Patronii in person, anti Dementors visit the zoo

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Never started a long running thread before but I figure even lurkers should take a turn. Hope the title ok.

I know this sucks so bad but we've come this far- not long to go now I promise! Things WILL get better and they WILL change. Chins up guys.

Look-lets focus on something positive- what are you planning doing once lockdown has ended? i'll start:

1. I plan to get my face filled with enough fillers that I can be my own flotation device 😜
2. Hair cut
3. I'm going clothes shopping and I'm going to gasp TOUCH all the clothes
4. Plan a holiday
5. I'm thinking about getting another dog- my lovely girl died in 2018 and its only now that I could even contemplate getting another one that didnt feel like it was "replacing" her. Cant wait to have a dog around the house!

The protest dementors are absolute dicks

Next door and the poisonous gossip from down the roads are out in his garden ghoulishly speculating that they haven’t seen the elderly lady over the road whose mobility I had seen decline since lockdown for a few days- has she gone to hospital or to stop with her son and of course she should have told poison gossip woman whatever she was going to do.

Lockdown is a great party for the ruling clique in this street - lots of just sitting drinking in next door’s garden condemning everyone else in the street who isn’t doing it in the way they approve of (they’ve ignored rules on gathering throughout of course but that doesn’t get in the way of a good judge).

I need to finish my uni course to get back into the workplace and be able to move away from this lot! I can’t take many more summers of them

Photo of my lovely flatulent dignified patronus.

So magnificent and so dignified! Love him/her 🥰

A friend has her child carer help coming back she is very careful who she is telling about this. With trying to work from and toddlers it has been v. difficult an extra pair of hands in the house will help.

Our local health board put up a post on FB today. With a helpful chart of cases etc. spikes. They were shredded thoroughly, the chart was from April they were told so incorrect, how many cases, how many staff ill, how many ops. cancelled, they just kept quoting confidentiality blah blah blah. It was great to see so many cynics.

Yes, enough now :(

Sympathies to everyone struggling. I hear you. Before last summer I'd had a bloody awful few years with infertility, repeated (and failed) rounds of fertility treatment, dad getting Alzheimer's and dying, marriage breakdown. Just last summer after really struggling and thinking I was going under, I started to feel a bit happier again. Got together with DP in November after a very happy and exciting round of flirting and getting to know each other better. I then went away for a while December and January, so when I got back we were just getting going. Then....SLAM. The way is shut.

But iI can't moan because you know people are DYING and Covid. Bloody business has gone down the tube. My Dsis has had to give up her contracts to look after and homeschoolers her three children, BIL has had to take a massive payout, DM is lonely and bored and depressed....and we're being told "we need to do more"? In the words of a poster from a few pages back, no fuck off. We have done enough. We have given up too much already. YOU bloody well step up and do your job, government. Stop being so incompetent and stop expecting us to cover for your incompetence.

Can you be dignified with fluff stuck to your tongue? I'm not so sure. If the world was full of hounds rather than dementors it would be a better place.

@KaronAVyrus

Tbh a lot of my friends are High school teachers (Scotland) and they are all bitterly disappointed that the schools are still closed. They are especially concerned at the 14-17yr olds missing vital lessons. The “disease vectors” on Mumsnet bare no relation to the kind, dedicated professionals that I know. I’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of them aren’t actually teachers but bog standard job shites.

It wouldn't surprise me, I saw one poster a while ago who claimed they had a particular job that would give them some level of expertise in current times. I was sceptical so advanced searched them which revealed at least two different current jobs as well. Also they appeared to have quite severe health issues and had children (home schooling) with SEN. I might have believed some of the combination but not all

Aarrgghh!! Sorry been hanging out elsewhere and getting cross.

@justasking111 I have had recurrent infections in a breast duct (damaged by mastitis, thanks breastfeeding!). It's uncomfortable and takes heavy duty antibios to get rid of it but isn't sinister. So I understand. I hope you are feeling more comfortable but do get it checked out.

Here we go, another nice news article with an American doctor saying what the two Italian ones were also saying.

www.pennlive.com/news/2020/06/upmc-doctor-says-covid-19-has-become-less-prevalent-and-less-severe.html

'Fewer people are testing positive for COVID-19 and those who test positive don’t seem to be getting as sick, a UPMC doctor said Thursday

“All signs that we have available right now show that this virus is less prevalent than it was weeks ago,” said Dr. Donald Yealy, the chair of emergency medicine at UPMC.

Yealy further said, among people who test positive, “the total amount of the virus the patient has is much less than in the earlier stages of the pandemic.”

I was on the schools thread earlier...

I'm reasonably bright...

I should learn! But I get so cross that my daughters generation are being let down by their adults who should know better.

Just been speaking to my best mate, we've been sensible with SD up till now but have both struggled the last couple of days.

We have decided tomorrow, to meet up and gasp hug each other. Then we'll drink prosecco and watch tv and laugh!! We've both decided we are safe to hug since we are both staying home all.....the.....damn.....time!!

It took a lot of will power but I managed not to engage on that particular school thread.

We should write lines... ‘I will not engage with school dementors’.

I understand what R is but dont understand how its calculated, but I am led to believe that the R rate for the South West increased due to a number of cases in Weston Hospital. Isnt there some way to separate statistics for care homes and hospitals, from statistics for the general population?

Because the R rate is almost certainly higher in care homes/hospitals where people are in close contact, doing personal care, in vulnerable groups etc. Whereas R in the community could be far lower. Also cases in the community are far lower. It doesnt make any sense to delay school opening (for example) because there are a lot of cases in care homes - they're unrelated!

God I couldn't help myself. Stupid I know. One poster when I mentioned 3 teen suicides in Kent said oh they probably had issues anyway. Are you fucking joking me right now?!?! They were children ffs. Children who might not have died if they hadn't been subjected to this utter shit show. But nevermind eh they probably had issues.

@Drivingdownthe101 yes at least 100 times.

Can they not see that what they are wishing for is so very dangerous to education.

Sorry but "I despair"!

Well having given the main rooms are thorough clean, I really don’t want to do it tomorrow.
I want to go for Sunday lunch.
Yes, I know, I’m three..and I’ve actually had quite a good week.
Ok, I’m sucking it up.

"One poster when I mentioned 3 teen suicides in Kent said oh they probably had issues anyway."

Awful.

And of course you could counter by saying that most of the people who die of Covid "probably have issues anyway".

But physical health is the only thing that counts right?! Who gives a fuck about a mental health

@TrustTheGeneGenie

God I couldn't help myself. Stupid I know. One poster when I mentioned 3 teen suicides in Kent said oh they probably had issues anyway. Are you fucking joking me right now?!?! They were children ffs. Children who might not have died if they hadn't been subjected to this utter shit show. But nevermind eh they probably had issues.

One of those sadly was in my town, the poor lad’s suicide was directly attributed to his fear that he had no future because of the virus. His dad posts frequently on Nextdoor and and you can tell he’s absolutely raw with grief.

It's horrific. Why are these deaths less important? They were children. It shouldn't be like this poor poor boy and his family.

That is so terribly sad. Our children should not feel that there is no hope for the future. We really need to get a grip and return to more normailty. Particularly as infection rates are falling.

I've just looked at today's Scotland figures from the wonderful travelling tabby site.

In terms of people in hospital (which I think is probably the most reliable indicator otherwise people start moaning about not enough testing), we have 646 people in hospital, including 16 in ICU.

That's where we were on 30th March, although there were 94 people in ICU at that stage. 6th may, we had double the number of people in hospital. At the peak on 14th April ,there were 1514 people in hospital including 192 in ICU.

So there is less than 10%the number of people in ICU in Scotland today compared to 14th April.

But yeah, it's still death on every corner and "blended learning" for our kids.

The rain sucks, doesn't it. I found yesterday far worse than today, mind. 10 minutes of lovely sunshine then a sudden pelting with hailstones. Pretty much all day. At least today it was just the odd drizzly shower by the afternoon, so Ds2 got a walk.

Michael McIntyre has one solitary routine that I find funny and that's only because it's about something I've experienced. He's mostly far too pleased with himself.

Ds2 has been up with the lark for the second day running so dh is in bed. DS1 has sloped off upstairs as well. Meantime I've got a cake in the oven that is taking far too long to cook and a load of towels in the dryer (see:weather) and the remains of a bottle of wine for company.