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Gather here anti dementors

If you know where I live, keep schtum

An hour and half transition for DS before high school. In one classroom.

Only communication from school other than instructions for buying uniform. They can fuck right off with that.

That's interesting, @thighmageddon.

I had a weird thing last December that started quite hard so I was worried enough to go out and buy loads of OTC remedies because I thought it was going to be bad. It was quite flu-ey. And then it just lifted, leaving me very tired but otherwise OK. No way to know what it was, of course, big I have wondered.

Naturally, if it was Covid I may be totally responsible for the second wave because I went out

I had a horrendous cough through most of November, it does make you wonder.

@Allflightscancelled

That's interesting, *@thighmageddon*.

I had a weird thing last December that started quite hard so I was worried enough to go out and buy loads of OTC remedies because I thought it was going to be bad. It was quite flu-ey. And then it just lifted, leaving me very tired but otherwise OK. No way to know what it was, of course, big I have wondered.

Naturally, if it was Covid I may be totally responsible for the second wave because I went out

You're not alone, I went back to work whilst still coughing but y temp had gone down so don't feel bad.

If it was CV then we may have single handedly spread it far and wide

@BogRollBOGOF
Yr post a few pages back was so well put. It's exactly what I have been thinking but every time I try to put it into words I start feeling all furious and hysterical so can't trust myself to put it in writing!

@Bellesavage

That almost perfectly describes the issue.

I absolutely get why individual teachers dont want to replicate work. But why aren't SMT sorting it out? As I understand it FE are a little outside the standard schooling setup anyway so it should be entirely in their remit to do it.

My day job is a healthy dose of project management of multi discipline projects. I don't need to know the detail of how something is achieved, I can't be expected to give detailed guidance on how something is achieved (generally outside of my competence anyway). I have to assume competence on the part of the team - therefore if I ask for the impossible then I expect to be told what can be delivered.

There seems to be a distinct lack of this in the current discourse.

@Orangeblossom78 - that probably is the nub of the issue.

@Dowser totally reasonable, no one under 12 needs exercise after all

@TrustTheGeneGenie

Personally, once we are out of this, I'm never going back in. I don't mean to be melodramatic but I honestly think I'd rather just cease to exist. And I'm lucky to be able to say that's not something I've ever felt before

Me too. I said the same to dp and he was visibly shocked but this isn't living.

I feel the same. I love life and have no taste for melodrama, but I hope I'm dead before another lockdown is ever mooted.

I think the worst thing is that there are going to be calls for lockdown right left and centre from now on. I reckon we’d have had one for swine flu if it had been after this debacle.

I am so fed up with WFH. I go in one day a week at the weekend and get lots done, but there is only one other person there. I miss being part of a busy group of people, being able to chat over work stuff (or non-work stuff) over coffee or lunch. Some building alteration has just been undertaken which means my desk is no longer next to a busy thoroughfare so it would probably be safe to go back now but as I am one of only two that can WFH at all I feel I ought to do my bit by lowering the amount of people in the building.

Also it would feel mean leaving my two teen DCs at home all day, I know they don't need me as such (apart from tech issues) but when they are facing being home till September it feels a bit insensitive if I waltz off back to work. I will talk to them about it. They might like me out of the house for a bit!

@Teateaandmoretea

I think the worst thing is that there are going to be calls for lockdown right left and centre from now on. I reckon we’d have had one for swine flu if it had been after this debacle.

Bloody hell you’re right! Any hint of a potential virus will mean calls of ‘lockdown hard immediately!’

Shit. I'v just shouted at DD as she's getting so lazy with schoolwork. I've tried so hard but I'm not a teacher. I can't make her click with English work and she really wants me to do it for her. I've finally snapped with it all. I want to cry. She's upstairs. This is making us both miserable. There's a reason I don't homeschool!

OH had a nasty chest infection late Jan that took weeks to clear. Not only was he going out as soon as possible (self employed) but he was going from house to house and some of his customers are elderly. Clearly a serial killer.

Coronavirus deaths: Weekly fall in total number of fatalities

In Wales, there were 105 deaths in the seven days to that date - the lowest weekly total since March and the fifth successive fall in the weekly total.

The virus accounted for 17.9% of all deaths registered.

The number of deaths for all causes fell to 587 - still 41 higher than the five-year average for this week. But this number of so-called "excess" deaths is lower than the previous week.

I wonder how many excess deaths are one that have happend due to delay in treatments but then they are also falling.

Still good news - as it keeps falling it's got to be harder and harder to justify keeping stuff closed.

I'm also having issues with keeping the kids on track with academic work - I'd say school work but that's such as small proportion.

Hi all!

I’ve been in the most vile mood all week. Everyone and everything is pissing me off.

We had a holiday booked with some friends for the end of August that I was hoping we’d still be able to go on, but they’ve turned into major dementors and don’t want to go as it’s not safe so we’ve cancelled.

Hopefully we’ll be able to book something else but it was the last thing to look forward to

DD has had her timetable for school - 3 hours, 1 day a week. She’s not with any of her friends though so is really upset. They’ve sent a video of the changes they’ve made in school which doesn’t look too bad, they don’t have to wear uniform either. It’s a good chance for her to catch up with teachers with things she’s struggling with, but I did hope they’d at least put her in a group with her friends. She struggles with anxiety so badly that not being with just 1 friend has sent her off on a meltdown

I reckon we’d have had one for swine flu if it had been after this debacle.

That prick Neil Ferguson with his bullshit 500,000 dead in the UK model called for one, I think.

500,000 people haven't died in the ENTIRE WORLD.

Why is nobody calling out what crap he was talking (and not for the first time, the publicity-courting fraud)?

@Mascotte

An hour and half transition for DS before high school. In one classroom.

Only communication from school other than instructions for buying uniform. They can fuck right off with that.

We've had a 4 minute video for DD2's transition to junior school. Only real reason the SENCO actually called me was that I've been picking up the eldest at the school so reminded him repeatedly he was going to!

I tell you what, if my DS expresses an inclination to study at Imperial College I shall move heaven and earth to stop him - how come every time the media need a "the end of the world is extremely fucking nigh!" opinion piece they fetch out someone from Imperial??

Bloody hell you’re right! Any hint of a potential virus will mean calls of ‘lockdown hard immediately!’

If we have economic devastation I think we won't be able to afford to in future even with a more deadly virus.

I’ve just seen the MN dementor I know in real life slagging off us anti dementors on another thread

I got an e-mail for my y6 from the secondary school - giving school times and uniform requirments - heard nothing about visiting.

I've heard nothing form either primary or secondary about time they'll get before end of term either yet.

An idea, possibly a rubbish one but who knows? We know Boris is swayed by public opinion but is also normally more of a libertarian (I've been astonished at how much a right wing government has embraced this dystopian way of life). The dementors screech louder than us as it's so hard to speak up in an echo chamber. Maybe we should be writing, in our droves, to the powers that be stating that we don't support this any longer and using facts and figures to support our arguments. Maybe we've not been noisy enough in expressing how we feel and they think the dementors speak for the general public?
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You get the gist, they all follow the same format. Obvs won't be them reading them but if their inboxes suddenly fill with people like us maybe that will filter through?

Nicola just telling us we shouldn’t feel as if life is getting back to normal. No danger Mrs seeing as fuck all is still open.

Neil Ferguson is a giant twat. My brother did his PHD at Imperial and is definitely an anti dementor though. He does not think Imperial are doing themselves any favours at the moment.

My brother is now a research scientist and says amongst his friends and colleagues in the science world they are all utterly sick of hearing about ‘following the science’ He says that there is barely any settled science on the benefit of a lockdown, it’s just a bunch of vague theories, whilst there is definitely settled science on the damage it’s doing. He was pretty scathing about Ferguson and other scientists media tart antics. Like many people, he doesn’t understand why Ferguson has such a hold on government opinion when he’s been so badly wrong in the past.