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self isolating on your prescription, they should be able to send it straight over to the pharmacy and you can collect it. Do they not have online service? Sometimes you need a password to set it up. Hope you get it sorted OK.

It would be interesting to know the honest (not social media conformity driven) percentage of people who absolutely wont send their children back unless there’s a vaccine, and how many of those people are financially stable for the foreseeable and happy homeschooling. Are people really willing to risk losing everything to keep their children at home?

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel I have really stepped back from social media but am struggling at how a lot of my friends are shouting down others who offer a differing point of view, it's quite vicious and has really made me see them in a new light.

I'm hoping that they have only temporarily become fucking mental because of the fear propaganda being peddled, however for quite a few I am am starting to wonder if it's just a case of them showing their true colours.

Are people really willing to risk losing everything to keep their children at home?

I think when push comes to shove and they realise UC won't pay much or anything at all and they can't pay their mortgage their children staying at home won't be that important.

I'm sure some SAHPS will continue to keep them at home because it wont mean financial hardship but equally I bet they're quite happy to have their husbands out and about!

@Orangeblossom78 I did thank you, at the hospital, which is the bery place they don't want you to go.

Mind boggling.

I don't at all think this is a thread only for people who think lockdown should be lifted immediately etc and I dare say some of our views on specifics span a wide range. If it's anything it's a thread for realism - the overwhelming majority of those who get the virus will be absolutely fine, lockdown does have huge costs which need to be weighed in the balance, and we need transparency and scrutiny over the models and science driving decision-making. (Especially with Imperial's model turning out to be dangerously garbage from a programming POV, and based on many assumptions which now appear not to be true.)

I'm not personally particularly invested in armchair-quarterbacking every political decision post hoc - there are plenty of people better equipped than me and they can and should crack on. I'm even less interested in blame games to further existing agendas. I do think we need to start loosening for all sorts of reasons, and personally I would like to move towards the Swedish approach and have trust and individual evaluation to be a thing.

Hello all. I'm just popping in to save what's left of my sanity. Two of my "friends" are having a full on row between themselves on FB, and without joining in, I have somehow been dragged into it. I've told them in no uncertain terms to fuck off and to keep me and my family out of it. I was the accused of "pissing on your (my) mums grave". They are now both ex friends.

@Willitneverend I agree that NS is now using this politically.

I hate all the parties equally but particularly loathe the parochialism of a lot of what comes from the SG and their supporters.

Trapped “ I was the accused of "pissing on your (my) mums grave". They are now both ex friends.”

Bloody hell. So they should be.

And, oh my god, @Trapped, that's bonkers!

I think we should be talking small, careful steps to get out of it, as we can’t stay in forever. However the dementors are protesting against even the tiniest of steps out of it

Yes, I agree. Small steps and lots of monitoring to see if the R rate increases. Which is exactly what the Government are doing.

My Facebook last night was full of ranting - mostly from people wfh on full pay with older children who can look after themselves - I’m alright jack!

Although, I do wish they’d look at getting years 10 and 12 back with more than a vague hoping for some teaching time before the summer break. My DD2 is year 10 and due to take GCSEs next year. She’s also massively struggling with her mental health and I really think getting back to some sort of normal will make the world of difference for her

I’m fed up with the “I’m so confused” “I don’t understand” bollocks following the announcement last night. I watched it, I understood it, he said there would be more clarification today. The ability to use common sense, assess your own risk and take some responsibility for your own actions seems to completely pass some people by.

After my Facebook plea last night at Least one person seems to have felt able to come out as an Anti Dementor in full 😃So I'm quietly pleased

Mascotte did you see the clip posted last night? Is it true Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t know what the R number is?

I’m finding those who used to brag about every nanoachievement of their children’s lives now bray about how good they are at pandemic-ing and are virtue signalling for Britain.

I’m sure it’s all very admirable volunteering etc, but when it’s “look at me, look how lucky those frontline staff are that I - oh so high powered and successful - made them a cuppa.”

Volunteer by all means, for the right reasons! Don’t shout about it!

BarkandCheese Anecdotal I know, but a solid majority of parent friends I chat to would happily send their DCs back in June, but just don't want to discuss it on social media for obvious reasons.

@LilacTree1 I just don't know. I can't actually watch any of them as I get too stressed.

It wouldn't surprise me, it seems that we've been equally ill prepared up here despite the usual "Blame the English!" cries.

And I still don't understand the two positions:

1. We locked down earlier in the spread so are better.
2. We're behind the curve so need to keep lockdown longer.

I think if you locked down earlier you’ve had less of a chance for the very mild illness for most to run through - so the R rate will be higher.

It’s a huge mess. Tbh I do rather hope that a lot of the pointless stochastic work done by scientists/mathematicians gets defunded now. If they didn’t feather their nests while they had the work, more fool them.

@Therulerofmyhouse my DH and I were members of a hobby group on FB of which one member was a particularly Albert Schweitzer-like GP, nobly claiming that he "fully expected to get COVID" (in an area with something like a 0.5% rate, I should fucking coco)
DH has now had his membership of the group revoked for disagreeing with - and providing statistics for - as he is "persistently argumentative" ie he does not tolerate BS. The email said of course that I was welcome to stay in the group. Not that that's in any way passive aggressive, or anything, but you know.

There is a lot of it about....

And to be honest @Smilethoyourheartisbreaking I'm with you in that I'd happily go back to life now. I am terrified about the consequences for society. It's impacted me badly as I'm now a single parent with no/minimal income alone with my fed up though stoic boy. And not supposed to see my long term partner.

But it's people I hear of who are back in hospital because their supports have all gone, and things that really worry me.

But I'd settle for at least a better line than lockdown forever 😃

So grateful for you strangers. I’m surrounded by either highly anxious friends and family (for no good reason) or bloody lunatic work colleagues shouting ‘we are all going to die’ (I’m a school worker)
They are making themselves look thick and unprofessional- it was chaos on WhatsApp after Boris last night.
I really want to come off SM as it’s making me so angry but I’ve got bugger all else to do 😀

I want to to see the lockdown lifted in small, cautions steps. It’s unsustainable to keep it going, I’m far far more concerned about the damage to the economy than the virus.

Apparently your life is more important than money. I'm going to use my life to pay all my bills, buy a house in Inverleith, rock up to a car dealership and drive off in a Volvo XE90, send my kids to private school and tell them all my life is more important than paying them and see how that flies.

As a financially stable SAHM who will be sending my children back to school as soon as possible, I know exactly what to expect in terms of aspersions against my parenting and love for my children...

I really don’t feel like explaining the issues (SN) influencing our decision to every bugger and his dog, so I’m steering clear of all threads, posts and polls on the subject, here and on social media.

@Smilethoyourheartisbreaking I'm exactly the same as you. I'd go back to normal tomorrow and happily take my chances with the virus. This "life", being stuck in my own home and the highlight of my week is going to the supermarket is not a life.