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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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I wish The Thick of It was still on TV. I think it would be more of a documentary now, though.

What was one of Malcolm Tucker's phrases? "A fucking omni-shambles".

Brilliant. I never watched it but I ought to have. I love Peter Capaldi.

@Eve God. It's so depressing!

@MagdaS - we are in the same boat, one in year 6, not viewed most of the schools, having to apply before 11+ result is known.

Its horrible. But working in a secondary its really hard to let people visit in big groups with the new rules.

@Eve

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’.”*

That used to work well doing casual supply teaching if the fire bells went off in an infamiliar school

North Wales in Lockdown including my county which has averaged 7 cases testing positive a day 49 a week. Well I am fucking furious. Blaneau Gwent averaging 307 cases a week ok maybe.

@WouldBeGood

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

OK. So they've been stockpiling this years flu vaccine for months, getting ready to give it to lots of extra people. Now they haven't enough doses for one of the most vulnerable groups: the over 65s and pharmacies have been told to stop making appointments.

Just how soon is Covid vaccination going to be rolled out across enough of the population, given that we haven't actually got a vaccine yet, nor even an indication of when we might have one?

@justasking111 But it's ok, the Health Minister tells us there's no national lockdown (just one covering over 2/3 of the population). So that's fine then.

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

I'm just ignoring it, now. Not going to be one of the scared people. Or the don't care people. Just going to catch up in my own time. It's a bit like some kind of controlling relationship!

@TheOrchidKiller I said that to dh, this would be prime time for the thick of it to make a return. We watched it the other day and all the ideas (quiet bat people, the spare room tax) from it have mostly all been floated as possible government policy!
@Taswama they've requested we wear masks to drop off at nursery with 2 and 3 yr olds, I have pretended I haven't seen it yet because I dont understand the point in them outside when I'm standing 15 ft away from the gate to drop the child off. Besides dd1 just legs it in anyway before the lady can come and collect her from me.

[quote 110APiccadilly]@justasking111 But it's ok, the Health Minister tells us there's no national lockdown (just one covering over 2/3 of the population). So that's fine then.[/quote]
I know Gwynedd and Anglesey excluded but where the hell can they go anyway they are locked into two counties rather than one its a bloody mess @110APiccadilly

@justasking111 I agree - I was being sarcastic!

(Are you allowed out of Anglesey and Gwynedd along the A55 if you don't stop in the lockdown area? I assume not, but it's a busy trunk road, so I was wondering if there was an exception.)

[quote 110APiccadilly]@justasking111 I agree - I was being sarcastic!

(Are you allowed out of Anglesey and Gwynedd along the A55 if you don't stop in the lockdown area? I assume not, but it's a busy trunk road, so I was wondering if there was an exception.)[/quote]
You are allowed out on the roads but cannot stop in the counties under lockdown just keep driving. Our bubbles have gone pop, cannot see our family any more unless as grandparents we are needed for school runs.

This broke me tonight

@WouldBeGood The vaccine stuff is absolute bullshit. I just read an interesting article regarding the 'success' criteria for a Covid vaccine trial, by esteemed former Harvard University professor of Biochemical Pharmacology William A. Haseltine. He has been all over this, as have BMJ editor Doshi in the New York Times, and two other eminent vax developers (one involved in the truncated SARS vax development, Prof Peter Hotez, and rotavirus vax developer Prof Paul Offit.)

“It appears that all the pharmaceutical companies assume that the vaccine will never prevent infection. Their criteria for approval is the difference in symptoms between an infected control group and an infected vaccine group. They do not measure the difference between infection and noninfection as a primary motivation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2020/09/23/covid-19-vaccine-protocols-reveal-that-trials-are-designed-to-succeed/

It was huge news back in May, when the Oxford vax failed to prevent Covid infection in every single one of their vaccinated macaques. How has this been forgotten?? The best that could be shown was symptom suppression. Of course, the huge problem with this is that you would have vaccinated people who can still become infected and remain capable of infecting others. (Herd immunity, anyone?) So the best these vaccines appear to offer is some mitigation of symptom severity. And the worst is that you create asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic disease spreaders.

Whatever this is about, it's not about this particular vaccine being our 'saviour'. It's about normalising extra-democratic, authoritarian government, and the utter destruction of our civil liberties.

My brain hurts just looking at this proposed distancing measures from uni

@DominaShantotto

My brain hurts just looking at this proposed distancing measures from uni

Err... Is that designed to make people walk into each other?!

I'm having a massive wobble today. I have to clear my desk and locker at work. Probably never going back. I submitted a request to return two days a week and I've heard nothing.

I'm on increased Sertraline which is possibly kicking in a bit, and it looks like I can't take the beta blockers as my heart rate and blood pressure are already very low. I took one a couple of days ago and my heart rate dropped to a low of 33. My normal resting heart rate is only 42-44.

I just feel very despondent. WFH is getting harder and harder as people have less and less to say on team meetings. No one is doing anything so the awkward silences are just getting longer and longer. We are losing the bond we had that made us so bloody good at what we did. 7 months in and it's falling apart.

I woke up at 5 in fight or flight mode and haven't been able to get back to calm since.
It feels like we are back in March minus the good weather and minus the feeling that the restrictions are completely necessary.

@NothingIsWrong I tried the passionflower extract jourdain suggested a while ago and I think it might be starting to work a bit.

One of my friends shared the following and I feel like saying, so which of those is going to be enjoyable then?

Me too, been awake since 4:30. Does anyone know when the trio of doom are on? Don't think I will be able to settle until I know what that is all about. @NothingIsWrong

@Nothingiswrong

Dr Hilary has just been talking on Lorraine and they were saying that Boris doesn't look or seem well. Dr Hilary said he should be listening to Chris Whitty. I think he has and that's why we're in this mess.

I hope they're telling him to take his vitamin d and lay off the booze