J-366 : 1 an et 1 jour

[castalie]

Fair warning: this is pure Covid-situation rant. You might want to skip that one. 

What a week. What a week! So, yesterday was our First Lockdown anniversary - whaddayaknow, a whole year has passed since the whole mess officially started! How to celebrate, you might ask? Well, wonder no more! What better way to celebrate that splendid anniversary than to announce yet a new Lockdown the day after the one-year point! 

So that's what, our third lockdown? I guess I'll stop counting very soon. 

Admittedly, other areas of France already had a weekend lockdown but we "upgraded" the whole thing as Ile-de-France (as well as 15 other areas) are now in 7/7 Lockdown for four weeks. Oh, and we still have our curfew! I mean, why not keep the curfew on top of the lockdown? (Actually, said curfew has been pushed back an hour which was music to my ears as it now starts at 7.00PM instead of 6.00PM, which in turns means I can go out and take a breather right after work, which wasn't possible up to that point).

So we're back to non-essentials shops being closed, back to not being able to go far (although further than the dreaded 1km of Before) and back to our beloved permission form! Oh, how I did not miss that cursed document. I'm impatient to see the new version, though, because turns out even though we still have a km-restriction, we don't have a time-restriction any longer (during the day, I mean). So we could theoretically stay outside for ten hours if we wanted and I mean... why? (My theory is that the Gvt is worried people are so tired and so fed up with the whole thing that they will just not care if the restrictions are too restrictive and so they're being lenient in some areas).

Anyway. Sorry. I'm fuming inside, it has to get out somehow - also, I wasn't having the best of weeks to begin with, so. And don't get me wrong I actually believe in restrictive restrictions but at this point, everything sounds futile and/or stupid and/or too little, too late. (And don't get me started on the clusterfuck that is the French vaccination campaign).
  
Ha! Don't you miss my K-drama obsessive posts now? lol (I'll be back with k-drama related content very soon, never fear!)

Ok, rant over. Hope you're all doing good, flist, or as well as you can. I'm sending lots of love your way, I'm thinking of you *hugs* 

Comments

[turps]

I don't blame you for needing to rant.

I agree with you, restrictions are needed but I'm tired of being in lockdown too. The vaccination programme is going well here, but still the cases keep going up and I'm expecting the things that are supposed to be reopened in a couple of weeks to be pushed back again.

[castalie]

Would you believe we might be facing new restrictions yet? I guess new-new restrictions? We'll know more tonight but Macron is talking to us tonight so...

[vriddy]

This sucks and sounds so very tiring. Good luck with the restrictions, and here's hoping things will look up soon.

[castalie]

Thanks. Sometimes you just need to vent, I guess. Good luck to you too - hope things are getting better where you are.

[enigel]

All feelings are valid, all feelings are welcome! Especially in your own little Internet space. ♥

This is pretty mild tbh, not a single "fuck" or "merde" ;) (Well, until I came in to lower the tone. :>)

I didn't do anything to mark the anniversary, although I did have a nostalgic few minutes looking at my calendar and remembering that on 13 March 2020 I was just coming back from Marseille, having had a lot of fun and a lot of luck. My last "normal" photo was an outdoors selfie with a fruit cocktail in a chaise-longue, just before going back to the train station. </3

I stopped commuting to work before they announced any lockdown measures, and I've always been more risk-avoidant than whatever the regulations would have allowed... I'm going to struggle to "re-adapt" to whatever normality is going to look like after this. I've spent too long having to do my own risk assessment, because I didn't trust the government's "standards".

Hugs and commiserations.

I don't subscribe to this narrative that we "must" extract some kind of silver lining, or that we "have to" see the positive in everything. Sometimes shit is just shit and not fertiliser, life is extremely unfair, and we can still be thankful that we're alive while sticking a big middle finger to the situation.

The UK's vaccination campaign might be very successful, but their handling of everything else has been atrocious. (And our vax campaign possibly comes at the cost of other countries not getting enough doses for their own vulnerable citizens. :/)

[castalie]

LOL Oh, there were quite a lot of "putain" AFK! This post was the polished version ;)

Same here, last year, around the anniversary mark I was in Athens for work... things were getting super weird and I got back to France two days before our First Lockdown started! But when I was looking at the pictures of this trip, it felt surreal. I'm glad I have those memories, though.

Allez, we'll make it, Cris!

Thanks for the support *hugs*