way down. Moray now is almost at the bottom. Where i live its consistently been really high.
Is it targeted testing thats bringing it up?

DS is in S6. Leaving school for ever. Huge life event for all of them.

Usually school run a "fun day" at a local sports club where there's a BBQ, games, just lots of silly stuff for them to enjoy with their friends. And a prom in the evening.

None of that this year. They are putting on rounders at school tomorrow morning but because of "social distancing", they can only have 50% of the year at a time. No prom, no assembly, no prize giving. No nothing.

It's not just shit for the rising 5s starting school in August, or the P7s moving up to secondary. It's really really shit for S6 leavers too.

These rites of passage are so important @RaspberryCoulis. It makes me really sad. They e just been swept away as if they mean nothing. It’s shite.

@RaspberryCoulis at DSs private school they managed an outdoors leavers ball, so it's not that it cannot be done, but requires a lot of effort and ultimately the recognition that these rights of passage do matter to our young people - at least as much as watching football and drinking alcohol matters to others.

Not having your s6 holiday in zante with all your pals is the worst thing for them.

Yep it's really really crap for 18 yr olds. And unless social distancing goes their 1st yr at Uni or college will be shit