Guilt Free Railing 20

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The curtain call.

May this thread be empty 😃

All good news welcome too, to go along with railing, guilt free

Oh, @sweetkitty , that’s rubbish. Talk about Sod’s law 💐

Not been on this thread for months, but is came up on Active. @sweetkitty snap - infected on our extended family holiday. Not a surprise really as nephew tested positive a few days before, but as it was UK came anyway.
What is a bit of an unpleasant surprise is how laid low I am with it. Thank god we weren't abroad - it was difficult enough making it back home from the Peak District - having part of the M6 closed didn't help. DH also infected but recovering much quicker than me, which I'm sure he's thinking is because his immune system is better/he does more exercise/has a lower BMI.

oh no, @rookiemere what a shame 💐

@LunchPoems the sad thing is I'm quite relieved it happened during a holiday rather than at work.
I've gone from someone with an unblemished sickness record to almost being at the stage of having an official chat with my boss about absence as they've stopped treating covid absence as different and I've had a few bouts of what felt like covid but never tested positive.

At least this time I officially have the darn thing . Currently looking at the dog wondering if I'm able to walk him or not.

I found the same - couldn't move much for 5 days and that hasn't happened to me ever. Hope @rookiemere and @sweetkitty feel better soon.

Feel better soon rookiemere and sweetkitty

Hope you both feel better soon!

@rookiemere the research shows women are disproportionately more likely to get moderate cases of covid then men and also more likely to get Long covid so it's more to do with genetics unless BMI is in the very high category and that's mostly related to diabetes

I've got a friend with dreadful long covid. Off work for months and months. He's male and not remotely obese. No underlying conditions at all. It's awful.

Well one small benefit of having Covid is that I have totally lost my appetite and am literally forcing myself to eat.
I've lost about 4 lb since Wednesday much needed so fingers crossed I can keep it off.

Thank you still tired today and still have no appetite am eating just to survive and not feel hungry so things like toast and weetabix. I’m not overweight we’ll there’s always that last half a stone that refuses to budge, I do have fibromyalgia so am wondering if it’s playing a part in making me feel so tired. I have another 4 weeks to recover at least.

for everyone suffering with covid.

My rail today is that my immediate family members and I are all close contacts of someone who tested positive on Sunday and we all have different ideas about how much this should affect our behaviour.

DS has a couple of good gigs this week. No show no pay and no potential for spin off work opportunities so I'm really hoping he doesn't get covid before them. The covid situation is still not a level playing field.

Even a usually cautious elderly relative who had to buy a pack of covid tests was saying how it's no wonder the rates are high as many people couldn't reasonably be expected to buy tests in the current economic climate.

I'm not sure if a rail or not! So they have got to the bottom of the hepatitis cases.... caused be adenovirus and combo of lockdown meaning no mixing and later exposure with a greater immune response.
Part of me is glad they got to the bottom of it especially before winter as the arguement that lockdowns and social distancing don't cause harm etc is showing to be complete bollocks and means less likely to put restrictions back.

But part of me is raging especially as I have a child in this risk category who once again is in the age group where the restrictions are now showing to have caused serious f ups developmentally and now health risk. But at the time I was told he will be fine it won't effect them their too young etc etc

@Scottishskifun totally with you. I read that too, nonsense thar SD isn't harmful. We said all along that they were experimenting with the unknown. All in their stupid zero covid nonsense policy.

@Scottishskifun I too got fed up with the 'kids are resilient' claptrap. Tell that to DS primary school who have had a year of behavioural issues in DS year group - on the surface they all seemed OK but it's become clear that's not the case. Trigger seems to have been mixing classes when kids had spent 18 months in bubbles.

This is just awful. Kids really were forgotten. I will never forgive the government for taping up play parks.

I have a p1-aged kid with zero psychological resilience, which I blame on covid. He cannot cope with leaving somewhere he's enjoyed, and will not/ cannot trust me when I say we can come back another day. He just seems stuck in March 2020, when all the things I'd said we'd come back to we then didnt / couldn't; he asked every day for months for the same things. He won't be the exception.

Sorry, I derail from the hepatitis cases which are just horrendous.

Children and young people were totally screwed and the waiting list for Children's MH care says it all.

As well as the normal missing friends and school, some children will have gone through life changing events bereavements, cancer (either themselves or within immediate family), divorces, new siblings, all without the support of friends.

It's only in the last few months life has got back to some form of normal.
University kids have been denied the chance to make new friends. And cut off from their old support network.
Cruel beyond words.

I have a child (well, he's 19 but he's still my child) who has just finished his first year "at university". I put that in quotation marks as he's not been at university at all, he's been sitting in his bedroom on Zoom calls. He was in University for a total of 5 x 3 hour sessions all year. ALL FUCKING YEAR.

His mental health is shot to pieces. He is not neurotypical and has struggled massively with change since he was little. He didn't get to sit his Highers. He was in and out of school all through S6. No prom, no leavers do, no prize giving, no anything. Into Uni where he hasn't had a chance to meet his classmates and form friendships. He joined the dungeons and dragons society - all online. He is lonely, sad and his confidence has disappeared. He was sitting last night applying for a part time job at Asda and asking what was the point as he wouldn't get it as he wasn't good enough.

I hold Sturgeon and Swinney and their "cautious" approach for this entirely. The last two years school/uni provision for older teenagers has been a fucking disgrace.

@KnittingNeedles I agree the experience has been poor for many students. My DH started going into work (uni) as soon as he was able and offered students face to face support if they wanted meet. This very much was the exception though and very much down to my DH own views that young people have been shafted enough through Covid.

@KnittingNeedles I know a Uni first year in similar boat. Who's also had to deal with a lone parent going through chemo. MH shot to pieces. Desperately needs normal and to be back in amongst people.

Joining in the chorus of people angry at what has been done to children and young people in the name of 'caution', despite plenty of people shouting at, no begging Sturgeon to look at bit wider than COVID and assess all harms. They've been gas lit into thinking they were seriously at risk so often felt unsafe themselves, coerced into medical interventions they mostly didn't need, had their educational chances shot to pieces, made to feel guilty for wanting a normal life, and the consequent damage to their physical and mental health will take years to work through. It's a scandal on the scale of seeding care homes full of the most vulnerable with COVID positive patients and then expressing surprise when thousands died. It amazes me that we had two years of a pandemic and by and large we never moved out of an emergency footing and the impact of these interventions were never even properly assessed! All of it was predictable, and was predicted, and it's an absolute disgrace.

@KnittingNeedles so sorry for your ds, my only hope is that the barrage of all the harms coming out makes scot gov not repeat their approach...

He was in University for a total of 5 x 3 hour sessions all year. ALL FUCKING YEAR.

That is shocking @KnittingNeedles
These courses should be named and shamed. Some just were not interested in making sufficient effort to do things differently and make it work.
I'm sure the university will say they were following government guidelines but my DD1 has also just finished 1st year. Her university/course also followed all Gov guidelines but she had 50% of her time EVERY WEEK in face to face teaching. EVERY subject did half and half.

Biomedical Science at Strathclyde - happy to shame them.

The 1st year classes are huge - mix of people doing BioMed, Pharmacy and lots of other sciencey things and they also do statistics and so on. He was in for labs and that was it. The latest is that they are "hoping" for a more normal year next year.

DS also has a friend at St Andrews doing something like philosophy and he was in, full timetable from October.

And yes - it's all because these sorts of institutions are still following "guidance" which even after April this year was still work from home. DS had to go to the library in early May to hand something back and it was still all one way systems, capacity limits, every other desk taped off, sanitisers.

I am so angry that the SNP appear to have got away with this.

And the latest is that alcohol related deaths were up 17% in 2020. www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/26/lockdown-drinking-increase-could-cause-25000-excess-deaths-in-england

they are "hoping" for a more normal year next year.