The ADs get ready to rumble then have a nice cuppa tea

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Watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike, watch us wreck the mike.
Psych.

Now gather nicely in groups of no more than six...
Unless you're outdoors in Wales...

Oh well, come on in whatever the laws where you are. Plenty of space in this bubble of sanity

Thanks everyone, you speak such truth. It’s my anxiety talking and I’m catastrophizing and in fight or flight mode. And flight is winning, I just want to run away.
On a lighter note the police have just arrested a naked walker/ rambler. At a local beauty spot, popular with dog walkers. He was spotted on two separate days. I shouldn’t laugh, but I did.

One thing that baffles me is the argument that we should all be doing online shopping for everything, food, drink, goods. Now if we all demanded online shopping I anticipate the system would collapse.

They will never be able to call either house arrest or solitary confinement as punishment anymore.
They don’t seem to care, about all of the workers who have to pick/deliver their online shopping do they. I’m just bitter because I was only able to get one online shop.

DS already broke the rule of 6.
I'm not going to tell a 7 year old that he can't cross the road to talk to his classmates that he's been with all day because it's against the law.

He's 3 years younger than the age of criminal respinsibility anyway.

Local paper has put up a comment "its 100 days till Christmas Have you started your shopping yet"

3 comments underneath saying they wont be bothering this year as /no enjoyment in shopping anymore/ too stressful with all the other shit going on/no to second lockdown or they cancel Christmas.

Well we have had 177 days of covid so what is another 100. We are going to do our normal xmas thing. Visit family one in the morning, lunch with family two later on. I have already bought a few bits and pieces and will continue to do so.

Plus you don't know who you'll be allowed to see.

At present:
IL's & DB exceed 6
DGM (Like ILs & DB in local lockdown so can't go to her house/ garden.
DM 200 mi away but caught up with her on holiday
Most ILs in another country.
All cousins exceed 6.

Basically most cousins are illegal unless your family has a structure that mimics the One Child Policy.

I knew "rule of six" reminded me of something... The Gang of Four. Snitching on others was on trend in The Cultural Revolution too

In Scotland at Christmas grown up children will need to compete with siblings to see who can see parents for Christmas dinner given the two household rule.

I’ll be able to have my daughter or my 90 year old dad over. IF they local lockdown. And certainly not my elderly aunt too.

@chocolatesweets I think thats the thing that makes me so cross. I repeatedly got called selfish, people telling me I didn't care about anyone but myself.
I always just wanted to scream at them! I work in children's services, over the last few years I've implemented projects which have vastly improved outcomes for our young people. Reduced homelessness in 16 to 18s amongst other things.
I work relentlessly to improve things for these kids sometimes at the detriment of my own family (or at least it feels it).
The things I've had to deal with since lockdown you wouldn't believe, but I get on with it because I know if we don't, some of the most vulnerable people would pay the price for that.
I've worked stupid hours throughout lockdown to try and keep it all afloat. All whilst raising my own child (I'm very lucky ive such a supportive DH), and talking down a brother with MH issues.

But no, I'm selfish because I question the effectiveness of chin hammocks and haven't spent the last 6 months making cakes and crafts with my son and grassing up my neighbours for walking their dog. I genuinely don't get it.

• @TrustTheGeneGenie I have seen on more that one occasion, most recently yesterday, some posters saying how they 'loved lockdown'. I am amazed by this, and rather horrified. How sad is your life that you enjoy being under virtual house arrest?*

The people that love lockdown and think it has made everything better make me angry especially when they scream for more. They are clearly not juggling childcare/schooling/working etc. They sit in a very easy privileged position.

A lot of people had to work all the time through lockdown. WFH meant working, not making crafts and learning a new language. A lot of people on furlough would have been worried about jobs which is hardly good for MH. I worked at home throughout. I was lucky to be able to do that but it wasn't about crafts and baking which gets my goat as I know a few that don't consider WFH as real work.

There was a smunt on the DM comments yesterday - tip comment was “no way” to lockdown again. She replied she wouldn’t mind - and “before you ask, she’s a full-time mummy not on benefits “.

I’d wanted to ask who IS paying her bills then. And as others have said -
It’s ok for the “little man” at Ocado to be out and about - and for sea salt fashion masks to be delivered and cunty Christmas decorations.

Christmas is cancelled anyway because Rudolph’s got a red nose and a clipboard-wielder has insisted he gets tested. Plus Father Christmas is shielding due to being old and fat and I think he’s got circulatory problems too as he’s always rather rosy-cheeked.

Loki surely those teens would rather be homeless/raped by a stepdad/beaten than see poor dementia-riddled incontinent granny die?

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane

There was a smunt on the DM comments yesterday - tip comment was “no way” to lockdown again. She replied she wouldn’t mind - and “before you ask, she’s a full-time mummy not on benefits “.

I’d wanted to ask who IS paying her bills then. And as others have said -
It’s ok for the “little man” at Ocado to be out and about - and for sea salt fashion masks to be delivered and cunty Christmas decorations.

Christmas is cancelled anyway because Rudolph’s got a red nose and a clipboard-wielder has insisted he gets tested. Plus Father Christmas is shielding due to being old and fat and I think he’s got circulatory problems too as he’s always rather rosy-cheeked.

Loki surely those teens would rather be homeless/raped by a stepdad/beaten than see poor dementia-riddled incontinent granny die?

If she's a full time mum (which is fine, I would never be snide about that; my mum was and she's amazing) then someone is funding her lifestyle - presumably her DP. I wonder what he thinks about it all. And whether he has to be fully disinfected every day upon his return from work.

I'm a full time mum and I fucking hated lock down. She doesn't speak for all of us.

Tbh, afaiac we are still in lockdown. It's just that in some regions, it's harsher.

Full time mum here and lockdown was(and still feels like) the lowest point in my life even after giving birth to my gorgeous dd2. No assistance with childcare and dh who is helpful but has to be asked constantly to do anything
We're trying to get out as much as possible but the low level stress, anxiety and fear I have, of a second lockdown or track and trace getting to us meaning we all have to isolate inside our house and dh goes back to basic salary for 2 weeks, is just too much at the moment. I can't do 2 weeks of being locked up again with no break and no escape!

DH has just looked over my shoulder and remarked that this is not a lockdown, it is a fuckabout. Will a fuckabout help stop the spread of disease? No. Will it fuck people about? Yes.

@Vintagelovingmum Presumably the smunt's DP was not in a scenario where not working = no cash coming in. Easy to be a smunt in that situation.

@ISaySteadyOn

DH has just looked over my shoulder and remarked that this is not a lockdown, it is a fuckabout. Will a fuckabout help stop the spread of disease? No. Will it fuck people about? Yes.

A fuckabout is definitely what it is

@ISaySteadyOn

DH has just looked over my shoulder and remarked that this is not a lockdown, it is a fuckabout. Will a fuckabout help stop the spread of disease? No. Will it fuck people about? Yes.

Love that fits exactly. They can sod off with thier lockdown. Where i work they are tightening up on restrictions with pubs closing early etc. It's madness. Staff are all furious and fed up. It doesn't really affect me but I am still mad that they are carrying on this illegal shit and not one mp us questioning it.

This is interesting... It's not just Sweden. When you look at the graphs on worldometer you can see a serious drop in cases in a lot of African countries

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/16/confounding-covid-may-have-already-peaked-africa

Also does anyone have a share token for the rest of this article... It looks quite interesting!

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sweden-was-right-to-put-two-fingers-up-to-us-2cc5gw286

The more countries that get herd immunity and leave us behind, hopefully the more people will realize that what we are doing isn't working.

I was thinking now that we don't blame past societies for suffering from epidemics, they had no choice because of their technology. But to be honest I'm not sure we have a choice now. I don't think vaccine technology will give anything safe enough, quick enough for a lockdown to be viable.

Can I join the SAHMs who hated lockdown club?

Anyway Boris is now saying he DOESN'T want us to snitch on our neighbours?

Yes that's me too! Since March I haven't had a group to go to. I had a group everyday.

Not been on for a while and Checking in for some sanity.

We’ve had the obligatory colds etc with 2/3 dcs off sick but all back now for god knows how long.

I went into town for the first time in 6 months yesterday. (I hate shopping in town in normal times anyway so it’s not that unusual) All seems normal on the surface apart from the fannying about with mask before going in shops and having to wait at a few smaller ones with 1in 1out rules.

Anyway I have finally disposed of my massive accumulation of charity shops bags and can finally get into the room where they were without giving myself a serious injury. We had a massive sort out in Feb/March and were unable to get rid of them before lockdown kicked it and now it feels so good to be rid of it all . 😃

@starfish88 I totally agree with this! (I'm a historian by background BTW, with a PhD in a particular aspect of early 20thc European history. Left academia years ago as the workload was crazy). I think we've advanced to the difficult point where we feel we SHOULD be able to stop something like Covid in its tracks - hence the Zero Covid thing - but actually we can't. Even thirty years earlier we would have accepted that and focused on mitigation I think. But then even twenty or thirty years earlier many of the people passing away from Covid would've already passed away from something else - in a sense we're 'paying' for the fact that we can now keep very very frail people alive for quite a long time, probably longer than is actually humane or kind. I read somewhere recently that mass working / learning from home would have been impossible even ten years ago, because the broadband capacity didn't exist. So even then we would've had to get on with it.

@SomewhereEast Thu 17-Sep-20 10:14:44
Anyway Boris is now saying he DOESN'T want us to snitch on our neighbours?

We all know why Boris doesn't like snitches and it has nothing to do with Covid

In retrospect, in 2015, not a single person got the answer right to
"Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?"
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Me: "Alexa, What's the weather going to be like this weekend?"

Alexa: "Why? Where the hell do you think you are going?"