Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #63

[HoGi]

Where's the poll option for I want Christmas meet ups but also don't want more lockdowns

 

[jazyblu]

Angry face all you like! I have many friends and family that actually work in supermarkets and have been abused by parents wanting to use vouchers for their hungry kids on cigarettes n alcohol on a regular basis! Then when they can’t do that they fill their baskets with junk! I’m all for feeding children but it’s their parents that need educating! Vouchers should of been only for healthy nutritious foods! No point feeding these kids with even more crap. How have we got one of the world highest child obesity problems and yet children are starving Education is needed bring back Home Economics and teach people how to live healthier on a budget. People in furlough that have worked all their lives are now on less income yet people on benefits who have,and never have any interest to work are on more money than they have had not fare at all to me !

You're completely ignorant if you think the majority of people on benefits have never worked in their lives.
Maybe switch off the poverty porn and educate yourself.

The fact that the simple mention of mcdonalds sends you into this judgemental angry rage out of nowhere is sad.

 

[JoeBloggs]

What are people not getting about the fact that life is too short to keep your kids away from their own immediate family?
She may need support from her parents or be suffering massively with mental health issues.
People have had enough of being separated from family and missing out on what precious little time we have.

I completely disagree. You are putting people at risk, end of.

My husbands mental health has been really bad this year and at no point had he gone against the lockdown. If you live alone or are permitted to bubble then yes that’s fine. But seeing family when you aren’t meant to in my opinion is very selfish and the reason numbers are not getting any better.

 

[LittleMy]

Can we stop bashing people on benefits please? There are more people on benefits now than ever before thanks to Covid. If people want to buy their children McDonalds, so what? That’s their choice and you don’t know every family’s circumstances. At least the children are being fed!

 

[Oohthedrama]

Lost someone this week, not “due to covid” or “with” covid or “had covid” in the last 86 days.

but I do wonder how much of 2020 contributed to his death, he lost his spark during lockdown, contact with his grandchildren and family, and as we’ve all said before, how many others will die in the months and years to come that has fuck all to do with the actual virus

 

[Tippingpoint23]

What are people not getting about the fact that life is too short to keep your kids away from their own immediate family?
She may need support from her parents or be suffering massively with mental health issues.
People have had enough of being separated from family and missing out on what precious little time we have.

This is a very naive outlook.

We are all separated from immediate family/close friends, its the point of the lockdown. Unless there is a real reason aka childcare or living alone suck it up for 4 weeks.

We are all missing out on precious time but it has to be done to try and reduce the cases if we all took your approach we'd be in lockdown for ever..

 

[Jackfruit]

It's not worth it, as crappy as it is the 5 days off is stupid imo. I wouldn't take the risk especially with older relatives, who wants to pass covid to grandma just to see her at dinner

The problem is, for many many people with elderly relatives this year could be the last Christmas they have. I lost my grandad in October and none of us apart from my mum was able to visit him in his final months and days. He knew he was going and he also knew the hospital weren’t allowing visits which made it slightly easier for us to stomach but none of us know how long we’ve got and I think we need to throw a bit of caution to the wind, take some calculated risks and live a little. None of us know how long we’re here for and how realistic is it to live in fear or a virus, which, if you’re careful is reality difficult to catch.
Luckily my grandad was 89 we had treated the last few xmases as if they could be his last.
Quite frankly if I was an old biddy and my family wanted to see me at Christmas I would jump at the chance.

 

[Platypusfattypus]

My daughters test came back positive

 

[kev1974]

Continuing from

Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #62

Just needed to share with you all that I've just got home from the hospital where my latest biopsy has shown no cancerous cells. After 8 months of chemotherapy I've finally done it! This is definitely one of the best posts I've seen on here. So happy for you! I hope you manage to celebrate that...

tattle.life

It's all about Christmas now, latest news seems to be scientists telling us that five days off lockdown for Christmas will mean 25 days new lockdown and/or burying our families, doom and gloom reins

Congrats to @SarahGard83 for her cancer-beating news

 

[Tublet83]

My friend works in the big Tesco in our town and keeps moaning about people buying non essential Christmas stuff.

I've not been in any shops because shielding, but I told her I do kinda get it. People want to try to lift their spirits and decorating for Christmas is one of few freedoms people have left presently

She should be grateful she works in retail that is classed as essential and still has a job

 

[calmyourritas]

Really lovely news @SarahGard83
I had bad news yesterday with my biopsy results coming back as stage 1 melanoma - made me feel rubbish and got to go and do more tests and stuff now, but it is so nice to see positive news on here

In other news, we had a other bubble in our school popped today!

 

[Meh]

Just read the news that 5m public sector workers in England face pay freeze next year, except NHS staff.

I really hope there is an outcry about this. Either impact ALL public sector or (preferably) none. This ring fencing of NHS staff only promotes the idea they are most important. I wager most public sector jobs are important; even the “back office” ones folk think are fake jobs. But to cap teachers, police, fire service, LA bin collectors, dinner ladies, roads and flooding teams etc. They have all still been working and are essential key services. We could not run society without these roles.

Perhaps I’m being overly sensitive but as a public sector worker in Scotland I did get told the other day I only support tier 4 restrictions because of my “privilege and wealthy public sector job” ha! Not even close. I’ve also worked every day since March. No furlough. Why wouldn’t I get paid?!

 

[monga]

@monga - Is that Boris dressed as an elf in your profile pic?

Santa’s little vaccine helper

Funded meals for our kids till 2022...notice the plastic cutlery and polystyrene containers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55009536

 

[Jamhead]

Thank you, I thought that was the case. It seems silly though when I have my grandchild 3 days a week. They will be 2. I will hand over the presents on the path to their home and look at the photos that the parents will take. It's heartbreaking. X

You could always have a little birthday party at your house on one of your childcare days.
Keep the presents for that day as children that age are quickly overwhelmed with too much on their actual birthday.
Set up a little floor picnic with sandwiches, fruit and cakes, pop some music on and have a dance.
I'm sure your grandchild would love an extended birthday

 

[calmyourritas]

Are people with lower income not allowed to treat themselves to a McDonald’s if they want?

 

[Jackfruit]

What are people not getting about the fact that life is too short to keep your kids away from their own immediate family?
She may need support from her parents or be suffering massively with mental health issues.
People have had enough of being separated from family and missing out on what precious little time we have.

 

[hrh89]

I think it’s ridiculous. Christmas isn’t the be all and end all. Can’t wait for another lockdown in January. Not sure how Christmas is even going to be enjoyable knowing that it’s likely we’re gonna have to go through lockdown again after

 

[Tots]

It’s not 4 weeks though is it? It’s been basically the whole year.

Jeez I’m glad we weren’t counting on the likes of you to get us through the wars for 4 years and 6 years! What an attitude to have!

Yes it’s been a shit year, for everyone! Especially those whose loved ones have died from COVID or suffering long term health conditions from long COVID!

Your attitude is extremely self centred and self entitled!

My then 9 year old coped with 4.5 months shielding with just me this summer, couldn’t see his newborn baby sister at his dad’s, couldn’t see my dad, couldn’t see his friends. He managed it because he is mature enough and empathetic enough to know it’s the right thing to do.

People need to do the right thing and remember we’re all in this together!!!

 

[Tublet83]

“Holidays are coming”

 

[kazizzle]

I don’t really see why NHS front line vs back office is different?

The frontline of any organisation cannot function without the back office work of support, corporate or enabling teams. It’s great for us to worship nurses and doctors but without NhS procurement, finance, payroll, patient services, logistics, laboratory staff etc. the entire effort against covid would have collapsed. These people are all back office workers, surely they are important. It would be the same as if no. doctors/nurses/porters/auxiliaries etc were on shift. It would all fall apart. Both areas compliment each other and are essential. So if both are working through Covid... why wouldn’t they both get the discounts offered?

i feel like this about local authorities. I work in one and during the pandemic the public have been very quick to praise the frontline services, like bin men, but in the same breath put down the office workers who have cushy lives working from home. I will tell you now that for most local authority workers their roles will have changed drastically due to Covid. It’s not just our bin men, and our frontline facing teams who are caring for people, teachers or those going out delivering food and medicine to the vulnerable, it’s all the people working long hours from home who make it happen. It’s the business development teams working through all the applications from businesses for the various grant schemes the government have developed. Its environmental health and trading standards working with businesses to make sure everyone is safe to open. It’s the housing teams who have been continuing to coordinate essential repairs, and make sure there is support for people who find themselves in a homeless situation during this time. It’s the team who have been working with community groups to ensure vulnerable people in their communities have access to the support they need. And it’s the pr and social media team making sure the public are informed about everything and dealing with social media enquiries and complaints to take some pressure off the main customer service phone lines. The “cushy” office workers are also essential.