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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

@Reedwarbler I've ordered a mask (with much wrestling with my conscience; I don't want to support this new industry) from Redbubble which says "Make 1984 fiction again". I'm not sure I have the guts to wear "Covid is a hoax" in public though, much as I would like to believe that.

I wear a visor on my rare shopping trips (I'm avoiding all mask places as a matter of principle), and on it I have placed a tiny label saying "government by fear and deception is more dangerous than any virus".

Meanwhile in Hong Kong nasty things are happening. How much will get through under the cover of a pandemic I wonder.

As for France insisting on masks outside in some areas, well that is a great help, too little too late.

@pearlypidge
Was in our little market town and someone had the fancy pancy fabric ones.
There was a young woman shopping with partner and children saying ..ohh look , two for £7
I wanted to say...noooooo
Dont normalise it ffs

@wanderings
Now I thought you’d be right out there waving your banner 😂

I have fabric masks for our family because I hate the waste of the disposables, but they are the cheapest plainest ones I could find, and they definitely don't coordinate with my clothes!

I did sew a couple myself at home, but I don't have a sewing machine and they took forever, so sod that, life's too short.

@TrustTheGeneGenie
We had a lovely wedding in Tenerife
Everyone was invited
Even paying for my ten family, mr Dowser paid for us, it was still cheaper than a uk wedding and what a blast we had
So not including the 12 of us, we had 4 from wales and 5 from Dorset/ Wiltshire, two Russians , a swede and an a Spaniard.

We had a quick 20 minute broom cupboard ceremony in our civic centre, which was actually nicer than I thought and then the 25 of us on the beAch at las americas.

We’d had a rotten summer Weather wise That year, barely saw the sun so to see my grandkids frolicking in the hotel pool for a week In September is something I’ll never forget.

I mean 10 of them , flights, transfers, 4 star hotel and half board and food was lovely ..£4;400 ..and three grandsons were nearly men ..bargain

We had a lovely celebrant and a spare who took photos on my iPad. Guests were encouraged to wear what they liked. So my son did..he came in his shorts lol and with a nice shirt on top. We all went to the monkey zoo on the morning as wedding wasn’t till 7
We all did own hair, nails and makeup..it was 28 Degrees

A musician from the local Irish bar played us down to the beach and back to the restaurant. There we just ordered from the three courses for ten euro menu, all was wonderful and I’d mDe bunting in Tenerife colours, which the spare celebrant put up.

Until two days before the wedding I didn’t have a cake, but she ordered it for me..50 euros..beautiful
And up to 2pm on the day of the wedding, I didn’t have any flowers, so Juan from the restaurant got mr D to jump in his car and drove him to a garden centre and got an assistant to do me a hand tied bouquet of roses.

Out of my three weddings it was far and away the best and if I dare say it..the best I’ve been too..yes even the 50 grand jobbie that didn’t last two years and are now at daggers drawn fighting over who is going to have the dog.

However Spain is in rather a pickle right now, so might not be the destination of choice.

@Dowser, I can't believe it either. Although when I returned here from the UK I was struck by the narrowness of public discourse. Not a lot of diversity of opinion. We've had very coercive vaccination policies since 2016, and a very rigid medical model of health management. There's even been a recent attempt to ban chiropractic care for under 12s by our Health Minister. What I mean is, the narrow scientific totalitarianism which informs the way this disease is being managed here isn't a total surprise. Just unpleasant to live through.

I went out today at lunchtime. 28 degrees here, blazing sun, so feels hotter. I saw a woman out running, next to a fast road, in a mask. Madness. I seriously considered stopping to ask her to please stop before she passed out and got herself run over.

@wanderings I like both of your mask 'sayings'. I wonder if I should get a visor too, they look a little less claustrophobic. The irony is I was recently diagnosed with a heart condition that causes breathlessness at times, so technically, I suppose I could forego wearing a mask, but, tbh, as I only go to the supermarket for about an hour a week I can put up with it. I do not go in any other shops/enclosed spaces at all (apart from our local pub). The goverment are doing a very bad job of getting me to spend my money in retail. In fact, the only current benefit to all this is the money I am saving from not shopping, not having holidays, not buying much petrol etc.

That big mega hypermarket in the sky , Amazon is getting all my money

Two pairs of sandals arriving wed morning
Watch the weather change
All my fault

Wow outside of this thread there's some seriously vicious people. Makes me wonder if they're that angry in real life (in which case I actually worry about them) or whether it's just strangers that they like to abuse. Several threads have been hidden so I can't see the anger anymore!!

[quote Blobby10]**@Reedwarbler a colleague of mine has written on his company issued muzzle COVID IS A HOAX . We are lucky that standard working practices mean there is plenty of space around us all so we don't have to wear the wretched things at work but the company HAS to provide them.[/quote]
We're getting uni issued ones when we go back - although their bits about masks in face-to-face lectures they had put on without telling anyone seems to have vanished from the FAQs on their website.

Am interesting report here from the ONS with some nice graphs on footfall in shopping areas following various events.
I was interested to see how much people had already changed their habits before official lockdown. I can't draw any conclusions based on past mask data.

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/coronavirustheukeconomyandsocietyfasterindicators/06august2020#measuring-the-data

Oh yes, @Dowser of course there is the Internet shopping. I am amazed at the speed of some of it - I ordered a case of wine at 4pm one day and it was here by 9am the next morning. Wine has become perhaps a little too important to me these days!

@pearlypidge

The thing about masks, for me, is not so much the discomfort (although I do hate the feeling of wearing something over my face).

Its more the dehumanising effect they have.

It's just not normal for humans to cover half their faces, especially when we use our mouths and facial features so much to communicate with each other.

I really really hate the way retailers and fashion websites etc are trying to normalise the wearing of masks and to integrate them into your outfit. IMO if will be horrific if they become "the new normal" (urgh) for any length of time.

Omg yes to this

Absolutely FUCK the "mask as normal fashion accessory" bullshit🤦🏻‍♀️😤

@Reedwarbler

I woke up this morning feeling rather despairing at my groundhog day style existence. Aargh. It's self defeating because there are things I can do to keep busy but I just don't have the enthusiasm anymore. Instead I have written on a mask. I have a whole box of these which we don't really use (but I could if necessary) as I prefer the bandana type. So, here's a question, am I being really childish? What would be a pithy thing to write? My bandana mask is printed from material with 'fuck' on it.

I wrote "worn under duress" on mine

Bloody hell you lot what did you do in Peckham this afternoon I am shocked...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8611849/Moment-megaphone-wielding-anti-mask-activists-storm-Morrisons-shouting-resist-new-world-order.html

@justasking111 Good for them, I'm glad somebody is taking a stand. The megaphone that I normally use at sports tournaments has been gathering dust for the last few months... Normally I loathe the Daily Mail, but I've been quite pleased about some of their articles lately, which are challenging the docile compliant status quo. I know the Daily Mail's aim is to the get the dementors frothing over their cornflakes, and thinking that we're all going to die because of "selfish arseholes", but it might make people think a bit!

I'm gradually getting used to my cycle of mood swings in the day. Wake up feeling optimistic, manage to keep that going until social media intrudes. Gradually sink through the day, perk up when I can have wine. Right now I'm eyeing the corkscrew...

I'm wondering if I have some birth trauma muddled in too. Both births involved the big red button. DS1 was an EMCS after long labour. I ended up in HDU and DS1 had a short visit to NICU. I'd been in pain for months from SPD and carpal tunnel, and had been out of it on pethadine, locked in with the pain, and my brain came back partway through two hours of pushing, and then everything got confused with little explanation and DS1 was promptly whisked away before I met him. Apart from low blood sugars, he was OK, but my liver function had gone awry and I was showind signs of pre-eclampsia.

Second time I was very anxious about the birth and got some support to prepare for it and familiarise with labour ward in a calm state. DS2 was born in an operating theatre again, but it made so much difference that just before the MW bent down to me, told me why she was concerned and that she was going to press the button and things were about to get busy.
Despite the damage to my undercarriage, mentally it was far better.

I'm definitely worse when there are more masks around. In the park today, there were some carers and vulnerable adults and that bothers me much less than in the supermarket where there is that feeling of obligation or justification and nearly everyone is wearing them. I'm finding I keep my head down and plough on and try not to look at people. I'm struggling with manners too because I'm concentrating on breathing. On Saturday, social distancing went out the window, it was grab stuff, sling into the trolley and pay ASAP. By the time I'm pulling at the blasted thing, there is zero hygiene benefit to the performance.

I've always struggled with hot humid stuffy air anyway. Badly ventilated rooms have always made me yawn profusely. The classroom where I did A-level English and studied The Handmaids Tale was particularly bad for it. Oh the irony

[quote wanderings]@justasking111 Good for them, I'm glad somebody is taking a stand. The megaphone that I normally use at sports tournaments has been gathering dust for the last few months... Normally I loathe the Daily Mail, but I've been quite pleased about some of their articles lately, which are challenging the docile compliant status quo. I know the Daily Mail's aim is to the get the dementors frothing over their cornflakes, and thinking that we're all going to die because of "selfish arseholes", but it might make people think a bit![/quote]
I've got a spare megaphone... I've got the parkrun kit stashed away as I was the last RD. It's not very good and I prefer to bellow

Back on 15th March, I wasn't expecting to hold on to it for quite this long... a month or two? Not 5 and counting!

I prefer the patterned type of coverings, not as a point of fashion, but just as a bit of personality.

Medical style I find incongruous.

Hello everyone, can I join? I opened this thread this morning to find out what anti depressants had to do with social distancing and have been reading all day while working from home. You sound like a lovely bunch.
We went out for a meal on Saturday evening and I asked if it was possible to get a side salad. The barmaid said - is it on the menu? I said there was a Waldorf salad so perhaps we could have that? She said that we didn't want that and she'd check with the kitchen. They said no problem and to put it through the till. It turned put that it had been removed from the menu when they reopened as government advice was to offer a reduced menu, but she couldn't explain to me how that was supposed to help reduce the spread! They were just following government advice.

@Taswama

Hello everyone, can I join? I opened this thread this morning to find out what anti depressants had to do with social distancing and have been reading all day while working from home. You sound like a lovely bunch. We went out for a meal on Saturday evening and I asked if it was possible to get a side salad. The barmaid said - is it on the menu? I said there was a Waldorf salad so perhaps we could have that? She said that we didn't want that and she'd check with the kitchen. They said no problem and to put it through the till. It turned put that it had been removed from the menu when they reopened as government advice was to offer a reduced menu, but she couldn't explain to me how that was supposed to help reduce the spread! They were just following government advice.

Don’t you know that side salads have virus transmitting properties?!

Welcome!

Definitely salads to blame... even McDonalds have removed theirs

This why male cucumbers must be deflowered For The Greater Good.