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.

Good post GoldenOmber. I'm afraid my mum is a little like that with other people's ill health.

With Covid in particular do you think it is also a case of people really wanting to know they were right to take the restrictions so seriously? Because if it turns out that the level of lockdown we have been subjected to was in fact not necessary (or at least in the form it has taken), then their sacrifice won't have been worth it, and they will feel cheated. People get emotionally invested in their own position, and so many people are so binary now. Things are either Good or Bad, Right or Wrong.

@GoldenOmber it's the same reason why people like those awful true life magazines - they're full of the most devastating and tragic stories, all presented for the entertainment of the rubbernecking readership...

Fingers crossed about weddings. DS2 was due to get married next Friday. The venue have said if minimal ceremonies are allowed early July they can sort something out if the Registrar is ok but they emigrate on 10th so there's only a tiny window to fit it in.

Imagine taking a weary walk home in the rain in a duffel coat and damp trainers. Imagine flinging off the smelly coat, putting on warm dry slippers and cuddling up with a cuppa and your favourite chocolate.

That's how it feels to ditch the Guardian and switch to the Times. I did it over a year ago and I'm open about it now. The Times has carried superb coverage of the crisis and employs a wide range of writers, who manage to disagree and put across opposing viewpoints with respect, engagement, kindness and even humour.

I can never go back.

MorrisZapp, I love the analogy. It's perfect.

The Guardian, I've decided, makes me feel guilty for simply existing. Bugger that. I will continue to scan over it, but I am certainly relying on it for a balanced view.

Certainly NOT relying on it. Oops

I did not know outdoor weddings were limited to Jews and Quakers. Being from a Quaker family myself I've been to plenty of weddings, but they were all indoors. Would have loved one myself but DH is Welsh Baptist so we settled for a civil ceremony in a hotel.

I have been for a bike ride with the kids, taken my pills, eaten some food and am just about on a even keel. You lovely murderers keeping me going ♥️

I am bloody furious with my daughter. After weeks of being swallowing the government line, being po-faced, telling me we can’t visit each other (too far not to stay), lecturing me on wearing a mask and telling me our death rate is higher than the rest of the EU put together so sorry but lockdown must continue, she, a privileged middle-class white woman, has gone to a bloody virtue signalling BLM demonstration at the American Embassy.

@HesterShaw1 you couldn’t make it up could you.

The thing that has totally baffled me is the gleeful reporting that the R is 1.01 in the Northwest when we are told alongside that it is hard to accurately determine. Eh..?

Don't be, Library. I am hopeful that in spite of a whole load of not socially distanced protesting, there will be next to no impact on the figures. Proof that it isn't instant death to stand next to someone.

I'd be pissed about the lecturing, but that's a different story!

There might be a second wave, but there might not. If there is one we’re in a better position now, we know more about the virus and are finding drugs which help treat the symptoms and reduce the severity of it. There does seem to be some evidence it’s getting weaker, and while I don’t think this is universally agreed on I haven’t seen a single suggestion from anywhere it’s getting stronger.

I also thought that picture was of all the old people going off for a bingo and sherry party while the children looked on in envy. The painter missed a trick though, it needed an escalator ascending into the heavens with Jesus smiling beatifically at the top welcoming them.

The thing that has totally baffled me is the gleeful reporting that the R is 1.01 in the Northwest when we are told alongside that it is hard to accurately determine. Eh..?

I pointed this out on a thread last night. At least, I thought I had pointed it out. I didn't actually read the responses to be honest, because even the little bits you get to see on Threads I'm On looked frothing and furious and patronising, as though I had somehow managed to remain unaware of what the R number is supposed to mean . So I didn't revisit the thread. All I meant was that the implications of any R number (and calculating it doesn't appear to be an exact science) are far from clear and vary greatly according to local conditions.

No disrespect to the Indy voters, they have my love and sympathy. And kisses xx

Don't be killing them all off with kisses.

A few many years ago I took A level Christian Theology, one module was Morals and we were advised to get a paper to keep up with current affairs, a broadsheet was the most recommended. My parents have been reading The Times ever since.

I'm a good few pages behind on the thread but I'm finding the stuff on welsh and Scottish schools fascinating (clearly there's not much going on here ) and I like it being on this thread. I'm in england but no schools open in our area apart from for the key worker kids.

Also, that picture wtf.

@HesterShaw1 @goldenomber - it's the sunk cost fallacy!! In fact @Hester I think you're probably right. A friend was saying but what if our sacrifices were all for nothing... I'd rather stop now then than persist!

@HesterShaw1

Apparently our total idiot of a PM exclaimed "Christ!" on Tuesday when it was put to him that shutting down the UK tourism season might result in 3 million unemployed. Like it had only just occurred to him.

Christ indeed.

That's what happens when they give him reports to read instead of just letting him look at the pictures.

Delurking. Came in for a sanity fix, saw that painting and now feel the need to lie down in a dark room. When I've recovered, I'll go and torment dementors some more by asking awkward questions about spikes which are constantly on the way but never actually arrive. Reminds me of being a teenager waiting endlessly for a number 22 bus in Hackney

No new deaths in Scotland... how are the Scottish dementors going to spin this one??

@countrygirl99

When the radio came on this morning someone was talking about Abraham being prepared to sacrifice Isaac and how wonderful it was that he didn't question what God was asking of him. I just lay there and thought he'd be a sodding dementor and wondered why such a lack of critical thought was considered so praise worthy.

Yeah, that story's always backfired with me because it convinced me that any god that wants unquestioning obedience and will troll you with making you murder your own child is not a god I have any interest in.

Whilst it is great news that there are no new deaths here, I suspect the spin will be that we need to ensure that we keep away from dirty infected England and their horribly high R rate.

@Pleasedontdothat

No new deaths in Scotland... how are the Scottish dementors going to spin this one??

It’s alright, Sturgeon’s on it. ‘We can’t read too much into it, it’s always lower at the weekend’

Well yes it is. But seeing as it was 9 on the previous two Sundays and 20 something before that, I think we can safely say it is a positive downward trend.

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/media/the-guardians-guide-to-why-you-shouldnt-enjoy-that-20200605197242?format=amp

Oh god! Yes, the drawbridge will be up now to prevent The English Virus killing us all!!!!

@Willitneverend I would also like to gather opinion from other Scottish parents as to how many are happy with "blended learning" pish from August til god knows when, because I certainly am not. I was thinking about petitioning the government to try to get them to reconsider and actually look at the risks with scientific evidence. Don't know if it would do any good but has to be worth a shot.

I've emailed John Swinney and my MSP.