Dementors Begone!

[ThatLibraryMiss]

Take your shaming and your doom and gloom somewhere else.

If only the BBC had shown such a balanced view from the start!

Omg YAY how did I miss this! The dementors are driving me mad! My second cousin - who is not on the shielding list - has only let her two children outside twice in 8 weeks. A 10 year old and 8 year old who have only been in their own garden twice in 2 months. She's very proud of this and is an avid enthusiast of all phrases on this bingo card.

Can we add 'no way would I get a vaccine! How do we know it's safe!' 🤯

The bingo card!! Wow you’ve set a precedent there

What’s a vaccine dementor? I’m not sure if one

That's not how the dementors work but have fun.

Fun is not allowed Bellini!

Great BBC article! Looks like they have taken heed of the SM posts that were going about.

I think we should have a clapping for WFH parents who are attempting to homeschool or just any fecker who is trying to home school! The struggle is real!

Can we add 'no way would I get a vaccine! How do we know it's safe!' 🤯

I clapped once, not again. I can’t see how me doing a seal impression on my doorstep every week helps the NHS in any way.
Unless you live on a street with NHS workers, or you're being filmed, I can't see that clapping every week is doing anything except make you feel good about yourself.
(Recently retired NHS worker here-my DH is shielding, or I'd go back to help)

That BBC article was indeed refreshing and sets out in clear numbers how marginal the risk to people under 60 without underlying conditions. Sadly I doubt we will get a release for the majority any time soon for political reasons, but at least there's something with some clear numbers to explain in small words to all the people convinced that their perfectly healthy 30something self and perfectly healthy primary child are going to DIE.

I completely forgot about the clap last week. DH was upstairs drying off/faffing about after his shower and I was downstairs watching TV with DD. I heard a rhythmic banging noise coming from upstairs and my first though was DH was having some...alone time, iykwim . After DD had gone to bed I asked him what he’d been doing to make that noise, expecting him to mutter something about looking for clean socks, instead he pointed out it was Thursday and he’d been clapping out of the bedroom window. I wonder if anyone else has mistaken the clap for a wank?

@bellinisurge we know. It's tongue in cheek.

@bellinisurge ‘dementor’ is just in reference to them wanting to suck the souls out of people. We weren’t intending to make an accurate comparison to a fictional creature.

Barkandcheese too early too early!! 😷

Sorry 😂

@BarkandCheese has reminded me how much I keep enjoying everyone referring to "The Clap"

Yes, give NHS workers the clap!

Waxonwaxoff - I am also incredibly dubious about Monday. Mixing with one other household and going out twice a day! Fantastic!

That BBC article is excellent but quite the turnaround for them.

Well I've just dropped DD1 off at school - could not wait to get rid of her! I'm not a key worker but myself and school are so concerned about the escalation in her challenging behaviour that they're taking her in on days numbers are low to try to give her some normality.

And yes I talked about normal - not the "new normal"

That's a great BBC article. I'm increasingly coming to think that we need to make our own risk assessments, based on available information and our own individual circumstances, and it is a really helpful tool in doing so.

Glad the school found a solution to help you and your daughter DominaShantotto!

Urgh. Another tedious argument with a dementor about the one hour exercise ‘rule’ that never was.

On one of the '1st June schools going back?' threads someone said the children should take their own body bags 🙄

On one of the '1st June schools going back?' threads someone said the children should take their own body bags

Good grief!

On one of the '1st June schools going back?' threads someone said the children should take their own body bags

That’s got to be a contender for the number one spot in the chart of ‘dementorisms’, surely?

we all need to do our part to protect the venerable, according to a poster elsewhere.

Venerable. I'll take that label. Vulnerable, I don't like so much (cos I ain't), so I don't want her priggish protection either.