ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

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We've polished off our hotel breakfasts, flocked to the beaches and eaten out to help out with Rishi. Now the D-Day style floatilla of Anti-Dementor boats weather the stormy seas of tiers 1, 2 and 3 and support each other through the calls for lockdown.

Hold on tight and get those bouyancy aids on...

Gorgeous strawberry had to go find some fruit, just eaten melon and a few grapes, not as good but will get some tomorrow.

I've been eating fruit. Grapes

Well. I've been drinking wine, does that count?

Nice strawberry. Reminds me of Minnie Mouse.

Does a Crunchie count as one of your 5 a day? Or I could eat the banana I forgot I'd taken to work. I ate 2 chocolate biscuits instead.

@DominaShantotto do say something about your fellow students next week. It's bad enough having to do that stuff on zoom without them not playing fair.

@NothingIsWrong

I've been eating fruit. Grapes

Well. I've been drinking wine, does that count?

Definitely my favourite way to partake of fruit

@Vintage
brilliant strawberry - I hope it tasted as good as it looked

@DominaShantotto
Thank you; the encouragement means a lot to me!
It sounds awful with your students, I can't understand that level of immaturity. Hope there is something done about it.

@DominaShantotto what is that fabulous mumsnet phrase that I have seen goes something like "Did you mean to be so rude" said in your best voice to the immature oiks on your course. Or just print this pic out and hold it up in front of the screen.

I've been loosely following these threads but not posted anything for ages. I wondered if any of you have listened to the Planet Normal podcasts? They are recorded by two journalists, one being the novelist Alison Pearson, and they would fit right in on this thread.

I've also just seen this on another Covid thread


Ok that didn't work so will try as an attachment

It makes me really cross that Sadiq Khan was so desperate to decimate the hospitality industry again for those figures.

Omg just got this from licencing!! Getting silly now
We have been asked by the track and trace team to ensure that you all have your mandatory track and trace recording system in place and not just the NHS covid tracker app. Every premises must be keeping their own daily records. Thanks,

The above sent to hospitality from licensing so the app is not good enough then. Give me strength

@Recycledblonde

I had flu 25 years ago when I was 30, I was 8.5 stone and probably at my fittest. I was in bed for 2 weeks and it took me 3 months to totally recover. DH didn’t catch it off me despite sharing a bed throughout. Fast forward to May when we both tested positive for covid, late 50s and fat. I’m almost certain I know where I caught it from. We both had mild cold symptoms and didn’t spend any time in bed, DH says he’s had worse hangovers. I know it can be serious for some people but it’s not an automatic death sentence even for us oldies. I’ve also know people in their 90s to completely recover.

Same! Had flu aged 30 and really thought I might die. Actually would have been a relief. In bed for a week. I lost 3 stone. Had a cough for months afterwards. Had Covid late 40s much less fit, and experienced mild aches and pains for a few hours. It was only when I had mild breathlessness a week later I realised what it was.

@Orangeblossom7777

grateful that they’re being ‘protected’

this reminds me of a book called On being mortal illness, death and what matters in the end by Atul Gawande, lots about how the focus on keeping the eldery 'safe' (pre covid) takes away independence and leads to decline. An interesting read. there is a thing called anorexia of ageing where they basically just give up and stop eating. This is happening to our relative. Although partly due to illness too.

Also, frailty is a risk for covid (despite the focus on obesity many of the old people were frail)- which of course is made worse by being locked up. It's all just horrible.

I wonder if some good may come out of it away from these care homes and into things like sheltered housing. I have another relative there and at least they have some independence. They have chosen to stop carers coming in and I have helped with that, putting it on hold (Scotland) meaning they are struggling a bit but had that choice and sending food online. they can go in and out as they want and meet people outdoors, which is something I suppose.

MIL's appetite dropped drastically after FIL died. Partly she'd lost all her purpose (and FIL's decline, though only a couple of months, really knocked her independence as she became housebound, caring for him, and lost her routine of spending the morning at the shops, talking to anyone who stood still for long enough) The day before she died. She had a scan that revealed tumours on her kidneys. Goodness knows how long they'd been around.

After a close friend was assaulted outside her house today and had to fill in an online form and the police have said they hope to be able to call her by Tuesday I hold little hope they will be able to force fines on people who the curtain snitchers tell them that people have 8 people in their houses or if they are having a street party of 100! Good luck to them round my way! 20 coppers for 10 towns!

Wishful “ After a close friend was assaulted outside her house today”

OMG. Your poor friend. Was it a mugging? I hope she’s recovering.

The sad thing is, they will put more time and effort into lockdown fines rather than real crime.

Get a load of the screenshot halfway down this page.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4049577-essex?pg=7

@Wishfulthinking1977 I hope your friend is okay

@IAintentDead I didn't even get to try it, my 2 yr old ran around the house with it shouting boobies then hid in a corner and ate it. She's strawberry obsessed though.
@TheOrchidKiller I think I once saw something that said as chocolate comes from cocoa and cocoa comes from a tree it definitely counts as fruit!
I used to live in a London borough, currently the lowest rates and cases in the whole of london and it makes me sick what sadiq Khan is doing, he's just decimating the city just because he wants to disagree with Boris. What annoys me the most is that he is hanging on there just because they couldn't hold the election! Hopefully people will realise and vote him out as soon as they're allowed to

@HelenaDove I do wonder if that chart is reproduced in many areas. The numbers are dropping in our (already very low) area. As the 'shock' of school and uni returns simmer down, surely figures will drop.
Have you seen they have developed a corona test similar to a pregnancy test at great cost (and probably at great profitability to a Boris crony). Lab free results in 15 minutes. How long before you can't even fart in public without proving you are covid free?
I can't even begin to imagine how much crap that will add to the already horrendous amount of waste generated with PPE etc. There must already be mountains of discarded and used tests as well.
We have managed to turn our world into a noxious dustbin in every single way.

I'm busily filling our weekend with 'stuff'. Last night we went to the pub (at bedtime because it was full earlier) which DS thought was amazing. It's a village pub that serves food some of the time so we had tea late. They're expecting to close soon because they won't make enough money off the food in tier 3 to remain open. I feel really sorry for them. Today we're going to get pumpkins and I've got tickets for an outdoor thing later.

Yesterday another bubble in DS's school went home so that's half the school gone now. I feel like it's slowly creeping towards us. Because I'm a horrible person I desperately wish people would stop getting their kids tested. I'll be unpaid when DS has to isolate and it'll stop us doing anything 'fun' for a while after. There's only so much saving you can do when your pay has already been reduced for 5 months. I'm at odds with most of my family over this. They don't get it because they don't work and the fear of the virus is far worse for them.

With the 'simplified' tier system why have we now got different rules within the same tier level? How is this any simpler than it was before?

[quote Vintagelovingmum]@IAintentDead I didn't even get to try it, my 2 yr old ran around the house with it shouting boobies then hid in a corner and ate it. She's strawberry obsessed though.
@TheOrchidKiller I think I once saw something that said as chocolate comes from cocoa and cocoa comes from a tree it definitely counts as fruit!
I used to live in a London borough, currently the lowest rates and cases in the whole of london and it makes me sick what sadiq Khan is doing, he's just decimating the city just because he wants to disagree with Boris. What annoys me the most is that he is hanging on there just because they couldn't hold the election! Hopefully people will realise and vote him out as soon as they're allowed to[/quote]
A friend of mine hadn't even realised that his term expired ages ago. And, you know, I thought for a bit that he wasn't so bad but now, well, I find him loathsome.

@bakingcupcakes

I'm busily filling our weekend with 'stuff'. Last night we went to the pub (at bedtime because it was full earlier) which DS thought was amazing. It's a village pub that serves food some of the time so we had tea late. They're expecting to close soon because they won't make enough money off the food in tier 3 to remain open. I feel really sorry for them. Today we're going to get pumpkins and I've got tickets for an outdoor thing later.

Yesterday another bubble in DS's school went home so that's half the school gone now. I feel like it's slowly creeping towards us. Because I'm a horrible person I desperately wish people would stop getting their kids tested. I'll be unpaid when DS has to isolate and it'll stop us doing anything 'fun' for a while after. There's only so much saving you can do when your pay has already been reduced for 5 months. I'm at odds with most of my family over this. They don't get it because they don't work and the fear of the virus is far worse for them.

With the 'simplified' tier system why have we now got different rules within the same tier level? How is this any simpler than it was before?

And you are not a horrible person for not wanting children to be tested. It doesn't sound like a good experience for them and AFAIK, most studies say they don't readily pass it on anyway.

Just saw these on Facebook. Thought they may raise a smile.

@ISaySteadyOn Thank you. After yesterday's conversation with my cousin I feel distinctly horrible for my views on testing kids. However, I don't really know what I would positively achieve for my household (of 2) personally by testing DS or myself should it be required. I'm hoping it never is to be honest. I can only see testing as negative for us. Interestingly work have told us it's gross misconduct to turn up with symptoms/not get tested as required. Not sure how they'd ever find out who was lying.

@justasking111
The above sent to hospitality from licensing so the app is not good enough then. Give me strength

Ok, so I may have dreamt about this, but I swear I saw on TV last night (possibly HIGNFY) that the app has told only one person to isolate correctly, or something like that.

If someone else saw it too that will prove I'm not losing the plot.

@Reedwarbler
Lab free results in 15 minutes. How long before you can't even fart in public without proving you are covid free?
A test you could fart on would be a great idea.

I'm on edge today. DD seems a bit mentally fragile again. Thinking about it, she hasn't had a break from work since May. The problem is, with so few things to do outside of the home, no mixing indoors, & most of her friends incarcerated at uni, being at home can be as challenging as being at work. Then there's the lurking threat of her job disappearing if they get shut down. I feel for her, & I know she's lonely.