Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters

[Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy]

And going to pubs, restaurants and zoos!

We are locked down for 0.06?!

I was raging last week when it was 0.1%. Now my brain is pretty much fried. I'm not even angry now, it's gone beyond that I'm just completely bewildered. It's beyond insane.

Had a conversion with dd yesterday. I said Boris is still a young man, only 56
He still be under 60 when his term runs out and from what I’ve heard he has quite an ego.
I don’t think he will want his legacy to be..the man that ruined the country.
I think ( hope) he will be trying to get this country bask to normal Asap..while he’s in the driving seat..imagine leaving office with say all theatres closed Albert Hall closed etc and no chance of ever reopening...and it was all on your watch.

Does he want that! I don’t think so ( hope not)
I’m putting all my eggs in one basket here, aren’t I ?

Interestingly Ireland has just joined France in ruling out another full lockdown in the future.

Latest ONS figures show 0.06% infection prevalence, down from 0.1% last week and 0.24% the week before. And yet there will still be posters muttering about a spike from something..

When the fuck will it be low enough? Jesus. Let us out!!

@TrustTheGeneGenie I would definitely have spent this week in bed if I lived alone. I appreciate that it would probably be the worst thing for me, but I kind of wish I'd had the option!

Doubt there will be any good news today. It's Friday and the forecast is sun over the weekend 🙄

@rosettesforjill

Doubt there will be any good news today. It's Friday and the forecast is sun over the weekend 🙄

Yep. It’ll be Doom monger Whitty on the podium tonight, telling us how we’re risking certain death if we go out in the sun this weekend. Some mumbling about R rates being perilously close to 1 too.

I believe I can summarise the likely headlines, in homage to Private Baldrick.

Doom doom doom doom
Doom doom doom
Doom doom doom doom
Doom doom doom

That should cover all the possibilities.

The Independent article sets the scene with a nice picture of MNtters as upper-middle-class SAHMs discussing the servant problem so it was always going to be heavily value-laden. I’d love to know how much risk to the writer’s child is acceptable, and whether we all have to STAY THE FUCK AT HOME until it’s achieved.

I suppose an article that read, Social Media Site Had Unpleasant Thread That Was Deleted Within An Hour wouldn’t catch as much clickthru though.

Be warned, there's a pic of the charlatan Neil Ferguson at the top of this article, but if you can stomach that, this is a good story to read. You'll be cross at the end of it though:

www.spectator.co.uk/article/did-late-lockdown-double-covid-s-death-toll-fact-checking-neil-ferguson

@BarkandCheese, I see your Pom and raise you... two Poms.

(Yes, there is food on the stool just off the right of the photo.)

Hit wrong button, sorry. Poms.

Its meant to piss rain where I am [sigh]

Just checking in. Hello everyone.

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Proud of the anti dementors on the existing thread. Seems as though the tide has well and truly turned. Obviously there's still the 500,000 figure being clung to, but that's almost like an ironic comfort blanket at the moment.

ERMYGAAAAAAAAD WE'RE HAVING THE SPIKE IN CORNWALL YOU WERE ALL WRONG PEOPLE ARE DYING!!!!!!

Yeah all right according to the Zoe app prevalence has gone up from 0.4% to 0.5%.

Thanks to whoever posted the ft article up thread. Pretty much summed it up for me. As for the guardian article, I have a lot of sympathy for the author, we could well have been in her situation if dd1 had lived (as she would have almost certainly been in the shielding category) and I imagine the thread was very upsetting. However it was one horrible person (probably a troll) and isn't reflective of the vast majority of people on here. If you are going to look random troublemakers on the interweb get to you that much, then maybe it's time to take a break from it.

Not sure whether to find this hilarious or infuriating but dementors in the wild declaring play equipment infection machines and that'll open when people stop dying from this disease

www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/news/its-a-potential-covid-infection-machine-228608/

Sorry independent not guardian article

Interesting article here on what is "safe"

BMJ blog

Cheer me up Chumrades. I've had a morning of life admin and just written formal notice and reference letter for our lovely childminder. DD2 moves onto secondary in September so she was always going to leave at the end of term but it feels very real now. And I am sad that she is missing out on all the moving on fun and rituals which would allow her to end this happy part of her life. And then we have had the same childminder for the last 10 years and she's lovely. We'll all miss her.

Sir Samuel
My friend is 73 , tiny but very sprightly
Her son is 50 and very disabled. He’s very aware and can chat. Lovely man. Can’t walk at all., something like cerebral palsy. Not fat, but big tall man if standing.
She manages as he goes to a day centre every day. Normally.
Course all closed now.
She’s managed because the weather has been really good now she will be really struggling.
So many people in this position.
It’s just criminal.

"Vunerable" is such a big word.
Vulnerable to Covid.
Vulnerable to just about any illness.
Not vulnerable to Covid but vulnerable to the effects of virus control methods, social isolation, lack of education, loss of income, abuse.
There are people/ children who are vulnerable and being harmed now and everything was OK for them a few months ago.

It's the cost-benefit analysis and there are more people being harmed by Covid management than the benefits to them of being protected from it.

If you are shielding a medically vulnerable child, then the cost-benefit is worthwhile to you. For the majority of the population, that is not the case. For some older or very vulnerable people, they still might feel that with the odds stacked so far against them that it's not worth the costs of wasting life while the going is OKish.

But maintaining the country in suspended animation doesn't solve vulnerability issues and creates other forms of vulerability to others, and longer term, compromised health and education services will not assist your position anyway.

But at what point is your "normality" resumed?

@SomewhereEast

Interestingly Ireland has just joined France in ruling out another full lockdown in the future.

Ooh really?

I sort of feel like ruling out future lockdowns is halfway to an acknowledgement that they are not worth the harm they do.

That library miss
It’s blonde highlights I need
My hairdresser isn’t coming back
Mr Dowser is going to have to dive in..or I’ll withhold his haircuts

The Us For Them Campaign, which wants to reopen schools without social distancing, has set up country FB pages for Scotland, NI and Wales if anyone wants to join. The Wales one is pretty quiet at the moment but the Scotland one has more members. I assume the general one focuses on England. I know some people were thinking about actions they can take and this might help.

www.facebook.com/pg/UsforthemUK/groups/?referrer=pages_groups_card_cta&ref=page_internal