Anti dementors are going to hit the shops. Who wants to come?

[Shodan]

This'll be thread number 13, I think.

Let's hope it's a lucky one

(Sorry about the feeble title)

yes this is driving me absolutely insane. I know several people who spent seventy quid on one of those tests from superdrug, then refused to believe the results when they came back negative.

So many people are "sure" they had it because they had a cough back in January, because of course nobody ever gets a cough in January for any other reason.

To be fair to people we were all told that it was really, really contagious and we would pretty much all get it so it is not surprising people are sure they have had it.

I'm concerned by the implications on mental health with all this. My own which has been pretty great since DS was born has been shakey ground since easter and sometimes my feelings frighten me a bit. If I feel like this god knows what it's doing to others.

DS is going back to school on Monday!! I'm so pleased. It's 4.5 days and slightly shorter hours to allow for deep cleaning. School are expecting less than half of the years allowed to return. We were up there yesterday to see his teacher to collect more reading books. She gave me loads so I'm pleased and for the most part it was a very normal conversation just with a tiny bit of mentalness regarding the R rate at the end. Either way DS is pleased to be going. However he was a bit when teacher told him they can't play with the football. After we got home I got him to do some school work with me and it didn't end in tears. Yesterday was a good day really.

When he goes back I think I'll be going shopping. I've got bits I want to get from ikea, and DS needs underwear. It's all stuff where I can't be arsed to queue with him for one or two items but I could do with having them. I'm also going to go on a massive walk! Like a 2 hour one!

Dementor reporting:
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Lead in: the chances of a summer holiday seem remote with lots of the UK industry closed.

When are things opening? From the 4th July.

Sorry I am not seeing the relevance of the word REMOTE!!

I am booked, i'm going and I will send the BBC a fucking postcard.

The BBC's reporting on Covid has been repulsive right from the start. They are no better than the Daily Mail any more, in my opinion. I avoid them as much as possible

I’ve lost all respect for the BBC. Their reporting has been awful. And the articles so badly written.

My friends husband has got this "psychosis" thing. She's terrified for him. He was previously depressed and on medication but totally stable, happy, living a normal life. Never had any kind of health anxiety.

He is now terrified. Was furloughed from work and would not leave the house. Continuously called friend when she was at shops or out with the kids. Waking up in there middle of the night terrified that the kids were dead from covid. He's absolutely convinced that they will both die and leave the kids with no parents. It's horrendous. I feel desperately sorry for them all. Doctors have upped his meds but it's had no effect and won't or can't offer him any kind of therapy which he clearly desperately needs. she is worried he will do something stupid.

People like him are being neglected. It's not ok.

In other news my day has started really well as I've stood on a rusty nail on the nursery run goddammit.

blobby I’m glad your DH is ready to go. It’s funny because all the dentist threads I’ve seen here the last few months have had a “I’m a dentist and can’t wait to get back to work. People are hurting”. My friend HAD to donate all her PPE to nursing homes - then was hit with “but dentists don’t have any PPE!”. 🙄

From what I can remember, dentists have been doubly-triply on top of hygiene since those HIV cases in the 80s. For them it’s all a bit sucking eggs.

I was really worried about MH is this household, but apart from being ratty as fuck (DSM v5) we’re still standing. Funnily enough, the kids’ mental health perked right up the second they got to play with their friends.

Today I’m applying for a job which would potentially pay school fees - then I’m going to murder some pensioners at m&s because it’s barely even the apocalypse without decent tapas.

Tonight is the zoom call with the school.

I’m going with:
25% of parents pissed, slurring and with tics
25% full-on dementors incl. SAHM with oodles of cash who LIVE for “messy crafts”
25% worrying about education
25% get thy kids back to school so I can put food on the table.

The BBC's standards of journalism have been dropping for years.

Sky has been a better, more accurate, less biased TV news source for years now.

BBC addicted to "he said, she said" journalism and "common sense" rather than good sense editorial decisions.

baking I am totally with you on the two-hour walk. I was literally shaking at the start of this. Now I am good and that feeling I had at the start is a yardstick - I either feel reassured that I don't feel as bad as that or it's a warning when I feel things sliding that I cannot go back there so I need to do something.

@Nihiloxica

The BBC's standards of journalism have been dropping for years.

Sky has been a better, more accurate, less biased TV news source for years now.

BBC addicted to "he said, she said" journalism and "common sense" rather than good sense editorial decisions.

Completely agree. The BBC is on par with the Daily Mail now - just click bait. I think good quality journalism can only really now be found at The Times and the FT.

I've become aware of a few issues or topics that BBC journalism is dire on and yes I've started think Sky news is better.

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This was posted by the us for them movement. Survey about school age children if any of you want to get involved

But thank you for BBC bitesize. Just do that.

I watched a full episode of the evening BBC news a couple of weeks ago and was genuinely shocked. Spike this spike that, 10 minute indulgence trip masquerading as a "documentary" on a covid ward and some graphics of little people on public transport spewing covid all over each other. It was like a spoof.

For the first time in ages I've looked at some news stories and felt really sick with fear. It's actually highlighted how much better I've been doing recently because it was a big problem for me in March and April and it's obviously faded without me noticing.

It was all the 'serious new outbreak in China' and the cases in NZ and the rising cases in South America. And if I take a big step back, of course there are going to be outbreaks here and there. Of course very heavily populated, poor countries risk facing a battering. It's just horrible when it a story gets under your skin before you have time to stop and look at it with critical eyes. I feel vulnerable and I'm fearful about the economic damage being done. I want to crawl back into bed and ignore the world.

Mind don't tend to like BBC bitesize but I think it very useful to many other students.

However the on-line daily lessons have for some reason gone down very well - as we've watched some of the educational documentaries again on BBC 4 which are also good.

Plus things like horrible histories have been fantastic - they do some things well - shame news isn't now one of them.

10 minute indulgence trip masquerading as a "documentary" on a covid ward

They'll be congratulating each other on the amazing "access" without questioning what news value it had.

There are excellent reporters at the BBC, but the editorial is embarrassing at this point.

Newsnight is atrocious.

I thought they were dead right to chastise Maitlis for that woeful, biased speech about Cummings. It showed the are still some actual journalists making editorial decisions at a high level.

Welcome @professor. I hope you're feeling better today. I'm really missing theatre as well and god only knows when that will start up again. BBC is definitely full on dementor. FT and The Times are pretty good (maybe the Economist too?) Went off Sky when they reported the mass graves in Central Park. Apparently after some research it turns out this grave site is used every year anyway, for homeless people and others that cannot afford a funeral. Very sad but not related to Covid and peak dementoring. It really upset my mother in law who started to believe death was imminent. Luckily she's ok now.

I was known as a happy positive person before all this. I worried about stuff but not that much. This enforced misery and putting people against each other for just wanting normal things has pushed me into a state where I’m incredibly depressed all the time. I’m not surprised it’s having a huge impact. It’s like a black hole.

State healthcare and education fallen by the wayside... and yet we’re supposed to pay our license fee for propaganda.

I avoided the news so much I had to Google who Kier Starmer was and was left thinking what the heck happened to Jeremy?!

I just tried on a bra in a shop, it fit and I bought it! Let joy be unconfined!

But the boobs are confined, luckily

SummerHouse - at least you missed the leadership contest it was so dire it was funny at time.

Though I can't vote for them again even if I wasn't under Welsh labour at the minute.

I'm an Economist reader and I'm disappointed in their Covid reporting. They've accepted an uncritical "lockdowns are essential" line without applying any of the analysis and scepticism that they'd usually take to politics or economics. And yes, one of the most depressing things about this has been the shoddy, semihysterical reporting of the Beeb. Only the Guardian seems to be worse in its ability to put the worst possible Covid slant on everything and elevate minor things into Demented doom.

I'm in the ridiculously lengthy queue in HSBC. Outside. One in at a time, staff all wearing visors.

I've honestly never seen anything so ridiculous, but I'm determined to get home without arguing with anyone today