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...

She lives with my dad and my niece who is in her twenties.

Helena, you might still be okay. My neighbour does daily care visits to his mum, who is 90. His sister kind of lives there at the moment- she’s separated from her husband, but he just takes the view that he is the designated carer. Well, he is, if you see what I mean.

I’m visiting g mum on that basis but admittedly she lives alone.

This is a very good article which I’m amazed to see on the bbc.

Don’t read if you’re feeling fragile though.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-world-in-chains-artificial-intelligence?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter

"What do people think a circuit breaker lockdown would be - like the original one?"

I think that's what the people who are wanting it think it will be - supermarkets as the only thing open, keyworkers the only people leaving the home to work, the daily exercise hour (we all know it didn't need to be an hour, but it was interpreted thus), no schools open, & definitely no sitting on park benches, panic-buying of toilet roll the moment the media leaks the news, & posts on MN about how we should all just live our best lives & learn to wipe our arses on the leaves we collect from the park because they had it so much harder in the war, and compulsory Thursday night clapping in the dark, probably.

[quote AcornAutumn]This is a very good article which I’m amazed to see on the bbc.

Don’t read if you’re feeling fragile though.

www.bbc.com/future/article/20201014-totalitarian-world-in-chains-artificial-intelligence?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter[/quote]
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@AcornAutumn Thanks. Its just all so bloody confusing.................chop change chop change. So many of us dont know where we are. The public are being made to pay the price for Government failings.

Had a lovely afternoon visiting tier 2.

Went for a run with a new running buddy yesterday and she took me off a little further than I knew to a village a few miles out with a couple of features that were really interesting. So today we parked up in the next village, went to their recently opened pub for lunch for the first time since it closed 2 or 3 years ago, then did a 5 mile walk.

The pub was lovely. Proper local country pub with atmosphere. The old men have returned to the bar and were dotted around the area. Other than face coverings and a few arrows it was rather civilised and pleasant.
(Plus in spinning distance of 3 pokestops, so happy DCs collecting shiny charmanders on pokemon go for the event )

I suspect a lot more mid-walk lunches at the pub over the winter...

There is a "I WONT REPORT YOU" meme that has just found its way into my fb feed. Shared by a friend who works in the NHS.

So the primary school has just announced masks shoukd be worn on school grounds as of Monday. We are in a tier one area in case its relevant.
But DP and I are in agreement that they can FRO with that one.

DS mostly goes to wrap around care in the afternoon so there might be one other parent in the playground at the same time as me. In the mornings I time it so he can go straight in, no hanging around and it is very rare for me to hang around either.

Channel 4 news are doing a big Lockdown Debate tomorrow night.

www.hsj.co.uk/news/exclusive-police-given-access-to-test-and-trace-data-on-those-told-to-self-isolate/7028653.article

@HeIenaDove

There is a "I WONT REPORT YOU" meme that has just found its way into my fb feed. Shared by a friend who works in the NHS.

I've seen that a lot. Mostly people who were D's the first time around. How times change. I wouldn't report anyone either and I'm NHS staff.

I don't post on my FB page my opinion though because we aren't allowed to say anything that might damage the trust's reputation in covid or normal times so I tend to keep my political opinions on here where I am anonymous-ish.

Though I work in. MH unit so like 100% of our staff are fucking done and we are expecting a massive Increase in people needing to be seen. Something like a 42% increase in mother's with pnd reaching out to us since start of lockdown. So sad. I mean brilliant they're reaching out but the increase is horrific.

@TrustTheGeneGenie I should imagine your workload has increased tenfold since just a year ago.

[quote HeIenaDove]@TrustTheGeneGenie I should imagine your workload has increased tenfold since just a year ago.[/quote]
I only started in July but it's worse since then definitely. My colleagues tell me it's much worse than this time last year though. I mean, it's always busy not enough beds not enough doctors but it's mega mega busy. I am "lucky" that I'm not on the front line as such but it's crazy busy, and so sad to see.

Re. the above article. I can see that leading to poorer people (zero hours contracts + some of the key workers being clapped for earlier this year) being punished for not being able to afford to self isolate.

Kids gone to grandparents for a fortnight - childcare reasons - so allowed.

Knobhead brother has already given my mum a 20 text long summary of why it's hideously irresponsible of me to let them go stay with them - when they bloody well demanded they got the grandkids for half term! Knobhead brother's missus is due to give birth any day now and knobhead brother has already told my mum she's not allowed to meet the baby. Knobhead brother is the same one who told my mum she would be ill within 14 days after she got a "corona cut".

Funnily knobhead brother hasn't dared text me with any of his objections -he's scared of me because I've ripped him a new one before.

@TrustTheGeneGenie I'm really not surprised about the mothers suffering, whatever belief you have about lockdown it's such a vulnerable time. I have heard from people who are still terrified of leaving the house still with their babies or have only left the house a couple of times since march who are obviously suffering then there's people who are finding it hard without the supports that are in place like mum and baby groups who are also up against mental health struggles.
Funnily enough back at the beginning of august the health visitor told me she'd ring in a month to double check about weight gain etc as my children seem to be on the lower end of average which always seems to worry them but I haven't heard a thing from her. Thankfully it's my 2nd time so I roughly know what I'm doing but so many mothers must just have been cast adrift and left to it.
Speaking to my mil she said similar for her dad in a retirement home complex, he had a busier social life than dh and me before this and now she's the only person he sees!
Dh and I have had a few crappy years up to this point but we really thought this was going to be a good year, buying our first home, having our 2nd baby and just finally cracking on with the saving to give us a good position in the future but now it's looking especially bleak and I sometimes, only fleetingly, feel guilty for having children as I feel like I've already let them down bringing into this mess!

@DominaShantotto I remember your previous posts about your knobhead brother & your mum's haircut. Hope your kids have a lovely time with their grandparents.

Watching Strictly. I get it's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a part of our Saturday nights in the autumn. Despite the changes to it because of covid, it's a bit of normality & escapist TV. Not sure why I was in tears for the first five minutes. Feel better now, have had wine.

@Vintagelovingmum
"I sometimes, only fleetingly, feel guilty for having children as I feel like I've already let them down bringing into this mess!"

Aww. It's not your fault. Remember feeling like that when 9/11 happened & my first baby was 6 months old. I rang my mum & she said she'd felt the same over something horrific that had happened when we were tiny. My grandmothers had babies in the war/ during post-war austerity. I guess, like them, we have to hope for better things.

Leaked letter shows Wales to be locked down on Friday until 9th November. So that is that. Supermarkets allowed to stay open and essential workers allowed to travel to work. The rest of us stay home.
It will be as bad as March here.

@justasking111

Leaked letter shows Wales to be locked down on Friday until 9th November. So that is that. Supermarkets allowed to stay open and essential workers allowed to travel to work. The rest of us stay home. It will be as bad as March here.

Oh fuck. I'd be surprised if England and Scotland don't follow as usual.

@justasking111

Leaked letter shows Wales to be locked down on Friday until 9th November. So that is that. Supermarkets allowed to stay open and essential workers allowed to travel to work. The rest of us stay home. It will be as bad as March here.

Oh bloody hell

Somebody 'having a thought' 'just' thread is in praise of the great Sir TP's characters

YY -- similar conclusions to us -although not all agree

What is depressing me tonight is that I have friends in the NHS, teaching, government posts who are behaving like nodding dogs at every edict coming out of our governments ass. It makes it so difficult to talk to them. Maybe they have been threatened at work, who knows. It is not good for friendships that is for sure when you are treading on eggs all the time.

I can’t do lockdown again. So sorry for everyone in Wales
They really don’t care about the poor, do they? Live on 75% if you’re lucky. It’s fucking shit.
Was talking to my DP’s in a supermarket car park today, how sad is that. It was actually lovely. I have now ordered my new mask, hopefully I am brave enough to wear. I enjoyed Strictly tonight, have just binged watched Yonderland. Would love to see the cast do Discworld novels.