Commando AD awareness for donut bum dogs

[InsaneInTheViralMembrane]

Phew!

@chocolatesweets that is what I was wondering. Very early on with school closing there were quite a few PP querying why schools were phoning them on a weekly basis and they were refusing to pick up the phone. A number of them didn’t get why schools needed to do welfare checks.

Also the summer free school meals is another example. Yes some people have voiced concerns on here in the past but not vast numbers like there have been this year. I wonder what will happen next year. Schools can’t afford to fund it, most of them are on their knees with school funding. Will the Government fund it, unlikely. Will there be the same outrage as this year? Again I am not criticising anyone on this thread, just wondering.

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@chocolatesweets that is what I was wondering. Very early on with school closing there were quite a few PP querying why schools were phoning them on a weekly basis and they were refusing to pick up the phone. A number of them didn’t get why schools needed to do welfare checks.

Also the summer free school meals is another example. Yes some people have voiced concerns on here in the past but not vast numbers like there have been this year. I wonder what will happen next year. Schools can’t afford to fund it, most of them are on their knees with school funding. Will the Government fund it, unlikely. Will there be the same outrage as this year? Again I am not criticising anyone on this thread, just wondering.[/quote]
Well in ‘normal’ times I help to run a school holiday ‘lunch club’ for children on free school meals. We’ve had to cancel this year as a) we haven’t been able to fund raise in our normal ways and b) our usual venue hasn’t been able to reopen due to lack of funding.
So I do care in normal times, just as I care now.

It's not just about abuse, it can be neglect as well. Not intentional, but exacerbated by this situation. Might be just about managing but this could tip vulnerable families over the edge...

[quote ineedaholidaynow]@chocolatesweets that is what I was wondering. Very early on with school closing there were quite a few PP querying why schools were phoning them on a weekly basis and they were refusing to pick up the phone. A number of them didn’t get why schools needed to do welfare checks.

Also the summer free school meals is another example. Yes some people have voiced concerns on here in the past but not vast numbers like there have been this year. I wonder what will happen next year. Schools can’t afford to fund it, most of them are on their knees with school funding. Will the Government fund it, unlikely. Will there be the same outrage as this year? Again I am not criticising anyone on this thread, just wondering.[/quote]
I don't believe it's the government's job to do everything. Care for one another without government.

From a fb site I’m on
All sounds so calm and normal and makes me want to weep
Haven’t read the links
Spotted this on a fb group
It sounds so calm and reasonable I could weep
I haven’t read the links

I live in Sweden and here nobody wears a mask as it is not even advised by the government, only ill people are advised to wear one and the schools here were never closed. All the kids up to 16 years old kept going to school so their parents could continue to go to work, as you know we never had a lockdown here. It is common knowledge now that the elderly and people with existent illnesses are the ones in real danger, not healthy kids.

It is also very hard for me to believe that governments are talking about making masks mandatory in schools, here are some links I believe to be useful to all of you when questioning the authorities over there.

According to experts, masks are not that effective and could be dangerous when not used and disinfected properly.

Wearing A Mask…Offers Little, If Any, Protection From Infection” – Harvard Doctors
The New England Journal of Medicine

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372

Swedish epdemologist on the strategy here and keeping the schools open

PM Boris Johnson being told wearing a mask without the advice of a health work is a bad idea ( imagine kids at school )

twitter.com/Biondz1/status/1283363315901591553?s=09

UK chief medical officer says covid is harmless to the vast majority. So why masks to healthy kids and now that the numbers of infection and deaths are going down?

Australian health minister and a professor on mask. Not effective and dangerous.

Side effects on wearing a mask for longer period of time. I don't know her and neither if what she is saying is 100% true, but I believe it should be discussed with a doctor that you trust and she is not even talking about the psychological side effects of wearing masks..

I guess it is worth to mention the Nuremberg code as making it mandatory to kids (and also adults) to wear masks for many hours and without real reasons not following the advices of a health worker goes totally against it.

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejm199711133372006

I truly believe that if you gather more info and studies like the ones I posted above and take it to court, you would easily win it. Maybe looking for doctors or scientists to join you in this cause is a good idea as well.

I'm sharing info in many different groups from different countries and trying to help the way I can.

Wishing you much luck and strength!

@Orangeblossom78

It's not just about abuse, it can be neglect as well. Not intentional, but exacerbated by this situation. Might be just about managing but this could tip vulnerable families over the edge...

Absolutely this.

We need a poor donut bummed dog update urgently. How's the poor hairless mutt?

We had a huge long length of time with our first dog (we lost him a few years ago now and I still miss the shaggy around the braincells bastard) having an eye scratch that they couldn't get healed and a cone of shame on. It was like walking a depressed Ikea uplighter around the park - we used to make up pseudo-Ikea names for him mocking his misery!

We were such evil bastard dog owners - current dog rocks a pink love-heart onesie in the colder months.

I've been trying to persuade DH to get a dog during lockdown. The cat is very much his cat and doesn't have much time for anyone else.

I missed the bit about the donut bum dog, what happened?

@Willitneverend

I've been trying to persuade DH to get a dog during lockdown. The cat is very much his cat and doesn't have much time for anyone else.

I missed the bit about the donut bum dog, what happened?

I tried to dress our beagle in a Christmas jumper once. He ate it.

Have found a disadvantage of wearing face visors to walk between shops in the rain.

Need windscreen wipers.

I'm not saying that June was a shit month, but I did get my Christmas jumper out for its comforting fluffiness and general cheer

I've also decided that if my uni is pushing the 4 days a week online angle next year - I'm investing in a fucking better computer chair. Spent most of yesterday reorganising the conservatory which had been taken over with the kids' homeschooling stuff and DD1's endless hours sitting on Skype chatting shit to her mates into my work area again, and serving eviction notices to 9 million tiny plastic Playmobil children that seem to infest every place in the house (I even find them playing hide and seek in my shoes) and it's now a lot better set up for video conferencing (my big dual screen PC doesn't have my university dyslexia software on because obviously I take a laptop into lectures) and doesn't even have a webcam... so I need room to put my laptop on the desk.

Was wondering why my arms and wrists were aching to fuck - it's been from sitting working on the sofa for weeks on end (I've got exams looming I deferred to home-ed the kids when school closed) - put two and two together - but my current desk is a long length of kitchen worktop offcut which has a bit of a hard edge for my wrists!

Might need to get DD2 to a doctors in the morning - she's been bitten to fuck by bitey things (obviously inherits my "bloody tasty" gene) and has reacted quite nastily to one - it's very hot and red- we've given her anti histhamines to bring the redness down which is starting to work - but our GP would have a fucking moat and drawbridge with crocodiles in if they could do at the moment so we're trying to get it under control at home. (I react appallingly to insect bites so it's fairly normal in this house) Think it's been at school with them having windows open full time and outdoors digging in the mud loads.

My 2 mogs trying to outstare each other

@BogRollBOGOF

I'm not saying that June was a shit month, but I did get my Christmas jumper out for its comforting fluffiness and general cheer

I remember in mid-April telling my mum I'd ordered my Spring/Summer 2020 wardrobe of various sets of pyjamas because I wasn't going to bloody get to go anywhere and she thought I was joking!

@SockYarn

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.

But we are the worst in the world deaths per million.

Very dreich weather on return to Bonny Scotland.

@BogRollBOGOF

I'm not saying that June was a shit month, but I did get my Christmas jumper out for its comforting fluffiness and general cheer

I’m in my Christmas pyjamas as we speak.

@Mascotte

Very dreich weather on return to Bonny Scotland.

It's quite nice here - warm-ish but with a bit of a breeze. I've got the conservatory doors open and I'm sat organising and typing uni notes from last year into some form of intelligibility.

Basically I'm avoiding revising my phonetics work

I am fully aware of how important schools are for children's welfare, I am not questioning that. Currently trawling through piles of risk assessments to ensure all our local schools can go back in September, have also been involved in monitoring safeguarding policies etc to find out what they have been doing for vulnerable children, helping to deliver food hampers to these children, trying to source funding so there will be sufficient technology for families if classes/schools have to close due to self isolation, local lockdown etc.

However, I do wonder how many people will assume everything is fine once schools are fully open and they no longer have to be concerned about vulnerable children. Yes, for some children once life becomes a lot more normal they may no longer be vulnerable, but for many their lives outside school will still be awful, but will the vast number of people on MN/real life (as they don't always seem the same!) still think of them. Yes the people who were concerned pre-COVID will still be concerned but will others? Has this awful period of lockdown opened a few more people's eyes to what some children have to live with?

@Mascotte

Very dreich weather on return to Bonny Scotland.

Not too bad here. Still lounging around in my Christmas pyjamas though. Attempted a jigsaw and a game of junior scrabble with the DD’s but didn’t have the required patience so I’ve left them to make their own rules up.

@DominaShantotto phonetics sounds fun 😃

Just watching Harry Potter and the deathly hallows with DS. Have to admit, I like how Voldemort generally wants to kill Harry once school is over.
Say what you want about him, he cared about that boys education.

It's just started bucketing here in Edinburgh although meant to be dry all day. Has put paid to planned bike ride, so need to walk chubby mcchubster dog instead as DH has hurt part of his body again.

Vet advised yesterday that rookiedog is a bit chunky and it turns out DH had been feeding him double the allotted kibble, plus wet food, plus sausagey treats. We thought seeing he was getting so many walks he needed the calories - but no like the rest of the rotund rookie family he didn't. He's a bit sad at the minute and keeps staring mournfully at his food bowl.

I got rid of the junior scrabble the other day - had a huge toy and games cull on the local freebie group. It was either that or cull down the Playmobil which DD2 is still infatuated with (we have bloody mountains of the stuff).

First time in about a year I've not had to do an obstacle course over a mansion, school, funfair and cruise ship to get into the conservatory - they can all fit on the kallax cos I've taken some of the vertical separators out to make not all square holes.

Kids are playing Animal Crossing... as usual.

@SockYarn I think I read somewhere there was something you could spray on visors which can help, similar to what people use on motorcycle helmet visors.