Guilt Free Railing 15

[WouldBeGood]

The railing never ends.

No resilience wankery, all railing welcome, along with good things or humorous asides.

Oh lord @MaxNormal. 🥲

I think @StarryEyeSurprise is a supporter of vaccine passports.

I’m not.

Think your post was fine @OnceUponAWhine. It shows the fruitlessness of railing against measures in Scotland. No dissent allowed.

@WouldBeGood fair does, everyone is entitled to their opinion, I wouldn't have necessarily associated being anti with Trump fangirling mind you

I will find somewhere with sun to let me in come summer. Hopefully. I'm in the lucky position both practically and temperamentally where the post holiday quarantine is not an issue for me.

I’m wearing my Trump ball cap @MaxNormal.

Is there an exemption from the isolating for essential workers? Seems lots of NHS staff are off isolating.

Railing about my mum and step dad demanding everyone has to do LFT for Christmas Day. They're spending it at MY house so I don't see why they get to implement their rules on my family and my other guests. I told her we won't he doing them.
If she doesn't want to come then that's fine.

I can see the point I'm doing Lft before going to a party esp if someone is potentially vulnerable.

No ones vulnerable, mum & step dad in their 60s but fit and healthy and have had 3 jags now. 12 people, 4 of them small children. The 2 who work outside the home do tests twice weekly due to their jobs, everyone else wfh or retired or mat leave.
I feel very strongly about not testing for something if I'm not sick, and I feel even more strongly about not testing my children if they're not sick. She actually wants me to pin my 12 month old baby down to swab his nose. Honestly she can fuck off. This comes from a background of her bossing everyone around all the time. She makes me furious sometimes.

Sweinny the swine is giving it more restrictions next week, two words and the second one is OFF

My step dad referred to the children as 'vectors of infection' last winter and told my mum she wouldn't be seeing them when I had a tiny newborn.

Sod off if anyone thinks I'd swab a baby or preschooler if they weren't ill.
I totally get your point

@WouldBeGood is it a MAGA hat? I wonder if Santa will bring me one.

@shouldistop a twelve month old baby is way too much of an ask. They don't know to keep still so it would very far too easy to hurt them.

It's really the limit for me tbh. I have felt really let down by her. She refused to hold the baby when he was a day old straight home from hospital. That moment is stuck in my mind tbh.

I don't mean to go off track but is your stepdad normally that controling

@shouldistop 😱 that's not on.

@Lockdownbear he is pretty controlling tbh, I'm noticing it more now he's retired. I've never lived with him so I don't have a father / daughter relationship but he does always think he's right. It annoys me. He can be lovely at times but he's getting worse with age. I feel like now he's at home it's his way or the high way. It will start affecting my mums relationship with her grandkids if she's not careful.

Pre Christmas treat for you @MaxNormal

It makes me miss my dad all the more. He died 2 years ago and I feel so sad for my kids that they don't have a proper grandad. We're NC with dh dad.
My dad never would have called my children vectors of infection and would have done anything to have had more time and have been able to meet the baby. I'd have had to fight him to get the baby back off him

@shouldistop 💐

Maybe just have Christmas Day without them? Mine have been much better since I removed family obligations and just have the day with my DCs.

@WouldBeGood they are welcome to come, I wouldn't uninvite them but they may choose not to come.

I'm railing about the fact that my two AZ vaccines so far are pretty much useless against Omicron and I don't get my booster until next Sunday. If drop ins were available I'd queue as long as it took to get it even a week early. And also railing about the fact that DD has 3 pre-prelims next week otherwise I think I'd keep her off school as I don't see how we're going to avoid isolation and then not be able to see my parents at Christmas for the second year in a row.

That's a good way to do it @shouldistop

Good solution should, it's traumatic for young kids who don't understand what's being done - we've all lft'd today and it's a horrible sensation. Even my 11 yo does an increasingly agonising high pitched noise as I'm swabbing and she knows why it's needed.

Just what you want for Christmas Day!

I read that about AZ too @TeenTraumaTrials but they were talking about it being ineffective against symptomatic covid.

People have always caught covid following the vaccine, however it is very effective against hospitalisation.
They say it's too early to tell if it's still effective against hospitalisation with omicron.

The headline is scaremongering

@shouldistop well done on being so restrained and standing your ground I would have lost my shit if my mum told me to test DS or had anyone refer to my child as a vector of illness!
Hopefully she will either suck it up or you guys will have a lovely chilled Christmas without her and she can sulk with your step dad!

I completely refuse to test DS unless it's a emergency and Dr refuses to see him!

We do LFT for family as some are vulnerable but not usually regularly I don't do PCRs unless absolutely necessary for holiday or very unwell. I know from having covid that I tested positive on LFT for quite some time and if they are good enough to test teachers and NHS workers regularly then that's good enough for me! I never bother to register the results though!

I've had to do loads of tests last few weeks due to bronchitis just for the Dr to have a video consultations! Still not great 3 weeks and a round of antibiotics on!

 Very bad luck @mapleleavesreturn

It's horrible when family members have very strong, differing views about covid. Really difficult.

The hospital numbers are a good bit down today though.