Anti-Dementor Alliance Thread - learn how to produce your patronus here

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New thread!

And a toddler is like a running dog.. it's time for me to get off dementor threads and do something productive

Holiday dementor spotted on my Facebook this morning telling people there will be no holidays this year, probably none next year and we should wait until 2023 before considering travelling.

@rosettesforjill I am a natural leftie but think that's not what the SNP are about.. far too controlling for my liking

Someone quoted Professor Karol Sikora on the VE Day thread talking about deaths from cancer but the article was rubbished because it was 2 weeks ago and therefore inaccurate. His figures sadly remain the same whenever it’s published

He's right. I'm working in cancer services somewhere where there aren't many cases of covid. The impact of cancelled appts, operations, chemo etc is massive.

Every time I post that or something similar I have a little stalker come along to tell me that in their trust everything ran honkey dorey in their Trust throughout. So I'll leave this here in case they follow me: that is just your trust. Just one. Ok. Things have been different in different parts of the country and the ones I'm working with have had a different experience.

I really feel for the silent victims of the dementors in all this - the dementor partners. I was on Zoom last night with my sister and she was in full dementing flow with "well we're not going anywhere near planes, trains or buses until there's a vaccine". I couldn't take my eyes off her husband's thousand yard stare - poor sod. I wonder if we'll see a spike in divorces...and maybe even a divorce second wave when the dementors keep their kids off school in September.

Gah just posted on the old thread by mistake!

Marking my place here for my sanity.

Also why are dementors so obsessed with people being thin? Or having asthma?
Every dementor thread talking about younger people sadly dying always seem to want to add that they aren't aware of any underlying conditions and they were thin? I know obesity is a risk factor but thin does not always equate to healthy.
For instance, I am a size 14, but 16 in some tops as I have large norks. I work out 4 times a week (so happy now I can start to see actual defined muscle) and eat well. I'm rarely ill these days but you wouldnt look at me and think "thin". However, I've two friends, both size 6/8, smoke like chimneys, eat a fair amount of shite and are constantly off particularly throughout the winter with one bug or another. So why would MN think they are healthier because they are thinner?
Also, the amount of people who have asthma who think they need to shield until a vaccine is found-disclaimer I have asthma. This is simply untrue, they can't seem to grasp there are many many degrees of severity of asthma and many triggers. It is not one homogeneous condition. unless you have been told to shield I don't understand why you would.

Sadly noone cares about deaths if they arent caused by covid.
I have never known such a weird attitude before. People frothing indignantly about deaths, yet ONLY certain types of deaths. If you die from something non-covid related, noone gives a toss. Its so bizarre.

I'm mixing fictional fantasy worlds here, but can I have Detritus the troll as my patronus, please? I would like to be able to give the order, "Detritus, tear down this pandemic".

alexis
Sadly noone cares about deaths if they arent caused by covid

That's the truth.

On the brief the other day someone asked about a 6 yo girl who's kidney transplant has been put back and was told that non urgent stuff like that would resume soon.

That must be really comforting to her and her family.

Christ this is all we need, a worldwide pandemic being leveraged by Scottish Nationalists. My family are campaigning Nats, and are completely uninterested in what Boris offers tonight as that's 'only for England'. Insert extra dark mutterings about 'the economy' (millionaires dressed up like Game of Thrones, stabbing the poor because they enjoy it) and 'herd immunity' (the holocaust) and 'UP HERE' (we don't treat people like that UP HERE' for the full extravaganza.

If Nicola was all for willy nilly sunbathing and Boris was all for keeping the over 70s indoors then it would of course be 'he thinks we aren't PEOPLE because we don't generate MONEY. Nicola trusts us to behave like adults, imagine telling your OWN POPULATION to hide away while YOU go for walks with your RICH FRIENDS'.

I note that llamas appear to be this seasons trendy animal of the moment. They look easy going but I've heard they can kill a man so I'll have that for my patronus

On the brief the other day someone asked about a 6 yo girl who's kidney transplant has been put back and was told that non urgent stuff like that would resume soon

Thats just awful. That poor family.

Yes- its like selective empathy! If that 6 year old had covid they'd be falling over themselves to offer support and sympathy. But she needs a transplant so meh- who cares?

Professor Sikora seems to be to be very measured and a voice of reason in all this.

My patronus is a capybara. A giant guinea pig who spends their days pottering around on river banks, swimming, napping and grazing.

This thread moves fast! I was going to comment on the mutation thing, by the time I’d had my shower three pages have happened. Anyway I might be a bit late but I honestly think the whole “it’s going to mutate into something worse” owes more to pop culture than actual science. The trope of the film scientist peering down then microscopic then telling the hero “it’s worse than we thought, its...mutating” is a common one.

@BarkandCheese interesting, I could imagine there's something in that. It's like people are a bit disappointed it's not more gruesome as well, with weeping sores and heads falling off and the like

Please stop showing off about your early shower.

BarkandCheese

My daughter looks after the "Capies" where she works. She let me feed and cuddle them last year...they are cute.

My patronus is a binatong because they smell like popcorn.

@MorrisZapp oh yes... all the 'thank god for Nicola' all over certain SNP zealot's FB posts.

'The problem is; with that moron Johnson doing this by next weekend we'll be hip deep in tourists, day trippers, escapists and morons! We'd better hope that every SENIOR cop in Scotland takes a good, long and hard look at their badge and contract of employment and then deploys appropriately!*
Oh, and by appropriately? Nationally, I mean close the bloody border to all but commercial and essential travel. Locally, check points at Arrochar, Tarbet and Dunoon.

Morris if it helps I’m not dressed yet, just whiling away time in my tatty old dressing gown.

I actually have this whole theory that a lot of problems people seem to have understanding nuance are an accidental side effect of pop culture. Most of the huge franchises people have grown up on are based around very black and white good versus evil stuff.

However I'm too scared of being stopped on the journey (3 hours) to consider it at present

I'm feeling the same about going to see my partner. It's ridiculous.

My mothers partner has driven to and from the west country from London every weekend up until about 2 weeks ago and hasn't been stopped once.

Children should be banned from everywhere for evermore. Because they run around throwing their germs everywhere and we'll all DIE.
Knew I shouldn't have looked at any other threads.

I honestly think people are disappointed it's not been worse. I think they'd quite enjoy children dying, pensioners being abandoned in care homes, the NHS collapsing because it would have proved their point.

As it goes there will be (if there isn't already) children dying due to abuse and neglect. Apparently that doesn't matter because children died of abuse and neglect before covid and why do we suddenly care now?

Well I've always cared. But the likelihood is it's going to happen more now. Safeguarding has gone out the window.

Nursery have called me once a week. I've missed two of those calls and although they've spoken to dp I got a worried voicemail asking me to ring them immediately. They're checking we are ok. As dp pointed out he could have done anything to us and nobody would know because he gave nursery a cheery ok on the phone.

Luckily dp is awesome and clearly not an abuser but how many other women and children will be dealing with a man that is?

How many parents are just struggling and can't meet their children's needs?

I feel much more for the children who's lives will be ruined by this or ended by this than I do for someone who's lived a long happy life and unfortunately dies of this.

We can't live forever but we can endeavour to make the next generations lives better.

Our children are collateral damage in this and I don't sodding agree with it.

urgh that thread is vile isnt it?
I despise the way children are being demonised by dementors

@Jourdain11

Also, I'm amazed there isn't more advice about what you can eat and so on to strengthen your immunity, and what you should do if you get it. Should you stay in bed or move around? Eat or just have lots of fluids*

Jourdain I've actually thought that for ages - why have they not also been pushing the message to eat healthily and exercise to boost your immunity etc ? I'm no doctor or nutritionist but surely the healthier you eat and the fitter you are , the better your immune system will be to hopefully beat any viruses