Anti Ds We might be locked out of last thread,..but we will never be totally locked dow 👍

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How did that happen?
Taking one for the team 👍

Part of a meme that I can't remember had something along the lines of

'Everyone else is bragging about new skills learned during lockdown. Me - I'm just amazed that I have only just realised Saturday has a 'turd' in it'

"Re funeral directors So someone who has lost someone close to them is going to be crying their eyes out behind a mask while getting all snotty behind the mask and the bloody thing riding up into their eyes. UK Government obviously think bereavement isnt hard enough!!"

Same with being told bad news by a hospital consultant. It is cruel.

In Operation-Get-My-Parents-Living-Not-Existing news, DF has been in a shop today for the first time since March, having been let out of shielding. He is talking about "building up gradually." DM has agreed to set some goals to work on the OCD. This week's is to not cross the road if she has to pass someone on the pavement & they are closer than 2m.

I had quite a serious talk with them last night & said DM could not live her life hidden away like this. These are two people who until March were always out, always busy, & got offended if anyone said they were "elderly".

Project Fear has really affected them. Their friends are similar. It's got me quite down to know they are like this.

Oh well, small steps towards progress, & the eventual aim of being allowed to visit.

I don’t understand how some people cannot understand that the more people you test the more positives there will be. Found this on Twitter it shows the percentage of positives out of all the tests, look at that bloody line! It’s basically flat!

I'm on team geek. I love all the stuff like cholera outbreaks being mapped out and realising that it came from a single contaminated water pump.

Bazelgette was a hero too

Give me an OS map and I'm happy for hours

@IAintentDead

Part of a meme that I can't remember had something along the lines of

'Everyone else is bragging about new skills learned during lockdown. Me - I'm just amazed that I have only just realised Saturday has a 'turd' in it'

That's ahead of me

My lockdown personal development can be summed up as follows...
23rd Feb Trail Half Marathon
3rd August C25k week1

It all feels so mad and disaprotionate to the actual death/infection rate. I genuinely feel like things will never be the same again and not because of the virus but the knock on effects, and peoples behaviour. The scales have well and truly fell from my eyes to how cruel normal people can be. On Friday I was at the socially distanced funeral of a friend who killed themselves the week before. It was a double suicide with their partner, and they had young children. But it wasnt coronavirus so its not news worthy that people are feeling that distressed/deppressed/desperate. Horrible things are happening every day, suicides, abuse, neglect, missed cancer treatment, mental health issues are off the charts but only coronavirus matters. I don't think I can take much more of it all to be honest

@FeelsLikeGroundhogDay. That’s horrendous, there are no words. What will become of the children?

@FeelsLikeGroundhogDay

It all feels so mad and disaprotionate to the actual death/infection rate. I genuinely feel like things will never be the same again and not because of the virus but the knock on effects, and peoples behaviour. The scales have well and truly fell from my eyes to how cruel normal people can be. On Friday I was at the socially distanced funeral of a friend who killed themselves the week before. It was a double suicide with their partner, and they had young children. But it wasnt coronavirus so its not news worthy that people are feeling that distressed/deppressed/desperate. Horrible things are happening every day, suicides, abuse, neglect, missed cancer treatment, mental health issues are off the charts but only coronavirus matters. I don't think I can take much more of it all to be honest

It's awful at every level. We have been pointing out these terrible "collateral damage" consequences for thread after thread after thread. But they are real lives that are just as precious as the Covid deaths and often more tragic because there should have been more opportunity for them to never have occured in the first place rather than occuring to a demographic at a high risk of mortality in the medium to short term.

Inquests are a slow process anyway and it will take a long time for the true toll of all this to emerge.

Ages ago I was shouted down by dementors for pointing out that for young people, suicide and the contribution towards that from the social isolation and depression caused by lockdown being a greater risk than the actual virus. And that the true death toll would not be complete for years. Apparently I was scaremongering and hyperbolic.

And then grief is even harder when you can't immerse yourself in family or work or hobbies as a distraction, or give your loved ones the celebration of their lives that the deserved.

It's not that I underestimate the virus. It's that so many other terrible things are being minimised by the response to it.

Another Team Geek fan here.

I read recently that the Ordnance Survey has been asked to produce maps of what is under the country. How do I deal with my family's reaction if I put those maps onto my Christmas wish list?

Sorry I was trying to word it carefully as I didn't want to make it too outing my friend was the children's parent but the partner wasnt, so they still have one living parent thankfully although losing both a parent and step parent I'm sure will have such a devastating effect on them

@FeelsLikeGroundhogDay Thats horrific. Im so so sorry

Check out tomorrows front page of the i paper

twitter.com/theipaper/status/1290389829751013378?s=20

This ended well

Bill Martins
@bill_martins4
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I’ve not been able to see any of my babies scans due to the pandemic yet
@BBCOne
get to have a camera crew follow Stacey Dooley around a maternity ward! Absolute piss take to be honest 👍🏼👍🏼
Lauren-Amy Jack-o-lanternOrange heart
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Lol what a joke Stacey Dooley and a whole film crew can go into maternity wards but fathers of the babies can’t. I’ll have to attend every scan and appointment alone but come on in bbc film crew!

@HeIenaDove

This ended well

Bill Martins
@bill_martins4
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I’ve not been able to see any of my babies scans due to the pandemic yet
@BBCOne
get to have a camera crew follow Stacey Dooley around a maternity ward! Absolute piss take to be honest 👍🏼👍🏼
Lauren-Amy Jack-o-lanternOrange heart
@LaurenAmy99
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Lol what a joke Stacey Dooley and a whole film crew can go into maternity wards but fathers of the babies can’t. I’ll have to attend every scan and appointment alone but come on in bbc film crew!

What a kick in the teeth for all those new parents and parents to be eh? Some person famous for doing sfa gets to show the world her pregnancy but real parents can get lost? There should be uproar in thst hospital and parents descending en masse to scans and mat wards its beyond a joke.😉

It further reinforces the one rule for one and a different rule for another.

Checking in .

Might be useful to someone who would struggle with a mask

That is madness but if you suffer from severe distress when wearing a face mask then you are exempt.
If you are exempt then you have a hidden disability and cannot be forced to wear a mask, abused or be refused right of entry into any building under the Equality Act 2010.
If anyone abuses you or refuses you entry then this is discrimination.
You do not have to divulge or “prove” your exemption with doctors letters or any other forms under the Data Protection Act 2018.
If you need a FREE EXEMPTION CARD then at the bottom is a government link for a Phone Exemption Card or a Printable Exemption Card.
www.gov.uk/discrimination-your-rights/how-you-can-be-discriminated-against

www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own

Does everyone know about the peaceful protests taking part on Saturday August 8 in major uk cities At 2 pm

Berlin had 500,000 people. Sounds like Germany has had enough

NEwcastle, Leeds, Bristol, London, Liverpool, Plymouth, Oxford, Cardiff Castle, Brighton
Not sure of exact venues yet apart from Cardiff castle

@BogRollBOGOF

Just come home to find that my neighbour has passed away in a care home where she has been for a year.
She was 88 and very frail so it may have been natural causes.
I do feel for her daughter who lost her husband to covid at the beginning of the pandemic.

Poor woman. Her husband and now mother in just 3 months.
Enough is enough.

My aunt has just gone into a care home aged 94 . She was ill and because my cousin couldn’t get adequate care Ie a doctor to see her, she went downhill rapidly and lost her independence. If she doesn’t die of covid it will be thanks to covid and the care home costs £72 k for a year.
My cousin was allowed to see her socially distanced, how awful and just sat and cried for the whole visit.

It’s a disgrace

Friend of my parents has just had to go identify the body of her ex husband who committed suicide and was left not found for a while... another not Covid mental health pandemic death

@amicissimma

That sort of mapping exists. It's prepared by the British geological society. It's freely viewable online but you used to be able to purchase individual sheets with different scales/levels of detail. They are very pretty and very interesting maps.

www.bgs.ac.uk/data/mapViewers/home.html

They also have borehole logs available in one of the map filters. It's very cool to see handwritten logs of holes from the 1930s etc.

This is for viewing and ordering the paper maps:

www.bgs.ac.uk/data/maps/home.html

Someone posted this on one of the previous threads, its the most accurate representation of this shit show.

Very true.

You are all so funny, insightful and knowledgeable- if we’re in for a winter of discontent, it’s a boon you’re here!

Thank you for the geological maps - that’s my fucking work out the window this morning! 😁 I do know there’s an underground aquifer half a mile away where they used to drown witches (well obviously NOT witches because they didn’t live...)

• I’m off down the rabbit hole!

Woke up to news of “science says schools to cause 2nd wave of magnitude never seen before (in our lifetimes)”.

“I wish the transformers wife would get yeeted to the sun” is clearly steering government policy to get us all back under his eye.

Chances to make wee nippy cry today are thin on the ground. Torrential rain and only taking the dog out for a spin. Have already been in the village shop without a mask and had a chat with the man who fixed my fences (no mask) and the woman behind the till (no mask).