Commando AD awareness for donut bum dogs

[InsaneInTheViralMembrane]

Phew!

Ok thanks, I am going to have two in secondary different years, also DH works in manufacturing (factory site) so quite a few contacts, although low cases here so far. So that's helpful to know. If I go swimming or whatever might try and keep it to quiet times to reduce that contact risk also

Morning just anout to start another day of mask wearing.😞
The glee from some people over folks losing thier holidays is disgusting on here. Why even post stuff like that it on my makes you look bad? And starting threads just to gloat wtf?

Fingers crossed time will pass quickly today and no awkward customers screwing up the till system.😄
KBO.

Now we are having this new blame of people not being healthy and too fat, after cooping everyone up for weeks on end. Another way of blaming the public

Talk about a recipe for mental health concerns

I thought my low feeling was just peri PMDD but I now feel terribly low even after period. I think it might be actual depression. Due to start tablets on Thursday but might just start them now!

@LivinLaVidaLoki

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.

There are definitely more AD type challenges to the dementoring than there had been in April. Maybe lurkers from here, but not regular posters. I suspect a lot that don't come on these threads though.

We always knew that there was a core of Dementors practically wanking over a collective cesspool of misery, that was the premise of the AIBU that spawned all these threads. They are more insidious now, back when it was about cheese in coffee or crisps on a bench, or body bags in school it was so ridiculous.

My optomism in early July has tarnished. It was possible to go out and feel nearly normal for about two weeks. That has faded a bit. There are things that I was happy to do 2 weeks ago that I'm not now.

I'm so sorry for anyone tangled up with the Spain issues. Admittedly we played safe with booking in Britain, but it's important for people to get away and keep international tourism surviving until the situation is more stable.

@Pertella I’m so sorry your plans have been dashed, what a utter twat - and with the double-whammy of no refund. Rubbish.

I too think we’ll be in for a “disjointed” winter term. I’m just clinging on to the hope I get approximately one week in three to work. My takings since lockdown have been triple figures. 🙄 so blessed.

I had PEOPLE in my house last night! I offered beer-money for any teens who would come fix the trampoline. Dicing with death this end.

DH and I are lucky to have a)an understanding employer and b) jobs which have enough of component that can be done from home for 2 weeks (although DH would struggle long term). Still dreading autumn and all the bugs and the faff.

oranges I’m really looking forward to the intensified fat-shaming. 🙄 went to the loch last week and everyone else took off to the other side and did a circuit. I had to stay close to the shore and you know what it’s like swimming with kids - you don’t really swim - you just go cross-eyed trying to make sure nobody drowns.

My mental state isn’t the best to lose weight - not when I can get a dopamine hit from a brownie.

For us, its not just about jobs. 2 weeks quarantine would mean no nursery for our toddler daughter and for our son he wouldn't be able to go to any of the activities that have now started to be available. He is booked into an activity day camp for 3 days a week for the rest of the summer holidays.

Plus I would only spend the holiday itself stressing about quarantine so its not worth going

I vary from annoyance to acceptance at the moment. The annoyance is the shit reporting from the media coupled with the SM judging of everyone.

I am trying to maintain the acceptance of I can't change other people's but only my own behaviour (and that of DH as he gets carried away with the media reporting ).

I think selfishly I am just hoping DH and I survive this with jobs intact. We do have a holiday booked but it can be easily changed last minute as I always pay more for that just in case of things like a crisis with DHs elderly parents rather than covid.

At least the sun is out today as we had massive downpours yesterday .

I said this on the main Covid threads - but this Spanish situation is purely down to track and trace. They have fucked it up, big style. In Spain, far more is devolved to the regional governments than here. It's sort of like the Wales/Scotland/NI situation except there are 17 of them in Spain, not just 4 parts of the UK. Each "Communidad" does their own thing. No joined up thinking. No national strategy.

Some areas are doing really well on track and trace. In the Canary Islands, they track on average 27 contacts per infected person. (And their numbers are low). In Cataluna, they trace on average just 2, and I saw a report yesterday saying that 75% cases in Cataluna have no contacts traced at all.

Most people in Spain seem to think it's all down to a lack of funding, but that doesn't explain the huge variation between the different communities.

@Pertella it is wrong that quarantine and FCO advice isn’t joined up, I know that won’t help your holiday but it would at least mean you get your money back.

@Waleshasgonecompletelycrazy

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.

Absolutely.

I don't consider myself a selfish person. I went into teaching because I cared about young people and education. I left teaching because I was overstretched and couldn't do justice to both my young family (then 5 & 3) or my pupils (mainly because of mounting burreaucracy).
I've voluntered with GG for 12 years, I've kept it up despite the inconvenience of having sons. I've stepped into the DC's scouting because they were short on leaders and that's a tough situation to be in. Now I have free time, I support the DCs school 2/ 3 times per week. I'm in the park at 8am Sunday mornings to set up the junior parkrun.
I am not selfishly minded. I care about my community, try to be decent and pay back in to society.

But I fear the physical effects of covering my face. I have form for occasional panic attacks and that triggers the type of set up.
I'm built like a 12 year old. I present an easy target for a wannabe Stasi to challenge.

Ultimately I know that my interractions since 20th March have been very low risk and therefore covering my face is an uncomfortable and potentially distressing performance. I'm not protecting anyone any more than I'm farting ebola at them.

What I can't stand is that the current narrative is never enough. They've won the masks in most indoor spaces despite poor evidence, they'll now bay to inflict it on secondary pupils. I hate the lack of end game or timing. My logic assumes that this is until the next flu/ colds season is done next Easter.

I don't think the government is actively malicious about this in a conspiracy way, but they do seem to be popularist and easily swayed.

@SockYarn But, but, but, I thought every European country was doing track and trace better than us??

Bollocks they are ;-) Some parts of Spain are doing well. Other parts - not so well. I really hate the narrative that the UK is the worst, everyone is laughing at us. It's ridiculous.

@BogRollBOGOF Exactly. I’m happy to take sensible precautions, Hand washing, a bit of distance in busy places and not hugging older relatives and friends but I want a balance. I want my daughter to be educated and to play with friends, I want a society that is as free as possible and balances needs. This short term focus isn’t going to help anyone if it drives people into long term poverty, il health and damages public services. I’m also very worried about people and children in abusive and neglectful situations as isolation is normalised. I don’t think that makes me a selfish person.

I’ve also just had a lovely week in Cornwall. It felt so much freer than wales...but then on Friday masks came in and I just hate them. They make me feel hot and steam up my glasses. My life is very low risk and I haven’t had so much as a sniffle for months. I’m hoping wales at least resists this.

I'm in Wales so no compulsary mask and went up the town yesterday and it was great - busy not too busy and everyone polite.

I went into a big supermarket - it's not a normal thing for us- and shopworkers were lovely and not in masks - people were polite even when confused by arrows and one way system. Got a few more bits of uniform for September.

We had masks with us but didn't need them - and I thought there was less mask wearing than previous but DH went round the charity shops and thought there was more.

Though I read on here this morning the mask I'm waiting to be delivered mean I'm a selfish murding cow - they have a breathing valve so there would be unfiltered air coming out. I was thinking might be easier with my asthma when we can finally get on buses and trains.

Oooh, I lost you! Hello again.

God, there are some really dementory threads in Corona topic today, no? France and Spain - are we next? SCHOOLS MUSTN'T GO BACK! Selfish idiots who won't wear masks. Literally Sobbing And Shaking. I thought we were done with this already!

@SockYarn
People who are laughing at us are not laughing for the reasons the dementors think. My family in Greece has said that a lot of the population there find it hilarious that we disinfect our shopping and quarantine our post. They think its ridiculous.

The holiday thing pisses me right off. I am going to visit my family in Greece soon (sorry already bored most of you for thread after thread about my holiday drama), apparently that makes me selfish.

Now, no one knows what I do for a living, who I am or the causes I take up in my free time. I am no way selfish.

I have spent this entire pandemic dealing with the fallout of this on vulnerable children, families and young people. Working relentless days up to 15 hours a day, feeling like I'm neglecting my own family to do what I can for those in a worse situation. Its been horrific and relentless.

This week I did reach the point where I thought I just cannot do this anymore. But I did. I dried my eyes off and put my big girl pants on, lifted my head up and got on with it. I did it, not for me but because I know because I know who will pay the price if I don't. Yet, by the standards of those locked in their homes in fear, wfh in cushy jobs and making memories I am the selfish one. For wanting to spend time with my family, visit a lot of my extended family and have a rest.

Fuck. Right. Off. Just, no.

Apologies if I sound stupid but is Catalunya the same as catalonia? Where someone was living and telling us to get a grip?

oh but they are all so much more virtuous than people like me because they have stayed the fuck at home and wear a mask to protect others.

Sorry, I know I sound like a big old bitch but I'm just so sick of it.

I am worried about school track and trace in next year - as we don't drive so couldn't get to testing centers so think in wales it would be postal system tests.

I'll have three kids in three differenet bubbles - two class ones and one a whole year one though I think there happy with a nagative test as on here I've read some places want a test but as tests not 100% would still expect 7-14 day isolation which seems odd.

@BellaintheWychElm

Apologies if I sound stupid but is Catalunya the same as catalonia? Where someone was living and telling us to get a grip?

Yeah, it's just the Catalan spelling of it. (I think.)

Booked Spain beforevxmas 😖😔😢😢

Apologies if I sound stupid but is Catalunya the same as catalonia? Where someone was living and telling us to get a grip?

yes it is. Catalonia is the English name. Cataluña is the spelling in Spanish, Catalunya the spelling in the local Catalan language. All the same place - the coastal area around Barcelona.