Dementors Begone!

[ThatLibraryMiss]

Take your shaming and your doom and gloom somewhere else.

I LOVED that episode!

I thought of red dwarf with the government:

"We cant afford to take any chances with corona, jump up to red alert"
"Are you sure sir? it does mean changing the bulb..."

Thankyou so much for these threads, oases of sanity in the middle of all the hyperbole.

I've used the "snooze for 30 days" button on Facebook so much it's smoking, and the number of people remaining that I actually still want to interact with is depressingly tiny. I think the worst aspect of it is the rubbish being posted by people I thought were normal, intelligent folk - just this morning one of them shared the "Boris is lifting the lockdown because there's a bed for you in ICU" bollocks. I really thought better of her.

@amicissimma

*I stumbled over a FB post allegedly from a distressed nurse who'd spent a whole shift taking bodies to a makeshift mortuary in full PPE on one of the hot days we had a while ago. As I know someone who works in the hospital named I was horrified and, when they came out, looked up the numbers of deaths in the relevant period.

1. In a week. In the whole trust*

I had a nurse fb friend post similar bollocks the other day. Wonder if was the same one....When I challenged her she really didn't like it and deleted me. Most of the other nhs HCPs I know are very rational and sensible about it all though and one even admitted that the hospital she works at was nowhere near full even at peak

Thank you everyone, for your kind words, it really helps. @LilacTree1 I'm definitely giving the voodoo doll thing a go!
I might take a walk to Morrison's tomorrow. If they're not following the ROOLZ I think I'll do better shopping there. This thread has been like life support the past couple of days. There are people in my life I thought were well balanced humans but they are dementoring and doom mongering and generally acting as though a hybrid of Bubonic Plague and Cholera has come to town. Oh, and it's floating in the air, ready to get you, apparently. Where are these people getting their science from?

@NothingIsWrong that's a great find. I'm in a family WhatsApp group and the other day one of my family members (who lives abroad) wrote "What's all this about banging pots and pans for the NHS every Thursday? It's a bit North Korea isn't it?". Went down like a sack of shit in the group but made me laugh.

I am getting very eye-rolly at the "it just means there's currently a bed for you in the ICU" thing. Ooooh, just for me? Well there's a vanishingly unlikely chance I'll need it for Covid so can I perhaps pop by and use it for a nap?

I have a real life dementor encounter to report!

Went to local co-op to get bread (and other things which were non-essentials). Woman in very small shop with a TROLLEY, blocking the aisle which is barely wide enough for two people to pass. Was wearing plastic gloves, a blue surgical mask and plastic disposable apron. Tutting VERY loudly at anyone who came within 10 feet of her.

All totally pointless too as she was constantly touching her very poorly-fitting mask with her gloved hands to adjust it, fiddling with her apron and generally faffing.

Co-Op staff dressed normally in their polo shirts and trousers looking on in a bemused manner as she tutted at them for daring to fill the cheese section. Have to admit, have seen people in gloves and poorly-fitting masks before, but the plastic apron is a first for me.

@GoldenOmber that made me laugh and snort coffee! I'll use that reply if anyone says it to me.

GoldenOmber and also I read it and think ‘well yeah, that’s a good thing’. It means that if I have a car accident, or develop sepsis (again), or I fall down the stairs and bang my head, then there will be a bed for me.

sagittarius glad to help.

Re shops, mum shops at Morrison’s and it’s all one way with a constant tannoy about social distancing.

I go to a small Aldi. It is the nearest place but also I think the size of it means the dementors go to a bigger shop nearby. If you have to walk past someone, that’s just life.

Might be worth trying a small place.

From now on, I'm just going to stop engaging and just hide threads the minute they become depressing or nasty or personally attacking.

It's so hard to do but I have started doing this. You still feel a bit riled up for a few minutes after but because it doesn't keep popping back up you forget about it within half an hour. It's honestly the best thing. I'm no wallflower but the swiftness to attack on here leaves me mentally winded at times.

I think the worst aspect of it is the rubbish being posted by people I thought were normal, intelligent folk - just this morning one of them shared the "Boris is lifting the lockdown because there's a bed for you in ICU" bollocks. I really thought better of her

Ditto. Including other friends who are scientists. Spooky. I think I feel a cull coming on.

I think all I can do is urge those who are panicking to look at the actual numbers and the quantified risk for children and for adults under 65 who don't already have serious comorbidities, and encourage them to compare that to the risks they tolerate on a daily basis without even noticing.

Dementors are simply to be ignored, or used for bingo scores.

Pineapple I would have had to say something to that woman.

I’ll be going Morrison’s tomorrow. Was ordered back round an isle in Tescos yesterday as id missed an item. And she watched me to make sure I didn’t make a dash for it.

@PineappleDanish Ah the lesser spotted PPE Dementor. Have seen a herd of them sweeping majestically across the Iceland car park. Easily recognisable by it's distinct 'tutting' sound and widely believed by rational people to be batshit crazy.

I’ve had a very exciting morning of flaunting and flouting involving bunting, escaped bunnies, a random drunk man, broken fences, neighbours, the police and paramedics, plus a walk of over an hour which I drove to get to. I wonder how many millions I’ve killed?

It's the overlap between the "how dare you be having fun" people and the "how dare you complain" people that baffles me. You are not allowed to enjoy your life on lockdown because it's Against The Spirit Of Lockdown (Even Though We Don't Have A Proper Lockdown), and you're also not allowed to find it tough at all because PEOPLE ARE DYING THINK YOURSELVES LUCKY.

It's almost as if some people live their normal lives in a constant state of 'miserable but thriving on the misery' and now think everyone else should be doing the same...

Yes, no moaning but no enjoying yourself either. You have to be happy about being miserable. It’s the only way.

@LilacTree1 Thanks for the advice re shopping. Aldi is nearer and usually less busy, I'll give it a try.

I might have just poked a group of dementors on a local Facebook page. It was all "has lockdown ended - everyone is out and about." And lots of people piling on to agree how dreadful it was. I said I'd just been out, and all I'd seen were people queuing properly to get into Sainsburys and Homebase, which wasn't surprising since it was the start of a long weekend, and people out walking, cycling and running because it was a nice morning. I will go back in a bit to see what response I've got

@MaudesMum the people who post shit like that are missing the fact THAT THEY ARE OUT AS WELL

Think I posted on the prev thread about someone I know posting from the B&M store they were, themselves, shopping in about " cannot believe all the fucking twats here whats wrong with people" or similar, unreal

I think some people think we should take great delight in being as miserable as humanly possible. I've known some who are never happier than when they're miserable! I'm fairly sure they will be spreading dementorness around everywhere currently.

I cba with that. Having lost both parents and husband (amongst others), life is to be lived happily as much as we can, without making misery for others. Obviously the current situation is bloody miserable, but we can get and make the best of it, or we can whinge and moan and bully anyone who doesn't conform to our ideal. Personally I think the latter must be a very unpleasant way to live.

I am genuinely concerned that I will be WFH forever as my place is making noises about rationalising the estate to save money post lockdown ie far fewer desks. I’m on the ‘back to the office’ task group which sadly has a whole load of dementors on it. Our first meeting started off all isn’t WFH wonderful and new ways of working corporate bollocks so I stuck my size 9s in and reminded them it wasn't a whole load of fun for everyone. Others then agreed but it was clear someone had to break the narrative or we would have all been at home until 2023.

My mental health has taken a turn for the worse overnight and as I happened to mention it DH is now avoiding me as he doesn’t do issues. Great. The dementors would probably remind me that people are dying.

Spot on, Trust. I've snoozed and unfollowed LOADS. My name is Tin, I live in a rural area, I can access a trail system that runs for about 50 miles in two directions, walk to deserted beaches and the nearest shop is a Premier one a brisk 40min. walk away. I regularly walk there to buy only 2 items - a bottle of voddy and a bottle of Coke or 2 bottles of wine. NO ONE gives a fuck!

We don't have a Morrisons close enough to shop in regularly.

I have bent the rules of the Tesco one way system occasionally though. If I've missed something and want to go back to it in the same aisle I just check behind me and then shuffle carefully backwards until I can reach what I want, whilst continuing to face in the correct direction. Occasionally, if there really has been nobody in the aisle or looking at all (rare, I admit) then I have swiftly swung my trolley round, marched back to what I wanted and then at lightning speed repositioned myself so that I don't look immediately as if I flouted the one-way system. I'm damned certain that I am not alone in that either.

I wonder how many people I have murdered doing that?

Soooo many 'there's a bed in ICU for you'. Fuck off. I'll probably be dead before the fucking chopper gets me there but at least I'll die happy. I was listening to an old play list the other day during a HIIT workout (I exercise more than once a day, I even GO OUT to do it) and a song by Garbage that sums Dementors up came on, 'I'm Only Happy When It Rains'.