Anti Dementors Party with Patronii

[LilacTree1]

Are you out there, my lovelies?

Hello all!

Bog - get a big sticky label, write NO on it and stick it on the sign.

Lick the gnomes!

TheAdventureoftheWishingChair
Am such a dweeb that I'm tempted to do some research on your behalf! but scared that I'll find even more stuff to justify my view that the world has gone insane.
Just a couple of not-very-intellectual points though: the world economy was really very different then so it's very hard to extrapolate. So, it is I think sensible to say that Spanish flu was 'worse' economically than Covid because it mainly killed people of working age, and although working lives are longer now, the majority of working age people are still not over 80 (the biggest cohort of Covid deaths).
But it's not really meaningful to say that lockdown effects were 'worse' then, because the entire global economic and political edifice was different, as were life expectations. So since the 1947 Education Act, British children have had a right to be educated at state cost, and that has had an effect on poverty and levels of inequality and basic things like literacy levels. All of those very important factors would have been quite different in the US in the 1910s and 20s. Ditto, the types of job available, mechanisation etc etc. So it's really like comparing apples and pears.
Sorry, that was too long and I don't actually know anything about the particular issue in that article (unlike the dementors I am not an armchair expert in DEATH!) but it strikes me that that kind of conclusion, made on the basis of a non-expert's journalism, often lacks a bit of intellectual clarity.
And as an aside, re neo-con politics, a lot of the big boys are doing very nicely out of Covid so I don't think that saving SMEs, which form the bulk of suffering businesses, is particularly of interest to the Conservatives.

Ah, found you homicidal maniacs.

Found you...!

I wish I had a front garden, I would so do that with my gnomes - expect I would have a good group SD. and a naughty group not.

Obviously I do not have enough gnomes to do this, not at all

They would have to have a leader in the form of one of the massive Asda ones.

@TheGreatWave I have a front garden.right on the street...

Checking in

The Spanish flu was a double hit, having lost so many young men in the war adding the deaths from flu to it must have been devastating economically and personally.

"The outbreak hit the UK in a series of waves, with its peak at the end of WW1. Returning from Northern France at the end of the war, the troops travelled home by train. As they arrived at the railway stations, so the flu spread from the railway stations to the centre of the cities, then to the suburbs and out into the countryside. Not restricted to class, anyone could catch it. Prime Minister David Lloyd George contracted it but survived. Some other notable survivors included the cartoonist Walt Disney, US President Woodrow Wilson, activist Mahatma Gandhi, actress Greta Garbo, the painter Edvard Munch and Kaiser Willhelm II of Germany."

I realised I haven't received my cult robes. Losers.

Checking in to the “cult”! 😆😆
Hope everyone is ok

On balance I had a good day.

Bad news first:

I am pissed off that the Scottish unlock plan is so vague
It actually made me cry listening to it. I've lost somebody a bit faster than normal because of lockdown- why is nobody (and there must be lots) in the excess death category or their families being fucking acknowledged? Govt statements are all about coronavirus deaths.

On plus side

*I went to supermarket and got nice food (things def more expensive though)
I went to a fast food drive in
*I went to the beach and got the kids ice creams and let them play on the sand - many families out vs one old couple with mouths like cats arses walking around judging (why go to the beach then?)
*I had a can of cocktail outside
*I made a chicken parmo which we've neverhad before but was lovely. And not illegal but it probably should be.

2 of those things aren't approved now but will be on Wednesday. It's raining over the weekend so I'm getting my modest kicks in now.

Local paper headlines - shock horror, one child at one school has tested positive. Hidden further down - no deaths from CV19 in our city for 3 days now.

I'd missed being a cult. Does anyone want to start to formalize a religion that believes in life before death and taking kids to do fun things on sunny afternoons? It might take off.

I’m here

Found you!

Was comforting a hysterical 7 year old at nearly 10 pm. She’s usually sound asleep at 8.30 with a “goodnight Mama!” and no fuss. Tonight she was crying so hard she was gasping for breath and couldn’t tell me why. The kids are not alright

I actually can’t watch any updates, statements, whatever as it just gives me the rage especially when Wee Nippy is on.
I took DS1 out for a driving lesson today and yes, it was an unnecessary journey.

If only I hadn’t raised such snowflakes.

I would happily make cult robes...I actually have dads old sewing machine but he died before I got round to asking him to teach me!

Embroidered patronii will be tough, especially mine 😂

I did get a book for learning but havent been able to concentrate. Seems a good skill to learn. I’m 5ft 1 and have to learn to shorten stuff!

Adventures Here’s an article about no lockdown for 1968 flU, your friend might read it

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-21/coronavirus-lockdowns-haven-t-proved-they-re-worth-the-havoc

Here. On my second M&S visit of the week I bought 2 bottkes of wine, on account of the bank holiday.

Slighty puddled and extremely intolerant of any nonsense.

Should there be special hand gesture /badge for the 'cult' to identify each other? sadly so many colleagues /family/friends are totally suckered into wee Nippy is amazing and saviour of us all, that l don't know who l can have a sensible conversation about anything with!

Poking my head above the parapet here!
I work from the ambulance service. I'm so relieved to have had this thread the last few weeks 😊 firmly an anti dementor even with the covid problems we've had in work.
I actually live in the same area as justasking111 !

Thanks Lilac.
I would be hurling those rocks into the undergrowth/woods. How creepy.
Do we get robes and do funny handshakes in this cult?
What about sacrifices? I love a good sacrifice. N.B. must finish my wicker man
I am a disgrace again i dozed off and missed the clap and singed dinner!

And no my ordinarily lovely dd is not alright either :(