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Despicable Anti Dementors

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Mascotte · 15/05/2020 20:41

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Daffodil101 · 17/05/2020 12:25

The Labour shadow education secretary is a joke.

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 17/05/2020 12:29

@bookworm14 That makes me so sad as my daughter is an only child and you're right. She hasn't played with another child for 2 months and if the Welsh Government continue like this she may not for the foreseeable future. I try to tell her to look at this as a special time where she can chill but she's getting more sad every day. Honestly if I knew someone I thought would break the rules I'd stay stuff it and let them play, but I've no idea how to find them and ask the question.

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:30

I have noticed less mask wearing this week than the previous one to be honest in Bath which is quite a cautious type of place usually

Also, on the oxygen woman, if she had a severe lung disease and shielding, for a terminal condition it says it is a choice to follow the guidance and up to you.

i know this as FIL in the same boat. So she was perfectly OK in what she was doing. Not that this even really needs to be stating to most rational people

LivinLaVidaLoki · 17/05/2020 12:31

What are all these people going to do if the second wave doesn't happen?

Nihiloxica · 17/05/2020 12:32

Nice article in the Spectator by Claire Fox

My fears about the new normal

"Freedom has been downgraded from a foundation-stone of democratic society to a life-threatening, dispensable luxury."

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:32

For any children alone, not sure if this helps any but mine are finding some solace in meeting their friends online e.g. Minecraft...but I guess depends on their age...

not sure if anything suitable for younger ones..maybe others might know. they can talk to each other on it.

GoldenOmber · 17/05/2020 12:34

Honestly if I knew someone I thought would break the rules I'd stay stuff it and let them play, but I've no idea how to find them and ask the question.

Same here. And I have followed every single one of the rules so far, but I am fed up with children who are at lowest risk being expected to take on the biggest burden of this when nobody seems interested in their welfare beyond Covid.

justasking111 · 17/05/2020 12:34

What is really bizarre reports that people who have lost loved ones are putting yellow hearts in their windows. On what planet would grieving relative even think to do this?

Nihiloxica · 17/05/2020 12:37

What are all these people going to do if the second wave doesn't happen?

The power of the second wave is that it hasn't YET happened.

You can't stay afraid of something that is over. Much better to be able to dangle the second wave as a danger to come.

Obviously if the second wave does come, they are already predicting a 3rd wave behind it.

They are also EXTREMELY SURE that "second waves" are definitely always worse than first waves.

Undoubtedly as the Wave Number gets higher, the Wave becomes more and more perilous.

Please lock us up forever!

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 17/05/2020 12:39

@Orangeblossom78 She's 8 and I've given her an old phone and paid for premium Zoom and got House Party and arrange regular stuff with friends, but it's just not the same. She needs an 8 year old girl to mess about with in person and I can't be that. Thank goodness for our puppy. I'm so glad that we've got her. I've no idea how bad things would be without her craziness!

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:41

Very interesting (Claire Fox article)

justasking111 · 17/05/2020 12:41

God flu has been with us forever, folk get it some die. Ditto many other illnesses. The virus figures will go up and down. Shame no-one made a bigger fuss about flu.

I tried to read the Sunday papers this morning scrolling past covid stories, they was bugger all left to read.

DominaShantotto · 17/05/2020 12:41

The other thing that rattled my cage is all the "my child is too anxious to go back to school and worried about catching corona" who has made them fucking anxious about this - YOU are the parent.

Half of me is really pissed off about your statement - as it's what the GP said to me when I approached them about DD2's declining mental health. But the other half of me kind of agrees. However some kids get anxious - just because of how they're wired or whatever - and I don't agree with the indiscriminate parent blaming that's being used as an excuse to shirk obligations to support this generation's mental health in all of this.

As for the windows thing - I'm really pissed off at rainbow-theft. The rainbows started out, right when schools were going to close as a way of kids having something to spot on their daily walk around the area - and then the fucking corona cult stole them and coopted them as some kind of symbol of NHS support. We couldn't even let our children have their fucking painted rainbows. Triggered by the huge number of corporate professionally printed rainbow banners for the NHS I've just seen on my drive to Costa drive through. We took their rainbows they painted on the last day they were allowed in school with their friends, and took home to put in their windows as a way of saying hello to their friends - and turned them into a symbol of unquestioning lockdown adherence and worshiping whoever is designated the hero this week.

Their fucking rainbows. They weren't allowed to keep their contact with their friends, their routine, they padlocked the playgrounds... and then they took their fucking rainbows from them as well.

Nihiloxica · 17/05/2020 12:42

WalesHasGone

Could you sound out some of the parents of her friends?

I think there are more people feeling this way than talking about it publicly.

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 17/05/2020 12:42

@GoldenOmber - thank you for understanding. I honestly look at the FB criticism of people who let their kids socialise and wonder if I can get in touch! I can easily avoid all other human contact as we have shopping delivery booked, but just to let her play would help her so much.

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:42

I understand Wales. I hope they can see each other soon, in fact they can you know, now...I saw two of DS's friends in the park a bit apart yesterday, their mums chatting, all in a square!

justasking111 · 17/05/2020 12:42

As for these parents with young children who are traumatised, turn off tv, stop scaring the pants off them.

enjoyingSun · 17/05/2020 12:42

We went for a walk today - we met quiet a few walkers wearing masks -previoulsy just seen them on people heading to local shops.

I wonder if it means more people are getting out and about or if it's more fear about going out.

We went up to DD2 primary school the area has a mix of low rise flats and tiny houses which made me very glad again for our house and garden.

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:43

I know, it's not the same as at home though but could go e.g. for a picnic or to the park or gardens together I suppose

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:44

I think a lot of it is herd mentality with the masks, people do as others around them do. Like with stockpiling.

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 17/05/2020 12:44

@Orangeblossom78 I'm going to go to the local park this PM and hope we bump into someone sensible! It's weird that despite daily local walks (we're not allowed to drive to exercise) we haven't seen many of her school friends.

DominaShantotto · 17/05/2020 12:44

@Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy I've tried things like this - but the kids don't have each other's IDs, school won't facilitate them even exchanging email addresses to be able to contact each other because of safeguarding... so they can't even do that. So unless you're part of an already established clique of parents - your kids get isolated completely.

It was one of the first things I asked when lockdown started - I am happy and give consent for this to be shared - would school be prepared to do that so families can CHOOSE to make contact with DD1 and that I vet all communication - and it was a point blank no.

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:44

Yes me neither. Bike rides could be a plan too

Nihiloxica · 17/05/2020 12:45

Their fucking rainbows. They weren't allowed to keep their contact with their friends, their routine, they padlocked the playgrounds... and then they took their fucking rainbows from them as well.

Sad

Domina, you are so right. I hadn't thought of it that way. Just that I want to take down the rainbow my kid drew (and laminated herself) becausr it feels grubby now.

Orangeblossom78 · 17/05/2020 12:45

I see lots of cute families in Bath cycling with those baby pull along things and little children on bikes, on the usually congested streets, which is quite nice.