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

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14 day self isolation ended yesterday (DH had a cough). Shopping spree today - 3 supermarkets, 1 deli and 1 bakery, got lots of goodies (the Edinburgh Rhubarb and Ginger Gin is the one that really matters!)

Made a minor detour on the way home and see one of our local primary schools is open - bunting and lovely colourful welcome back sign. Made me quite emotional.

@Willow2017

Is it bad that I'm glad mine don't automatically treat all stupid adults as if they are God? Nope good for her i say. Adults are not always right and should be reminded of that.

Also many posters accuse the child of being rude even though she didn't say it to the woman's face and technically wasn't wrong.

Whilst being 10 x ruder about the children, about Jourdain, about Jourdain's husband and about both parent's parenting skills.

Khione
Yep but thats ok, because of, you know..CORONA WILL KILL US ALL.😲😲😲😲

Comprehension of the actual timeline of events was non-existant on there too. It always makes me laugh that they canmot read posts properly yet are so bloody up themselves as to being so much more superior in intelect and understanding of a situation than an op is. Glass houses and all that.
I haven't been back on i got too fecking angry at all the above😉

Some lovely dementoring going on at a poster who wants to be able to provide comfort to her partner that she doesn’t live with and who is about to be bereaved. Just not nice. At least someone did apologise though.

I agree @Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy. I am sticking to the rules but honestly I feel my family and I have done our bit to “protect the NHS” now.

That thread is awful isn't it? Apparently if i had a live in partner who also worked i could shag them silly as i am in a keyworker role and am risking life and limb for the good of others! so tjey can shop! So its ok if we were spreading the virus around (probably as i could die a martyrs death) but its not ok for anyone else who needs human contact!

What I found hilarious was that it immediately became an extended trip in a car to a Tesco (it was a short walk to pick up 3 bags of necessities in a large "local" supermarket, entire trip took around an hour, factoring in a 10 min walk at either end and a run around in the park for the kids on the way there). The kids were "running all over the place and playing with the food" (the girls were picking things up off the shelves and taking them to the trolley, and DS was holding DH's hand the whole time). And apparently they even bumped into a poster's trolley and injured her leg! And the woman was a "poor, terrified old lady" (she was actually according to DH probably in her 50s and didn't appear particularly terrified). Some people have a lot of imagination!!!

We got mildly demented today...
So the story goes like this:

I (volunteer) walk a dog for an elderly disabled person. DS comes with me. Near end of walk we go thru some playing fields where naturally NO PLAYING is now allowed. The playground is all taped off except there's a little kiddy roundabout outside the fenced playground area, because, you know, people didn't used to ever think FUN would be banned in 2020 so the kiddy RAB wouldn't actually need huge barriers around it.

Anyway, DS was messing about on the kiddy RAB as we waited for some elderly dog walkers to finish (S L O W L Y) walking down the narrow path that led to our destination. I turned to find a scowling lady hands on hips who had emerged from her home to glare at me & DS. How dare he use the playground equipment for its intended purpose!

I briefly gave her a baffled look in return & ignored. Good thing she didn't have my registration plate number or she'd be onto the police about my murderous child, no doubt.

sodukobook willow there is a serious lack of empathy on that thread isn't there. What a sad commentary on our society this all is.

So little one's school - they have covered the entire outside area of the school with 2m paint jails for the parents (sorry but that's what these fucking socially distancing lines are), about 5 signs in one set of steps down warning us to socially distance, black and yellow hazard tape on all the playground equipment just to remind the kids that there is bad shit going on, and then 4 signs outside which read (in caps, and comic sans to add insult to injury) "Covid 19 measures we are ONLY open for pupils of KEY WORKERS who are ON DUTY and DO NOT have anyone working at home or other viable alternative provision for our pupils. This is to help and protect FRONT LINE WORKERS WHO ARE SAVING LIVES. Provision is only for children who ABSOLUTELY NEED to attend. Please keep your children at home!!!! (My capitalisation is for the bits in capitals that are like 72 point font compared to 14 point for the rest of it in capitals. Number of exclamation marks is an exact copy - I photographed the sign because I am pissed off and intend to have it out at a later date with the woman)

A tad ridiculous?!

Looks like DD2 had a lovely day anyway (I know her teacher tends to ignore the most outlandish bits of the boss anyway), and DD1 is convinced she's going to be famous because her school had the keyworker kids recording poetry podcasts today (they have a big audio suite and TV green screen setup in the place - which has been brilliant for the staff to record messages for the kids in all of this at least).

I am soooo pissed off with the dementor head though - no fucking need for it!

Oh they even taught them some curriculum work! Not quite what I was expecting for them to actually do that either - added bonus.

BBC seems to be dementoring about the schools reopening on the live feed, including an emotional video from a mother who says the whole family and several children 'have it' but does not even say if tested or not.

Would have thought would have been a chance to say there that testing is available, but no, just an emotional video

I turned the news off in 30 seconds flat this morning when I saw the way the agenda was being pushed!

I'm confused as there is a lit about keeping the children 2m apart but I thought the guidance said they didn't expect this within the bubbles?

Lots on 'reminding the children to keep 2m apart' etc

@Orangeblossom78

I'm confused as there is a lit about keeping the children 2m apart but I thought the guidance said they didn't expect this within the bubbles?

Lots on 'reminding the children to keep 2m apart' etc

I can't remember the exact wording from when I read the guidance, but there was a comment along the lines of 'we understand young children will be impossible to socially distance and don't expect them to'

But that hasn't stopped our fucknugget infant head.

Dementoring continuing apace in Scotland: my already culled Facebook is full of that second wave we're all going to die because people have gone to the beach!!!! picture.

It's honestly as though they really want it.

I have honestly no idea why the BBC thinks the entire UK needs to hear the perspective of some random Karen-from-Derby? If they're having anyone on, it might just as well be me-from-Yorkshire saying I'm not remotely scared for my kids. Its not as if being a mum-of-five who thinks she had Corona magically confers relevannt expertise. The British media's obsession with 'human interest' really hasn't helped in all this.

I’ve just spoken to my mum, who, bless her, appears to have gone full-dementor She’s been cooped up indoors, shielding for 12 weeks and has always been a risk-averse pessimist, so perhaps it’s not surprising. I think my scepticism about a possible second wave comes from being constantly out and about in such a densely populated area, and seeing that despite large numbers of people congregating in close proximity (which has been happening here since the sun started shining weeks ago), the local infection rates are still falling. If all I was seeing pictures in the news coupled with doomy headlines, rather than seeing the reality for myself, I’d probably still be as terrified as I was back when this all started.

Anyway, it’s a good job my children can’t go back to school anyway as I’m certain she’d strongly disapprove! Speaking of school, for reasons known only to themselves, online work was set for one of children and not the other. As if that was going to get done! I’m having a hard enough time getting either of them to do it without such awful injustice.

Lurker here but needed somewhere to vent DD school has postponed opening for 2 weeks. She was so looking forward to going back. We aren’t in an area with a high rate of infection so their reasoning of waiting 2 weeks as the risk of infection will be half isn’t based on any serious thought process. I feel like our children are being used as political pawns.

I just checked and our email from school says in bold that they won't be expecting the children to keep 2m distance within the bubbles

Who knows if random mother's family could have had another bug? They even said 'symptoms of' rather than tested for. Not good BBC

Domina something about the idea of that unnecessary, hyperbolic sign being in comic sans tickled me. It’s like it’s the official font of school passive aggressive signs and that’s the ultimate example.

I think the belief that the government is actually trying to kill people is the end result of two muddled thought processes. Firstly the belief that the virus is utterly deadly, that almost everyone who catches it will die and that you almost certainly will catch it if you spend any more time outside your home than is absolutely necessary. Secondly an absolute and total burning hatred of the current government, which makes it impossible to accept that they might get something right even in a stopped clock way, and indeed anything the government do is actually intentionally evil. Put these two together and the sum is the government easing the lockdown can only be because they want to kill people.

@Orangeblossom78

I just checked and our email from school says in bold that they won't be expecting the children to keep 2m distance within the bubbles

Ours unfortunately is - I'm really opposed to how the head is handling it - but DD needs to be back in school for her mental health and her speech so I'm having to grit my teeth unfortunately.

I think the 2m thing will be getting scrapped sooner rather than later anyway to be honest so I'm kind of biding my time on that one.

My MIL started off very blasé about this, to the point where we got quite worried. She’s in her 70s and at the time had a suspected lung condition that would’ve been very nasty with covid and was still popping out to any shop that was open all the way into April just for something to do.

But for the past two months she’s stayed inside and now is really really scared, spends an hour disinfecting the shopping from Sainsburys deliveries, texts me routinely to report on suspicions of neighbours failing to social distance and doesn’t talk about much else. Turns out she doesn’t have suspected lung condition either thank God but she’s still about 300x more scared of covid than she was back when she ironically had a much higher chance of actually catching it. I am glad that lockdown has stopped her getting covid but I really don’t think it’s been good for her otherwise.

That's good, Orange. Ours is adopting some weird half way house of spacing them out in the classroom (where they will also eat lunch) but allowing them to bunch up at playtime. Not sure of the reasoning behind that but at least they are allowed to play!

Class WhatsApp chat reveals about 8 children (Inc key workers) out of 25 going back. But a fair few parents never write on there so hoping there'll be a few more, so that they don't end up in a mixed class "bubble". The other year 1 class are properly naughty!

@BarkandCheese it was the comic sans that pushed me over the edge and pissed me off completely! I could deal with the dementoring (at least that one's at adult eye level not infant level) but in fucking comic sans?! The apocalypse surely calls for something with some gravitas - why not just do it in that blue wibbly word art beloved of year 5 and be done with professionalism completely?!