Guilt Free Railing 18

[WouldBeGood]

Will it ever end?

Like the mask mandate, the rails go on and on with no reasonable end in sight. Thanks for starting #18

Thanks @WouldBeGood

Signing in to rail against the need for an 18th thread! 😱

Just signing in. FMQs a lot of shite as usual

Thanks for the 18th time for sorting q new thread

We have had to reintroduce bubbles when classes have too high a number of cases.

@IsurviveonCoffeeandWinein2021

Just signing in. FMQs a lot of shite as usual

And not a single mention of masks in schools. I despair

Checking in

Railing about the fact I cannot get to speak to a GP about an eye issue. they sent me to the optometrist, who checked my eye out but cannot prescribe .... surgery now suggested I go to the pharmacy but the issue is that the medication I need is not licensed for my issue so that won't give it to me.

GPs have suspended all ways of communicating with them unless you ring at 8am for as same day call back. If you don't ring at 8 all emergency slots disappear. It's a nightmare for me as a working parent trying to get kids to school at that time / not being able to have somewhere private to tell them why I need an appointment in the first place.

It's so shite it really is. 2 years in and our primary healthcare services are still not operating properly and telling us they cannot deliver healthcare because of Covid.

"GPs have suspended all ways of communicating with them unless you ring at 8am for as same day call back. If you don't ring at 8 all emergency slots disappear. It's a nightmare for me as a working parent trying to get kids to school at that time / not being able to have somewhere private to tell them why I need an appointment in the first place."

I had a similar rail last summer @2022HereWeCome, and frankly I can't believe we are still in this situation! One more example where the genius coming up with these policies doesn't understand the daily reality of parenthood I would guess. It's an absolute disgrace that 2 years in GPs are still on an emergency footing and routine medical care is essentially not available for huge swathes of the population. It seems though that all they need to say is some crap about 'keeping people safe from COVID' and literally anything goes and anyone questioning it is a heartless Tory monster doesn't want to keep people safe. Where is the sense of proportion when the rest of society, even in Scotland, is getting back to normal?? It must surely be doing more harm than good at this point. Makes you wonder if things will ever return to normal.

Signing in. Will it ever end????

Thank you for starting yet another thread @WouldBeGood.

I so agree about the ridiculous hand 'sanitising'. Talk about overuse of antibacterial products. All the previous warnings about antibiotic resistant bugs seems to have been forgotten. Recently when visiting someone in their home I asked if I could use their bathroom to wash my friends and was given hand sanitizer to use instead. I'm not even convinced the gloopy stuff works. I'm sure I heard a bugologist say once that after 25 mins the gloop stops doing anything helpful and creates a nice sticky surface for the germs that are still on your hands to replicate themselves more quickly. Advice about hand washing used to include instructions to dry hands thoroughly as germs like a damp environment. Wasn't it designed to be a stop gap before washing hands later, eg when having an al fresco picnic, after peeing in a bush somewhere remote etc.

The gp thing is bad enough even if you don't have wee ones in the house. It must be a nightmare if you do. DD was complaining about this recently. She got a letter to go for a routine check. Phoned the gp practice who told her to phone the nurse on one of the days she's in. Phoned the nurse who didn't have her diary so said she would phone her back the following day, ie while DD was at her work, with clients all day. Apart from anything else it seems so unnecessarily complicated and inefficient.

DD doesn't have wee ones btw . I so hope I get to be a granny though.

thanks everyone - feel better for railing.

What annoys me is that the surgery pre-Covid had the option of ringing after 5 the day before for a bookable next day emergency appointment or actually just turning up at the surgery on the day between 8.30-10 and waiting to be seen. Surely a percentage of emergency appointments could still be allocated the night before - given that GPs are not seeing people face to face and it is actually more efficient to talk to someone over the phone

So glad our lovely gp surgery doesn't do any of these mad things - just had dd texting from school about squeezing pains in her stomach, and was speaking to the GP 20 mins later.

GP diagnosed over anxious parents and child and said to see how things looked after a rest.

Agree about hand sanitizer - my elder dd has gotten obsessed with it as all this talk of germs has given her fear and I'm always snatching it off her and discouraging it but every time I check her bag the poor thing has 3 in there.

And they wonder why childhood anxiety is surging.

Our kids have been bombarded with so many messages about how they aren't safe unless they follow certain rituals, complete bulldozing of the anxiety literature of communicating a general sense of well-being and things turning out ok.

Happy railing 18 #

Ds1 classmate had been off with Covid and when he came back ds was scared he was going to get sick

By far the biggest issue we have is lack of trust - DS now has a world weary expression that no 8 year should have and mutters 'it'll not happen' or 'yeah, right' or 'what's the point?' a lot.

This all stems from constant disappointments as things have been taken from him constantly under the Covid rules. Although I have been careful not to promise anything, the fact that things have been cancelled at the last minute because of Covid (parties, activities, theatre, seeing people) bubbles and zones are brought back in at school, swimming lessons disappeared for 18months as organisation couldn't hire a pool to deliver them in etc etc has left him with a profound sense of disillusionment no young child should have.

None of our parents are allowed in the playground at all. The P1 and P2 parents can see their kids coming out as they wait behind a wall so teachers can see who's been picked up. Prior to that we had parents in the playground all the time and even standing in the line next to the pupils. Thankfully Covid has done away with that and it won't return.

My hands are chapped and so dry from sanitiser so I don't bother with it any more. When I think of all the shite restrictions we had back at the start - quarantining work for 72 hours before it could be marked, wiping tables down non stop etc it all seems quite ridiculous now

Our primary school only allow parents of the youngest into the playground and they are supposed to wear masks. My son is older now but I never wore the mask.

@Pootle40

Our primary school only allow parents of the youngest into the playground and they are supposed to wear masks. My son is older now but I never wore the mask.

Same here, I’ve never worn a mask to collect or drop off OUTSIDE. Not allowed in the playground to collect outside without a mask, so I stand outside the gates sans mask with many others. Such a shame school staff and teachers standing in playground at home time are all masked up OUTSIDE. At least let them have a breather at the end of the day. Ridiculous.

It is bonkers and I've actively encouraged my kids to realise this is bonkers too

I don’t have much time for Douglas Ross, but at least this week he’s spoken out against Johnson and has a cracking opinion piece In the Express on Sturgeon and the ongoing heavy handed restrictions. “Stop treating us like scolded children.” 🤣🤣

Maybe he reads this thread!

And, astoundingly, apparently Pete Wishart has said it’s a fair point that Johnson might have got it right on Omicron.

I’m off for a lie down

Thanks @wouldbegood for #18 eek.
Quite re Boris, he has restricted and released things better than NS for sure.