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Are you out there, my lovelies?

Can't believe so many are arguing against the post that women are adversely affected by lockdown more than men..

OP: it feels like any equality women had gained is being seriously eroded by lockdown and the exit strategy that has deftly avoided any conversation around how women, especially with younger children, are getting the raw deal.

Dementors- No! You're not a feminist!

Of course women are affected more adversely. This site seems very anti women at times bizarrely

I just got my early birthday present from DH - bean to cup machine so I can do well frothy cappuccinos. I shall not be nice-coffee-less again if the bastards ever lock us back down! (and yes, this was the reason behind buying it)

Lockdown is 100% going to affect me and my career more than DH. The gap was set long before this started but this is going to make it even bigger. It's shit.

@DominaShantotto I love my coffee machine. We have a subscription to a coffee producer so try a new one every month! It’s nice to try some different types and it makes decent coffee.

Lockdown has forced children entirely out of the public sphere.

That can only be maintained by removing women from the public sphere.

Closing childcare and schools and forcing parents (in reality, overwhelmingly women) to do this work is a move the Taliban would applaud.

It's very interesting watching what this has done to the idea of and commitment to public space.

Public toilets are closed all over the country. That has a huge impact on who can go where, and for how long. It discriminates against the disabled, the very young, and anybody who doesn't have a penis. Ultimately we are back to the world being a man's toilet and women being kept indoors.

We used to have rights to public bathrooms, now our only right is to stay in our houses being "safe".

Freedom from.

@Willitneverend
"Our council have put up quite an odd notice at the start of a path near us asking walkers to "minimise contact with surfaces". My levitating is not so good."

Just hold off licking gates and you will be fine I think.

Had a classic this morning from a usually sane friend. It would be charitable to attribute it to worry.

We got regaled with a story of an old lady who caught it in a care home and ended up in hospital. She survived and is absolutely fine and is 105. No one else in the care home (staff or residents) got sick. This was dressed up as showing how terrible this is and how anyone can catch it.... The cognitive dissonance is tragic.

The second spike theory is also one I have considered. After all we are talking about a disease that has flu like symptoms and mainly affects older people... Like flu. A milder version could easily have been circulating for a while.

I will have to do some research though as I believe it is possible to track prior mutations of a disease in its trash DNA.

Morning you lovely folk. DDs happier today they have just got back from their lovely riding lesson. DD1 now cooking lunch (falafels yum!) and DD2 is on the phone and playing Roadblox with her lovely BFF.

I do worry about some of my female friends' jobs. Many of them have useless partners and, once the schools closed, were saying that they were getting no work done at all due to having to do full time childcare. It was no surprise to me that they were selected as the ones to be furloughed. How many of them will still have jobs come October? It makes my blood boil how selfish these men are.

Heroku, I am sorry I haven't got a link, but it's on page 3: and is an analysis by Paul Nuki, the Global Health Editor. It's a really interesting article, so I hope you can look it up. "Breaking down the risks, it is clear pupils must go back".

Northumberland CC has opened more carparks now which is good. Our bins have been emptied all along, verges cut, etc - there's someone in the paper complaining about their Council putting up hanging baskets, etc, but I think it's good there is some small normality.

So just come back from a quick non-essential murder-shop, via the village bakery where I got murderous pasties. (Yes I am in Cornwall. My kettle is on for ANY and ALL of you, if you may have to currently make do with a virtual pasty. I've lived here 15 years and I promise nobody calls me any names at all.)
Funny how much busier it was today, and how many people were wearing masks and looking rather scared. I wonder if today was the first time many of them had been out of the house for a while.
It gave me a lot of pleasure to smile at people: hopefully this is the beginning of the end for Project Fear.

Women and toilets is interesting, the closure of them when you do not have a penis is a valid discussion.

My darling neighbour shielding (heart transplant 20 years ago) has fostered a dog, he came round last night asking which beaches were not padlocked, chained, locked up patrolled by dementors because he wants to take it for a walk/run on the beach , has to be somewhere flat. He is very stoic what he went through years ago with ventilators, six week coma means he enjoys life where he can.

I'm so grateful that on a whole my job is safe and will continue to be safe, and I can wfh continuously if needs be with just a few trips out for various multi agency meetings and the like.

My DH can wfh too, but receives london waiting which if he isnt going into london surely he will lose? That's a good several thousand off our paycheques and not going to be nice at all if we lose it.

The school thing really scares me, I'm so worried for my childrens education and within that is an overwhelming guilt that I cannot home school.

@Willow2017 Excellent Thank you.

I'm glad my question wasn't as stoopid as I feared. It's something I've wondered about over the last few weeks but haven't dared ask on corona threads, because as we all know corona didn't exist before it had a name/BJ said it was here/the media started the frenzy

I'm going to the tip again (odd number day) to get rid of some garden waste, now the jungle clearance has been completed.
I may well go again tomorrow (even day). So that will be 5 times this week.
I am happy to share my death toll with any slackers.

six week coma means he enjoys life where he can.

Selfish murdering bastard! How dare he make the most out of life after nearly dying of something that wasn't Covid?

Having a bit of a weak day today. Only just got out of bed as I was sitting there looking at the crap weather out the window thinking "what's the point?". I'm supposed to be doing a "virtual hen do" on Zoom this evening but I really don't want to. It's so depressing getting drunk on your own talking to a screen. A couple of people have already messaged with the "sorry just woken up with a stomach bug" excuse so I wonder if they're feeling the same. Sorry for the whingy post.

I reported a post on FB last night it was along the lines of fuck off english, stay away forever, english are blah blah blah. I reported it for racism/hate speech. Well FB replied this morning nope nothing to see here but report it again if not happy. So I did. FB replied more quickly, nope not racist hate speech

What ivory tower are FB sitting on or do they not know where Wales is sitting in silicon valley

I have noticed a distinct pattern of the daily briefing stoking the embers of panic two or three days before a public holiday / event or good weather.

I rather suspect its subtle social control rather than a change in policy or evidence . (Sage has a number of sociology experts on it)

Of course if effects women more. DPs life is not that different. He still goes to work every day. Except now he comes home to tea on the table because I've literally got nothing better to do. In reality it won't be him reducing hours or giving up his job or trying to arrange childminders etc. He'd totally do it if it was the best solution but because he earns a lot more than me - it's not. And his work value him. Mine clearly don't.

I’m welsh and hate the attitude that it’s us against our closest neighbours.

@drearywallantler
*I have noticed a distinct pattern of the daily briefing stoking the embers of panic two or three days before a public holiday / event or good weather.

I rather suspect its subtle social control rather than a change in policy or evidence . (Sage has a number of sociology experts on it)*

Exactly this.

Whereas in reality all it does is make life unbearable for us non dementors while everyone screeches about 'second waves', 'selfish bastards' etc etc. Yet every single sunny bank holiday has had screeching with no second peak to follow it up.

This manipulation by media is starting to properly fuck me right off now. I am a 40 year old woman, I am sick of being treated like a fucking child.

Bold fail.

Thank you Agentcooper
I feel very blessed with my family.
Yes the toilets thing is a huge thing and so unnecessary.
My daughter and dil have a she wee.that they use when on their walks.

I think some zips in leggings at the crotch would be a good Idea
Might prove to be very uncomfortable
I don’t know.
We might go to the beach and see if it’s sheltered enough to sit outside the cafe that’s allowing people to use their outdoor tables

Drakeford in Wales is wary of bank holiday mayhem. What bank holiday,? every day is a bank holiday if at home, if not you are in the minority. I cannot get my head around around shopping, Mon-Thurs no queues, Friday -Saturday, massive weekend queues, well why, just why. This shopping for the weekend is just nuts.