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

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And industry dementors....
For instance, using tourism as an example.
Most airlines are making plans to "get going again" in some shape, or form from about July.
Dementors "well they're in fucking cloud cuckoo land look at the figures, like they'd know anything we don't"
If course they will.
Firstly do you think the govt make ALL their data public? No, because the general public are mostly shit at interpreting it.
Secondly I can't imagine for one minute that massive industries and companies that employ 100s of 1000s of people won't be in talks with the govt or taking some kind of govt advice.
Do you regret letting me on this thread yet?

Dying with covid and dying OF covid are two entirely different things yet the papers do this to get more readers. Its gross.

I know this was a few pages back but it's so true. My Mum died of heart failure, however her death certificate also lists macular degeneration which certainly didn't kill her. No doubt in the eyes of the dementors we have a death from macular degeneration.

On the subject of Professor Sikora, I've been following him on Twitter for a while and he's got the right balance between facts, common sense and optimism

And @TheGreatWave yes to this. It's simply swept aside as a lack of resilience or whatever while people who don't understand actually having a horrible home life, or no money, or a psychiatric illness, or someone in prison, pontificate about staying safe.

The luggage “ It’s amazes me that so many people seem to think we can get along without the economy, as if it’s just some fun hobby rather than the thing that provides us with food, education, healthcare, a roof over our head etc. There’s only so much debt the country can get into before we end up like Venezuela.”

This.

Re persuading people, I’m trying to collect the stats to post them here. I do think I’ve made at least one person on MN stop and think, which is a start....

If the Scottish want to stay at home they can, do they think the English will come dragging them out their homes

There's one on my FB saying pretty much that - Scotland will be knee deep in dirty English tourists by Monday night and Nicola needs to close the borders now! Yadda Yadda.

I told a FB dementor to stay inside until a vaccine is found then. She responded with, if I do that and everyone is still going out then I'll catch it anyway.

You can't win for losing with these people.

Realistically the Scottish and English approaches aren't going to diverge too much anyway, for all the political posturing.

How does that even work @TinRoofRusty?

It floats in through the windows, don't you know.

Do people think there is just one little road in and out of Scotland? Is there going to be a man in a little hut on the back road out of Keilder to stop the English?

Yes, it will still get in, via her shopping or like, osmosis or something.

As anyone old who gets it is doomed and I'm just lying to further my own point

I had pretty much the same thing when I posted about my dad..it went something like:

Me: Despite being mums sole carer the 3 weeks before she died dad has had no symptoms before or since.

Dementor: How old is your dad because under 60's can be asymptomatic

Me he's 82

D well he MUST have had it then...if he was genuinely the sole carer then he would definitely have had symptoms and it would be deadly.

M Well he didn't and IF he did he's still alive and currently outside digging his vegetable patch so is very much alive and well.

D. ..TROLL!!

Or have costa coffees. Everyone knows they are the Elixir of Death.

I love hearing the stories about the elderly people with health problems coming through ok as it gives hope...weird to not want to have that..surely most people would want to have hope that e.g. if their parents got it they could well be fine

Great wave well the A1 is a bit like a country road around the border!

Sorry, that post got eaten. It was that everyone knows people in parks and street parties are licking each other, drinking beer then spitting into the homes of people who are shielding.

I imagine a line of English will form along the Border to do this too.

It's a good thing the word 'alert' has now been removed from the dictionary. Prior to Covid, most people knew what it meant. Now it means nothing, and causes much shrugging and head scratching by the masses. To be fair, they do admit daily to 'missing something' so perhaps entire ordinary words are now bypassing them.

My dad is in sheltered housing in Scotland, he's been out cycling and running most days more than once and to the shop...he will be getting told off. They also take their chairs out round the front to the grassy bit too for a chat at a distance. I have not told his warden. I can't imagine him using a face covering either (or any of the other residents there to be honest)

Compatative flouting- interesting.

Competative, sorry. What is the WORST thing you have seen? Ummm

If anyone wants to help me out here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3904270-Remember-November-2018

Orange good for him.

If a dementor asks the usual "am I missing something" is it within the code of conduct as a non-dementor to reply with " yes and if you were following the rules and had been alert you would have realised that, so which part of "stay alert" do you not understand?" ?

Thanks! Its a shame we cant put our resources into research for cancer and heart disease with the same gusto and vigour that we are now doing for covid

This is actually one of my bugbears at the moment and every time I post something about it I get ignored - but here goes....

We already pay for the NHS. The reason it has not had enough money for, oh about ten years, is a political decision.

One of my close friends works for cancer research uk. They have lost so much money that they have had to furlough most of her department - and it's one that works directly with the NHS to improve cancer outcomes. They are also considering redundancies and cuts to research funding. Not to mention giving clinical staff to the NHS and using their research institutes to support covid research.

Macmillan have seen their income reduce by half. They too have had to furlough a lot of staff and are probably also facing redundancy. These are staff who support patients going through cancer, patients who need practical and psychological support, prehab before chemo, rehab after treatment, end of life.

If this is happening to the two main cancer charities - imagine the impact on smaller ones as you give yet more money to the NHS to help bail out the government.

www.facebook.com/shaneking123/videos/10207250172609300/?t=84 I don't know if this link works. Just saw this on FB, so true, and very funny.