ADs self isolate in a fridge Boris style

[BogRollBOGOF]

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...

I looked at the very localised data and all the top ones for areas I’m familiar with were university areas where there is a high student population. I guess that’s a good thing because it means that figures for positive tests will ll start to drop substantially soon (at least until the government and media find a way to massage them again)

Looking at the newspaper headlines online, there's a good pic of Rishi looking dishy in specs on one, and him quoted saying a definite 'no' to another lockdown. I rekon he will take over from Boris in the new year after the current round of restrictions fails. Mind you, Boris looks knackered anyway.
I really can't understand why some people think yet another lockdown will work when the last one didn't. As soon as lockdown finishes, cases will rise again, as they did before. There has to be a different way tried.
I find that clip of the gym and the armed police frightening. Have they really got nothing better to do?

DH and DS being tested this morning. Youngest in bits because of missing key assessments at school.
It is years and years since I have felt this miserable...

Joining you lovely sane and supportive people on another thread! Who would have believed back when the first one was created just how many threads we would need (and absolutely fab titles!) to support each other?

I'm also feeling really low - haven't exercised for 3 weeks due to post viral exhaustion (not covid - other viruses are available!) which isn't helping but its the uncertainty and total lack of anything nice to look forward to thats hitting me now.

to everyone. I am at a stage of numbness, I think. And you're all right, there is nothing to look forward to anymore. The days plod over and over while waiting to hear what we're not allowed to do now. It's worse than my former experience of situational depression because there's no way out. It's the same everywhere.

And another question: could a 6 yo watch The Neverending Story, do you think?

Feeling pretty gloomy here. Not for myself (because I’m on the whole boring and don’t go out much) but for my dcs who are early twenties. Dd currently in love and officially unable to see her bf and is devastated ☹️. Not sure how long that will last!

I agree that we are just kicking the problem down the road with lockdown. Once it’s eased then cases will go up again. It’s like Groundhog Day. And the media are totally relishing things with their doom and gloom predictions which is making people hysterical. Twats.

Had a row with DH yesterday. He insists on telling me all the time about the daily cases and death numbers and how bad it is which quite frankly are meaningless unless you put them against how many people die of NON COVID things.

We have agreed that he should keep them to himself because I get fed up of saying the same thing to him every day.

@Aztectrousers

Feeling pretty gloomy here. Not for myself (because I’m on the whole boring and don’t go out much) but for my dcs who are early twenties. Dd currently in love and officially unable to see her bf and is devastated ☹️. Not sure how long that will last!

I agree that we are just kicking the problem down the road with lockdown. Once it’s eased then cases will go up again. It’s like Groundhog Day. And the media are totally relishing things with their doom and gloom predictions which is making people hysterical. Twats.

Aztectrousers I agree with your second paragraph in spades! (where does that saying come from? Anyone know? Why a spade?! or is it just a weird thing I say that no-one else has heard of?!)

I'm not a runner but I've noticed my fitness wane since Ds2 has been back at school and I've not been obligated to leave the house as often. Did the walk to town and back after 4 days of rain, yesterday, and felt rubbish and sore for the rest of the day.

My great lockdown discovery was Mr Motivator's Daily Dozen on youtube. He releases a 12 minute video each week, and his wife often dies a chair based adaption for anyone just needing some gentle movement. They're great as they are so easy to adapt to your own pace.

My shoulder hurts just thinking about Joe Wicks. It's never got over rescuing an intrepid and stuck DS2 from some rather high monkey bars...

Does. Not dies.
No sadly Morivator deaths.

I dropped my phone in May, and it hit a bit of rough kerb edge that defied my bounce proof screen. By the time shops opened up, I'd kind of got used to the crack pattern halfway down the screen.

Then last week, DS2 jumped up at me, knocked it out of my pocket and it landed face down on the tarmac playground.

I would like to blame this for increasingly erratic spelling, but I also suspect I'm very gradually losing my mind

Had the kids' telephone parents evenings last night - before the school telephone line died (they're fucking with the broadband around the area school's in which as you can imagine is going down well with those working or studying from home).

Apart from wondering what the fuck they've done with DD1 who never stops talking and can be a pain in the arse but is apparently delightful, polite, well behaved and a model member of the class at school... and the issues with DD2's teacher having the sensitivity and empathy of a brick toward conditions like dyspraxia... the impact on the kids' academic levels is horrifying. DD1 has gone from working above expected level across the board to not even having achieved expected level she should have been at in July. She now hates Maths and is convinced she's no good at it - as she found an end of year 3 assessment to see where the gaps were left - inevitably really hard.

Fuck you lockdown. Fuck you.

Uni course had an on-campus day yesterday - lots of us didn't go in - me for the bloody panic attacks, and many just are running scared. Phonetics lecturer rebelled and did her sessions barefaced so we could see her mouth and facial movements - but obviously she was trying to get students to replicate sounds so she could check... and they're all masked and sat miles away. This usually really chatty and interactive bunch were just deathly silent - and if you can stop a bunch of speech therapist students talking that's bloody bad!

@justasking111

Boris has not forgiven Liverpool for making him look like an eejit.

I think this is truer than anyone in govt would ever admit.

Not sure I have Mr Motivator's enthusiasm but might have a look at his exercises.

I sometimes do Lucy's Sevens on youtube. That's more my level.

I feel lousy this morning. Woke at 2.30am, dripping with sweat. It might have been a hot flush, but I think I'd had a nightmare. In my half awake/asleep state I managed to convince myself I'd got something really wrong with me. Then I got up early for a telephone appointment, only to have got the wrong bloody day!

DD says half the bookings they had at work have cancelled because of households not being allowed to mix. A couple of the staff are students & are isolating because they are close contacts of positive cases. So if anyone complains that people aren't following the rules, they are following the rules, & businesses are slowly losing money without a full lockdown.

There is a big stink on our local Facebook where people are complaining about folks going out to bars and restaurants and pretending that they are from the same household and how disgusting that is. Well it’s a no win situation. If they police things on the door and insist on proof of address then their footfall in going to plummet and they will end up closing. On the other hand, if they turn a blind eye will this have a great impact on transmission of the virus? Considering that for economic reasons they are allowed to stay open because they have the correct procedures re covid in place then isn’t this better than people just retreating to their houses for a party, which is what will happen? My head is mashed.

My daughters uni and college campus has 15 positive cases out of 4800 people.

Just thinking about the Govt forcing business to shut, surely they are then preventing someone from earning a living which (if i understand correctly) is against the law. Any legal eagles on here to tell me if this is this right? If so, good on the mayor of where-ever it is for pursuing this!

I was thinking the same as blobby 10 wondering how long these threads are going to go on for.
I found you guys in the middle of lockdown when my Facebook book was full of people making memories and I was on my knees with Ds bouncing off the walls, dd laying on the floor having daily meltdowns and DH sat in the office blocking it all out so he could work.

Agree with jamsarnie every night I yell at the tv but how many have died of cancer, on the roads. The numbers need context we don't and never have done figure for anything else,so why this nightly performance.

Just checking in - I have a migraine brewing (yay) and masses of work to get through (boo) and am thoroughly fucked off this morning...I’m in London so waiting for the prison walls to descend ..,

@NothingIsWrong
My next booked race is in Sheffield, but not until next June, so who knows whether that will go ahead... it's one I really want to do as I was born in Sheffield and lived there until I was 14, so it's a bit of nostalgia for me.

Better get some hill training in then

@Blobby10

if they have all been tested then at least half are likely to be false positives too

Just had a look at the figures for my council area, and, breaking it down, it equates to one case per 2000 people approx, and the death rate is low and has not risen (at 92 since the start of all this in March). Long may it continue, but I really can't get my head round all these masses of cases up north. I think there is something really strange going on with our (utterly crap) testing. I still think if you have tested positive for the virus you can't be said to be a 'case of covid' unless you are actually ill, it just means you've got a bit of it up your nose.
The irony of 'long covid' too. For years the medical profession poo poo'd ME/post viral syndrome, suddenly they are taking an interest. I hope it doesn't come down to them saying you can only have this syndrome if you have had covid. Nothing would surprise me.
My poor old fil, (with severe alzheimers, was admitted to hospital where he fell and broke his femur whilst in their care) will have to go into a nursing home. He was living at home with care. But 2 weeks with the nhs and his leg is broken, he has become incontinent and unable even to stand with assistance. He just babbles now too and makes no sense. He does, however, recognise my h still. My h will not be able to visit him in a home - heck, he's not even allowed to look round potential homes as it's video tours only. What a terrible way to end your life. We don't think he's got long, but we are hoping he goes soon for his sake. This was precisely how he never wanted to end up. It's just so sad.

Morning all, I'm back again to get some much needed sanity!

We'll shortly be in tier 2 (five mins drive from tier 1), with our informal childcare team likely to end up in tier 3. They're due to have DS for half term next week which I think is legit but not sure how they're going to feel about it!

I just have such fatigue about the whole thing. Can't be arsed with making sense of the guidelines, sick of sanctimonious twats on social media crowing on about how marvellous they have been imposing additional restrictions upon themselves. Blah.

I read Rishi's article in the Telegraph and agree. The big costs of even a two week lockdown and not just economic but health...and might probably not even help. It's so stressful all this moving tiers thing - I noticed the little cafe outside staff looking worried today. It has been thriving too.

I'm not even sure why we are not moving into a higher one considering our rate here about 120 or something but think it is mainly students (two universities) our public health guy seems reasonable and saying about measuring disease not just cases and 'we should be OK'

It's a gorgeous day here and going swimming soon. Making myself. to everyone today dealing with it all

Some no-covid health problems made the news cycle this morning -
seems British Heart Foundation did some analysis of Office for National Statistics data and more younger poeple - under 65 - have died than usual.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-54545490

What gets me is there is always a comment about people not accessing health care in time - when in my family experience actually access health care isn't because people don't want or fear to it's because there are massive barriers to get past and delays and frequent phone consolations substituting for actual appointments which seem pointless in many cases or inappropriate and act as another level of gatekeeping and more delays.

Lurker, May I join please?

Simon Dolan’s court case had to be reworded because the law he was challenging no longer exists...replaced by tiers which is the same.

My mum is in her 80s and she doesn’t remember government ever being so tyrannical.

I really feel for those having panic attacks. I wish I could help.

@ISaySteadyOn

to everyone. I am at a stage of numbness, I think. And you're all right, there is nothing to look forward to anymore. The days plod over and over while waiting to hear what we're not allowed to do now. It's worse than my former experience of situational depression because there's no way out. It's the same everywhere.

And another question: could a 6 yo watch The Neverending Story, do you think?

@ISaySteadyOn I watched the Neverending Story when I was about that age and I do remember feeling quite traumatised. The Limahl tune is great though