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Every time someone mentions dementors paradise I hear it to the tune of that song by Coolio "gangstas paradise" - remember it? lol

The irony is that there are so many established illnesses with rare side effects, or post-viral fatigue, but we don't go through life in terror of them. Certainly anti-vaxxers don't and society has lost a lot of fear of the "childhood" illnesses that we have vaccination programs against.

There has been a shift back to a more varied, "normal" range of topics this week. Only a few hardcore Dementors are rebelling against the lighthearted or frivilous, whereas a month ago, it wouldn't have been worth posting anything more random.

@PickAChew I've had a rattata stranded in a gym for a fortnight, glad I didn't put a good pokemon in it!

The VE Day thread is full throttle dementor. Scent a little bit of joy somewhere? Quick, all pile in to suck it dry as quickly as possible.

They talked about that you would be automatically alerted by Bluetooth from the person who was carrying Covid if you came with in two meters of them

Well... kind of. What will happen is that phones will use Bluetooth to swap information, in the form of some unique identifier not accessible outside the app, when people are close. If, later, someone finds they have CV, they will notify their app. This will, in turn, send an alert to those people who've been close within the period during which the virus patient would have been infectious.

Your phone will not be pinging around Sainburys, nor will you be notified which of your contacts is positive for CV.

As the incidence of the virus becomes lower and lower the alerts will become rarer and rarer. It's a way of isolating only those people who need to be isolated to prevent the spread of the virus rather than the whole population minus key workers. You could look on it as reassurance: if enough people have it, and use it properly, lack of an alert will mean you haven't been in contact with someone infectious.

I’d also add to library’s comment that the people will also be tested, the chief medical officer was clear about that yesterday. So it won’t be notifying you every time some hypochondriac chokes on their dinner. That was what worried me about it initially.

I’d paint myself green and run naked (at a social distance of course) through the park at midday if it helped get us back to some semblance of normal.

If I did that it'd clear the park so I guess that would achieve the social distancing 🤣

I think lots of people are pretty much enjoying the extended bank holiday of not having to go to work - as well as enjoying some doom to enforce over other people. There's the MN rural dynamic as well and the eternal MN not being able to understand not everyone is in the same bubble they are of comparative lack-of-hardship.

It's a dementors paradise on the 1 June school threads that have popped up this morning. Whipping themselves into a frenzy that anyone dare to suggest that returning to school might a GOOD THING!

@domina the rural thing. Someone started a thread about why so many mumsnetters are rural - mostly got shot down by replies.

I live sort of semi rurally, well it’s a town with everything you’d need but in five mins your in a lane with sheep and cows etc. But there’s people around me and shops and stuff so it’s not rural surely!

I’m amazed by the sheer number of people who apparently live down a dirt track, 5 miles from a shop and 8 miles from their kids school! If they aren’t farmers, what do they do?! In real life I know one family who live about half a mile up a hill down a track and even then it’s only about 20 mins walk back down and there’s a pub and a restaurant and shop etc.

A lot of them say they’re so remote so people don’t ever come to their house?! I mean what do you say to that?! There you have it, the reason why they love lockdown so much !

I don't have children, but surely going back to school would be a good thing. If the dementors have their way and schools stay close until a vaccine is found, don't we run the risk of a generation of less well educated children? (I'm not putting down home learning, but there's no way it can be the same as a structured school education)

I have kids and they will be going back the second schools open. From all the research ive seen, children are not superspreaders and they arent at risk from covid (unless they have very significant underlying health conditions).

I honestly dont know what i'd do if they had serious underlying conditions and i do feel much empathy for those parents because it must be very worrying for them.

My mum lives down a dirt track a few miles from the village. It's like the M25 with people going for their daily walk down there at the moment - and it doesn't bother her one jot! She'd fail as a MNer.

Mine are going back to school when it opens - I need the transition planning in place for DD2 moving to the not-on-the-same-site Junior school, and her speech has regressed so much since she's been home - despite a very language-rich environment and lots of interaction.

What do these people who want lockdown to continue do for a living? Do they have jobs, mortgage/rent, bills to pay by any chance? Just curious.

What do these people who want lockdown to continue do for a living? Do they have jobs, mortgage/rent, bills to pay by any chance? Just curious.

I think some people have a very short-termist attitude to money. So if they have enough now they don’t worry.

@Alsohuman

I’ve also considered taking up smoking again. Purely for medicinal purposes.

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"we're spending most our lives, living in a dementors paradise

Just posted a ♟ on the schools thread.....

How did it go down? 😆

What do these people who want lockdown to continue do for a living? Do they have jobs, mortgage/rent, bills to pay by any chance? Just curious

I can only assume they are comfortably off and have oodles of money to keep them going for months without having to worry!
Mortgage companies arent giving people mortgage holidays after June so are they suggesting thousands of people should just lose their homes? same with the rent break. But when you ask them that, they never have an answer- they just parrot "people are dying" - i'm afraid thats not gonna cut it with my mortgage company!

Its easy to suggest lockdown for a year if you have no money worries- as usual, the privileged cannot understand why everyone else is suffering or concerned to get back to work. It really is a class issue.

ThatLibraryMiss that doesn’t sound too bad then, just had images of people with pitchforks hounding some one out of Tesco’s

"we're spending most our lives, living in a dementors paradise

haha! right- "As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's not much left"- very dementory

@SureTry in my mind they all live in really nice houses and are either SAHM or work As freelance media types a few for extra cash whilst their husbands have really good jobs which they can do from home. So their income isn’t actually affected at all. OR they are already relying on UC / benefits which haven’t changed anyway. It has to be some sort of situation where money is stable regardless

I’m a SAHM (predominantly, work freelance from home), our income is stable and I still want to get back to some semblance of normal soon!!!

Haha no I didn’t think that Booboodisney, i understood what you meant.