AD's off to Confession

[TheGreatWave]

Started a new one.

Need to adhere to guidelines this time though.

@Teateaandmoretea

Place was banging on about a second wave and a September lockdown.

We’ll laugh about it in a few years I reckon

I'm laughing now because being irreverent is better than the alternative.

I'm happy with my choices and opinions at each stage of this. I've broken some roolz with very low risk (going out more than once early on when it was quiet and minimal risk of even getting to 2m of someone else, and an empty playground oh and going into a friends house when it was torrential with rain and I was at my lowest ebb and randomly sobbed at my friend on the phone) but largely I've been at home. I CBA with crowds and I've not mixed in anyway that puts me in close contact with high risk people.

I want freedom to, not freedom from. I'm free to trek across the country to the beach and I'm happy with that, I need the freedom to be allowed to do it, not necessarily the action of doing it.

I've had a good week with a couple of features. I need to book the zoo for another short term goal...

The people outside, in that picture, are off to a BLM protest while the white person, indoors, is sanctimoniously signalling to them to stay the fuck at home.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

My mum spent her happy year with pneumonia and her lungs were never quite right. We’ve spent the last 70 years largely cushioned from the 4 horses of the apocalypse here in the UK.

I’m going to prescribe 6 episodes of horrible histories for everyone.

The closest DM came to death in childhood was not from the bombs a few houses down that bombed them out and anihilated several houses, but from pneumonia. Her granddad set up a vigil praying for her to survive the night. That was the one time he used the black market, to get her more food like eggs so she could recover her strength. Anti-biotics were only avaliable for the military.

Wales Dripford actually made sense today when asked about Bournemouth and somewhere in Wales that was crowded. He insisted that the vast majority of people were behaving sensibly e.g. not pooping in burger boxes, inhaling substances, leaving piles of rubbish behind.

Our local Conwy, the ones that are hiding there drinking all day and evening, then peeing and worse everywhere are not kids but men aged from 30`s to late sixties. The quay is their new local, no toilets, no problem. The house owners are having to disinfect their front walls. The police came once but need to be there daily and deal with the streams of urine and worse being deposited. The alkies have just morphed from pubs to open areas. Not a woman amongst them you will note.

It is having it taken away that's the issue. I don't need a lot in my life, I need family, friends, school, work, the gym and days out. Larger gatherings become part of my life through friends and family so weddings, christenings, birthday parties or a concert like this year. I don't want it all taken away from me long term.

Same as you @BogRollBOGOF. Basically followed all the ‘rules’ except the made up one about only exercising for an hour in the early days and I went to a friend’s garden that had more than 6 occupants at one time. I’ve stayed away from crowds, and shops in the main as I don’t particularly enjoy shopping. I am fine with the choices I have made.
I’m still massively fucking frustrated at the whole situation, and that frustration is worsening daily. I want people to have the freedom to go to the beach without being shamed, even though I don’t want to go myself. I want people to be able to go to bloody Primark for a cheap bikini (or whatever the want to buy!) without being considered the lowest of the low, even though I don’t want to go to Primark myself.

Oh crumbs, I hope they don’t close the beaches. When people talk about beaches, they always seem to be thinking of Bournemouth or Brighton. There are loads of beaches that aren’t crowded.

I want some of that hippy crack the kids in Bournemouth have been enjoying. It’d probably cheer me right up. More or less deserving than chomping away at shite to assuage my ennui?

pickachew 😂

Oh crumbs, I hope they don’t close the beaches. When people talk about beaches, they always seem to be thinking of Bournemouth or Brighton. There are loads of beaches that aren’t crowded.

I don’t think they literally mean all would be shut across the whole UK.

Hmmm, closing all the beaches would be impossible. The problems right now seem to be mainly just Brighton, Bournemouth and similar places that are always crowded on a hot summer's day.

I've just taken a look at our local beach, which is a very popular one and can get rammed in the school holidays , and it's got a few people on it but they all seem a very long way apart.

@Drivingdownthe101 the Birmingham Primark may change your mind. It’s different from any other Primark I’ve ventured into and I’m hooked. Some of the clothes are better quality than M&S and the cheap (£4!)bikinis don’t look cheap. I get a lot of my basics there now. The cafe, when open, even do a quinoa salad!

I have actually been in the Birmingham primark, but I had my 6 and 4 year olds with me (we went on a girls mini break to Birmingham in half term just before this all kicked off) so we mainly looked at Disney things! I will go back on my own one day

I’m not snobby about primark by the way, I just have ridiculous boobs (30J) and my bikinis have to come from places like Bravissimo unless I only want them to cover my nipples

Especially when WHO commented on our beach situation and said they weren't worried about the outdoors but more about closed places such as toilets or trains for travelling.

My DS was very ill with something called Mycoplasmae pneumonia as a toddler. They kept saying ti was viral and didn't do much in the hospital apart from he was on oxygen (tube in nose) as sats were low.

I was quite young and first child (in my 20s) I don't think I realised at the time quite how ill he was really. They let us have a room off the ward to sleep in. After several days and admitting, sending home and re-admitting he eventually had some chest X rays showing double pneumonia and then they gave some antibiotics (tablets, not easy to give to a toddler)

They also put us in a red zone in the hospital as some bug was going around. Not the one he had but hey ho. Big crosses on the door to his room.

So, anyway other bugs can cause these problems in the under 5s, possibly more so than covid. He's fine now.

I kind of want an iced Costa - but the reopened one is so ridiculously dementory I don't want to go back there.

I just want to have the option to spontaneously pop into Tesco for a sandwich without having to calculate the queue, or go grab a drink in Costa without negotiating the social distancing obstacle course. Oh yeah and utterly unreasonably I'd like my kids to have an education.

There were quite a lot of small children and babies mainly with Bronchiolitis at the time. Lots of this is never mentioned though is it. In children's wards, most winters I suppose, if it was similar to that winter.

On the beaches, lots of other countries have busy beaches with less dementing I'm sure? I saw one on the south of France it looked even more packed

@Orangeblossom78 DD2 became really ill with pneumonia when she was not-long 4. Middle of the summer heatwave and she ended up teetering on the brink of a HDU admission she was that ill. Poor kid missed all her end of nursery transition stuff as a result.

Poor kid is now going to miss all of her end of Y2 stuff as well leaving the infant school behind. I'm hibernating for the year she finishes Y6 as the kid's jinxed!

School are trying to give them a send off - they're doing a distanced picnic with them all having 2m picnic blankets to sit on but no 100% guarantee they'll fully distance - I'm like "bring it on" but I know the resident misery crowd will be pushing to get it prevented from taking place.

There is a new attitude becoming apparent amongst the people I know who have children who could be going back to school but they’ve chosen not to send them... that of the weary martyr. They’re so exhausted homeschool their children, but they’re keeping them home for the greater good. Two of my best friends fall into this category, and it’s making me want to remove myself from our WhatsApp groups.

Well, the government has now issued a "roadmap" for the re-opening of theatres which gives every appearance to have been scribbled on the back of a fag packet, has no dates/timings for each phase (making it impossible to plan), and - even more crucially - no bloody money attached. So, that's helpful.

Oh actually sorry they (France) opened some and then closed them again due to the crowds etc

www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/French-police-crackdown-on-crowds-at-beaches-and-parks-after-lack-of-physical-distancing-in-deconfinement

and did some swim but not sunbathe thing as well

uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-france-beaches/swim-but-dont-sunbathe-french-riviera-beach-re-opens-with-post-lockdown-rules-idUKKBN22S0RJ

There was somewhere else (maybe on here) mentioned with strict rules about women and men and stuff, can't remember where though.

Has anyone else seen the new DofE guidance saying that there is absolutely no expectation of social distancing in schools, either inside or outside? It seems to be being kept quiet!

Aww yes Domina my DS is end of primary and think they are doing leavers hoodies and an end of year book (started before this all kicked off) but no end of school service or disco / parties etc. I don't know if there are any plans in school who seem quite strict atm. (kind though)

It's a shame for them

Really Driving no that is being kept quiet! Wonder what the unions will think

Do you have a link?