Anti dementors visit the zombie beach

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New thread! Hope the title is acceptable.

@Firefliess, I have a dd in year 12 as well. She had a couple of pieces of work to complete at home. None of has been marked and she’s now sitting around twiddling her thumbs. We’ve had no work for weeks. It’s not her skiving - I’ve checked as she was scared she’d missed it. She’s autistic so can miss things. It’s as if they have been completely forgotten. A flurry of letters in the first couple of weeks and leaflets on mental health but we’ve heard nothing for weeks now and emails go unanswered. I’m not hopeful for the autumn either.

She’s worried enough that uni next year won’t be an option due to large numbers deferring a year and courses being cut.

Can I add property crash dementoring to the list? As in those who say that house prices are going to crash 60% and not recover for 20 years and we'll all be stuck in negative equity for the rest of our lives?

Just heard from a friend with no children but who is working from home (civil service) asking what will I do? (when go back part time to school) has no idea how hard it is. I have taught full time school and working in nursery full time, long hours, but you leave those behind at the end of the day. I feel quite sad as also with older relatives they also seem to have no clue, everything feels quite divisive at the moment. My heart sank and I am back to avoiding everyone pretty much in RL for various reasons!

Teenage DS I am worried about as seems to have some school friend who is doing no work but gaming with him and need to try and broach this. Had email form his music teacher saying he has basically done none of that (is doing music GCSE) as well....so much easier for them to just drift

If lockdown has taught us anything, it's taught us that there are a lot of people out there so workshy that they will close down society indefinitely rather than go to work.

They will milk any leniency on sick pay for every penny they can get out of it.

So although it would be smarter to make it as easy as possible for people to self-certify with no loss of pay for short illness, it is hard to see it not being abused.

I actually like the idea of house prices dropping maybe it might help you younger people get a home at some point. I think there could be benefits long term perhaps

I actually like the idea of house prices dropping maybe it might help you younger people get a home at some point. I think there could be benefits long term perhaps

Doubt it. If they dropped 60% no one would sell and young people would have no jobs with which to purchase houses.

A house price crash benefits nobody, and I say that as someone who doesn't own one yet.

If I never hear the words "social distancing" or "socially distanced" used as a duty-adjective ever again, it will be 20,000 years too soon 😡😡😡

I'm pretty sure you people will know what I mean. "Do you want to go on a socially distanced walk? Do you want a social distancing cup of coffee in my garden? AIBU to have a socially distanced BBQ?"

Fuck off!

Anyway, I'll try and catch up on the thread now. I've been having a socially distant-- social life and a day at work, which makes a nice change.

I actually like the idea of house prices dropping maybe it might help you younger people get a home at some point. I think there could be benefits long term perhaps

And also, would you not feel sympathy for recent FTBs? Say a young family who have scrimped and saved and scrabbled to get a 10% deposit on a tiny little flat or similar, and then house prices crash and they are into negative equity and financially fucked through no fault of their own?

strikethrough fail

She had a couple of pieces of work to complete at home. None of has been marked and she’s now sitting around twiddling her thumbs. We’ve had no work for weeks. It’s not her skiving

Seneca might well be worth a look it has many free courses.

Though I know that's not the point - but I'm in a similar position with Y10 little work so I'm trying to keep her going with Seneca, dulingo, tassomai and work books I can find for her board and subjects.

Good points about the house prices. I'm just trying to think of a possible positive from this situation to be honest. We live in the SW and prices have risen dramatically in recent years and it all seems out of reach for the future for my children

It won't affect us that much if house prices crash because we bought cheap and are renovating anyway but I don't think it actually benefits anyone.

If they do massively crash I'll probably buy another one to do up and sell. Cheap round here anyway.

I just looked at the thread about older relatives and people not wanting to take them outside due to their perceived lack of understanding. It's like a perfect storm for loneliness and lack of activity which we know leads to huge long term health issues. By trying to protect everyone we are failing pretty much everyone at this point. Honestly, just think of all the things that are directly affecting us right now, I'm honestly starting to think we should end lockdown and just focus on 'respectful distancing' and hand washing. Maybe I'm too far the other way though. I don't want to lose perspective.

I mean obviously it won't affect any of us if house prices crash as we'll all be dead of Covid

Yes, frailty - it will lead to that and deconditioning fairly quickly

I think house prices need a slow slump or stagnation.

We just remorgaged so had only benefit of rising prices better rate as we're down into next rate section combination overpaying and house price rise.

We first bought and watch house prices go down - worst bit was we'd set the interets rate for 10 years and the rates dropped like stone and our obvioulsy didn't then we needed to move sooner than expected due to jobs changes due to economic crap.

We’ve got a staff mortgage (DH works for a bank) and pay base rate so the rate drop is fab for us!

@HesterShaw1 - I said the same thing yesterday.

[quote Flippetydip]Can I join you please? I know I'm very late to the party but I'm just over the whole thing now. I never agreed with lockdown in the first place and it has become a disaster area. Everything else I look at on MN makes me want to tear my hair out.

Our school is not accepting our year 6s back. The head has taken all the complaints/comments/suggestions on this as a personal affront and is leaving 60 foundation places open "in case parents change their minds". He is then allowing year 1s back in in 2 weeks and then possibly, 2 weeks after that (so a week before the end of term) year 6s. I'm just so disappointed and angry for my year 6 who is struggling so much to stay motivated at home, having almost daily meltdowns and has talked of killing himself. I know that he doesn't mean it as it's at the height of the "tantrum" but it's soul destroying.

I work in travel insurance and fear for my job and my mum is going to into hospital next week to have a growth removed. She has to isolate for 14 days before hand and goodness knows how long afterwards. I want to go and stay with her.

Sorry, that was very whingy. I'm cross and fed up with the situation and the gross over-reaction from so so many people to a disease that is not lethal for the vast majority of people.

Interesting article here from Lionel Shriver
news.sky.com/story/after-the-pandemic-bring-back-the-old-normal-says-author-lionel-shriver-12000147[/quote]
Hurrah for Lionel Shriver!

We're on a good rate with this house- just got a even better one fixed for 5 years and we can at minute continue to overpay.

However we were on a higher rate when our income was much less and also had misfortune of buying a house needing a lot of work.

We sold that first one for less money than we paid for it after spending a huge amount on needed infrastructure work on it - but came out with the inital deposit and moved to a cheaper area and got a bigger house so it worked out okay for us in the end.

Got called an immoral profiteer on MN for saying there was a price we couldn't sell under which we did get after a wait- as we wouldn't be able to buy in new location.

I particularly liked the bit where she said that children are learning to be neurotic.

Yes on bloody 'social distancing'. Every activity now has to have it whether past or present. On FB - Had a lovely time having a socially distanced glass of wine with my bestie. Honestly, I don't give a monkeys if during the long time apart you discovered you were in love and had a night of passion, inside or out. You can lick the gates and share a glass. Just fuck off with the social distancing virtue signalling!

I'm currently looking to buy a house (FTB) and it's such a massive stress. I honestly don't care if they flatline or even go down a bit, I just don't want to buy right before a crash. Watching the deposit that I've saved up for a decade disappear overnight would be so gutting. My worry with waiting is that we're in a pretty popular (just about commutable to London) area and I wonder how many Londonders now WFH will want to move here...

Try being an EA in Wales, saw my friends house the EA put coming soon on the blurb, translated you can look at the pics. but that is it.

A house price crash would be bad for most people (although there are always beneficiaries).

A gradual decline in price would be good for the economy. Far too much money is tied up in property.

I'm sort of enjoying how people are using "socially distanced" as a meaningless redundant prefix.

I think it's less virtue signalling than an attempt to deflect dementors. The more it is used, the less meaning it has.

The power of the Dementors is weakening if people are posting on social media about socialising, even if they do feel the need to use the Socially Distanced spell