Anti dementors visit the zombie beach

[BarkandCheese]

New thread! Hope the title is acceptable.

Thanks @fartingsparkles

Not sure if this has been shared before, but pretty much echoes everything we have been saying on here.

www.rt.com/op-ed/490006-death-certificates-covid-19-do-not-trust/?fbclid=IwAR0mzkH07ZmKuUdt7lDTDiZSDiYV63agVVKGOl7ugB0ENM4i8FemOJQiQck

You know the clear plastic face shields? I saw a bloke driving along wearing one of those today. I wonder what he thought he was going to catch IN HIS OWN CAR? He was alone as well.

Could you imagine what would happen if a wasp got in?

Helloooo! 👋

I've had enough too. Just found this thread and I'm feeling quite low tonight.

We're still pretty much locked down in wales, only allowed to go five miles to visit family or to exercise..great except people are still reporting each other for walking in the park or driving to the local park and the fear. Oh god the fear, I've been screamed at for accidentally going the wrong way in the supermarket..I got really confused and panicky.

Kids wont be going back until September, years 5 and 8 look like they will be abandoned. I'm sick of trying to homeschool and failing miserably. I've given up and I'm a social pariah (furloughed). Redundancy on the cards.

And I've been bleeding for 4 weeks

I'm so over all this fucking shit..

Fucking curtain twitchers I got reported for dropping my kids off for contact with thier dad ffs

Dianne that does sound a worry about your little girl. Sorry to hear school being rubbish. We had an email recently about mental health or any concerns from the school nurse- could be someone to contact. Or the GP. There are some other places too such as YoungMinds, as well.

Interesting GreatWave I didn't know if the elderly died during this time without a test they could put it down to covid and around 1500 people die a day as well, on general times.

Yesterday the report which came out said 85% of the deaths are in the over 75s as well. It is all so vague and misleading really. We seem to have stopped seeing 'with covid' as much as well, recently in the press I noticed

My dementor post of the day- on a post about children finding lockdown hard and 3 months till school starts for them.

"Life is shit for everyone at the moment. Sometimes there is no solution - you just have to accept that this is shit and you have no choice but to put up with it. It’s a vey privileged Western view to think that your life has to be hunky dory all the time"

@TheGreatWave

Thanks that was a very interesting article.

@Orangeblossom78

Was that on the thread where someone was really struggling with homeschooling?

Why anybody thinks we need to 'accept' this is beyond me. The complete and utter lack of discussion on children and working mums in particular is disgraceful.

First day I'm meant to see my dear friend in months and it fucking rains!
She and I are both not concerned about the virus, on the basis we're both nurses so see it as inevitable. She just cares less about judgy neighbours. Wants to see me anyway.

@Orangeblossom78
That's the same mentality that sustains racism/sexism etc... you're powerless so stop talking about it.

@Pootle40
Why anybody thinks we need to 'accept' this is beyond me

Spot on

Just ventured into the Corona zone, there is a poster struggling with her MH, worried that life isnt worth living the way it is now and up pipes one with "It is a shit time I'll agree, but we do have some freedoms left. Is there anyway you can focus on what you can do rather than what you can't?"
Honestly I thought we as a society had started to understand mental health, but now I'm not so sure.

but we do have some freedoms left

Fuck me. Never thought that would be sentence used about my life, in my lifetime.

Interesting article in a Spanish newspaper today about the increase in anxiety, post traumatic stress and depression in children after their lockdown in Spain.

I'm trying to get my head in a better place about all of this - trying not to get too depressed about everything from the government's many fuck-ups which are making it all worse to the devastating impact that this is having on the industry I work in to .... - well everything really. On a purely personal basis I'm also miserable because since the start of lockdown I've put on loads of weight, due to drinking too much because of anxiety/loneliness etc etc. My only solution - and I don't know if its going to work - is to start looking much further ahead. I'm planning for a good walking holiday next spring/summer (not sure where yet, but definitely not the UK) and am therefore hoping to use that to force myself out of the house to walk regularly, which will in turn lift my mood, help regulate my weight and so on. Hopefully, I'll be able to pound my way round the streets dreaming of doing so on a nice warm hillside in the future. It might help...

I also keep seeing a lot that we've only 3 months left of this......

Hello all you irresponsible zombies. I can’t believe you still want an education for your children while it’s not safe. Haven’t you heard that death lurks around every corner? (Or not thanks for the statistics @Shodan - I know it was a few pages ago but I love good news. I’d love to know how bad things really are in wales, but I can’t get my head around it).

That article was fascinating but so worrying. I really wish we could say never again to a general lockdown for more than a couple of weeks unless a really high threshold was met. Will we ever acknowledge that lockdown’s price is too high now?

On the plus side I got drunk with a friend last night. A real life friend in my real garden. No screen between us. I’ve got a headache but my heart is lighter. Thank you all for getting me through some of the blackness. You’ve no idea how you helped. I’m hoping it’s lifted now.

Not directly dementorish but thought this was interesting given all the panic around not using ibuprofen at the start of lockdown. A good example of how (in this pandemic especially) medical/scientific reports are being blown up far beyond their relevance and causing misinformation to spread.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52894638

And how to people know how long we’ve got left? If they get their gleefully anticipated second wave, it’ll go on for about a year!

3 months? Fucking hell. I found out this morning that one of my favourite cafes is not reopening. Last week my favourite independent clothes shop announced they will not be reopening. In 3 months how many more places will have gone? I really worry what we will come out of this to. I’m gutted for them loosing a business they have built up for 3 years

I bet a winter lockdown will be less popular! Can you imagine Christmas dinner outside with 2m distancing?

I'm finding the increased "freedoms" are still having little practical difference.

I could drive to exercise, but that's to a busier place so not really worth the bother and an extra 30 mins away from the DCs. Still no school or imminent prospect of it. DH still home indefinitely (working). I did go for a walk at the weekend with a friend, and I did arrange an illicit socially distanced game of football with a couple of DS's classmates. But most of the time people are busy working/ home schooling/ caring for children. I'm also nervous about putting invitations out in case they are interpreted as death threats. Slight exaggeration, but I don't know who will leap on it and who will think I'm selfish and wreckless.
Most of my socialising is through organised groups and I don't think I'm even halfway to restoration on that. I'm running but have no focus for races.

I can't remember when I was last in my own house on my own. Even little stuff like putting the radio on in a stereo effect through the house doesn't happen because of DS1's sensory issues and DH frequently getting calls from work.

I feel empty and just existing. I doubt that I'm depressed (I'm not despondent or hopeless), just purposeless (other than the blasted attempts at home schooling). The house is a shit tip because 2 children (inc autism and dyspraxia involved) my motivation for housework is not the best and is totally stymied by not being able to bang on some tunes and get on with it, and knowing it's going to be undone within minutes without even some respite until 3:25 pm. I need a structure of external motivation. DH says "tell yourself to do it by... reward yourself by..." that's never made any sense because my brain just says, "fuck that, I can do it anyway" and " so what if I don't do it". I need a fear of urgency, and there is zero of that. I just feel like I'm drowning in featureless time and the void of eternal procrastination.