Anti dementors not (second) waving but flouting

[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

Welcome one and all. Bad days, good days...we're here for you all

@Wales it is the cult of COVID you are absolutely right!!

that sounds like an awfully jolly evening

They did at least lay on good snacks!!

I have a friend who has very generously gone back to ICU nursing after a few years away. She left because she was burnt out and I thought she was incredibly brave early on in this to decide to help - she has a young child and didn't need to go back. It was right at the beginning when we didn't know how many young NHS staff might die but we needed every nurse we could get. Except now, she's full of doom and clearly very frightened of the virus. And I get it, she's seeing the worst of it daily but she's lost all proportion. In her mind scores of young healthy people are going to die. She's stopped seeing the fact most people are fine and have been fine.

I did have a read of this and have a chuckle today www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-52768456

There are fears of a serious second peak in Hull. A doctor says 'Should there be a second peak, for example if there's an outbreak in a large care home or people begin to flout social distancing rules, Hull could quite feasibly experience a second peak which is more severe than the first'

You could write so many other articles like that couldn't you? 'Should there be an asteroid, many thousands might be killed.' 'Should the Russians invade, many English people might be murdered.' 'Should there be a plague of insects descend on the town, our crops might be wiped out.'

If there were reasons (like geographical isolation) why a first peak wasn't that bad, there is every reason to be optimistic that a second peak would be similar, given people would be more vigilant and cautious the second time round. And we now know to be far more careful about testing care home residents and not sending untested people into them from hospitals.

And work is also going to throw women under the bus by implementing extended core hours of 7am to 10pm, and weekend working so that we can work more flexibly. Lots of bollocking on about ‘choice’.

What that effectively means is women can look after children all day and then work all evening, having literally not a minute to themselves, ever.

a 3 month backlog of customers, its going to take bloody ages to book a haircut...

It’ll take a while to catch up, specially if they can't have as many people in the salon at one time, but it’s not a three-month backlog because some people would have had three cuts in that time and will only need one now.

Just received this text: NHS COVID-19 Notification: Dear X
Birth date - X

Your coronavirus test result is negative. You did not have the virus when the test was done.

Stick that in your pipe, dementors!

You could write so many other articles like that couldn't you? 'Should there be an asteroid, many thousands might be killed.' 'Should the Russians invade, many English people might be murdered.' 'Should there be a plague of insects descend on the town, our crops might be wiped out.'

But...but...but...people could DIE!

Should Grand Canaria* slide into the sea a massive tsunami could wipe out the entire eastern seaboard of the USA and most low lying areas of western and northern Europe. That's another one.

*might not be Grand Canaria. Might be another Canary island. But STILL, the threat remains. Geologists have said so, and I watched a programme.

Licky the response will be that means you are still vulnerable and so may still sadly die

The look-up tool on the Beeb and other places: does anyone know if it shows total cases since they started counting, or just what they consider to be active cases? Because 865 current cases out of a population of 474,395 has very different implications to 865 total cases including people who’ve recovered out of a population of 474,395, if you’re trying to risk assess the chance of actually meeting someone infectious. The text says, "Public Health England release a daily update on how many confirmed cases of coronavirus there are in each English county", but it's not clear what that means.

I can't find anywhere that gives any sort of detail on current cases. We have a huge swathe of England grouped together as Yorkshire-and-the-north-east which covers some very varied areas: wealthy towns, impoverished cities, sparsely-populated farmland and tourist spots.

@ThatLibraryMiss

The look-up tool on the Beeb and other places: does anyone know if it shows total cases since they started counting, or just what they consider to be active cases? Because 865 current cases out of a population of 474,395 has very different implications to 865 total cases including people who’ve recovered out of a population of 474,395, if you’re trying to risk assess the chance of actually meeting someone infectious. The text says, "Public Health England release a daily update on how many confirmed cases of coronavirus there are in each English county", but it's not clear what that means.

I can't find anywhere that gives any sort of detail on current cases. We have a huge swathe of England grouped together as Yorkshire-and-the-north-east which covers some very varied areas: wealthy towns, impoverished cities, sparsely-populated farmland and tourist spots.

I want to know that too.

It's obvious that we can't be trusted with actual statistics.

I’m another who may scream or even stab myself in the eyeball in the eyeball if I see ‘when it’s safe’ or ‘second wave’ again!

In fact, I can feel my blood pressure rising just writing the words

@Thighmageddon I think it's total cases because ours has always gone up never down!

I’m another who may scream or even stab myself in the eyeball in the eyeball if I see ‘when it’s safe’ or ‘second wave’ again!

Along with social fucking distancing. Or worse, "socially distanced".

"I had a cheeky glass of wine in a friend's garden the other day - socially distanced - and we had a lovely girly chat"

NOE ONE CARES!

How about "My mate and I shared an entire box of wine inside on the sofa, not socially distanced, because we're so pissed off with all this shit. And we slagged off people like you"?

I'm so annoyed I spelt no wrong

Obviously I already outed myself as a Rishi fan on the previous thread but I'm becoming overly invested in him staging a coup at the moment. DH says he's going to wait for BoJo to totally fuck up this and Brexit and then swoop but I'm hoping for action sooner! This from him on Sky News this morning:
"I personally think every day our children are not at school is a tragedy"
He goes on to say at lot more, in a pretty calm and measured way. I really hope he's got some influence over Boris (and, let's face it, DC)

How about "My mate and I shared an entire box of wine inside on the sofa, not socially distanced, because we're so pissed off with all this shit. And we slagged off people like you"?

HesterShaw1 even worse than a ‘socially distanced drink’ is ‘a social distanced drink’. Which is so grammatically appalling it makes me want to gauge my eyes out!

@HesterShaw1 that made me laugh, you reminded me very much of my long-lost mate in Exeter who used to write me emails in codde-histirickall Englysshe (we were writing a very silly book together)

@Dowser

Here you go: www.lymeregis.org/Marine-Theatre-Webcam.aspx

The one on the end of the Cobb is currently off line. I think there's a similar thing in Swanage, there's definitely one in West Bay and I'd be amazed if there isn't one at Lulworth too

@Dowser
Should have added that the camera swings around a bit so if it's looking at the sea when you arrive, wait a bit and you'll see the tumbleweed very soon

I can't keep up with these threads but just wanted to say thank you for keeping the conversation going. Whenever I have a low moment I pop on and read a random page from thread just to remind me that I'm not alone in thinking that this is all just so so wrong.

I'm planning on breaking all the rules by taking DD to Sweden for a couple of weeks during the summer holidays. On a plane, shock horror! Hoping the quarantine rules will have been dropped by then otherwise we'll just have to chill at home and in the garden for two weeks. It will be worth it to see my mum in a non lockdown country.

Good for you @littleswede. I keep fantasising about going somewhere/anywhere at the moment where I can feel normal. I could head to France as I've got somewhere to stay but am trying to decide how welcome I'd be.

I’m starting to hear more stories of the impact of delaying treatment and gps not seeing patients. Now they’re starting to do some work a lot more damage has been done because of the delays. They’re not my stories to tell but I’m very angry that people will be living for decades with the impact and increased risk due to delays and not being seen by doctors. It makes me even more angry when people shrug this off and basically say it was bad timing to need treatment. The NHS wasn’t just set up to treat one condition.
One thing I’ve got from this thread is the relief that other people care about these things too. I’m lucky that so far I haven’t needed any medical advice or intervention but lots of people have and I care about them.
Screw you COVID Gods.

I long for a holiday. This has made me decide that I will take Ds out for a term time holiday and I will not feel guilty about it. I'll pay the fine if they're still enforcing it but I'm not going to take anyone seriously who tells me I'm single handedly ruining his education.

that made me laugh, you reminded me very much of my long-lost mate in Exeter who used to write me emails in codde-histirickall Englysshe (we were writing a very silly book together)

Oh that sounds fun!

I don’t know how they plan to justify holiday fines now. Either attendance is important or it isn’t. I mean I think it is but it appears the people who actually could open the schools disagree so what the hell do I know?