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 am so depressed today, and I'm not usually an easily depressed person. But it's all too much today. I dont know how much longer I can do this. This isnt life, my body hurts from lack of exercise, I'm not a runner or a walker, I'm a martial artist. I want to be back doing that with my friends, not through a computer screen!

I'm fed up with DH asking "what shall we do today" fuck all, because there is fuck all to do! Anything I do suggest he says no to anyway, but always looks to me to decide what we should do.

I'm holding back tears today, scared that if I let them come they wont stop.

SpnBaby

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Hugs are definitely murderous, but you need one. I'd give you one in real life if I knew you in person.

It must be so shit to be still working so hard in a stressful job and have all the pleasure removed from your life for so long.

I know what you mean about not starting to cry. I've been there several times.

First day back at school today
My Mummy is a twat
She has me in a hazmat suit
And balaclava hat

First day back at school today
But there's no tag or cricket
Probably just as well though
As we've all developed rickets

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Checking in

Weedsnseeds1 🤣

First day back at school today
No one's coughed or sneezed
Little Sam, with asthma
Hasn't even wheezed

First day back at school today
The parents all seem gutted
That all the kids had fun at last
And no one's kicked the bucket

Thank you @Nihiloxica I came upstairs to escape DHs "well, what are we going to do" huffing. He came up & asked me what was wrong, I told him nothing. Hes now stormed off in a huff that I'm sitting in the bedroom.

Definitely up for a poetry ban ... and I think on balance Cummings can stay, despicable though he is, if lockdown goes (preferably they both go but if I’ve got to make a choice ...)

I’m getting increasingly irritated by competitive social distancing... people walking into the road to avoid the plague-ridden miasma which must be emanating from me - er hello, you’re in rather more danger of being hit by a car or the woman in the queue for Pets at Home yesterday who insisted on leaving at least 3m between her and the person in front. This is in London... where community transmission is so low that the chances of coming into contact with some who is infected but asymptomatic and then being in contact with them for long enough to enable any level of virus transmission is vanishingly small .... it just makes no sense at all

I’m also feeling increasingly out of step with my family and friends (all lefties here) - I’ve found myself agreeing with people with whom I’d normally have nothing in common politically and being branded as right wing and selfish for suggesting that the right to an education for a whole school’s worth of children might trump the right of one of the teachers who’s recovering from breast cancer to go to work

Apart from @Weedsnseeds1 rhyming efforts - they can stay 😂

SpnBaby1967
Well he sounds a joy 🙄 Can I suggest that you go out without him?

Morning all you lunatic murderous cultists. I'm feeling positive today as some of my most dementory friends have suddenly started saying things like "some of these rules seem a bit arbitrary" and "imagine how hard it must be if you live alone". I think the tide is turning and rational thought is starting to break through the blind fear. At least that's how I'm choosing to see it today.

Public opinion can change so fast and I wonder if we'll see the same thing happen here over the next few weeks. Especially as we all watch the Italians and Spaniards go back to their outdoor cafés, beaches and schools.

I’m glad me and dh have been on the same page re da roolz.
However at the very beginning I think the Boy Scout in him thought it was going to be a challenge in survival skills.
Woke up one morning to find the entire edible contents of the kitchen heaped upon every surface and we counted every bean pack, rice, pasta And everything else in between and logged it which was useful in seeing what we did have
Then he had the nerve to suggest a rice and bean supper accompanied by a look of pure disgust from me followed by a phone call From me to our local butcher who was delivering.

That was one plan I was definitely scuppering. If I’d lost my freedom, and my time on this planet was possibly over then I was going well fed.
Later that night as he was chomping on a nice bit of sirloin , hasselback potatoes and a glass of red in his hand he was happy to agree with me.

Being a natural rebel, the following week I drove the 50 mile round trip to a very nice farm shop where we bought more goodies. I passed 12 police cars enroute but no one stopped us which I was quite relieved about.

That buried his nonsense once and for all.

Morning all. I too have no motivation today. Didnt sleep last night am fed up with this i am sure its my meds so i am stuck with it but i hate it.

Its blowing a gale and damm cold so won't even be going out.

Need a kick to get me going.

Staying off many threads these days. Its turned jnto an anti-women and children site not what it is supposed to be. The posts on that women being hit hardest by lockdown thread are astonishing. I despair. Once this is over we will be back in the middle ages! Do people really think that those of us who are still working and those who are desperate to go back to work asap will carry the country forever just so they can stay inside thier stupid selfish fantasy? How long do they plan on spending thier time policing other people and making inane comments on SM about everyone except them being murderers and being terrified of fresh air?
The world has spiralled into madness.

@Weedsnseeds1

@SpnBaby1967 It's shit isn't it, I'm sorry you're having a bad day. Are there any members/instructors of your classes that might be willing to meet up outside for some practice? Me, my instructor and 2 other black belts have agreed we're going to meet up this week to do some kata on a quiet green somewhere. We're all fellow anti-dementors and have Had Enough.

weeds

wmbriggs.com/post/30833/ Here's another link for you all by a statistician who analysed countries by lockdown and results. It's an interesting read. I'm finding I'm doubting my judgement though - it's hard to know who is reputable or has a particular agenda.

A Singapore University have done a study saying the virus will fizzle out by September - I think I'm taking this as just one theory but it is a nice one. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8351237/Coronavirus-completely-wiped-Britain-September-30.html

I also spotted what someone else has on this thread. In that article it says

'Yesterday, it was revealed that a much-anticipated coronavirus vaccine trial only has a 50 per cent chance of success - because the disease is disappearing so rapidly.

Just days ago, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced it had the capacity to make one billion doses of Oxford University's promising jab, with Britain striking a deal for 100 million 'as early as possible'.

That came after ministers said they hoped a third of those would be ready for September, at which point, if proven effective, people would be allowed to go back to work and businesses given the green light to reopen and start rebuilding the economy.

However, Professor Adrian Hill told The Sunday Telegraph the rapid disappearance of the virus itself in the UK has thrown doubt on the team's ability to meet the deadline in four months' time.

If Covid-19 is not spreading in the community, volunteers will find it difficult to catch, meaning scientists can't prove whether the vaccine actually makes any difference.

Some 10,000 people are being recruited to test the jab over the coming weeks, but Prof Hill said he expected fewer than 50 of those to catch the virus, and the results could be deemed useless if fewer than 20 test positive.'

Professor Adrian Hill works at Oxford and seems to be highly respected/accomplished. Interestingly he used to be married to Sunetra Gupta.

The posts on that women being hit hardest by lockdown thread are astonishing. I despair.

I am the same. It is astonishing how ignorant some are about many women's lives. I am used to this site being full of incredibly intelligent, sensible women and they seem to be being drowned out. Mind you, one of my favourite posters on here told a woman struggling to homeschool her child that her 60 hour a week job as a lawyer was essentially a lifestyle choice and the woman could just step away. Because that's realistic when we're facing a recession and people have mortgages to pay and jobs might be in short supply.

Following on from our previous thread - West Park is now the scene of serious frothing and dementor sightings. The council have put up huge banners saying about distancing and keeping your dogs on the leads... local FB shite is full of "my doggy needs exercise this is cruel"... accompanied by utter venom that kids keep playing on the playground.

They're more worried about Frank the cocker spaniel than Freddie the 6 year old child.

Public opinion can change incredibly fast. Where I live it switched incredibly quickly in the days running up to the lockdown. People here in my bit of Yorks were very shruggy about the virus till that week (a bit too shruggy in not even doing the sensible harmless things like increased handwashing).

Symptoms take 5 to 14 days to show, so there really should be a spike in positive tests from VE day by now... especially as anyone can have access to testing now.

Yes this. Where is the spike? There should be some noticeable blip by now.

Tumbleweed.

Gosh Domina it all seemed quite calm and relaxed there yesterday!
No one on the playground except 2 kids being pushed on the big bucket swing by a parent (she was getting some evil eyes from parents whose kids were saying ‘why are they allowed on the park and we’re not?’).
Noticed a couple of dogs off leads.
I saw 2 women walking round in masks, who bumped into some people they knew and took their masks off to have a chat .
Loads of mixed household groups with young kids playing together which was nice to see!
Lots of teenage boys playing football.
I have blocked all the Facebook community sites though, too much stupidity!

Morning fellow murderers.

I've just seen a story on the BBC about how petrol pumps might spread the virus. Not this again, it is so 2 months ago!