Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.

[TheGreatWave]

Starting a new one.

FFS. Why won't dementors stop blaming furloughed people for being furloughed?

@TheGreatWave yes! Much worse

We’ve always had problems with it, but it’s 100 times worse this year

Being serious rather than sarky for once, I do suspect that in next year after the schools go back there will be at least one child death from covid simply because of the numbers involved. However I assume that every year there are a small handful of child deaths either directly from diseases picked up at schools or later from complications of these diseases. Im thinking of things like chicken pox, flu, noro and scarlet fever here. This is obviously an awful thing for the families of these children, but it’s not a reason to cease all schooling. It’s sounds so harsh, but the “if it saves one life” narrative doesn’t work in real life. Keeping all children at home distance learning would save lives from infectious diseases, but we haven’t historically done it for a myriad of reasons and we can’t keep on doing it much longer now.

Nobody's died from our VE day afternoon tea yet.
I was having a think the other day.
I travel for work a lot.
In the first quarter of this year I madd two long haul trips, leaving and returning from T4 when all Chinese flights were diverted there.
I went to Barrow in Furness, worst affected town in UK, Manchester, to a site with 2 confirmed cases amongst its staff. I worked in London for a week right before lockdown, using the tube, then catching a train home, with all the race goers piling on at Cheltenham.
I made 4 or 5 short haul flights in that period as well.
I worked in Hampshire first week of lockdown, which had a relatively high number of cases at the time.
So, either I've had it and just not noticed ( although my area is one of the least affected in the country and I don't appear to have caused a hot spot while out shopping) or I'm that character in all the films, who is naturally immune and gets dissected by mad scientists...

Opened my FB this morning to find someone in the SNP dementing about how "they" had said R wasnt increasing in England but she was "going to wait for another 2-3 weeks before deciding".

C'mon English people. Can you hurry up with the coughing up your lungs and dying in the street? Out dementors are waiting very patiently.

Furloughed workers enjoying 80% wages for no work are amongst the most vociferous dementors.

Only public sector workers on 100% pay for no, or close to no, work are louder.

There are plenty in both groups that want to go back to work, but it's a bit silly to deny the incentive to dement created by giving lazy people money for doing nothing.

I fully support the furlough scheme, BTW. I think it makes sense to prop up the economy like this now. But like everything, it carries risks and one of them is getting reluctant workers back to work for only 20% of their pay.

I think a significant element of the supposed fear of Covid is a reluctance to go back to work.

I also think that's why the schools thing is so big with dementors - having no childcare options makes it far easier to justify not going back and not getting much work done.

Which is not to say the lack of childcare and schools isn't a reasonable excuse - it is. But if you are determined to keep those options closed to you, it starts to raise questions about your true motivation.

orange you're just showing off now.

Have fun, and I can probably say in seriousness keep safe as there is water involved.

Today is the day I take my wee girls to the swings.

Can some of you give me some Anti Dementor spells?

Or am I just going to have to use the traditional “knuckle sandwich”?

To test my hypothesis, our tip opened on Monday with a number plate system, so I took OH car Monday ( odd number) my car yesterday ( any number) and will be taking my car again today (even number).
I will report back in 3 weeks on any spike ( unless I'm being restrained in top secret laboratory somewhere).

C'mon English people. Can you hurry up with the coughing up your lungs and dying in the street? grin Out dementors are waiting very patiently

Very willing to go out and feign an ‘attack of the Covids’ in the street if it helps you get let out sooner!

Actually realised it would have the opposite effect... oops! Just got carried away at the thought of a bit of am dram. Life is dull at the moment.

weeds sneaky. When we read about that system, DH and I laughed that we hadn't planned our cars well as they are both even.

Ours is a booking system, but only one slot allowed every 7 days.

Ours doesn't have a booking slot, just goes by reg.
It wasn't very busy at all, so not sure if people haven't noticed it's open, or if everyone in town has been killed by bank Holiday Beach goers and VE day parties.

Kirstie Allsop is a strong advocate of school reopening on Twitter. She thinks we are letting down a generation hugely. Just saw her tweet from last night, paraphrasing, caring about the old/vulnerable, does not mean that we cannot care about the youth. It is a very fair point. Why are these 2 points seen as mutually exclusive?

I am finding the short sightedness and insularity seen as a result of c19 - across the board, from schooling to work, from the closure of other extremely important aspects of healthcare (including mental health) to some of the media's political stance/opposition - both disheartening and frustrating.

The dying in the street thing so wonderfully Dickens cum little match girl dramatic that surely it needs a backdrop of snow flurries and gas lamp lit streets to be truly effective. Coughing up a lung and dying at midday in May in front of say Poundland wouldn’t have quite the right atmosphere.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/19/up-to-1500-english-primary-schools-to-defy-1-june-reopening-plan

Schools 'defying' opening mainly in poorer areas

(which is not even commented on in the arcticle)

Coughing up a lung and dying at midday in May in front of say Poundland wouldn’t have quite the right atmosphere.

Why were they even outside Poundland?

Murderer.

Does anyone remember the Ultimate Dementor thread where someone maintained that if you were struggling for breath and paramedics left you at home you should willingly submit to death rather than attend A&E?

OH has gone fishing. Gave him the proof it was legal to put on his phone to show to any dementors who would dare come that close. I on the other hand am housebound because of the sulphur tasting antibiotics the gp has given me have turned my bowels to water. Feel so ill absolutely fed up to be honest. I wanted to get out today.

Yep. Most of my area is poor. Schools aren't re opening. I really hope our nursery have the good sense to open. They're a sure start in one of the poorest areas here. We are on the outskirts of that area in the "naice" bit but it boils my piss that Ds and his little friends won't get the socialisation they need.

I watched the film Contagion and think that is what the dementors think this is like...perhaps...(but it was far worse) Very dramatic

Apart from it had Gwyneth Paltrow and similar dying mainly rather than older overweight men.

I'm seriously considering emailing our local councillor. I'm furious.

Apart from it had Gwyneth Paltrow and similar dying mainly rather than older overweight men.

Proper LOLed at that.

Mean but true.

I also started watching Contagion. It had SO MANY characters.

I think you might have something with the dementing tendency.

I get the sense that some people think they are in the plot of a disaster movie and are unwilling to recognise that this will play put in ways that are mostly pretty mundane.

Morning lovelies beautiful day in Scotland today but alas will not be able to go too far and wide to spread “the rona” as a) am in Scotland & we are grounded & b) it’s Ds3’s 6th Birthday. To make sure I am still involved though Ds1 & Ds2 will be coming over for a wee birthday lunch later as will my brother so a wee family gathering will be had. Might take the wee one a bike ride round the square on his new one today therefore wiping out a postcode no doubt.
Have a good day all Xxx