ADs don't want the greater good, give us our crusty jugglers!

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Here you go all, thought it might be my turn again.

Dear God ive just seen a post in my tenant group............someones upstairs neighbour is gobbing all over her window. Police aware..............can you guess the rest.

@mightbealittlebitmad
Yes, I’d heard the m Yorks police were a bit stringent
I drove all over the north east and parts of N Yorks and was very lucky.
One day in strict lockdown I passed 12 police cars and never got stopped and two obvious looking pensioners, I think you could deduce there was a high possibility we weren’t key workers

@PickAChew
It was unbearably hot in Thirsk area yesterday.
32 degrees and out caravan showed 35. Thankfully we had a bit of a breeze.
Then about 8 it suddenly got cooler and cloudier and then the thunderstorm came
Lasted about half hour.
Very warm during the night.

My grandsons a 6 foot whippet. He’s on about going to the gym to bulk out.
I took them paddle boarding on Wednesday followed by a meal in sambucas. He had a plate of skins, his pasta and 1/2 of mine and an ice cream.
He had boundless energy as a child.

@mightbealittlebitmad

God it's so frustrating. I finally feel like things are getting better then they threaten to either take my child's school away or the pubs i.e. my job. I stayed at home for weeks, didn't see anyone despite me suffering, gave everything up and it's still not good enough?!

They can lockdown all they want, I'll be seeing my friends and family. I'm a bit worried now, supposed to be seeing my mum in North Yorkshire in a couple of weeks and am worried one of us will be placed on lockdown with hefty fines for travelling making it impossible. I'm Midlands based so it's straight up the busy M1 where my parents were stopped early on by the police asking where they were going.

We drove up from the midlands to drop the kids with my parents yesterday (met up just past meadowhell) and didn’t have any issues. Traffic on the M1 is back to normal levels so there’s no way they could pull random people over just to hassle them without it causing chaos.

@Allflightscancelled cocker. A particularly daft cocker constantly on the go despite hip dyplasia. The sprocker is more sane and loves his crate. So much so that I spent ages looking for him yesterday afternoon because he had gone in for a kip.

Am I the only person getting sick to death of hearing "the virus doesn't discriminate....."
Actually statistically speaking,it does. Mostly by age.

I remember on one of the corona threads recently a few dementors said it felt like March again. I kind of agree with them. Nof in terms of infection, after all the infection rate was doubling every 2 to 3 days back then, but in terms of dementoring.

They are getting so so vile again.

@mightbealittlebitmad I don't know where you are, but I would be optimistic about North Yorks. Its apparently averaging two confirmed cases a day across the whole county (source is the county council website - checked yesterday). This despite the fact that the social distancing ship has very definitely sailed along the whole Yorks coast. I really hope you get to meet up!

[quote SomewhereEast]@mightbealittlebitmad I don't know where you are, but I would be optimistic about North Yorks. Its apparently averaging two confirmed cases a day across the whole county (source is the county council website - checked yesterday). This despite the fact that the social distancing ship has very definitely sailed along the whole Yorks coast. I really hope you get to meet up![/quote]
It's right in the Dales, nowhere near the coast. I doubt they have many cases but I don't trust the government not to just put a blanket ban on travelling to the whole of Yorkshire. Probably a bit paranoid there to be fair. We haven't seen each other since Christmas, I was tempted to go back at the beginning of lockdown when I was struggling but managed to hold off, especially when schools returned I found myself in a better place so we arranged for August. We've all booked it off work to make sure we are all free to spend the week together.

Yes to North Yorks police being a bit stringent! They were very different to our local force (Humberside) which. explicitly ruled out roadblocks etc and seemed to police everything very lightly & reasonably. Its funny how even neighbouring police forces could be quite different.

I agree with everyone else about being done with lockdown. At this stage I've worked out what seems sensible to me (good hand hygiene, socialising outdoors where possible & not in big groups, respecting that some people will have different comfort zones for good reasons, knuckling under with masks when necessary). But beyond that I'm just done

Well we have just cancelled half of our holiday later in the year.

This was the museum/city part and neither of us can be bothered with all the rules/new rules. As with shopping in person it has tipped it over from something still fun to do into the not anymore.

Now planning local long walks in the countryside instead of the city before heading 'up north' for our planned second part which was always about coastal walks. The savings in hotel costs will now pay for all the meals out

Anyone else noted the press have started reporting cases rather than deaths. Low double figures obviously not sexy enough.

I don't know. I am not sure these restrictions are about health anymore. They all seem designed to make life as joyless and miserable as possible.

And still only covid deaths count. No one, bar the people on this thread, seems to care what these restrictions are doing to people. My depression and anxiety is ramping up but I am not going to my GP because a) it is a natural reaction for a bipedal savannah originating mammal to have upon being locked up and b) not covid and my GP is of the type to tell you fuck off if it is or if it isn't.

I hate the neverendingness and, tbh, if I didn't know DH and the DC needed me, I am not sure how much longer I would be here. And if sacrificing myself would let everyone breathe again, I would do it in one last heartbeat.

I cannot fucking wait until there is an inquiry into this. I hope it rips all these fucking measures apart. However I think more likely it'll just say oh we tried our best and brush everything else under the carpet.

*@TrustTheGeneGenie * hear hear!!! Suspect the whole episode will go down in history as a total overreaction to a virus that will die out anyway over time

Just been talking with OH and we were saying that its the lack of spontaneity in life that is so hard now. Even a trip to the shops has to be thought out (and the bloody muzzle found!) < accidentally left all 3 of mine at home yesterday!!

@ButterMeCrumpets

Well we have just cancelled half of our holiday later in the year.

This was the museum/city part and neither of us can be bothered with all the rules/new rules. As with shopping in person it has tipped it over from something still fun to do into the not anymore.

Now planning local long walks in the countryside instead of the city before heading 'up north' for our planned second part which was always about coastal walks. The savings in hotel costs will now pay for all the meals out

Yeah we’re away now and have cancelled all the museums/indoor attractions we were planning. There’s just no point. It’ll just be parks/beaches/coastal walks etc for us. Decided to plough any cash we’re saving into overpaying the mortgage instead for when the inevitable financial shit storm hits.

These threads are a bit like anti vaccine threads, although I am sure many won’t like the comparison.

The denial of the science at the same time as sheltering under the herd immunity (most people being sensible), the mocking of dead people (‘ the ‘sadly’ dead’) and the idea that society having to work together to combat a disease threat is being joyless and stupid.

I am sure a fair few people calling our medical experts (and they are real experts with multiple scientific degrees) ‘dementors’ are the same people who mocked brexiteers for not listening to the ‘experts’ (the vast majority being economists whose predictions have minimal (if any) value).

Very excitedly posted yesterday that we'd booked a week in a cottage in Northumberland.

Discovered last night that DH had looked at the wrong school holiday information and we'd booked the week after the holidays. . To be fair to him, I didn't check the dates he was telling me. 2 hours on hold to the company - can't do changes online - and we did manage to change it but not only going monday-saturday instead of saturday to saturday.

Last time I ever let him loose on holiday bookings.

I think the inquiry will be a load of buck passing. It’s like the Welsh Government claiming they never told schools to shut as they remained open to a tiny minority. They say it’s local authority’s decision. Pretty sure they’ll blame the heads who will blame the unions. Social workers will be scapegoats for safeguarding failures. Lessons will be learned, papers written, people who have least control will be ruined and the people who actually made the decisions will be promoted. I want an inquiry if it makes a difference, otherwise I’d rather plough the millions it’ll cost into practical help for people damaged by lockdown.

@larrygrylls

These threads are a bit like anti vaccine threads, although I am sure many won’t like the comparison.

The denial of the science at the same time as sheltering under the herd immunity (most people being sensible), the mocking of dead people (‘ the ‘sadly’ dead’) and the idea that society having to work together to combat a disease threat is being joyless and stupid.

I am sure a fair few people calling our medical experts (and they are real experts with multiple scientific degrees) ‘dementors’ are the same people who mocked brexiteers for not listening to the ‘experts’ (the vast majority being economists whose predictions have minimal (if any) value).

Feel free to ignore.

Bring it on! I’m a brexit voting Tory anti-vaxxer lizard person who shops at Greggs.

@Blobby10 right! Even a 30 second nip in to the village shop to get a tenner cash for the carpark to swim in a deserted loch requires queuing... tiny little errands like that now require planning. I didn’t hang around to get the cash... and the carpark was taking contactless for pennies...

Just a reminder that we don't need to argue our point of view on this thread.

I'm heading over to my mum and dad's today with the dds. Dad still recovering from his bowel cancer op but he likes having the kids in the house. Luckily we're in the same town - if this had happened five years ago he'd have been a four and a half hour drive away, nightmare.

Unbelievably, after last night's thunderstorm, it's even more sticky and humid here this morning! More storms forecast for later.

Eldest DD had a playdate yesterday morning, it felt nice and normal. I agree that most people here are just doing surface level compliance (i.e. will stick a mask on in the queue for the shop, then shove it into their pocket seconds after they exit) but otherwise just doing basic stuff like keeping a bit of distance and more handwashing. Naff all cases & no deaths for fucking ages in our area too so it's not causing a surge!

DH and I have decided this morning to definitely cancel our Center Parcs break. It was originally booked for May, pushed back a couple of times already. But with this new "I'm going to pull new restrictions out of my arse and announce them with two hours to go" policy it's just not worth the risk. The refund will pay for the plasterer to redo the hallway, which will make the house a lot nicer.

@SockYarn my dad was initially going to take mine after schools resumed - “bring it on” would’ve been my response to the school!

@larrygrylls

These threads are a bit like anti vaccine threads, although I am sure many won’t like the comparison.

The denial of the science at the same time as sheltering under the herd immunity (most people being sensible), the mocking of dead people (‘ the ‘sadly’ dead’) and the idea that society having to work together to combat a disease threat is being joyless and stupid.

I am sure a fair few people calling our medical experts (and they are real experts with multiple scientific degrees) ‘dementors’ are the same people who mocked brexiteers for not listening to the ‘experts’ (the vast majority being economists whose predictions have minimal (if any) value).

As with all threads there are a range of opinions. I am sad about the ever increasing restrictions which not all of them add up to me.

You can ignore the thread and ignore certain posts if you don't like the opinion rather than trying to class 'all' posters being a certain type.

I feel much brighter today - it’s the imminent release from childcare duties I think.

I’m wearing my long-discontinued £££ perfume because if I’m to sadly die, I want to be smelling fucking fabulous. No stinky ol’ corpse for me ta.

I agree the enquiry will be a lot of buck passing.

Panic is never a good response and at the start governments were panicking. I don’t understand why the government won’t listen to the broader scientific community though. It’s only the dementoring scientists who have input, it makes me wonder what imperial college have over the government when Oxford and Cambridge and other red bricks are being ignored.

Panick is no longer an acceptable government response