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

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Running ninja

So did my dad
Went to Spain by train in 1957 when I was 5
To the sleepy fishing village of San Sebastián lol
All the way from the north of England

Wales has gone
My son is a carer
He’s been tested today as he’s been in contact with a positive patient.
He’ll be fine
And if not we will deal with it
I’ve got a litre of home brewed colloidal silver on standby and will make more tomorrow

I actually do have a friend (a real one) who has been running a covid ICU for the last 3 months and she has not been told "prepare for a huge second wave". She said they have no idea what will happen over the next few months so they're just making sure they're ready to go in case hospitalisations do start to rise again.

Wishing chair
We’ve just had the second wave
There’ll be no third
Trust me 😁

I reckon ‘I despair’ is the new ‘stay the fuck at home’.

With the added bonus of being passive aggressive. So much more genteel.

I hope the children going back have a lovely day tomorrow. (I'm jealous of the opportunity and would gladly send my guinea pigs in )

My slim hope for my y4 and y2 is that all goes smoothly in the next few weeks and restrictions can be eased to give them some hope of time in school.

"I despair" is indeed the new "Stay the fuck at home"

I have also come to hate the fake "I don't understand" when the poster very clearly does understand; they just want to try and assert their (imagined) superiority.

On the subject of hated phrases...

I've just made a comment about the phrase "End of" on your thread Jourdain. I'd hoped that it had died a natural death, being, as it is, a pathetic attempt of the user's part to assert authority and finality.

I came across someone I know who is a teacher and who 'definitely' had Covid just after lockdown and 'definitely' got it at school. The fact that she takes two buses each way and was in the habit of regularly dropping into a local cafe to get some marking done before going home was irrelevant - only possibility is that she got the virus at school. She also goes, or rather went, to church and to a couple of exercise classes, but it can't have come from them, either.

No warnings of preparations for a second wave from my two doctor neighbours.

I hope it goes smoothly for the school-returners tomorrow. In fact, I hope it goes so smoothly that the schools are encouraged to bring in more children.

Lovely day today, played with the grand children while DS and DIL cooked a bbq. We played in the sandpit, it really does get everywhere lol. Then ate together, sat down just chatting. Grandson said he wanted me to come tomorrow again, bless him. Had roof down on car driving there got some funny looks from walkers think folk wanted us sealed in a bubble.

I so wish my children had the opportunity to return to school tomorrow (we're Scotland). So will wait out the next 10 weeks waiting for our part time education of 2 days per week.

In Wales we do not even discuss education the unions have stitched us up so it will be September we expect.

@Pootle40 it's really terrible. I've emailed the director of education here but no joy. At least I feel I've tried.

Also checking back in after a wee break, the dementors Dementing just got to me and I had to get my head straight again. Normal Hissyness will resume...

I just saw the depressed at lockdown ending thread. A lot of people distraught at going back to the rat race, which I do sympathise with, but I wonder if this is driving a lot of the dementoring?

I was despairing myself at the times article about reintroduction of swimming pools.

WTAF! Whoever came up with that pile of twaddle can’t possibly swim!

Hoping that someone in the FINA business will inject some common fucking sense!

@Mascotte I wrote to my MSP on Friday. Ridiculous blanket decision. I will swing for the next person that suggests it is 'blended learning'. Bollocks.

I think this depression happened after world war II it was recognised as such. We have been on such a merry go round of fear with our senses heightened that the future has become frightening, normal living just seems impossible.

www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/10584595/World-War-2-left-toxic-legacy-of-ill-health-and-depression.html

www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/REST_a_00353

What was on the swimming pools guidance?

I'd looooove to go swimming! But it will be a while 😕

@Mascotte and @Pootle40 my youngest is in p7 so he’s apparently going to get a high school visit this month at least. I’m worried as he has autism and it’s been hard enough getting him any support he’ll just be thrown under the bus now.

My MSP is Derek Mackay so no point wiring to him

@SudokuBook mine is p7 too. "Possibly" a day of transition I'm told. Then the "blended" pish. No further details. It's terrible. Our children are entitled to an education. Why aren't more people shouting about it? I think the dementors are winning.

I think the dementors are winning in education but as the weather worsens and furlough ends the tide will turn. Sadly it’ll be after our children have missed out on over a term’s worth of school. I think 6 months away is a huge loss at certain ages and once they return we can look forward to lots of hand wringing as the set backs couldn’t possibly have been predicted.

Don’t teachers remember what happened to the miners? It was the backdrop to my childhood and I wonder if in England they’re being given enough rope? Maybe I’m wrong but it seems a very short term game the unions are playing.

After reading about the swimming pool guidance I have to say I'm very glad it's never been my particular 'vice'

Arriving in your cossie? Having to go home in that same cossie, all wet and (possibly) thrush-inducing? Bleugh.

Still, I guess if you're a hardcore swimmer you'd find a way round it. Maybe something with a sturdy bikini, a skirt and that trick of removing your bra through one sleeve...

Scottish friends, I'm in Wales and share your despair. No one seems to be bothered about missing education. I would expect hundreds of angry posts on fb but no. Nothing.

Blended education sounds bonkers. We have nothing at all mentioned so mentally preparing mine to go back next year. Luckily DD off to high school in England as we're on the border so I reckon she might just be ok. But poor DS is 8 and sold down the river. He is aiming for graduate level fortnite by July......

@Weedsnseeds1 - true. Keeping the food chain going should be much more valued too. My comment should apply to all underpaid key workers who carried on bearing all the risk even when things were looking scary back there. They all deserve recognition, maybe via a tax rebate? I’d live to see that.