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Article re masks said not to put mask on chin or neck when pulling down because your neck is covered in covid. Well surely that means when you get home you need to wash your face, neck as well as hands to prevent transference. Maybe I should just take a shower

Urgh sex dolls. A brothel owner thought it would be an investment to use sex robots instead of poor women and had to revert because the dolls were being damaged by the men using his services.

I don’t think laws need to be passed by Parliament under the Civil contingency act? I think dictatorship is allowed by that legislation. More than happy to be corrected!

@justasking111

Article re masks said not to put mask on chin or neck when pulling down because your neck is covered in covid. Well surely that means when you get home you need to wash your face, neck as well as hands to prevent transference. Maybe I should just take a shower

if everyone’s neck is covered in covid we’re probably all doomed!!!

Given that the latest stats estimate there are 46 people currently infected with covid in my district of just over 100,000, I'm frankly not very worried that my face, neck, hands, etc are going to be covered with the stuff after a trip to the shops. I'm going to be pulling my mask down every time I leave a shop, and pulling it up every time I enter one.

We have 3. Out of 180,000. Up from 2 the previous week. Oh no our R must be 1.5

I'm going to be pulling my mask down every time I leave a shop, and pulling it up every time I enter one.
Same here and did the neck!
You can bet that some crazed individuals on MN will seize on this and demand that the unions insist on kids wearing a full suit of armour in schools.

I meant, sod the extra neck washing

Morning all

We seem to be missing a few posters here - are people just out having more of a life? I hope so.

I don't know about everyone else but my family seems to be falling apart a bit. We have a....complex... family life (I'm talking parents and siblings, I don't have my own children). I think relationships have been ok over lockdown but the more this drags on the more things are crumbling. I have a close relationship with my mother in some ways (although extremely difficult in others) and I'm finding old issues are resurfacing and causing big issues and arguments. We're both wrung out and it's very sad because I think the decline in our relationship might be permanent. My mental health is back to declining quite badly too after some better times and I'm genuinely scared about getting myself through it all because I'm running on empty now. I have help, it's just daunting. Try as I might I cannot stop thinking about the autumn and winter and what challenges might present themselves. I need a very long, very sociable holiday to charge my batteries before we go into it but that isn't an option. (It's funny typing that, I'm such an introvert! But I'm craving connection that isn't over bloody Zoom). I am just a bit on my knees. I know I'm not alone.

I will just keep one in the front pocket of my bag and put it on if I have to go in the shop, it will just live in there with keys and purse.

@Orangeblossom78

We have 3. Out of 180,000. Up from 2 the previous week. Oh no our R must be 1.5

You are ALL DOOOOMED.

But in my experience, a lot of us that have been out and about and sending our kids to school have a more realistic idea of risk and understand that we manage our own risk and couldn't give a shiny shite what anyone else does. Its bizarre how people sat at home for the last 3 months, scared of their own shadow are talking about managing risk???

Yes, this is my experience too. I’m not a keyworker, but I have quite a few medic family members and friends, and they all seem quite relaxed about sending their children to school, summer holiday clubs and play dates, and are enjoying eating out and booking holidays.

I kind of want to ask the person who shared the FB thing why they identify with what it says; why do they feel they’re carrying such a weight of responsibility for the safety of society, especially seeing as they’re young, not a keyworker or caring for any dependents? But I also know that would be a dick move so obviously won’t. If it’s not just for the sake of performative sanctimony (which of course it may be) it seems like such an unnecessary burden to place on oneself.

We have a woman on Nextdoor, who has had "sleepless nights" making 4000 masks. She then does mask trees and people donate for the masks.

Someone dropped a disposable mask near her mask tree and she is "broken" by it and ridiculously upset. I want to suggest that sleepless nights and all this anxiety about a dropped mask is not great and that she doesn't have to save the world with her masks, but I've learnt not to say what I think on Nextdoor. Everyone else is just saying how wonderful she is and how the litter dropper is practically Satan for upsetting her. I think she could do with a visit to the GP.

Mmmmn rice pudding from the tin! 😁

I too no longer have any idea of the roolz and am just (much as ever) doing my own thing. I’m sure my dad taking my kids away on holiday means instant death for us all, but thems the breaks and mama needs a (silent) cocktail.

Couldn’t sleep last night and was up dithering and reading The Choice until 3. Blimey. It’s like the first day back at school “what I did in my holidays” essay!

I’m going to have to go against the grain. I hated the olympics opening ceremony, turned it off and went to bed. Thought it bilge.

Saviour complex

www.healthline.com/health/savior-complex

What's a mask tree?

Great, just as thinking of going back to swimming, read this and has out me off again. I do enjoy it though, www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/23/lockdown-gym-toned-abs-hygiene-pandemic

@Worldgonecrazy

Urgh sex dolls. A brothel owner thought it would be an investment to use sex robots instead of poor women and had to revert because the dolls were being damaged by the men using his services.

I don’t think laws need to be passed by Parliament under the Civil contingency act? I think dictatorship is allowed by that legislation. More than happy to be corrected!

I wondered if it was that but legislation was introduced regarding public transport. Its 'The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020' and was approved by both houses. I shall be making a nuisance of myself online and with emails tomorrow if there's no sign of any legislation for shops.

Took dd for a vaccination this morning - donned the appropriate viral-protection garb & waited in line with a the other compliant morons. Told that not only could they not do it but I shouldn’t have been able to book because “the diary has been closed for four months”. There’s a pandemic dontcha know. I had a shitfit. It is booked in for next Monday. I have made a (pointless) complaint to the practice manager.

Covid is just the perfect excuse for all sorts of laziness & incompetence. Fuck off looming giant doctor ... or better still get back to work.

British pupils 'struggled to continue learning at home

One-in-three women said the situation was negatively affecting their own well-being, compared with one in five men.

Some 43% of home-schooling parents said their children's well-being was being negatively impacted by the experience.

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While nearly a third of working parents said the requirement to home school had been negatively affecting their job.

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A separate report by the ONS, found women were bearing the brunt of the home schooling experience, with women tending to carry out more educational and caring tasks during lockdown.

None of that was a surpise to me.

The Office for National Statistics research found that of the 52% who struggled, three-quarters of parents gave a lack of motivation as a reason.

My chidlren are highly motivated to learn but pointless filler work and poorly thought through tasks with bad instructions, no marking and feedback and in many case no work - did demotivate them.

Mask tree apparently.

WTF?

Reminds me of a daft local thing where they out lots of garish hand knitted scarfs and hats out in public 'for the homeless' last year. With big signs telling you to help yourself

Just got all wet and soggy

A much more sensible initiative is the one where our local foodbank has asked for reusable masks to be made/donated so that they can give them out to clients. If you're skint enough to use foodbanks, having to pay for the damn things could be the final straw.

Yeah @LadyOfTheImprovisedBath - the nature of the work schools sent home wasn't great... but then again it's hard to set good quality work to be done at home by a wide range of families who vary in terms of equipment they have available, family levels of literacy and numeracy and time and technology.

I still don't think lots of schools showered themselves with glory during it - and even my own kids, who I think I did a really good job of planning for and resourcing stuff... floundered so much with the blurred lines and loss of interaction that they ended up back in school as vulnerable children struggling.

Yes they should give them free, I agree (have noticed some shops do) it is just the attention seeking 'tree' I found annoying. So public

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

Mask tree apparently.

What a load of utter wank. (not envy)