Anti Dementors Picnic on the Beach

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@Drivingdownthe101 it was a news article that popped up on FB by a Kent newspaper. Fuck knows why I live in Yorkshire

@Orangeblossom78 outrageous!

But the English care home debacle is of course the fault of the UK Government. It makes no sense at all.

I'm actually quite suspicious about why the care home in Skye has been shut down. Did nobody notice it wasnt up to scratch before or does the SG need to throw someone under a bus that an outbreak happened in a remote area several weeks into the pandemic? I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist but it does seem a bit odd.

Well, on my way into Markses, today (ended up being lunchtime, by the time I got there, as DS2 was especialy in eed of a walk, before I could go) I picked up a couple of lovely orange Geum and a couple of pairs of jeans, which were reduced to £9 in the sale.

That'll be the nearby retirement apartments in need of body bags, then.

And I bought ready meals.

Went to my moms today not in the house but we went for a long walk I haven't left my little road in ten weeks apart from the little crap park at the back.
So we walked around her village and back again then we had a little picnic on the grass.
I had to pop into her flat to use the loo as literally nowhere is open to use and I actually had anxiety going in and was scared of people seeing me enter I went the toilet washed my hands and came straight back out but I actually felt like I was breaking the law it's kind of crazy how this has got me like that.
It was nice to see her it's helped my state of mind speaking to another human being that's not on the phone or in a doorway at a five metre distance.
My son kept asking her for a hug and she said she couldn't but she felt bad about it I did too.
But yeah I broke the law today I went to another area and saw someone outside my house ..rebel

If it has a pH of 11.3 it's pretty acidic

Erm, alkaline

I think I'm finally going over the edge.......I had a sex dream about Chris Whitty last night 😱

Need to see my partner quickly I think......

So now...the Scottish R is a bit high...might be something to do with their rate in care homes perhaps... so they are having to lock down further...but no-one seems to be angry with NS about all this! (well some of us obviously but most seem to support her )

@heroku that's the impression I've been getting at the moment too. I understand that there would possibly have been far more community spread had measures not been taken but right now, in Scotland, I get the sense there is very little community spread taking place?

Also why are the Tories evil granny-killers thanks to the English care home deaths but the SNP get a free pass for the far higher percentage of Scottish ones?

I can't believe I just typed that last sentence, I am normally an SNP supporter

heroku that’s been known for quite some time. There’s a massive lag in this information going to MSM, deliberately.

I’m not sure if nosocomial is the right word to use here but there are medical journals suggesting 20% of transmission might be that. This makes me even more annoyed that GPs won’t see these patients and treat them early.

I know dementors read these threads so I’ll just reiterate- my late father would say the HCP deals with infectious disease, they don’t hide from it, if they do - why the fuck did they take on that work?!

I do think, from a non expert view - experts being worth very little now - that’s it’s not nosocomial in the way as c diff?

The NUT is now part of the NEU.

I read they tried to blame the Skye home deaths on the owners recruiting workers from England

@PickAChew

Yeah, I had a brain fart

The thing about not marking work is interesting. The virus only survives on paper for a few hours. Collect the work in in the morning, and by the evening you should be fine. If not, wear gloves and wipe down the surface where you were working afterwards. It’s not rocket science!

I work with animals. The virus can survive for 4 hours on a animal hair.. Have I refused to handle the animals? No- I take the appropriate hygiene measures.

Also, Scotland did not lockdown till same time as England but they don't get the same abuse about 'leaving it too late' the English did either...

It doesn’t take a genius, or even a scientist to understand that care homes are a perfect storm for viral outbreaks in a way shops, offices or even schools aren’t. My grandmother died in her care home during a noro outbreak. Sadly because of the outbreak the home had been shut to visitors for a couple of weeks so none of us had seen her in a while.

In happier new my mum just told me firstly that Cafe Nero in her town is open for takeaway and are planning to open inside with limited seating soon. Secondary the National Trust are getting geared up to reopen properties with limited, pre booked parking. She’s a volunteer and is desperate to get back. Apparently they’ve told their over seventies volunteers they can’t come back yet, my mum reckons that’s two thirds of the volunteers out of action.

Bit of a rant, but I've been so furious about the schools stuff and today have had a reminder of the effects of this dementory madness on others. Mum's late 80s, frail, has live-in care. Her dementia and mobility are rapidly going downhill. I used to visit a few times a week, which sort of kept her on her toes.
She's now too scared to even go in her garden so I can't see her and she has basically taken to staying in bed, however hard the carers try to cajole her out.
So wtf is the point of all this. We've decided that children matter a lot less than adults, even if those adults are at the end of their lives.
And I am absolutely sure that my mum isn't the only one going downhill mentally and physically, and whose remaining life (which could still be long) will be even more crap than it has been for the last decade.
It feels like there has been a dementor-led decision that shielding mum is really important, even if actually it's really miserable and very bad for her quality of life, while DCs aren't important at all, which is also really miserable and bad for their quality of life.
What mad world is this.

Unless they're marking books and licking their hands in between I don't see the issue.

It just feels like a long list of excuses. I know a lot of teachers don't agree with it btw and I'm so glad.

Bark - agree re care homes

In terms of your mum I think there’s massive discrimination brewing here and I think people in that age group should object. They should not be be forced to lose their normal ways of life for this shit.

@Leighhalfpennysthigh
STOP DREAM SHAGGING MY PATRONUS

My mum is 65 so can go back, but I absolutely agree that adults should be able to assess the risks themselves and make their own minds. I suppose the NT don’t want people to feel pressure to come back, and to be fair with the houses shut and limited numbers allowed in they don’t need all the volunteers anyway, but there will be a number of over 70 who want to come back but can’t.

@Leighhalfpennysthigh and @RubberDinghyRapids 😂😂😂

Anti bac sprays at dawn... the surgical glove has been thrown down

iamapixie

The shielding is doing that to a lot of elderly.

Write to your GP, MP and No 10.

I’m sorry to keep saying it but we mustn’t allow dementors to set the agenda. If we stay quiet, that’s what happens.

yes a lockdown flouter

I don't bloody blame you. You enjoy seeing them.

@iamapixie I've seen the impact on the 74 year old lady over the road. She had lost her husband a couple of years ago, but her friend came and met her most days and they would walk off down to the local shops together - very very mobile (I'd kill to be that mobile aged just over half her age). Saw her taking the bins out the other day and she's looking really stiff and obviously finding it much harder to move and obviously hasn't seen her friend for a good couple of months now.

I don't know how her friend, who is a similar sort of age, is coping - but I can't see the pair of them returning to the routine and being able to physically do that again after more months of this regime.