Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #64

[SarahGard83]

Kill me now! Hubby has just arranged a boxing day zoom present unwrapping with his brothers family. Doing a doorstep exchange beforehand then opening each others gifts on a zoom call. What the actual fuck? Is this my life now?

 

[monga]

Best not be more lockdowns next year. I've just booked tickets for Steps!

Maybe they'll be 5,6,7,8,,, tiers by that time

 

[jazyblu]

If they want takeaways, that isn't ordinary meals, you pay for it yourself, like the rest of us have to do.

It isn't because they WANT a takeaway. You are entirely misunderstanding this. It is "ordinary meals" it is completely normal in the civil service and the private sector for the company to order food for the staff who are doing unpaid overtime into the evening past dinner time.

This isn't individual people thinking "I really fancy a chinese today better get the government to pay for it", it is a single order for the entire department while all the staff are forced to stay there though the night and work on the pandemic response.

You said "pay for it themselves like the rest of us do" but every office job I've ever had ordered in food after about 8 o'clock when you had to stay and finish a project, they usually provide a taxi home after a certain time too.
This isn't out of the ordinary and even more reasonable during the pandemic for the staff that had to go into the office.

If you have not experienced this maybe it sounds out of the ordinary to you but this is a completely normal thing in the corporate world.

I really hate tory corruption but this really doesn't seem to be that. Sure if this was a single dinner for 6 people it is outrageous, but it is hundreds of meals during March & April lockdown.

 

[Tublet83]

A family friend died last night of suspected Covid, he was isolating on his own after his partner was positive collapsed last night and died. Never found out if he did have Covid before his home testing kit didn’t turn up.

 

[xoxo GG]

I don’t agree with waking up. But what the fuck? Why is it literally a crime for people to visit their family members but this bunch of pricks can sit around like this? I get it, I really do. But it just takes the piss out of everything that we’re doing, following the guidelines they set in place, nodding and agreeing with every claim they make. It just fucks me off. I’m so lonely. I miss my family. I miss being able to hug my best friends little ones. I miss being able to spend my days off work making actual memories instead of staring at the same 4 walls. This is so hard. But this just rubs salt into the wound.

 

[SarahGard83]

So we're been reported to the education department for failing to provide our children with education and for refusing to send them to school all because we're taking them out of school a week early for Christmas. Apparently it's not allowed and is against government legislation

 

[monga]

This woman wasn’t holding back

 

[JLXRD]

I must say, new Christmas baubles rule kind of makes sense from political point of view.

I know this was probs a typo, but I do think we should refer to them as our Christmas baubles rather bubbles from here on. Bit more festive

 

[JLXRD]

Bubbling also doesn't help people who live in shared accommodation but don't really socialise with or like their housemates.

Yes, agree, my brother lives in a shared house (he’s 20) with 2 other people. They are not close in age to him and don’t share any interests, they get along fine but are by no means friends. He also barely sees them, they are like passing ships as they work nights and him days.

Due to this he has created a bubble (an illegitimate one, but still) with his girlfriends family and stays there most nights instead, only really going back to get clothes and bits he needs once or twice a week.

Technically rule breaking but I really can’t blame him for not wanting to spend 4 weeks with what is effectively 2 strangers who are rarely in the house.

 

[Platypusfattypus]

My middle child is free!! We have let her out of the bedroom as it's been 10 days since her first symptoms which were a headache. Poor thing still can't smell anything but her sense of taste is returning. So relieved she is ok.

We did talk to her etc, we didn't just shove her upstairs to be mean. She's usually in her room chatting with her friends anyway so nothing changed.

 

[Bobbleowl90]

 

[JLXRD]

Bloody Cornwall

 

[SarahGard83]

They can ram it. I'm still keeping them at home and they can forget me making the kids work thay week. Looks like we will be having a Christmas movie and hot chocolate week instead if that's the thanks we get

 

[SarahGard83]

Looking forward to xmas dinner this year

 

[Unagi]

People should see who they want at Christmas. If you want to see family/friends then see them, if you don’t, then don’t. Just have a drink and chill the F out!
Coronavirus has been massively blown out of proportion and the sooner people realise this the better.

 

[jazyblu]

So, you're telling me they couldn't get a ready meal from Iceland, but a takeaway.

Like I said, you clearly have no understanding of how something like this works so there is no point arguing with you.

 

[Yel]

The paying for overtime meals is such a non story that distracts from real issues.

Things like gp surgeries are getting access to millions in extra funding to cover covid but are telling people to only make appointments if it an emergency. So locum doctors have been out of work for months as demand is so low. While the partners at the surgery could be raking it in and the death rate could shoot up for many years because of the lack of medical care.

 

[Jamhead]

Out of a school of 400 nearly 200 kids were classed as key workers because so many were teacher, care worker, NHS, retail kids etc. Obviously not all of them went the last time, just to put it into perspective though.

I think that's usual though, we have a school of 450 and they had 7 bubbles with 5-8 kids in each when they remained open for keyworker and vulnerable children.

Jamhead
My friend’s MIL died of dementia....family was told that if they put COVID down as reason for death, they wouldn’t have to wait 9 days for the death certificate, and I’ve heard several other stories where COVID was put down as a reason for death when it wasn’t the primary reason so it does happen!

Let's be honest now, this didn't happen.

I have all the sympathy in the world for your friend and her family, watching someone die with dementia is horrific.

These untruths about drs and the medical profession are really unhelpful, they put people off seeking help for their ailments because they think the drs are just giant liars. It's damaging.
A dr does not ASK what the family want on the death certificate. It's like a midwife delivering a baby and asking if the parents want it to be a boy or a girl, like that will change the outcome.

 

[Boredofthegram]

Finally some good news!

My partner and I broke up yesterday after 3 years and I was sinking a bit but this has given me a much needed boost.

I won’t be high on the priority list for vaccination but the end is in sight a bit I feel at last. It’s all so emotional, I know it won’t change overnight but just the thought of hugging my mum again is amazing (haven’t since march)

 

[malolo]

I hate that people think they're going to be seen as selfish (or are actually being told they are) for missing people. There's nothing selfish about it, if anything you would need to be evaluating the relationships if you weren't missing those people.

What you do as a result of missing them could potentially become selfish, but feeling a certain way doesn't make you selfish regardless of anything anyone else is going through. We can only live our own lives and feel our own highs and lows. We can empathise with others in worse situations, but that doesn't mean your own problems should mean less to you and you should feel bad for it.