Dementors can dement but we'll keep it positive here

[hobnobsaremyfavourite]

New thread
Dementor free zone

As someone over 60 with low blood pressure and a record of less than one visit a year to the GP, if there’s any attempt to keep me at home at the end of lockdown, the response will be robust. I think the government’s between a rock and a hard place, given that most of its voters are in this age group and will object strongly to not seeing their grandchildren.

@Teateaandmoretea

I think a key point is that everybody dies. The dementors seem to have missed that there's no death free option available if you dont die of coronavirus. Which isn't the same as wanting people to die of the virus, just that it's got to be balanced against health risks of lockdown.

My DF is in his 80s and very frail and clearly cant be bothered with all the fuss about covid. It sometimes feels like its crueller for him not seeing his family than going to see him and having that risk, because he's nearing the end of his life whatever happens.

Imagine having to say you had an injury due to the clap

Makes bingo up the back passage seem a good option

Can I join? I live close to the coast and the number of curtain-twitching posts demanding that people STAY IN rather than take their permitted exercise by the sea was insane. They could not see beyond the STAY IN instruction to any level of nuance. Same with the dementors on here. There's always been some anti-science batshittery on Mumsnet (toilet brushes, washing towels daily, showering 2 or 3 times a day, Zoflora and denouncing anyone who doesn't conform as "grim") but this is a whole new level of hysteria.

Magda I came off MN for a bit because all the doom and gloom was getting to me. I was (am) worried about my job and my child's education etc and I was made to feel bad about that and the whole "we are only being asked to sit on our sofa" thing just made me feel really shit.

I don't think we have had it (unless we were asymptomatic) however I am less scared about getting Corona than I am of losing my job.

One has the very small chance of ruining my life and the other much much bigger and more likely.

The idea of clapping injuries has actually made me break into a smile. Which I needed after the schools thread. God save me from it. But it's like an addiction - I can't help but click on the thread even though I know the type of poster so well I could write their whole thread for them.

There is a new ♟♟♟♟♟ thread slagging off the nightingale hospitals 🤦🏻‍♀️

Gnu sounds like you need some respite.

Yes I have felt the same way about MN recently...when I found my Mind chat app so much more positive and friendly and sane. It never used to be like that did it. Sometimes just seem to look at it was bizarre fascination. (MN)

Oh God, they told me before those Nightingale hospitals are where they sent people to die etc...no it is for the less severe and complex cases i read. They kept going on about them previously.

@Willitneverend totally right. Everyone who gets coronavirus will die, as will everyone who doesn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

The clapping injuries reminded me of when they went on about avocado injuries when millennials were into them...'avocado hand' they called it.

'Avocado hand' health warning
Avocados should carry warning labels following a rise in knife injuries from cutting into the fruit, a doctor has warned.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-39890204/avocado-hand-health-warning

they told me before those Nightingale hospitals are where they sent people to die

One of our local ♟ posted in our community Facebook group a picture with ‘do you want to go here and die’ on a Saturday night.

They get REALLY angry if youve had covid mildly, we've mentioned this before. If you get it mildly they refuse to believe youve had it and you must be lying.

I am mid 50s. I do suffer with anxiety but I always have had ; but it's age and the menopause with me. I know I could do with losing weight.

Shopping I find hard going , but I went and got on with it : actually everyone was sensible and good natured today. I wore gloves and kept out the way and just tried not to stress. My worries are not going to stop me going out for a walk or shopping.

I'm not as fit as my brothers who are over 60 and I'm ashamed at that but we're the generation that likes eating out and will have wine in front of the tv etc. I've realised that will have to stop if I want to get fitter!
Keeping older fitter people indoors won't be fair to them or the economy. The pension age has gone up ; the government can't have this all their own way ! It has to be sensible restrictions.

Yes, my mum has had it (tested as she’s NHS). She’s 60 with a couple of underlying health issues. She had a high temp for 3-5 days, a cough and a headache for a couple of days. She was back at work after a week. Dementors hate hearing that sort of thing.

Do you remember when we had to sing Happy Birthday and Jennie Harries was saying that people with mild cases 'could expect to feel rough at home for a few days?'

No talk about the mild cases now it's all Death and Doom and complex rare problems, latest one is kidney damage. I've another surgical condition and no-one cares about that, even though it is the most common surgical emergency and reason for admission for many post surgical patients. Has a mortality rate of about 15%. Wish they had the same concern for that, and other medical issues.

Glad to hear that about your mum Driving, yes the MPs mum Nadine Dorris, and Prince Charles also older and had mild cases I understand.

Nadine's mum is 84.

Speaking of her symptoms she told The Times: "My mum coughed repetitively and had a fever for one day. Last night we received the results of her test — she is positive.

"Unlike with my situation, we know exactly where she caught it from and the irony is, despite her having had major surgery to replace the valves in her heart damaged by childhood illness, despite her pacemaker and breathlessness, her lifetime of smoking, hard work in her early years and poor diet, she had much milder symptoms than me."

www.thenational.ae/world/uk-health-minister-says-she-and-elderly-mother-have-recovered-from-coronavirus-1.993052

They'd hate that.

I feel sorry for people with anxiety or OCD whose levels must be through the roof but we need to make it clear that not everyone is like this and being sensible and doing your best is all you can do.
Schools are a different story as SD and children won't be easy. The school threads are a huge bunfight , but I can see all sides of that one to be fair.
I think rotas are the way to go but businesses need to be told that their employees have to be flexible and to try and adapt. I know many won't though!
Schools opening up is a big headache.

Found you!

To the PP asking where all the dementors are in real life, I can tell you...living in my village that's where. The admin for the Village FB page (who me and OH refer as "She that can fuck off), has decreed that we should all put bunting on our houses on Friday, not only to commemorate V.E day but to show support for those that have stuck rigidly to the "roolz" thus showing that our village is an example to all. When a few mentioned that they wouldn't be doing it they were met with " so you don't care about people dying".

I really should get off that site but it's so entertaining at times and relieves my boredom.

Has anyone else noticed the dementors that love shutting people down? Someone will start a thread wondering when schools go back/when lockdown will end and a dementor will jump in immediately with "NO ONE KNOWS there is NO POINT speculating about this because NO ONE KNOWS!"

I think we're all aware that no one knows but why aren't we allowed to have discussions about it?

I went the wrong way down an almost empty aisle in town the other day. Was hissed at from someone behind a mask! I just looked at her and she backed off. The ' Paddington Bear ' stare is the way to go to the dementors. Let's try it ( from 2m ) ! ( be kind though!)
I know people are worried but it can get out of hand if not checked!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3898302-why-are-there-families-in-the-supermarket-queue

How dare you only buy flowers!

The dementors are on the Should I Download The App thread too, but they're all Oooh no, wouldn't give my data away to Them. Well fine, but what's the alternative? Oh yeah, it's their favourite: lockdown forever.