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

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Whatever Boris says some people are going to think it’s too much and others not enough. I’m looking at it this way, it’s the start of easing, the start of life coming back. We’re not going to be going deeper into lockdown, we’re going to be taking tiny steps to get out and that’s A Good Thing, and I’m going to be holding onto that.

Did you see Boris the cheeky man this week, walking through a park, holding a costa cup. Oh my stars I needed the smelling salts when I saw that.

@BarkandCheese yes I like that way of thinking. It surely can only get better?

I too will listen to Boris even though I live in Wales because the first minister swings like a wind vane in the breeze daily.

I had two appointments cancelled - had waited 6 months for them. Had a phone consult a couple of weeks ago which has helped but worried about long-term damage.

100% agree that many of the people who want lockdown to go on forever have no financial skin in the game. I have family members who are on final salary pensions, are mortgage free in a big house who keep going on about how people are so selfish that they "value the economy more than PEOPLE'S LIVES".

Their biggest worry right now is that the golf courses will reopen which will ruin their social distancing walks. I kid you not.

@TrustTheGeneGenie that's terrible! How are you expected to live with that? I have a screening test due this summer, have no idea what is going to happen with that. It's as if everything that isn't Covid should have just gone away or at least not deteriorated while their are so many people on hold waiting for vital treatment.
@Waxonwaxoff0 that's heartbreaking isn't it? Yet horribly understandable. If you struggle with your mental health on a daily basis and all the news is full of melodrama and hyperbole and you can't see that things will ever change, if all you hear are dementors dementoring and you're alone day after day after day. Because, let's be honest, it's not all crafts and baking and parties on Zoom for everyone. A person could reach that point very easily.

there not their!

To give a bit of (hopefully not false) hope: Re ops, an acquaintance of mine found out last week that her cancer op, cancelled just before lockdown, has now been scheduled for next week. And an hcp friend has been moved back off the Covid ward to her 'normal' job. Two different health trusts.

@thesuninsagittarius they honestly don't care it was hard enough to get a referral in the first place. The gp literally said well "you can eat can't you? What's the problem"

It's not life or death no but it's not brilliant.

I hope hospitals start to open up to those who really need them soon. I can wait a few more months but there will be people who can't.

Is it wrong that I hear the 'stay alert' is the tone of a dalek. And of course, the old joke, how do we know if we're a 'lert'?
"Be alert-your country needs lerts" Seen years ago on a plaque in a gift shop.

I'm actually very lucky because when I presented at my local hospital UTC with a random collection of symptoms (which I'd got nowhere with on the phone to the GP), I got seen and referred straight away. I feel bad that I've been fortunate in that regard while others have to wait indefinitely But I hope the appointments get rescheduled soon, fingers crossed for you all!

Ohh that feels better. Snoozed a few people on facebook for 30 days

@TrustTheGeneGenie yes, me too. At a routine appointment just before lockdown was imposed my GP told me I needed to have my next thyroid function blood test ASAP. I'm still waiting for the surgery to agree to do it. I'm constipated as hell, my skin, eyes and throat are all drying up and I'm getting heart arrhythmias -- but hey, at least it's not CV, right?

Sorry, that's really selfish, isn't it? I know people have had far more important and urgent things cancelled - I hope you all get some good news soon! - but it does get me down.

Here we go, Boris on telly!

The only fucking road map he's got is an A-Z of Milton Keynes from 1973 with half the pages missing

The garden centres thread is good for an eye roll.

After seeing one square up to and see off some magpies, the other week, I'd quite like to summon a collared dove as my patronus. Calm, quiet and take no shit.

Oh dear god poor poor fucking DD2 - she's going to be the only year group not allowed back in her school for the final month of her time there.

She is being destroyed by this already.

Seems a fair enough plan.

Dom what year is she?

Brilliant news about schools. I really hope they can reopen.

What about year 10s and 12s?

Nothing about private childcare! Will that be in with reception do we think?

Mine are year 1 and reception so good news for us... I think!

big possibly some point before the end of year.