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!

Oh, it was really bad in pregnant women, Magda . I wasn't pregnant and it wasn't bad at all, much less so than seasonal flu.

I've been to the local park. It was "heaving" i.e. about 10 clusters of people sitting around plus others strolling through. Genuinely, it was the busiest I've ever seen it, but it was lovely to see people out relaxing.

DS2 finally got to play football properly with a couple of classmates/neighbours.
DS1 opted for quiet vegetation on the sofa. The park is 5 mins away so I came back and checked on him a couple of times.

I was pregnant and had the vaccine, which the Dementors of the time were insisting was suicide.

Then DH got it and was very, very unwell, so I was super glad I ignored them.

I had the swine flu vaccine too - turns out after I'd already had it! After that I was first in the queue for vaccines when I was pregnant with my youngest - got both flu and whooping cough as soon as I could. He still turned up early .

Interestingly, Neil Ferguson had an apocalyptic model for Swine Flu deaths in the UK.

His worst case scenario was 65,000 deaths. There were fewer that 500.

I'm trying really hard to imagine why his model was preferred to that of Sunetra Gupta, whose model is performing much better over time but was apparently "debunked" at the time.

This discussion about the swab keeps coming up, so I’m attaching the instructions for the nose swab from the Gov.UK website. If the print is too small to read, it basically says to wipe just inside your nostril (my instructions said about an inch but it seems like that may have been amended). I’m not saying that if your test is done by a professional it won’t be pushed in a bit further, but that’s because they know what they’re doing. Instructions may have been amended as people trying to hit their skull base with a swab will do a lot more harm than good.

He looks really rather too pleased with himself to be shoving a swab up his nose in that diagram!

@Orangeblossom78
I used to get taken to Scarborough as well as a child, do they still have the little island thing in the middle, we used to go round that and to the cafe on the front, and to Filey and Robin Hoods bay

The island in the middle of the lake is still there (it was called the Tree Walk in my day) and even better they still have (well up to this year anyway) the Naval Battle on the lake, complete with rickety ships and aeroplanes on strings! The Corner Cafe has gone and is now posh holiday flats (which I have stayed in and are lovely).

Bath is having a kind of party in the park- just went past a lady in full Georgian dress complete with basket and bonnet!

I've had the swabs done and I swear she got brain matter with the nose one so it does go really far back. The throat one made me gag horrendously.

Still came back unclear, didnt bother repeating it since it took 2 weeks to get results back anyway.

Bath is having a kind of party in the park- just went past a lady in full Georgian dress complete with basket and bonnet!

That might very well have been a friend of mine

I think I also had swine flu. I remember people being really scared as there were stories of younger people sadly dying. If I did have it it made me feel pretty horrible but I was ok beyond that.

Well I am responsible for a lot of deaths today. My friend and her wife came over and we sat in the back garden. Dp decided to go out and buy a BBQ so we have had s glorious day (I've managed to sun burn my own back) except a drone flew over our garden so either it's kids from the houses behind us or we are about to be shamed all over the internet sat in our own back garden

There were some big groups in the park today with foreign accents (eastern european perhaps?- not sure) anyway no-one seemed to be bothering them or telling them to go away or anything

Guess it is like that in a city - people don't worry about 'incomers' etc as much

Just had my picnic with another family. Busy but very well spread out beauty spot. Was lovely, they are relaxed too and looked like we were not the only mixed group unless there are Mormons in SE England. Beautiful weather

You know what though I feel so much better for just seeing people face to face. I text my friend every single day but it's not the same is it!

I have to say I am really enjoying hearing Dominic Cummings tie himself in knots about Durham and Barnard Castle and checking his eyesight and whatever other bullshit he's managed to concoct since yesterday. I really couldn't give a shit where he went but I do take pleasure in watching the UK media take it in turn to try and stick the boot in.

@TrustTheGeneGenie text isn’t the same I agree, I find myself getting cross with texts because the tone and nuance isn’t there. In real life, people are not as annoying.

Having cut one sons lawn this morning and helped out. This afternoon went to other son and helped him move sand to make a sand pit. Was lovely playing with all my grand children today. Tomorrow they are coming around in the afternoon.

OH just had words with next door who said Cummings should resign. OH said why, he did what was right for his child. She said well he can afford a car what about poor people who cannot. Ummm.. neighbour has two new cars every three years and if her son and family were ill she would have been off like a shot to help out. Told OH he shouldn`t expect sense from rabid socialists who live champagne lifestyles

Does anyone think that we will just get used to the weird social distancing life, it will become so normal that we will forget what normal was? I wonder how long this will take me... 2-3 yrs?

This whole thing about pulling face cover down to take a bite & then replace to use Czech restaurants -- will diners all ignore the rules or just not go? It doesn't sound like a self-indulgent social evening that I think of as purpose of restaurant dining.

I was in a shop that just reopened today. One way traffic & people jumping out of their skin if you get near. It's become a place I want to avoid except out of absolutely necessity. Amazon will do well out of me.

there were cars all over verges on the North Norfolk coast roads this afternoon; the powers that be still declaring we can't have proper car parks to use. Or public toilets. (sigh) The actual beaches & footbpaths have sparse pockets of human beings on them. I don't think people care who you are out & about with.

Does anyone think that we will just get used to the weird social distancing life, it will become so normal that we will forget what normal was?

Honestly? No, on the basis it isn't sustainable. Long supermarket queues in a long rainy winter? People staying apart at Christmas? It's not natural. I can't do it. I'm struggling too badly now. I think so many people are deciding they'd just rather take their chances. My elderly aunt has had enough and has had a day out shopping wherever is open. She will likely die if she gets it. She doesn't care. She's spent 3 months sitting on her own. She's already survived pneumonia and cancer and a bad car accident - she is genuinely alright about dying.

There were lots of people in our local park just now. Groups, people on the skatepark and children in the play area.

DM in Cardiff says her next door neighbour's DC had friends round to play today. She's happy for them.

This whole thing about pulling face cover down to take a bite & then replace to use Czech restaurants -- will diners all ignore the rules or just not go? It doesn't sound like a self-indulgent social evening that I think of as purpose of restaurant dining

No, I couldn’t be arsed with that. I just wouldn’t go.

Play areas are still cordoned off where we are. I think it's the most symbolic and depressing sight of the whole situation. NO FUN ALLOWED. Children can't go to school, see their friends and family, or even go on the swings. Their well being has been sacrificed.

I think small shops for browsing will struggle. It won't be relaxing will it.