Dementors can dement but we'll keep it positive here

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Dementor free zone

I am going to spend (waste) a significant amount of time finding all the dementors on MN in 6 months time and checking that they are still following the RULES, that they are still THE FUCK AT HOME and that they CARE about their DC’s by keeping them SAFE at HOME. Or if they have got bored!

Good morning (just) - you can't argue rationally with the dementors - they don't want facts and sensible arguments... they just want everyone else to be in despair so they can be superior by "knowing" what's going o happen and doing despair better than anyone else.

I had to giggle yesterday though - braved a supermarket for the first time for an utterly, delightfully non-essential purchase, and it was us approaching the "apocalypse" in such a British way - queuing and excessive personal space.

Thanks for the new thread 😁

I just saw another one that cracked me up - it was a news article posted about being able to use your phone on the Tube next year. Comment from a Dementor - "who would chance going on the Tube next year?" You can't make it up.

It’s the Ebola shit that gets me.

It’s a bit like comparing the outcomes of two people who broke their necks. One was walking down the stairs and the other was sky diving and deciding that the two activities are comparable.

In terms of WW2 dd1 reckons being evacuated didn’t sound that bad in comparison to this (she has romantic visions of living on a farm with her sister with nice people and being allowed to freely roam around climbing trees as she fancied with her friends). While obviously it wasn’t that straightforward it is basically what they get told in history lessons.

For years I felt bad for my DF who was basically too poor to be evacuated, whereas my DM was, but then I read research that actually for the people who were not injured, the psychological impact of being separated from parents was worse than staying where they were with their families.

Also, thanks for these threads I seem to be surrounded by highly anxious, massively risk averse people, including my DM who thinks anyone who wants to relax the lockdown is "stupid" and my best friend who can't seem to get it into his head that nothing is going to be much different in September than it is now and unless you stay in for months, you're probably going to get it if you're susceptible.

Saw a great one the other day about someone in the private sector querying the availability of paid sick leave or SSP.

One response was 'after this is over, paid sick leave won't even be happening in the NHS'.

Really? Will it not? Are you sure? Or are you making it up?

Tabby - isn't that a dementor type comment though? Saying that nothing is going to be much different in September than it is now? Or am I reading that wrong?

Hurray! New thread! This has been keeping me sane and cheerful, so glad it's still going. My son is doing my shopping today as I can't face being glared at by people when we happen to share the same bit of pavement for one billionth of a second. I'm just so so tired of it all. I'm coming off Facebook because a couple of friends who I thought were sane rational people are dementoring like crazy; 'Second wave...doom doom...lockdown should be tightened up...dooooooom!'

Yay another thread! Morning all.

I was bored so searched out my particular favourite to cheer myself up. Back in the early days a poster was worried her husband could have coronavirus. Cue a lot of discussion about isolating and then someone came along to say he needed to be confined to one room which was sealed with duct tape and plastic sheeting and a hepa filter used to suck out the air. This was apparently necessary as most of the elderly will die if they catch it.

One response was 'after this is over, paid sick leave won't even be happening in the NHS

how do they come up with this rubbish?! how would they even know what’s going to happen next year or even next month, none of us do!
Yet they come out with these moronic, idiotic “predictions” like some kind of mystic meg of misery. Imagine what living with them must be like?!!! 😳

We made the mistake of buying the Daily Mail today- don’t judge, DH likes the telly mag. They’ve got a, thankfully imaginary, piece about hat life will be like next year After Covid. It’s a Dementors dream.

All the FB references are making me realise how lucky - or discerning - I am with my friends. There’s no dementing on my timeline and plenty of dark humour. In fact, were it not for MN, I wouldn’t be exposed to it at all.

he needed to be confined to one room which was sealed with duct tape and plastic sheeting and a hepa filter used to suck out the air. This was apparently necessary as most of the elderly will die if they catch it

That’s not enough to contain the virus! She needs to dig a hole in her garden where he can live for the next year, cover it up with concrete and he can breathe through a straw via a tiny hole. Then she should burn her entire house down just to be safe. Anything less than that and you may as well machine gun down the local care home!

I won't judge MinesaPinot, we have to buy it so DH can do the crossword!

@Alsohuman I should have made it clear that this wasn't one of my friends!

The fat thread is going the same way as the poverty thread- it's always the same. Drama over whether it's their fault or not FFS

I'm not on FB anymore, left it ages ago, sounds like that was for the best really. MN is enough...

There’s no dementing on my timeline and plenty of dark humour Ok well that's good, yes must be discerning in your friends.

love this thread for some sensible chat with people realising that lockdown will be lifted gradually over the next few weeks/ months children will go back to school and people will see friends and family this year not 2023 for average dementor and 2025 for severe cases

Meanwhile the Times is reporting on ways to make money from your house and improve it in lockdown

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/home-improvement-ideas-100-easy-ways-to-add-value-to-your-house-75lqvvdpt

and plan your bucket list of post lockdown trips

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/plan-now-go-later-20-great-british-bucket-list-breaks-tw535sqdl

The dominators would hate it!

Dementors! Spellcheck

I had a ♟ on my FB time line right from the outset. At the beginning when everyone was terrified and Italy were really going down fast I posted a link to a woman who'd had it in Australia and had been quite ill but recovered. I was trying to counter the one sided reporting. The ♟ told me the woman's experience of having COVID was totally irrelevant to COVID, and that I was being irresponsible to post her story. I asked how can her experience be irrelevant when she actually had it? I queried are cases of CV only worth hearing about if there's a tragic outcome then? The ♟ then flounced off and hadn't spoken to me since 🤷🏼‍♀️

My FB is largely positive now. I'm glad because those first few weeks both there and here on MN felt like End Of Days.

Little pockets of dementing breaking out on my local Facebook page. Someone has asked how busy it is at our newly re-opened Homebase. Apparently its pretty busy, but that's because they're getting people to queue outside to keep numbers down inside. And one of the comments is "What’s so important in Homebase that it’s worth risking your life for?" In my case, gardening stuff, but my risk assessment is that - in a county with a very low death rate, and a well-managed store - there's very limited risk.