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

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Dammit @MorrisZapp those bikinis would have done me but I’m in Glasgow though to be fair I was in my swimsuit with DS in the paddling pool yesterday and I think one pieces are the way to go right now. The neighbours are probably traumatised enough without seeing my envelope of stripy 2.5 year old baby weight.

Taps aff!

Good morning fellow buffooners.

I can't help with potatoe salad as I've never found a version of the substance I would considered edible.

I've had really bad hay fever this week - to point it's affected my asthma and I've taken tablets for hayfever and blue inhaler. DS who also gets it's been fine though. I've been drinking nettle tea and versions of turmeric tea as there supposed to help.

Apparently the Welsh Education minister did have some thoughts about getting schools back - but the unions have said no to early six weeks holiday and getting back sooner.
Early school summer holiday plan 'abandoned'

I missed the bit about the beer - DH been keeping to his one pint in garden Friday and Saturday evening - he's no idea this possibly wasn't allowed.

Why am I arguing with one of the chief dementors on a stupid “pariahs of Europe” (again :sigh:) thread? Why? Why? It just makes me narky. I need to go out for walk.

I think that the people who have isolated properly are terrified. They feel (and In most cases are) more vulnerable If they catch it and they’ve been stuck inside listening and reading that everyone is rule breaking and the second wave is just around the corner. A lady wrote about her terror going out after isolating and that someone didn’t stick to 2m. She said she has to shout and put her hands up and was really scared. She was outside, the chances of anyone having the bug are v low and even if they had the chances of her catching it in the way she described are zero.

I’m at the point now where I think the media is being really irresponsible. They’re making people who should be careful instead panic and I personally am pretty unaffected by the hyperbole now. If course I’ll wash my hands and respect people’s space. While the weather is good I’m happy to stick to the garden and bring my own things but I’ll do what I can to make life nice for my friends and family too.

There’s not meant to be a smiley in that post, no idea how it got there.

OH and his best mate are out in the garden having a pint and a catch-up.. murdering buffoons the pair of them.

I don’t know BarkandCheese but I got drawn in too. We’ll never learn.

Ironically, isolation now might well actively increase people's vulnerability for the future, if it's true that previous exposure to mild coronaviruses has given many people preemptive immunity to Covid-19. Dr Gupta from Oxford made the same point - isolation results in a direct net loss of population health through reduced immunity because of not being exposed to all the many things that are constantly sloshing about between humans.

GPs not told when patients removed from 'shielding lists' seems a few people have had a text saying they don't need to shield.

I would have thought at least a letter explaining giving information why and a head up to GP before sending them would be the way to go. I agree that many people are scared and a lot of the media is stoking that.

Drivingdown your banging like against head wall brick, rearrange these words to make a sentence. Right, that’s it, I’m off for some danger buffoonery in the woods.

@Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy completely agree the media are being terribly irresponsible. I am also not litsening to the hyperbole anymore. Any whiff of it and I turn off.

Anyone else categorising the Sage scientists and who seems to be talking more sense? I will litsen to Whitty but find JVT and Vallance are very annoying and dementory.

I’m at the point now where I think the media is being really irresponsible. They’re making people who should be careful instead panic.

Some parts of the media (I'm looking at you in particular The Guardian) seem Hell bent on stoking people's fear on a daily basis. This is not helpful. People need hope otherwise what else have we got?

Good afternoon buffoons! This morning I returned to my local woods for the first time since March 21st. And did a circular run for the first time (had the route as a goal for months but I wasn’t fit enough for the distance involved at the start of lockdown). So a jolly murderous buffoony sort of a trip, although I wasn’t alone - many other equally murderous types were out on foot, bikes and horses. Luckily it’s a good big bit of woodland so plenty of room for all.

Couldn’t make it all the way through that BBC article - blimey. There’s no recognition whatsoever for the strain this has put people under in there as far as I can see, is there? Not surprising though, given the attitude of many doctors towards mental health problems IME.

Happy murdery murdering, everyone, anyway!

Totally agree with all posts about the media promoting fear. It is beyond irresponsible.

Agree. Why though? Why do they merrily repeat the horror projections but ignore other scoientists like Gupta, Levitt, Sikora etc? Surely we should be presented with a balanced view?

Hi all, just about caught up on the thread. I always add a bit of cider vinegar to my potato salad, sharpens it up nicely.

Anyway, really disappointed in the welsh announcement yesterday, was stupidly hoping for more. I hope schools do consider opening at end of June as my 2 dd really need to get back.

The answer to the deadly loo conundrum is obvious - pee in a bucket and tip it on the compost heap. Or will that make next season's rhubarb kick off another wave?

Well, when the government message became stay at home, a team of psychologists advised them that to get people to obey with lockdown, the public need to feel there was a direct threat to them, apparently. This seems to have also come through in the media as well.

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

No... I can't spread it if I haven't got it. I could spread it if I was asymptomatic but that's not what I said. I was also talking about the track and trace that uses actual people who ring you not the app.

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

My comment was in reference to schools and I never mentioned not continuing to follow distancing or hand washing rules...

Not being goady but I don't know what you're getting at?

Second (third??) that.
ILs have turned into Dementors. I get it as SIL works in a hospital (and therefore sees the worst affected cases), and they have been obediently shielding for 10 weeks, but it makes me despair at the religious fervour they seem to bring to The Rules.
"Your grandson is missing you!"
"What a shame but tell him we're being responsible and sticking to The Rules!"
"How are you?"
"Oh, we're very well and in tip top health from sticking to The Rules"
Even sharing stuff on FB about thinking of all the young, fit people in hospital with Covid before you consider going out... and THINKING AGAIN..
Of course there are also a number of otherwise fit and youthful people in hospital with other horrible diseases, but it's not Covid so, well, you know...

I miss my Dad. He was a risk manager and was really good at injecting sanity into things.

I have just read the BBC article- quite frankly it's ridiculous, although we did have a laugh.

Cardigan, the Northumberland Gazette website gives figures every day for deaths, cases, etc; it seems to be pretty reliable.

Thanks @NUFC69

Toon for the Cup!

Joining in. As someone who has a tendency to catastrophise, this thread is really helpful to put things in perspective.

Off to visit my mum and dad on Monday. If Nicola thinks I’m pissing in an ice cream tub in the garden she is very much mistaken. I’ll venture inside to use the loo and WASH MY HANDS. Which is the most effective way of not passing on germs and because I’ve been brought up proper I would have washed my hands anyway.

Re the second wave, I saw something on Twitter yesterday about how someone could tell how badly Glasgow was still doing with coronavirus because they had seen 4 ambulances. I mean - how the hell could they tell who the ambulances were responding to? Surely in Glasgow, it's not unusual to see 4 ambulances in a day? Not on Glasgow, but also in a city, and it's an unusual day where I don't hear sirens. Has anyone else noticed this kind of assumption?