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ADs against the ‘’ current abnormal ‘ and ‘ antisocial distancing ‘...Gather here 👍

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Dowser · 08/08/2020 09:34

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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

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thenightsky · 12/08/2020 21:40

[quote countrygirl99]@thenightsky I have a friend who campaign a lot on HRT issues. She wrote a book called Me and My Menopausal Vagina. It might be useful.[/quote]
Thanks for that... I see I can get it on Kindle too!

TheOrchidKiller · 12/08/2020 21:46

SomewhereEast

Anyway I think I've found The Dementor of the Day:

thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/511483-wisconsin-state-agency-requires-employees-to-wear-masks-while

I thought this was some kind of wind up by Trump supporters, but no, it is a thing. Can't be too careful!

Jesus wept!
"Set the safety example" Thank god they don't work for Durex!

My strategy for tomorrow is to not look at the news, & to keep cool (in every sense of the word).

Willow2017 · 12/08/2020 21:46

Pleasenomoreglitter
That's completely unacceptable. How do they suppose people can afford to do that? What a neat way to reduce waiting numbers. I am so sorry its happened to you. I think you should write to your MP and ask why you are supposed to do after waiting all this time? [Flowers]

Domina
That's crap and sneaky too. I hope you challenge them on hiding that little snippet from prospective students and ask them to clarify. Chase it up with the student MH service too. Flowers

Went down the beach later this pm.and had a paddle to myself. Still a few people about and in swimming and a but cooler but lovely and refreshing.

Finally admission of total cock up of figures. Our 'world beating' case numbers are all a crock...who would have thunk it?

SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonito · 12/08/2020 22:04

"Set the safety example" Thank god they don't work for Durex!

GrinGrinGrin

DrearyWallAntler · 12/08/2020 22:09

So they finally realised that the previous system of counting meant that we would never reach 0 deaths....

The 60 day count will probably be more useful from a monitoring perspective, but it seems noone else is using it.

BogRollBOGOF · 12/08/2020 22:18

At least the sanctimonious "if you don't like wearing a mask, you won't like a ventilator" comments are now being hit by a range of subtably sarcastic responses Grin

Small victories and all that Wink

justasking111 · 12/08/2020 22:30

There are still some truly bizarre posts on some threads. I really have to read twice sometimes to absorb it.

BogRollBOGOF · 12/08/2020 22:37

Something that's been bugging me. The continuous trope about masks being used in Asia. I have literally travelled the length of China from Hong Kong to Beijing and out to Mongolia and out to Ulan Bataar, one of the worst polluted cities in the world. I'm not disputing that face coverings are more normal there, but they certainly are not ubiquitous as a standard way of living. Not unless something radical has changed in the past decade (and that was the year of swine flu...) My experience is a bit outdated and specific to China only so I haven't felt inclined to use it as a challenge to masks clap trap. DH has just dozed off to an online dicumentary about the Chinese economy and I haven't seen a single mask on the general street scenes (or anywhere else on it!)

Mind you with the history of China in the past 100 years and the series of purges through the Mao years, increasing your anonymity isn't so unattractive. In Tibet people are ultra cautious about what they say, to whom and in safe places away from being bugged by the state. Monastaries in particular have a lot of surveilence.

I'm glad I don't live in fear of the police/ military.

HeIenaDove · 12/08/2020 22:38

I think if the Government brought back ECT treatment to "correct the wrongthink" of people who dont like masks but ARE wearing them a lot of posters would be all for it.

HeIenaDove · 12/08/2020 22:43

A couple of local hairdressers have had some cancellations today.
Masks in a heatwave losing their appeal?

amicissimma · 12/08/2020 22:49

Didn't the government ban the wearing of masks in Hong Kong in response to the demos there, just before Covid struck? I wonder if that law is strictly speaking still in place?

DominaShantotto · 12/08/2020 22:52

@Willow2017

Pleasenomoreglitter That's completely unacceptable. How do they suppose people can afford to do that? What a neat way to reduce waiting numbers. I am so sorry its happened to you. I think you should write to your MP and ask why you are supposed to do after waiting all this time? [Flowers]

Domina
That's crap and sneaky too. I hope you challenge them on hiding that little snippet from prospective students and ask them to clarify. Chase it up with the student MH service too. Flowers

Went down the beach later this pm.and had a paddle to myself. Still a few people about and in swimming and a but cooler but lovely and refreshing.

Finally admission of total cock up of figures. Our 'world beating' case numbers are all a crock...who would have thunk it?

Yeah they're sneaky that they've got it hidden OFF their "this is how this year's going to be" microsite. Contacted the MH services - apparently it's "being discussed" and they're putting the current exemption guidelines on there (they're not). Disability services seem to be taking it seriously - tutor was a bit useless but they're up to their eyes in clearing these few weeks so I'm going to have to hang fire a bit on that really.
wanderings · 12/08/2020 22:53

@BogRollBOGOF When the mask zealots talk of Asians wearing masks, they are omitting to add when they are ill.

wanderings · 12/08/2020 23:01

Speaking of the messed up death figures, does anyone know the story "The Gotham way of Counting"? It's what Boris would do.

It was a folk-tale I remember reading at primary school. The twelve "merry men of Gotham" went fishing, but when they had finished, they feared that one of them was missing; so one of them counted "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven."

But he forgot to count himself. Another man did the same. So, in desperation, they swore to a passer-by that if he could find their lost man, they would give him all their money, which was not very much, and all their fish, which were many. The man counted, and got to twelve. So the merry men of Gotham had no money and no fish to take home to their wives.

ILoveTotoro · 12/08/2020 23:29

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BogRollBOGOF · 12/08/2020 23:54

[quote wanderings]@BogRollBOGOF When the mask zealots talk of Asians wearing masks, they are omitting to add when they are ill.[/quote]
This is what I was thinking because I really don't remember it being a default thing at all. In the south, in the north, big cities, middling cities or the more rural areas.
But it was just over 10 years ago.

InsaneInTheViralMembrane · 13/08/2020 07:04

That’s nothing Helena! Chatting to a school mum the other day - she works in a school with children with physical disabilities. They’re not allowed to get within 2m and have to line up the wheelchairs at the entrance.

The children at this point are expected to extract themselves from their “travel chairs” into the school wheelchairs.

That’ll sort out the fakers! All those kids pretending to be physically impaired will now just walk across the room and hop into the appropriate chair.

wanderings · 13/08/2020 07:23

@ILoveTotoroTut tut. Smile I saw the deletion message, I didn't see what you'd said before that, that thread is nasty, I stayed up late giving long sensible replies; my grinning mouth barely fitted under my muzzle. Deletion could happen to me though - the zealots really don't like it when we say "muzzles" and "face nappies"; deprived of their being lockdown busybodies, they're just loving the worship of the masks (I'll start calling them facial shrines to Boris). The only deletion I've had was a thread I started near the beginning of lockdown, which was deleted before I saw any replies! Shock

I drove through north London yesterday evening, after a few months: I was cheered to see people not wearing masks in the street (they were all wearing them back in April), and there not being a very long socially distanced pavement queue outside a big Tesco, which was also a fixture in April.

wanderings · 13/08/2020 07:24

Oops, my message above is for @ILoveTotoro

wanderings · 13/08/2020 07:30

The funny thing is: when I was younger, I used to be a total roolz busybody. I was that child who had to be told not to enforce rules on other people; I'd tell my parents off for crossing at the red man; I was the class snitch at school; and when driving, I'd rage internally every time I saw a rule being broken; and I reported drivers all the time.

Now I'm enjoying watching roolz being broken, it's liberating!

BogRollBOGOF · 13/08/2020 07:31

Definitely less masks in the street... but it wasn't 33oC in April Grin

Most street masks I see now are people who are purposeful i.e. shop to shop, at a bus stop or carers. Far fewer ramdom ones in parks or strolling around my neighbourhood.

So I'm not buying "new normal" and that people will be doing this forever.

Bumped into Scouting leader/ A&E nurse yesterday. She has no desire to wear them any more than she has to at work. And after 12 hours shifts and wearing them for months, if anyone's used to them she would be Wink I have seen a few NHS posts of a similar vein.

Pleasenomoreglitter · 13/08/2020 07:45

@Willow2017

Pleasenomoreglitter That's completely unacceptable. How do they suppose people can afford to do that? What a neat way to reduce waiting numbers. I am so sorry its happened to you. I think you should write to your MP and ask why you are supposed to do after waiting all this time? [Flowers]

Domina
That's crap and sneaky too. I hope you challenge them on hiding that little snippet from prospective students and ask them to clarify. Chase it up with the student MH service too. Flowers

Went down the beach later this pm.and had a paddle to myself. Still a few people about and in swimming and a but cooler but lovely and refreshing.

Finally admission of total cock up of figures. Our 'world beating' case numbers are all a crock...who would have thunk it?

Thanks. I just feel ground down to be honest. It's a women's health issue that notoriously takes years to get diagnosed and can still only be done by investigative surgery. It feels no surprise in many ways that they'll be trying to get people off the waiting lists. Whatever I said there was a counter point from them. She was clearly determined to get me to "agree". I don't know what I'll do. I need a new prescription in a few weeks and the letter should have reached my gp by then so I think I'll try and talk to them about it when I phone and hope I get a sympathetic one!
chocolatesweets · 13/08/2020 07:54

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

That’s nothing Helena! Chatting to a school mum the other day - she works in a school with children with physical disabilities. They’re not allowed to get within 2m and have to line up the wheelchairs at the entrance.

The children at this point are expected to extract themselves from their “travel chairs” into the school wheelchairs.

That’ll sort out the fakers! All those kids pretending to be physically impaired will now just walk across the room and hop into the appropriate chair.

Omg
chocolatesweets · 13/08/2020 07:58

Hi everyone ,
Met a friend yesterday , very pro lockdown aussie style. I explained the other side of lockdown that no one seems to be talking about except you on here.
She said , well you didn't have to listen to the rules from the beginning. Which I thought was true but it's more complicated than that isn't it? I didn't think that comment was fair.