The Anti Dementors, danger-buffooning their way through life!

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Report in the local paper yesterday. Looks like the Weston spike of certain death has been traced back to one of the staff residential blocks in the grounds.
It has therefore been reluctantly concluded that the Brummies didn't do it (THIS TIME), but the locals are still clinging to the hope that every care home in a 50 mile radius will have been wiped out by infected nurses.
One of the largest care homes in Weston has completed testing all residents and staff, with zero positive results.

I successfully un-scared my sil last night. She's been having a really hard time with her reception aged ds and has been absolutely racked with guilt about sending him back in case he passes the virus to his teachers. I sent her the Sydney Morning Herald article that a pp put on here. Made her feel much better.

To be fair making sure your cupboards are well stocked at the moment isn't really panic buying. It is just finding that right balance.

Much FB excitement that the SW now has the highest R rate in the country. Yes, they're all in Weston Hospital) and the hospital run by the same trust in Bristol, where patient to patient / staff to patient rates are also creeping up).

Going to have to do some more muting - people on FB raging that the county council staff who can wfh will be continuing to do so but teachers and other childcare workers will have to go back to work. Thread elsewhere where OP told school she wouldn’t be sending her kids back, has now changed her mind and is outraged the school can’t magic up space for them with two days notice. Wtf?

In happier news we had a lovely afternoon with friends in their garden, fantastic to see DS actually playing with another child! And his childminder has said she will be open in the holidays (without being too outing she has a largely outdoor setting and separate toilet) so he can go there. Which means he will have fun and I can get some work done. Hallelujah!

Yes and the SW also has the lowest figures overall and never really had a peak...have been keeping an eye on Bath's numbers which are three times as low per head of pop than family in Scotland. About 200 cases out of 180,000 (been around) that since start of lockdown

Can I ask something. I don't understand why some people keep trying to engage with dementors or asking their opinions on stuff?

Maybe better to ask here or discuss here instead as they will just remain batty and give extreme opinions. It is still funny to hear about their antics though

Bristol has been low also overall

@TheGreatWave

To be fair making sure your cupboards are well stocked at the moment isn't really panic buying. It is just finding that right balance.

Exactly. I am trying to make sure we have at least 2 weeks food in (esp as dd returns to nursery) in case we need to self isolate again (as any fever in her will result in 14 days for the rest of us and she's still at the age of catching everything). Was a bit of a Brexit prepper and it's carried on

Just make sure you don't take any children with you when you go shopping...!

Aaargh, it's the local pharmacist who's full on dementor on the pages. I'm struggling not to engage, but know it's pointless really.

There's such a variety of approaches in the few stores that open that I go to. Some laid back, some full on straitjacket and perspex.

I've never had so much food in the house. But that's because I'm used to getting an Asda delivery once a fortnight and topping up fresh stuff from the local small supermarket. Stock reliability is still iffy there and I can't be bothered to queue so minimising going there, which means I've upped the deliveries to once a week, which results in full cupboards! Feels very strange but actually my kitchen probably looks more 'normal' than it did before, it was very bare looking most of the time, and it's not unusual for my fridge to only have milk and condiments usually!

I realised early that it was very much dammed if you do, dammed if you don't with shopping. Get online supermarket deliveries - take slots away from vulnerable people. Go to the shops yourself - spread disease and kill vulnerable people. Seemed like the only virtuous option was pay through the nose for deliveries from local independent places. Well, I can't afford that!

I need to mute someone on FB who is convinced that because her child is an only child and therefore needs to go back to school for socialisation purposes (but was careful to ask people not to judge her for that choice) that the rest of us need to follow some bizarre set of made up self isolation rules. Including only going to the supermarket every 2 weeks.

@DominaShantotto, hello from another Durham grad! It’s where I met DH, when we were both students and although it was more than half our life ago now we still have a huge attraction to the place. Dd1 did say yesterday that if we started down memory lane she was going home. As she can’t drive yet that may have been tricky!

It was really odd walking back through a deserted city, even a little one. I haven’t been in a town centre since this started and it just feels so odd.

‘Can I ask something. I don't understand why some people keep trying to engage with dementors or asking their opinions on stuff? ‘

Sometimes their bullshit is so egregious I just can’t let it go!

And Twitter handwringing about beaches. Sure, I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near Brighton yesterday.

But the ‘they’re all so young, it’s awful...’ with the premise being that all those young people are absolutely, definitely going to die of the virus in 2 weeks.

There was one positive test in my area reported yesterday. And yet I shopped in a nearly empty supermarket and waited to be allowed one at a time in to the farm shop where the cashier was behind something that looked like a bullet proof screen. And dd and I took a plant to friends who have lost their mum/wife this week and left it on the doorstep because we can't hug them or go in the house. This is really shit.

This thread is so helpful for me. I feel so in the minority and suffocated here in wales. Though yesterday I drove to England and then onto my sisters house where we caught up f2f on her front garden. Then went off to the beach with DC for a bit. It was very nice.

My fb feed is full of dementors thanking god for saving them with the saint of Mark Drakeford. Yes cos keeping DS at home in yr 3 is so good for his mental health. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

No word on when/if schools will reopen at all. Let's just through this generation under a bus. Wales is fucked. We're lucky. I can wfh and DH's business is uk wide. But so many can't do this.

How just how can the country get back to work if schools don't reopen to all in full? How?!!

The welsh position seems to be they are yet to decide if schools will open in sept (with a 'preparation' week every 3 weeks (WTF?) or have a partial reopening in June. Either 20th or 27th June. Schools have been told they will get 2-3 weeks notice to reopen.

I just don't know what to do to help. Write to my MP? Do you think ministers genuinely don't think about families anguish? How will people go back to work to feed families?

Sorry, I'm just so envious of schools opening in England. Breaks my heart for mine.

Countess
Do tell us more about your medieval group please

With food, it is less the availability and just the pure hassle of going to a shop and getting anything. I ended up at the little Tesco yesterday and had to stick it out as I needed bread and paracetamol for mil. Waited outside for ages, then the whole confusing one way system, which I had to repeat as I forgot something. Just too much effort

I'm not trying to be an annoying Pollyanna type, and I get that this has different challenges for everyone. But I'm trying to focus on some of the positives of lockdown.

The plastic screens, for example - sure, it feels weird now, but I guess they are here to stay and it'll probably actually be quite nice for shop staff to be able to serve without having people coughing all over them in the flu season!

Activities: my DDs are both missing their ballet but actually, I don't think they actually needed to be doing the number of activities they were doing! Perhaps in the future we'll scale back and all have a slightly more stress-free life...

I've realised that, although it can be stressful, I really enjoy (and miss) my job.

My DC can actually play with each other nicely - they never "didn't get on" but DD1 and 2 (who are only 16 months apart in age) don't have many interests and friends in common and don't tend to play together. It's nice now to see that they are much more content to make do with each other's company

I am writing some long detailed answers to dementors - and then deleting rather than sending.
They are determined to stick to their dementing. Continuing to insist that Covid is the only risk and they are not doing anything until that risk is zero or continuing (which is worse in my view) that we can only do exactly what the government say and follow THE RULES, (like the 7 people instead of 6 idiocy) as if the CV19 follows arbitrary rules from governments.

If the OP has a genuine (to them) worry I will answer that with an opinion but not engage with anyone else.

I did enjoy the thread about random lockdown purchases though

@MrsArchchancellorRidcully I’ve written to the health minister, education minister and all of my 5 AMs. Only one has bothered to reply. He was supportive and has gained a voter. I think if my daughter asks what I did to try and help her I can at least show her I tried.

Just asking
I remember the bay of pigs , nuclear threat incident and the Russians Invasion of Afghanistan
No wonder I don’t listen to the news
When I first met my lovely russian osteopath 7 years ago in Tenerife, I said we were taught to be afraid of you

Nooo, he said we are lovely people. He is.

But yes, born not long after the war ended , I always felt there was some sort of threat looming.
I feel sorry for children exposed to all of this today, there’s no escape for them