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

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I was just reading about Waterstone's. Apparently when they reopen, if a customer touches a book and doesn't buy, that book is going to be put aside for 24 hours just in case

I think “rules” like this one are to preempt dementor whattaboutery and will be quietly dropped after a week or so.

I’m so pleased for (and slightly envious of) all of you with children going back to school today. Yesterday at my dad’s house we were discussing what we currently missed do most, DD said going to school. I feel like nobody’s cares about the non exam years secondary children, they might not be tots but they’re still children and they need the company of their peer group.

The irony od NS saying they are being more cautious by not letting the shielded out at all but letting others see up to 8 (here it is 6)

It is madness @Mascotte as is social distancing in school. Why is no one asking why it’s OK to treat kids like lepers for a virus probably none of them have?

Ds does back tomorrow, as the MAT are having an inset day today.

He is so excited. Up until now he has been counting down the days. Now he is counting the hours! He has been into his wardrobe and laid all of his uniform out ready and has told me what I need to get ready for him (fruit, drink and suncream).

Meanwhile I am so excited I might burst.....we are off to see my mum and dad today and he doesnt know!

I think you’re right, Bark. That book thing sounds perfectly feasible, it’s just going to mean a load more staff time spent reshelving and is probably pointless in terms of infection control. But if it reassures customers and thus makes them more likely to go back in the shop it might make business sense.
I can’t wait to get back in a bookshop!

My children are safely in school. A slight objection first thing from my oldest, but that’s par for the course.

There were cones on the playground for them to stand next to to measure out distancing. Oldest son takes one look at them and says ‘oh come on’. I felt much the same. Then he saw his mates and ran over.

I believe the collective noun is a flock Shodan
Here is footage of 1 person in a deckchair who has breached the defensive barriers around the beach lawns (you need to zoom in).
I sent the photos to a friend yesterday, who responded "I suppose it could be worse, but it's not GREAT is it?"

I sent the photos to a friend yesterday, who responded "I suppose it could be worse, but it's not GREAT is it?" Full on Dementor then.

@Weedsnseeds1 to the Dementor. Lovely picture though.

Good thoughts and times go with those sending their children to school today. Ours is having a governor's meeting today but I have a horrible feeling that all are governors are full on Dementors. Also, if Boris Johnson said that water was wet, they would argue what if it identifies as arid? So I am not hopeful.

Poor DD2 cries for school every day and I am just a lowly SAHM so definitely not a key worker and neither is DH so we can't ask school to take her and it is frustrating.

My dentist just rang to reschedule my appointment next week to October. Feel quite sad as I actually enjoy going

I think “rules” like this one are to preempt dementor whattaboutery and will be quietly dropped after a week or so.

I'm almost certain this is the case. I'm currently looking to buy a house and every time I book a viewing they give a whole speech about how we have to bring our own mask, gloves and anti-bac. I bring it all with me every time and not a single EA has asked me to put it on.

It's all for show to make it look like they're following the rules.

I'm so fucked off with "we can't release lockdown yet we can't go back to normal"

We're not even close to bloody normal. The release has been minor.

We aren't allowed to get close to people. Shops won't be "normal" when they re open. Most children still aren't in school.

How on earth does anyone think this is normal or even close to it?!

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I'm so fucked off with "we can't release lockdown yet we can't go back to normal"

We're not even close to bloody normal. The release has been minor.

We aren't allowed to get close to people. Shops won't be "normal" when they re open. Most children still aren't in school.

How on earth does anyone think this is normal or even close to it?!

I’m trying to argue the same thing on the same thread but it’s like they just stick their fingers in their ears and say ‘wah wah wah it’s all going back to normal and we don’t want it toooooooo’

Classic dementoring on the news last night. A busy beach in Bournemouth. As the camera pans around, it's clear that up close, nobody is sitting close to another group. But from ten metres away it looks as if they're all on top of each other.

Cue familiar cries of 'second spike'.

Also seeing a lot of "I'm not sure about sending my kids in, I'll see how it goes with the ones that are going in first" from the same people saying they dont want kids to be treated like Guinea pigs. Is that not what they are doing? Slow clap.

I hope these ridiculous theoretical rules will swiftly be deemed unworkable and binned sharpish.

I was thinking of all of the second spike triggers, if memory serves it goes:

Cheltenham
Stereophonics concert
Mothers Day
A warm weekend
A Bank Holiday Weekend
Another warm weekend
Easter
More warm weather
VE Day
Takeaway Starbucks
Two forms of exercise
Meeting one other household outdoors.

Deep breath and drumroll........

AM I MISSING SOMETHING?

But people are sitting on beaches, TrustTheGeneGenie! SITTING on BEACHES! This means lockdown is over, don’t you know.

Half my FB feed has gone full-on dooooooom this morning. Comparing English schools reopening to sending 4-year-olds over the top in the First World War.

It totally undermines any reasonable concerns that people do have as well - “bit concerned that the government’s changing too many things at once and it’ll be hard to monitor the effects” as I’ve heard some people say sounds sensible enough, but “oh God I can’t watch they truly do want us dead”, wtf.

Sorry I forgot garden centres. Four thousand innocent lives mown down by Arthur getting in his lobelias.

I'm off to have a socially distancing picnic in a bit, and we're all whatsapping about it. "Oh, its like being normal". No, it really isn't - we're all bringing our own picnics which we won't share, and we'll all be sitting a considerable distance from each other on our own rugs/chairs...

@MaudesMum sucks the joy doesn't it? We are going to a bbq later and have to take own food including condiments ffs.

GoldenOmber there are so many that Somerset Live had to use photos of last year's people flocking to beaches to illustrate the full horror.
To be fair it did state in small writing that it was a photo of last year, but certainly not what the headline implied!

To be fair MorrisZapp - there do seem to have been hotspots around Cheltenham in the period after the races, according to a Radio 4 programme I was part-listening to yesterday. But I think I'd argue that cramming thousands of people together at a period when the pandemic was gathering pace is more of a risk than opening Starbucks or visiting a Garden Centre at this point in time...

Well, the email has arrived. All seems fairly reasonable. They’ve set up a one-way system for drop-offs and will be wiping all their lunchboxes and things down, they’re doing bubbles, and they advise a bath or shower and a change of clothes when they get home. Those seem to be the major points for preschool children. And you have to agree not to send them in if any gets Covid symptoms, which hardly seems unfair...!

So, as long as DH agrees (can’t see that he won’t) I think we are go for Wednesday (he only does two days a week anyway). Awesome!

@heroku

Exactly Domina - I can't understand why people can't see this coming.

I was chatting to a lecturer friend the other day who said "well some students who are very anxious and introverted are much preferring remote learning from home". So it's a good idea for someone who is anxious and introverted to spend months alone indoors? How are they going to cope going back to uni? How are they going to get a job? All this isolation will make people like that ten times worse.

The online learning bit is brilliant for me - but I'm a mature student with kids, and paying £200 a month plus train station parking to fight to get on a train to the city my uni is at (my course is rather niche and not offered anywhere more local) is a pain in the arse, plus the bunch of 18 year olds at the back who want to talk about their sex lives all the way through lectures... so hell yeah - bring it on if I can bang out my day's lectures being watched online when the kids have gone to bed, and just log on for the interactive stuff.

But if I was an introverted 18 year old, away at uni for the first time and expected to just sit in my bedroom watching recorded lectures online like my uni seems to be planning on having as the model next year for the whole year (no mass lectures, only small group stuff face-to-face) it would be a nightmare for mental health and wellbeing. I know my husband would have just disengaged from the world and videogamed completely.

Even with me preferring remote learning and being twice the age of most of the course - I still can't imagine doing it without having already got to know these people on my course in person so we can chat on in our FB chat the way we do.