Anti dementors visit the zombie beach

[BarkandCheese]

New thread! Hope the title is acceptable.

The hypocrisy of some dementors. MIL constantly posting YOU WILL DIE memes and angry posts about folk hugging in the paper and not social distancing. Then today shares pics of BIL with both grandkids on his knee. How is one so bad and not the other?

@AnotherEmma, the Sky News one shows new cases in the last week, which is good for showing how much it's being transmitted, and helpfully translates that into cases per hundred thousand people.

I think a useful figure is the population divided by the number of current cases, which tells you the number of people, on average, that you'd have to meet before you meet one with CV-19. For instance, Leeds has 234 cases per 100,000: that means only one person in 427 has CV-19. It had 22 new cases last week, which is 2.8 in 100,000 or 1 in 35,714, so it's not exactly a hotspot of new infections.

As said upthread, there's no way of telling how many of those are in care homes and thus are people you're unlikely to bump into in the street.

I really doubt I'll be able to sad Last day is 13th August.
It's as much for my colleagues' sake as my own

That’s what I suspected. You’re a good soul

Thank you

I know there are relationships I have (had?) that will never recover from this.

I'm the same. I wrote that I'd had a friend be pretty rude about me on FB recently (when she thought I wouldn't see the post) and we've talked about it and she apologised. She is a very good friend so I am not walking away but I do have a different opinion of her after a lot of scaremongering from her. And it's made me feel more separate to others I valued hugely. The thing I'm the most confused by is their lack of critical thinking - they've been so quick to spread fear even when I said to them early on in all this that I thought it wasn't the best idea given it is detrimental to mental health and a lot of the news stories were based on worst case scenarios.

Re Karl Friston - I'm seeing him be very roundly criticised by some scientists on Twitter etc. I don't know what to think. But it does make sense when you look at the cruise ships - they should have been perfect environments for the virus to both spread and kill a high number but that's not how things played out.

Is there a delay on the sky news graph thingy? My area stops at May 28th?

I know there are relationships I have (had?) that will never recover from this

Me too, it's not just the dementoring either but the unwillingness to see things from another point of view or look at the overall picture and empathise. I can see the need for covid measures (to a point) and also the problems for society with said measures - but to tell everyone how to think and feel and that nothing else matters, combined with the dementoring itself, is too much.

Not just friends either for me but it has also highlighted lack of some relatives feelings for others who are not so secure as themselves, (who are just obsessed with the virus)

Tbh while I'm grateful for the link I think the Covidlive one is better.

There was a really detailed ONS map which has local streets and areas, will see if I can find it.

www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/ons-map-shows-coronavirus-deaths-in-your-postcode/

Not recent cases though

Interesting Sky link, thanks.
In my area, 11 cases in a week. That's a terrifying 3.5 per 100,000.

If the timing is aligned correctly, 6 of those were a cluster picked up in a school.

4 deaths in my large village (population around 7500). I know 3 at least were in the care home.

Remember the huge spike, or wave, or whatever it was, at Weston Hospital? It's BBC official: it wasn't caused by daytrippers. I wonder whether the dementors will acknowledge that they were wrong.

PS I don't really.

Also 2 deaths in my postcode...we have a commuter train link to London. And stats relate to 6 weeks ago. Current infection rate 0.7 in 100,000. I don't think I've met that no of people in the last year...

Our twatting arseholes are still braying the shit out car horns for the fucking NHS at 8pm. Full blast outside the kids' bedroom window for 8pm, followed by congratulating themselves on how good they are for keeping it up.

I'm at a very low point right now - I was hoping the NHS virtue signalling would have stopped so I wasn't on edge all Thursday over it - but the twats I'm stuck living next to want to carry on with the car horns (I wouldn't mind the clapping but they really go at it with the car horns) and the idea of having to get a face mask on to get the train to the rare bits of uni that might happen next year has just knocked me down - I have a coffee, read a book and chill out getting the slow train home so it's quieter and I can relax a bit - not doing that for 45 minutes with spring loaded elastic steaming my specs up.

I just can't take the dementor shit, the fact that every time we get the numbers remotely down they move the goalposts to add in anyone who could spell COVID 19 before they died as being killed by it so they can keep this up and the dementors on here. I long for the days they just got their knickers in a twist about fucking loo brushes. Did a focus group today for uni to try to get my issues and concerns at least heard over online learning - don't know how much of an effect it'll have.

Just had another huge learning pack for DD2 home - the fact the school have actually really set them a load of stuff this time is like them throwing in the towel that these kids will ever get back to leave the school properly - thank fuck DD is in the keyworker bubble, but now I feel guilty if I don't do the sent home stuff as well, and that I'm not working on her speech regression - but to be honest it's not stuff that can easily be sorted out by sessions working through activities, it's something that just really needs lots and lots of interaction and her having the chance to formulate her thoughts... and the fucking SENCO from the new school still hasn't got round to contacting us to plan out provision for September. I'm not letting it slide or things will go to shit in September.

And then that Ross Kemp wanking his ego off and all the fucking BBC building community morale with heartwarming stories can just fuck off.

@countrygirl99 Thu 04-Jun-20 18:29:18
domina I recently bought a cat face buff type thing off Ebay. I didn't buy it for Covid but it will be my go to face covering when needed.

If not Covid - dare I ask W h yyyyyyyyyyyyyy??????????? 😎😎😎😎

I've got few facebook friends and most are civilised.

One posted a dementoring post yesterday and got a couple of supportive comments. I countered it and she just removed it.

Another one today, this one hasn't removed her post but hasn't responded and nor have any of her friends. No one else has responded since my offering.

@AnotherEmma no nothing in writing! Just a phonecall :/

The Dementors have won.

They have their face masks, home school
And "new normal".

I quit.

@Mascotte don't quit yet. The gov have to, I suppose, throw the dementors a bone, to stop them howling. See it as a distraction - look over here at the masks, while we prepare to loosen things off over here.

I hope.

@Mascotte I see this as their last stand and support is crumbling. Even more pleased by further support on the FB thread I mentioned earlier. The tide is turning. Keep the faith!!!

Thanks fellow Anti Dementors... I'll try!

Drove a four hour round trip today to visit my mum, she’s finally calming down after being terrified by the government. We even (shhh) sat indoors apart as it was bloody freezing today. Was lovely and she was so happy to see us. Did her the power of good, thought she was loosing her marbles a bit at the height of this.