Anti dementors visit the zombie beach

[BarkandCheese]

New thread! Hope the title is acceptable.

Hello again my lovely anti dementors!

Well after a shit day, my non resident dd came round my house with her boyfriend for dinner and we have had a lovely non socially distanced evening of food, drinking and dancing.. We have been indoors the whole time and broken many roolz and I don't give fuck!!!

It's cheered me up no end.

I'm done with the law and rules when they make no sense. DP is coming over next weekend and we will fully flout the law as he will stay over and we will have lots of illegal sex!

I'm pleased you are amused with my Matt Wanksocks nickname but I can't claim the credit for that one as I am sure I saw it on another thread and thought it was very apt and now can't think of him in any other way 🤣.

This once law abiding citizen is now done, fuck this shit, I now live by my own rules.

Mumsnet freedom fighters unite!

I’ve got a schools dementor on my fb posting a link to a story “2 children test positive for Coronavirus days after schools return”. Except it’s 2 siblings, who took ill last weekend, now fully recovered. So they didn’t get it in school and the problem is presumably the parents who sent them to school with symptoms

Sudoku
Did anyone point this out to them?

Yes, me

Yeah you!
Did they like it?😉

Maybe it's because I've spent this evening binge watching Handmaid's Tale, which feels uncomfortably close right now but I'm feeling extremely rebellious, a feeling that has been steadily growing over the past couple of weeks. There's just not enough data/cases to warrant the way we are being forced to live. What if we just said no? What they going to do? Arrest us all? We've always had the right to protest. I also work for myself so quite frankly couldn't give a flying fuck about getting a criminal record Mandatory masks might have been the final straw for me tonight...

@Ibake
As a previously law abiding citizen I have now come to the same conclusion.
I do not like the dystopian world we are currently living in and I for want to kick up a fuss!
Fuck the rules, they are wrong!

This is just heart breaking. The lockdown has killed thousands with dementia. The very people we’re meant to be trying to protect amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/05/covid-19-causing-10000-dementia-deaths-beyond-infections-research-says?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

There's just not enough data/cases to warrant the way we are being forced to live

This is what I can’t get my head round. Where’s the proportionality in the response?

I was in the supermarket the other day and thought so if 1 in 400 people have it I honestly feel like I am now more likely to encounter Shergar here than someone with CV. And “wear masks to protect others” well who exactly? The invisible man? The whole thing is just absolute madness.

I’m starting to feel like Winston in 1984

Oh but that doesnt matter, because absolutely nothing matters except obeying the rules and the fecking C word. Collateral damage to protect all those healthy folks who dont want to go further than thier doorstep but expect the world to dance to thier tune.

There was a time Willow when cunt was the strongest C word you could utter

Yep but if i never hear Covid again it will be too soon.

Has anybody even thought about all the elderly in care homes who we are supposedly protecting?
So for example Doris 84 with dementia who has a life prognosis of a year or so.
In order to protect her from Covid we have shut her up in a lockdown care home where she can only see the 4 walls of her room and the carers who come in ppe'd uo 4 times a day.
No visitors, no contact with family, just those 4 walls. It's like solitary confinement in prison, without the 1hr of exercise per day.
So in order to stop her from dying in of Covid we have confined her in her room for the past 12 weeks and the foreseeable future.
She won't get Covid but her end of days will be a lonely solitary affair and her loved ones can do nothing about it other than have a socially distanced funeral for 4 when she dies a lonely death of natural causes.
It's criminal 🙁

Nope because they are invisible. They arent in shops doing unecessary shopping, going for walks for over an hour, not out or rather Not out clapping, or going to the beach. They cant be screamed at on SM, shamed nor blamed
so they arent of interest.
I worked in dementia care for many years its an inhuman punishment to do to anyone never mind someone who lives in between now and the past or who doesn't understand why they cant go home or why thier husband/wife hasnt come to see them. Gives me the rage how countless lives have been swept asside in this shitstorm and nobody in government, social services or health services have spoken out about it.

@willow2017 I’ve worked with a lot of people with dementia and completely agree. I think we need to think about what a good end of life looks like. All this saving lives due to one condition is having untold costs and doesn’t seem to be benefiting anyone.

I also wonder how the children suffering now will judge this in the future. If it was me I’d be furious at paying for these measures that have had a disproportionate impact on their future chances. Who will they hold accountable?

The next people the shopping basket stasi will be coming dementor onto will be people with disabilities such as autism who can’t wear masks. The usual ignorance and ableist attitudes prevailing on a thread I’ve just read.

@Willow2017
I salute you as a carer for those with dementia.

I just find in criminal that those we are supposedly protecting now face the foreseeable in solitary confinement. Not all have dementia, but those who are in care homes as they are unable to care for themselves.

My parents (thankfully) are not at that stage yet but they despair of the fact that this lockdown which is supposedly about protecting their generation is confining so may to lonely solitary lives absent from family and affection.

They say they would rather take their chances and see their end of days out surrounded by their loved ones .

So not only are we harming them but also the younger generations as we have completely fucked up their futures by decimating the economy and caused lifelong damage to their mental health and education as well!

This is some seriously fucked up shit!

Just seen this one on cardiac conditions. I hope the tide is turning amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/05/cardiac-patients-at-risk-because-of-cancelled-procedures-in-england?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

Society was shitty for vulnerable people before. I hate to think how badly we’ve failed so many now. What will we find behind those closed doors? We owe a huge debt to the people who are paid the least and often have rubbish t&cs for the fact those doors will reopen at all.

@BogRollBOGOF

I have social arrangements in my calendar Small group fitness training on my friend/ fitness instructor's farm. I normall go to the big classes which obviously can't happen yet, but she can restore the small groups that she had already established.

I saw a small group training together in the park. Also the tape is all gone from the outdoor gym. People were using it and had even bought their own kettlebells. It was a happy sight

They never taped up the gym equipment here. They just padlocked the playground.

Shows which demographic matters

In case anyone is interested I have started a thread about any positive changes coming out of this here www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3929479-Positive-changes?msgid=97163510#97163510

stuff like courses, etc for anyone needing to change job, just to share for ideas. I thought this might be useful at this time before the funding etc comes to an end.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3929479-Positive-changes?msgid=97163510#97163510

Oh dear DS has been sneezing away and red eyes today, feeling fine otherwise. Have given antihistamines but argh to school maybe sending him hope next week. Fingers crossed it clears. None of us have seen others in ages and I know it is just hay fever.

@orangeblossom78 my DS had terrible hayfever on Monday (poor boy looked like he had been punched in the face!) and they were fine with him going in.

I have given him some piriton so hopefully it will clear up. Hope yours is Om soon rosettes rubbish isn't it. I wonder about some eye drops perhaps, will see.