ADs dream of 'bum' tomatoes, gin and tonic sorbet and next year's holidays

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New thread.

previous thread

The one with the phallic aubergines

Also quite a bit on teachers mainly getting it from other teachers, having coffee breaks and outside of school...(won't post that on the schools threads perhaps)

Which reminds me actually of a teacher post on here about gyms, saying they might as well go to classes as back in school soon anyway...

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/children-must-go-back-to-school-despite-coronavirus-risk-chris-whitty-tells-parents-z2nh7kl77

Oh interesting guess what I just predicted Scotland would go ahead with face masks now in schools and she is..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53888479

So they will be taking them on and off through the day then. Great idea.

I thought she was misguided and meant well. Now I think she's cruel.

I tried, at home today, to see how I would get on with a light scarf over my face. 5 seconds and I couldn't breathe. Now I am not supposed to wear one anyway or as DH put it 'Honey, we don't want you to go to hospital' but I was curious. I can't imagine forcing students to wear one for 6 hours. I think that's very wrong.

Well just had an email with starting info from our secondary and no requirement for face masks (but they can wear one if they want) not in Scotland though

I think Nicola will jump at any chance to be different / more cautious / better seeming...it's all political.

It's just in the corridors not in lessons (Scotland)

After a weary conversation with a friend who is beyond terrified about schools reopening I need this thread!

Mental health blah blah, no covid is far more of a threat apparently. She knows I’ve lost a friend due to suicide related to covid and still she says mental health isn’t important.

It’s

Just catching up after a properly fucking hectic end of last week and insane start to this week.

I am so tired. So so tired. But keeping on. Some days in the office are going well, and I even got a Rishi for lunch today.

But so tired. You lot keep me going

@LivinLaVidaLoki

I always used to try and reassure people *@TheAdventuresoftheWishingChair* but Ive come to see on MN that most people don't want reassurance. They are loving the drama, loving being a part of something and having so many people agree with them.

They don't want reassurance, they want others to tell them how right they are.

Every positive point is countered with "that's rubbish", "wishful thinking" or ""

Every bit of information given is criticised to the nth degree unless it says there'll be a second wave in two weeks.

A while ago I posted on a school thread. Posted some studies I had been given by our director of Public health to help me understand the risk. Thought others may find them useful.

Every reply. Every single one accused me of just lifting them from a guardian article (no I didn't) and then jumped on "so why do these studies recommend 2m distancing". I pointed out they don't. They don't make any recommendations. They are studies into transmission. The Govt. Make the recommendations, the study gives the data. I got the same thing over and over about the 2m. So they are arguing the toss about something they haven't even read.

So I don't bother anymore.

Its not just on MN that good news gets squashed. FB is a bloody nightmare too. I posted the Prof Gupta article and people couldn't wait to rip it to shreds and call me a covidiot for believing it, murdering grannies, yadda yadda.

I really do think some people are actually enjoying the misery and are desperate to keep it going.

@Pixel7777

So they will be taking them on and off through the day then. Great idea.

Genius that makes them more of a risk! Can you imagine every high schooler taking them off and on properly? What about changing them every 2.5hrs? 🤣🤣🤣 Another "we are saving you" exercise with sfa meaning in real situations.

It’s cos the teachers are desperate for them.

I stupidly ventured away from here 😃

On a more humorous note, exactly how long before they use the elastic to shoot them at each other in the corridors and elsewhere?

@thenightsky

I really do think some people are actually enjoying the misery and are desperate to keep it going.

Which brings us full circle back to our very first thread shortly before the word Dementor was first applied

A shame we're still wittering on about schools 3 months after the failed mass eradication of the selected cohort that went back...

16:40Willow2017

Pixel7777

So they will be taking them on and off through the day then. Great idea. hmm

Genius that makes them more of a risk! Can you imagine every high schooler taking them off and on properly? What about changing them every 2.5hrs? 🤣🤣🤣
Another "we are saving you" exercise with sfa meaning in real situations.

We stopped off at services on the way home up the M5 (the naice ones with real food, walking track and a pond) and decided it was pointless to sanitise my hands when I'd be fiddling with my face rag every 2.45 seconds and was going in to toilet and wash my hands, put in a food order with DH and scarper. I'm also finding social distancing tough now because I struggle to look up at face level, so I'm just dodging feet because it's harder to anticipate other people's movements than when their face is uncovered.

I think for my usual supermarkets, I will claim exemption, but passing in and out of random places on holiday I haven't wanted to risk any aggro.

On another hygiene point, everyone I've seen out of a sample of hundreds masking up here, there and anywhere has just fished it out of their pocket, applied to their face and on removal, shove into their pocket ready for next time. As a point of hygiene, it is a total farce.

@ISaySteadyOn

On a more humorous note, exactly how long before they use the elastic to shoot them at each other in the corridors and elsewhere?

Shortly before break time and any possible moment for a y8 or 9 set 4 group.

Maybe they will think again when Sweden manages fine the next year and other lockdown countries have rises...maybe not though (dementors)

It's so strange, there are countries such as Brazil and USA with seemingly no measures at all, but countries doing the herd immunity approach (which is meant to be about the vulnerable and helping them as well) get such a hard time, and places such as NZ get adoration even though their lockdowns would cause such problems and not even help the problem long term...It is like the heroes and villains and shows no kind of critical thinking

I tried to wear a mask to Tesco today (I've trapped a nerve in my elbow working at a badly setup home desk and it's fucking killing me so I needed painkiller restocks). DD1 came along with me and she wanted to wear a mask as she's just come back from Scotland and I think the grandparents have been very overly cautious with them when they were there.

Well DD1 went through the carpark kicking in the air pretending to be a ninja - and got fed up with it after aisle 1 and it was fucking awful for me to put up with one on (and it's one from the thinnest fabric I could find to be within the letter of the law but not the spirit). I had the MN magical lanyard on as well and the staff could see me really struggling and were just like "take it off seriously!" I tried though... I'm not managing to find the magical MN solution there must be out there somewhere or succeeding in desensitising myself to them.

I saw this poster today. It really irritated me - the IoW desperately needs tourists so will fall apart if everyone decides that their journey isn’t necessary. There’s very little chance of catching Coronavirus at a beach. Plus the poster is new - so it isn’t even as though it’s a leftover from March.

Shouldn't giant judgy doctor be on that poster @CruCru?

😁

Kind of sums it up really. Surprisingly, in the Guardian...www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/parents-children-back-to-school-boris-johnson-coronavirus-pandemic

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/parents-children-back-to-school-boris-johnson-coronavirus-pandemic

[quote Pixel7777]www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/24/parents-children-back-to-school-boris-johnson-coronavirus-pandemic[/quote]
That is good.

Aargh, I can’t be fucked with St Nicola and her masks in schools. DSis teaches in a secondary school in Glasgow for kids with complex needs. Their student body is bigger than ever this year by a huge number because a local unit closed down, and this has brought children with many different needs to the school. They don’t have the staff, the staff are worried that they don’t have people on site properly trained to deal with some of the children’s needs. They’ve just been dumped there. So many ASN units have shut down in Glasgow in the SNP’s watch.

So DSis is raging every time she hears someone going on about masks/PPE in schools/bubbles because it’s like she and her students don’t exist. She’s helping students in the toilet, having students cling on to her and lick her, none of which bothers her because that’s her job, but she’s just feeling that nobody has ever given a fuck about their safety and now that’s more obvious than ever. So much lip service being paid to ‘staying safe.’