Anti-dementors riding the roller coasters

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And going to pubs, restaurants and zoos!

ISaySteadyOn
Oh i cant chose! Elephants, meerkats, big cats. Just love them all. Will happily wander round for hours with you.

Twitter seems to have gone from an Indignation Machine to an Irrational Mob machine.

That sums it up well, and FB too. It's all very much agree with me...or else.

@Orangeblossom78

Hello - just had another one from school

"I do hope that you and your families emerge unscathed, if that is possible"

Jesus wept

I’ve just come off my weekly family zoom meet up. My dad was having home grown potatoes with his dinner, which he planted on the day of our very first lockdown zoom meet, that’s how long this has all been going on.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito

Wales, you total bastard, I wanted to do this one!

Hello all. My my, we do crack through these threads don't we?

Maybe you can do tomorrows!

In the briefing today- good news about many people with mild / no symptoms I thought

Hancock says there are some people who don't have symptoms but do have the virus.

He says an ONS study showed 70-80% of people who test positive for the virus don't have symptoms and "that is a significant finding".

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/11/prof-karol-sikora-covid-19-death-toll-may-less-half-has-recorded/

Article about how deaths are recorded. The BTL comments are interestinf

But no mention of this positive, it is all about how they need to isolate etc

Someone DH works with went into hospital with stomach pains (which turned out to be kidney stones) was routinely tested for covid and tested positive. He had absolutely no symptoms and never went on to develop any.

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Just come back from a murdering spree - drove 20 miles from the house (two fingers up at Sturgeon’s 5 mile limit) and went for a lovely walk through the woods.

Did notice that the traffic was heavier than a week ago and the local high street seemed to have a lot more people about.

It does feel that people are ready to get back to normal.

@Orangeblossom78

In the briefing today- good news about many people with mild / no symptoms I thought

Hancock says there are some people who don't have symptoms but do have the virus.

He says an ONS study showed 70-80% of people who test positive for the virus don't have symptoms and "that is a significant finding".

Why do I not feel enthused about all this deprivation, isolation and inconvenience for an illness that doesn't make people ill?

Whatever happened to taking your own body bag to school?

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TheGreatWave - I feel your pain!
Really feeling that SocMedia is the work of the devil.

Comment from BBC on briefing:

"The messaging from the government is necessarily more subtle now in the long chronic stage of coronavirus - encouraging people to head out and about again, etc etc, but simultaneously driving home the idea that you might only be a phone call away from a fortnight's domestic incarceration.

Note the language from Matt Hancock: the defence metaphor, a comparison with radar.

"You have your part to play. Participation is your civic duty."

Whatever happened to taking your own body bag to school?

That, along with ice rinks as temporary morgues, have been my absolute favourite bonkers dements.

Nooooo... is ordered body bags from wowcher in anticipation

Not like I can't participate really.
Freedom from not freedom too.

Obviously 2 weeks isolation and I'd misd a couple of outings to the supermarket, but that's about it really.

I know why they are dementoring about the isolation thing. Apparently most people won't do it. Some studies show. So they are dementing us to do it

What a positive that 80% don't have symptoms and are adding themselves to the people who therefore are immune after. Fantastic news you would think.

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I feel like on a Tuesday/wednesday when the DEATH numbers do their little spike jump that the dementors are all "see, see, numbers are high again this is why you cant believe the low weekend figures! House arrests for one and all!!" But then on thursday when they go back down again and lower than the week before it gets a bit tumbleweedy.

To be fair, there were plans to use Milton Keynes ice rink as a morgue at one point. I'm not sure if it ever was though.

@Flippety my p7 is getting an hour and a half transition in one classroom with ten people

I am quite fed up of Twitter too but if anyone on there wants something cheerier to read, follow Coronavirus Good News (@Coronavirusgoo1). Only tweets good things that have happened. Bio: "Every time you wake up you’re one day closer to it being over."

A snap poll by YouGov found that 58 per cent of people want the rules to be kept at the current distance, while just under a quarter (24 per cent) want it dropped to one metre.

Support for the shorter social limit increased with older generations, with 32 per cent of those over 65 preferring the one metre rule, compared to 17 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds.

^the absolutely most depressing part of that is the 18-24 year old bit, they've seriously been brainwashed.

Whatever happened to taking your own body bag to school?

^that was my favourite ever (byobb), makes me lol even now Fucking lunatics.

@Orangeblossom78 we just shout at the radio when Handjob is on now.

Is there ONE single image of him where he hasn't got his mouth open? If that was my child I'd be thinking "adenoids...definitely adenoids...." I'd have him down the Royal Cornwall by now to have 'em whipped out.

@BogRollBOGOF Indeed! And yet hidden away beneath the screaming, the possibility/probability of some/many being asymptomatic was always there.
Ditto, it has never stopped being true that the greatest "risk factor" is age. Still, to be fair to the dementors, no one's ever died of anything before (I can't think what has happened to my grandparents and dad and uncle and Uni friend and all my mum's friends. Presumably they just went to live with the fairies under mushrooms cos there was no Covid when they "died" so it can't have happened). Not that I'm bitter.