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

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Well, I was going to bagsie the quokka, but it's taken. So I think my petronus is a dodo, as clearly my appalling behaviour will see me extinct soon.
According to a thread I just looked at, I am a monster for finding enjoyment in anything and people will be blaming the likes of me when they die from a cup of tea, a scone and a glass of mead, consumed outside, 10m away from anyone not in their household.
Ah, well.... 😁

The Dementors have taken over Facebook, there are literally fucking swarms of them in mass hysterics.

I've come here for some sanity

I’d like to thank the poster for the Morrison’s tip! Was lovely walking around in a normal store! Every one was being orderly!

With tougher measures remaining in place the dementors are creaming their pants on facebook tonight.

The dementors who live in touristland are having several fits all over the site. They need to watch it. People won't forget being held in contempt.

I hope they don't forget. And they don't go over the Scottish border for a holiday anytime. The anti-English stuff I'm seeing on FB is awful

just are you in a devolved nation?

I too am staying away from FB. I wanted to post a positive response, read the room and decided against it. I am admitting my guilt by staying silent.

@Spillinteas That might have been me, after my awful trip to Waitrose on Friday.

The welsh boys are packing up their surfing gear and heading to the english waves, they will do the 2m distancing but have given up on the welsh first minister ever letting go he is enjoying the power too much.

I think I need to try Morrisons!

Tbh I think there was never going to be much easing today. The end of may bank holiday is probably something to be wary of. Johnson is already deep in the doodoo for not being more proactive in the early stages (rightly imho) so won't want to let himself in for more flak (although I might be giving him too much credit of brain power there).

I was hoping quite selfishly for the 'bubble' idea. I really only want to nominate 1 person/household just to help keep me sane (relatively speaking).

@LilacTree1 yes, some absolutely furious dementoring over reception and year 1 being Guinea pigs.

And He has still not shut the bloody airports yet has the cheek to keep families apart.

@fartingsparkles I'm not a lone parent but have just lost a close, middle aged family member not to covid 19, and have elderly parents too. Do what you need to do to get by, even if it does involve bending the law and guidelines.

If you have two kids two or three years apart in age, you are still in a deep hole where childcare is concerned, if one goes to school the other is lonely, yet the one child needs to get back to some kind of normality. You cannot pick up the threads of your life because you are still stuck at home looking after a child.

I'm weighing in, I think my patrons is a sloth...
I murdered people today, most definitely. I went for a run of well over an hour or whatever random time frame is decided to be safe by FB police... I went for 3 hrs actually, 10 odd miles, plus a bit of walking, some sitting, oh and I met a friend and we went to a pub, bought takeaway beer and drank it whilst walking, not always 2m apart. Said friend lives alone and has seen more people who are complete strangers this week through work, for longer than we were together. D
So if it's OK for him to see Dave in his local shop every bloody day but not me, well 🤷‍♀️Plus I'm living with my husband who is soon to be an ex and probably for the fucking foreseeable due to all this as he's using it as an excuse not to look at new houses for himself.. So it was essential I see this friend. Or I might have actually gone home and actually murdered someone... 😁

Plus... What did I buy at the pub?!

CORONA!!!!

I've picked myself up and struck a small anti Dementor blow on Facebook. The Dementors are triumphant in Scotland but I posted a plea for people to consider the downside of unchanging lockdown. And a few people liked it and one commented how much she agreed and how bad she was feeling. So at least I'm not wholly alone in my murdering views.
Thanks again to all on this thread.

FB has been crazy today. I'm rarely offended and don't deploy the snooze button that often because most people that I'm willing to friend are intelligent and articulate and like this thread, usually capable of intelligent discussion even if they don't always agree. But today, good God, the amount of frothing absolutism

I thought tonight's briefing was pretty clear. It gives the direction and some examples of timelines that could reasonably be anticipated. It didn't mention personal relationships, but gave some structure of the type of phasing that may be ahead.
More details will follow.

I don't expect a personalised manual on how to live my life like some people seem to need.

The greyest area would be childcare, particularly nursery provision to enable going back to work, but if yR has a target date, there will be little difference in the considerations of risk assessment for a nursery and yR, in terms that that age group can't do social distancing. A private nursery is "optional" whereas schooling is mandtory so it is a very different scale of industry and individual organisations to activate in/ out of lockdown.

At least from Wednesday, no one will be able to be offended if I went for a rural 10 mile run (far safer than doing the social distance shuffle in my neighbourhood)
I'm going to need more runs as I'm clearly continuing to see a lot more of my y2 and y4 over the next month

If it was my Morrissons "tip", then I absolutely wasn't being sarcastic for once!
Orderly queue to get in, then a complete scrum, people screaming abuse at the shop staff because the don't want to wait for a free till, or something was out of stock.
Swearing, smashing tries into fixtures in a fit of pique.
Staff we're not rude, just "excuse me sir, could you follow the arrows here" or "excuse me, madam, please could you wait a moment and I will direct you to a till", but being sworn at.
I kid you not. Morrissons is in the relatively"nice" bit of town, Lidl is in the "scummy" bit and it was so much more civilised.
I honestly think the message should have been "use your common sense", but I can't see that working.

I just want to say to all these parents claiming their children are guinea pigs... Ok then take them out and home school them. I bet they bloody won't.

Don't ruin it for the rest of us who can use our brains and risk assess and are happy with sending our children back.

Not only that but it's frankly offensive to imply we care less about our children because we would send them back to school.

I'm saying it on here instead though because I know you lot will understand and equally I can't be arsed with a FB argument.

@TinRoofRusty Thank you I know you're right really, today has just been a bit of a bad day and it's left me unusually combative (although probably not doing my karate hasn't helped )

@fartingsparkles I think you should absolutely a) see your friend and b) try Morrison's (or Mozzas, as it's affectionately known around here). Both will give you a hint of normality- essential right now I reckon.

I live in a touristy area and I do think we will see our peak once UK holidays are permitted. However, we can't stay in our little bubble forever, locals need tourism for their businesses to survive.
But the lack of cases here is giving a false sense of perspective in a way, hence the nasty behaviour. People can't see the need for common sense as we aren't really affected, but they won't see any need for some precautions later on either.
It's a difficult situation because, for us, there is no real risk right now, being logical, but there will be later on, although the message then will be "it's OK now, you can travel".
People on other threads are condemning people for walking 15 minutes to the beach, if you are local to a beach you can ho, no problem. But a local beauty spot to me has been shut off by police and Highways England, because people are driving 100 miles down the moterway to eat a takeaway there.
And to some people there is no difference in risk between the two actions. That's why "stay bloody sensible" as an instruction doesn't really work.

I should probably ask about kids who still aren't getting their EHCPs met two in this house. One is in year 11 and was already trying to cop out before this kicked off. Fuck knows what happens in September, now. Other is more severely autistic, in year 9 and bored shitless and an absolute pita. We were already out walking with him more than once a day! Eldest could be at school but can't becsuse he's him. Youngest is at an academy special school that is only open for kids of key workers who aren't wfh because they simply don't have the staff.

It's fine... all the dementors are getting their advice from Tracey! 🙄

I live in a tourist city but the tourist sites are closed, anyhow.

@mascotte there are more anti dementors in Scotland by the second. I dont particularly like Scottish exceptionalism but it is a relatively sparsely populated country where a lot of people will almost automatically go to quiet places they grew up near for socially distant walks. If it's organised sensibly then we should be looking at sensibly regulated staycations rather than banning picnics.

Re Scotland

Has this clip been doctored?

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