Anti Dementors picnic at the Loch.

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Starting a new one.

@Willitneverend have just looked at the travelling Tabby site. Isn't it AMAZING.

Everyone bleats on about how Nicola Sturgeon is a much clearer communicator than the politicians on teh daily briefing from London but I really like Chris Whitty's graphs. Those are the sorts of charts Sturgeon should be showing. And quite frankly a scandal that it takes a private individual to pull together that sort of easily read information for comparison.

AIBU to take a friend out in my car for a much needed MH respite? She has aspergers and depression, lives alone and is having anger issues which becomes friendship and neighbour issues where she lives. Coronavirus really is ruining her life and she is not coping. We are all healthy but car is small and I will have a toddler with me. Maybe if we wear masks in the car?

(I don’t want to be fined by the police)

So bloody hot here today - I've noticed a change in the garden noise from the parents (we're crammed in back to back with small gardens so noise carries) - they are really really sounding at the end of their tether dealing with their kids now, and lots more meltdown type behaviour rather than tweenage backchat from the older ones. Less being seen playing out in the gardens as well - I suspect parents have given up on the screen thing completely by now.

@RumbaswithPumbaas I don't think you will find anyone on this thread that will say don't do that!! If you have the windows open (as its such a lovely day!) you might not even need the masks. Are you in England?

Rumbas obviously I can’t protect you from the police but I’d count it as helping a vulnerable person.

I've been massively judged by a "friend" this morning.
Why on earth would I send my child back. Hospitals aren't coping. He might die. I might die.

I'm actually really upset.

@sockyarn Yup. I got the impression yesterday she was trying to move folk on from dementoring to thinking about mental health and the economy, am not sure how well this is going down with the troops.

I think the pro NS ones are going to have to make an enormous u turn when the switches in their heads get flipped and the AS supporters are going to be dementoring for the foreseeable.

Trust a hug for you. I think most hospitals would be surprised to hear they aren't coping given COVID patients are supposedly only taking up 20% of critical care beds and lots of other wards are lying empty. People seem to absorb one bit of information and then they stick with it - some can only imagine the Italian scenes of wards overflowing. Even several weeks ago now there was a post on here where lots and lots of nurses were posting saying they had nothing to do all days and their A&E's were empty.

Trust sorry to hear that. The most reliable people going mad is one of the hardest aspects of this.

@TrustTheGeneGenie does your friend actually know for a fact that the hospitals aren't coping? If not, tell them to bugger off. Our local hospital is coping just fine (fact) and I'm sure most are by now.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I've had the same !! I'm fucking sick of the judgement and vile comments like that

That are a load of bollox anyway! In my opinion That person is not a friend, sadly I've ditched a few during this for similar nuts behaviour / comments

@LilacTree1

I agree, I've actually seen the worst hysteria coming from what I thought were the most sensible people I knew

It's mad

Hell is breaking loose now on the local FB group as one of the secondaries has told year 9 they need to drop a GCSE next year to compensate for the lost time.

Funny that.

Thanks all. No she doesn't know if they're not coping. I think she's assuming they are because of the council's decision.

I just feel fucked off with it all now.

They aren't*

It's getting quite scary up here: no dissent or perceived dissent is tolerated or you're a Tory child murdering Thatcherite toff. NS started a twitter campaign against a journalist last night because she didn't like her wording..

I'm interested to see whether the internal power struggle within the SNP will orifice more or less dementoring.

Just to reiterate what you already know Trust, what she said is an absolute load of rubbish, hospitals are coping fine, and neither of you will die. I don't blame you for being upset though

I'm starting to quietly reveal myself as an antiDementor to RL people. Going OK so far, most of the parents of DS1's school friends seem to be sending their kids back.

Thanks yes SW England (no Covid deaths Postcode)

Trust that is awful, it does seem that some people have let their brains fall out, well certainly the usual filter.

Had my mum round to sit in the garden with us for the first time today. She’s had covid (tested), and lives alone, but I still feel like a criminal!!

I've actually seen the worst hysteria coming from what I thought were the most sensible people I knew

Same here

Really good friends that I always thought were sane and sensible posting photos of the queue outside The Range, posting photos of random dog walkers on the beach and screeching about spreading death, killing grannies and murdering nurses

Any attempt at reasoning with them by posting actual facts just gets shouted down

One friend told me that I should send my DD into school with a body bag when I mentioned that her mental health was really suffering and it would be good to get her back into school sooner rather than later. I’ve found that one impossible to forgive and forget

It’s been quite shocking to see

I an starting to think we do need to form some sort of organised protest. Not rallies or public demonstrations but maybe organised contact with politicians with some key points that people are making, maybe around children’s welfare but also the increasingly hostile atmosphere. I’m not suggesting asking for a complete lift in restrictions but asking public figures to challenge the level of hysteria and assess and mitigate the impact on children and young people? I feel like I’ve been screaming into a void and think we could at least try to raise some awareness that our voices exist.

We've come out to enjoy the sun. Met our first dementor in the flesh. Ruines his day by being polite and calmly asking him to be calmer in front of the kids. Anyway, This is my view and boy does it feel good

The trouble with protesting is that the media have so nicely aligned all anti-lockdown protests and sentiment with the likes of Britain First that it's conveniently discredited it all. Add in the reporting from America as well and it makes it triply hard to fight it.

@dominashantotto that’s the problem isn’t it? Both extremes have taken over the agenda. I definitely wasn’t thinking media stuff, just private correspondence to relevant politicians