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ADs skipping to school - and that's only the parents

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 03/09/2020 09:58

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WouldBeGood · 05/09/2020 16:05

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind a great summary 😊

Willow2017 · 05/09/2020 16:08

Exactly!
Nobody ever got a cold, flu or died from anything other than covid. Those 500 people a day are all just fakers😠
Thinking you are gonna die from.a cold ffs! 99.997% sod all effects and full recovery rate how the hell are people rationalizing they are gonna die from that?
Gives me the rage, the ridiculous 'new normal' can GTF. How can you abandon all friends and family who need support? How can a video chat give any real support to someone who just had a bereavement?

That's crap about your dds school BillywilliamV. All this time to sort it out. How have other schools managed it? Wouldnt it be much easier in class without the teachers having to do all the extra online stuff? Madness.

Willow2017 · 05/09/2020 16:10

RealityExistsInTheHumanMind

Excellent post.👏

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BogRollBOGOF · 05/09/2020 16:12

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Looking at the school mask/school run/social distancing outcry and the lady complainer on the cardiff/zante flight. I wonder how much of this is down to their perception. Everywhere I go, most are wearing masks and social distancing (including on my recent flights) But I think there is a group of people who will pick out a couple of people who aren't and just focus on them. Their brain will single out those "not complying", focus on them and extrapolate that out to "no one is complying".

Does that make sense?

Makes sense to me.

It's much easier to home in on the anomalies than the majority. Like being on the motorway, you notice the few weaving around the lanes and tail gating until they can do 90 again. It doesn't mean everyone is doing it.

TheOrchidKiller · 05/09/2020 16:16

@LivinLaVidaLoki (spent a bit of my life in Glossop. Grin)
What you describe on that BBC show is a bit old now though, isn't it? The use of technology to interact with each other, & hugging with a shower curtain is so last May.
I agree with you though. People aren't allowed to say how rubbish this is, they have to wheel out An Expert to tell us how to Live Positively through it, by embracing bereavement processes via Whatsapp or Taking The Time To Appreciate The Greeness Of The Trees.
No thanks. People are allowed to be upset by this, & having a balanced & positive view on it isn't always the right thing to do.

@BillywilliamV so sorry for your daughter. And so strange to do that when lots of 6th forms are back pretty "normally". The last minuteness of it is not fair.

DD swore on my behalf when she was 2 & I got the pushchair straps tangled up. I was trying so hard to keep it lighthearted, with a newborn screaming his head off beside her. DD said what I was thinking. It was quite a shock. I blamed DH for her choice words, because I'd been very careful to watch my language.
"Bleedy Nell," she said. Sounds like a consumptive Dickens' character.

DominaShantotto · 05/09/2020 16:42

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Looking at the school mask/school run/social distancing outcry and the lady complainer on the cardiff/zante flight. I wonder how much of this is down to their perception. Everywhere I go, most are wearing masks and social distancing (including on my recent flights) But I think there is a group of people who will pick out a couple of people who aren't and just focus on them. Their brain will single out those "not complying", focus on them and extrapolate that out to "no one is complying".

Does that make sense?

I think I saw 4 people with no masks on in Tesco yesterday - I was the only one wearing a lanyard. However if you go by the local Spotted pages - there are millions of them. I think if you're jumpy and think they're round every corner you'll find them round every corner.

With the hot drinks - I asked for a bean to cup machine for my birthday mid-lockdown because the lack of Costas was doing my head in.

BillywilliamV · 05/09/2020 18:27

She was so excited,the last 5 months have been hard for all of them. It is shocking, the way they are being treated!

Pixel77 · 05/09/2020 18:37

Protests in Scotland today www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-54042003

MxEWeatherwax · 05/09/2020 18:50

It’s definitely more normal here. A local out of town shopping centre had queues to get in. Roads very busy too.Enjoyed my shopping in my new silk mask, still took it off when left every shop. Went in an electrical shop beginning with C and got told off for touching a item. If I’m spending loads of money I want to touch it.
My DD is going to sixth form and it’s blended learning, I hope I have a alone day.

Willow2017 · 05/09/2020 19:05

Which part of testing positive isn't a death sentence don't the BBC understand?
Which part of the minute % of positive cases per population don't they understand?
We should expect unbiased reporting from them not Chinese whispers.

MxEWeatherwax · 05/09/2020 19:22

I wish mumsnet had a like/ love button for the posts on this thread.

RobinHobb · 05/09/2020 19:48

There is some bat shit craziness on here today
There is a poster with a sink issue and another whose neighbours have (shock horror) been coughing. Funny but batshit

Bollss · 05/09/2020 20:16

There really is @RobinHobb there's someone pissed off their primary age child's school has banned masks. Writing off anyone who disagrees as an us for them member. Twat.

ISaySteadyOn · 05/09/2020 20:19

I might be ignorant here, but what's wrong with Us For Them?

Bollss · 05/09/2020 20:19

@ISaySteadyOn

I might be ignorant here, but what's wrong with Us For Them?
Absolutely nothing if you're a normal person. Lots of you're a drama llama.
Bollss · 05/09/2020 20:20

The dementors really went to town on them saying any member only wanted their kids out the house, didn't care about their education or wellbeing bla bla bla dead teachers bla bla bla.

ISaySteadyOn · 05/09/2020 20:27

Ah. Thanks.

PickAChew · 05/09/2020 20:41

I want my DS out of the house. He needs it as much as any of us!

I've just fished out a Leonard Cohen CD, You Want it Darker, I bought before lockdown. Still in its plastic wrapper. We have 2 systems it can be played on. One in the room that dh uses for work. The other in the lounge, which DS1 now hogs. He won't countenance me doing anything but sitting in there in silence, through the day.

Anyhow, I've moved the system from the lounge into our kitchen diner and I have finally taken off the wrapper. Do far, dh has come in, emptied his cup, then poured a bowl, of water down the sink, which gurgles, loudly. When he left the room, he fir some reason, stopped the door from shutting all the way, meaning that it would Bang with the slightest draught.

Then Ds2 came down, turned off the bloody lights, then, in the dark, show me the numbers on his TV remote.

Hell, yes, I want him out of the house. Never mind the general crazy, I'm looking forward to being able to plan something as mundane as a food shop without having to cancel because dh announces that he now has a meeting at 11am, or whatever, that wasnt6on the agenda at 9am.

Littlebelina · 05/09/2020 20:44

They also accuse them of being a right wing group. They then can accuse anyone who is remotely positive about schools of being a member as a way of shutting down debate and belittling people. Personally have no idea about usforthem political associations but think it's a twattish way to avoid discussion.

MotherOfGremlins · 05/09/2020 20:50

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind thank you for your explanation!

BogRollBOGOF · 05/09/2020 21:05

Of couse I want my kids out of the house. Why would that be a bad thing? 5.5 months continually in each others' company is unnatural. Wink

Absence makes the heart grow fonder Grin

TheOrchidKiller · 05/09/2020 21:15

It is not natural to be in the company of the same humans 24/7 for months on end (mothers & new babies excepted, maybe).

I've long told DH we will not be glued to each other constantly if we eventually get to retire. Even MIL who took early retirement "to spend more time with FIL" has had enough now.

BogRollBOGOF · 05/09/2020 21:42

When DH retires, he can have a nice little hobby like cycling, golf, fishing or model trains Grin

We went off on honeymoon for 3.5 months and came back still married. I never realised that a decade on that we'd be in together 6 months and counting... it was more exciting making our way around Asia!

There's a reason why I like nice little 2 hour runs.

Thanksitsgotpockets · 05/09/2020 22:06

Funny moment in Costa today. I couldn't work out what the woman was saying to me through her mask and the perspex screen. I asked her to repeat twice, still no clue. I looked blankly at my husband and asked if he had got it...nope.... So the woman repeated a third time. He managed to glean she was asking did we want a medium drink.
Yes please, medium, I said. Then worried she'd thought I was being funny with her said I was sorry and it was all the background noise.

Nope, nothing to do with the thick white mask and perspex screen muffling everything at all

Vintagelovingmum · 05/09/2020 22:14

With a 4 month old and toddler at the moment I definitely have got to point where I need some of my own bloody space! Totally agree it's not normal and as much as I miss the monsters when they're out (DH drives out to pick the toddler up from nursery and takes the baby so I can have a quiet shower) that is my favourite part of the day!
I also can't believe how much I get done, waiting for dd1 to be back on monday so I can get some rhubarb gin and hedgerow vodka infusing ready for christmas