Anti-dementors are driving round the Arc de Triomphe

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new thread :-)

Jourdain glad you are going home tomorrow, hospitals are boring, noisy places.

Do you all remember when we had the conversation about women regressing to the 50`s during this pandemic, well it seems the university of sussex must have been reading our threads because they have come to the same conclusion. Aint we smart lol.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8439551/Coronavirus-sending-British-society-1950s-women.html

Nihiloxica I can understand why some people wear them, but it isn't a world that I want to live in either, not for any length of time. I find them extremely unsettling and I have enough trouble reading people's expressions without half of their face being covered. Also it's a sad day when you can't smile at a baby or toddler.

I hope that the measures won't be in place for much longer. It's depressing how little thought people with disabilities have been given when putting these measures in place.

Hope you get some good news tomorrow @Jourdain11 and you get to go home

Jourdain, hope you have a good night and get home tomorrow.

There's been quite a few posts recently where mums are facing resigning because the parenting/ work balance is untenable The MN response "get a nanny" would rarely hit the spot. There's nit many spare nannies sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for short term childcare crises, and they're not going to be affordable on a mainstream income range!

I'm trying not to think too much about school- just get through the next month until it's holiday mode, and hope the dust settles so schools can restart afresh on near normal timetabling. There just isn't the capacity of space and staffing to do much else. Especially at secondary.

Well I did wander into the thread and ended up getting sucked in and writing one of my extremely long posts because I just can’t bear bull shit

And the only thing the op challenged me on was a comment I made about NS
Laughable , I’m not even SCottish and not even very political..

The curve got flattened..tick
All countries achieved what they intended with lockdown..tick
Anything else was point scoring...eh? What?

Off to bed here too everyone
Have a good nights sleep
I know I shall.

Meanwhile the op can send her prayers to St Nicola..she must be about ready to be canonised.

Hope you’re discharged tomorrow @Jourdain11.

My chief dementor friend has just got in touch. He’s sending his child back to school next week.

I shouldn’t have engaged as he was a shit to me but he has apologised, so I’ll take that.

Dowser your posts were great 💪💪

And thanks all on here for great posts and threads. Kept me sane

I thought I was alone but here I am getting sanity from you lot

Don’t often post but read them all

Thanks ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫💫💫💫💫💫

I'm going to put this here because it is unashamedly good news which means the mumsnet massive will completely ignore it!

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/19/largest-hospital-trust-first-no-covid-patients-intensive-care/

This is from Dr David Rosser head of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (the largest trust in England) in one of the hardest hit regions with 4,735 dying after testing positive for Covid-19.

Highlights:

• at peak 30% per cent of the trust’s capacity was Covid-19 patients
• now there are just 43 “active-Covid” patients in the trust
• UHB has ZERO intensive care coronavirus patients - the first trust in England to achieve this
• at peak 100 patients were on ventilators alone
• the number of admissions is now “less than double figures”

and - doctors in Italy & the US have also observed this:

"there could be signs the virus may be weakening, while cautioning that patient numbers were so small it could be a “coincidence”.

Dr Rosser said: “At the peak of the pandemic, for every 43 patients we had in the hospital we had about 10 patients in the ITU. So it’s interesting in that we've got 40-odd patients with active Covid in the hospital and none of them need intensive care.

“I don’t think we understand or have the insights into what that is about, but it’s interesting how current patients don't seem as sick, on average, as they were. That may be just a coincidence – it’s all very small numbers.”

Sleep well everyone

Well given I live in Solihull, this is just the kind of good news that I needed before bedtime 👍🏻

That is excellent news. I don't live there but do have lots of family there.

Glad all is going well @Jourdain11

The OP on that post is not a dementor or into name calling herself and has, I think, a little more sympathy for our threads now, having seen some of the other posts. She is more of a lockdown supporter though than most of us (supports NS in Scotland) so I don't think she will be joining us.

Oooh @AnxiousElephant77 I used to live very close to the Birmingham / Solihull boundary.

Great post on the other thread Dowser.

Great news Tory

Off to bed working tomorrow night all.

Great post on "that" thread @Dowser

@Jourdain... fingers crossed you can get home

Tory that is just the news I needed before bedtime. Sweet dreams ahoy!

I avoided THAT thread because I know I don't have the mentally strength to face the negativity. I'm tempted to poke my head in to see Dowser's post though

The signs of the virus weakening are my big hope. There's been quite a lot of snippets hinting at it and it is a reasonable progression for the virus.

*tory that echoes what the doctors in Italy were saying a couple of weeks ago about the viral load being a lot lower in current patients. God I hope it's true.

Dowser I think love you. What a great post, on t'other thread.

Disclaimer: possibly slightly pissed and emotional

Lost track of these threads due to finally having some work, but, oh, what delightful work it turned out to be!
I have been in Wales, staying in a pub, eating and drinking in a beer garden and one evening illegally fraternising with the owners and one of their neighbours, in the bar, with a couple of bottles of red.
Home now, but I feel awakened from the dead 😁

You can tell the ratio of people on ventilator beds to people in hospital from the daily spreadsheet, which echoes his view - at peak it was 19% in England, and is now about 9%. Which may reflect different demographics, or that hospitals are now taking in patients that at peak would have been turned away, but however you look at it is good news.

@Weedsnseeds1

Lost track of these threads due to finally having some work, but, oh, what delightful work it turned out to be! I have been in Wales, staying in a pub, eating and drinking in a beer garden and one evening illegally fraternising with the owners and one of their neighbours, in the bar, with a couple of bottles of red. Home now, but I feel awakened from the dead 😁

JEALOUS!

Weedsnseeds NOT FAIRRRRR!

PeaceandDove just working my way through this thread, so apologies if anyone else has said the same, but havd you ever heard of a Judas lamb/goat?
You don't see them so much these days, but they are trained animals that live with a flock of sheep and are trained to lead the flick up the race at the slaughterhouse, to the stun box.
The Judas is let through and thd rest follow in single file to their deaths.
I probably have a macabre sense of humour, but I just imagined us lot coaxing people to their holiday cottage of doom, by leading the way...

NaanyPhlegm and PatriciaHolm the resistance exists in Carmarthenshire, it turns out 😁