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

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Drivingdownthe101 · 30/05/2020 09:25

New thread!

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Jaxhog · 30/05/2020 12:38

And you can't spread Corona unless you've got it. And everyone is eligible for a test now.. and the track and trace is up and running.

Yes, you can - anyone can spread it. Yes, you're right, but only people with symptoms are going to think to get tested. And no it isn't - and it's only useful if enough people actually download it - which they haven't.

So while it's great that many people can now meet up, please don't forget that some us still can't. We will still be at risk if you don't continue to follow the distancing and hand washing rules.

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 12:39

I have heard of someone who only let their cleaner in after they made them spray some nose stuff up their nostrils

Weedsnseeds1 · 30/05/2020 12:42

How can anyone spread it if they aren't contagious?

justasking111 · 30/05/2020 12:43

Happy to have family round they are more dementorish than me. Friends they can wait.

Mascotte · 30/05/2020 12:44

I'm worried though.. am I allowed to bring something other than coleslaw?

Weedsnseeds1 · 30/05/2020 12:48

Only death, fear and coleslaw permitted at the moment Mascotte

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Drivingdownthe101 · 30/05/2020 12:48

No Mascotte. Only coleslaw may be consumed at covid parties.

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Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 30/05/2020 12:48

My favourite dementoring is wales’ first minister telling us that allowing us to have people in the garden was not an excuse to drink beer in case we all forgot ourselves. Reminded me I needed to stick some bottles in the fridge. I’ll be back to report if an orgy ensues!

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 30/05/2020 12:50

To be fair, coleslaw and sunshine can be a lethal combination but CV aren’t the bugs I’d worry about!

BarkandCheese · 30/05/2020 12:51

I hate coleslaw so no chance of me catching anything off that. We’re taking homemade banoffee cheesecake to my Dad’s house, as it’s got digestives, butter, double cream, full fat cream cheese, sugar and carnation caramel in it, it’s probably going to kill you from calorie overload long before the ‘rona gets you.

highmarkingsnowbile · 30/05/2020 12:53

Another friend has revealed herself to be a bloody Dementor.

thenightsky · 30/05/2020 12:55

Checking in. My neighbours with children all went to the seaside together yesterday. The DC looked tanned and happy when they got back.

bakingcupcakes · 30/05/2020 12:55

I'm so cross that DS's school isn't re-opening and I feel irrationally jealous of those who live in areas where they are.

I was feeling quite good this morning until I had a dementory conversation with my mother mainly quoting the bbc and how the lockdown lifting is too early. I've tried to encourage a friend and her daughter to come and hang out in my garden but she's gone full dementor as well. I'm really surprised as she's always been so normal.

We have another day of nothing today. I've filled the paddling pool, cleaned and I'm going to put petrol in the car later. First time I've filled up since march. Hope I remember what to do.

ThatLibraryMiss · 30/05/2020 13:00

A YouGov poll for Sunday Times, found the BBC website was second most valued source of information (42 per cent) after ‘television or radio’ (54 per cent).

I am very cynical about surveys. I want to know what the figures were like before the lockdown, what questions were asked and the breakdown by age and class of the people they surveyed – not just the ST’s readership, I hope.

Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy · 30/05/2020 13:00

I’m so fed up of the argument that it’s a choice between keeping us all in and grandparents dying. The one that goes, yes your children are missing out on their childhood and education but at least they’ll have their grandparents. Firstly, most grandparents will recover if they catch it, secondly my parents are adults and can choose to isolate as much as they wish if they’re worried, thirdly there are now people dying from other diseases that might have been prevented without lockdown and finally, at some point my parents will die of something and it’s likely that will happen before I or my daughter die. I was brought up to believe the worst thing is to lose a child and that, whilst devastating, you enjoyed your grandparents while you can as they won’t be around forever. I adore my parents and am happy to keep away if they want me to but I don’t accept we should stop living for all these just in cases.

ilovecardigans · 30/05/2020 13:01

why are NHS staff writing scare mongering articles in newspapers? Some of this stuff is borderline fake news.

Aye @heroku. And the writer is always anonymous and working in an unnamed hospital/hospitals in an unnamed area. Funny that...

Boils my wee wee.

SomewhereEast · 30/05/2020 13:02

Re temperature checks in schools. I'm clueless about such things, but are they using thermometers? In which case they'd better have a separate one for each child surely?

Institutkarite · 30/05/2020 13:04

Good God, Wales has gone I didn't listen to Drakeford's waffling, that is an outrageous thing to say. It's absolutely clear from that one remark that this enforced imprisonment of Welsh people is fuckall to do with keeping them safe. It's full on total control.

Pinkflipflop85 · 30/05/2020 13:05

I am so angry again today.

Just read an article from the health board for our county. 7 teenagers have tried to commit suicide in the last 10 weeks as a direct result of lockdown. Sadly, 3 of them died.

But still the dementors give zero fucks about mental health or anything that isnt fucking coronavirus.

Shodan · 30/05/2020 13:05

A bit behind but...

*'You could have routes of travel so people go round one way to the barbecue,' she said.

'I think you could make it quite good fun, almost like an obstacle course or game.* From that Daily Wail article.

Wear Lycra and remember to limber up before you come to my bbq.

All this before you get a sniff at the coleslaw Grin
ilovecardigans · 30/05/2020 13:06

@Mascotte - potato salad made with lashings of mayo, jersey royals & finely chopped spring onion. Heaven!

KaronAVyrus · 30/05/2020 13:12

Just checking in my fellow dangerous buffoons

Can I swap potato salad for coleslaw when I go on another murdering spree?

Pinkflipflop85 · 30/05/2020 13:12

Have also had to mute a local facebook page again because some cunt has started a post on how to prepare for the second wave that is soon to arrive....

Orangeblossom78 · 30/05/2020 13:15

I am finding the Times much more positive and humorous recently but have stopped posting links as a PP pointed out they are behind a paywall

DM Guardian and BBC however also sound funny in a strange mad kind of way Confused not sure I can take them much longer though

Pinkflipflop85 · 30/05/2020 13:15

Going back a bit to the teachers who have died....

I was reading yesterday that in the ONS data, the last recorded profession is used. So, if a 90 year old retired teacher has died with covid, they are recorded as a teacher.

Now, any death is tragic but the unions need to be realistic. How many of these teachers who have died have actually been teaching in the last few months, or even years?