Chickens Against Dementors!

[psychomath]

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Anyway have fun everyone, I'm off to sit in the park now that it's allowed.

yes lol! Ive come to the conclusion that maybe this virus is here for a while? I have a choice of either join the dementors and exist in a half life living in a bunker OR put on some big girl pants, minimise risk (2 m rule) but LIVE. I choose life. I mean theres always going potential illness that could be nasty (eg tb, plague, smallpox whatever). This is ours. I think as a society weve become very used to illnesses being treatable, cured or whatever. Corona is a new kid on the block. As a family we want to get on with things now.

We are allowed to travel for exercise, so I bloody will!

Anyone else seen the article from Sky News that they've approved an antibody test?

I can't wait to see how many people have actually had it, considering how many people have told me they have.

@GroEggAndHam from my experience they'll just say the test was wrong 😂

Proper "children are going to be very ill with it" dememtoring is today's forecast judging by early indications.

Good morning. Remember it’s compulsory clapping night tonight which usually distracts the dementors somewhat.

TheOnlyLivingBoyinNewCross - ha! I thought much the same. It's reality isn't it.

I used to work in New Cross (well Deptford) many years ago. Fond memories of the area.

Had a bit of a wobble yesterday, when my group of friends bowed to the inevitable and agreed to cancel our holiday in France in August. I'm by myself, and had been so looking forward to being in a group for week of sun and wine and restaurants and, well, just being somewhere else... However, this morning there's news of an antibody test which works, and a really nice scientist on R4 has been talking about that and a progress towards the vaccine. And there is progress towards track and trace being talked about now. So, teeny flickers of hope.

Yes mascotte, opened up the bbc this morning and my mood dropped. Not because of the syndrome (which is worth being aware of but not something to panic about yet by the looks) but because it will produce a dementor frenzy just as I thought the tide might be turning a little on the schools thing. The bbc article has Richard Viner saying it's not a reason to stop children exiting lockdown.

I've got a teacher going full dementor on my fb (although someone pointed out a grammar error in her memos this morning which amused me). Ds' school seem quite positive so far (although he is not first wave and I suspect we'll only get part tims) and nursery are preparing to come back for dd. I'm really hoping nothing spoils it otherwise we might have to think about applying for critical worker places (we fall under the criteria but only just if you know what I mean so haven't felt right using one yet esp since I've been wfh but this will change soon)

I was thinking about this last night. I have had viruses before which have knocked me out for a few weeks. If someone had said to me at the time that I could have avoided that, (which was undoubtedly unpleasant) but it would have involved locking myself in the house for at least 3 months, queuing to get into the supermarket and wearing a mask out and about, I’d have looked at them like they’d grown another head.

Ah yes @DominaShantotto, tonight FB will be full of "well done X Street" and "I'm disappointed with Y Road". I don't clap. DH who I thought possessed better critical thinking skills and MIL do.

I'm looking forward to my bike ride and sit murder today. I might even get my lunch, unnecessarily, from the shop on my way out.

And the bloody daft as shit pigeons have flown into our upstairs front window again overnight and left pigeon shaped smears on the outside. And I have no idea when my window cleaner might return.

The Kawasaki things been around long before Covid so I've pointed that out. Also very rare.

@MagdaS yes, I think people forget about the impact of flu or other viruses in making you feel awful for weeks.

@MagdaS I've been saying all along that 'we' as a population are so afraid of illness that we meekly follow these ridiculous rules just so we don't get it. It was only a couple of generations ago that it was normal to be knocked off your feet with illnesses such as smallpox, measles, influenza etc and if you died, you died. yes it was sad but the population seemed to be so much more matter of fact in those days and death was as much a part of every day life as birth. Nowadays, a temperature of 39 is cause for panic and if someone feels off colour for a couple of days they call the doctor!

@MagdaS I made the mistake of thinking our window cleaner wouldn't be working. Our bathroom does not have frosted glass as it's an amazing view and no one can see in.

You can probably imagine the results...

@blobby10 Absolutely. My BIL is a GP and most things he sees would resolve themselves a couple of days later without any intervention. It takes me far longer than it should to decide something is bad enough for medical help - one premmie baby later I still haven’t learnt! (Not that going in earlier would have stopped it necessarily, but I did fart about in early labour for 3 days)

For those worried about The Clap this evening. I've managed to avoid the clap since the second week and not had any crosses painted on the front door. Then again I've been doing the shopping for the curtain twitchers nextdoor so they know which side their bread is buttered.

I'm thinking about having a couple of friends come and sit in the garden this weekend. I know nextdoor will be itching to tell me "it's not in THE RULES" but will they risk losing their weekly delivery of pork pies and cottage cheese? Only time will tell.

Yay for an antibody test. I feel almost disappointed that we haven't had it (unless of course we have had it and we are those people who have no symptoms and don't die aka liars!!!!!)

Ds (4) had his first ever nosebleed last night and Jesus Christ it looked like a murder scene. He was terrified poor lad! I was googling how to get blood out of bed sheets at 11pm last night and I felt like the conspicuous murderer I have been told I am all along

So I had a bit of a spat with the ‘queen bee’ of our Reception class WhatsApp group last night. Someone had asked what people were intending to do re sending the kids back, there was a mixed response. She said ‘I am a definite no. If we are able to keep our children safe, I am certain that is the correct action to take’.
I pointed out that that might be a bit upsetting to those on the group who have been sending theirs in all along, for those who need to send them back on 1st June for childcare purposes and indeed those who don’t need to send theirs back but are choosing to anyway, as the implication is that those people are not keeping their child safe.
She said ‘well of course I mean that everyone must do what’s right for them but I want mine safe at home’. Then posted the link to the rare Kawasaki type reaction.

The class WhatsApp has been interesting, eight comments immediately in the no camp but totally predictable who they were going to be, the rest remained silent, I think the FOMO will hit as they will not be able to cope with not knowing what is going on in school, I can’t wait

I’ve found my people! I think I qualify:

• child who brought back virus from ski trip ✅
• super spreader NHS worker ✅
• travel on tube every day, spreading my germs ✅
• don’t believe in piece of cloth as a 😷 so won’t be wearing one ✅
• want my year 10 kid back at school ASAP ✅
• don’t like the clapping bollocks ✅
• want the well young people to get back to work ✅

I've said all along this will eventually just be another coronavirus that circulates through the population so I was glad to see that the WHO agrees. I read that Manchester uni is going on line until January. Those poor kids. My DS will be beside himself if his uni does this. His course can't really be done on line anyway. Hopefully he can still live there & at least be with his mates.

Children and young people inc young adults are being thrown under a bus time and again. First it was brexit to appease the elderly. Then this. The elderly who survive this (ie the vast majority of them) will be well cushioned financially while the young will be uneducated, unemployed and bear the brunt of paying for this mess over a decade or more. It makes me furious.

She said ‘I am a definite no. If we are able to keep our children safe, I am certain that is the correct action to take’.

Note the use of "we" and "our". Let's see if she still thinks that when everyone else has sent their kids back and the only kids "safe at home" are "hers".

RoseannlovesDan - I'm not sure it is the elderly that want the lockdown though? Certainly my parents and everyone they know are pretty much complying with regs simply because they think they should. Most of them see that it would not be good for too many people to be ill a at the same time, but don't think it should be avoided at all costs. They want their children and grandchildren to be getting on with their lives. My mum was one of 13 siblings in London's East end in the 30s - 8 of them made it out of childhood. They have a different life experience.

My daughter is back at school this week (key workers but I had been furloughed for a month), not many of them in only 1 other from her year yesterday out of 90! (Year 5, 3 form entry). But teachers and Head being lovely and all seems relaxed and happy. Looking forward to more of her friends going in.