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...

@LivinLaVidaLoki quite a few others then did spot that one but who actually says stuff like that? Out loud?

[quote MaxNormal]@LivinLaVidaLoki quite a few others then did spot that one but who actually says stuff like that? Out loud?[/quote]
Cunts, that's who! But then I think these people have always been cunts, they're just showing it now.

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]@ISaySteadyOn
Yup. It was a comment on a Manchester thread.

What made me smile was a comment from MNHQ asking for peace and love. On the Covid Board? Fat fucking chance.[/quote]
Has anyone responded with: "We will have peace, when you and all your works have perished — and the works of your dark master to whom you would deliver us... When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc," yet?

(Not that I want to compare anyone at all to silver-tongued, deceptive, evil Saruman who wants to enslave all free peoples, you understand.)

The rona board yesterday and today is

I find myself increasingly cynical about some of the threads. Frightening ‘information’ delivered at a timely point. Plus the usual boggarts pushing their usual agendas. Maybe I’m too cynical. Or a heartless granny murderer.

I really, really should stop reading it, it just upsets me disproportionately. That Manchester comment properly shocked me. (I’m from nearby, and lived there for a while. I fiercely love that city. And I was also in town when the bomb went off.)

110APiccadilly it would have been bloody gold if someone had!

I think two things were bothering me yesterday. One was the complete denial that some people might possibly be having a hard time in some way, shape, or form, with all of this, and the other was the thinly veiled contempt for the north. Or actually scrap that, not veiled at all really was it?

But I'm not sure what I expected really.

AgentCooper that's awful. Although I would love to see them come and try that in certain parts of Glasgow.

My cousin called last night, after a lovely belated summer, they are now having real issues with british tourists. Throughout the summer their behaviour has been exemplary but now....

They petitioned for a long time for tourism to open for economic reasons which Ive explained on previous threads and now this happens and its feeding right into the dementors hands. What is wrong with these people?!

I bloody love the North. Id take manchester over London any day of the week.

I'm sick and tired of northerners accused of being thick, it's all our own fault etc etc.

I'd still rather get covid than lose my job or my house and if that makes me thick then so be it.

@LivinLaVidaLoki where is your cousin? Sorry, you've clearly talked about this before and it's bypassed me. What sort of behaviour are they seeing?

@TrustTheGeneGenie

I bloody love the North. Id take manchester over London any day of the week.

I'm sick and tired of northerners accused of being thick, it's all our own fault etc etc.

I'd still rather get covid than lose my job or my house and if that makes me thick then so be it.

Doesn't make you thick at all.

Selfish maybe

I've said it before and I'll keep on saying it.

Poverty kills people too, but no one gives a shit about that because you can't sneeze poor onto someone.

@MaxNormal
My family are in Greece. The effects of austerity measures there are still being felt and with appropriate safety measures they have opened up.

By and large it has been fine, a rise in cases but mostly domestic or people through the land border in the north.

British tourists have been well behaved and mindful of safety by and large (though randomly the dutch and german tourists have behaved like Covid doesnt go on holiday with them....)

Anyway....in the last week due to the increasing numbers in the UK they have increased the random testing on arrival. You get tested, you wait in your hotel for the result (within 24 hours), if you don't hear anything you are clear and free. If you have a positive test you get moved to a "quranatine hotel" and the rest of your party is tested. The quarantine hotel and any change of flight that may be necessary is a cost picked up by the Greek govt (its a bloody nice 5 star too).
Anyway, a number of positives in the last week, all of them kicking off about having to quarantine.

One party had 2 members of the 4 test positive.

They had hired a buggy on arrival and hadn’t told anyone that they had been tested. Hire company then got a call from the hotel (as they had dropped it off) saying that 2 of them have tested positive and so they needed to quarantine.
Car hire place tried to call them and they hung up on her and turned their phone off.
The whole shop and the police were then out looking for them. They were then found in a bar in the main Town.

May have to reinstate "MALAKAAAAAA"

Can you hide a whole topic rather than individual threads? I keep finding myself getting sucked into the CV board and I'm alternating between anger, depressed and scared so I think I need to hide it completely. I'm staying with you lot, Style and Beauty or pictures of pandas if it all gets too much.

Qualifying note : pandas remind me of my DH - cuddly, lie around and eat a lot

Anyone else find this advert on Channel 4 sinister?

www.decadeofhealth.co.uk/

@LivinLaVidaLoki in Rhodes I think we are all just very grateful to be here. I saw a bit of drunk behaviour on arrival (in the passport queue!) but otherwise all good. Really feel for everyone here struggling to make a living.

LivinLaVidaLoki that's awful! Did they wind up getting arrested and/or sent back?

I really really feel for the people of Greece. I know that the last few years have been very very tough for them, and of course they have such a big tourist industry, I can imagine that many were only just starting to get somewhere and now this. Awful to abuse the hospitality like that.

Glad I have been asleep (again, although I think I needed it this time), & not reading all that on the coronavirus board. It sounds unpleasant, to say the least.

I gave up last night after seeing a thread started which suggested The South should also be locked down.

I was a student in Manchester a very long time ago & have a soft spot for the place & the people, & for the surrounding areas of Lancashire where I had placements. The wrangling with the talks about doing a deal over Manchester has shocked me, that it's come to this, to arguing over money & health. I'm hardly surprised there was "no deal" - it's not our government's strong point.

That Anne Frank comment is horrible, isn't it? Wrong in so many ways.

Do you know what's upset me now? Sheffield's gone into a tier 3 already, & Nottingham's expected to follow. They only instigated the tiers last week. That's not giving anyone a chance to see if it works. It's not fair. It's a terrible way of seeing if something works or not, which The Scientists should know & understand.

If they thought the tier 2 idea was going to be ineffective they should have shoved us into a 3 last week, instead of teasing us with a tiny bit of hope.

I'm in the generally ok, but with blips in major cities, South West, and am very keen not to be locked-down in any "circuit-breaker" as I really don't see the need round here. BUT I also hate the way the government is playing us all of against each other in order to cover up their mistakes, and local lock-downs are part of this. The South West hasn't been "doing things better" than the North West - we just have less population density, less big cities, less public transport and so on.

I'd still rather get covid than lose my job or my house and if that makes me thick then so be it

Yeah same, and it's felt like a real possibility for me, though I think I'm out of the woods for a bit, as someone who's lost a significant amount of income but not been supported by the Government despite 30 years of tax paying.

@TheOrchidKiller

Do you know what's upset me now? Sheffield's gone into a tier 3 already, & Nottingham's expected to follow. They only instigated the tiers last week. That's not giving anyone a chance to see if it works. It's not fair. It's a terrible way of seeing if something works or not, which The Scientists should know & understand.

If they thought the tier 2 idea was going to be ineffective they should have shoved us into a 3 last week, instead of teasing us with a tiny bit of hope.

Absolutely this. When we were wanting restrictions to be eased all we heard was "we wont know if restrictions make difference for a few weeks, but now they are dipping people in and out of tiers every bloody week.

@TheOrchidKiller

Do you know what's upset me now? Sheffield's gone into a tier 3 already, & Nottingham's expected to follow. They only instigated the tiers last week. That's not giving anyone a chance to see if it works. It's not fair. It's a terrible way of seeing if something works or not, which The Scientists should know & understand.

If they thought the tier 2 idea was going to be ineffective they should have shoved us into a 3 last week, instead of teasing us with a tiny bit of hope.

The uncertainty and constant flip-flopping of restrictions is what's doing the number on my mental health, and I know from talking to the uni mental health staff that they're finding their caseload is going through the roof NOW rather than when it was just "locked down - deal with it" absolutism.

It's not fair on the kids who have less perspective on it - for their lives to be having to lived in these ever changing goal posts of "oh you could have swimming lessons last week, but now we're looking at tier 3 and they might close the leisure centres so you won't be able to" (random example picked).

I'm hoping that they do Nottingham city and not the county - but the leader of Broxtowe really really wants at least Beeston North in there, and I don't think they'll give enough of a shit about some random borough up north to split it when they've not done that for others.

We're under threat, even though where I live is pretty remote.

I'm really not liking how this situation is bringing out the nasty, jobsworth, finger-pointy, holier than thou in so many people. There are a significant number who are loving the opportunity to yap "NO" in other people's faces and twitch their curtains constantly. The heroes in the beginning were medics in hazmat suits, now the supposed heroes are arse-faced self-appointed security staff with clipboards.

Petty, very petty I know, but please no tier 3 for Broxtowe, especially before I get DS1 moved up a frigging swimming level 8.5 months after he was signed off.

I felt vaguely optomistic looking at the E Mids data slides as the numbers for secondary/ uni age have peaked quite abruptly and the rates in older demographics are considerably lower than they are in the northern regions where the virus has been endemic for some time.
Plus it's a Conservative constituency... (presumably with a pro Boris MP following Sowerby's shennanigans last year...)

In trivial consolations, getting DS2 moved up in a back to back session against DS1, at least I don't have the loitering in the car for 45 mins as the nights draw in.

@TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain

We're under threat, even though where I live is pretty remote.

I'm really not liking how this situation is bringing out the nasty, jobsworth, finger-pointy, holier than thou in so many people. There are a significant number who are loving the opportunity to yap "NO" in other people's faces and twitch their curtains constantly. The heroes in the beginning were medics in hazmat suits, now the supposed heroes are arse-faced self-appointed security staff with clipboards.

It was the backlash against that personality type that drew us together from an AIBU 6 odd (very, very odd) months ago.

Something to do with people who suck joy I think.

I took the Anne Frank thing to mean that obeying the law isn't always the right thing and that sometimes the best people ignore it.