--- title: Little Girl Has Incredibly Relatable Lockdown Meltdown description: The ongoing pandemic has a lot of us feeling like we’re on the verge of a meltdown—this little girl let it out canonical: https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-07-10T15:02:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:47:31.000Z og:title: Little Girl Has Incredibly Relatable Lockdown Meltdown og:description: The ongoing pandemic has a lot of us feeling like we’re on the verge of a meltdown og:url: https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Little Girl Has Incredibly Relatable Lockdown Meltdown twitter:description: The ongoing pandemic has a lot of us feeling like we’re on the verge of a meltdown twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # A Little Girl's Quarantine Meltdown Is Really Resonating With People by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:47 PM UTCPublished: Jul 10, 2020 3:02 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:47 PM UTCPublished: Jul 10, 2020 3:02 PM UTC The ongoing [coronavirus](https://time.com/wyckoff-hospital-brooklyn-coronavirus/) pandemic has a lot of us feeling like we’re missing out even if it’s for a good reason—and one little girl has gone viral after letting it all out in a very relatable meltdown. In the video, shared by Twitter user @[Ngu\_Spesh](https://twitter.com/Ngu%5FSpesh), a five-year-old little girl by the name of Blake expresses her ongoing frustration over restaurant shutdowns, the lack of fun in the world these days, and germs (“Why would germs come around to people if they don’t want germs to come around?”). She can’t go inside at McDonald’s, her favorite restaurant, the ice cream truck is closed, and “everything that is fun has to be shutdown.” > [](https://twitter.com/Ngu%5FSpesh/status/1281259100450566146) “The only thing that is open is nothing!” she shouts at one point, which feels very true. When she says, “It’s just really frustrating!” it’s nearly impossible to watch without nodding your head in agreement. As the [pandemic](https://time.com/5848949/covid-19-asymptomatic-spread/) rages on in the U.S., restaurants close and reopen and close again, as [lockdown](https://time.com/5802700/lockdown-song/) orders come and go, this is one incredibly relatable grievance, which is why the tiny tirade has spread across social media: > [](https://twitter.com/ShannonBream/status/1281400210795659264) > [](https://twitter.com/soledadobrien/status/1281408178794778624) > [](https://twitter.com/thekjohnston/status/1281351356398223360) > [](https://twitter.com/EugeneDaniels2/status/1281386770098204673) > [](https://twitter.com/rabiasquared/status/1281428276372819969) > [](https://twitter.com/profblmkelley/status/1281452459140022272) > [](https://twitter.com/aaronecarroll/status/1281384994015977472) > [](https://twitter.com/emmyrossum/status/1281578843652845568) > [](https://twitter.com/michaelharriot/status/1281450210670137344) While the tiny human was impressive and impassioned, so were her parents who let her vent her frustrations, listened to her complaints, and seemed to value her voice, all of which drew the attention of Twitter, too. > [](https://twitter.com/AskingAmy/status/1281360401037438977) > [](https://twitter.com/Misokeys/status/1281305123281604610) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/"},"headline":"A Little Girl's Quarantine Meltdown Is Really Resonating With People","datePublished":"2020-07-10T15:02:15.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T17:47:31.000Z","description":"The ongoing pandemic has a lot of us feeling like we’re on the verge of a meltdown","url":"https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief","clickmonsters","COVID-19"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5865523/toddler-meltdown/","name":"A Little Girl's Quarantine Meltdown Is Really Resonating With People"}}]}] ```