Anti dementors not (second) waving but flouting

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

Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters

I like this one too. Maybe Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters out of lockdown ?

Yes I feel a bit down because of the weather. Am sure I suffer from SAD?

Have any of you seen Peter Hitchens on YouTube? Dh is always watching him. Michael Levitt too. Apologies if these are well known on here.

I like the double entendre of the rollercoasters. We seem to get 2-3 days out of a thread so we've still got time to do something like Anti-Dementors hit the High Street or Anti-Dementors; better than retail therapy in a timely fashion for Monday.

The weather is definitely affecting my mood, but I find I'm much more volatile all round. I get arm-flailingly Kermit the Frog YAAAAAAY about small things but then really get brought down by small things, or just by the ongoing grind of there being nowhere to go and nothing to do and the borders of Dementors sucking away at any sign of positivity like turbo-depressive Hoovers.

One foot in front of the other. We're getting there, we really are.

Am sure I suffer from SAD?

I thought I did - had some terrible winters basically wanting to hibernate but I was outside in light fair bit. I kept eyeing up light bulbs and lamps and trying a few things.

Read on here might be vitamin D - so took a supliment all last winter at higher rate than NHS recommended and I have been so much better.

Weeks of rain did still leave me a bit flat still- but not the huge exhaustion of proceeding years.

Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters out of lockdown

I like it. It's a statement.

And the forecast is much better again next week. I'm sure I for one will feel better again soon, and I hope so much some of you do too.

Yes I feel a bit down because of the weather. Am sure I suffer from SAD?

Me too. I tried sunlight lamps but didn't help me. Vit d has made me feel a bit better though. I worked in an office with no windows which was awful!

UK total deaths today down to 151. Gosh, looks like doing socially distanced street congas for VE Day doesn’t bring on second waves after all!

(but I’m sure the VE Day spike will hit any day now. Any day now. Just like the Easter one, and the other bank holiday one, and all the others which mysteriously still haven’t turned up.)

Ibake
You're right. It's coming to something when we're losing the plot on the only sensible place on the Internet! But that's the problem with this shit show isn't it. Individually, it's having a horrible effect on many, and societally, it is not just divisive but also depressing in its infantilisation of the population. No wonder so many are depressed, furious or a bit of both. Everything I've cherished about our society, I now feel totally different about. The NHS, unions, teachers (no, obviously not all! I'm trusting you sensible people to know what I mean!), the BBC, the Guardian, Wales and self-government, even Nicola Sturgeon, who I used to think was just fab; and everyone who uses the term 'vulnerable' to mean 'vulnerable to Covid' and then shouts down and 'despairs' at anyone asking about other vulnerabilities.
And yes, how Neil Ferguson continues to be trusted with modelling I have no idea, but really the blame has to lie with those making the decisions as to which 'science' to follow, ie the government. What a fucking shower.
In positive news I wrote to my MP and also to our headteacher. + signed the Usforthem petition. Just to feel like I'm doing something.

And in other positive news, the Zoe app is reporting a 50% drop in infections (UK) since last week!

I've been taking vitamin d for months even before covid was highlighted. Dh and ds2 must rattle they take so much.

Particularly in London, honestly, it now looks to me like the virus simply burned its way through the susceptible and out again and lockdown has done precisely nothing. I caught the virus right at the start of lockdown from DH who caught it before we locked down, and I can tell you for sure that London is as densely populated as it ever was and millions of its people have been in contact with each other every day throughout lockdown and increasingly since we began to loosen, and yet we trend down and down and down. There's only so much social distancing that's possible in a city like this unless you hibernate inside for months.

We will only know for sure when we forensically examine the excess deaths patterning when this is some way behind us, but we really have to consider the possibility that lockdown did nothing or very little. And I do say this as someone who initially supported it.

@GoldenOmber

UK total deaths today down to 151. Gosh, looks like doing socially distanced street congas for VE Day doesn’t bring on second waves after all!

(but I’m sure the VE Day spike will hit any day now. Any day now. Just like the Easter one, and the other bank holiday one, and all the others which mysteriously still haven’t turned up.)

Judging by the second wave "surfers" (they want it to be big and never ending...oooer missus), the Easter spike is scheduled for October and the VE one is going to be upon us March 2022. It's a FACT because their NDN knows somebody, who knows somebody, whose best friend's sister's exh is a porter in the hospital and he SHOULD KNOW!!!

@Ibake aw, boys are so funny, he sounds so like mine! How old is he?

Particularly in London, honestly, it now looks to me like the virus simply burned its way through the susceptible and out again and lockdown has done precisely nothing.

It really does doesn’t it? And same pattern of cases rapidly falling away in New York as well.

it now looks to me like the virus simply burned its way through the susceptible and out again and lockdown has done precisely nothing

I think similar plus virus has been here much longer than first thought - though at time of lockdown picture was less clear.

I also don't blame people who are in vunerable group or have family who are for being very worried still.

Radio 4 Today program this morning was talking about Margaret Theaters advisers advise, Ministers decide saying and mentioing some Bristol group, who amoung many others,have pointed out that counting back from the peak meant infections were dropping pre-lockdown.

So maybe things are filtering through to the media and they may start asking less frequently questions about too soon to lift lockdown to why aren't we or at what point will we type questions.

Not me @mascotte. It's a fellow baker @bakingcupcakes. My boys are big boys now (although both have inky bedding from their alleged A Level revision last year)

@GoldenOmber

Particularly in London, honestly, it now looks to me like the virus simply burned its way through the susceptible and out again and lockdown has done precisely nothing.

It really does doesn’t it? And same pattern of cases rapidly falling away in New York as well.

Yes - the situation might be more complex in other, particularly more rural areas, where lockdown (or stringent SD as in Sweden) may have arrested the spread but then again it also leaves a larger population who are likely to be susceptible in future if that is the case, and thus more chance of a rebound in cases. It will take a long term perspective to work out if we would have been better off to isolate the very vulnerable and let the virus simply burn itself out in the general population. And adopting that strategy, to be fair, would probably require us to have a higher degree of knowledge about whether the whole population is susceptible or whether, per Gupta and Friston, it's a relatively small %.

Oops @Ibake 😃

Big, huge massive hugs for anyone and everyone who needs them.

Today's not been too bad so far chez farting. Dc1 has done some work, dc2 hasn't created havoc and we went to a supermarket, no queue to get in, nice and quiet, and bought a lot of crap that I probably didn't need, but will keep us in treats!

I think my mental state is better knowing that my friend is legally allowed to come round, and we can have a bit of a day out somewhere further afield. We have felt compelled to stay in whenever they've visited 'just in case'. Neighbours must have noticed as they drive here, but all the ones who are close, know my situation and so are happy for me to have company.

Another SAHM here. Have been since dc1 has born. It made sense to remain so when he started school as there isn't really anyone I could call on at short notice if needed. I am more than happy with my lot in normal times. But, as pps have said, that includes volunteering at a stay and play group, going to parks, going for coffee or to someone's house for a catch up/playdate, school drop off/pickup chats, shopping (not my favourite activity but ok) etc Weekends and school holidays are times for bigger days out. We have lots of memberships - nt, zoo etc and make use of them. This is driving me nuts!! Dc1 is junior age, he's pretty damn good! Once we found a routine he's been happy doing some school work, going for walks/on scooter and playing in the garden. But watching far too much tv (even decent stuff like bitesize and horrible histories) and playing on tablet more than ever before. DC2 is a toddler. Not very verbal (I am thinking speech delay). Can't understand why the world has changed and is far too happy watching disney+ and cbeebies, while playing. I have never been hung up on screen time, and it wasn't really an issue before, because we were out.

I have no family of my own and in laws have their own stuff going on. My best friend is amazing, and we message all day virtually. Even though they know dcs really well, it wasn't until they visited they really got how tough it is - and they were only here a few hours.

@Mascotte He's 5. To be fair for as hard as I find it sometimes with it just being me and him he does provide a lot of entertainment. And quite often it's when I least expect it.

@bakingcupcakes just me and my boy too, though he's a big twelve year old now. Still funny though. And we're getting on pretty well too despite this enforced confinement - he even came out on a picnic today!

"The SW R rate has gone up" screamed the dementors, "it's the second wave!!!!"

Or it could just be.....

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/musgrove-park-taunton-coronavirus-error-4214659

I'm unwilling to let go of the Ferguson rage.

"Anti Dementors: taking all our rage out on Neil Fucking Fergson since March 2020"

However I just caught myself humming so maybe writing it all down and letting it out was a good thing.

[quote trappedsincesundaymorn]"The SW R rate has gone up" screamed the dementors, "it's the second wave!!!!"

Or it could just be.....

www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/musgrove-park-taunton-coronavirus-error-4214659[/quote]
Trapped, I prefer the story about "Concerns over discovery of laughing gas canisters and people having sex" (not sure whether they're concerned that people are having sex, or discovering them, but ho hum)
Containing the immortal quote - /"Since we have been reopening parks, we have had an increase in people leaving litter behind and in Royal Victoria Park bins were set on fire as well," said Mr Crossley, cabinet member for community services.

"Some of our beauty spots are having a lot of visitors and people are not obeying social distancing rules... There has been inappropriate behaviour between consenting adults. A couple was allegedly sg in a car park."/