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

[Dowser]

How did that happen?
Taking one for the team 👍

No, seems to have been a super-spreader on a pub-crawl. 😂

And, as for me, if I can be selfish for a bit, I wish I could feel, just for a moment, a bit of glamour instead of the harassed rather frump like SAHM I am. I would like to look nice and have a pretty new dress and not feel ashamed every time I look in a mirror (which is as little as possible) because I don't like what I see.

Yes! This is me! I am much too fat (not because of lockdown although it hasn't helped) and these days I'm just sort of matronly.

Just like that Brighton chap who ran the scout group, went to Singapore and pub-crawls.

It likes sociable types.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Just like that Brighton chap who ran the scout group, went to Singapore and pub-crawls.

It likes sociable types.

I'll be immune then

BellaintheWychElm
InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Just like that Brighton chap who ran the scout group, went to Singapore and pub-crawls.

It likes sociable types.

I'll be immune then

Me too. I only attract misery. (Exits on cue to pick up morose teen from work)

@Dowser

Just seen it’s already been mentioned www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/nicola-sturgeon-announces-aberdeen-lockdown-22472706

They’re toying with us now.
Yes, you can go to work but don’t think you’re going to fucking enjoy yourselves

I was watching Horrible Histories the other day and it was one of the sections on the puritans and what their kids weren't allowed to do for enjoyment and I was thinking "fucking hell it's 2020"

I've jinxed it now though - I've labelled the school uniform. If schools DO go back, judging by MN - I can see a lot of panic buying and stock issues with uniforms as no one's dared risk buying any yet so everyone's going to descend all at once! We didn't need much though as last year's stuff was barely worn - particularly all DD1's cardigans which were apparently completely lost without trace and spent most of the year chilling in the school lost property bin.

@chocolatesweets and @Drivingdownthe101 I sympathise re young children. The rain has been horrific these past few days and there is nowhere indoors for me to take my 2.5 year old.

I took him to Pets at Home today and there were no fucking pets. Except fish behind a barrier. I actually cried into my stupid fucking mask. I don’t know how much more I can take.

[quote AgentCooper]**@chocolatesweets* and @Drivingdownthe101* I sympathise re young children. The rain has been horrific these past few days and there is nowhere indoors for me to take my 2.5 year old.

I took him to Pets at Home today and there were no fucking pets. Except fish behind a barrier. I actually cried into my stupid fucking mask. I don’t know how much more I can take.[/quote]
Oh don't 😭 huge cup of tea followed by a glass of wine for us. My two are 2.5 years too. It's getting increasingly difficult as I'm getting increasingly snappier /tired and they need more than what I can provide.

I think everybody with kids, especially the small ones are getting grumpier by the day. We've had weeks of being cooped up with them with nowhere to go and nobody to see. I had some respite from my 5 year old when he went back to school but now he's off again it's like being back at the beginning of lockdown with just a few more things to do. Some of us have the anxiety over schools potentially not returning too, some wondering how to juggle their job too.

This situation can't be good for many people childfree or not. It's mentally messing with our heads because we have no idea what our lives are going to look like in just a weeks time, let alone months or next year.

There is definitely a whole load of panic going on with regards to positive tests. It's being seen that positive tests=hospitals/death so they are clamping down before it can get worse. I get that but I think they are perhaps panicking a bit too much.

Also in agreement that without social media and worldwide news constantly in our faces we wouldn't have had a clue. Some people would have died from something but I think it would have been treated differently and with less hysterics, certainly no lockdown I'm sure.

The rumour mill on the Aberdeen Facebook chats are going in overdrive about the super spreader. There is a list of pubs been released by NHS Grampian, there are over 30 affected in the city centre alone.

It looks like shops are still open and the schools are still reopening next week. The general consensus is that a few people have ruined it for everyone.

But it isn’t a “few people ruining it for everyone”.

It’s one person with superhuman powers who is not only unfettered by covid - but also makes their way around THIRTY pubs!

If this were university they’d get a tie and be spoken of as legend! 😂

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

But it isn’t a “few people ruining it for everyone”.

It’s one person with superhuman powers who is not only unfettered by covid - but also makes their way around THIRTY pubs!

If this were university they’d get a tie and be spoken of as legend! 😂

Was a smaller scale one in Sunderland earlier in the week - went out on the piss when waiting for test results and then they came back positive. He's not a popular fella now by all accounts.

Thing is, if you feel fit enough to do X number of pubs then presumably you didn’t feel sick.

Oh to be 23 again.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane I meant that in relation to the size of the city its a small proportion, not everyone has been going out to the pub. If they managed to do all the pubs on the list in one weekend then fair play to them
In fact most people I know have hardly been to the pub and are not queuing outside at 11pm to get in.

Imagine being the Super-spreader. Everyone talking about you, albeit anonymously, but even so. If you've been on a pub crawl & you're a scout leader and you live in an outbreak area you'll have a good idea it might be you (unless they tell you it's you, I don't know how it works). Your mates might put two and two together.

Any other time and these details wouldn't be known. There must be super-spreaders of STDs and although tracing of partners is done, an outbreak of chlamydia doesn't seem to trigger national reports on the news that it was spread about by a student who fancied himself as a bit of a player in freshers' week (that probably doesn't narrow it down much, TBF).

I'd be well- pissed off if I tested positive & worked out that it was me from news reports. Although in my case it wouldn't be anything as much fun as a pub crawl they got me on. (And I'm talking about covid, not STDs, just to be clear).

Obviously I would not pop out to M&S whilst waiting for test results & having symptoms.

What if the super-spreader was asymptomatic though, & going about their business quite innocently & not being a dick? Could they be a super-spreader? Honestly don't know.

DH and DD1 have come back from city center - the tiger shop is closing here and has closed in nearest town. All the shops have sales on apparently.

There aren't many "browsing"shops in the center - ones you just look round for fun and end up buying stuff from and the few clothes shops don't carry all the stock and direct you to on-line.

When I hear about super-spreaders visiting umpteen places in a night I realise I've been doing Going Out wrong all my life - I generally go to one place, enjoy it and go home. And not very often at that.

Today's paper reports that the NHS is to increase 'social prescribing', ie. encouraging people to join sports teanms, classes, and social clubs, which suggests that they recognise the importance of social contact to health. Meanwhile, in Dementorland, we are encouraged to hide behind the sofa, avoiding the rest of humanity 'until it's safe'. Weeks? Months? Years? Decades?

Slight flaw in the social prescribing plan (it's been talked about for years) THERE ARE NO EFFING SOCIAL CLUBS OPEN! Not unless you want to do boot camp in a park. Which most of the patients I know who need a social prescription don't. They need day centres & to sit & have a cup of tea and a natter in a warm building, without masks because they can't hear properly.

For Father Ted fans, here's Pat Mustard. The word "Super-Spreader" brings him to mind.

I am a knob. Went into town yesterday to get some bits, muzzled up for shops and noticed quite a few people not wearing masks. It occurred to me that they're probably getting some grief for this (like my Dad who goes mask free and people ostentatiously move further from him or mutter things) so I thought I'd be a nice person and made a point of smiling at every maskless person I saw. Got back in the car and realised THEY CAN'T FECKING SEE ME SMILE.
It's the thought that counts right?

I don't want to avoid humanity, but equally I don't want to get shouted at for not complying with something I physically can't do.

@chocolatesweets, re:anger, I am furious and feel so helpless as to what to do. No MP of any party will listen to an autistic dyspraxic middle aged SAHM. I think I am probably one of the easiest demographics to dismiss as irrelevant and that makes me angry too.

I thought I'd be a nice person and made a point of smiling at every maskless person I saw. Got back in the car and realised THEY CAN'T FECKING SEE ME SMILE.

Round here we all seem to have become a community of eye-rollers

I had a Dishi Rishi McBreakfast this morning. Had my buff around my neck, unsure of the protocal for eating in at that branch and as the staff member asked me to pull it up, the guy behind mutters "Shit! Mask!" and runs off. I giggled. She noticed him run, but didn't catch the swearing

Went to the tramway museum before we have to cover up in the indoor exhibitions. Most of it is outdooŕs, and I can accept that they are following the guidence on transport for the tram rides. Fortunately our allocated slot was top deck outdoors which helped. It still felt horrid around my mouth even after sitting for 15 minutes and having the breeze and air movement.
It was still a good day out, and the entrance lasts 12 months so hopefully next year it might be more normal while the ticket is still valid.

My big event that was deferred to September is now cancelled and transferred to March 2021 around its usual time. This time it's not even registering as disappointment because it so inevitably was not going to be on the cards as a mass indoor event where successful social distancing is having random feet at least 6 inches from your face. I hope March isn't too premature, and with my critical head on, without vaccine developments, I think before next Easter is cutting things fine for mass indoor events. I'm happy to be wrong though! I really hope I can do running races before that though.

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Just like that Brighton chap who ran the scout group, went to Singapore and pub-crawls.

It likes sociable types.

There was a study which showed people who were presymptomatic with flu were more sociable. Thank you to the AD who shared the zombie virus knowledge. It was a few threads back so new ADs may not have seen it.

@BogRollBoGOF did I read that right? You had to wear a mask upstairs on the tram, outside?

It's been years since we went to the tram museum. I love that neck of the woods, lived not far away for a short while.