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Virtual high five, @LivinLaVidaLoki! I must remember that come back, it might come in useful.

In other news, I ventured onto the rest of MN, and there is just one C19 post on it. Has the rest of the topic imploded?

I drove past a playground on the way back from work and I was so happy to see it literally covered in children.

@TheOrchidKiller

Wish I had something intelligent to add, you are all putting it so well.

Basically I'm just tired of all this.

Had an embarrassing wobble today. Got lost out in the car & had to pull over and cry. It's the stress of everything and the promises that lead to nothing that are slowly wearing me down.

And now I've got to do the sodding shopping.

Hope you're feeling better now

I think many of us have had a wobble today

Our playgrounds are STILL locked despite the council saying they're reopening from the 4th of July. Sent an angry email this afternoon.

@ButterMeCrumpets

The masks and ventilators argument is bizarre.

I mean why use a breathing tube in your throat and sedation when you clearly just should use a cloth mask

I hate plastic, disposable sanitary products and tampons (I prefer cups and CSP) and will moan about the thrush they give me. Shuffling off to the hospital shower with a catheter in is quite a different matter

I have decided not to wear masks till they actually have to be worn next Fri (?) went to local grocers today, non dementory and gave me some free milk! Had a chat about bizarre-ness of the Bath rave too.

I wish they would not say such things implying most people need ventilators. It is a tiny amount. and also have been shown not to be very good either and the C pap machines loads better

Just shows how out of touch the dementors are, still going on about ventilators like that...

@SeaOtterFluff

Virtual high five, *@LivinLaVidaLoki*! I must remember that come back, it might come in useful.

In other news, I ventured onto the rest of MN, and there is just one C19 post on it. Has the rest of the topic imploded?

I drove past a playground on the way back from work and I was so happy to see it literally covered in children.

There's definitely a dementor cycle where something triggers an issue, VE day, crowded beaches, new announcement and then it all goes haywire for several days and then normality creeps back until the next round. We're probably mostly burned out, whatever our stance is, then there'll be a reprisal when the stupid rule comes in, then it will calm again.

We're not seeing spikes a fortnight on from the pubs opening are we?

I have decided not to wear masks till they actually have to be worn next Fri

Oh yes me too. Bought some of the sweat shop blue paper ones in the post office today, but will hold off wearing them until I absolutely have to. Need to see what's more comfortable, them or a buff, too.

Thanks all.
I think I've just stopped caring about what I say now. I just think "if you can sit and spout any old shit, then so can I"

There is a huge park that opened over the road from me today, first time since lockdown, its been completely fenced off so no one has been able to sneak on.

Felt so good working at home with the sound of laughing and playing children. Took ds over for a bit after tea and it was joyful!

That's true, @BogRollBOGOF. There's simply nothing left to froth about, for now. The end of the world turned out not to be quite so nigh after all...

@NannyPhlegm

I am centre-left, Remainer, pro-vaccination, pro-science, atheist. Human rights, pro-Free speech even if I don't agree with what's said (actually especially if I don't agree....if your stance can't stand up to questioning, it's not a very robust stance)

I am anti-compulsory anything!

Yep - me too

I will definitely be first in the queue for a vaccine when (if) it’s available but the thought of it being compulsory makes me shudder.

I was just on our local high street (high BAME population so I suspect general anxiety levels are higher than in some other areas) and remarkably few people were wearing masks. However, of the minority wearing them very few were wearing them correctly - there were multiple chin hammocks, slung jauntily from one ear, covering the mouth not the nose, being pulled down to have a fag, being pulled down to blow nose, and the rest were being constantly fiddled with. Despite all the PA ‘I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing it for yooooou’ there’s been remarkably little guidance from SAGE etc as to exactly which situations masks might be helpful, how to wear them and which situations they will do diddly squat to the risk of transmission

I have decided not to wear masks till they actually have to be worn next Fri

Me neither, much to the horror of the office dementor who was "horrified" that nobody else had one on in the supermarket last week.

I got mine from White Stuff - they donate to children's education in Bangalore. I did consider knitting one and embroidering it with "government muzzle" but I'm very shy and anxious in real life...

Hello, this thread does move quickly! Not even sure I was on the last one. I have been outdoor swimming as well - in a beautiful warm jellyfish filled sea. I do like it, even if I squeal loudly whenever one of the evil creatures appears within my field of vision.

@Orangeblossom78

I wish they would not say such things implying most people need ventilators. It is a tiny amount. and also have been shown not to be very good either and the C pap machines loads better

Just shows how out of touch the dementors are, still going on about ventilators like that...

It’s my understanding too that we’ve backtracked on ventilators given covid seems vascular as well as respiratory- and that we were killing people WITH the ventilators.

So maybe actually we don’t want one of these fables ventilators... 😂

Of for goodness sake, just been on a thread about the selfishness of reserving supermarket delivery slots with booze. Nothing about the corona....have these people nothing better to dramatise? Why can things which make life easier have to be such a cause of angst? Do lives need to be filled with guilt and everything made difficult for everyone? Getting sick of it to be honest.

Exactly Insane but in they go...it is just that it sounds dramatic and dreadful. Good reply perhaps that things have moved on in treatment now thankfully.

@ILoveTotoro

Thanks. Hugs back to everyone who wants one & definitely no hugging-through-a- shower-curtain-nonsense from me!

Loki that's a fabulous retort about the ventilator. What did the person saying it say to your comment?

Whilst shopping I was looking at all that perspex around the tills & thinking it's going to look a bit silly once all the customers have to wear masks, isn't it?

@TheOrchidKiller
She said absolutely nothing. She looked as if I'd smacked her in the face. There was an awkward silence of about 30 seconds that felt like a hundred years, then the meeting got underway.

Just itching to use that sentence, when someone tuts about masks to me.

"No mask?"

"No knickers either, have a nice day" (wink)

Another centre left, pro remain, pro vaccine anti dementor here. Not against masks myself as someone said up thread it's the virtue signalling I dislike

@justasking111

Just itching to use that sentence, when someone tuts about masks to me.

"No mask?"

"No knickers either, have a nice day" (wink)

Brilliant

@Orangeblossom78

Of for goodness sake, just been on a thread about the selfishness of reserving supermarket delivery slots with booze. Nothing about the corona....have these people nothing better to dramatise? Why can things which make life easier have to be such a cause of angst? Do lives need to be filled with guilt and everything made difficult for everyone? Getting sick of it to be honest.

Just this week my sister forgot she’d done that until has a shit load of Prosecco showed up at her door .

hunh, this Advert just popped up on my Twitter feed.

What am I supposed to do with this?

Seems I SHOULD go out to places as long as I don't crowd, do wear a muzzle, don't hug ppl from outside my home, treat everyone and every surface like toxic waste, follow weird 1-way-system rules, stand well back, try not to elbow the perspex screens, contribute to mountains of PPE waste. Should spend my reduced salary from much reduced term contract due to the financial crisis my employer is in due to dramatic Lockdown measures. Gee, so much to look forward to.

@BarkandCheese I did the same with gin this week

@lljkk could be worse you could be expected to holiday in Scotland. Our neighbours drove as far North as we did South (6hrs) and then were surprised that the weather was piss poor and the teen refused to leave their bedroom. Pretty much all my friends and colleagues have followed Nicola's advice and are booking grim sounding local holidays. At least there is a chance of sun in England.