ADs, Corvids and the sequacious masses

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New thread

mind you 10 to 3 so maybe not helpful to many

@NannyPhlegm

BoJo's road map will be as useless as he is. It's all well and good "ordering" people to get back to the office. But how is that supposed to happen when you're simultaneously chuntering on about 12k deaths in winter, mandatory face masks, localised lockdowns. None of those inspires a feeling of "safe" or "normal" Not to mention that childcare is like gold dust until September.

This^^ 100%

My nephew has deferred for a year, and I can’t blame him. It’s not a terrible thing for him, he’s got a full time job at McDonald’s so is making money. He’s planning to learn to drive and buy a car which he probably wouldn’t have been able to do while at uni. He’ll be a bit more mature, a bit better off and have his own transport by the time he starts.

The only holiday child care available round here is at a primary school in a village 5 miles away, from 10-4. Not much good for many.
I usually book mine into something 1-2 days a week so I can get some work done in peace but thought I’d leave it for those who genuinely needed it this year. My mum is off work a day a week so she will help out that day.

Had a talk with our course leader last week. From 3 days on campus and one day on placement a week and pretty much full time then we are down to 4 hours face to face time a fortnight from September- rest is either timetabled live online or recorded lectures to sit through at our leisure.

Lots are going to flounder from the lack of a clear timetable and structure.

At least my department have given us a good heads up about it - uni have been shit.

Oh god help me, I've got sucked into a mask thread. Apparently not wanting to wear a mask makes me the same as an anti vaxxer.

Yeah I was sucked into that mask thread as well.

I guess all the stay at home otherwise you are killing everyone with your shop for doughnuts has been replaced by the mask wearing ones

For my own sanity I’m not opening mask threads.

@ButterMeCrumpets

Yeah I was sucked into that mask thread as well.

I guess all the stay at home otherwise you are killing everyone with your shop for doughnuts has been replaced by the mask wearing ones

Me too lol!

I do think it's about validation.

I have never felt the need to conform in what I wear or how I look but I guess lots of people need that validation and therefore have to have everyone in a mask.

I now want to high five all those mask wearers I have seen who just got on with it without requiring me to be masked.

Bark that sounds such a good plan for your nephew. If dd does the same it could be the making of her. She's currently doing a lot of work in a supermarket to pay for driving lessons and for fun whenever that's finally allowed. She thinks she bay not apply to uni this year - she is year 12 - but work a bit, maybe travel a bit, and then see what happens after. I'm cool with that, kids are rushed along a pipeline too much. If she forces her way out and carves a new path of her own I'll be cheering and egging her on.

There is something about the BoJo talk today in the Times, we are going for a picnic so will be missing it...

"Boris Johnson will promise the NHS a £3 billion winter rescue fund and a 40 per cent increase in coronavirus testing capacity today.

Private hospitals commandeered at the height of the pandemic will be kept on to make the NHS “battle ready” for a busy winter amid concerns over a second wave of Covid-19 coinciding with a bad flu season. Nightingale hospitals will be maintained until March."

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/3bn-injection-to-help-nhs-weather-winter-5vpp6wgmn

Trying to avoid masks stuff too. In the Times it says there have been attacks on bus drivers, one killed even, by the public since brought in. Not here- Italy and France

Those oh-so-good countries the dementors love such as Italy are not so well behaved..

We need a new thread soon. Any ideas on titles?

It is too easy to get swept along with uni because that's what you do, and a lack of quality alternatives. It's a long way off for my two, but as long as they have a plan and a goal, that's a good start for me.

I agree with all you are saying on university, went myself as a way to escape at 17, very young in Scotland as can go after Highers. 4 year course.

Ended up repeating a year due to anxiety / depression, 'burnout' they called it at the time in the late 1990s, trying to work my way through it too to pay for it, as well.

In those days the grant was awarded a repeat year for medical reasons, nowadays can't see that happening. I got a 2.1 in the end but it was hard, and the degree, in environmental science, seemed a good idea at the time but was in hindsight quite a depressing choice!

I didn't go to college let alone uni because my family were poor and made it clear they couldn't afford to keep me.

I choose a job which did part time college training. Many years later I gave up my job and did a degree with the view to changing career.

I earn exactly the same as others who went to uni in that field from school. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. I like the fact that bigger companies do seem to have different non uni paths into higher job positions now.

Increase in testing capacity is going to whack the figures right up again which will feed the frenzy that it's all getting worse and clamouring to lock us up again.

This is not good news.

I've not stopped crying for more time than I've been asleep in the last 24 hours.

I just got kicked out of a private FB group for posting something questioning if masks should be worn, on a completely different unconnected public group.

Never mentioned anything about it in the private group at any point ever. But admin from the private group took it upon themselves to monitor what members are saying in other places on FB.

And evidently I publicly engaged in wrong speak.

We really are in 1984.

orangeblossom! My 17 year old would not cope at uni. At 17 they are still so young. No wonder you struggled, well done you. I'd have caved

Imonthdwrongplanet

New thread title? ads find themselves in 1984?

ADs, unmasked!

ADs join Michael Gove in Pret

ADs seek spontaneous cake in a brave new world?

ADs Orwell just got the year wrong