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

@Evenstar thanks- just the cheering up I needed this morning 😂 🍅

@AgentCooper oh I agree, that’s really shitty of that friend not to see her mother and then complain about it. No one other than herself if making that happen. It’s been allowed to visit for 3-4 months now hasn’t it? Even if you’re in a local lockdown area you could still perfectly legally meet up at a coffee shop or on a walk.
You still get people on here who are the same though don’t you “am I the only one still staying at home and not seeing anyone?” etc - and yes, most of society has moved on and realised that that was no life!

So any suggestions for a bingo card?
So far I have:
You clearly don't understand exponential spread.
My friend/relative who works in the NHS
Go read the NHS thread then say there isn't anything to worry about
But it takes (insert period of time here) for hospitalisations/deaths to catch up
If people would just do as they're told
We've been in since March, why can't you?

I struggle to get myself worked up about Halloween because it’s not something I’ve ever “done” more than carve a pumpkin. We’ve only had truck or treaters knock on our door once or twice over the last 12 years so I kind of assumed most families don’t do trick or treating anyway...
At the same time, I do enjoy getting angry about the government curtailing our freedom to live a normal life so I’m sure I’ll be getting angry on behalf of those who want to do Halloween before too long ...!

GP on BBC breakfast now saying what we are all thinking "we are becoming too focused on covid and neglecting other aspects of our health", "we have rising cases but not hospitalisations".
Get this woman a medal.

@LivinLaVidaLoki my favourite phrase of D condescension
'For the hard of thinking'

Yes! @ibake that's going on there.

Seeing more posts from my cousins best friend who is a HCA, she works in icu in a covid ward...on about how people just need to do as they're told, she's had to watch people die of covid all summer and if you only knew what a terrible death it was....

I cracked. I posted
"All death is horrible. The idea of dignity in dying unless you are drugged up to the eyeballs or in a medically induced coma (which I thought patients on ventilators were) is a myth. I've watched both my parents die of cancer. In that last couple of days when you pray for them to let go, because they are agitated, uncomfortable, fighting for every breath, knowing each one could be their last. Scared and confused. Do you think these thousands that die every day go slowly and quietly into the darkness? Now imagine what I described happening in thousands in care homes up and down the country. People going through that with no loved ones there to comfort them and tell me that anything about what is going on right now is "for the greater good".

Relatively sensible article here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54228649, about "is it time to live with the virus?".

So I didn't sleep last night. Anxiety spiral, panic attack, impossible.

I have a tender return to deal with today which is hours of painstaking analysis and opinion writing. And I don't know if I can do it. I have to. Because the next one is coming back Wednesday. Normally I space them a month apart but because Secret Reasons™️ it didn't happen this time.

Fuck. This. Shit.

Also DH said he would report people for being in groups more than 6, and I don't even know who I'm married to anymore.

I didn’t sleep either @NothingIsWrong - it’s horrendous. Thankfully I have a gp call booked tomorrow already as the panic attacks are completely out of control now.

It all really feels like we’re trying to live with the sword of Damocles hanging above us of will the school bubble burst or will they lockdown again or will they change who we can meet or what we can do again constantly.

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I have just read this on the BBC news site and I agree with it. Is even the BBC changing it's tune? I was pleasantly surprised NOT to see covid as the main headline for I don't know how long.(Although the headlines are pretty shocking today)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54228649

Oh that’s such a calming, sensible article, thank you ❤️

Sympathy to those who didnt sleep.
I did sleep but dreamt that Boris was posting out letters to individuals, telling them his next Big Announcement, instead of making it on TV. Woke up & scrabbled about on the bedside table trying to pick up my "letter".

Anyway, I must do better at getting out of bed. I'm working from home for part of this morning before heading out & I just can't find the will to get dressed.

Oh, sorry @wanderings, I see you already posted that BBC link.
@LivinLaVidaLoki you are so right about 'terrible deaths'. I do wonder if the majority of entrenched dementors are people mostly under 40 or whatever who have never actually come face to face with death. Like you, I sat with my dying mother, then a few months later with my dying father, then a few years after that, with my dying brother. Being so close up and personal to death made me closely examine my own mortality. It made me realise that however strong and permanent a person seems, they can be cut down by the most trivial of things, and that life goes on. Before that, I hasn't really analyzed death, except in a rather abstract way. TBH a death of covid while drugged up to the nines and unconscious would have been a much gentler death for both my father and brother. We all die. Bleeding heart dementors only care about covid deaths, no other death seems to count (like those poor and terribly starved children that the Unicef ad shows on telly).

My kids used to go guising organised by the school. Being rural it was with a bus to be able to visit everyone. 20+ kids would pile into your kitchen, sing and strip your sweetie bar. I used to think it was a highlight for the OAPs, but now I see it for what it really was - ATTEMPTED MURDER!

@Ibake one of my favourite sneery sayings “and now a little louder for the cheap seats at the back”. 😁

@LivinLaVidaLoki silly bint. I didn’t know ICU was where you went when you just felt “a little bit tired” and then waited for your unicorn-drawn carriage to take you away. She needs to fuck off to the dermatology department which has probably been closed since March anyway.

I am going to peg bags of Haribo a meter apart on a long washing line, store it in the garage for 72 hours and then festoon the front garden with it on the 31st October.
That will allow the kiddies to have their Trick or Treat fun with minimal risk.
Does anyone know if I can get a Corona virus dressing up costume...too early?
(Would peg them 2m apart, but the garden is a bit small, still I expect they'll all be wearing masks.)

I thought this was also an interesting article - more on the constitutional side than the scientific, but good to see this sort of thing cropping up in the Guardian, which has been pretty dementory. www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/parliament-surrendered-role-over-covid-emergency-laws-says-lady-hale

IIRC it's quite hard to paint Lady Hale as a right wing nut job (in the way some of the opposition to lockdown forever has been painted).

@InsaneInTheViralMembrane
She replied with "well you don't understand what its like on the frontline" soooo I bit. Again.
"I am on the frontline. Just a different one. The frontline of self harming and suicidal teenagers, of cries for more refuge beds that we cannot afford, knowing that next year we'll probably afford even less, of neglect and abuse. But I suppose it should be thankful its not covid"

A thought..
if Halloween is cancelled, do you more lives will be saved because some virus spread is prevented, or because people will not be indulging in the annual death by Cadbury's Heroes orgy?
Living is a risk, when you get down to it!

@BillywilliamV I'd take my chances of death by crunchie 😁

@LivinLaVidaLoki; and if you want them.

I’m broken. My family hate me, my marriage is over but if I leave I will be homeless.
Long as they get their lockdown and misery back - well they have the misery back in this house.

@LivinLaVidaLoki bingo suggestion: if my autistic five year old can wear a mask then you can

@TheOrchidKiller sorry to heard about your Mam.
I couldn’t sleep either but I’m blaming the menopause. I think the rest of the country is going back into what is happening in North East. I’m fucking just so sick of it.
My DH’s allotment has produced lots of veg this year, but no funny shapes at all! Normally we have funny carrots, but the carrot fly decimated them instead.