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!

What Diane said

You are a kind person

Trolls are never kind. They get a kick from trolling. Who knows why. But they do

Lilac
If it would reassure you to get a direct response from MNHQ perhaps you could start a thread in site stuff and report it (nb they will probably delete that thread too once they've responded) or you could try just emailing them.
I'm sure the admins are all very busy and just don't always manage to respond to everyone who reports, but understandable that you would like an explanation of what they did and why.

I think Boris knows there are sneaky folk going around visiting their families, he just cannot say it. I saw Piers Morgan frothing about not seeing his family and thought, just get in the bloody car and visit. But then I thought because he is famous he would get caught by the paps. So glad the press do not follow me around, they would have so many headlines by now.

I don't think they tend to post about what they've done.

I was given half a ban for sarcastically comparing a family meeting (about whether to send kids to school at the start of all this) to a COBRA meeting and was told it wasn't in the sprit of Mumsnet . It was one sentence, no swearing or name calling.

I'd like to think on that basis a witch-hunt would warrant a full ban.

Lilac they just delete the thread and dont usually say any more about it.
Dont get stuck thinking about it. They are gone and you are still here. Trolls are just trolls sad idiots who have nothing better to do in thier lives.

Save what’s half a ban please?

I think one of the biggest problems with lockdown and with relying on social media for most of our human contact is that things get to us more than they might do otherwise.
A good old fashioned phone call, a "socially distanced" meeting with a loved one, or even breaking the rules and seeing someone you really want to hug, would do you the world of good and help put it behind you.

It's possible to get a temporary ban, I think.

Weston Super Mare has an outbreak in the hospital, ie they have screwed up their infection control.
Weston Super Mare, the town, does not have an outbreak.
Weston is the main hospital for the area, so has housed cases from other parts of the County.

Only for a fb dementor to post "the figures are only this low Cos of lockdown"

It's a hard one to answer right now. Some epidemiologists are arguing that the virus peaks of its own accord and that it's behaving in the same way everywhere regardless of whether countries locked down or not. Michael Levitt talks a lot about that. This was an article discussing it earlier on but it is the Daily Mail www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8235979/UKs-coronavirus-crisis-peaked-lockdown-Expert-argues-draconian-measures-unnecessary.html

There is a theory gathering pace which suggests many are immune to the virus because of having had a cold in the past - the cruise ship cases support this because only a certain number of people got ill on them despite ideal conditions. We know cases aren't rising out of control with lockdowns easing abroad - people won't all be that strict about keeping their distance.

And ultimately we put lockdown in place quite late - the virus had a long time to spread and then when we did lockdown we did so in households so it STILL had a good amount of time to spread afterwards - it's not like lockdown was a strict bubble where no one saw anyone else. Some experts are concerned lockdown can prompt a rise in cases precisely because you suddenly stuck in with your family and indoors lots so people are more like to spread it around in their own family groups.

And Ferguson's model has been so widely criticised - it's definitely not proof we would have had far more deaths.

Sadie “ At a time when MN is begging for cash to survive the last thing they need is a bored journalist putting together a MN bullying piece.”

Spot on. And thought provoking.

Yeah bullying by trolls not a good look

Tonight I've had enough. I don't even know what help is on offer to deal with all this. My lovely psychologist is taking a week off for half term so won't be checking his emails.

I'm trying to keep myself busy through this but they're really long days on my own and I feel I have nothing to look forward to. I am going out tomorrow so I will focus on getting to that but I can't live like this. I came into this whole pandemic in a really bad place mentally and the things I was doing to make my life better have all fallen away.

I just wanted to reach out as I know lots of you get it.

Hi Lilactree11
I didn't see the thread, it had gone at that point, but just said, "started by a troll" so I think that was essentially saying you had done nothing wrong and the OP of that thread was a troll?

I think as the situation gets better and there's a real glimmer of hope they the end to the current situation is finally coming into sight, the dementors are terrified that life may go back to what it was. They're a curious breed that's for damn sure.

Today I went to the tip(again), drove to Bristol to pick up some free broken paving slabs, to make a crazy paving path through my cottage style garden, stopped at 2 garden centres on the way back and popped into the local co-op

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair

Sorry that you're feeling so low ☹️ I do get it I've been the same x

@AnotherEmma the play area is supposed to be cordoned off. I think people have just got fed up and gone in anyway.

Everyone's opening up the play areas themselves around here. I've been tempted to take a bolt cutter to a couple of very jobsworthily locked ones.

@LilacTree11so pleased to see you back. I'm on a SM break and feeling better today. Spending time with my family and reading a book. But happy to break this to say hello

Thank you Dianne. I'm sorry you have. This is so unnatural isn't it?

@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair I get it too. My mental health is fragile and I kept going before all of this basically by keeping busy and out of the house as much as possible. All that has gone. All my coping mechanisms - vanished.

I used to have a late Friday afternoon coffee with a friend. Every week, before facing the weekend, and we’d chew our problems over. We haven’t done that since 6 March. ☹️

I'm so pleased I've found this thread. I thought I was the only one who felt this way.

I have a lot of Liberal people I follow on social media who I normally agree with 99% of the time except they're all absolutely terrified of the virus and seem to think you will catch it and die if you so much as look out the window. They want lockdown extended until the end of the year ect. I can't see how so many rational, fair and intelligent people are being like this.

I'm so sad. I had a baby 2 weeks before lockdown. My third and last baby and this time has been absolutely ruined for me. He's not seen another person outside of our family since he was 2 weeks old. Well apart from a doctor in a mask. My friemd came round to see me for a coffee in the garden and my baby got really upset when he saw her. It worries me so much that he won't be socialised and will be scared of people. I had problems after the birth and I can't access any Healthcare. I was referred to physio but got discharged after a few telephone appointments. I never got to see anyone. I need to see a dentist but can't. A relatives chemo has been delayed by 10 weeks at least. When will this end? My kids miss school. They miss their friends. What kind of childhood are they having? I can't even bear to think about the women and children at home being abused. So many businesses have gone under already.

Sorry for the pity party I know so many people have it worse but I'm just having a bad day!

Cupcupgoose that all sounds incredible tough. I'm so sorry. I have been thinking a lot about anyone pregnant and those with young babies over the last few weeks. This is not how things should be.

Magda I'm sorry you've been in a similar boat. That face to fact contact is worth so much.

I hear you! My baby is a bit older and was already strange with a lot of people. I worry she is going to struggle with normal situations like eating in a restaurant or hearing the noise of a crowd or applause etc.