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Hello Girls..it’s me again.

Hope your all out and about enjoying this glorious Saturday.

I just add raspberries in at the end of a normal sponge cake mix.

Particularly good in a chocolate sponge with some chocolate spread in the middle/ butterfly cakes.

Nothingiswrong and. ISaySo
Tell them all to fuck off if they have nothing nice to say.
I have had days too and I am sure people would tell me to suck it up anywhere but here. I dont ghave ave half the stuff going on you have so i can't imagine how hard it is at times. Just keep venting on here we are all rooting for you.
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I don't deny covid is real I but the goalposts change so often and the lies that have bern spread by the gov and media have left many of us not believing much of what we read/hear now. It's just a total contradictory mess.
I wear a damm mask when i have to I just don't linger in a shop now, but I find it hilarious that passing someone for 3 seconds in a shop is dangerous yet working with 8 other people side by side without a mask is somehow not! (Thank god we dont have to wear one now ) But I still need to get behind both a mask and screen to take an order from a customer!

P.S. 🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇🍇I want raspberries!

See I do feel way more at risk nipping into the supermarket than I do having a friend over or having my dad take my kids on holiday. Because I know the movements of those people.

I don’t know that Bob in Sainsbury’s isn’t coughing over everything.

But that’s MY risk assessment and your mileage may vary.

My dad dropped the kids off and didn’t appear to have succumbed to covid. He did mutter something about forgetting what it was like to take children on holiday though. 😁 he needs a holiday now.

I always need a holiday after getting back from taking my kids on holiday.

Checking in. I got told on a mask thread to "use my grown up words". My talk of muzzles, face nappies and symbols of allegiance to Saint Boris's regime angered the masked mafia.

Checking in too, I'm no covid denier - I had it! I'm increasingly concerned about the knock effects of lockdown on abuse, neglect, domestic violence, mental health and physical health. I don't think covid trumps everything else. I posted last week about the double suicide of my friend and his partner, I've barely left the house in that time my mental health is on the floor. Cant wear a mask due to PTSD so cant see a doctor, cant access any support. Enough is enough for me. This group is my one ray of sunshine, keep on anti dementing!

@Drivingdownthe101

Checking in! I am an AD regular but am not a Covid denier, an anti masker, an anti vaxxer... I am anti shaming people who can’t wear masks, and I’m anti accusing anyone who doesn’t follow ‘the rules’ of murdering grannies, and I’m anti hyperbole about eating crisps on benches... I come here for donut bum chat, learning Greek swear words and a bit of respite from the doom and gloom/shaming/vitriol that has become more and more apparent on the rest of the site.

Yes, this is me too.

I am definitely not a Covid denier and I do have masks. I social distance (partly because I don’t want to make others uncomfortable).

These threads are at least partly a reaction to the horror of people making up mad rules and then freaking out because other people weren’t following the mad, made up rules.

In March it seemed as though the world had gone crazy. People were shrieking “STAY THE FUCK HOME!!!!!” all over social media, park benches were taped up.

There was one thread (quite early on) where someone freaked out because the OP said she had to nip to the corner shop to buy tampax.

Not a covid-denier - potentiality at risk more than most. However, life, society and everything else - does not revolve around my woes.

CruCru

I started a thread just before lockdown or thereabouts talking about what might happen here and a new normal and was completely vilified and accused of scaremongering. It was quite tame compared to what did happen.

@wanderings

Checking in. I got told on a mask thread to "use my grown up words". My talk of muzzles, face nappies and symbols of allegiance to Saint Boris's regime angered the masked mafia.

The same one I am on. VintageVixen is doing well on there.

@NothingIsWrong and @FeelsLikeGroundhogDay 💐 it’s all very hard. This thread is a bit of a life saver.

I'm feeling horrified at the rules for universities. Some are insisting that students quarantine for the first 14 days with their new flat mates.No other socialising allowed, and then yet more batshit rules after that.
I'm so relieved my dd is third year. How are freshers going to cope with that?

@dingit dd’s is 7 days if you are from the UK 14 for foreign students “isolation with your new household”. Honestly not sure how that is going to work - are they going to house the foreign students together/apart. Pretty crap all around.

We’re almost all covid centrists here aren’t we? I’m not sure that I’ve ever met a covid denier? (Though tbh I’m not really sure what ppl mean by it).

[quote torydeathdrug]@dingit dd’s is 7 days if you are from the UK 14 for foreign students “isolation with your new household”. Honestly not sure how that is going to work - are they going to house the foreign students together/apart. Pretty crap all around.

We’re almost all covid centrists here aren’t we? I’m not sure that I’ve ever met a covid denier? (Though tbh I’m not really sure what ppl mean by it).[/quote]
I actually encountered a full on denier in the wild a couple of days ago! Thinks it’s all a world wide conspiracy in order to control us and reset the economy.

I am also not a covid denier. But I do strongly feel we need to get on with our lives now.. The ramifications of not doing so are going to far outweigh those of covid. We can see that already. There seems to be some collective need though to remain in a state of fear. I don't get it at all.....(nor do I get the actions of the Government at the minute. What actually is their strategy??)

Drivingdownthe101 one of my friends is a full on denier. Some sort of weird belief that includes a hatred of Bill Gates.
She always tended to paranoid, is at the extreme activist end of vegan, wouldn't microchip her pet etc.

Still, she was very kind to me at a difficult time. I leave her to it.

Also not a Covid denier. I wear a mask but hate it and avoid anything other than a weekly food shop that needs it. Anyone who doesn't like my attitude about masks can do one. I've signed up for one of the vaccine testing programmes but haven't been contacted yet. As I'm working from home I hardly see anyone outside my household and I never thought I'd say I missed going to the office, but I do. DH and I are spending far too much time together and we are getting on each others nerves.

Checking in ....

I’m not a Covid-denier at all - however I am extremely angry about the effects of lockdown and the bonkers interpretations of the roolz... eg one of the restaurants near us is insisting on taking everyone’s temperature before they’re allowed in. Cue lots of people on a local chat group expressing their approval ‘because you can’t be too safe’. When I queried why they were doing this (it’s against government guidelines/the staff aren’t medically trained/what are they going to do with the data/it’s a useless way of finding asymptomatic/presymptomatic carriers who would surely be more of a worry in a restaurant than people who definitely felt ill), I got shouted down because if doing x is ‘safe’ then doing x and y, and probably z too must be even safer ...

I worry that there’s no exit strategy and that the goalposts keep shifting

I worry about my family’s finances - dh wasn't able to work at all within the restrictions but wasn’t eligible for any of the government bailouts and I’ve had a 20% pay cut. Ds has just finished uni and is job-hunting in a very harsh environment. But apparently no sacrifice is too great if it stops just one death ...

And I am really worried about the health tsunami that is going to hit us soon ... and it’s not a second wave of coronavirus... I work for a large medical charity and in the last month requests for information about urgent referrals for suspected cases have increased ten-fold. Multiply that by all the other serious illnesses out there, treatment for which has been completely sidelined by the transformation of the NHS into the national Covid service and the next couple of years are looking extremely grim

DH has a FB friend (someone we haven't seen in ages) who was denying the existence of covid last week. They posted that it couldn't exist because someone in another country had found a cure, & the fact that this govt hadn't bought the cure meant that it didn't exist.

They got quite pissed off when someone else gently questioned their reasoning. DH is keeping out of it.

DD has just been to Tesco. 2 women outside & only one had a mask. They were over-heard arranging that one would go in, then when she'd done her shopping she'd come out & lend her worn mask to the other woman. The security guard overheard & let the second woman in maskless. I think wearing someone else's used mask is as much use as a chocolate tea pot in the attempt to limit the spread- assuming one of them's infectious.

This is why I'm not convinced that masks in non-clinical settings is all that beneficial if it's being done like this. To teach & instill perfect or even adequate mask hygeine in an entire population is not that simple.

Oh, great thread. Can I join?

I have seen these threads before but simply not understood the titles. Had no clue what was meant by "AD". Thought it might have been referring to anti-depressants.

Anyway, get it now. Fabulous.

Thank God I found you lot.

Welcome TooManyPlatesInMotion!

InsaneInTheViralMembrane

Thats the great thing about this thread. We can have differing views, neither may be 100% right but we dont feel the need to scream that the other person is wrong. We can accept others opinions without it affecting us personally. It would be rather boring if all people in the world had the same viewpoint in everything.