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ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

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BogRollBOGOF · 14/10/2020 19:37

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...

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RobinHobb · 19/10/2020 21:17

I almost cried today because I was missing my parents so much. They live abroad but in an area where restrictions have been lifted and things have opened up. I'm vulnerable and with two kids under 5 I won't travel there and they won't come here and quarantine. I don't know when I'll see them again, it's already been over a year - they were supposed to visit in July.
If they were here in the UK, wanksock etc could go fuck themselves, there is no way they would prevent me from seeing my parents.
See your family if you can.... (and want to of course)

HeIenaDove · 19/10/2020 21:17

Ta @PinkSparklyPussyCat

TheOrchidKiller · 19/10/2020 21:18

If anyone wants a Christmas lockdown they can have one on their own. I'm sure it's easy enough to arrange if they're really that keen to sit at home in a corner with the lights off.

Discussions already in tier 2 areas about us going into tier 3 status, less than a week after tier 2 restrictions came in. That's not playing fair. Discussions are between local authorities & govt about what sort of "deal" can be done. We are human beings, not cattle at a market! It won't even be a decent deal, we'll be swapped for magic beans, & it'll be Dominic Cummings smirking at the top of the beanstalk.

TheOrchidKiller · 19/10/2020 21:29

@RobinHobb I'm sorry to hear that.

RobinHobb · 19/10/2020 21:32

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@RobinHobb I'm sorry to hear that.[/quote]
Thank you

LivinLaVidaLoki · 19/10/2020 21:36

Thanks @RobinHobb

Reedwarbler · 19/10/2020 22:00

Just reading on a local (to me) news page that care/elderly home visiting is going to be suspended, and the local authority has been handed money to engage 'compliance officers' whose duty will be, among others, to explain the visiting regulations to residents. Well, good luck with that with my fil, who will be going into a care home from hospital shortly. He has severe alzheimers and the only person he recognises is my husband. In fact, seeing my husband is the only thing that makes him perk up. I'm sure he will understand that it's all for his own good as he sits crying in his chair because he will think he's been abandoned in a home, which was his greatest fear.
This government is inhumane.

PickAChew · 19/10/2020 22:05

@MissEWeatherwax

I think they haven’t a clue and don’t care if you can’t work from home. My DH works in a job, you can’t do from home. I can work from home, but need two screens and I haven’t got the kit, plus I don’t have the room. So I’m being selfish and going into the office. I hope for Wales it is only two weeks, but I don’t believe them. Just like NE was two weeks, it’s already been longer. But have just checked and where I live, the cases have come down. And DCity have come down too, so their is a small glimmer of hope.
Aye, DH only had 2 screens because he's a bloody geek and our house is like cex. He'd already set up with his own monitor and one he'd bought fir his mum and kept after she died.
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BogRollBOGOF · 19/10/2020 22:06

We'd normally go to MiL's around now.
She's 88 and OK, but past her resiliant years and is risk adverse anyway. Travelling on ferries/ planes is not ideal in terms of feeling reliably virus-free, nor a pleasant prospect to travel. Although it's only just getting to the normal time that we'd go over, knowing for 6 months that it was rather unlikely to happen has eeked it out. Normally we'd have been looking forwards to going after the summer, but there isn't really anything coming up to look forwards to. Plus BiL whose very rule abiding (but not in a moralistic dementory way) won't break the rule of 6 to let the cousins meet up.

And DH has just interjected to say that they're about to have a 6 week lockdown over there...

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RobinHobb · 19/10/2020 22:21

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Thanks *@RobinHobb*
Thank you
110APiccadilly · 19/10/2020 22:25

Don't think I've ever wanted not to be Welsh before. I'm normally quite proud of it - speak Welsh and everything!

AgentCooper · 19/10/2020 22:35

@Reedwarbler

Just reading on a local (to me) news page that care/elderly home visiting is going to be suspended, and the local authority has been handed money to engage 'compliance officers' whose duty will be, among others, to explain the visiting regulations to residents. Well, good luck with that with my fil, who will be going into a care home from hospital shortly. He has severe alzheimers and the only person he recognises is my husband. In fact, seeing my husband is the only thing that makes him perk up. I'm sure he will understand that it's all for his own good as he sits crying in his chair because he will think he's been abandoned in a home, which was his greatest fear. This government is inhumane.
@Reedwarbler it’s unthinkable, isn’t it? I’m grateful my granny’s not alive now. She spent her last years in a (lovely) nursing home with Alzheimer’s and those wee flickers of connection she would still get with my mum now and then were so precious. This would have killed her and destroyed my mum. I hope these bloody restrictions don’t last and your FIL can see his family again soon.
justasking111 · 19/10/2020 22:53

What can I say about Wales uk government says not a penny before 1st November and Drakeford was well aware of that was told ages ago by Rishi.

Have two grandkids tonight daddy had to go for a minor op. so he and the wife are having a night in a hotel first. Sure that is not allowed.

Have now brought the halloween party forward for the little ones to Thursday, today bought the sweets for the pumpkin pinata, the tablecloth and decorations have arrived, we shall have a good time before the drawbridge is pulled up on Friday.

I bought some sparklers in Lidl today OH is going back there tomorrow to get some fireworks for the children to enjoy sod the neighbours.

HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 01:30

@RobinHobb @Reedwarbler this is all bloody inhumane Flowers Flowers

HeIenaDove · 20/10/2020 02:05

Front cover of the December issue of Woman and Home which is out this week. One of the straplines is.........Be the best host.

i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dHkAAOSwHfdfisLs/s-l1600.jpg

110APiccadilly · 20/10/2020 06:21

"What can I say about Wales uk government says not a penny before 1st November and Drakeford was well aware of that was told ages ago by Rishi."

You'd think he'd have learnt from the fiasco over taxing the carer bonus that just because he announces something doesn't mean Westminster will shell out for it.

TabbyStar · 20/10/2020 07:25

Another sensible article from The Times www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6242d4aa-124b-11eb-9859-b09ba5b6a3c4?shareToken=fbae4000b3ccb1971af36c9c2cfeca53

Wheytaminute · 20/10/2020 07:31

[quote HeIenaDove]Front cover of the December issue of Woman and Home which is out this week. One of the straplines is.........Be the best host.

i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dHkAAOSwHfdfisLs/s-l1600.jpg[/quote]
Can't wait for some parties Glitterball

Not even thinking that far ahead here. I can't see that there'll be a houseful this December.

Hmm
Reedwarbler · 20/10/2020 07:42

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/secrecy-spin-surrounding-greater-manchesters-19131905
I don't know if any of you saw this. Interesting.I really do think we are being lied to by the government and figures are only released to suit their agenda.

ISaySteadyOn · 20/10/2020 07:50

I agree, I think. But I am confused about how the government benefits from this.

110APiccadilly · 20/10/2020 07:55

@Reedwarbler

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/secrecy-spin-surrounding-greater-manchesters-19131905 I don't know if any of you saw this. Interesting.I really do think we are being lied to by the government and figures are only released to suit their agenda.
Drakeford said on Friday that critical care units in Wales were full. I'm pretty sure he omitted the word "some" as all of them being full just doesn't stack up with the data published on Wednesday (though one can't be absolutely 100% sure until this week's data is published tomorrow - but one can be pretty convinced - there were no Covid patients in intensive care at all in my health board last Wednesday!) He was also implying that this was due to Covid, when it's actually way less than half of all patients in intensive care who had Covid (again, on Wednesday, I have to accept that in theory things could have undergone an enormous change in two days - without Drakeford mentioning it!)

Data should be published tomorrow so I'll know for sure that he was being deliberately misleading. Won't achieve anything, but at least I'll feel smug vindicated. Goodness knows nothing else published this week by the Welsh Government is going to make me happy.

JamSarnie · 20/10/2020 08:00

I think the government knows they have lost the good will of a lot of people and are now using the message that ITU is full to try and scare us all back to complying out of fear.

Bollss · 20/10/2020 08:16

Doesn't everyone know that ITUs are usually v small units with small amounts of beds? They fill quickly at the best of times don't they. It's not unusual. I do think "the hospitals are full" is a scare tactic. A quick Google tells me our local hospital has 4 ICU beds. A bad rta would fill them quite easily.

NastyBlouse · 20/10/2020 08:18

@JamSarnie

I think the government knows they have lost the good will of a lot of people and are now using the message that ITU is full to try and scare us all back to complying out of fear.
I think this is it. Fear is a very powerful, primal motivator. Many people will pooh-pooh or ignore 'restrictions' but stoking fear drives compliance at a more subconscious level.
MaudesMum · 20/10/2020 08:33

@JamSarnie

I think the government knows they have lost the good will of a lot of people and are now using the message that ITU is full to try and scare us all back to complying out of fear.
You're so right - if we had a government who we trusted and who spoke to us like adults, then they wouldn't need to frighten us into compliance. Not sure if it's going to work now, however - they've been so crap and also we've all been out and about over the summer and are a lot clearer about what the risk is.