Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.

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Starting a new one.

I also was left wing before this and now I am not so sure. This is a sentence I never thought I'd say.

There seems to have been an outbreak of rebel action round here! We headed to the coast last night with dd and dog. The beach closed signs were still up, yet toddlers were paddling, children rockpooling, sandcastles had been built and people were sitting on the sand enjoying a bottle of wine. All socially distanced and very civilised.

All woodland and country parks are still closed with dire warnings from the council that we are not past the peak yet. A couple of dog walkers removed a barrier in one and murderously walked their spaniels. Needless to say the dementors want them tracked down and charged, “did anyone get their picture?”. I would point out that to do that they must have been there as well but I can’t be arsed with the resulting grief

Yes the Guardian seems to view everything through the virus like a bubble, for example it is obsessing with the hot weather today and a second wave...then the Times has stuff on refugees returning (after testing negative) and all the impacts of lockdown and less virus related stuff in general. Which is nice.

They shouldn't be putting up barriers though - it is a free country after all

Should take pictures of the barriers and shame the people putting them up, like above on a right of way, got removed...

The Guardian have been terrible and the most sensationalist imho which is saying something compared to the Daily Mail.

Left wing view seems to be that Tory ministers speaking out for at risk children is hypocrisy, given their voting history, and a fig leaf for economic drivers.

I say, better to have it said than not.

I'll take the hypocrite speaking up for vulnerable children over hypocrite insisting on policies they know are causing them harm.

The couple who put up the barriers to stop people from walking through their yard, what do they think is going to happen? Surely most of us here have people walk past their house every day. My street is a popular cut through to town and the local shops, maybe us residents should create Les Mis style barricades at either end to keep plague ridden outsiders out.

“We’ve got no protection,” she said. “This weekend is the bank holiday. We can get up to 2,000 people up here and they are all going to walk through our yard. It is dreadful, and we have nobody to help us.”

To be honest, I do have sympathy here

We’ve had a nightmare this year at our livery yard with people straying from the public footpath into the horses’ fields, into the yard, feeding horses, picnicking in their fields and leaving litter everywhere, damaging fencing, out of control dogs and generally behaving like dickheads.

We’ve had to move all the horses back to their winter fields as they are further away from the footpath, but it’s a massive pain in the arse and costing a fortune as we have to put hay out as there’s not enough grass, plus the fields aren’t being rested for next winter. Our yard owner is still finding people trespassing - and getting abuse and threats for her trouble.

Yes it is very much that the only reason that there are so many vulnerable children is because of the Tory cuts (which is a debate for another time) but the answer is to continue to keep the schools shut and potentially do more harm.

Saw this (screenshot) this morning.

Send our children back to school ASAP before they start learning their statistics and risk assessment from Twitter!

Springer is this year worse than usual?

Schools have never been totally safe places though have they? Nowhere is totally safe. People die every day it's like everyone conveniently forgotten that!

TrustTheGeneGenie apparently only deaths from Covid can be spoken off, no one/nothing else matters

A kid is ‘highly likely’ to die? That sort of shit needs reporting and banning.

The couple who put up the barriers to stop people from walking through their yard, what do they think is going to happen?

They're hoping to use a national emergency to close down a public right of way.

There are hypocrite everywhere.

No exactly. I feel like this is all over and done with and we realise how many people we have inadvertently let die from anything over than Corona compared to how many we have "saved" from it we will quickly realise that our strategy was perhaps not the right one.

I was saying this to dp last night. It's not that I don't care that people are dying of Corona. Of course I do. It must be awful for their families. But it's no more awful than any other death. Deaths which will be happening due to lack of healthcare, suicide, people being too scared to go to A&E and on top of that there'll be thousands more people living a lower quality of life because again they didn't get the help they needed. And millions suffering from mental health issues that perhaps we could have avoided.

I agree the cuts have been dire and hope that in future austerity does not feature in recovery

I agree.

This Guardian one...

"The capacity of public parks and outdoor facilities to accommodate socially distanced sunbathers is likely to be tested on Wednesday with what is predicted to be the hottest weather of the year so far....

...crashed jetskis and pleasure boats, and people injured while out walking or cycling along the coast.

The sunny weather isn’t predicted to last though, with thunderstorms predicted for Thursday. Met Office chief meteorologist, Paul Gundersen, said: “It is across east and south-east England where these are most likely, with frequent lightning, hail and torrential downpours of up to 40mm in a few hours all possible.”

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/20/fears-over-capacity-for-social-distancing-as-england-faces-29c-weather

Whew what a relief the weather will rescue us from the sunbathers!

Sounds about as dramatic as MN!

Sorry but this reminds me a little of the medics' acronym for Guardian readers, GROLIES...GROLIES (Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt).news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3159813.stm

It is a Wednesday, many people will still be working, so I am not sure there will be hoardes of people descending.

Does the Guardian think everyone is sat at home doing nowt?

Well here DH is taking day off to rescue the DCs from a day of home schooling and taking our little dinghy out...we are one of the sunny rebels

I love that acronym!