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[BogRollBOGOF]

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

Know that bit about people getting tests when they didn't need them being irresponsible?!

MN seriously need to clamp down on some of the fucking self-appointed arbiters of test requirement - who are still categorically stating what they believe the rules to be and ordering people to book a test (interspersed with obviously despairing at those who haven't because they know it's a bloody tickly cold cough).

I'm not booking DD2 a test - she's got a slight cough after her cold - the cold she caught from DD1 who HAS tested negative for covid with it.

@DominaShantotto

Know that bit about people getting tests when they didn't need them being irresponsible?!

MN seriously need to clamp down on some of the fucking self-appointed arbiters of test requirement - who are still categorically stating what they believe the rules to be and ordering people to book a test (interspersed with obviously despairing at those who haven't because they know it's a bloody tickly cold cough).

I'm not booking DD2 a test - she's got a slight cough after her cold - the cold she caught from DD1 who HAS tested negative for covid with it.

Yep, that thread started well with most agreeing it was clearly a cold - then the dementors got hold of it. "You can have Covid as well as a cold - get a test"

Duh! You can have Covid and feel completely normal.
Sweden now has fewer than 5 deaths daily, frequently zero. They had proportionately more at the peak but are now more or less done. It seems that - for them - it has now joined the realms of flu and other respiratory infections and will continue to bobble along with the occasional death. Bearing in mind we are close to the equinox and there days will quickly get shorter and colder than ours heading into winter and the respiratory infections season.

I cracked and we're trying to get a test slot - I wouldn't, especially considering DD1 has already tested negative - but the TA in DD2's class is a raging neurotic about this all working in a visor and apron and gloves all the time - and I don't want her treated like the protocol is for a child showing symptoms (escorted by someone in full PPE to be left in a room on her own while we're called)

I despair the cold plus cough has infected our bubble 3 households, we just cracked on thank god the schools were sane about it.

I am angry at the perception that neurotic parents have caused it when it is the schools driving the extra tests aka the bloody government.

@justasking111

I despair the cold plus cough has infected our bubble 3 households, we just cracked on thank god the schools were sane about it.

I am angry at the perception that neurotic parents have caused it when it is the schools driving the extra tests aka the bloody government.

I would actually blame a combination of some schools AND the dementor nutjobs who are still sat there with supreme authority ordering everyone needs a test.

I know it's a fucking cold (well in DH's case - man-flu) but I know school will be obstructive.

DS at uni. now as last year he is going to catch colds etc. I will worry but try to sit on my hands and not panic. He is a bit of a wuzz so glad his girlfriend is there.

@HereComesYourMam thanks for that link, really interesting.

I've run a race
500 socially distanced runners creating a gorgeous miasma of death around a beauty spot and a shiny new t-shirt to celebrate

The holding area had loads of free space, then bands of numbers called forwards to the start zone. Cones x3 and start 9 at a time, with a brief pause for the next micro-wave. It worked really well and was nice not having the bunching and finding your pace in the first mile when it's congested and hard to pass.

In principle my next race in November by the same organiser is currently clear to go ahead. I just hope that the current climate doesn't stop it. It was really low risk, way more than 2m between people outside in a nortoriously breezy place!
It's been so good for body and mind to have a goal to train for. My fitness is now close to getting back up to where it was 6 months ago...

@BogRollBOGOF - I’ve got my first 10k race in November. Keeping absolutely everything crossed that it doesn’t get cancelled.

Well done, @BogRollBOGOF, nice to hear that normal things are happening.

I have a sore throat & earache but no official covid symptoms. Decided to do the weekly shop early just in case. I resent it really, giving up a nice day for that. Sainsbury's was busy, @Supermarketworker06, I salute you.

I might keel over tomorrow but at least we have biscuits.

I think I've got DS's cold. He's now at the coughing stage. It isn't a continuous cough, it's only first thing in the morning. But the new school rule is no school for any cough unless you test negative.

Will have to see how things are tomorrow morning. I'm very much a wait-and-see person with illness unless there's obviously something very wrong. (we'll gloss over the missed broken limb in my own child. As they said in A&E, I don't have X ray vision)

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/coronavirus-live-updates-covid-tests-18965397

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is reportedly considering a benefits freeze to tackle the rising cost of the Covid pandemic.

He is also said to be looking to block any rise in wages for public sector workers after spending billions on trying to save the economy.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted the country is at 'tipping point' as coronavirus cases rocket.

Meanwhile, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted the country is at 'tipping point' as coronavirus cases rocket.

I'll bloody tip bloody Hancock over the tipping point in a minute. (We need a "grrr" emoji).

A benefits freeze? What because they are sooooo generous now? Fuck me. I used to like Rishi.

Here's an idea - let everything stay open for more than two minutes and the fucking tax will start coming in.

PC Peter Pisspot of Twat Valley police sums it up again.

twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1307695735329173504?s=20

Its hardly going to encourage self isolation if poorer people know this is coming down the road...................oh wait thats why the fine has been brought in.

Exactly all it will do is stop people getting tested. they'll have a cough, and either go in if they think they can get away with it, or ring in sick for a couple days with something else and then go back in. Fucking stupid.

PC Peter Pisspot of Twat Valley police sums it up again.

twitter.com/andrewlawrence/status/1307695735329173504?s=20

On a similar note I've literally just watched Mitchell & Webb's Emergency Broadcast, "Remain Indoors," and their follow up sketch, "Come back inside."

Let's hope no one has to eat Sheila....

@TheOrchidKiller

Well done, *@BogRollBOGOF*, nice to hear that normal things are happening.

I have a sore throat & earache but no official covid symptoms. Decided to do the weekly shop early just in case. I resent it really, giving up a nice day for that. Sainsbury's was busy, @Supermarketworker06, I salute you.

I might keel over tomorrow but at least we have biscuits.

I think I've got DS's cold. He's now at the coughing stage. It isn't a continuous cough, it's only first thing in the morning. But the new school rule is no school for any cough unless you test negative.

Will have to see how things are tomorrow morning. I'm very much a wait-and-see person with illness unless there's obviously something very wrong. (we'll gloss over the missed broken limb in my own child. As they said in A&E, I don't have X ray vision)

Thank you, nice to be appreciated! Luckily I don't work weekends, I'm very part time. I salute everyone that works full time in a supermarket, I'd have killed someone by now. I've been off for a weeks holiday, see how things are when I go back. I've heard it's been a bit shit.

I salute anyone who works in supermarket, but that's nothing to do with Covid. DH gave over 10 years of his life to one, and they bled him dry. He still won't go into that particular chain and had nightmares after being bullied by his store manager. Been a over year since and leaving for a minimum wage job was the best thing he's ever done.

@DominaShantotto I had horrendous problems with my pelvis after a difficult birth with my first (big baby too!) and saw a McTimoney Chiropractor. She sorted me out within a couple of months and I haven't had back ache or pelvic problems for the past 24 years even after two subsequent pregnancies and difficult births. I still see my chiro every year and she puts me back into place again - very gentle manipulation!

Ooh Channel 4 news pointing out to Hancock that if test and trace was properly run he wouldnt need to impose a fine.

We've suffered living with both types of SPD in this house... the sensory and the pelvis types!

It's frustrating how under-recognised and unsupported the pelvic type is. When I went to the GP at 34 wks pg because I could no longer bear the agony of going around the supermarket, it was dismissed as pregnancy aches and pains. Within 2 weeks I was housebound unless I was driven door to door. With hindsight, it was affecting me on a trip to London at 18 weeks when my legs just didn't want to work. I hadn't even fully emerged from the nausea and food aversion stage then.

Second time was better as I'd learned what it was and how to manage it better so I aggravated it less. I ended up sourcing crutches myself a few weeks before I got the physio appointment that I couldn't have got to without the crutches to get me from the carpark space to the clinic to get the crutches Crutches helped to keep me moving and reduce the odema and other complications that I had first time. I suspect SPD buggers up a lot of births. Both of mine were back to back and made me suffer for it. My two are plenty for me, but if I ever did have to give birth again, I wouldn't be mixing a VB with an SPD ridden body again and would go for ELCS. My choice would be pretty open as DS2 counted as a successful VBAC, despite the damage caused.

I can still get twinges from certain exercises at certain times of the month, and I can't do heavy digging in the garden any more as that stamping motion goes through me quite quickly. I frequently need twisting back into alignment at the osteopath

Just saw this on Facebook.
I hate myself for even thinking it, but it took all I had to not comment "what? So we can have nhs pumpkins? Cos no one let the kids keep the bastard rainbows did they?"

That was shared in my village group ... it’s taken all my self-restrain not to suggest we’d better keep schools open lest we end up raising a generation of semi-literate cunts.

Halloween isn't a fecking pumpkin hunt! Sod off learn your own country's damm history!