Anti Dementors Party Planners Meet Here

[ThatLibraryMiss]

Wanted to make the new thread quickly to get the link onto the last page of the previous one!

Usually I'm positive, but this constant panic and willingness to give up on everything else except CV is really getting to me

It's very damaging isn't it? It's doing real harm. It's not just about people wanting to go to the pub and being selfish about staying in because they're arseholes. Actually society has made this huge sacrifice and HAS stayed in to protect the vulnerable for many weeks, it's just many are at breaking point now. And those who are matter too.

It's really odd how you can find people you thought you agreed with on so many things have such different ideas on the rights and wrongs of lockdown isn't it?

Yes it's really disconcerting. And in an ideal world it should be ok to have different ideas. Especially if two people hold different positions but both are based on being concerned about different vulnerable groups. But for some reason in this instance you're about the same level as a Nazi if you don't prioritise the virus only.

The "desperate to shop the neighbours" attitude is very odd.

We have a family living next door. About a fortnight ago, the wife disappeared off in her car with one of the smaller children and overnight bags. She was back a few days later with the child for a short stay. Then the remaining neighbour had a visit from another relative. Few days later the wife and smaller child was back, and has remained ever since.

Their comings and goings were of mild interest as there's bugger all else going on and DH and I had imagined an elaborate story about how she'd left him in dramatic circumstances. No idea where she was, where she was staying and why she took one child and not the other. Never crossed my mind for one second to call 101 and report them. Her movements put nobody in danger.

Some people just really lack common sense and critical thinking.

Would I go to the local care home and lick all the door handles, or give the staff leaving after a shift a big cuddle? Probably not.

Would I go and sit in a friend's garden or meet my sister for a walk? Probably.

That tendency to view any dissent from the approved position of your tribe as a moral pollution that taints your credibility and good standing has been increasing for the last decade or so.

I think that's why lockdown scared me at the start - I could see the way the rhetoric was moving that it would become about ideological purity for some. And so it has proven.

WeedsnSeeds1
Thank you for your brilliantly bad poetry!

I thought the 'i' newspaper was quite balanced and OK but today they have this creepy 'cartoon' picture of a dark shadow across a beach of sunbathers with a line about them spreading the virus...

I also got Grazia for a bit of light relief, DH picked it up, had a look and handed it back "it's full of the virus' I thought for a second he had got anxious about it being on a magazine cover or something (not like him at all) but he meant everything in it was on the virus topic

He was right. There is no escape. Argh!

PS Lilac if you need break from this site try Elefriends (but please come back) it is kind and caring

People shopping locally in hazmat suits

www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/tesco-shopper-filmed-wearing-gas-3948882

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I think there's a lot of people getting fed up of lockdown and just quietly voting with their feet. I had a massive meltdown yesterday because I wanted to go to a garden centre to look at some plant pots but when I arrived the queue was over 1 hour to get in and I just lost it. Got home and had a good cry but my 3 year old saw I was upset which made me feel worse as I usually try to keep upbeat in front of the kids.

Anyway today woke up and said F it. We asked MIL if she'd like us to take the children to see her as she lives alone in a flat with no garden and has only seen the Sainsbury's delivery man since the start of March. She said yes! So DH, the DC and I went to see her, sit in her flat and had a good chat. No hugging or kisses but other than that it felt refreshingly normal. She said as we left that she really appreciated it and we're going to do it again, just on the quiet. There'll be loads of people doing the same I imagine.... it's just the dementors that seem to be doing all the shouting on social media.

What is this schools thing on Thursday? I thought they had sorted that out but now it seems there os some announcement then but the BBC is quite vague about it..

Maybe they've just realised that most people just want the kids back, have little evidence to show school is dangerous.....so they can just all go back.

#doubtfulbuthopeful

I’m hoping they’re taking back control of Welsh schools and reopening them in June (obviously they’re not but let me dream).

Bozo is doing the daily briefing today. Watch the hair - if he's being benevolent and whacky he does the hedge backwards thing... if it's bad shit he brushes it.

I think Thursday is the final decision as to whether they can open on the 1st June or not. They said it would be June 1st at the earliest but it would be dependant on the numbers at the time, and Thursday is when they make that call.

It will be quite amusing if his downfall is going to visit his family rather than the actually nefarious stuff he gets up to.

Kind of like Al Capone and the tax return.....

Has Lilactree come back yet? Hope she's ok. There's a lot of animosity on here at the moment that's really toxic.

That Bousted union woman was also in the 'i' all she was going on about was the R number nothing about children.

Ofsted on about doing summer school and being positive about schools going on to make up time. What is going on that I agree with Ofsted now..

anyway fingers crossed they do go back soon my DC is very keen to go back, it will help him a lot

Thanks Driving, ours are going for the 8th so far.

If the announcement means schools don't go back I will actually cry. DD is year 1, really missing school. She's been so good about this whole thing but she is done now. Theoretically her school should be getting her back on the 15th of June but the letter they sent was very full of qualifiers about 'national consensus' so I guess if the unions don't agree it night not happen. Even though it's a MAT do doesn't actually have to listen to the unions. As an ex- teacher who was always in a union I can't believe I'm rooting against them.

I have a bad feeling about Bozo working on a Sunday to be fair.

The prep schools already say they are going back the 1st so are they exempt from this announcement then I wonder.

sorry it seems they will if given the go ahead

People are definitely voting with their feet. I’ve always been convinced there’s a mostly silent majority who are quietly and sensibly taking themselves out of lockdown while the dementors froth away on social media. I’ve noticed over the past few days a marked decline in the number of people lobbing themselves into hedges and ditches as I walk past, on my dog walk today absolutely nobody did anything more than move a few feet to the other side of the path.

Yep, Bark, I agree.

The Tories are good at reading the silent majority. That's why they have such a big majority in Westminster despite their record over the past decade.

I would imagine prep schools, and independent senior schools, will be getting back asap. After all, they need the fees to pay their staff and keep themselves going. I think a lot of dementor-teachers would be a lot keener to get back in the classroom if their jobs were on the line.

@SpnBaby1967

Yeah it's tricky with the young ones. I think we've accepted that ours won't open until September, but how it will work I don't know- our classes are held either in school or church halls, so will have to see what the guidance is both from government and from the churches/schools concerned.

I was supposed to be starting up some classes teaching self-defence for women in September. That's going to have to wait even longer And what's extra annoying is that it was to be my first real job after many years being a SAHM (and having got divorced).

While I don't have anything like half the difficulties many are suffering due to this bloody thing, it feels a bit harsh that yet again I have to wait for my 'new' life to start.