Commando AD awareness for donut bum dogs

[InsaneInTheViralMembrane]

Phew!

@justasking111 that’s shite!

@chocolatesweets I too have that feeling of being a lone voice. Though no young children, must be even harder: life is difficult enough when they’re that age anyway! I find the ADs so helpful.. dint know what I’d have done without these threads!

I feel the same about these threads @Mascotte

I find people so afraid of the virus right now that it overrides everything else.

It's the opposite of "chill" and kindness out there.

I've had enough of the madness now, when is it going to end? I fear this is it now forever, people are so hysterical over the number of cases that nothing apart from eradication will be good enough.

I've just seen an advert for a virtual run, picture of a woman running in what looks like a forest or something, all fine apart from the fact she's wearing a mask. This whole situation is supposed to be temporary yet they are writing things in that makes me think it's really not.

I really can't believe we are doing all this for a virus that for the majority isn't a big threat. Why are we not pushing other things as much to stop people from dying? Banning cars, cigarettes, alcohol, pushing to eradicate other viruses that can kill people. It's like this one virus has taken over everybody and rational thinking has gone out of the window entirely.

@Drivingdownthe101
Yes... read the ‘are we 2 weeks behind Spain and France’ thread!

I haven't read this I cant bring myself to. But at the beginning everyone was screaming "we are TWO WEEKS behind Italy".
Why are we now two weeks behind two completely different countries.

Also, the people blaming British tourists.....how do they explain the continuing fall in cases in Greece?

Methinks that the Spanish lockdown so revered on here wasn't observed as stringently as chunks of MN would have you believe....

I agree rational thought has gone out the window. It's like the virus is an excuse to get out of every responsibility.

The things about he two weeks isolation is stressing me out. We could not afford to keep doing that, DH is self employed and already lost a lot of money

Does anyone know is it just the person themselves or the whole family, say if DC sent home from school, or a person at the swimming pool? Even if we miss occasions like cafes and pubs for track and trace, we still have it in schools and work...it feels out there to catch you out...keeping at home is more threat to me at times,

I think at the moment @Orangeblossom78 under test and trace it is only the person who was a contact who has to self isolate unless that person has symptoms

Missed a chunk out of my post there, meant to say
"at the beginning everyone was screaming "we are TWO WEEKS behind Italy".
Why are we now two weeks behind two completely different countries. Why do we have to pick the worst hot countries and decide that is the path we are on. I don't get it, I really truly dont"

Ok thanks holiday

Yes the hysteria and dementing will pick up now won't it, with cases rising in Europe....

Went out for my first meal since March last night with a couple of friends. Was so nice to have a giggle over drinks and pizza until I got home and saw the Spanish quarantine rules.

I knew a couple of threads would pop up overnight but the gleeful crowing at people daring to want a few days away from home in the sun has been the final straw for me.

I really thought we were heading out of this nightmare but I've come to realise a large percentage of mnetters are actually enjoying it. I just can't fathom it at all.

@Sallycinnamum
I really thought we were heading out of this nightmare but I've come to realise a large percentage of mnetters are actually enjoying it. I just can't fathom it at all

They do seem to be loving being part of a drama. But you can't ever say that. If you do, apparently you're the sick one.

Swathes of this site during this have reminded me of the women knitting at the gallows.

A lot of jealous people. Must be. How dare they go away. How do people know they're not dying or have had a terrible time of the past few months. So much judgement and spite. Just wish everyone calm down and just let people get on with their lives.

It's just so fucking depressing. There's a couple of posts on the dreaded coronavirus board where a nurse dared to say she was looking forward to her holiday abroad and was piled on saying how stupid she was still wanting to go and she should know better.

I just despair. There's just a total lack of sympathy or humanity on here at the moment.

A friend was stuck in Spain 16 weeks when they went into lockdown. Tbf I have little sympathy as she flew there AFTER Spain SAID they were going to - and tbh I’d have somehow made my way up to Calais...

Nonetheless she was out walking with the blessing of the local mayor but told to duck (ironic that my phone autocorrected duck the one time it was actually intended! 😂) if they saw the police.

I’m getting really quite cross now. I’ll bet not many embracing - nay, salivating at the thought of lockdown are living with an alcoholic who slaps the kids about. Or work shifts in a minimum wage job.

Nope, it’s all WFH in a dedicated home office making memories. “Our jobs are safe but obviously we FEEL for others”. I snapped at FB friend last week lamenting the sad loss of costa/pret branches but it was inevitable and he would WFH “forever”. This is a man who spends 24/7 regurgitating the fucking Canary but assured he personally would never be serving sarnies on minimum wage. Dick.

Was chatting to someone from women’s aid this week and I made the observation of the fact the two boys I knew were struggling the most with their behaviour (and academics) have just spent 6 months locked up with respectively a slap-happy alcoholic dad and a slap-happy step-dad.

I found this article on Sweden quite good. being rational and less hysterical. Going to try and stay away from the dementors I think...

www.ft.com/content/7ecd5ded-9b90-4052-b849-0e153f701e1f

There is a definite schadenfreude aspect to the recent ones I think. Gloating over others having holidays and any joy cancelled to be as miserable as them..

@Orangeblossom78

There is a definite schadenfreude aspect to the recent ones I think. Gloating over others having holidays and any joy cancelled to be as miserable as them..

Oh definitely. It’s disgusting really. And they call us the ‘selfish’ ones. They want everyone to be as miserable as them.

I need to keep away from the Spain threads as its going to do my BP no good.

We are booked to go to the Canaries in 6 days but are now in a situation where we can't go (because we can't quarantine) and we won't get a refund (because they aren't on the no go list).

I've also got to tell my 8 year old son that we can't go on the holiday he has been looking forward to, and won't be able to go anywhere else because the money is gone.

After everything else he has had to give up this is the thing that's breaking me now.

Just read the thread about the holidays cancelled and while there were some spiteful malakas on there I was heartened by the amount of the posters calling the op out.

Also the 2 weeks behind Spain thread. There was some hard dementoring going on but again a handful of posters being sensible. I know its hard to not get bogged down by the dementors (I do it myself sometimes) I'm heartened by the fact that up until a few weeks ago, the sensible and kind posts were not there at all.

So now either less people are hysterical or more people like us feel confident in speaking up as we know there are others like us out there.

At the beginning it was screams of "murderer!", suggestions that everyone should be buying oximeters (sp?) to check their oxygen levels as hospital wouldn't take you unless you were dying and posts suggesting our children would have to take bodybags to school. While hardcore dementors are still around, their numbers are reducing I think.

I’ve hidden the ‘2 weeks behind’ thread, it didn’t take long for some to start clamouring for schools to stay closed/part remote. I’m not naive enough to realise things may well be disruptive in Sep term but I cannot even think about premeditated closure/part time, the impact on our work and DC will be horrendous

I guess it is hard to sustain that level of dementing before you burn out!

I have noticed less posts by a few names I remember previously who used to dement a lot. Maybe they have just name changed or something.

@Orangeblossom78

I guess it is hard to sustain that level of dementing before you burn out!

I have noticed less posts by a few names I remember previously who used to dement a lot. Maybe they have just name changed or something.

I think there are a fair few name changes from the hard core dementing days. I think a lot of people realised that calling people murderers for eating crisps on a bench was maybe taking it a step too far.

I’m really fed up of the selfish narrative. The country has spent a fortune and tipped itself into recession, children have missed months of education, chances for social development and fun, many have become depressed, the NHS now seems to have become the Covid service, people have missed out on holidays, hobbies, socialising, died alone, people have lost their jobs and safeguarding had gone out the window, Plus so much more and it’s still not enough. I’m sorry but I refuse to accept the only measure should be have you got Covid or not. Policies and people need to balance risks and benefits and it’s not selfish to say this.

My understanding is the same as holiday's orangeblossom. So if someone in dd's group at nursery gets it, she'd need to stay home for two weeks but ds could go to school and dh and me could go to work (we'd have to take it in turn of course). If dd came down with symptoms all of us would have to isolate unless she tested negative.