Anti dementors flock together

[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

Gather here anti dementors

I’m thinking of cancelling and booking somewhere in England while there’s still availability. Are they on drugs?

I was thinking that. I rarely get closer than a meter to people I don't know!

We booked Devon. I’ll just ignore all the ‘fuck off, you’re not welcome’ signs the locals have put up

I’d go for up north somewhere I’ll leave it a couple of weeks and then reassess. Ffs we walk further than that 🤷🏻‍♀️

@rookiemere

Oh sod it, it was a tedious poem about how 2020 has been sent to try us and we can all work together to make a brighter new future except those of us with poor technological skills

God. Was it that "what if this was exactly the year we were supposed to have?" shite? If so I saw it and it was exactly as dire as the rest of the Covid "poetry".

Maybe we need to bring the crinoline back. For everyone, men as well. That’d ensure social distancing alright

Come to Redcar and have a yellow top.

Just spoken to my Mum - well the government and media have worked a good un on them, they are the ones shooting up the bank on the canal path - I tried to reassure her that you are passing each other for a few seconds, the WHO and other countries recommend 1m and as long as you don't cough all over it will be ok.

She is really fearful of going to shops etc.

what if this was exactly the year we were supposed to have?

Ugh I saw that and I just thought fuck off.

I know I’ve said this before but covid poetry needs to do one.

3 times now I have 'shut down' facebook threads started by dementor friends.

They post something daft or a dementorish meme. My post sympathises with the fear (or whatever) and then talks about actual figures and %ages and risk factors - and .... that's it, no one else posts. Not sure if they are convinced or just don't want to take someone on who is clearly deluded (me) but in 2 out of the 3 cases the original poster has 'liked' my post.

I'd like to think that they have been reading and listening to too much crap and my post actually brightened their day but that might be going too far.

My mum lives in Wales. A little while back she cracked and went to stay with my sis and the kids, before they all went completely crazy.

What planet are Drakeford and Sturgeon on? Does they even believe themselves?

Hello fellow anto-dementors,

Please, I need a virtual hug and help. I'm so so very sad. I have had to leave a group of mums I've been with since 2010 because I literally just cannot take their doom & gloom anymore. Reading about their annoyance that somewhere on mumsnet someone said about how we are worried for our kids mental health, and they were aghast that we would even consider that this situation is affecting their MH. It is all so cruel to these little people we made! Others terrified that their one SD wall in 3 months means they have the dreaded virus. I'm gutted, these people have been a big part of my mum life but I just cant bring my self to converse with people who thinks childrens mental health, well being and schooling in this time is a stupid concern when PEOPLE ARE DYING!

I'm so gutted I'm in fits of tears. I had an awful day at work and then read their messages & just crumbled. I couldn't read another paranoid, anxiety driven, cruel, dismissive word. I've been a lonely voice in a sea of derision there lately anyway.

@SpnBaby1967 [hugs]

I think the costs of lockdown and the complete refusal of some people to acknowledge that they exist are two of the hardest things about this whole situation. I feel like I don’t even need everyone to agree on what should be done to mitigate the costs, but at least don’t dismiss them or jeer at them, you know? Have a bit of empathy!

It’s best to distance yourself (socially or otherwise!) from people who are making you feel so unhappy, if you ask me.

spinbaby

It’s not much consolation I know but it’s when time’s are really hard you find out who your true friends are.

I really struggled to find mum-groups I got with to be honest. I have recently met some really great women via a cycling club and they’ve been fab through this. Interestingly the majority of them are child free but they are far less dismissive of the challenges of lockdown that a lot of women with children.

I’ve cheered myself up re Wales by looking at places in England. I’m actually tempted to book something else anyway. How many people will I kill if I have 2 caravan holidays this year?

@SpnBaby1967 sounds like a spectacularly shit day. Have an unmumsnetty hug.

I have discovered that there are lots of people I don't like very much anymore too. People who I thought were sensible aren't. Others who I thought were kind certainly aren't.

My mental health has been suffering so I can certainly imagine it's affecting others too of whatever age.

On bad days I feel like it's never ending. On better ones i think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. It can't go on forever.

I think it's been coming for a while when they wouldnt acknowledge that abuse of children is increasing vastly, and I know it is because it's my job to deal with it. But you know, we have to protect this elderly section of society so lockdown YAY! Why, why choose to protect that section of society and not the abused child section? Why not protect both? Why is it either or and why act like it's not really happening when I'm telling you its is!! I'm working overtime to deal with it.

That was when I started to realise I didnt fit with this group anymore. Still soooooo gutted though.

@Teateaandmoretea

I’ve cheered myself up re Wales by looking at places in England. I’m actually tempted to book something else anyway. How many people will I kill if I have 2 caravan holidays this year?

I’ve booked a week in Devon and a week on Center Parcs over the past 10 days. Full on murdering spree. Just looking after flights to Paris in November too!

*at

@Drivingdownthe101 I’ve already got another booked for October forgot about that one

Oh SpnBaby that's so rubbish.
My DH has lost friends and been driven out of a hobby he loved for the same thing. I hear you.
I think it will come good. I think in the end common sense will prevail. Because I think it must, I think human beings are not made to live in fear all the time. I think we're like those stubborn persistent little daisies that shove their heads up between the cracks in the pavement, people. Sometimes some bugger from the Council burns us to the ground with arsehole-ness and weedkiller but we come back, we rise. We're all still there at the roots.

Bless you for caring, lovely. Look after yourself tonight x.

spinbaby that sounds tough, I’m sorry .

SpnBaby1967 that's shit I know exactly where you are coming from. I have had to come off FB for the same reason.

It's a very odd thing that it seems so many women without children "get it" and those with children who are doing ok themselves simply can't understand why anyone else would be struggling.

It's a very odd thing that it seems so many women without children "get it" and those with children who are doing ok themselves simply can't understand why anyone else would be struggling.

Maybe it’s because actually they aren’t doing okay

Have a hug Spnbaby or at least some

I'm finding this stage more isolating than the beginning. At the start, there was a sense of in it together, the roads quiet, the pavements busy. I saw people in passing.

Now many are back to work/ school and some semblence of normality and our rut continues unchanged. The dementoring, moralising and hiding away makes it hard to identify and approach reasonable people to make contact with without them mistaking a social invitation as a death threat.