Anti Dementors, Assemble!

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

farting I’m single

I do like being able to hug friends and family though, it’s been a terrible 8 weeks.

The thing that set me off weeping earlier was Hancock remarks about never hugging again.

I really hope that man gets what he deserves.

Between all this, and the way my father was treated in the last weeks of his life, I will never trust a medic or scientist again. And my dad was an HCP. A really dangerous culture has formed. I would now have to be beyond desperate before I went into a hospital.

I think the inevitable result of over population is that these people see everyone on the conveyor belt as a science experiment, so I sort of understand lack of empathy on a personal level, but then I see that every personal experience = mass misery.

@Thisdressneedspockets our local main beach can accommodate thousands of people in normal times, and still loads with social distancing (although, weirdly, people seem determined to sit at the ramps down to the beach).

Some of the locals are still really twitchy about the main beach, so its ended up that theres been more people on the secondary (but still very nice) beach over lockdown.

As far as I remember Whitby wasn't great for beaches as it's quite hilly with loads of cliffs, but I think even towns with enormous beaches will still have folk demanding that nobody visits.

I got tutted at a couple of weeks ago for letting my kids play in the sand at the beach even although there was nobody near us apart from the tutting guy and his family... who were also visiting the beach!

tbf the MP (as quoted) was fairly aggressive - I also read a quote from a councillor which was more balanced - "Come, breath in some sea air, bugger off again go home."

Yep, teachers are fuckwits.

*definitely not all of them but ffs

A lot of vets are doing video consults, sending out some pain meds and antibiotic might be doable without needing to travel to a surgery. But vets are absolutely still there for poorly animals, it may just mean dropping off at the door.

@thegreatwave I'm with you on two points. I live an hour from whitby and just don't see the point, right now. It'll have neither the buzz nor the chips.

And my just turned 24 year old autistic ds is being an absolute pita and developing some awful repetitive behaviours. We've walked so much with him that our thighs are rock, though.

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And the beach at whitby is underwhelming. Just a few miles nlrth or south and the beach is much better, though.

(And sad as it is to mention, they will have plans in place for how to do a socially distanced pts which still allows owners to hold animals.

Can I join you? I need this thread. I'm utterly sick of the apparent glee with which people trot out 'we're never going back to normal', when I find that fucking terrifying and disproportionate. Not to mention the eagerness for lockdown to last 'until we've beaten the virus'. Excuse me, what? And just how is that going to be accomplished
And do you realise how long that might take? I honestly feel like I'm on a different planet to people who I usually respect and agree with.

I have things very easy. DH and I still have work, which we can do from home, and we have two little DCs who are fed up but coping remarkably well. And we have a nice house and garden and green spaces nearby. And it still absolutely sucks. So I can only imagine how much worse it must be for people who have no outside space, financial worries and kids who are struggling more.

What's really getting to me is the complete blindness to anything apart from Covid. Like there's no other harm that can come to people. I feel so bad for all the children, whose general well being now seems totally expendable.

I feel.like there must be so many of us out there who feel like this but it's so hard to express it publicly. Because, y'know, it's murderous and means we literally want people to die. Of course we don't want people to die, but we do want people to live again at some point.

(Vets... not Whitby)

The MP for whitby and scabby is a Tory so needs to take it up with his boss.

@fartingsparkles just wanted to say solidarity and I completely agree with you. I'm on my own too, and I can't have my dog live with me because pets aren't allowed in these flats. I am alternating between crying and feeling hopeless and being a ball of rage. Why should everyone be subject to the same rules? If I thought I would never see my sisters for a coffee again, never see my dog or walk her again, never go to see a play or a film or feel like a normal, functioning human being for months and months, I would rather be dead. I came very close to suicide last year and this year was beginning to get better, and I could see a future. Now because of screeching idiots and misinformed twats I feel almost back where I started. Sorry for the rant.
I feel for all of you with school age children right now, it must be a fucking nightmare. I read about your poor children and the struggles you all go through on a daily basis. This thread has just about kept me sane and I read it every day. It is inhuman to expect small people (and their parents) to go on like this.

@lilac and @tinroof thanks.

I am quite accepting of lockdown (to a degree) and only expect/agree with it being raised when the time is right (in a variety of ways) and c19 is controlled'. I cannot agree that you can put the country on hold for as long as this person seems to want. I am more irritated by the 'if I can't, no one can' attitude

@Willitneverend our beach is the same, but people became very terratorial over it. Then they helpfully posted videos of it for those of us not quite in walking distance so that they could rub it in we could see what we were missing. I'm curious whether carparks will be opened now or whether the council will continue to be precious about it.

Sun “ If I thought I would never see my sisters for a coffee again, never see my dog or walk her again, never go to see a play or a film or feel like a normal, functioning human being for months and months, I would rather be dead.”

This.

@Thisdressneedspockets here some folk didnt want anyone on the beach, ever, and still don't. Which was absolutely mental as it's a big wide open space, normally a bit breezy, and you'd think would be the perfect place to be!

Our council car parks are still shut. Apparently the government here have quietly moved public toilets onto essential facilities, so fingers crossed they'll open soon.

Hi Kate,

Very well put, completely agree with everything you said

I watched the news for the first time after boycotting it for 2 weeks and there’s literally nothing new to say (apart from Rishi’s cute grey streak I hadn’t noticed before).

I do want to shield the vulnerable and make sure health workers are protected, but I don’t feel that trying to get some elements of normal life back (particularly for our children) is necessarily at odds with that.

Just repeat after Harry "Expecto Patronum

And the real chance is, even if you do contract C19, you won't be dead.

I would love to visit the seaside. Its not the virus that's stopping me - its the lack of toilets! I even squeeze every drop of wee out of me before I go to the supermarket as the toilets are shut and my bladder is VERY sensitive to suggestion.

Some people have obviously had enough (thread on this currently) with mass gathering planned here which will of course get dispersed and is clearly not sensible, but it is happening all over the world.

If anyone else tells me that to get through this I just need to be 'innovative' I shall fucking scream. Work is much harder. Life is much harder. I miss my friends and colleagues.

I think part of my issue is that I worry so much for my children but I am not otherwise with anyone I would choose to hug. And that's something I have known probably for 5 years, but lockdown has really hammered it home to me.

Today I had someone ask if I had tried binge watching anything

I resisted the urge to say “no, it NEVER occurred to me” 😱

I have started binge watching Desperate Housewives, it is funny.