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[LilacTree1]

Are you out there, my lovelies?

@Cattermole If you and your mum are happy then absolutely yes.

Glad to hear that Paul I hope things improve for you. I'm lucky in a way to have older children

Yes it seems the areas worst hit are often poorer more deprived areas as well (where schools not re-opening and / or parents less keen to rerturn) It seems poverty can go in line with lower health outcomes and greater risk from the virus.

Paul I’m glad that worked out for you

But also so sad and angry that anyone ends up in this position

Dowser is she okay?

I must admit if mum gets to that kind of age I’d probably ask her to go into different accommodation. Obviously she could say no though!

Thank goodness for this thread. I can't express these views in real life!

I hope this doesn’t offend anyone but I wonder if my friend in the rough area is seeing the outcome of people believing the likes to BBC and not realising what the actual stats are.

My solution to the loo problem. If you can leave the door open and clean what you touch. Yes it will mean announcing when you are going but i can live with that.

After reading some of the posts here I was feeling quite positive. Then I overheard Patrick Valance go on about how we are past the peak but "don't forget it's an artificial peak" translation.....stay in or you'll end up killing us all!!!
Now I just feel shit. This isnt living.

@LilacTree1 am not offended by that I actually think you're right. A lot of people are getting their info from newspapers. Newspapers have been making it look scary. I do tend to think unfortunately less well educated people (and therefore generally in poorer areas) don't go looking for stats and will believe the papers because in their eyes they report the news.. so it must be true.

I guess we are classed as poor ish. We're in a nice area which is right next to a very deprived area and the attitude here is still very stay at home fear the virus.

I don't want to offend anyone either and I'm really not up my own arse im only gcse educated myself and grew up on a council estate but I can see this for what it really is rather than what the press are making it out to be.

@bookworm14 I got a cheery email from my councty council titled what to do at half term. All shit.

Bakewell did you mean that loo solution for me? The reason there’s a loo problem in the first place is that we’re not allowed to visit each other at home?

And I bet within a week "Artificial Peak" will be on the bingo card.

And yes there is a huge difference in how info is being absorbed. It's no surprise that the educated who have been taught the skills to examine the data are making their own decisions. The attainment gap is going to be a chasm at the end of this.

Hope everyone is doing okay and getting some hardcore rule-bending in. It sounds like it is getting so tough... I'm so sorry for all the sad times and DC difficulties. Makes me sad to read 😥

I need a little bit of a cheer up myself, tbh. Just back from hospital and was hoping to learn that the nasty leukaemia has gone after the super chemo and that I could move onto maintenance. But no, the blood tests show that it is still hanging on in there. So now I'll have to wait for the bone marrow biopsy and then we'll talk further treatment options. I'm just so scared that it's not going to go away.

There's a scene in Downton (which DH and I watched obsessively) where Lord Grantham says, I think during the Spanish Flu when daughter is eloping and wife is on bed of sickness, "Good God in Heaven, how can this be? My whole life - gone over a cliff - in the course of a single day." DH and I for some reason found this hilarious and we have now been saying this (with Downton-esque intonation) every time something goes wrong. It always cracks us up. It's either super good distraction technique or we are just slowly going insane - not sure which!

It is difficult if people cannot disseminate information, I have a friend with a psychology degree, she is the opposite end of the spectrum never stopped seeing family, her DS got back from uni. which was in a real hot spot, the next day loads of pics. on facebook of them all together having a family meal. Three generations together. This was at the beginning of lockdown. Since then she has been more circumspect in her postings.

Trust if it makes any sense, it’s more about which groups in society still think national institutions are worthy of respect, if that makes sense.

But now I remember seeing a headline saying school,refusal was a middle class problem.

I hate putting people in categories. Sorry.

Sorry to hear that @jourdain11 I hope you get some more positive news soon

@Jourdain11 I’m sorry to hear that

Oh bugger Jourdain, looks like you are in for the long haul. You will get there, my friends child did when he had it.

just o genuinely think some people misunderstood households for families at the start and it’s so ridiculous I don’t blame them.

Jourdain I must watch that again. Wasn’t someone drunk rather than a flu victim?

@Nosurveysneeded I am so sorry for your poor Year 6. Mine is excited to be returning to school and the lovely chat I had with her teacher suggested that what they will be doing is just what I want for her. Yes some curriculum. But most of the time talking through transition concerns and thinking about scenatios at secondary school. Just what she wants and needs and won't talk to us about. They are very wobbly about leaving primary and moving onto secondary AND NO FUCKER CARES! I lost my rag the other day when I was told it was just about playing with her friends. FFS.

(PS I apologise for my lanuage fellow Blue Oysters I don't swear as a rule it's a sign of how stressed I am).

@LilacTree1 yes I did sorry still catching up on the thread. Yes I know that we aren't allowed to visit at home but if someone was having a socially distant visit in the garden or even Sunday lunch this might be the way to deal with it.

Well I've probably killed off my whole town with my murderous behaviour! Family round and seeing friends!! 😱😱 Oh wait in my small town population 4k we have had 2 yes 2 cases and 0 deaths and we have one of the largest elderly population in the country!! I'm not worried about a virus I get more stressed about the anxiety of sneaking around!! My whole social group needs some normality before long or suicide will look better than this shitty existence!!

Jourdain11

It's no surprise that the educated who have been taught the skills to examine the data are making their own decisions. The attainment gap is going to be a chasm at the end of this.

I suspect this will be largely true. In dd's class it seems to be the parents with no higher ed that are wailing loudest about it not being safe and how could they possibly put their baby in danger. It will be interesting to see which kids go back in. A non-dementor friend in another town has said the same about her son's class; the ones firmly on board with getting the schools reopening are the more educated professionals.

It's already incredibly difficult to close the attainment gap between advantaged and disadvantaged pupils. This is going to make the gap a chasm.

the ones firmly on board with getting the schools reopening are the more educated professionals

Same here.