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Just trying to live a meaningful life in an increasingly bizarre world in which nothing makes sense any more.

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@Orangeblossom7777 that reminds me of the time that me and oh were wandering around Bristol harbour when we spotted a nasty looking incident with ambulance, police and fire service all in attendance. Not wanting to see anything upsetting, we took a slightly different route on a raised roadway. Didn't we feel stupid when we looked down and (eventually) saw the cameras and lights and realised they were filming Casualty.

Thought you lot might find this of interest-

A World Health Organization special envoy on coronavirus has warned against imposing stricter rules to control behaviour, arguing people must support the restrictions needed to slow the spread.
David Nabarro told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme:

This war, and I think it’s reasonable to call it a war, against this virus, which is going to go on for the foreseeable future, is not going to be won by creating tougher and tougher rules that attempt to control people’s behaviour.

The only way that we will come out ahead of this virus is if we’re all able to do the right thing in the right place at the right time because we choose to do it.

I think we will get the point, I just hope that it doesn’t require a lot more people to end up in hospital and dying for us all to get the point, that all of us, all of us, have to be rigorous about physical distance, wearing masks, hygiene, isolating when we’re sick and protecting those who are most vulnerable.

I have one in Y6 and secondary school choices are a fucking nightmare. We are choosing blind - no open days, little information, 11+ results out after the deadline for submitting the form. I’m regretting not being a pushy parent and going round the schools when he was in nappies, because now I have literally no idea. My DS is also hugely stressed about it all and to top it off is in a year group bubble which has been sent home. I have cried about it more than once.

I agree with that- trouble is people fixate on all these rules and dement about them, missing the simple things..

@Orangeblossom7777 it is a narrow path between protecting each other and thinking fuck it. There is a strata of society who for their own reasons are ignoring rules, they risk our patience being exhausted and them being turned on because of their own ignorance, obstinance.

@justasking111

That's my stock answer if anyone asks me to do something on a Tuesday evening!

I know. The problem is, all this dementing with graphs and scientists just seems to worry and scare the scared people while the rest don't care at all... I guess they are trying to target those people. I'm not sure it will work.

@Orangeblossom7777

I know. The problem is, all this dementing with graphs and scientists just seems to worry and scare the scared people while the rest don't care at all... I guess they are trying to target those people. I'm not sure it will work.

That's pretty well exactly what I said to my sister this weekend. The scared get even more so.

The bloody minded (and that, depending on the issue, sometimes includes us) say Fuck It and do what they want anyway. (Hopefully also continuing to protest publically in the UK and in other countries)

The remainder have a moan but generally follow the rules flexing them occasionally within the spirit if not the letter of the law. BUT are more scared of the consequences of the 'lockdown' measures than the virus itself. And getting increasingly angry at the twats in charge.

DominaShantotto
Heads up - Boris and the Two Scientists of the Apocalypse press conference looming tomorrow if you want to get your bunker and duvet fort built in advance.

Oh FFS! DPs and I are finally supposed to be meeting tomorrow. One whisper from Whitty & DM will be heading straight back home again. I tell you, I am clenching everything here.

Reedwarbler
@Orangeblossom7777
that reminds me of the time that me and oh were wandering around Bristol harbour when we spotted a nasty looking incident with ambulance, police and fire service all in attendance. Not wanting to see anything upsetting, we took a slightly different route on a raised roadway. Didn't we feel stupid when we looked down and (eventually) saw the cameras and lights and realised they were filming Casualty.

I was almost accidentally in a medical documentary. The director wanted a shot of an empty ward & was going to use the day case unit where I was a patient. Alas, my day case turned into an overnight stay, but I had to stay on the day case unit well after all the other patients had gone home whilst they found me a bed elsewhere. I overheard the nurse tell the director that no, she couldn't make me vomit "more quietly". As I was eventually wheeled away past the film crew they collectively went, "Eeuuggh, oh dear!"

I though tomorrow Boris was supposed to be telling MPs that if they think they took the job to be part of a democratic process they’ve been fooled? If it’s the three of them it’s got to be bad. I suspect a total return to lockdown. The economy is already totally screwed so they probably think it can’t make it worse.

@Orangeblossom7777 Couldn't agree more

If the government had treated us all like adults, been very clear on the data and the measures we could take without making us criminals to want to see our family I suspect they would have still had the backing of the public.

But as things have gone on I have seen even the hardened supporters say they have had enough of the arbitrary rules and changes.

If they keep pushing project fear and daft rules like close pubs at 10pm they will lose a lot more people.

I was almost accidentally in a medical documentary. The director wanted a shot of an empty ward & was going to use the day case unit where I was a patient. Alas, my day case turned into an overnight stay, but I had to stay on the day case unit well after all the other patients had gone home whilst they found me a bed elsewhere. I overheard the nurse tell the director that no, she couldn't make me vomit "more quietly". As I was eventually wheeled away past the film crew they collectively went, "Eeuuggh, oh dear!"

Hope you puked on his/her shoes 😄😄

I was pretty good at social distancing early on, but then in the early summer when things were still very quiet, it became a bit of a non-issue, and now life is busying up and I actually have to interact with people, it's becoming something that I'm having to think more conciously about again. I have quite a generous sense of personal space which comes naturally as a short arse with claustrophobia

Hands aren't too much of an issue as most times I leave the house, I'm not touching anything.

But society seems to have latched on to the :face" which should be the back-up to space.

Petty nonsensical rules undermine faith in the more important ones, hence the uproar about the Roolz of Six and its effect upon families.

According to our local paper (online version)- which is always 100% accurate on everything, of course- tomorrow's press conference with Boris and the Scientific Advisors (sounds like a particularly shit band) is about Boris answering to accusations of incompetence. I guess Stadler & Waldorf will be there to back him up.

The local newspaper is full of headlines such as "Primark Employee Tests Positive for Covid." And "Child in School Tests Positive For Covid." Just waiting for the news that bears have been caught using the famous forest here as a toilet, although bears hanging about outside the visitor centre would actually be quite newsworthy.

Wonder if the conference tomorrow is anything to do with the vote on the covid law thats happening tomorrow.....like a debrief.

Why do they always have to do the bullshit of "there will be a big press conference tomorrow", so that we're all stewing on it, wondering what horror they're going to throw at us? Oh, I know: to test the public response. They analyse what people say on Twitter and the others to get an idea of the public mood, then hastily rewrite the script to fit the public mood at the last moment; which means that what they say is gibberish because of this approach; Saint Boris ends up spouting rubbish that even he doesn't understand, and neither do the people who have to carry it out.

Fuck it. Why can't they just communicate in a proper, decent way, without all this bullshit, and DELIBERATELY fucking with our heads?

Just seen this. You couldn't make this stuff up could you.

I worked from home today, it was a long boring busy day. I’m going back to office next week. I thought I would enjoy, but I didn’t.
I hate the semi lockdown where I am worse than proper lockdown. I’m missing my DP’s.

Wanksock says the strategy is to suppress the virus until there’s a vaccine, “while protecting the economy”.

Or maybe the gruesome twosome admit they got it wrong last Monday.....as cases not hospital admissions have doubled in a week.....

with regard to testing opinion on Twtter etc -

this is from an 2018 interview - nothing has changed!

*Lord Heseltine has told Good Morning Britain that Boris Johnson is a politician who “waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front”.

He said: “Well, I think that you have to see Boris as a career map. He works it out, he decides which way the wind is blowing, and that wonderful phrase about a politician - a man who waits to see the way the crowd is running and then dashes in front and says, ‘Follow me’.”*

Maybe they'll announce that the mask less should be shot in the interests of safety. I am sure plenty of Dementors would be only too happy to wield rifles.

Sorry, very bad day today.

[quote Ibake]@Curlygirl06 now I'm worried, did you finally tell a twatty customer to GTF and are no longer a supermarket worker?![/quote]
Not yet, but give it time! Not in work until tomorrow, mood has improved this week, watch someone spoil THAT tomorrow! I'll give it 5 minutes. I'll report back.