Anti Dementors Party with Patronii

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Are you out there, my lovelies?

Oh dear, I'm really having to sit on my hands. A friend of FB has posted a picture of people at the beach at Dorset with an angry face and the caption "Speechless ". To be fair the folks don't look very distanced but they're all young looking and do you know sod it if we were allowed to do the same in Scotland and it was ever warm enough I'd be there.

So various posters underneath expressing their anger with one saying that his 98 year old DF is in hospital with covid19 and these idiots are on the beach. I feel for him, I really do but honestly are we saying all enjoyment should stop because a 98 year old may catch a disease. I won't post on the thread and I honestly don't feel proud of myself for thinking in such a way as I'm sure I'd feel differently if it was my 86 year old DF in hospital, but I just feel so sad that you become public enemy number one for going to a beach.

Morning all. I've just been thoroughly attacked by Dementors. Commented on a news story in the South African press about parents too scared to send their children to school, saying that there was almost zero risk to that age group! Well! I was heartless and attention seeking and who did I think I was, was I a scientist? Someone mentioned the 70 French cases, I pointed out that was pretty negligible compared to tens of thousands of schools. People misunderstand and thought it was seventy deaths so I was called an evil heartless bitch. I was polite and factual throughout.
At that point I gave up and deleted my comment.

This is the same country that has the most horrific road fatality rate and despite this barely uses car seats or seatbelts for children. Risk perception, eh?

This is what I shall now picture when I think of covid puritans.

Morning folks, still outraged/fuming/livid (apparently these are all words you only see on MN) about Nicola Sturgeon's position and the blind compliance from the dementors lapping up the line that in Scotland we're three weeks behind the rest of the UK in the pandemic.

That Travelling Tabby site someone linked to on the last thread has all the facts in glorious technicolour.

Anyway today and MOnday are "school holidays" here. DH and I spoke last night and we've decided that we're going to try to continue the homeschooling through the "summer holidays" especially for the youngest as he's been doing fuck all and 5 months out of education is way too much for a 12 year old. I'm also going to ask DD's maths tutor if he's able to resume by Skype/Zoom - she's going to hate me.

I really do but honestly are we saying all enjoyment should stop because a 98 year old may catch a disease

It’s true though! It’s very very sad for that family of course but that doesn’t mean the entire world has to be miserable. When my parents died life went on as normal, I didn’t expect everyone else to stop having fun. That’s not how life works I’m afraid

Look, I’m in Australia and know things are a bit different as Covid hasn’t really taken off here. But just an example of how quickly the hysteria and alarm can dissipate- my FYOS DD was back at full time school two weeks ago, as were all FYOS children. No-one in my DD’s class kept their child home. However, the school library was closed indefinitely. The taking home of home readers was banned, due to the books cycling through households.

Today I received an email saying as of Monday, the school library will be opened as normal and home readers will be sent home again.

It is amazing how quickly things settle back to normal once people realise the sky isn’t going to fall. I really think you will see in the UK the moment some kids are allowed to return to school, it will snowball and things will be somewhat back to normal much quicker than the dementors expect. And once the anxious types get their kid to school that first day, they will be out of their fear rut and everything will naturally fall back into place.

Full time schooling resumes for all year levels in my Australian state on Monday.

If anything, for as many young people who will shrug off Covid to catch it in the summer as possible is an excellent strategy for protecting more vulnerable people as we go into the colder months.

The Economist today had an article discussing the fact that given a huge proportion of deaths have been in nursing homes or of nursing home residents (30-50% in most of Europe), it makes sense to focus intensively on testing and isolating in nursing homes and lessen the focus elsewhere.

I really do but honestly are we saying all enjoyment should stop because a 98 year old may catch a disease

I had someone ask me how I could possibly want restrictions eased when my mum had died from covid. I answered by saying mum would be horrified if her death meant others couldn't "live". She always said "there's more to life than existing".

@TheKrakening3

That you for your calming words. I do take hope from that and I agree that once the kids are back and the apocalypse hasn't happened people will see that its ok and relax. The anxiety and anticipation of it is always worse than the reality. Its like how in horror films when you never see the monster your imagination always conjures up something far worse than CGI ever could.

This website is like a fucking henhouse of chicken lickens.

Also to focus treatment on those age groups. Rather than keep everyone out of hospital until the last minute. Test, test, test, routinely. Treat with oxygen before the poor person needs a respirator. Focus resources.

@BarkandCheese

Yes! I imagine them like:

It’s best not to engage with them, they’re crippled by fear and fury. Just make your point and leave.

Soon they’ll be told to go back to work and they will...implode.

Spotted: dementoring in The National (cult paper for SNP) claiming that the Scottish teachers union saying no return to full time education til vaccine;

www.thenational.scot/news/18463909.union-boss-says-scottish-schools-will-part-time-vaccine/

Oh FFS. I’ve got to the point where I just want to run round yelling ‘GET A FUCKING GRIP’ at people.
No full time education until a vaccine? And who will suffer? Women and children, that’s who. Men will still be holed up in their offices doing their full time jobs, and everyone else will be screwed.

Has anyone read that Eton has without fanfare been housing hospital workers for two months. Expect patronum dementors

I’m really fucked off because I was just starting to get my career back on track after 3 children. Now it’s all screwed. And I know PEOPLE ARE DYING, but it’s still fucking shit.

Yes justasking111 I read about that the other day. Mentioned it on a dementor thread where someone was wailing about Eton not going back so no one else should. Asked if they thought Eton should chuck the hospital workers on to the street.

I’ve had enough this morning ... I’ve just had my first payslip with our mandatory 20% cut, DH’s business doesn’t qualify for any of the government schemes and without being able to travel, he can’t do 80% of his work. Plus one of the companies he’d done some work for last year has collapsed without paying him - we’d been counting on that money to keep us going as my salary doesn’t cover our costs.

Went out for a lovely dog walk at sparrow’s fart to avoid too many people tutting and there are still people diving into the bushes as you go past - on a wide path where there’s plenty of room so even if I were walking around exuding a virus miasma they’d still be perfectly safe. I just want to scream at them (but obviously don’t 😬)

My cousin’s gone a bit dementory, worrying about how safe she’s going to be when she goes back to work next month teaching 5 year olds wearing a visor. I said I thought it was a complete overreaction and was fostering panic and fear that was disproportionate to the actual risk to anyone in her classroom and she’s a bit huffy now

And I’m also fed up of people telling me they’re really enjoying this time of reflection and having the chance to step off the treadmill blah blah ... always said with the cushion of generous pensions/public sector secure job/big house and garden etc

I hate this half life - I want to be inside a building that isn’t my house or the local shop - I want to go to the theatre - I want to sit in a cafe - I want to go and see my friends - I want my children (all between 17-22 do the age group which will apparently be the most economically fucked by all this) to have choices about what they do and not be stuck learning things on a computer screen in the bedroom of their family home when they should be put on the world exploring and forging their own way

And breathe ....

Exactly. This is MUMSNET. Full of women with children. I cannot believe how many people are saying oh yeah just accept it.

No. I bloody won't accept it. I just bloody won't. And I suppose I am "lucky" that I could afford to pay for 3 days a week childcare and be able to keep my FT job but that's at the expense of my child's education because on his days off i wont be able to teach him?

It's all well and good saying make men take the responsibility but we live in such a world where men still generally earn more. Me asking dp to work a 2 day week would be counter productive.

Selfishly we are just getting to the end of massive childcare bills (and we've missed on on using Ds funded hours cos he isn't allowed to go) and now we're faced with paying MORE.

I could scream. I will scream. I will encourage everyone I know to scream alongside me.

@Pleasedontdothat with you.

So fucking true about men. Nobody truly expects men to pack in their jobs or plead with their bosses to get reduced hours. Nobody expects men to bake banana bread and come up with creative solutions to the boredom of children removed from society for months on end.

Pleasedontdothat I’m so bloody bored of my house after spending 10 weeks staring at it that I redecorated my bedroom last weekend, and yesterday ordered new curtains etc for my living room so will be repainting in here next week. Painting the kitchen this weekend.

And hello @bulletjournalbilly