Anti Dementors Party Planners Meet Here

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

I've had a dementoring letter from nhs Scotland saying I can go for my on-hold-because-of_covid investigative operation and probably catch covid in hospital and die!!! Or re refer myself later...

Luckily, it's a moot point as they won't let my child go back to school so I'm not able to go anyway.

People are angry today that they gave up so much and Cummings went his own way as he saw f it. I see their point which is why I think using common sense rather than blind obedience is the way to handle this virus. I have seen family members, we are outdoors, social distanced, I still think the wash your hands thing is very important. I wear gloves shopping, I wash my shopping when I get home. If I needed public transport I would wear a mask.

People who swing too far for the greater good have a nasty habit of swinging the other way. I think the government knows and tacitly wants it to happen now.

Drivingdown My screen cut the right hand side off that picture so at first glance I thoroughly the giant man in scrubs was sitting on a toilet in the middle of the park.

I've had a dementoring letter from nhs Scotland saying I can go for my on-hold-because-of_covid investigative operation and probably catch covid in hospital and die!!! Or re refer myself later...

I had to chuckle, I'm sorry. That's dreadful! What are they thinking?! Are you going to choose death (or cake?! )?

I also laughed at the dreadful photo. How manipulative. From what I can tell from MN a fair few hcps have been breaking lockdown all along anyway by gathering at each other's houses. I guess if you're mingling at work and no one has been seriously ill it's easy to let your guard down.

I've had such a horribly rocky weekend but I feel better now. It's all very well but dementors do real harm don't they? And many of them will go back to their normal lives when all this has died down while people like me will still be trying to pick up the pieces in therapy.

@Drivingdownthe101

Lol that is so ridiculous. Love the way they have the medic appearing like God 🙄
Next they’ll be portraying them as religious icons

The person who posted it didn’t add a comment, just a sad face emoji

Cake or death I wish the dementors were offering that choice.

That photo is a really poor Cold War Steve rip-off. He does political photo montages, only he understands both satire and art and they’re actually good.

Boris announced the end of Lockdown today, he didn't actually say the words but by backing Cummings, he's given the people of England the green light to escape their incarceration.
Boris knows exactly what he's doing. Boris is not a stupid man. He'll get the herd immunity he wanted all along. By backing Cummings he's tacitly pushing the public to break the guidelines.
I could be being a bit cynical here though.

I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of 99% of these 'my neighbour/SIL/colleague is breaking the rules report' threads.

Lockdown is so over. And I’m in Scotland.

We now have a situation where dozens of people are just wandering the streets looking for somewhere that’s open.

It was like our neighbourhood was having some kind of mini gala day today there were so many people out and about, holding take away coffees and ice creams, chatting in groups, kids from a dozen different households playing together.

It was my favourite day so far

I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of 99% of these 'my neighbour/SIL/colleague is breaking the rules report' threads

I agree. They are seeming more and more trollish and ridiculous

I've come to the conclusion that if there were such things as paid posters, they would be the 'neighbour reporters'.

Spoke to a friend earlier, whose Dh works for a local gym (not a posh private one, just a normal not quite council one). He has been informed that if all goes smoothly (as in cases/infections/r rating) they hope to reopen the gym in August and pool shortly after. This, along with reading the info about the virus potentially burning itself out by October has made me feel a little more positive.

One of the public leisure centres I use is posting snippets about distancing meaures they're planning for reopening. It's good seeing optomism even in the form of adaption.

I just hope thst when swimming lessons start back up, I can get both DCs moved ip. DS1 was ready in January and a suitable slot didn't open up before lockdown. At least DS2 was passed on the final evening. Literally. We were there when " social distancing" was announced!

I'm beginning to doubt the veracity of 99% of these 'my neighbour/SIL/colleague is breaking the rules report' threads

I'm also really doubting many of the teacher posts. I suspect in some instances, angry parents are posing as teachers to try and make a point.

FFS. The shock-and-horror threads about Dominic Cummings are doing my head in. TBH I am finding it hard to get upset about what he did. I honestly just don’t care. The more people clutch their pearls and bay for his head on a pike, the less I give a shit. Yes it was stupid but either:
A) he and Neil Ferguson and Kathryn Calderwood gave good advice to the government about lockdown, which the public should generally follow, or:
B) they didn't.
Who they shag, or where they personally went when they were sick, is a matter of supreme indifference to me. It means NOTHING in the grand scheme of things. It’s petty point scoring and I am sooooo over it.

I feel like if any of them felt there was any serious risk from virus they wouldn't have acted as they did.

I also don't give a shit about the Cummings thing, because I find the position that we should all blindly follow government advice without engaging our brains outrageous in a democracy.

Cummings's position is untenable but I just don't really give a shit that he went to be near family when he thought he might get sick.

The crazy thing is we ever allowed Boris fucking Johnson to convince the rest of us that we shouldn't.

Very I guess there's also the possibility of
C) they gave good advice to the government, but we couldn't be trusted, so we got the more restricted version. Then the advisors just carried on and followed their own advice?
Who knows?

Whichever it is, continued lockdown had no credibility.

And in the meantime Wee Nippy continues her dementing...

My issue with cummings is that he's a twat. Nice gaff, his parents have, though.

It's the prime minister and other ministers that sicken me. The hypocrisy is spectacular. I'm very glad I've questioned and risk assessed myself.

I couldn’t care less about Cummings either. People just love to get their knickers in a twist about something.

A lot of people seem to use things like this as an outlet for the vitriol that’s been building up in their system.

Yeah. Nicola. No one is going to publicly acknowledge it because they are too far up her arse, but she lost control of Scotland’s lockdown when she told us no the same day Boris told everyone else yes.

To me it is perhaps less of the fact that he did it - though it was incredibly stupid to travel to the NE knowing that you were infected AND knowing that that area was behind the curve of London, it is the absolute arrogance shown by him, BoJo and the majority of the Tory party. I do not like being taken as a fool.

I am still cross he did it though.

@Nihiloxica I agree I don't believe they agreed with the science that was presented to us.

Yet they still chose to enact the brainwashing tactics that have put the fear of mass death into society should we venture out.

Dominic cumberbatchesbitch knew the science was flawed and took his chances using his common sense but still condemned us to this lockdown farce!