i hate this, i hate this, i hate this

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Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

PP from earlier who got ensnared in an argument over the merits of our response. I hear you on this, so, so much. I actually think that this is going to be the counter-response to all the armed protesters and "re-open now" rallies. There are more of us than them and I just hope it matters at some point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate this too. I can handle today, I handled yesterday. But I’ve been doing this 9 weeks now. I am most concerned about my kids, their lack of schooling and socialization, and when I look at the fall, it seems so grim.

I would love real leadership. Imagine how the mood of the country could be affected if we had real leadership! A Churchill. Solidarity. Sacrifice. But, moreso: someone who can get us out of this.

Yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup! I hear ya! I am obsessing over Nutcracker auditions (was supposed to be this weekend) and will they reschedule? Are they going to have a Nutcracker performance next December? Fingers crossed. I am choosing to stay positive.

Congratulations, you win the award for the absolute pettiest concern!

There's nothing petty about being sad for the loss of something your child dearly loves. In addition, there is no doubt that the arts community and especially the performing arts will be deeply and negatively impacted by the pandemic well after lockdowns end. Performances like Nutcracker provide the funds that keep those companies going - and finances their outreach art programs for lower income kids and scholarships for dancers etc.

Nutcracker mom here. Thanks PP for understanding my point of view, and defending me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup! I hear ya! I am obsessing over Nutcracker auditions (was supposed to be this weekend) and will they reschedule? Are they going to have a Nutcracker performance next December? Fingers crossed. I am choosing to stay positive.

Congratulations, you win the award for the absolute pettiest concern!

There's nothing petty about being sad for the loss of something your child dearly loves. In addition, there is no doubt that the arts community and especially the performing arts will be deeply and negatively impacted by the pandemic well after lockdowns end. Performances like Nutcracker provide the funds that keep those companies going - and finances their outreach art programs for lower income kids and scholarships for dancers etc.

Nutcracker mom here. Thanks PP for understanding my point of view, and defending me.

Another sympathetic person here. This is not a contest on whose life is the hardest.

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Another sympathetic person here. This is not a contest on whose life is the hardest.

Yes. Everyone has it hard. Someone told me I was “lucky” to be quarantined with preschoolers. I almost mauled them.

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Another sympathetic person here. This is not a contest on whose life is the hardest.

Yes. Everyone has it hard. Someone told me I was “lucky” to be quarantined with preschoolers. I almost mauled them.

NP. Yep. Quarantubed with a 4yo and a newborn here. I hear ya.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

Right? This is the part that really killed my mental state. What’s the point of ruining everyone’s lives if they didn’t do anything with all the bought time???

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Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

Right? This is the part that really killed my mental state. What’s the point of ruining everyone’s lives if they didn’t do anything with all the bought time???

Agree 100%. I mean, this is THE time where our government should be leading and protecting our welfare, and instead, their response has been slow, bumbling, chaotic, and sowing more discord among the local governments instead of being unified.

We were supposed to be delaying for enough testing. They messed that up- after telling us that anyone who wants one can get one. We were supposed to be waiting for enough PPE and medical equipment for our healthcare workers. My husband is an essential healthcare worker who goes into covid units daily and they still do not have enough PPE. And now we’re supposed to be waiting for a vaccine or an antiviral treatment? And I’m supposed to trust the government who is just anxious to re-open the economy and will approve and push anything out to get to that goal? After they have been pushing other dangerous treatments like the anti-malaria drug, and even pushing the idea of injecting disinfectants and using UV light on our bodies??? I’m supposed to trust a government approved vaccine after all this?? And I am completely pro-vaccine but I will VERY VERY wary of anything the federal government is pushing out to the public. Vaccines normally take at least 2 years to prove safety and efficacy. I would be wary of anything pushed out in an accelerated timeline by our government.

What exactly is the plan here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

Right? This is the part that really killed my mental state. What’s the point of ruining everyone’s lives if they didn’t do anything with all the bought time???

Agree 100%. I mean, this is THE time where our government should be leading and protecting our welfare, and instead, their response has been slow, bumbling, chaotic, and sowing more discord among the local governments instead of being unified.

We were supposed to be delaying for enough testing. They messed that up- after telling us that anyone who wants one can get one. We were supposed to be waiting for enough PPE and medical equipment for our healthcare workers. My husband is an essential healthcare worker who goes into covid units daily and they still do not have enough PPE. And now we’re supposed to be waiting for a vaccine or an antiviral treatment? And I’m supposed to trust the government who is just anxious to re-open the economy and will approve and push anything out to get to that goal? After they have been pushing other dangerous treatments like the anti-malaria drug, and even pushing the idea of injecting disinfectants and using UV light on our bodies??? I’m supposed to trust a government approved vaccine after all this?? And I am completely pro-vaccine but I will VERY VERY wary of anything the federal government is pushing out to the public. Vaccines normally take at least 2 years to prove safety and efficacy. I would be wary of anything pushed out in an accelerated timeline by our government.

What exactly is the plan here?

Are you always this dramatic? No one is pushing injecting you with disinfectant. The President made a comment (idiotically) and several doctors refuted it right away. Chill the f out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

Right? This is the part that really killed my mental state. What’s the point of ruining everyone’s lives if they didn’t do anything with all the bought time???

Agree 100%. I mean, this is THE time where our government should be leading and protecting our welfare, and instead, their response has been slow, bumbling, chaotic, and sowing more discord among the local governments instead of being unified.

We were supposed to be delaying for enough testing. They messed that up- after telling us that anyone who wants one can get one. We were supposed to be waiting for enough PPE and medical equipment for our healthcare workers. My husband is an essential healthcare worker who goes into covid units daily and they still do not have enough PPE. And now we’re supposed to be waiting for a vaccine or an antiviral treatment? And I’m supposed to trust the government who is just anxious to re-open the economy and will approve and push anything out to get to that goal? After they have been pushing other dangerous treatments like the anti-malaria drug, and even pushing the idea of injecting disinfectants and using UV light on our bodies??? I’m supposed to trust a government approved vaccine after all this?? And I am completely pro-vaccine but I will VERY VERY wary of anything the federal government is pushing out to the public. Vaccines normally take at least 2 years to prove safety and efficacy. I would be wary of anything pushed out in an accelerated timeline by our government.

What exactly is the plan here?

Are you always this dramatic? No one is pushing injecting you with disinfectant. The President made a comment (idiotically) and several doctors refuted it right away. Chill the f out.

Yes I was being dramatic. But this is our leader saying these things, the guy who gets to decide who is leading the coronavirus response, the guy who gets to fire all the qualified people who disagrees with him.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yup! I hear ya! I am obsessing over Nutcracker auditions (was supposed to be this weekend) and will they reschedule? Are they going to have a Nutcracker performance next December? Fingers crossed. I am choosing to stay positive.

Congratulations, you win the award for the absolute pettiest concern!

There's nothing petty about being sad for the loss of something your child dearly loves. In addition, there is no doubt that the arts community and especially the performing arts will be deeply and negatively impacted by the pandemic well after lockdowns end. Performances like Nutcracker provide the funds that keep those companies going - and finances their outreach art programs for lower income kids and scholarships for dancers etc.

Nutcracker mom here. Thanks PP for understanding my point of view, and defending me.

+1 Another Nutcracker family. My daughter is 8 and was planning to audition for the same pre-professional production that she was in last year. She's really struggling with the fact that auditions have been postponed and will (likely) be cancelled. She understands why she hasn't left the house the past two months (her brother has a medical condition that puts him in a high risk category), but grappling with the fact that the world won't be back to normal is December is pretty overwhelming for an 8-year-old.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

Right? This is the part that really killed my mental state. What’s the point of ruining everyone’s lives if they didn’t do anything with all the bought time???

Agree 100%. I mean, this is THE time where our government should be leading and protecting our welfare, and instead, their response has been slow, bumbling, chaotic, and sowing more discord among the local governments instead of being unified.

We were supposed to be delaying for enough testing. They messed that up- after telling us that anyone who wants one can get one. We were supposed to be waiting for enough PPE and medical equipment for our healthcare workers. My husband is an essential healthcare worker who goes into covid units daily and they still do not have enough PPE. And now we’re supposed to be waiting for a vaccine or an antiviral treatment? And I’m supposed to trust the government who is just anxious to re-open the economy and will approve and push anything out to get to that goal? After they have been pushing other dangerous treatments like the anti-malaria drug, and even pushing the idea of injecting disinfectants and using UV light on our bodies??? I’m supposed to trust a government approved vaccine after all this?? And I am completely pro-vaccine but I will VERY VERY wary of anything the federal government is pushing out to the public. Vaccines normally take at least 2 years to prove safety and efficacy. I would be wary of anything pushed out in an accelerated timeline by our government.

What exactly is the plan here?

Are you always this dramatic? No one is pushing injecting you with disinfectant. The President made a comment (idiotically) and several doctors refuted it right away. Chill the f out.

Yes I was being dramatic. But this is our leader saying these things, the guy who gets to decide who is leading the coronavirus response, the guy who gets to fire all the qualified people who disagrees with him.

Exactly. The person in charge of EVERYTHING is an evil dumbass and we’re all supposed to be ok with it. And there are morons who believed him, hence the reported cases of poisoning from injecting cleaners.

I would be about 100 times better with this situation if we had a grown-up in charge. One who wasn’t enabled by Fox News and Mitch McConnell.

[Anonymous]

Man the f up people

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was OK until it became apparent that federal/state/local public health officials are not doing everything they can with the time we all bought them.

PP from earlier who got ensnared in an argument over the merits of our response. I hear you on this, so, so much. I actually think that this is going to be the counter-response to all the armed protesters and "re-open now" rallies. There are more of us than them and I just hope it matters at some point.

I hope so too.
Leadership starts at the top, and we've had very little of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Some days are better than others. Today is not a good day. Every time an announcement hits, I get so sad. Our city just closed pools and splash pads for the summer (not in DC). I am just SAD.

I am a SAHM and my kids are under 5. We didn't lose jobs. Our lives our GOOD. My kids are happy and blissfully unaware.

But, i hate this. I hate that my son missed t-ball for the first time. No swimming?! All summer?

And now, possibly no school next year?

I'm sad. I hate this. I want to quit.

Sit with me, and vent.

I"m going to join. My kids are college aged ( one a Freshman and the other a junior) and I'm sad that they won't experience what we all did....starting college and living in a dorm. I don't want her first year to be zooming over our breakfast table.

I really feel for current HS seniors and how they won’t have a freshman year. I would probably put it off.

This week I'm sad again because the end of year is here and my senior is missing out. Prom was this weekend. I've watched several award ceremony dates pass by on the calendar. Trying to get him excited about watching the graduation ceremonies together as a family, but he thinks they are pointless.

I will say on the plus side, his college has been doing a lot of zoom activities to get the freshmen to meet each other and seem to be gearing up for creating a solid community, whether or not it starts online or in person. I think going forward it's easier, because the experiences are all new, regardless of them being different than anticipated. What hurts most is losing celebrations that were already planned.

It really sucks. I'm sorry. I feel sad for all the HS seniors.