Dementors Begone!

[ThatLibraryMiss]

Take your shaming and your doom and gloom somewhere else.

Sky have just reported that any easing on Monday will be 'very limited.'

So the dementors will be delighted. Good times for them.

My local news has a story about what it’s like to be in lockdown in temporary accommodation. A family of five in one room, sharing washing and cooking facilities with several other families. The council had offered the parents alternative accommodation, but it was too far away from where they worked. They worked as carers. That’s the reality of losing your home, not instantly getting a nice little council house.

I used to do risk assessments for live entertainment, so heights, heavy things at height and electricity. You look at the worst case scenario, the likelihood of it happening and what you can do to prevent it happening. Obviously the only way to one hundred percent stop something from happening is to not do the event, but we don’t say sorry, Glastonbury festival isn’t going to happen because we can’t totally eliminate any risk to the performers or stage staff.

sagittarius ah, was it a wealthy person who shouted at you?

I just get the impression those of us who have to get on with life are unlikely to start screaming about 2 metres. Also I think we're more realistic about mortality tbh.

the children should take their own body bags

How very Adrian Mitchell

Now five million bags are six feet long
Five million bags were five foot five
Five million were stamped with Mickey Mouse
And they came in a smaller size.

Interesting the point about fear of your mortality. I have considered this (if I or DH were some of the minority of late-thirties people with mild underlying conditions who sadly succumb) and occasionally have the odd intrusive thought about it. I consider what I’d do to survive without him and think about writing letters to the kids for every birthday/wedding, a list of funeral songs and all my banking passwords to make it easier for them if the worst happened to me... but I haven’t got round to it so far.

Maybe everyone deals with things in different ways but I’d rather give some practical thought to my niggling fears, file them under ‘will probably never happen’ and get on with life rather than turning into a hermit and losing my shit at randoms.

To be fair, most of the over 70’s people I know are extremely calm and pragmatic about it all.

It’s not even just risk assessment that people seem to be struggling with, it’s having any degree of nuance at all. If you think the risk to you personally is low then you are in denial because IT’S A DEADLY VIRUS and “the virus does not discriminate”.

Have even heard some people speculating we MUST be getting a different strain of it now since in China most people only got mild symptoms and mostly the old were at risk, but now it’s killing everyone.

So now we'll be sending the children to their slaughter if they start school in June.

What will change by September to make it any less slaughterous, I wonder.

I've been really amazed how highly people regard their own lives and the importance of them surviving. I mean, I don't want to die, but hey, it's going to happen! And as long as I'm happy with the way I've lived my life and my dcs are ok then I don't really mind. I've made a will and hoping to stuck around til dc2 is older. I don't think I'm terribly important and must be saved.

@LilacTree1, she struck me as someone who gets all her information from Facebook and 'Sandra's nan's cousin who owns the NHS says...' you know the kind of thing. Seems to be a lot of them about!
It's weird, it's like most people are being very polite to each other. I'm sensible about distancing, and I hope I'm respectful of others. But I won't let some thick, misinformed twat shout at me in the shop because 'Carol's brother's nan said...'

LilacTree and Willow. I, and several others, told her to fuck off. She’s deleted the comment I think as I can’t see it on there now.

@GoldenOmbre, you're saying what I want to say much more articulately than I could! I think people who were nasty, spiteful, stupid and attention-seeking before this doom-fest have become even more so.

I saw someone say they didn’t care if they lost their house as long as they were safe.

Haahaa! Yes, those dodgy B&Bs and office buildings the council puts homeless families in are ever so safe. Drug dealers and crims care a lot about social distancing and vulnerable people.

My FB is full of dementors. One today posted a link with news headlines from the papers saying they had blood on their hands for lifting lockdown saying she's self-employed and hasn't had any income for 3 months no amount of money is worth lifting lockdown. Failed to mention she inherited several million pounds two years ago. Hasn't got a single financial worry.

So now we'll be sending the children to their slaughter if they start school in June.

What will change by September to make it any less slaughterous, I wonder.

See, if there’s going to be a huge wave of people catching the virus as a result of children going back to school, it makes more sense to send them back in June so the peak is over the summer than sending them back in September and having a peak just as the NHS is about to head into winter flu season.

I've been saying this for ages! Why do people keep saying 'the end of the year' when that's the worst time to ease it, middle of bloody Winter!

I can deal with the lockdown, even with one child’s behaviour escalating as it goes on. The thought of another month of the Internet dementors crowing and ordering everyone to stick to their invented rules - that will break me completely.

My mental health has gone right now, if I didn’t have the kids I would have ended it after some posts on here sticking the boot into people.

@Domina me too. And my dc is stuck here just with me and he's great, but feeling pretty down

Sorry you are struggling, @DominaShantotto and @Mascotte. Things will get back to normal bit by bit, and probably sooner than some think. Dementors can bore off.

I can hear an ice-cream van nearby, maybe even in my street. There's gaunnae be a MURRDERRR (Taggart-style), etc

Checking in. Thanks for keeping me sane .

Oh.. yes.. there was furore on the estate Facebook page when an ice cream van was heard... !

I've engaged with a dementor... it's all getting to me, I should know better. I think I'll have a quiet lie down.😃

Same here Mascotte. No 1 rule or this thread should be ‘do not engage with dementors’.

The dementor has called me a twat.

This was for stating the law. Which apparently is not important as "this is a crisis". The exercise thing again

Yes, Dementors take it out of you, almost as much as Covid-19 (which I'm just making it up about, as I haven't been TESTED, etc). I have also just received an email asking if I'd like to re-book DS's school locker for the next academic year - life goes on, it seems

Right.. last engagement. I'll just play the bingo.

I thought Facebook was going to explode when an ice cream van came round here last week

It’s mostly NHS ap dementoring on my FB today. Download it, don’t download it - I don’t care either way but FFS stop flinging stupid insults at each other, claiming that anyone who suggests we can’t stay in lockdown forever is selfish, and posting YouTube bollocks about 5g everywhere.

Ooh I’d love to see an ice cream van!