Anti dementors visit the zombie beach

[BarkandCheese]

New thread! Hope the title is acceptable.

@SudokuBook

ONS figures show that 0.1% of the UK population is currently infected and that cases more than halved in the last two weeks of May. So why face masks, quarantine, 2m nonsense, endless queues? Just why?

This is what I don’t get. It honestly feels like I’d have more chance of bumping into Lord Lucan than contracting Coronavirus

Also: the main reason, as far as I can tell, for the massive disruption in the early days was that we were told to self-isolate for 14 days if we had one of the symptoms. So I imagine (well, anecdotally in my workplace I've seen it!) many people who were otherwise well enough to be out and about removed themselves from circulation. What I'd be very interested to see is the numbers of people who are ill. Not hospitalised, but unwell. It's not going to happen, obviously, because it's not recordable, but 8K cases a day of which 7K are asymptomatic is.... it's a different thing to 8K people ringing in sick tomorrow, isn't it?

Yeah the social services thing did concern me a bit. She has form for managing to get what she wants, by hook or by crook. I think she'll probably go far, if anyone in her generation can possibly go far, given that they've all had their futures lobbed under a double decker

Allflightscancelled
That girl will go far.😀

0.1% wow! yet still the hysterics.

Dowser i am jealous too. McDs opened for drive through yesterday and long queues. My supermarket is now going to be doing takeaway breakfasts in competition next week as well as evening takeaways! Grr.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

My year 12 daughter seems to have managed to get herself put on a list that means she can go into school if she wants to.

Make sure you're not going to get a call from social services, then offer her hearty congratulations on gaming the system!

I was assured, when I got mine onto the list of vulnerable children, that it was in no way linked to social services. DD1 went in for a bit before half term and no one's come knocking yet! (Well apart from the social worker brother and since he's my little brother I'm allowed, and duty bound, to tell him if he's being a prat)

All flights
Sorry to hear that
All in all we haven’t had too bad a lockdown , well more of a lockout really
We e had some great days out in quiet roads to some lovely beauty spots.
Our drive to the Lake District was epic. We’ve had three Indian picnics and two days in a beautiful forest where everything was just normal..toilets open, burger van, ice creams ( playgrounds taped up, but hey who needs a playground when you can paddle in a stream and climb on logs)
Oh and V E day, was a riot...and as I’ve seen my neighbours regularly..it looks like we’ve all survived.
I think we’ve spent about 7 days in all told and that was probably because the wether has been nice or really crap

My 2 are going into school two days a week as of next week under key worker status. I'm not but DH is and my goodness DS (year 6) needs it. They both hugged each other (a fairly rare occurrence these days) and high-fived each other and danced round the kitchen when DH told them.

DS said this morning "I keep hoping this is a dream or a vision that's just taught me be grateful for everything normal in life and that I'll wake up and it's a normal Thursday and I can go to drama tonight". He came into my room crying last night because he'd just read through his drama script from school and he's never going to be able to do that production, with those people in the last year of primary ever. I am so sorry for everything that's been taken from him. And yes, I know it's all very "first world" issues, but that's his world, and at 11, it's pretty shit.

I actually do know how to spell weather...doh

Too right flippety

Yes, not being dead is no way to measure quality of life

We need a new thread
Just saying 😁

Flippety Oh bless him, with his hope that it's all a bad dream. It certainly seems senseless enough to be one.

Missing out on his play

Gosh the zombie beach filled up with flocking hoardes quickly. We need a theme for our next one. Any anti-dementors want to go to the zoo?

It's lovely hearing about children returning to school, and sad because it's still not on the agenda for mine. DH is a key worker but comfortably working from home on his part and I'm a SAHM. I could possibly wrangle SEN for DS1 (diagnoses too recent to be down the EHCP route) but until the emphisis is on education and he can go in with friends, I think it would be counter-productive as it's the parts he finds hard at school with less of the benefits. DS2 is more desperate, ironically because of DS1's SNs as DS1 lashes out at DS2. Autistic emotions and dyspraxic co-ordination are a mean combination! They do get on well most of the time, but when DS1 blows, he blows.

DH had a call with a colleague who said he was at his FiL's funeral yesterday. It was Covid, but "he was on borrowed time anyway" and had had major heart issues 6 years ago and was more interested in quality over quantity.

This "recovery" is just so frustratingly slow. Our lives aren't substantially altered from Easter. The only added excitement is driving to a nicer park and treating the kids to a burger van. Frustrating when some people have got key functions back and think its all "normal" and dementors baying that we have to get used to this "new normal" bollocks and with no sense of perspective are fighting and virtue signalling over every bone we're thrown.

I can't start a new thread. Mine always die a speedy and horrible non Covid related death

Would anyone like to start a new thread? I have a dementoring local drama to share

Go for it Allflights

Bogroll may e you could get a place for the one you think needs it if you just explain, then would be easier on you all. You could just ask and see

Can I just say before this thread disappears and I can't find you all again, thank you - you have made Mumsnet worth visiting again.

I can fit it in

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/somerset-beauty-spot-hundreds-flouted-4180620

this is where I saw the lady taking photos! of families on the bank who were actually a bit apart. It looks like things have got worse though!

Just had elderly neighbour on about it and I told her oh yes we were there!

He came into my room crying last night because he'd just read through his drama script from school and he's never going to be able to do that production, with those people in the last year of primary ever. I am so sorry for everything that's been taken from him. And yes, I know it's all very "first world" issues, but that's his world, and at 11, it's pretty shit.

100 times this.

I think the kids moving from primary to secondary have lost SO MUCH.

All those rites of passage that they will now never get to do.

It infuriates me when people try to minimise the stuff that matters to children as unimportant.

Yes, the end of school show IS a big deal.

Yes, it's shit that so many kids have missed out on this stuff.

Poor little fella missing his drama

Apparently caring about what he has lost is callous.

We didn't rave or leave litter though just went in our little boat...

Oh I know ours usually have a musical too and the others not in it do other nice things after sats. Mine is here worrying about his Teams work and finishing it all bless him

Just started a new thread. www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3929666-Patronii-in-person-anti-Dementors-visit-the-zoo?msgid=97169823#97169823

The children are being chucked under a bus, no more or less.

At my children’s school 78% have apparently gone back. I imagine it’s a mixture of sensible parents and sensible, positive teachers.

I agree @Nihiloxica my son has missed out on so much, residential, prom, leavers service. Dementors don’t care about that though. He should be at high school today with all his friends following his timetable :(