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

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Bugger. Just looked at FB and one of my friends has turned dementor overnight. Apparently your lungs cease to exist at all if you get Covid. Weirdly, they must reappear if you recover, I guess.

Lilactree they will just go on that it's 'not the flu' it's a major trigger for them. I think I tried talking about the 2018 flu season once too and got the same response.

Orange
How very dare you we have a dual carriage way and tarmac on the A1 these days🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am screwed if they close the border i live in Scotland and work in England!😄😄 Are these idiots going to pay my bills for me?

The school dementors have finished me off today.

Willow I grew up not far from there, I love the A1 as it goes up to Edinburgh and the train winding it's way past the little coves...ah making me nostalgic.

I think I have another name for the 'never leaving the house again' brigade - Thomes (as in stay the ... ). I seem to have a few on fb. Fortunately I have closer friends who just want to be able to go out again.

As PPs have said the lack of nuance that seems to have afflicted people's thinking is worrying. Don't get me wrong, I can totally understand the worry this is causing and why, but critical thinking and risk assessment are part of our every day lives, or were until now. But people who I thought were generally rational, intelligent and 'aware', seem to have lost all sense of proportion and reason.

Eg, The most recent stats on bbc (up to 24th april) for my area give a 0.07% c19 death rate, and a 0.3% of cases. It says 26% of all deaths from end feb to end April "involved" c19. Although I'm sure all the dementors will poo poo these in some way.

When I was still trying to reason with dementors I tried pointing stuff out like the yearly death stats - 550,000 to 600,000 - and the flu season stats, and that we hadn't had a 'bad' flu season since 17-18 etc + wider issues like how many people die worldwide of all sorts of other things etc., I never got anywhere. Social media has a lot to answer for. And I think has played an increasing part in the black and white thinking that was discussed upthread.

@Leighhalfpennysthigh it's a really good point. I have a friend going through cancer treatment at the moment. Fortunately her NHS trust has kept this going throughout the pandemic, but it makes me very sad and angry about all of those who are on hold and who cannot get the help and support they need right now.

The amount of people claiming to not know what alert means is pissing me off a great deal.

@thesuninsagittarius

That man has the most expressive nostrils I've ever seen!

lilac and orange have given up on trying to have a sensible discussion with 'my' dementors on this subject- you would think no one had ever DIED from illness prior to ' the Corona' and therefore this is the only thing that should be dealt with by the NHS.

Alsohuman “ Weirdly, they must reappear if you recover, I guess.”

Did you point that out?

Orange - thank you 💐

Have the November 2018 Dementors bothered to research the fact that no one even knew influenza was viral? There were no antibiotics to treat pneumonia, oxygen therapy. There was also a war on.

Thesun thats brilliant. 😂

People are claiming not to understand 'alert' because it doesn't have a single, positive, action like 'stay at home'.

Basically they have forgotten how to think.

Had to share this here
*I'm shocked at how many people I know (with CV) compared to some.

3 under 45, and 6 over 59 but only 4 had health issues and 2 of those 4 should've had years left. None were BAME, only 2 were over 70. They didn't all live in the same area either but all in the north of England.

One of my nieces had Kawasaki disease a few years ago. She was hospitalised and has had various strange issues since. The post viral reaction seen in some children is scary and it's really too early to tell how long these symptoms will take to show*

Just read this corker on thread about will you send your dc back in September. I'm sorry but this is just blatant lying to the point where the poster looks completely ridiculous

People pretending not to know what alert means, ffs. The new slogan should have been “use common sense”, except common sense was the first victim of covid.

There is a simple guide on the BBC for them, what it means, being alert outside, in their work, (for example social distancing) and at home (washing hands) basically taking care of yourself and how you behave. They also say 'most people should be able to understand it'

One of my nieces had Kawasaki disease a few years ago unrelated to covid then and just emphasises that you can (rarely) get that at other times.

They are doing something where different areas might be treated differently in terms of restrictions and threat level as well.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52602635

"The alert tool - to be administered by a new "joint biosecurity centre" - will reflect the virus threat in different parts of the country, meaning the threat level in one city could differ quite widely from another.
This could inform the local alteration of restrictions in England"

"When 10,000 idiots get the virus through their own actions... and an elderly 'innocent' person shows up in ICU but there are no beds or ventilators, because they're already treating the 10,000 idiots... how will that be the old person's fault?"

This is a gem.

@Stop my eyes are rolling so much that I can see my own arse!

*Alsohuman “ Weirdly, they must reappear if you recover, I guess.”

Did you point that out?*

No point. I’ve just accepted that she’s gone a bit bonkers and left her to it.

Does anyone else read though those threads and just think "fuck off, fuck off, fuck off"

We had an afternoon tea party of doom for VE day, in fact I was the instigator.
We managed social distancing, no hugging or congas.
No unnecessary trips to the off licence as we managed to get satisfactorily drunk on homebrew.
Nobody grassed us up as our neighbours aren't knobs.
The odd passer by joined us at the spare tables and chairs set out for this purpose.
We even have cakes to some horseriders and a delivery driver ( they helped themselves from the cake stand while we backed off).
I don't expect a peak in 3 weeks, I expect that when lockdown is lifted and we are awash with tourists, so we may as well make the most of it now!
Anyway, I'm off for a recklessly leathal trip to Lidl as we are out of cheese.