Topic: Corona Virus Panic/Discussion Thread

Oh and I have like £7 on a Game gift card that I really want to spend in store. Been gathering dust in my coffee table for nearly a year now.

I wonder if people complaining about the lockdown have realised that the lockdown’s been put in place because they spent the whole of the last one breaking the rules and generally being absolute morons. Like... if you want it to be over then just adhere to the rules already?

@nessisonett People seem to lack that basic level of self awareness. Absolutely loathsome, selfish idiots. Something tells me this latest "clap for carers" thing is going to go down like a lead balloon, because most of the people clapping last time turned out to be absolute hypocrites who don't give a toss about the NHS or our healthcare workers.

@mookysam Don’t get me started on the bloody clapping, plus the complete appropriation of the rainbow symbol. The hilarious thing is that these are the people who write articles for the Spectator talking about ‘virtue signalling’ while clapping for carers and then tossing up whether Nan’s worth sacrificing for the sake of Philip Green’s millions.

@nessisonett The less said about Philip Green, the better. He's a tax dodging pervert who is under the delusion that his minimum wage jobs (where many employees end up needing tax credits on top just to survive) and sweatshop manufactured clothes add value to society.
It upsets me that so many don't seem to care about the health of their elderly relatives. My last grandparent died a couple of years ago, and I wish almost every day that she was still here.
Additionally, as many of the people currently seriously ill in hospital are middle-aged, people must wake up to the fact that this is not an illness that only affects the elderly.

Such a proud day here stateside, lemme tell ya.

My daughter has better hours this time round too so I'll be able to see her amd with my son back home too... Yeah I should be ok this time around @RogerRoger 😁

Thought I'd reply here to you @Rudy_Manchego instead of in the chat thread (Sorry about the lateness too)

I'm not working and neither is my partner this time around.

The school was actually doing pretty well, all things considered, before the christmas holidays.

Monday wasn't great however. We had pretty low student attendence there and from the few teachers we've had go in the past two days we've probably had the worst student turnout we've had so far. In fact my boss is really struggling to keep the school open with the few numbers we've got.

It's a shame as we managed to pretty much scrape through last year and remain open the whole time...

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Oh at least you are both off together. We are currently all cooped up here.

We can technically send our kids into school as wife is a key worker (though she will be working from home it looks like) but we have heard our school is inundated with key worker requests as the qualification for key worker has expanded massively. They have had up to 60% of the population requst to attend which is greater than the ratios they have been told by the govt to accept.

It’s really starting to get to me. So me & the other half had two wedding days delayed already. Today she got a call saying that our venue maybe cancelled due to the new restrictions.

Already lost 2 deposits. What’s another.
Boris can do one.

I feel bad saying it sometimes, but I'm quite enjoying these lockdowns. Today we did spellings and maths, played out in the snow and I taught my eight-year-old some early nineties music lyrics. Repeat after me: tank fly, boss walk, jam nitty gritty...

@Fight_Teza_Fight That really stinks, sorry to hear that. I wish I'd read that before my ultra-sensitive post raving about how good lockdown is. Crossing my fingers for you!

@Gremio108 Don’t worry about it😊. It’s just incredibly frustrating.
Can’t wait for all this to be over.

@Fight_Teza_Fight Oh no that is terrible. I'm finding the fact that we are getting close to a year of this so depressing and I've been incredibly lucky in not really having anything majorly disrupted (other than seeing family/friends).

@Fight_Teza_Fight I've given up trying to guess when the end will be, I'm just living day to day now. Finding life much more enjoyable as a result. So long as everyone stays healthy, it's all good. Stay safe!

@Fight_Teza_Fight Losing deposits doesn't sound right; shouldn't they be rebooking for you or are you cancelling because of reduced numbers? Either way..

In less sucky news, I think I'm booked in for my vaccine on Monday!

@Rudy_Manchego it really is crazy that it’s almost been a year. It almost feels like a year of hibernation😂.
@Gremio108 My gp has contacted me, but they haven’t set a date yet. Think I might need to chase them up.
@Thrillho First one was a cancellation as it was much bigger venue. Second we lost . I’m hoping this one stays even if it drops down to 20-30. But I’m already prepared for tier 6.

Well of interesting curtain twitching and neighbour spotting - the guy across the road who spent the last year during the clap for carers thing making sure that everyone on the street did it, had a family of 6 round his house all afternoon yesterday. If he goes out this thursday I will jolly well... well, probably glower at him or pretend I didn't see him.

On a serious note, for those in the UK. I'm absolutely not doing the clap for carers thing. I think that our NHS and anyone directly affected in their work are amazing but me clapping for them does nothing. It seems like more of an insult now. We clapped for ten weeks last year and everyone went out, broke the rules and are moaning about restrictions. We also have done nothing to improve their pay or working conditions.

@RogerRoger There is a time and a place for everything. In the spring last year, we were all scared, we all felt we had a clear objective and wanted a way to come together. I think 10 weeks of it was too much but I can see why it took off. The thing is that now things are worse than ever, our government have done very little to help the situation and most people are sick of restrictions. I mean, we had a shot in the summer of tackling it and we failed largely. Clapping for people on the verge of collapse is pointless. We should be pressuring our leaders to invest more and better in our healthcare and key infrastructure.

Rant over! I'll be sticking in my little office with the small electric heater on till things get better!

@Rudy_Manchego Half the problem is that many people do not see the connection between their vote and the government's actions. If people genuinely cared about the NHS, or any of our public services for that matter, they would not repeatedly vote for the Conservatives. There had been a decade of the government deliberately underfunding the NHS (not to mention immigration and education policies that contributed to severe understaffing) before the pandemic hit, and now people are what, surprised by all this? The clapping Nazi's who like to make sure the whole street do it can piss off.

@mookysam I am really quite centrist, and I have a very hard time believing this would have all been handled any differently under a Labour government.