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.

I'm assuming even health visitors won't have been going out the same as usual?

@Orangeblossom78 I did go out on my own on Wednesday to Holkam beach. On my own, pack up for tea, flask. Walked 7-8 miles. GLORIOUS.
beach was empty.

In other news, what is the going murder rate for tuning someone's violin for them?

Two entire covid wards and at least a dozen small children, minimum. You evil bastard with your musical tuning. WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN??

Can I recommend R4’s More or Less? Some very sensible statistical analysis (as ever) there plus some interesting research on vitamin D deficiencies, which may (MAY) at explain the BAME mortality rate (which is sensible, as opposed to the Guardian’s view on the matter is that it’s due to colonialism).

well yes I remember learning years ago in nursing that being fat/ obese will impact on recovery and other things! the heart has a harder job to do for a start. joints more weight on them.....

common sense people.

My DS sat up in bed sobbing last night and said "I'm just an overweight child, I'm not worth keeping alive am I?"
I am bloody cross this morning with Dementors, I promise. (Even if DS was overweight, which he isn't. I'd just given him GBH of the earhole before he went to bed for eating a handful of sneaky wine gums.)
It's not a frigging competition.
DH is 50+, asthmatic, and BME. I've got lupus.
We're pretty much a DGAF household but something had obviously got to him yesterday from the Dementor stable.

I do think Im a bit of a tubs. But nice weather and accsess to walks now, Im on it.

my lovely MIL is coming round later to cut ds hair in the garden. Years ago she was a hairdresser! She will be cutting mine too, it needs a chop! Fringe I can do (nervously). Length is a step too far.

Oh bless your DS Cattermole hope I haven't upset anyone going on about weight, it seems to have to be very much obese not just slightly...need to get my football out and do some more walking I think, for MH more than anything.

I know Brighton well. It’s not a pretty little seaside town with a smallish year round population and a tourist influx in the summer, it’s a city with a big population. All those little streets filled with nice cafes and quirky little shops have flats above the cafes and shops, there are streets and streets of larger houses split into flats and little terraced houses and about a mile from the front is a big estate. Almost all those people “flocking” to Brighton beach live there, many of them in flats without outdoor space.

Fitbit, not football!

I live in Brighton!!

I think people should be on the beach (distancing obv) - fresh sea air, vitamin D and exercise are all exactly what we need to boost our immunity.

There's a thread on those stats about London.
Good Christ I think a lot of mnetters just want hundreds of thousands of people to die.

Not at all @Orangeblossom78, I think his poor little head was in bits last night because he'd been to the beach for the first time in 2 months. And if it makes him less inclined to grumble about not being allowed to chomp his way through a tube of Pringles whilst watching Steve Backshall's Deadly 60, who am I to complain?

wonder what it might mean for Bath with it's little usually highly traffic packed roads.

It's blimmin hilly there though, good for the glutes though.

Yeah, they dont want to believe it do they? I swear those people WANT this to continue and they'll be absolutely gutted when CV is over.

That fucking London thread. The OP is quoting an actual article based on an actual study and she gets called ‘deluded’ and told it’s ‘bullshit’. Swarm of dementors all over it.

Its all over the papers that the virus could be gone from London entirely by June.

Someone made a thread about this, cue answers like:

"You are insane. It will never happen- this will go on for YEARS, nothing ever back to normal again"

"London will never be free of it, we will be in lockdown forever"

"I dont believe it, even if they test and find nothing I wont believe it, we are all going to die"

They do not want corona to go. Ever.

They do not want corona to go. Ever

Because it’s the most exciting thing that has ever happened in their lives.

There was a thread like that about Remdesivir a little while ago. OP was pleased with the news from the US study about it. Got piled on by people who entirely missed that she was talking about news they hadn’t heard yet, told “you do realise posting things like this makes you look really dumb?”

I know right? the London thing is GOOD news! - why cant they just be happy that in this river of shit we finally have a light at the end of the tunnel?
But no, they cant bear that can they? they are terrified that their doom mongering might be coming to en end and they are clinging on for dear life to any sliver of bad news in the hopes that their apocalyptic predictions just might come to pass. Good grief- imagine living with them? talk about depressing

It's actually hilarious

Been told to "educate myself" oh that's given me a good laugh. It's because I have educated myself and not listened to the press that I am not shit scared of my immenent death and that of everyone I've ever met.

Christ on a bike some people are batshit.

They're more than happy to believe research when the research states bad outcomes, yet dismiss it if it gives a positive outcome. Some people just get weird kicks out of misery...wonder what went wrong in their lives to make them like that.

Of course- when research comes out predicting negative stuff its gospel. When research comes out predicting a good outcome, its delusional.

They'd make terrible scientists. No objectivity whatsoever.

I wonder how some of these people navigate through normal life tbh.

Morning!

I lost my rag on a local radio FB thread yesterday and posted a huge rant about negative reporting and the type of headlines they’re using and the panic and dementoring it causes

Headlines like “spike in positive tests as Covid-19 cases continues to rise” then you read the article and find we had 4 positive tests yesterday despite a massive increase in testing.

Or “Covid deaths continue to rise” - well yes, they do because sadly people can’t un-die but actually we’ve had a very low number of deaths

I thought I’d get lynched but was heartened by lots of people agreeing with me and a fairly sensible discussion about it all.