D = fn + (p x 0) then AD = - fn - (p x 0)

[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

New Thread. - Hello.

I'm just mildly excited that our local Tesco has just removed its one way system

@SomewhereEast

Our local Aldi has removed the one way system but kept the single queue method, I’m pleased about the latter as it means everyone gets through quicker.

And our local Waitrose is turning a blind eye to people shopping together.

Small steps towards normal!

Like, if it's that mild, why do we need to know about everyonr who has it?

This is what I keep saying to DH. Surely the number of cases is actually fairly irrelevant? The number of people requiring hospitalisation or dying is far more important.

It’s all a load of bollox anyway.
( ooh, I just had to get that out)
Oops, as you were 😂

I don't have anything that useful to add but I agree with everything @Nihiloxica is saying.

I am very worried about what some of these measures mean for those who have sensory issues or ASD or both. I am struggling with my DCs atm because they are all very unhappy and I am worried about DS' socialisation.

No worries @InsaneInTheViralMembrane!

I am very worried about what some of these measures mean for those who have sensory issues or ASD or both.

There are people claiming that we should wear masks without proof they work because there are no downsides.

It's as if faces have no function.

My Tesco didn’t have anyone on the door barking orders. I just wandered in with no queuing.

I have no idea what this thread is about but the equations are hurting my head.

D = fn + (p x 0) then AD = - fn - (p x 0)

anything multiplied by 0 = 0 so

D=fn

AD=-fn

so A=-1

DH tried to go to our local social vclub last night for a meeting with the people who run his community football team. It's something they did all the time pre lockdown.

This time - no. He is a member but he can't have guests. No he can't wait inside for them to arrive so they can go somewhere else. He hasn't paid to have a meeting (it's just four blokes around a table drinking beer so ).

So they go the next nearest pub. No. They haven't booked and they aren't eating. It's for only.

So they go the next nearest pub. Fine, come on in, no problem at all.

My DH likes the pub vibe and the conviviality it's supposed to offer, but he's gone right off going again any time soon. Too much hassle.

The social club has properly shot itself in the foot. Membership renewal fees are due in about eight weeks' time.

Some years back I was watching Fargo (the TV version, not the film) & the main character who was a bit of an underdog had a poster in his basement of some fish, with one swimming in the opposite direction to the other fish.
The poster said, "What if you're right and they're wrong?

That sentence has really stuck with me at times, and it really resonates now.
I'm not arrogant enough to think I am right about everything, or to think that absolutely every measure being taken to deal with the virus is wrong. But I do feel like the fish swimming in the opposite direction, and I feel astounded and over-whelmed by the way in which the other fish just keep following the crowd, unquestioningly.

This isn't the first time in my life I've felt like this. I like rules to a certain extent, & I am no rebel. When I've questioned the logic or rationale for doing things that don't make sense I've been given The Look, or the "It's like that because it just is, ok?" speech. Or bullied into silence.

(I would post a picture of the fish but I can't make it work, possibly as I'm new. And a technical dunce).

More mask-wearing as performance art bollocks ... DD’s got a summer job working at the local riding school. They have to wear a mask when they’re helping clients on and off the horses and all the time when they’re doing lead rein lessons. They’re given ONE disposable mask per day ... so it’s on, off, on, off, shoved into a pocket and on again all day .... so absolutely sod all to do with infection control 🤔

Riders are also encouraged to bring their own riding hats so yesterday dd had one 4 year old whose hat fell off during her first trot - turns out it was her mum’s riding hat from 30 years ago and about 4 sizes too big. So she could well have fractured her skull, but hey at least she was safe from Covid .,.

On my iPad you just click choose file
And then go to photo library
Cluck on your photo and then done

It’s all a load of utter bollox
( oops, there I go again)

Got a bit deep there. Only dropped in to say I've been for an eye test, & apart from the PPE-wearing staff, it was a very normal, pleasant experience. I'd recommend Specsavers (or Facesavers, as we call them now, post-Cummings "eye test" debacle).

Decided to treat myself to a proper cup of tea sitting down inside a cafe. Loads of cafes where I live, all doing takeaways but only one doing a sit inside service this morning. As the weather is vile it was understandably full. Didn't fancy queueing in the rain to be told I'd have to take my drink outside.

Tried to think of somewhere else local with an inside : nowhere.

Gave up, came home. Again.

And here's a mask scandal, I wondered when this one would happen: BBC, disposable masks end up in the sea

No shit Sherlock, if we keep making all this disposable plastic. Another argument against the muzzles, especially disposable ones, they're bad for the world. Is your muzzle too tight for you to say something on this, Greta?

Have just been round Asda, muzzle wearing is compulsory here as of Friday. About 40% of people wearing muzzles. Most of them wearing them incorrectly, and thinking their magic map of immunity allows them to ignore the one way system and social distancing.

Bumped into a friend though and had a chat, which would have pissed the dementors off.

Morning ADs. Did some anti-dementoring in the wild today. I was in the woods on a run (and btw, new 10k pb!) and had to stop for a moment as a car was coming down the track, as did a couple out walking their dog. They didn’t look like they knew their way too well, so I asked if they were on holiday... yes, they said, perhaps looking ever so slightly apprehensive that they were about to get a lecture or a cats bum face made at them. How wonderful, I said! Isn’t it great?!

I’m not normally a particularly effusive person - I blame the endorphins. Big smiles all round, anyway.

I need some equation assistance too - obviously any run done in the pouring rain is twice as hardcore, so would that be:

(R + P) = D + 2(H)
R = run,
P = precipitation,
D = distance,
H = hardcoreness

?

I only got a B in GCSE maths and that was a loooong time ago...

I went to Aldi for shopping this week due to my absolutely extortionate shopping bills and was delighted to see no queuing outside, and no arrows on the floor. Tesco will not get my custom again, they’ve been bloody ridiculous about it all.

@wanderings I was thinking this about the masks too.

I was happy to wear one to the opticians - they get quite close, it makes sense. They did say it was optional, though.

I obviously wear one in clinical areas at work.

I'll wear one on the bus if it means I can go places.

But the mask-wearer doing a wheelie down the high street, & the mask-wearer driving his convertible car with the top down? Really?

My DH and I are have restarted running an outdoor fitness group we used to be in charge of, except it's a mere shadow of what we would properly be doing (netball). We each take our group of five people separately, to comply with the roolz. I've been forbidden to rant about lockdown or Boris - free speech has been muzzled. Although this feels like a small step towards normality, it makes me painfully aware of the loss of actual netball.

I'm going to church next Sunday for the first time, but I am anticipating that it just won't feel worth it, with the singing replaced by micromanagement by well-meaning dementors. I chose not to go to the first Sunday back, because I didn't want to hear the waffle about the "new normal" (vomit) which was certain to happen.

@TheOrchidKiller I have that poster on my bedroom wall!!!

Yes 'new normal' is a phrase that makes me hurl. See also "lockdown'

@wanderings Our church has actually decided not to reopen over the summer precisely because it'll be too 'not church' for us. We're pretty sociable and have lots of children & young people who enjoy hanging out together freely, so the New Normal (drumroll) just seemed too depressing. We're going to review again in September. We normally run a free kids' holiday club too and we don't feel we can do it this year.

"(R + P) = D + 2(H)
R = run,
P = precipitation,
D = distance,
H = hardcoreness"

Hmmm I think you want something like -
R x P x D = H. Assuming R, P, D are set.
Then
R x 2P x D = 2H.

I think ;-)