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

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I have two friends shielding who have never gone out of their bubble.
I seriously don’t think they will be out today or tomorrow either for that matter.
Both intelligent women but both really fearful for what is out there.
I am the oldest by 8 years but I’ve still lived my life throughout this debacle.i think had I stayed in like them , after 12 weeks I don’t think I’d have gotten behind the wheel of my car again.
I’ve had a couple of health concerns while this has been going on but none Covid related.
Still gone out on days I felt like going out.
I honestly think if I stayed in for three days, I’d get into a rut and not want to bother again.

Right , time to get sorted and on it and not let another day pass that’s filled with not much in the way of achievements.
Have a good day everyone

@Jourdain11 I’m so angry at that stupid woman making your poor wee DD feel like that. What in the actual fuck is this doing to our kids?

Me and DS were sitting on the steps at our train station yesterday so he could watch the trains coming and the cars in the car park (he’s only 2). We weren’t blocking the way, the steps lead to the closed ticket office. A woman stopped to ask us what we were doing and I smiled and said just killing time. She proper eyeballed us and said ‘at the train station?’ And I said yes, then started talking to DS. Fuck off dementors.

@Weedsnseeds1

Just tell your daughter the woman was a silly old bat and not to worry about it Jourdain

DD2 says that if she can't say "old bat" she's going to say "blithering buffoon" (actually she said "slithering buffoon" but I figure that's what she meant). Apparently this is another of Grandpa's favourite descriptions. Grandpa is ex-Navy and ex-Police and DH says that judging by what he's hearing, he's actually toned it down over the years

Noticed a dementor celebrating "the death of the handshake" and that we will never hug anyone outside of our immediate families again.

That's just bollocks, though.

Look at history. Awful disease after awful disease. Some coming in pandemic waves, some just lurking around in the population and popping up from time to time. Loads of them nastier than covid. Thousands of years of this.

And how many of them killed off hugs and handshakes and social contact? Zero.

1918 influenza killed millions all over the world. Came back for about three rounds. No real effective treatments for it, no hope of a vaccine. Absolutely devastating for so many people. And did people get to the 1920s and think "oh well now that's gone, we just won't be able to get close to each other any more, very sad but that's life now"? No, they had jazz parties and invented the Charleston.

Humans need social contact. It is depressing and weird to see people treat it like some luxury frivolity that we don't deserve ever again, and they're talking bollocks.

Dowser, I think we are of the same generation, although I am probably older. My childhood was great, we just accepted that life was fragile: disappearing for the day on your bike, fishing in the canal; the polio epidemic when a workman, who had been doing something in our house, was struck down with it days later. The Kennedy assassination when we all wondered if we would still be there at the beginning of the following week. And do you remember the film about nuclear war? The Doomsday Clock? Pneumonia was called the old people's friend. I am quite pragmatic about Covid19, I am 72 and overweight, but I would happily give my life for my children and grandchildren, I am fed up of being told we must save the old people. Has anyone ever asked them? Obviously I want to live, but I am fed up with being used as an excuse by dementors.

I honestly wouldn’t be terribly sad if we stopped shaking hands. I’ve always found it rather awkward, worrying about being too limp or firm or if my hand is sweaty or if their hand is sweaty wanting to wipe my hand after but not wanting to look rude. Hugging of course is a different matter, but I don’t think humans will ever stop doing that.

Ooh I live in hope that we recreate something similar to the roaring twenties after this shit show.

I love that. Really shit times should create really good times. Celebrate it being over.
Not living a miserable life forever more because it happened.

The one positive I am taking from the social distancing thing is that people now actually get out of your way on pavements. Being small and female I used to be one of those people constantly ducking and diving around others who bulldoze down the middle of the street. Now I'm the most bulldozery one and it feels great!

Completely agree with you @GoldenOmber
I'm involved in UK choirs to a small degree and some idiot stated as fact, that there'll be no more choirs in the world ever. Honestly what a total tit.
Also if one more person writes 'Stay safe' on an email I'll scream. I'm perfectly safe thank you. It's as annoying to me as people who tell me to 'have a safe flight' - implying there's something inherently unsafe about flying when there's feck all I can do about it! ! I fly a lot (well used to) and it bugs me so much. I realise I'm in the minority with this one though, as ALL my family and friends say it to me!
Anyway I digress.
Effing dementor friends on SM are getting on my last nerve today. Posting alarmist and completely incorrect 'facts' about it all.
I'm praying that school return works well, predominantly so they it paves the way for September, but also to prove all this morons wrong.

*these

Another local news story. Boy falls off jetty in Burnham. Dad jumps in, but can't swim. Passer buy jumps in and fishes them both out.
Dad and passer by shake hands. All ends happily.
First comment "this is why people shouldn't be out and about, everyone's being put in danger"
FFS!! Tourists (and locals) routinely fall in, get stuck in the mud, float out to sea on a lilo. Yes, they should read the signage. Yes they could use common sense. But it happens all the time, It is sod all to do with coronavirus!!!

Look at history. Awful disease after awful disease. Some coming in pandemic waves, some just lurking around in the population and popping up from time to time. Loads of them nastier than covid. Thousands of years of this.

Absolutely this. Coronavirus barely registers against the horrors some generations have lived through. I don't think it's a nice virus and it's tragic it's killed some but it's nothing compared to other pandemics. The women who used to lose multiple children - that was just normal life for most of human history and they still went on and had sex and hugged and shook hands and kissed their children. I think we're going to be in for a shock if antibiotic resistance presents us with severe problems in the next 50 years. That will dwarf this virus. Not to be all doom-mongering! (sorry ) Life is about risk and death is a part of life. Some people are treating this situation as if no one ever died before this came along. How much were people thinking about malaria deaths or were terrified of leaving the house in bad flu years and accusing others of murder for sitting on a beach? No one, that's who.

And the hugging thing - when I saw my psychologist a couple of weeks ago it broke my heart. He's a lovely gentle human being who is helping me with some horrible trauma and I know he genuinely cares about me. He said he just wanted to give me a hug but couldn't and the difference that would have made to me.... I am finding this all very traumatic and I couldn't have something so basic from him. It's the simplest things that make a huge difference sometimes. I am sinking without basic physical contact.

Being small and female I used to be one of those people constantly ducking and diving around others who bulldoze down the middle of the street

That's good. I was on a path that was at least 2 metres wide yesterday and a young, fit looking couple climbed high up onto the bank to sit far away from me as I walked past. They looked in danger of scraping themselves on the tree roots or brambles that covered it and I just passed them thinking WTF?! That was the most bonkers behaviour so far - I've passed so many older walkers who just take one step further away from me and who are sensible.

I have just been reading (via a negative BBC article) about now many people may have no symptoms at all. It is all about these people being super spreaders and the risks of them (of course) but thought I'd are as I would this quite good to know

"..An even greater proportion of asymptomatic cases was found on the Diamond Princess cruise ship which had been sailing off the coast of Japan earlier this year. Later branded "a petri dish for infection", it had around 700 cases.
Researchers found that three quarters of the people who had tested positive had no symptoms.
And at a care home in Washington state more than half the residents were positive but had no sign of the illness.

...Different studies suggest a huge range of possibilities for how many cases are asymptomatic stretching from 5% to 80% of cases. That was the conclusion of an analysis by Prof Carl Heneghan of the University of Oxford and colleagues who looked at 21 research projects."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52840763

My local paper is saying that they are putting up signs to warm drivers of people stepping off the road to keep distance. that is a worry, that that is being seen as normal and OK

That's good. I was on a path that was at least 2 metres wide yesterday and a young, fit looking couple climbed high up onto the bank to sit far away from me as I walked past.

That is crazy. I think some people are afraid that others might be dementors though. At the beginning I was jumping into the road to avoid people as I was worried they'd tell me off. Then I heard a scientist say it was almost impossible to catch it by walking past someone so I've stopped caring. I'm waiting for someone to shout "2 METRES!!" at me so I can tell them how ridiculous they're being.

A return to fun times sounds like a plan. We have one life and I intend to live it!

I think some people are afraid that others might be dementors though

That's me, I'm afraid. I'd happily plough on through, but I am not sure how they feel. So I wide berth.

I wish they’d change the guidance for walkers. The roads are far more lethal than a virus for most people. Just walk past calmly makes sense, but distance more if you want a prolonged chat

Grandpas do have loose mouths, if I put up here what mine used to say I would get banned. OH a grandpa tends to be forthright I cringe sometimes, but he would defend the grand kids to the death and is dying to take them out in the boat next week and bleep the dementors.

Interesting that BBC is starting more positive recovery stories such as this today on someone at risk recovering OK - on the same day the shielded are being let out.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-52808094

Afternoon all. I don't want to brag but I've just taken on a dementor to the point where she has deleted her FB post. Apparently it's not fair how people are enjoying being at the beach etc when she "is still working and not claiming, (I shit you not that was her exact word ), furlough at the taxpayers expense"' I very forcefully told her that I wasn't "claiming furlough" as not being at work wasn't my choice and I was being taxed on what I was getting anyway.

@trappedsincesundaymorn good for you. I hate all this bitterness and resentment. I've been working my arse off these last 3 months (I'm still in front of my computer today) but I'm just happy to have a decent job that pays my bills. Plenty of people "living it up" on furlough are going to bed worried about whether they'll have a job come September.

I was pondering, as I was wrestling huge dandelions out of the brown and arid wasteland that is currently my back garden, (and apologies, this is apropos of nothing in the immediate previous posts) about the mindset of dementors.

They are so vitriolic, some of them, in their posting style, that I can't believe that they are as altruistic as they're trying to make themselves out to be.

Which leads me to believe that they are as selfish as they claim others to be.

How can you swear, shout, shriek and threaten unpleasant consequences on other people and still claim you're doing 'it' for all the vulnerable?

It doesn't equate, to me.

There is a lot of trolling masquarding as virtue signalling.

A couple of days ago, one poster was being particularly dementory, and a few topics later on a totally unconnected subject they were being very obtuse and contrary again.

I've never understood trolls who get offon virulently being contrary for the sake of it.