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

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New thread!

I actually don’t hate lockdown. There’s loads of stuff I’m missing but also loads of stuff I’m not.
I still think we need to start getting back out there though, as a) I realise it’s not just about me, just because we’re not really struggling with our particular set of circumstances doesn’t mean many others aren’t, b) well... the economy and c) just because I like not having to rush everyone out of the door every morning at 8am, that isn’t a good enough reason to deny my children an education!

Frigging hell I made the mistake of opening the thread on the mothers considering legal action over the schools situation.

How utterly fucking vile MN posters can be. I can't be arsed to look after my kids apparently.

I suppose it could be that they are actually developing diagnosable anxiety? (the rational people dementoring) - it has all the signs, catastrophising, black and white thinking etc? Could all be needing course of CBT perhaps.

I wonder over some of the BBC writers as well!

There is a thing with medical students, lots of them develop health anxiety after studying diseases as well

There's one on there wanting to find an infected teacher to teach the women leading the campaign (which is just to curb the more lunatic social distancing measures some schools are introducing - against the guidance which specifically states the bubbles are because small children CANNOT reasonably be expected to socially distance)'s children so the kids get coronavirus. Even by the standards of MN I'm appalled.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito (best username evs) I am ignoring as much as I can! In life generally, I do or have done plenty of things that DM won’t because of her perception of risk - camping alone with my dog, riding horses, moving abroad alone with no place to live (I mean I was a student on the Erasmus programme so wouldn’t have been on a park bench but it was still pretty scary - my first flight as well!), run alone on country footpaths, drive on busy motorways, will get into any new car and drive it without worrying about it and so on. She can’t help feeling the way she does. And she does try very hard not to let her fears influence me, but she’s not terribly good at keeping them hidden...! This whole situation has played on all her worst fears (health anxiety is a big thing for her, has been for years) and it’s been really tough on her

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_students%27_disease

"medical students who study "frightening diseases" for the first time routinely experience vivid delusions of having contracted such diseases, and describes it as a "temporary kind of hypochondria". Baars says that the experience is so common that it has become known as "medical student syndrome".

"This phenomenon caused a significant amount of stress for students and was present in approximately 70 to 80 percent of students"

People who are usually rational and intelligent, with no previous anxiety

Great to hear about kids going back to school and happy to get back 💪💪💐

Junior Mole goes back on Monday. It's confirmed.

How utterly fucking vile MN posters can be. I can't be arsed to look after my kids apparently.

I opened that thread and very swiftly shut it down again. People are vile. It's packed full of horrible posts. Maybe don't go back to it.

A couple of posts on my Facebook this morning about how dreadful it is there are so many positive in our area - it's 0.38%! And we are quite high in comparison to the rest of the UK but 0.38%, honestly you would have thought the decimal point had moved a couple of digits to the right. I have refrained from commenting as clearly I shall die from our pizza picnic Friday night and I need to spend what little time I have planning funerals for my entire household.

Spudlet I missed your post. You ds is at far higher risk getting the car to school than actually attending. You are doing the right thing. Just keep remembering how other schools abroad have opened and no one has died as a result. And the posts on here about key worker's children being at school and there being no cases among teachers or children as a result (despite the fact some of the parents are actively working with the virus day in, day out). It's horrible when someone gets under your skin though. Things will feel easier when schools have been back a while.

I was in the car with DD earliest and they were talking about the schools going back on the radio. DD was grumbling that seeing as she was practically immune to the virus because of her age it wasn’t fair that she couldn’t go back. I then told her that there were no recorded cases of a child passing it on to an adult, she looked at me like this and asked “then why am I not back at school!” All I could say was I wished I could give her a simple answer to that.

@DominaShantotto

And another one who'd been posting again and again that it was too early to send the kids back to school on FB has now just replied to my comment that mine are back today with a "glad it's not just mine going in"

Considering it was literally death when I stuck them on a 30 day snooze a couple of weeks ago - funny how people change.

Could just be time and more information.

I was still worried few weeks ago though I wasn't telling ayone else what to do.

I have asthma, one child with asthma and another with possible and our area had been a hot spot.

Now we have a very low infection rate it looks like asthma isn't a high risk underlying condition and I've not heard as much about long term affects in lungs or other issues though it's possible that's still a risk. It's also looking likely it's been here longer in fact months before we knew and outcomes in even serious cases have been improved.

It is hopeful that as more and more chidlren go back and things edge closer to normal that perhaps there'll be fewer dementors around.

I saw that thread and swiftly closed it too. Ffs, these mothers are, like all of us, trying to do the best for their children.

Pretty sure it was in yes Minister where Sir Humphry would keep calling a policy brave or the Minister brave to do it to make the minster doubt it and not do it.

My Mum tried it with MMR - I did really ? and changed the subject - we'd looked at the evidence and made the decision already. Took them to get it done and it was never mentioned again.

[https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN2370OQ?__twitter_impression=true Two senior Italian doctors say that CV has weakened]]

Oh FFS, carked up link. Trying again:

Two senior Italian doctors say the Coronavirus has weakened

I saw that one about the doctors in Italy, interesting. I hope so.

Wales - Drakeford schools are fooked for the foreseeable future he will look at it in three weeks again he says. Last week he said the education secretary would be making an announcement. My brain hurts.

Wales - we maybe are not getting a vote next year, hmmm what a surprise. He is talking about second waves, third waves, etc. and the risks of voting.

We use postal ballots.

Could we not all switch to that as a one off- quarantine the post if necessary and space out the counters 2 m apart, get more post men and sorters if needed rather than lose an election?

I would politely decline a bbq where I had to bring my own food, condiments. And think dementors.

Nicola is on full on dementor but why I have no idea when all figures and signs are positive; the number of positive cases is only going up very slowly just 18 new cases yesterday in Scotland obviously number of cases and deaths altogether will never go down. The 7 day rolling average is going down
The number in hospital ( 1046) is down, there are 27 people in ICU due to Covid in the whole of Scotland so less than 3% of those in hospital are in ICU

Hi all!

Firstly, @Weedsnseeds1, @Shodan, @Willow2017 thank you for sticking up for me on the shopping thread of doom. I really appreciate it! I was trying to not react, but I was getting a little fed up with it. So maybe the supermarket trip wasn't the best idea, but I still don't think it was crime of the century. Someone else posted there this morning and said HER daughter would never speak to an adult like that. Good for her daughter. Is it bad that I'm glad mine don't automatically treat all stupid adults as if they are God?

Currently at the hospital, waiting to get the all-clear for this week's poisoning 👍

All three kids went happily off to school this morning. DD1 loves learning, so I hope they manage to give her plenty of work (she's in one of the key worker bubbles but her best friend is in the same bubble). DD2 a little less enthusiastic, because she doesn't really like the sitting down and doing work aspect of school (only the socialising ) and said she'd rather go back to ballet than to school. She then started fretting, "I'm losing all my skills!" DH told her that she's not Cristiano Ronaldo 😂 DS is just over the moon that he's going to get to play with some boys in his Reception bubble.

DH is convinced that the bubbles are a sop to the freaked-out parents and teachers and that come September, they will have quietly vanished...

Hope everyone's doing okay today!