#LockdownVoices
"My husband, under immense pressure trying to keep 200 employees in work, suffered a stroke... our child became suicidal as a result..."
"Throughout lockdown my husband, who heads a family business, has been under immense pressure in...
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"My husband, under immense pressure trying to keep 200 employees in work, suffered a stroke... our child became suicidal as a result..."
"Throughout lockdown my husband, who heads a family business, has been under immense pressure in...
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"...trying to keep all his 200 or so employees in work, whilst keeping the business afloat in spite of decreased sales...
...and dealing with the impact of Covid measures on staff working from home and social distancing in the warehouse for key workers...
...and dealing with the impact of Covid measures on staff working from home and social distancing in the warehouse for key workers...
"This reached a peak around Christmas with the added impact of Brexit causing problems with imports and exports - an ongoing issue.
In early January, a week into Lockdown 3, my husband suffered a mild stroke which rendered him unable to work for around a month...
In early January, a week into Lockdown 3, my husband suffered a mild stroke which rendered him unable to work for around a month...
"This has had huge knock-on effects both at work and at home.
We have four teenage kids; one of them, already mentally suffering from lockdowns, reacted very badly to my husband's sudden illness, and became suicidal.
We tried to get help through the NHS but...
We have four teenage kids; one of them, already mentally suffering from lockdowns, reacted very badly to my husband's sudden illness, and became suicidal.
We tried to get help through the NHS but...
"...it was impossible to get NHS counselling because demand for kids' mental health services was so high.
We are now paying for a private counsellor who is only available over Zoom, which is far from ideal with six of us in the house, but is our only option...
We are now paying for a private counsellor who is only available over Zoom, which is far from ideal with six of us in the house, but is our only option...
"On Tuesday all the kids were back in school but on Wednesday, due to one person testing positive in our suicidal child's year, the entire year was sent home.
Again, he has reacted terribly badly and we are extremely concerned for his safety...
Again, he has reacted terribly badly and we are extremely concerned for his safety...
"And my husband's health continues to be very poor both physically + mentally because of the stress he is under.
The other kids are trying so hard to stay positive and get through this but it is devastating to see them beginning to unravel, + yet, there is very little I can do!
The other kids are trying so hard to stay positive and get through this but it is devastating to see them beginning to unravel, + yet, there is very little I can do!
"The solution is quite obviously to bring back the 'old normal' immediately:
This would save the business, take pressure off my husband, let my child have face-to-face therapy, and enable all the kids to have vital social interaction with their teenage friends rather than...
This would save the business, take pressure off my husband, let my child have face-to-face therapy, and enable all the kids to have vital social interaction with their teenage friends rather than...
"...to have everything brewing in a toxic boiling pot.
On the bright side, the return to school - though interrupted - has already brought considerable relief to us all.
Which just shows, to me, the importance of lifting lockdown."
On the bright side, the return to school - though interrupted - has already brought considerable relief to us all.
Which just shows, to me, the importance of lifting lockdown."
For every story shared with us like this, we know there must be many thousands more like it.
The UK govt and their advisers on SAGE give the impression 'a bit more lockdown' is no big deal. Moving the goalposts seems to be no big deal, either.
The truth is quite the opposite...
The UK govt and their advisers on SAGE give the impression 'a bit more lockdown' is no big deal. Moving the goalposts seems to be no big deal, either.
The truth is quite the opposite...
Every day #lockdown goes on, more livelihoods are lost.
Every day it goes on, stress, depression and other mental health problems go through the roof...
...and turn into strokes, heart attacks and suicide attempts.
Are we protecting the NHS, or creating a timebomb for it?
Every day it goes on, stress, depression and other mental health problems go through the roof...
...and turn into strokes, heart attacks and suicide attempts.
Are we protecting the NHS, or creating a timebomb for it?
#EnoughIsEnough With 20m+ vaccinated, whatever happens this "snail's pace" move out of lockdown MUST also be our last.
Not least as 30 credible scientific papers now find lockdowns do little or nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus, despite the harms:
inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…
Not least as 30 credible scientific papers now find lockdowns do little or nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus, despite the harms:
inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…
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