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@TrustTheGeneGenie Hmmm, even shielding parents...? I'm not gonna keep my kids away from school until there's a vaccine They could miss a whole year! A whole year without playing with any other children? To say nothing of who would educate them? (Hint: not me!)

I think you're all probably right. I need to learn to stop reading this shit and upsetting myself.

Well I'd understand it @Jourdain11! But I equally understand your perspective and tbh I have huge huge respect for you. I really do. You sound like a bloody brilliant mother.

I really hope your treatment goes well by the way!

I'm glad this thread is here, I do feel like everyone's lost all sense of perspective. Of course we needed a lockdown and I have followed it but I now feel reckless for admitting that I cannot wait for it to end, I will be out there seeing people as soon as I can, and I am willing to risk my chances to see my loved ones. It probably does help that I am low risk and so are my family and friends but still. I lost a relative to this early on before lockdown and it was very sad and he did die too soon, but we do need to carry on living and be realistic. I feel like we've forgotten that people die of all sorts of things everyday and it's sad but we have to learn to live with death and illness. We're never going to stop all deaths and we can't lockdown until absolutely no one gets it but apparently that equates to be happy to see people die/selfish etc

So nice to see the comments on here. I’ve given up posting anywhere else now. A few times I’ve mentioned that the economic fallout is most likely going to cause more deaths and misery than the virus over time but have been shouted down as selfish.

I’m really worried about my daughter who’s 23 and is in her first job after university. She lives with a friend in a flat in London and was having such a great life, not earning much but enough to pay the bills and now she’s on furlough, who knows if she’ll have a job to go back to and then she’ll be fighting with the millions of unemployed to get another job. I just feel so sad for her and the many others worried about their future, especially those with children.

Every morning when I wake up the shock of the situation we’re in just hits me. It’s like being trapped in a nightmare.

And I can’t stand the dementors!!!

Hello @Tappering and dear fellow murderers - I do hope the towns folk who come for walks in our wide-open, almost empty countryside take heart from my little stickers too. Most of them don’t stay up for long (despite the pretty rainbow design ) but I’m always happy to make more...

“Every morning when I wake up the shock of the situation we’re in just hits me. It’s like being trapped in a nightmare. “

This.

Thank you! I try to be rational about it... if it had happened in October, I'd be at risk of them bringing home colds / flu / sickbugs / whatever. And we wouldn't have pulled them out of school then. So I think we have to try to be proportionate. Although I do understand that for others it's a different situation.

OMG. Someone on that costa thread said they have only shopped once in the past 6 weeks because "people's lives are more important than my need for bread"

This cannot be serious. I wish someone would one-up her: "6 weeks?- youve murdered enough people already. I havent been shopping since beginning of January ever since I heard the rumours from Wuhan. I'm eating the grass in my garden and recycling my own urine to drink because I CARE about people dying unlike you who flagrantly flouts the rules every 6 weeks!!"

EXPECTO PATRONUM!

I went to the shop today for clothes pegs. And while I was there I bought some Haribo and a Diet Coke.😈

I am just hoping that the government have the sense and tiny sliver of backbone it takes to say "it's the right thing to send schools back" and do it, rather than cave to uninformed public opinion (or indeed the unions). There is no question but that it is the right thing for children for schools to go back - and given that children appear to not only not be superspreaders but may not pass the virus to adults at all at primary age, it should absolutely be one of the first things they do.

The Boris and a Costa thread is comedy gold! He walked through the park with 'a flippant item'!

Well I've placed an order for 'a flippant item' tonight, I've discovered they make raspberry lemonade Hooch! I haven't drunk anything other then the odd Baileys for years but I had to place an order!

An evening BBQ and pink lemonade Hooch in my newly planted garden (plants ordered online so that's wrong as well), what more could I want?!

Flagranting flouting for Flippant fripperies!

jourdain that makes perfect sense to me. I completely understand where you're coming from. I've found since Ds started nursery there's always been something or another going round.

Not so long ago it was norovirus and Scarlett fever seemingly at the same time.

@Theluggage15 I'm 10 years older than your daughter, but at that age you're amazingly adaptable. Because what I'd planned to do career-wise went down the pan after the recession, I had to totally change course. I trained for something else and worked in various small jobs to pay the bills - I don't regret any of them and I met some amazing people who have turned out to be lifelong friends, who I never would have met otherwise. And my "new" career ended up being way more rewarding than what I'd planned to do would have been. So I'm confident that your daughter, who sounds like a positive and independent person, will be fine. Even if she does have to find bits-and-pieces jobs for a while, she'll get there in the end

Yes, both mine had scarlet fever in October last year, DD1 was hospitalised with complications from it. People seem to forget that other illnesses exist and can be serious too!

@MrsJimmyPerez - yay! Glad you found us! Hope you don't mind me sharing what you'd posted on another thread. I thought your sticker idea was lovely

driving blimey that must have been scary. Luckily ds didn't get it but admittedly I was more worried about him getting that than I am covid.

On one of my recent lockdown walks I went to a mid-Victorian graveyard that I've never been in before. As well as the usual child deaths, there were so many graves for people in their 20s, 30s, 40s... You were doing well to reach your 50s. Some parents buried 5 children, not just babies but adults too. And they can't have been very poor, judging by the graves.

I keep thinking of those people, and wondering what they would say about the current hysteria. Would they say, Life is precious, don't take risks, stay home? Would they say, You will die soon anyway, just live your life?

It's very sobering, especially when you consider that most coronavirus victims are of an age those people could only dream of.

Thank you to those who responded regarding having a "social distanced chat" with my mum. We have decided to go for a walk together at 2m distance in a quiet part of the local national park. We are going tomorrow as it will likely be less busy than today as the weather isnt predicted to be so nice. I hope it will be fine.

Separately, a demented on a facebook group I frequent has written a comment saying "If you're within 2m for more than 15 minutes you WILL catch it" (emphasis theirs)
Only if the person you're with has it, dingus.

MrsJimmy, I love your stickers thank you for being someone who is able to spread a bit of positivity and goodness right now.

I haven't been out all today. So many missed opportunities to murder people. Shame

I’m actually wondering about going to the local cemetery but I’m not sure if it’s properly open.

It’s a nice place to walk, and oddly comforting as I know a couple of the people buried there. Sorry if that sounds mad.

It's very sobering, especially when you consider that most coronavirus victims are of an age those people could only dream of.

Some people lived through such utter tragedy in the past. I can't imagine how some of them put one foot in front of the other.

I genuinely think we've swung the other way and are still getting things badly wrong. It feels deeply unnatural that society is happy to have a huge very elderly population surviving for years with a terrible quality of life. It doesn't seem decent to me. I don't know what the answer is given that lots of people take the decision for themselves to have cancer treatment or medication for heart disease or just simple antibiotics for infections in their seventies and eighties, but I can't think of anything worse than surviving one of those then having years of Alzheimers and suffering terribly. It seems so inhumane. A lot of people don't even want to have that conversation though. I think a lot of other cultures have a much healthier attitude to death.

@LilacTree1 I've been walking boy dog round ours recently. It's huge and has loads of mature trees and winding paths, so it's quite peaceful to walk in. I've seen quite a few people walking, jogging and scooting in it.

@Tappering I don’t mind at all, you’ve encouraged me to stop lurking! There aren’t many of us murderers where I live but we doing all we can to promote our demonic ideology.

I'm a nurse, working on an acute admissions ward, we obviously have Covid patients, although the numbers have dwindled to almost none right now, and the ward is pretty much back to normal.

Today, my FB feed is literally full of this delightfully positive post, copied and pasted by many of my colleagues, including very senior nurses. I have no words...

"Today the sun is shining, you're leaving your house.
You come across acquaintances. They don't cough, they're fine. It can't hurt not to keep the distance and go close for a chat. You're joking and then you go home.
You don't see me, you don't feel me, you brought me. In the middle of your family I choose my nest quietly. After a few days, I attack. Your wife / girlfriend is exhausted, her body feels heavy.
Nothing alarming, you think. A regular cold.
I threw a fever and cough, but you... you stay blind and deaf.
Inside I check everything. As a wizard, I'll take a ride with you.
Look... she chokes, she chokes, she panics, she suffers.
You will contact the emergency services.
In the hospital I am a king. Here they only talk about me. They all fear me: nurses, doctors, paramedics... I know. I scare them all.
Your wife / girlfriend is getting weaker, but unfortunately... no means, no places, no ventilator, no masks.
No support, no family... she's alone in her bed.
I feel like she's scared. She cries, she's cold, she feels lonely, it's dark, she says she loves you.
She falls asleep and I... I attack harder.
Everything goes in acceleration: heartbeat, twenty-five blood pressure, no air, and then nothing more.... I've decided that for her sleep will be forever.
You couldn't say goodbye. Like everyone else, I took her in the dark. There will never be another next time.
You were warned, right?
My name is Covid-19, and tonight with your help I can kill someone you love.
And you... you can only cry and regret...

Stay in your home - respect the rules in your own interest or for the interest of someone you love.
Selfishness... it doesn't fit here!

I would love that five of my contacts would copy and publish this post (don't share).
This is a wake-up call for the small group that still doesn't want to understand.
Maybe this way you will ❤️"