AD's say "well open the playgrounds and swimming pools then you Malaka"

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@Drivingdownthe101

Somebody just posted on my local Facebook group that the under 18’s should be kept locked up for longer while older working people get out and about as ‘under 18’s can’t kick start the economy like we can’. WTAF?

My husband is working from home 5 days per week while me and the kids are out buying coffees and snacks and kick-starting the economy. Since he's not going into an office he's no longer buying fuel for the car, coffees and lunch each day. That leaves me and the kids to valiantly do our bit. Mine and my husbands clothes will last a good few years more, while my children's all need replacing. My daughter needs sandals and shoes, my son has gone up two sizes and needs a few types of new footwear. It's them that spot the incidental stuff in the supermarket that bumps the shop up to eye watering levels. We've saved a fortune while under lockdown and mostly it's been from not spending on the germ ridden crotch goblins

Sending people into care homes from hospitals without testing them was in my opinion the absolute worst mistake of this whole thing. If we could have kept the virus out of care homes as much as possible I reckon our death toll would be a third to a half less.

They're now saying that just 2 cases of Corona will shut an entire school for 2 weeks.

How are we meant to cope with this? We can't take 2 weeks off at a time every bloody month!

@BarkandCheese

Sending people into care homes from hospitals without testing them was in my opinion the absolute worst mistake of this whole thing. If we could have kept the virus out of care homes as much as possible I reckon our death toll would be a third to a half less.

Completely agree. They did this AFTER seeing how the virus had torn through care homes in Italy. 🤦‍♀️

@Drivingdownthe101

Somebody just posted on my local Facebook group that the under 18’s should be kept locked up for longer while older working people get out and about as ‘under 18’s can’t kick start the economy like we can’. WTAF?

I wish they’d say what they mean when they say this sort of thing, which is basically ‘Fuck you kids, fuck you mums’. Some dads too of course, but as we’ve seen it’s disproportionately mothers who are being screwed over by a lack of schools and childcare. Just come right out with it.

I’ve always felt that as a society, we hold mothers in contempt. It’s an odd one because on the one hand, women without children are seen as a bit suspect, but on the other, mums are just the worst. Unreliable, frumpy, out of touch, all of that. (Misogyny is the reason, of course). But there’s even a certain brand of self-proclaimed ‘feminist’ that buys into the mum-contempt. And now lockdown... screwing mums over yet again.

I've just wandered over to the HM treasury thread. that didn't go as the OP wanted....in a good way.

Exactly. This has all been one big fuck you to mothers.

School closures at the drop of a hat will exacerbate that.

The government have completely failed to acknowledge what they are doing to women.

Mother's are going to be near on unemployable after this. It's a joke!

Pickachew, please get me some knickers while you're in M&S, I am desperate for some new ones. When we first went into lockdown all I worried about was the state of my nighties which also need replacing and how embarrassed I would be if I was admitted to hospital!

The four oldest of my DGC are in separate years at the local primary school. At the moment only one of them is in, but the other three will be going in for a week before the end of term. My DD has just received an email about the oldest who will be going into Y5 in September. All clearly set out what was happening, bubbles of 20 in the morning for specialist Maths and English teaching (60 children in total), but divided into two classes in the afternoon for other subjects. It all sounded well organised and the HT even mentioned PE and Sport arrangements. I was very impressed. Fingers crossed for the other DGC and children elsewhere.

The dementoring from certain people on my fb reached a new peak with Primark re-opening. It's underpinned by a hideous snobbery imo.

I'm so fucked off with it - those sanctimonious twats sit there and call everyone else selfish for daring to shop, or take up pavement space, or quiet legally leave the house, but I have had zero concern expressed for the fact that self-employed DH has not been able to work since March and is unlikely to for some time yet. They're the selfish ones, having tantrums left, right and centre.

@MaxNormal

The dementoring from certain people on my fb reached a new peak with Primark re-opening. It's underpinned by a hideous snobbery imo.

I'm so fucked off with it - those sanctimonious twats sit there and call everyone else selfish for daring to shop, or take up pavement space, or quiet legally leave the house, but I have had zero concern expressed for the fact that self-employed DH has not been able to work since March and is unlikely to for some time yet. They're the selfish ones, having tantrums left, right and centre.

Completely- my Facebook is full of dementoring arseholes. Very few people have enquired how we are getting on - Boris shut my DH’s business overnight and I was furloughed. Nobody seems to give a shit about that - but we’ve been told by several people how much they’ve enjoyed lockdown and how much money they’ve saved.

FUCK OFF!

If it wasn’t for you lovely lot I genuinely think my mental health would have fallen apart.

Same @KaronAVyrus hugs

@KaronAVyrus I'm so sorry to hear that, it's such a worrying time and tbh even if we were fine financially and enjoying lockdown I'd still be getting quite concerned about the looming recession, but some people seem to have their heads completely in the sand with that one or just accuse you of "putting money before lives".

One of the chief dementors (furloughed from public sector job) has just posted how much she's loving furlough and how it's how life should be. Meanwhile, there are ominous rumblings about huge council tax rises.

I'm very grateful for this thread too - I've felt very alone amonst the sea of SNP loving lockdown fans I seem to have as fb friends.

If it wasn’t for you lovely lot I genuinely think my mental health would have fallen apart

@KaronAVyrus

I feel the same in all honesty.

Meanwhile, there are ominous rumblings about huge council tax rises

Brill! Ours is already a sodding fortune.

@KaronAVyrus. So sorry to hear how tough it is for you.

I am so angry about the way people’s lives are being ruined over this.

My family are mostly sheltered from the economic storm coming, but it still makes me angry that others aren’t so fortunate.

Why has Alice twatting Robert's popped up on my professional Twitter feed? I can't escape her bullshit. "Professor" Alice Robert's who appears to think death is avoidable, if we only have different policies.

And reading through the schools guidance...I'm not surprised you parents are so worried. It just blithely mentions sending kids home, with no mention of what might happen once they're at home, or that there might not be a mummy in a pinny waiting for them with open arms by the stove or the sink.

We've been really lucky so far, but my poor friend hasnt. She's heavily pregnant, was working in theatre, has had a tiny self employment grant, it's all fucked up her mat pay as well. Her other half also works in theatre but as ft staff and they're looking at making more than half of them redundant. They're going to have a baby in a few weeks. I'm devastated for them.

karonyvirus many yes’s for everything you’ve posted this morning.

I re-walled yesterday and went to bed at 6:20. A single mum friend phoned at 6:30 - also from the sanctity of her bedroom. 😂 suggested a play-date next week but hadn’t been sure whether I’d be up for it or not. Yesssss!

I’ve got a brain MRI next week -
All put on hold because not sadly covid.

My youngest is refusing to shower and all he does is whine for food. Fed the fuck up.

And I know we're always pleased with other people's little victories and pleasures on this thread. So can I just mention I had a really nice evening last night. I went round a friend's garden and there were...gasp....EIGHT of us there, all from different houses. He has the most amazing views and his gaff is like something out of the Darling Buds of May. We sat under his vines at ate pizza made outside in his homemade oven. One of the guys has cancer, one has Parkinson's, and they have both have decided life is for living. And yet we have perfectly healthy people in their 20s and 30s too scared to set foot outside. It's just so sad.

@HesterShaw1

And I know we're always pleased with other people's little victories and pleasures on this thread. So can I just mention I had a really nice evening last night. I went round a friend's garden and there were...gasp....EIGHT of us there, all from different houses. He has the most amazing views and his gaff is like something out of the Darling Buds of May. We sat under his vines at ate pizza made outside in his homemade oven. One of the guys has cancer, one has Parkinson's, and they have both have decided life is for living. And yet we have perfectly healthy people in their 20s and 30s too scared to set foot outside. It's just so sad.

Oh that sounds lovely.

Thanks for all your good wishes. Dad is still at the hospital ? Septic arthritis. When my brother phoned them this morning about 8.30 he still hadn't been seen by a doctor. I'm on a very long hold waiting to talk to someone. I'm beyond furious that the GP wouldn't see him.

@countrygirl99

Thanks for all your good wishes. Dad is still at the hospital ? Septic arthritis. When my brother phoned them this morning about 8.30 he still hadn't been seen by a doctor. I'm on a very long hold waiting to talk to someone. I'm beyond furious that the GP wouldn't see him.

Jesus, I would be incandescent. There aren't enough of these 😡😡 in the world. I'm so sorry.

@countrygirl99

Thanks for all your good wishes. Dad is still at the hospital ? Septic arthritis. When my brother phoned them this morning about 8.30 he still hadn't been seen by a doctor. I'm on a very long hold waiting to talk to someone. I'm beyond furious that the GP wouldn't see him.

That’s really bad your GP wouldn’t see your dad. Hopefully he’ll be seen soon

Maxnornmal I'm in Scotland too and even my non SNP friends seem to approve of Ms Sturgeons approach. Granted her presentation is slicker than Boris's (not hard) but Scotland also made massive mistakes with care homes and the cover up of the Nike conference.

Producing and publishing a roadmap, which you then proceed not to follow is not a sign of decisive leadership, nor is insisting on holding daily briefings- which you always run yourself- when death rates are below normal and covid-19 Sadly deaths have all but stopped.

The schools proposal is a scandal too - hopefully now stopped, but nobody really knows.

I do think there is some virtue in going a bit slower - it seems a bit enthusiastic to be opening indoor pubs in England on 15th July with new infections not falling as quickly as expected- but I don't think her handling with trying to whip up strife between England and Scotland as much as possible has really helped.

I have cone to the conclusion that many people are just totally lacking in empathy.

Not everyone is loving being at home with the kids. Some of us are desperate for a bit of peace and quiet. I am SO excited because DH has booked a slot at the zoo with two of the kids this weekend and the other one is going out with friends and I shall have the house to myself FOR ABOUT FOUR HOURS. I am giddy with excitement.

It's the whole you're not allowed to moan about anything because at least you haven't sadly died from Covid.

Well obviously. But we're still allowed to complain that life is a bit crap at the moment.