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 👍

ISaySteadyOn I'm the same. Every warm Friday night she people in our little street have a barbecue and a few friends round, with music and singing. It's nice.

Once I'd piossibly have thought 'not again' but not anymore. I love it.

Linked to the eviction thing - just found out a house down the street (we're one of those streets gradually being snapped up and destroyed by the Homes Under the Hammer bunch who don't maintain their properties) was re-let at the start of the year, tenants didn't pay their rent and then of course Covid meant they couldn't evict them.

The owners finally got in to have a look yesterday (along with our builder neighbour who is a right gossip to us) and they have destroyed the place completely after not paying any rent for over 6 months.

Sorry about your sisters wedding @Polkadotties bloody stupid.

Some posters whipping themselves into a frenzy over schools returning.
It’s a bonkers thread.

Came here for some sanity.

@Dowser
So nothing major in the scheme of things ..but as I nearer the end stage then the beginning, how many more years will we get to go out and party like there’s no tomorrow.
How many years will I be able to drive for..we have no plan B since Mr Dowsers stroke and he can’t drive.

This is so true, Dowser. It's the things in life that make it about more than just get up & trundle along the same old pathway. The year is usually marked out with things to look forward to, & significant events to celebrate.

I have this fear that this is all there is for me now. Can't go into details here but we've had years of living in a semi-"lockdown" state in my family, lurching from one crisis to the next. Things had just started to settle down, and I was acutely aware that me & DH had a small window of stability before our DPs would start to need us. So we thought 2020 would be the year to crack on and do normal stuff like holidays again. But no, we get this, & his dad is starting to get ill already...

I sound selfish but I have missed out and I want more than this.

I don't think any of us are asking for much, whether it's a break with a partner, hugging a relative, going to a toddler group, or having the party you've planned for months. They are normal parts of life. "New normal" isn't proper living & it can do one.

@TheOrchidKiller
So true
And uni think I was being a bit optimistic about partying like no tomorrow
We rarely stop up to see new year in any more

I look at myself and think where did I go?

New normal is a life but it's no quality of life. And that is more important than life itself.

@TheOrchidKiller
We’ve had years like that, as you say you lurch from one crisis to another.
I should be grateful for a bit of boredom, it means there’s a bit of peace at long last.

Re: social distancing the co-op near us is still only letting seven people in so queue in the car park, one way system as well. It is a small store and probably great for the vulnerable so spread the word to your vulnerable friends, their co-op might be doing the same.

Going nuts on FB local page new Lidl opened it is massive. Someone said they tore a strip off the manager for not having a one way system, not having one in one out, not having staff wearing masks, allowing more than one person in the family into the shop, oh they were on a roll this morning.

The thing is there is a sanitiser station alongside baskets and trolleys which are stored outside under a roof overhang. You can wear mask, gloves, whatever the heck you want. But in Wales masks are not compulsory, nor are any other of the batshit things this poster was demanding. Feel sorry for the manager, shocked at how many other posters agreed with him.

As a bit of a favour to me
Do you think we could start using the phrase
The new abnormal

I’d really love it to be taken up by people to keep shining a light on what we have now..is nowhere near normal.

It’s just crumbs that have been thrown at us to keep us sweet and that can be removed At any time by the powers that be, leaving us always balanced a knife edge of uncertainty.

Shall we book that holiday abroad ?what if it’s cancelled? What if we have to go into quarantine when we get back?
What if we are dragged back after a couple of days?

Shall I go for that new job? What if the firm goes under? What if I can’t find another one ?

Shall we reLocate? What if we hate it? What if the neighbours are right little snitches and curtain twitchers? What if the schools are worse?

We are in a constant state of anxiety over decisions that need careful consideration anyway But this just has knobs on and I don’t want to accept it as my normal.

No way! Never!

Totally. The new abnormal.

Certainly, @Dowser. Tis accurate.

Unbelievably on another thread someone is now suggesting a two month total lockdown so the schools can go back in October instead of September!

I really don't know how anyone can think that's a good solution. I think any critical thinking has just gone totally out of the window over the last few months.

What do you think the general consensus is in the general public on this now? Not just on mn. But liberal elite on 'ere yeah?

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Funny how the liberal elite in USA are demanding free movement and zero change in their lifestyle no matter who might get sick or die. Their numbers state by state are terrifying but they wave their flags, guns and demand they be allowed to crack on as they see fit.

There have been murmerings about folk moving out of cities and into smaller communities. Well a bungalow at the end of our cul de sac came onto the market on Monday, it has been a revolving door of viewers, they are even coming back without the estate agent for another look. I suspect it will be SSTC by the weekend. Fun to watch, I hope we get nice neighbours we have some lovely ones at the moment.

@Sallycinnamum

Unbelievably on another thread someone is now suggesting a two month total lockdown so the schools can go back in October instead of September!

I really don't know how anyone can think that's a good solution. I think any critical thinking has just gone totally out of the window over the last few months.

I think a lot of people can't actually view things that are not in their line of sight. Because schools are important then only that matters. Because they want to obliterate covid infections so lockdown is the only thing that matters.

It has always amazed me how many threads are so narrow minded but now that is targeted at covid.

I don't have children but I understand schooling is important. I am WFH and at the moment my job is secure but I understand why it is important to open things up and allow people to earn money rather than face redundancy. I have cancelled my holiday abroad with no penalty but I can understand why others can't because they will lose money or simply don't want to as they want to a break.

I just want to scream 😱

I agree, Dowser. I want to be alive and living. Or dead. I know there's a risk that I may have an accident, catch a disease, be poisoned by spies, etc that wil leave me seriously incapacitated, but I would rather risk that than not live as fully as I can while I can.

I was watching the news of the Beirut explosion last night. People were clinging to each other, hugging each other, holding each other in fear, joy, support. People had run into the danger area where something else could explode, or fall and crush them, to find people who mattered to them. That's what humans do. We interact. In order to form those vital relationships that we need when times are hard, we socialise. And there's a risk. Always. But that's what being a human is about.

Of course we should support those who want or need to keep away from the mainstream, but we shouldn't let their need dictate how society operates.

@justasking111

Funny how the liberal elite in USA are demanding free movement and zero change in their lifestyle no matter who might get sick or die. Their numbers state by state are terrifying but they wave their flags, guns and demand they be allowed to crack on as they see fit.

I'm from the US and still have family there. And, tbh, the liberal elite are not the gun wavers. They are the ones who are insisting that people wear masks and goggles inside their own homes otherwise you are a thick Trump supporter and entirely worthless. Unfortunately, my parents are of this ilk and I have still not forgiven my mother for saying, when I explained the distress of my DC, that padlocking playgrounds was a good idea.

Here, one could argue masks are more of a disability issue but there it is entirely political. If you don't wear one, you are a bad person and must agree with everything Trump says. If you do wear one, you are a good person.

I'd say the current abnormal. IMO new implies a level of permanance.
DS2 has just made me jealous by sending a picture of a lake surrounded by forest just 15 minutes walk from their new flat. Apparently it's good for swimming and there is a cross country ski trail round the lake in winter.

@amicissimma I expect the dementia were thinking NO SOCIAL DISTANCING - I DISPAIR

If anyone says "new normal" to me, I reply "new temporary normal, surely?" and smile sweetly. Seems to work.

@Dowser

As a bit of a favour to me Do you think we could start using the phrase The new abnormal

I’d really love it to be taken up by people to keep shining a light on what we have now..is nowhere near normal.

It’s just crumbs that have been thrown at us to keep us sweet and that can be removed At any time by the powers that be, leaving us always balanced a knife edge of uncertainty.

Shall we book that holiday abroad ?what if it’s cancelled? What if we have to go into quarantine when we get back?
What if we are dragged back after a couple of days?

Shall I go for that new job? What if the firm goes under? What if I can’t find another one ?

Shall we reLocate? What if we hate it? What if the neighbours are right little snitches and curtain twitchers? What if the schools are worse?

We are in a constant state of anxiety over decisions that need careful consideration anyway But this just has knobs on and I don’t want to accept it as my normal.

No way! Never!

And 'antisocial distancing'. There is nothing social about staying 2 m apart.

@countrygirl99 they are the type of people who would refuse to help if someone collapsed in front of them ... because their need for "safety" in avoiding the tiniest risk of contracting CV & getting ill from it far exceeds the immediate need to help someone lying bleeding on the street.

Selfish psychopathic fuckers would try and dress it up as concern though .... oh but I could be asymptomatic ... yeah right .... can you imagine their reaction if they were first on scene where someone needed CPR? No I think I'll just leave them die 'cos you know 'new normal'.