Despicable Anti Dementors

[Mascotte]

New thread

I don't know, I have a pizza, watch a film and before you know it we've got a new thread and it's up to 7 pages already!

This quote is in my local paper today from the manager of a nursery "We are all accepting that our way of lives are undoubtedly changed forever.“ Can’t decide what is worse - that they believe that, or that they’re happy to go along with it!

our way of lives are undoubtedly changed forever

oh NO, is the Thursday clap going to be permanent now?

My most embarrassing time of lockdown was when I forgot about the Thursday clap and had some really annoying news from work so was cycling angrily round to my mum's to moan to her (from a safe social distance of course). I had to cycle angrily along smiling and waving at everybody knowing half the people I passed being incredibly embarrassed about the whole thing....

Rang my Mum tonight, that was a tough one. They went for a walk in the park and there were groups of people and she knows they don't live together. I think it is all getting to her, maybe weeks in with just her and Dad are taking their toll. So I am quite forgiving of her.

On a positive note, all this spare time means she is starting to sort out some of her stuff. This is a massive achievement as she is quite a hoarder. She struggles to throw anything away that might have a use, which is pretty much everything.

Wave while she is in the mood to declutter do what friends have done get a skip ordered.

People who have been locked up for eight weeks are hardly likely to be incubating covid still, tell mum to chill.

Your mayor is an absolute arse. Pig ignorant.

That was obvious to most of us long before all this tbh! A pig in a red rosette would win an election here though so it doesn't make a bit of difference.

When I was finishing this evening's run, there was an illicit cluster of inappropriately spaced young men drinking in a farmers field. I'm guessing that they thought it was a safer spot to avoid detection than the park! Their problem, I don't care as long as they take their cans with them.

Arghh I can't sleep. Blaming it on the dementors, I made the mistake of reading a couple of threads that aren't this one. Given up trying, left DH on bed, gone downstairs and eaten an entire Sainsbury's tiramisu. This will mean another shop trip to replace it, at the cost of approximately 3.5 murders.

I self harmed (just slightly- I’m OK) today as a result of how helpless I feel over the schools thing and the combined result of all the dementoring. It’s been coming for a while and I held off while the kids were around but this is what they’re doing to people.

I hadn’t in years

Oh domina, my heart is breaking for you. Can you call someone? The Samaritans even?

BBC News - Coronavirus: 'Stop squabbling' demand over opening schools
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-52685220

The dementors will not like this.

"I am disappointed that the debate about when some primary school kids can return has descended into a squabble between government and the teaching unions," said Ms Longfield.

"All sides need to show a greater will to work together in the interests of children."

Oh domina Shout is a good place to talk if you can't face phoning you can text.

[]www.giveusashout.org/]].

I am supporting a friend who is struggling and school have agreed to have their kids in a few days a week because their mental health is suffering. Their counsellor pushed school for it, maybe another route for you via adult mental health services or uni support services?

I was going to say the same thing. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands and I think now is the time. The schools have been told by the government that they have to continue to teach any kids who are deemed vulnerable. Even though it's you, rather than your kids, who are vulnerable I think you could push the school to take your kids in. They have a duty of care for their pupils (despite the fact that many seem to want to abdicate it atm).

May I join? I'm a long time lurker but this thread is my sanity.

I saw a post on Facebook by someone I went to uni with just ranting about how we are all doomed and unless the government give us £1000 of food each and shut everything down for a month then we are all going to die. Then a whole lot of waffle about how we should all be buying guns. Maybe if he had turned up to more than about a quarter of lectures back in the day he might understand the science now!

I'm not sure if this has been posted already, sorry if it has, but DH just sent it to me this morning and I thought it was interesting. Especially given the data coming out of Manchester uni and Stockholm now on the real infection rate.

www.skynews.com.au/details/_6152100502001

I'm getting shopping for my elderly neighbour and think it's affecting her but she called me cynical yesterday.

She's going on about people will stockpile again and since the weekend she has heard more ambulances.

We haven't though.

Morning all!
Posted my proportionately infection rate graph last night on Facebook. Oof it did not go down well. Ah well.
I watched the briefing for the first time this week and Jenny Harries was on about the risk to teachers when school opens.
Interestingly she said the amount of people with covid was around 2 or 3 in a 1000 and in the next few weeks that's likely to halve so your chances of being in contact with people with covid are shrinking ALL the time.
I found that reassuring.

Good morning all,

(((((Domina)))))) I hope youre ok- feel free to vent here

Good morning everyone. Hope we are all coping. I'm meeting parents for a walk later, looking forward to seeing them.

I live in a seaside town. I am popping to the next seaside town as my favourite coffee shop has just opened for takeaways.
So we are all going there for a walk along the prom with a nice coffee in a bit.
Tonight DH and I are getting a takeaway from our favourite Indian and a bottle of wine and pretending we are "out".
I reckon between the walks, the coffee, the wine and the indian....our body count today is gonna be HUGE!

There's a new paper out analysing the associated risk factors of dying from covid-19 using NHS data.

Source is here if you want to read it yourself:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1

TL;DR - I've added a screenshot of one of the charts showing the "hazard ratio". Age is by far the biggest factor with over 80s being >12x more at risk than those age 50-60. Young people have a tiny risk compared to rest of population. Men have twice the hazard ratio of women. Those who have the highest level of obesity are about twice the risk of those who are not obese. Ethnicity and poverty are factors although the ratio is smaller than the male/female difference.

Important to note that this is correlation not causation though. According to this chart current smokers are at less of a risk than those who have never smoked but I'm guessing that's probably just because current smokers are likely to be younger. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Joining again! Love these threads.

Theres a thread similar to this in the covid forum. Started reading as quite a few people seem to be thinking sensibly, but then...
"You go ahead and infect your family then"
"May I ask ehat you docterates are in and how much you have studied the virus?" (Sic).
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