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

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@Mascotte

The Scottish islands are shite anyway unless you enjoy your summer holidays in driving horizontal icy rain and purchasing excessively priced wilting vegetables from shops where people hate you.

We went to Harris and Skye on our honeymoon. It was magical.

Also, Shetland is where the best gentle murders happen.

That's a good one, @Orangeblossom78

Net of no new cases in my county for a week.

that skin crawling middle class smug privilege and disingenuous faux ignorance of a particular breed of dementor

Well put torydeathdrug Their faux-sympathetic but imaginably cruel tweets/posts put my back right up. It's why I never pursued academia once I'd qualified

I had a call from a relative in Crete yesterday. There is a family near him where the father works in holiday apartments and the mum also works there as a receptionist. The work there saved them from losing everything during austerity. They just about keep their head above water.

They have two children. The daughter who is 13, passed out outside a bakery the other day, she was overcome by the smell of baking bread. They took her to hospital and discovered the family haven't eaten in 3 days.

My relative and some other neighbours have been taking them food or having them over for dinner but this is 21st century Europe. How are we letting this happen?

So all these people saying Greece should stay shut or people shouldn't go can fuck right off.

@Nihiloxica I may be prejudiced after many family holidays to visit relatives in the islands. But they're not for me, I hate rain and the great outdoors too.

Oh god. I've now just realised I look at the daily sad death count and new cases for both England and Scotland solely in the prism of if I'll be more or less likely to be able to go on our Ludlow holiday.

I actually felt happy there were deaths in Scotland from it today so wee Queenie Nicola couldn't rejoice in her single handed slaying of the foul beast ( even though we followed exactly the same initial lockdown procedures as England and just happen to have a less densely spread population)

That's quite bad even for me.

Livin those poor people

I can’t join the us for them Facebook group unfortunately. It could land me in hot water at work.

I love the Scottish islands, and the highlands. I’ve always found the people incredibly welcoming actually and a lot of the residents aren’t even Scottish so the people are pretty chilled/ open minded.

Hello fellow Malakas. Checking in.

Just ordered in my usual load of co codomol and Prozac from the GP. Another two months supply. They pop out the pharmacy in a mask to hand it over bit like a drug deal. Will need it I think. Although may be trying new yoga in the park. Depending on how brave I feel.

I’ve never heard of Alice Roberts until today. It has made it pretty easy for me to just put her into the ‘nutcase’ box and move on.

I was talking to someone at work today who is an AD and pretty much saying that every one she knows thinks thinks the same.

It’s just an opportunity for the dementors to get attention and be told ‘your amazing hun’ I think rather than it being anything about the virus. ‘I’m baffled why anyone would go out’ oh get over yourself

@LivinLaVidaLoki that is really shocking. Being poor is shit and kills.

Dr Roberts is certainly a Smunt. I have a job that I can do from home and my co feels pretty safe but I can understand why people need to go out to earn a living and to stay sane! In fact we have decided to go out as much as possible while we can to bank some happiness in case we have to be locked down again.

And thanks fellow ADs learning lots of lovely new words today.

I'm getting really fed up with all the virtue signalling on social media. Not just the passive aggressive why would anyone go out posts but those that are answering rhetorical questions. I really don't care that you won't be going to the pub on 4th July or until there is a copper plated vaccine or treatment. More space for me! My facebook feed is getting ever quieter as more and more folk are snoozed.

What is that saying - the things you worry most over rarely happen. (?) You could spend your life worrying over this virus and it would be something else totally unexpected which would change your life instead.

@loki that's heartbreaking. It's 2020 ffs not 1920.

The Economist had an article this week looking at the HIV pandemic - a different virus with a very different infection mechanism and mortality rate, but nonetheless a zoonotic virus that jumped to humans and then exploded across the globe. It noted that we have not, in several decades, eliminated HIV and a vaccine has been "a few years off" for about 20 years now. Instead we've modified our behaviour where we reasonably can and learned to live with it and become much better at treating it, and in turn the virus seems to have become a bit less virulent.

Saw this earlier - would be interested to see how Dementors would spin this as a negative...I bet some can though!!

Death rate 'back to normal' in UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53233066

That Alice Roberts post was the one that upset me last night. Dreadful smuggery.

I went to Crete last year, stayed on the west side nearish Chania, and thought it was lovely. We’d definitely go back. I also enjoyed Kefalonia (and Ithaca for the day).

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@KaronAVyrus A sizeable chunk of my family are in Crete, it's one of my favourite places ever. I love Ag Nik and the shopping in Heraklion.

Back onto dementors why are they still parroting that infections are over 1k a day??? It's not been consistently over 1k since the 21 June

There have only been 2 days since then where it has been over 1000
22 Jun 958
23rd 874
24th 652
25th 1118
26th 1006
27th 890
28th 901
29th 815
30th 689

I dont get it?![/quote]
Don't they claim that there is a predicted 4000 or something based on "symptoms"? With how easy it is to get tested then all the recorderd positives will be those who are unwell enough to land in hospital with it, people in hospital for something unrelated, people who have symptoms and need a test to let them know if they need to isolate. So if there are 3000 people a day out there who may have symptoms then they clearly aren't unwell enough to need treatment or even bothered about getting tested and are presumably happy to hole up at home for 2 weeks or ignore the rules and go out anyway.

[quote HeadSpin5]Saw this earlier - would be interested to see how Dementors would spin this as a negative...I bet some can though!!

Death rate 'back to normal' in UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53233066[/quote]
Well earlier I saw a comment on this saying ‘that’s not true, the government are lying to us’ and another saying ‘all the people who normally die from accidents etc aren’t dying at the moment because we’re in lockdown so we need to stay in lockdown otherwise we’ll have those deaths as well as coronavirus deaths and it’ll go back up again’. I also saw one say ‘it’s sad that we have a ‘normal’ level of deaths’, which I can only assume means she thinks we should be aiming for immortality?
Anyway, that’s how they turn it into a negative .

@Drivingdownthe101
" I also saw one say ‘it’s sad that we have a ‘normal’ level of deaths’, which I can only assume means she thinks we should be aiming for immortality? "
I have no words...

I have had a dreadful day ‘at’ work and sadly lost my cool with an utter arsehole who was doing the whole ‘I pay your wages’ shite. Actually he doesn’t, we’re funded by income. I told him to be nice as my children were in earshot and he said I shouldn’t be working at home or taking calls with children in the house because of his ‘privacy’. What the fuck does he think I’m going to do about that!

@Drivingdownthe101

I also saw one say ‘it’s sad that we have a ‘normal’ level of deaths’, which I can only assume means she thinks we should be aiming for immortality?

The only possible response to that is ‘Oh mate’.

Ah FB and those PA how many of you awful people can say X posts.

Now to Alice. So everyone who goes out is selfish according to the "I've never been out" brigade, however are they actually the selfish ones? Presumably for them not to go out they are expecting lots of people to bring stuff to them. Ultimately they are being incredibly self centered as what they really mean is "I only care that I don't get it. "

NB. I am not including genuine shielders in this, as they generally have the insight to realise cogs still need to turn.

“It’s sad that we have a normal level of deaths” . That’s honestly the most ridiculous thing I’ve seen for a while, the stupid is strong in that poster.