Chickens Against Dementors!

[psychomath]

New thread!

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

Yes (stats) makes you think doesn't it...when you look at flu stats as well (dementors hate this)

In 2012, of the 28,952 deaths from pneumonia:

58 were among those aged 0–14 years of age;
1,374 were among those aged 15–64; and
27,520 were among those aged 65 and above.

statistics.blf.org.uk/pneumonia

I love how quick these threads are filling up!

I have had a 3 yr old DS in hospital, on oxygen, with viral pneumonia, that would have been in 2007. It surprised me how many small DC were in with things like bronchitis etc, children's wards were so full. We were given a room off the ward. I didn't realise at the time how ill he was. Anyway he got better but just to show...covis doesn't seem to affect children as much thankfully but we don't close schools and nurseries for those other winter bugs do we

Covis! sounds like a brand of margarine you know what i mean

My, those charts are clear. Thanks. I might use them in the cause.

Hello, @#NotNow I'm in a similar boat and see no increase in risk. I haven't thought of a patronus yet!

Finally, I've caught up with the anti-dementor threads!

And what news did we here if the large flu season in 2012? Some grumbling on TV about hospitals being very busy and underfunded I expect...

also in 2018

Flu and cold weather contributed towards 50,000 excess winter deaths last year comments Pulse the GPs site www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/commissioning/flu-and-cold-weather-contributed-towards-50000-excess-winter-deaths-last-year/20037896.article

Guinea Pig of Sanity

Gosh Vaughan Gething has changed since I snogged him in 1996

Were we supposed to stay within our postcode in England previously? Whoops.

Wendy the stunt chicken at your service, sailing over the heads of dementors on her stunt bike. I love this book 🐓🐔🐣🐤🐥

Welcome new people come and join we aren't 'nasty' I promise just realists with a dark sense of humour!

Just had a positive email from school's 'trust' with details of their planning to open in June. Says they might get the yr 6s into secondary instead of primary to help with transition, that is new. They have detailed planning in place

Glad you had a good day out Lilac

Hello chickens. I missed you. Bloody hell this thing moves along quick.

I've found staying off the internet altogether and reading books about the 2008 financial crisis, weirdly to be necessary and therapeutic while this schools thing is working itself out.

I'm definitely using 'deploy the stunt chickens' as an anti-dementor phrase.

That, and expecto pafomo! Totally agree that FOMO will kick in.

Oh thank god.

Here you all are.

I was panicking you know. PANICKING plus I went out on a bike ride to murder some people

Previous threads

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3890613-Some-people-enjoy-patronising-and-depressing-others?msgid=96114110

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3897293-Dementors-can-dement-but-well-keep-it-positive-here?msgid=96154257

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3901688-Dementors-Begone

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3906252-Anti-Dementors-Assemble

Can I just say, by the way- thanks to all of you who post stats, both on here and elsewhere.

I've done a lot of reading, and understand the stats, but feel if I tried to contribute them on other threads that I'd just end up bleating "but...but...stats...numbers ... and stuff"

yes Dementors can't abide statistics even from office of national statistics tell them the chance of a healthy child or even adult under 60 dying is vanishingly small

DD's nursery have emailed so say they MAY open to 50% on June 1st. Not sure what DD will make of having to share the staff again, she's been the only babe for much of the time. Sometimes they put her in with the big kids and they treat her like the Queen of Sheba and bring her gifts

I wish I would hear something positive from DC's school :( all we've had so far is a letter on Monday morning saying (politely) "leave us alone while we try to work some stuff out". Which, I thoroughly sympathise with their challenges. I'm just so desperate for some hope.

@heroku

"I'm happy to take the risk and help kickstart the economy so people like you can stay at home".

That is a beautiful argument.

I'm taking it.

@heroku I love that phrase too, definitely going to use it. Feeling more positive today and these threads are an actual life saver.
@IfNotNowThenWhenever I love your guinea pig of sanity! Big welcome to all newcomers to the Anti-Dementor League, step this way for sanity, rationality and chickens in helmets.

@MorrisZapp I'd heard we were going to be end of May/beginning of June to unlock and last week heard Government were planning for Scotland to be 3 weeks behind. I know this sounds a bit aunt's dog granny's wife though. McDonalds are planning to open in early June here so sadly that looks like it might be right.

I am planning a lockdown breaking trip to, ahem, take my parents some essentials next week. My DF has a degenerative condition which has a particularly awful endgame and it just seems so pointless not to see him.

Some positive posts on recovery stories here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3907855-Oldest-person-recovers-and-other-positive-recovery-storieses here

and www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3867720-A-positive-thread-to-balance-the-panic-Do-you-know-anybody-who-has-recovered-If-so-then-please-share-here?pg=4

A change from Deaths and Doom. Although feel the news has been slightly less filled with Doom since the weekend strangely enough

Re the stats:
I stopped looking at them a while back because it was the clarity of them making me feel like I was going mad. I just couldn't understand how on earth EVERYONE was GOING TO DIE of Covid, whilst apparently no one ever died of anything else so that pre Covid life was immortal.
But of course with a dementor the argument constantly changes... from 'the old and vulnerable could die' through 'they will die', via 'anyone can die', 'everyone will die', then 'well OK not everyone will die but I could so why don't you care about me', to 'hah, a young person has died' (and wow I really hate the glee) etc until we get to 'asymptomatic 5 year olds will kill all teachers and then you' ll be educating your own children whom you obviously hate'.
But gosh they really hated the flu season stats (the other thing interestingly is that the 19/20 flu season looks to have been a mild one so that skews the death rate slightly).
At the beginning I also used to throw a few malaria and other 'global south' stats about, just to give some context within the general world deathrate. Gosh they didn't like that either! It's OK for them to be nasty and shout 'selfish' at people but they clearly don't actually give a toss about others.
Still I've not gone out today so I've murdered no one at all. Not like you lot, murdering away with your walking and murderous kayaking.