Anti Dementors, Assemble!

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I think I finished the last thread by accident...

Anyway sorry for putting the downer on it all - onwards tomorrow to fight the dark forces. Kids are going to my mum's from the middle of the week to try to give them some kind of "holiday" in that it's a break from being at home and they can let loose a bit - we're hoping that improves the situation a bit for them as it's all we can do (and really we shouldn't even be doing that).

I've wrecked my knuckles because I'm so wound up I keep just bashing my hand over the side edge of tables as the lowest key harm I can do to myself.

@RunningNinja79 I think my 30 day snooze on FB is now up to more than my very small friends list anyway. I've filtered so many people - I'm being kind and assuming temporary insanity and that they'll settle down and become normal again soon!

On another note, my DH (who knows nothing of dementors) just went to the shop for milk and came back with curly wurlies! Told him he’d just murdered at least 5 people.

@RunningNinja79 I will if you will

Oh Domina

I am getting so so fed up of how little anyone seems to be considering the impact on children. I’m not asking for schools to open tomorrow, I’m not asking for the lockdown to be lifted yet, I would just like the welfare of children to be given more than a passing thought when we look at how to get out of this as soon as possible. It feels like the only thing anyone cares about is whether or not they have covid.

Driving down, it’s 7, not 5. Any fule knows that.

Eeek I've done it. I'm no good at debate either (bound to get at least one person arguing with me). I'd be a crap PM.

I went for craft supplies for the kids and a box of 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts the other day - soooo not sorry but scan as you shop hides so many sins and infringements against the Dementor Borg.

I am so happy and relieved to have found this thread. I honestly thought I had gone mad! I have one friend who I know feels the same as me but everyone else became pretty hysterical about the virus a long time ago.

On our preschool WhatsApp, only three parents have so far said they will be sending their children back on 1 June (including me).

One dad says they're going to "play it safe" by waiting until September. Because the virus will be disappeared by then, presumably. Or maybe they'll have found and tested a vaccine and successfully vaccinated the entire population because it's not like that takes very long.

Oh and also "because it's not fair to the teachers" to send the kids back. I guess the hidden message there is that those of us sending our kids back don't give a shit about the teachers and want them all to die.

I am so shocked at the inability to assess risk. I am amazed that people believe shutting our kids away for months on end is the best thing to do. I'm so upset that people aren't considering the wider implications of lockdown, and the impact it's going to have on unemployment, on mental health, on domestic violence, on substance abuse, on inequality.

I'm lucky that my kids are young and although I worry for my eldest being shut away from her peers for so long, she is fairly resilient and I think will be fine. If my children were teenagers or young adults I'd be livid right now.

I just feel everyone has gone totally mad. Reading through this thread has made me feel a million times better, just knowing I'm not alone. Thank you everybody!

Me too!

I actually wouldn't mind the hysterical memes so much if they:

a) picked a decent font
b) spell checked
c) didn't either apostrophe-bomb every word containing an s in hope one might hit the target, or ignore the existence completely
d) did a decent job on the photoshopping instead of using MS Paint

AIBU - if you're going to doom monger do it properly?!

I hope a break helps Domina, it can be relentless at times.

My back is getting really painful from all the slouching about, must try and do something pilates perhaps.

You know how on a previous thread we talked about the case of Charlie Gard, Charlie's army? Well that was odd because I have just read the parents are due to have another baby- it has been screened and is healthy, doesn't have the genetic condition Charlie had. So thought that was a happy ending!

I'll be sending mine back on 1st June (Yr 6) bless him he is missing school. With the others off will be more room for the rest of them!

I hate to say it but the Tories may be the best Anti-Dementor defence we've got. They're not exactly fond of government hand outs are they and their normal response to unions is to tell them to go shove it up their arses. I'm wondering how long until one of them finally cracks. Imagining Boris at the podium: "Today we will be encouraging you work shy bloody scroungers to return to your employment. Of course we care more about the economy than lives, we've been telling you this since Thatcher. Now bugger off back to the office".

(I'm only joking btw, not looking for a politics row this late in the day!)

Orangeblossom78 yes it was me that made the random comment about baby Charlie, so pleased to hear that his parents are having another baby, some positive news amongst the madness.

Domina sorry just read your other posts and realised here was I going on about having a year 6...I just wondered, here we have these hub schools taking children from all around is that maybe the case where you are as might not even be the same school...not sure bit maybe is someone else could speak to hope you can get some more support and at least a break.

Yes that is a thought heroku. They will want to keep their voters happy but also protect the workforce for the future and maybe won't take lots of nonsense too (hopefully)

It's ok orangeblossom - she's year 2, due to transition to the junior school in September so all those preparations are cancelled at the moment. They're going to my mums at the end of the week for a week to give them a change of scenery and some different interaction - and yes it's against the current guidelines, which we would have stuck to carefully if there was any support in place for these situations.

Then when they come back I'm going to start raising hell again with school if she's still in this state.

My hip was completely buggered from sitting on the sofa so much - but we've just bought one of those boxed mattresses (in another non-essential purchase that has killed 5 people - I've shopped so much I'm on first name terms with most of the couriers) and it's a bloody revelation!

I do kind of suspect now that the press are pushing the "shirking arsehole teachers" narrative to get the public to push back so the Govt can then respond to the public opinion that they've engineered in order to clamp down on the educational ridiculousness and get the kids back into school that way. It just seems to be the way things are being played at the moment - media pushes public opinion (and the public are being fucking idiots) > govt waits and sees what the reaction is to whatever the media float > react accordingly.

Can't remember what it was I was reading - but it was a Ben Elton about the gender identity politics mainly - but the whole aspect of manipulating public opinion Cambridge Analytica style was underpinning it and I really must pick it up again and finish it with the current situation.

Sounds good! No judgement here I'd probably do the same.

Domina Certainly no judgement here regarding taking your children to their grandparents to give you a break. There's not just COVID in the world. You need to outweigh the risk of COVID to everything else.

Also, but aren't they hoping for all primary school children back? I would imagine it would be year 2 next. One day, this will end. Hard as that is to say now, it really will

I just laughed so hard the poor cat fell off my lap (he's my patronus - massive street cat with one ear and an attitude problem)
Apparently Jacob Rees-Mogg has said he wants the House of Commons back ASAP after Whitsun "to set an example".
You know all them dementor memes "send the kids back to school when they go back to Parliament"?
See you next Tuesday, bitches....

@DominaShantotto does your daughter have any friends whose parents aren't dementors who would agree to "accidentally" walking in the park at the same time as you?

Oh domina that sounds so hard. My 8 year old is also very tearful and my 6 year old has ASD so just doesn't get why he can't go to school.

Please don't give up on your degree, they will sort something like they have for student nurses (i.e. online theory for a bit then placements later on down the line). I have great respect for SALT therapists. DS was non verbal until he saw one, plus nasopharynxes are beautiful things and deserve people who love them like you to care for them.

Trouble is her best mate lives on the army base so we can’t accidentally get near them- without risk of being shot! The dementors would love that!