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Are you out there, my lovelies?

Change of plans for the weekend. We were supposed to be having a socially distanced picnic with DS2 and his GF but they wre non covid poorly so I'm bringing forward the visit to my parents. If anyone asks I'm delivering an emergency care package - whisky as the volunteer shoppers got Southern Comfort by mistake, eggs from my chickens and some plants for the garden.
DS1s GF is here for the weekend (if anyone asks avoiding a precarious domestic situation) and God it felt so wonderful having a normal meal and someone else to talk to. Lovely to see DS1 smiling too. Sadly half the village will perish but needs must.

A friend I haven’t spoken to for a while messaged me today to ask how the children are and how homeschooling is going. I’m trying to decide how to answer; say “fine thanks” or tell the truth. He’ll probably wish he’d never asked! I really don’t think I can do it for another 7 weeks. School are being so deliberately vague I honestly have idea if they have any intention of having other year groups back. I understand their position, but seeing the affect the uncertainty is having on autistic DS is so hard.

That is pretty much exactly it mrsfrumble

Wrt threads about women

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@bakewelltarts Thank you. I agree, most healthy(ish) older people will be ok. Sadly, some won’t but I have accepted my mum won’t live forever and have had to come to terms with people I’ve loved dying at much younger ages (as I’m sure almost everyone has) but I haven’t wanted everyone to stop whilst being devastated. I don’t want anyone to die of this horrible illness. I’m overweight and am at some risk, but less than getting pregnant based on my history. Risk is part of life and without it I wouldn’t have had lovely dd.

I think of the choice others are making for people who are voiceless and trapped and think if I’m selfish they must be evil. A virus could kill any of us. Yes, some are more at risk but a nasty flu or bacterial infection can kill, but choosing to keep vulnerable people is trapped away and creating a recession that will only make things worse, that’s not neutral like an illness, it’s just wrong.

Yup

country I'm delighted to hear that you are facilitating young love. ❤

I fucking loathe how the shit that matters to young people is all portrayed as trick is and meaningless.

The same assholes were all "Love Wins" not so long ago.

FB post "coronavirus cases have doubled in Weston hospital since lockdown eased, there are 48 people fighting for their lives, still fancy coming to the seaside now?"
I posted this in reply

If I felt that we had a government who could organise a piss up in a brewery then I'd have been much happier to go along with what they require. I'd have probably been happy with the total lockdown approach of NZ or its total opposite in Sweden - I can see the logic behind both. But what we've ended up with here is a badly thought out, poorly executed, and appallingly badly communicated mess. As well as leading to a lot of unnecessary deaths, this has also resulted in many of us losing trust in the Government. In some cases this means people are being more rigid than the Government - e.g. teachers and others who believe they aren't protecting the rights/safety of workers. But it also means that many of us are starting to break some of the least sensible rules, and I suspect when nothing awful happens as a result, we may break a few more... I've just finished a zoom call with a group of nice middle-aged people who are generally law-abiding. Two out of five of us have sat in someone else's garden and another one is planning to do so in the next couple of days. Why - because its a bonkers rule!

I don't think this is really a left v right thing. I mean, it seems like it is, because a lot of lefties (and the guardian ffs) seem to have bought into the coronavirus hysteria hook, line and sinker, but I think there are plenty of right wing curtain twitchers too.

I'm a raving leftie (always have been, always will be) and I'm on this thread. One of my best friends has similar politics and a similar attitude to the situation (thank god or our friendship would be in trouble atm!)

As for the government... I will always hate the Tories and especially Boris Clownface Johnson. Just because I think schools should go back - which I suppose puts me on the side of the government and not the unions - doesn't make me right wing.

I think quite a few of us are usually left wing tbh! I am.

I don't know what to think now tbh.

AnotherEmma there are a fair few left wingers on this thread (I’m one of them), who are struggling with the general left wing position on this whole thing!

@Weedsnseeds1 why are people literally making shit up? Did they respond?

On the dentists...on the front page of our local town paper it says that the approach advised just now is analgesia but if you want treated come to our private clinic on (number) and we will sort it out for you properly.

And I'm doing my bit - signed up for the vaccine trial and passed the prescreening. Next stage a phone call and maybe I can actually do something practical to help

"the general left wing position"

But that's the thing. I don't think there is a "general left wing position". The left-wing covidiots don't speak for all lefties.

I’m left wing too, at least I was, but the welsh Labour Party are showing a really nasty side and I don’t know if I can vote for them again. No one is really speaking up for the vulnerable so no idea where that leaves me. The closest is the Conservatives and that’s a mind fuck (sorry Tory voters on the thread but if you imagine agreeing with Corbyn I hope you’ll forgive me)!

I'm centrist (so politically rather homeless atm). The most left wing folks I know are ardently pro lockdown. I find myself agreeing more and more with the torys that I know. Finding that rather scary!

The left-wing covidiots don't speak for all lefties

Well no, as I said I am left wing myself. I was one of the more vocal anti Boris voices on here a few months back.

There are definitely plenty of right-wing dementors too. I occasionally duck into our local area's Facebook group and its noticeable that the people who are normally moaning about our imaginary soaring crime rates & misbehaving youths instantly moved onto lockdown policing back in March.

I've been a lefty my whole life.

But when I know the people who want to release me from captivity are Tories, in the main, it gives me serious pause.

The authoritarian left position on this is, IMO, unjustifiable. Watching my middle class (former?) friends agitating for educationally disadvantaged children to be locked out of the universal education to which they are entitled, whilst the heads of the Academy trusts I have been impeccably opposed to are doing their best to open up to them, had been a real eye opener.

My political persuasion is not tribal. I thought it was based on a vision of a fairer society, but that vision is sorely lacking st the biggest crisis point for our society in half a century. I'm disappointed and furious.

I'm a big fan of Keir Starmer's, but if his position is that we need to be "careful" about opening schools, but not about closing then, then frankly he can fuck off.

What gets me is that labour usually represent the less well off in my eyes.

But... They're just not right now?

It is the less well off who will suffer more and they've not said a word about it.

I never ever thought I'd agree with Boris Johnson over labour on anything but his plan of getting out of lockdown is more preferable to me than what labour seemingly want - which is no change for..... How long? Months? Years?

The problem is the far side of left and right meet at authoritarian. I can't stand either. I loathe Johnson but like Starmer.

Notgingiswromg I don't know, the world's gone mad. No response, so I added this ( which was the other town named as being "rife with it" on the same post)
Still no response

Clevedon have kept their toilets open, by the way 😁