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...

Consistency.

The thing is, in these areas where they are trying these measures, cases are just going up so it isn't working. So adding them to the rest of the country is surely madness...www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54239538

Having a grump this week due to the updated restrictions.

Meeting friends for lunch for a 'special' birthday (not mine) and we will have to sit outdoors. So that'll be nice...I will dig out my big coat.

Thanks Orangeblossom . Its a colleague who said how great it was last time but left it up to me to organise a second meeting. I know if I don't organise these catch ups, they just don't happen.

in more positive news... my mum has told me they're starting phase 3 clinical trials on one of the vaccines at Jimmys today..... I may have a tiny tiny ray of hope that it will work.

We were watching Horrible Histories after the kids had gone to bed last night (this is totally normal adult behaviour) and it was Cromwell and everything he'd cancelled and me and DH were like - fucking hell it's 2020! Then it got to the last thing out of the top 5 and it was Christmas and we were both "give him time"

Been to the disease-riddled local corona hot-bed of iniquity this morning ie university campus.

It was like a ghost town. It's usually bustling with students. Same with the nearby streets where a lot of them live.

Perhaps they were all indoors, hugging each other?

Half term here is 2 weeks. I'm sort of relieved as it might mean less contact between kids & just about keep cases down to avoid us going into tier 3. Or it won't because people will still meet up anyway. At least we have got this far through school without DS being sent home.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

don't false positives realistically mean that we will never ever get to zero cases even if we had eradicated the damn thing?

Yes if they keep testing in the same way.

Part of the problem is though it is unlikely we will ever get to zero. The best we can hope for is it will just be on the level that colds and flu are. The only way out of this is with 'herd immunity' however it is achieved - it will never be wholly achieved through immunisation - it will be at least partly through post infection immunity. (And hopefully reduction in severity)

@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind

this is the thing isn't it, when does it become just another thing we live with. Flu has killed 50k in a year before and we didn't bat an eyelid!

I know it's not flu, but it's sort of on the same level as flu isn't it..

I know Hancock mentioned malaria and aids, but i didn't get his comparison because we have never locked down for either of those, and they're transmitted in a totally differen't way, and we all live with the knowledge that they are out there and they are a risk - and yet we still get on with life.

@DominaShantotto I love that you watch Horrible Histories! My DC are not old enough for the books yet (is reception old enough? I assume not..?) but I was considering buying every single HH book and reading them myself first for fun before sharing them in a few years.

@TrustTheGeneGenie I missed that (I don’t think I’ve heard Hancock talk for months and months as I don’t really care anymore).. he compared it to AIDS? Something that without medication kills everyone who contracts it.. whereas for most people CV is no more than a minor cold..?

I’m really surprised still by the amount of people who fear this terrible, terrible illness when you would have thought that the more people who contract it the more people realise that unless you’re very unlucky (and likely old with co-morbidities) it is a cough. I’ve seen threads on here with people (the people who are sanitising their groceries) saying “if I’d known I had it / if they’d told me earlier I had come into contact with it etc I would have isolated from my toddler” and I’m just baffled ... surely if you get it and your family gets it and you’re mostly asymptomatic your reaction would be “I was disinfecting myself at the doorway for THAT? What a colossal waste of time!” rather than regret that you hugged your two year old who was completely fine.

I'm trying to be positive and make the best for my Dc birthday this weekend. Grandparents are arriving tomorrow. We haven't seen them since December. Dd can't have a party so wants to have cake with them. We are planning to go to local theme park Saturday for her birthday.

I really hope they keep the schools open and allow the kids to mix. I don't think I can cope with how badly it will effect dd if everything is taken away again.

A bit late to the discussion but one of my friends who had it really badly had hair falling out as well.

Just listening to the news, honestly, what did they expect in Liverpool last night? It's like they want to completely change human nature and then are surprised when it doesn't happen.

Just seen NI is closing schools ☹️

I don't think the circuit breaks include closing schools - I really hope not as apparently, it's being considered seriously in Wales.

They haven't announced what's going on with GCSE - they have done reductions in amount of subject to cover but not if exams will go ahead or be delayed.

X-posts - I really hope Wales isn't going down that route.

Thanks @LadyOfTheImprovisedBath. That's really helpful.

If the schools close again, DD2 will be devastated but it won't be too bad because her friends' parents aren't Dementors. On that subject, have any of you lost loyalty to your DCs school if you had it? Mine is gone.

@ISaySteadyOn ds” school has been great, really sensible.

I do, however, think they will close schools again 😢 I’m in Scotland and foreseeing doom.

Also mutterings about extending the use of face masks.....

Ours hasn't, obviously. I am really glad that other people's schools are though. It gives me hope.

@ISaySteadyOn yes, I think we’ve just been reality lucky there- most are not good. His is really pretty normal and even the blended learning (🤢) plan was for in half day every day

I feel so much for those of you with school aged children - it must be SO difficult juggling everything. . Why have none of these reports that hospital admissions are increasing also reporting that hospital stays are shorter and the numbers of sadly deaths are very low? Oh wait that's because that information won't instil terror and fear in the hearts of a nation.

If we shut down again, our small manufacturing company may as well close it's doors permanently - I don't think I've heard the manufacturing sector mentioned once in the 'how will business cope' reports!

@Blobby10 that’s really shite 💕

@TrustTheGeneGenie Wed 14-Oct-20 12:48:59
@RealityExistsInTheHumanMind

this is the thing isn't it, when does it become just another thing we live with. Flu has killed 50k in a year before and we didn't bat an eyelid!

That is the million dollar question.

I'd like to think it will happen when it naturally reduces next spring but what the fuck knows anymore. Should have happed in June this year to my thinking but project fear worked far too well.

I suspect masks will become the norm for shopping for some people every winter now - hopefully just some people by habit rather than by law.

Our school have been great, after school club is running. They are allowed rucksack and book bags as usual. They have even allowed class sweets for birthday so long as taken in for 72 hours for quarantine beforehand!

It's a very different school to the one we choose originally - now we're stuck it the catchment.

It's has different governors and head teacher and ethos. Oddly previous head was pressured to go because despite steadily rising exam results as they weren't rising fast enough – now there seems to be a lack of ambition for any of the pupils and focus on anything but exams though they also anti any future trips.

It was extremely variable in lock down – the team at top set really low expectations and any good practise was down to individual teachers and departments. Their IT support clueless and extremely rude to parents and even teachers.

I'm grateful they have some really good teachers but loyalty no- I'm grateful our kids seem to be okay though they make it sound like a bear pit with daily fights in playground.