"The fear and tension is all-pervasive... rather than schools protecting the children from it, in most cases they ramp it up..."
"We run a small but very successful school photography business that employs 2 people...
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"Our turnover normally is around 130k.
Due to the 2020 lockdown, our turnover for the year was less than 60k...
Fortunately we managed to operate at most of the schools during the Autumn to generate that 60k...
"We would usually expect to be going back into schools to photograph class groups from the start of April.
Our feeling this year is that we probably will not be allowed in again until the Autumn.
Another 40% turnover year for us...
"Many other suppliers to schools will have been similarly impacted I’m sure.
Apart from the financial impact, the actual job of taking school photographs under the Covid regulations is not the happy carefree and joyous experience it was before March 2020...
"The children are corralled into place, sanitised incessantly, socially distanced + pretty much treated like cattle.
The fear and tension is all-pervasive + rather than schools protecting the children from that fear, in most cases (though not all +we applaud the exceptions)...
"...they ramp it up and make everything worse for them.
Signs around schools like ‘Waving is the new handshake’ certainly don’t help.
Parents are forced to muzzle up when gathering at the school entrance which further fans the flames of fear and anxiety...
"Given the fact that in 2020, only a handful of people under the age of 20 died either of or with Covid-19, it makes absolutely no sense at all."
Just one story shared with us. We know there are so many more. #EnoughIsEnough
"I am one of the 3 million left out of all government support, they have told me I must close my business and I am entitled to nothing, this has left me worrying about the future, will they do this again?
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"How can they do this to someone who has been a net contributor/higher rate tax payer into the system and never claimed a penny?
The fact that a government can do this with very little opposition is frightening, how would most of the population have coped in my position?
"How would they feel if they were left out?
We are certainly not all in this together.
Then they have the cheek to tell people to retrain, when all learning is virtual, how many years does that take...
"Since early last year we’ve all been bombarded with negative fear-mongering and propaganda from nearly every media platform, and more concerningly, from our own Govt.
How can such a psychological assault even be legal?
What must this be doing to our children?
"It is utterly grotesque!
None of the messaging has been supportive, positive or hopeful.
It is a constant diet of doom and gloom with no hope in sight.
I must say it feels very much by design and very sinister!
Why would a Conservative Govt want to scare the public so much?
"One must conclude, it is done to achieve compliance and acceptance of every freedom and liberty stripped from us.
It is disgraceful.
When news of a virus started to reach us, it never crossed my mind that the UK would entertain such a draconian idea as a national lockdown...
"Dad was basically told to put up with it... when finally sent for tests his cancer markers were off the scale and he was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer..."
"A week before lockdown 1 in March 2020, my 80 year old Mum who had Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma...
"...rang for an ambulance as she was getting weaker.
NINE hours later after several phone calls to hospital, an ambulance arrived.
They didn't want to take her in via A&E because of Covid + it took more calls to the hospital before they agreed to admit her directly to a ward...
"She died 36 hours later.
There were only seven of us at her cremation, not allowed to sit near each other or hug.
My Dad, also 80 years but didn't live with Mum, had been in pain for a nearly a year before the first lockdown and he was basically told to put up with it...