ADs crave hotel breakfasts garnished with phallic strawberries

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Oh for the good old days of a breakfast buffet.

Back when you could make plans and reasonably expect them to happen. When you could turn up spontaneously and browse or linger at your leisure. When you could meet whoever you like and give them a hug

But until those days return, here's some more AD chat about life, the universe and phallic fruits...

I see the BBC news has swung back to reporting about the need to have more restrictions and the circuit breaker

I was just coming round to liking Starmer but he is now insisting on two weeks lockdown for England. I need wine but none in the house

@Orangeblossom7777

On 'long covid' apparently around one in 50 get that, it is not very many...and varies from mild to more severe. But listening to some you would think everyone got it.

When DS had glandular fever first year at uni. came home at xmas a walking skeleton. GP diagnosed it and offered good advice. What they never talked about was long GF, no-one recognised long term effects of anything then. For the next decade when overworked, over partied, he would crash and need duvet time. Covid is just one more in a long list which includes flu, pneumonia. Nobody cared about long anything before this.

Really interesting bit on the PM programme about how every bloody country in Europe is in similar trouble with rising infections - including places like Iceland which were previously praised for their speedy testing and Spain - previously praised for its hardcore lockdown. And, everyone is scrabbling around to find a solution, none of which are working. The basic message (as the WHO's David Nabarro said) is that UK isn't in a different position to anywhere else.

On a purely selfish level, living in one of the areas of the country with lowest rates, I'll be really pissed off if there's a circuit breaker, and I have to miss the few out of the home activities that I've now got which are basically keeping me sane...

Im in a very low area too but ECC have got pound signs in their eyes.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4049577-essex

Sigh. Just when we thought it was Saint Boris actually doing nothing, it's an extremely stealthy way of causing divisions. If Essex cracks, other regions will "follow suit". Sigh. Government by Satan now passing the buck to council leaders, while Saint Boris polishes his halo all the more.

I'm concerned that local councils will ask for tier three so that businesses struggling with the lack of footfall caused by people not being able to meet will get more financial aid.
It must be better for many to be told to close rather than limp along like this.

Just what the hell is the answer going to be? We (and I mean the whole world) can't go on like this. ThIs system of restrictions/fewer restrictions could go on for years, without having much effect, meanwhile we suffer a death by a thousand cuts through the collapse of our economy and society. Personally I have no faith in a satisfactory vaccine being produced any time soon. Somebody is going to have to break ranks and try something different, because what we have now isn't working.
It goes without saying that I have no faith in the government (and do you think there is something of 'the emperors new clothes' in the fact that European countries, except Sweden, are all watching each others methods and trying the same?). Instead of all this money that has been paid out to cronies/test and trace/ furlough, they should have used that to bolster the nhs and just got on and treated it as it occurred.

Evening all.

@NastyBlouse I went through a period of trying to support other people (family & friends) who were dementory, but mostly terrified of covid. I sat & listened to them over the phone/ video for weeks. It was all getting quite one-sided with them telling me all their worries, & the elaborate precautions they were taking. I felt like my distress at being in lockdown wasn't being listened to. I had become a covid misery sponge.

In the end I set some boundaries. I made myself a little bit less available for phone calls, didn't respond to texts immediately, & when they told me yet again about the shopping-bleaching or fretted about people sitting on benches I started to say, "ok but I don't wipe anything," or, "I had a coffee in the park & we sat on a bench." It has helped a lot. I am not the sponge anymore.

Internet's playing up so apologies for not referencing the username of the AD who asked about her son taking part in research & having regular swabs done. I've been doing weekly swabs for a vaccine trial. TBH the swabbing no longer bothers me. It's the weekly worry that I might be asymptomatic & get a positive result, & then the rest of the household will be forced to stay at home. Sometimes I think about withdrawing from the study for that reason. But it was reassurring to get negative tests when I got a cold recently, so I don't know.

Tired today. Everyone tired & weary at work.

Kier Starmer can do one too.

Keir Starter can fuck right off to the far side of fuck and stay there. Twat.

DD has just had her first swimming lesson in seven months. She's so happy. I'm so happy. She can even - vaguely - remember how to do it. Hurrah!

I need to hide here rather than venture out to other parts of MN.

It's scary how many people really want another lockdown and I fear the government will back down and listen to the vocal ones again.

We had one of those letters for my daughter...binned it!

We got a letter inviting DS1 (13) to take part. It went in the bin without even mentioning it to him. Given how much he's hating being at home due to a case at school, I wouldn't risk him testing positive snd having to self isolate properly (and us with him). He probably wouldn't have wanted to anyway as he proudly says he doesn't care about other people.

Is it just me or have the papers and BBC suddenly gone back to full doom and gloom mode?
There have been the odd one or two positive stories lately but today there is nothing but scaremongering and dire warnings about what will happen if we DO NOT OBEY!
I’m finding the lack of anything to look forward to very difficult at the moment.

@Iheartmysmart

Is it just me or have the papers and BBC suddenly gone back to full doom and gloom mode? There have been the odd one or two positive stories lately but today there is nothing but scaremongering and dire warnings about what will happen if we DO NOT OBEY! I’m finding the lack of anything to look forward to very difficult at the moment.

Delurks I am not sure I am an AD, but I thought this too. BBC has been in propaganda mode the last couple of nights.

Yep they've ramped up the fear narrative consistently across the media the last few days. Too much of it going on for it to be entirely coincidental.

They've succeeded though - half my course are refusing to go onto campus as they're scared... I'm not going on for reason of my bloody panic attacks only.

Well im sure those journalists will be only too willing to give up their food delivery slots to the most vulnerable.

Yes it's definitely ramped up. I still want to know what the end game is here. 0 cases? 0 deaths? What's an acceptable level to give everyone their freedom back and end social distancing and bin off masks?

I cannot see an end. I am sad. If I didn't have dp and Ds I am not certain I would carry on.

I can't see an end. It'll get relaxed a bit in 2021 when the weather brightens up... but the virus is just going to re-surge next autumn and we'll be back here again. Are we going to lock down the world every bloody Autumn-Winter-Spring? (I hate the dark nights - I could do hibernating but the kids would object)

Nothing short of total shutdown would please the fuckwit crowd. They're determined that they want kids shut away permanently.

And i bet now the fear has been ramped up again so will the abuse towards people who cant wear masks.

@TrustTheGeneGenie I know how you feel but im so sad to see it because i know you are only 25

[quote HeIenaDove]@TrustTheGeneGenie I know how you feel but im so sad to see it because i know you are only 25 [/quote]
Thanks @HeIenaDove I know I'll get through it because I do have Ds and dp but there's plenty more who won't I just cannot believe this is even allowed.

I just cant see families agreeing to it over Christmas

@HeIenaDove

I just cant see families agreeing to it over Christmas

I no longer believe this. I think they will make a huge public show about complying and shaming and making other's lives hell but have a flexible "Barnard Castle" approach themselves.

I think this is the end of democracy and freedom now to be honest. It's chilling how they bray for more more more and harder harder harder.

@DominaShantotto Yep I bet they will

Speaking of Christmas , just spotted cos a fb friend shared it..............Sainsburys have done Pigs in Blankets flavour mayonaise.

What the fuck is Kier Starmer thinking? There are so many of us financially knackered, particularly the self-employed, low waged, women, young people....