Dementors can dement but we'll keep it positive here

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Chilli I agree we need more positive recovery stories...examples of mild cases. there are a few online if you look, I'll try and find some for us.

ugh still more "I'm not sending my kids back until there's a vaccine because i love my kids and they are more important than my job"

yeah, because the rest of us who have to work to get money and will lose our homes if we dont work just dont care do we? those people can just fck right off.

This is the one i was looking for, this was at the start when we were being told to wash hands etc, before it was all Doom and Deaths etc

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-51714162/how-i-recovered-from-coronavirus-and-isolation

TBH I think a fair few 'rural' MNers aren't as rural as they think they are. They advertise their 'rural' credentials and then say something completely ignorant. Plus you get ones who think that Dorking is the countryside and that Cambridge is provincial...

Our local footpaths have been busy by normal standards, though it is very weather-dependent. Some dementor has put up a sign about socially diatancing being impossible on a narrow local footpath but it's bollocks, as they'd have found if they'd taken a tape measure rather than trying to spoil other people's fun.

So she basically had a bit of a flu and felt breathless but made a good recovery. Interesting what she says about the fear and prejudice etc.

TBH I think a fair few 'rural' MNers aren't as rural as they think they are.

It’s all comparative isn’t it? I live on a modern housing estate that is 2 miles from the nearest town. So we are fairly rural in terms of having nice walks within easy reach. Most people plod round the same circuits though and we had some dementor put a sign up on one of our very local paths. Walked 8 miles yesterday - basically the further you walk the quieter it is. We are really really lucky and it’s made me appreciate how lovely our local area is.

Again, it comes down to the complete inability to assess risk and respond accordingly.

I also think that the slogan "Stay in, protect the NHS" worked very well, and now the government needs something just as snappy to replace it with. In a way the are competing with themselves there.

Protect the NHS completely needs to go. The Nightingale hospitals are standing empty and there’s the start of a view that creating them was a bit of an over reaction.

Ooh I have found my people.

In my Australian state, restrictions eased yesterday and your household is now allowed to travel 50km from your home for recreational purposes, including picnics!

Every man, woman and their dog have been posting family snaps on fb of lovely days at the beach and the park.

The dementors are furious and very upset at all of this blatant fun. Our main local dementor is a “every time you open your front door a nurse drops dead” type. She has spent the weekend posting endless horror stories about covid and warning us all that our feckless fun will lead to a second spike of doom, which will be infinity x 10 worse. I like to think she is going into an extinction burst and will fizzle away to nothing.

It needs to go, but it needs something else in its place.

Let's get on with life and work again, or something that can speak even to a Dementor.

Half of these dementors have fuck all regard for key workers, happy for them to go out, fill supermarket shelves, care for the elderly, clean hospital corridors and therefore send their DC’s to school. While they sound off about it not being safe for their DC to leave the house, it’s disgusting.

How about Protect the Economy, Get Back to Work? I guess Stop Dementing would be a step too far.

‘Stop Dementing’

No that won't do,

It will be the old LIfes again Economy thing, and it will invariably lead to Lives are more valuable and so on.

No, it has to speak on a more human, accessible level, something to do with family and home, keep them, maybe?

It's nice being able to mention something like Sweden's approach without having a Dementor jump in. Refreshing.

Apparently in the Times they say it might be "Restart"

Half of these dementors have fuck all regard for key workers, happy for them to go out, fill supermarket shelves, care for the elderly, clean hospital corridors and therefore send their DC’s to school. While they sound off about it not being safe for their DC to leave the house, it’s disgusting

It IS disgusting. The hypocrisy of its ok for them but not for MY child is vile

Protect jobs, maybe. That's more personal than economy. When you say economy many think banks, jobs are better.

I found that my friends who are dementors are usually furloughed (no kids) and spending their days pursuing a hobby or are sahms who's husbands are now furloughed

‘Stop Dementing

This.

Stop dementing. get back to work. Protect our mental health.

Yes, clapping for them while staying away themselves.

This pandemic has brought out the worst and the best in people.
Its lovely to see people helping others in their community.
Its also deeply depressing to see how utterly selfish some people are.

I've been wondering about the rural thing recently. I live in a friendly working/lower middle class urban area and don't really know my neighbours, but given that most people on my terrace have spent lockdown drinking in their back yards, blasting 80s pop songs and shouting conversations through the fences I can't imagine there's a high dementor population here. They're not on my Nextdoor either - I only ever see them on MN.

I grew up in a very naice London suburb that was completely different - anyone out in their gardens would only have been speaking quietly to their immediate neighbours so as not to disturb other people, and while Classic FM might have been borderline acceptable, anyone playing Duran Duran outdoors would have been tutted at sternly And yet I find it hard to picture the people there being dementors either - they'd have been counting down the days til they could have their friends round for wine in the evenings, and stopping in the street to complain to each other about their cancelled holidays and their children missing school. If anyone had started posting anonymous dementor-y notes through doors they'd have been the subject of speculation and ridicule for ever, long after the pandemic itself was over.

So... where are all the dementors and clap-shamers in real life? I always picture them as bored old women living in tiny hamlets where there's nothing to do except spy on each other. But then other people see them as trendy media/PR types with no money worries People who have actual dementor neighbours, where do you live? Is dementing a trend where you are or is it just that one annoying neighbour that nobody likes anyway?

I wanna know who these people are that are enjoying furlough. I'm on my own with a 4yo all day. He's desperately missing nursery. I am missing work. Poor dp is being talked half to death when he gets home because me and the small child are sick of each others company!

I love him to bits but he needs the company of other kids. I am worried he's regressing and I'm an awful teacher.

Ofc the dementors tell me I am lucky to even have a child and why did I have one if I clearly hate him so much and everyone else's children are DYING.

How about. Leave your homes, Protect Jobs, Save the Economy?