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Phew!

OMG thank god
I thought I lost you all

How to make your mask match your outfit

Well I have now reached peak mumsnet. Apparently "cos covid" means you can close off blue badge spaces as they should obviously all be home shielding. I honestly despair.

Our council swimming pools aren't open to under 16s so presumably they can leave their cleaning products anywhere!

We've been to the local wetlands place today. It was lovely. All one way but hardly any masks, play area open (but shut intermittently for cleaning) and you could feed the ducks. They've made the reception desk into a big wooden box with a screen for you to hold your phone up at for them to scan the ticket. The card machine was pushed through a small hole for you to buy the bird seed. DS found the small hole fascinating. I couldn't work out what it was for initially.

I've eaten out a few times this week and both places which would normally have a physical menu had a QR code for you to scan at the table rather than a disposable menu. I thought that was a great idea but I've got a smartphone. Not sure what they'd provide for people like my parents who don't have phones that scan.

Just heard some of PM on Radio 4. I utterly despair.

Boris: As a nation, we need to be fitter.
Yes, thank you Boris for snatching away most of our means of regular exercise, and for allowing the pisshouses to reopen before the gyms and pools.
I didn't listen to his "big interview" - I'd pay for him never to open his mouth again.

Interviews with shoppers about muzzles. Of course, most of the people they spoke to were in favour of them, saying things like "those are the roolz". Although I'm glad the longer interview with the autistic woman was included.

Time to email a few more big retailers. Assuming Sainsbury's keep their word on not interrogating unmasked shoppers, I might contact them to tell them I support them in this, although my visits to shops will now be minimal.

@BellaintheWychElm

Well I have now reached peak mumsnet. Apparently "cos covid" means you can close off blue badge spaces as they should obviously all be home shielding. I honestly despair.

It's awful isn't it? I am afraid I jumped in bloody patronising arses. Hate shopping so Disabled people should avoid it too and stay home unless its to be driven somewhere "pleasant" to enjoy instead" why has her feelings on shopping got to do with anyone else? Mind blown.

Evening All. Catching up after work.

Very few of us in the office today due to social distancing & all that, which was just as well because we almost ran out of biscuits. No one had a spare mask to hand for nipping to the shop for more supplies, & it would've been wrong to take one from the PPE cupboard to do so. Maybe we'll eat less crap now?

So many interesting comments on today's thread but I have burnt my eyeballs with that picture of Boris in the black mask. Very strong desire to shout out, "Jockstrap!"

Thank god it wasn't Boris naked, wearing his mask as a g-string. Sorry, hope that idea hasn't put you off your teas.

I'm pretty neutral about masks. It's too late, but just whatever. Took kids to the garden center, wore it draped around my chin as a token gesture, and no one cared. It'll die away soon enough.

I'm shocked though- that woman in an aeroplane with kids - is that how people really actually think? I lived abroad a large portion of my childhood and teens (South Africa) and when I came back here for uni I was shocked at how hypochondriac people were in the uk.. the disgust and "ewwww" if someone had a cold. I've said this before but have normal healthy people completely missed the fact that this is not Ebola? How? Even my DH who is 39, healthy, never known a day of sickness in his life is terrified. Me, shielding, immune suppressed, multiple ITU admissions, getting on with life.

I've managed my medical risk my whole life- I'll carry on I think, given as how the govt has never cared before. Eg: I suffer from severe anaphylaxis with a nut allergy. I have epipens but they don't work always and the last exposure many years ago I had to have adrenaline injected which is not so safe but they wanted to try before ventilation. So I'm careful about nuts! But every single product is labelled "traces of nuts". I tried to get a bottle of Evian in a l ferry to Spain and it said traces of nuts. Everything is labelled in this way to protect liability from a handful of people like me. So I manage - I dont need the govt to tell me to stay indoors and keep 2m away from my 2 year old child. F**k that.

Checking in!! Took me ages to find you.

Unfortunately my absence isn't down to a flourishing social life, I'm just knackered from work

How's the new job?

I miss working !

I think the problem is that lots of people have never had to face up to the fact that something like a virus 'could' potentially kill you just like other even more mundane things can e.g. car accident, choking etc. Coupled with the constant media drive at the beginning to create fear at leaving your house we now have quite a few anxious people.

So sad really because ultimately you only have one life no matter how long or short and I want to go out and live it to the full.

Lurker popping out to say thank you for helping to save my sanity. I've been feeling like I've been swimming alone in this sea of covid-based madness. It's great to feel I have some company

@RobinHobb
"dont need the govt to tell me to stay indoors and keep 2m away from my 2 year old child. Fk that."
I agree with you. Not shielding but DF is. DPs decided very quickly that they would not be sleeping in separate beds & eating in separate rooms for months.

A lot of the govt advice seems to have been written to cover all the advice from as many experts as possible, as if they have a lawyer sitting there saying, "Well, we've got a scientist saying you could catch it from your toddler if they've got it, and if you catch it off them you might sue us if we haven't warned you first, so we'll include it in the guidance." The reality is that most of the measures for most people are impractical & cruel, & yet there are people who are so scared they take it to the letter.

If anyone wants to get really depressed by govt guidelines check out the ones for visiting care homes. I know residents are vulnerable, but the advice is miserable (one visitor per resident, no contact between visitors & staff at the visit, visitors shouldn't use public transport, boxes of chocolates should be wiped down, don't hug your relative).

Hello Stripyfeet.
You are definitely not alone.

don't hug your relative).
How would they know in thier isolated rooms?
Feck that for a box of soldiers! Try telling that to someone with dementia or a DM, DF, DGM/F who hasnt seen you in months! Its cruel.

@ButterMeCrumpets The media and government "drive of fear" wasn't just at the beginning of this year: it's been relentlessly constant for as long as I remember, with things like the Millennium Bug, your mobile is killing you, there are weapons of mass destruction, immigrants are stealing your jobs, and so on, terrorists are plotting to kill you, you're throwing away too much plastic waste (and now we're being made to do so all the more). The media and the government are CONSTANTLY telling us we're about to die, and they are CONSTANTLY pitting one group of humans against another.

For some people, including me, this totally diluted the message about the virus. I found it hard to believe the virus had any gravity at all, with the constant media drive of lies, spin and doom. Nowadays, it's just so hard to know what to believe.

“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”
"Don't vote. It just encourages them"

DH had one of those letters too and didn't take much notice either. About 2 months after the lockdown as well!

Just read that Unhered article on Sweden, interesting. Just sounds realistic and sensible, balanced

Ha ha o got mine late too and after the initial phone call never heard from them again till I got the second letter extending it!

Exactly, Willow. I could've cried when I read that. I go into some care homes for work. Some have handled it well & have slowly allowed socially distanced visits for a while. Others have been so stressed out by covid & the lack of PPE that they are understandably cautious, but this isn't going to make it easier in homes where they take guidance literally.

@Wanderings I'd forgotten about the Millenium Bug. I remember the papers & workplaces panicking about it, but it seemed that most sensible people I knew thought it was nonsense. It was over 20 years ago though- we didn't even have a computer at home then so perhaps the lack of social media meant that there was less fear?

Hello Stripyfeet you are definately not alone.

Thank you @TheOrchidKiller

Had a FB cull earlier, eliminating the pages that seem to create maximum hysteria/competitive dementorism from my feed. Feels much better.

Stemmed from a page that I used to enjoy, promoting their latest bit of merch - a t-shirt branding anyone not wearing a mask a disgrace (via butchering the lyrics of 'we will rock you'). Stupidly I got involved and made a comment about hidden disabilities and whether stirring up animosity was a good idea... I'm sure you can imagine how well that went down.

Wtf has happened to people? No sense and no compassion that not everyone is experiencing things in the same way. Everything is so binary and polarised.

Well it's friday for most people - but not two days of rest for those of us who are self-employed. I am SO busy at the moment and although it's not difficult work there is a lot of it - enough for me to be working full time until about October.

And the worst of it is that the money I earn from self-employment - which is supposed to be part time - is usually squirrelled away into a holiday fund. Holidays cancelled this year. Also DH works in a sector which has been very badly hit by Covid so everything we can is being thrown into savings. Worthy and sensible - but not as motivating as thinking you're working towards a holiday...