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...

A girl in my class at school had glandular fever and had ongoing severe fatigue for at least a year afterwards - we weren't close so it may well have been even longer. I seem to recall reading things at the time which suggested medical opinion was divided on whether these ongoing symptoms were actually real or psychosomatic. I guess when it's something that predominantly affects young women, nobody gives a shit

@rosettesforjill

A girl in my class at school had glandular fever and had ongoing severe fatigue for at least a year afterwards - we weren't close so it may well have been even longer. I seem to recall reading things at the time which suggested medical opinion was divided on whether these ongoing symptoms were actually real or psychosomatic. I guess when it's something that predominantly affects young women, nobody gives a shit

Yep I had an arsehole boss at the time who said he'd phoned a specialist in the UAE who said I "should be over it by now" well reader I quit a week later and I am still not fully "over it" all these years later!

I did have one benefit from suffering so badly with glandular fever at 19 - I got a new bed out of it!! It was the first time my mum had changed my bed (3x a day at one point as I had such a high temp) for many years and she hadn't realised that the mattress (which I'd had since I was 3) was so worn out!!! First trip out after 6 weeks was to a bed shop where I self consciously lay down on different mattresses to choose one

Well the Notts talks of doom start this afternoon - which is so fucking ridiculous cos it's the bloody uni outbreak and we've had NO FUCKING TIME in tier 2 compared to everywhere else - they just had made the decision and just were going to do what they'd decided regardless of which way the figures moved.

I'm just broken - I literally cannot see the other side of Christmas right now in my mind - if it wasn't for how it would fuck the kids up - I'd be gone. I have a GP appointment tomorrow but can't see them offering more help than pushing me to go onto the waiting list for the therapy that's not running at the moment because of covid. That'll help... in 18 months.

Feel the same re: kids and DH.

Ventured out to The Range for pots, bulbs, compost and winter bedding.

Didn't get the bulbs because they were lining the exit after the tills and I was not going back in.

It wasn't much fun in there. Relatively busy compared to other shops I've been in and there just seemed to be pallets and stuff everywhere. Aisles too narrow to get a trolley down or blocked off. Just quite bewildering in a sensory way. Also Christmas music. I'm definitely feeling deconditioned to the busier bits of life!

I will confess that I like the quieter music in places like pubs. I never saw the point of going somewhere to socialise, then hanging around gormlessly because you can't hold a conversation

Not a single mask to be seen at pick up from after school care (4 parents).
On Tuesday I was the only one not wearing a mask. So thats a 300% improvement (I think!).

@justasking111, this is what the pages now says:

"Due to technical issues the release NHS activity and capacity during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: 22 October 2020 has been postponed. A new date for publication will be announced in due course."

Hope due course isn't too far away.

@ISaySteadyOn
@DominaShantotto
I can't think of what to say, except for hold on. One foot in front of the other, slowly does it.

@BogRollBOGOF
The Range is nuts. So is our local garden centre in the run up to Christmas. You definitely need to be on top form to go there.

An independent shop near me has lost my custom, thanks to the "if you hate wearing a mask you'll really hate a ventilator," sign placed in the doorway. I hope the customer coming out as I was reading it didn't think my, "Sod off!" was addressed to her.

On a positive note, I bought a cup of tea from the kiosk in the park. They take cash-only payments, & the man there is always smiley. It's little things like being smiled at & treated courteously that are making a difference at the moment.

That smug saying about ventilators grinds my gears too. If you are on a ventilator, you are anaesthetised and unconscious and cannot feel anything!

I got tutted at today for wombling out of the wrong door in Sainsburys. There are too many orange barriers and it's confusing. The doorway is wide and the shop was not busy.

Just read that supermarkets in Wales can only sell "essential goods" during lockdown, with no definition of "essential". Is Drakeford on drugs?????

@SomewhereEast
"Is Drakeford on drugs?????"
Well if he is, where's he buying them from?

I define "essential" as a metre long box of Jaffa cakes & a litre of gin. In fact make that 2 x metre long boxes of jaffa cakes & some gaffer tape & you've got your very own social distancing measuring stick.

SmallClanger I got huffed at when we had lunch in the garden centre. We finished eating so I went up to the till to pay but went the wrong way. There was no one else around and to follow the one way system I had to walk out of the restaurant and join the queue to get back in.

@SomewhereEast

Just read that supermarkets in Wales can only sell "essential goods" during lockdown, with no definition of "essential". Is Drakeford on drugs?????

What the fuck?

Sturgeon going to stage 5.

On nov 2.

Ffs.

She will close some schools

She will close anything that makes life a wee bit bearable

She can do one

Everyone I know has had enough and doing their own thing

We have been wearing masks longer than rest of Uk

So how if they worked then why do we need a STAGE FUCKING 5

And Jason leitch said don’t think you will be having a family Christmas.

Well Jason I think you will find that Scotland will be having a family Christmas

So done with this

What is it with these hair shirt, flagellating celts, such a puritan streak runs through them. Merkel is the same, self deprivation is good. Last time a policeman tried to stop a woman with chocolate in her shopping basket, remember the MN who told us not to buy easter eggs, to ban, booze, fags. Is there no end to this lunacy.

As for Wales running the trains, Cardiff airport comes to mind.

Started this thread in Site Stuff.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/4058114-Can-we-please-have-something-done-about-the-ableism-and-mask-exemption-hatred-on-here

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4057214-verbally-attacked-for-not-wearing-a-mask

Oops Sorry Wrong thread I meant to link it into my Site Stuff one as its being denied already.

Has anyone shared this one yet?

app.spectator.co.uk/2020/10/11/what-does-the-covid-data-really-tell-us/content.html

Parkrun have released a report from a response of 2,000+ participants issued to 20,000 participants. 60-70% were reporting negative responses towards the impact of the virus and restrictions on their fitness, mental wellbeing and connections to their communities. Data on sport participation correlates with Sport England data.

"This survey has, for the first time, enabled us to build a clear picture about the toll that the pandemic and associated restrictions imposed have had on the parkrun community, and will continue to be felt if opportunities to participate in parkrun do not return."

"There is a clear and pressing need to factor non-COVID harms into discussions and policy making at the highest level, in order that the wide ranging impacts to individual and population health can be fully accounted for."

"We know that so many lives depend on it."

It's heartening to see those final paragraphs from an organisation with some influence

With my area being groomed for tier 2, we'll lose indoor Brownies, and going into November, it's hard to do practical, purposeful activities week after week on Zoom after being at it most of the time since March, or outside in the cold and dark. Indoors gives the girls chance to do activities such as crafts that are difficult to organise remotely or impossible to do outdoors at this time of year. Currently doing a 3 week rotation of 2 weeks indoor/ zoom alternating between pods and an outdoor week which is kind of balanced.

Helping in school is still off the agenda.

Scouting group relucant to do anything not Zoom (so if this carries on until Easter which is plausible, DS2 basically left Beavers before his 7th birthday as he'll be turning 8 by then. Frustrating as our Beaver team is more keen to get face to face, but held back by the rest of the group.

4 volunteering roles that connect me to the local community (an RD with junior parkrun and I am concerned that with this length of time it will be difficult to restore our team, and some RDs are ripe to move on with this as an opportunity for a natural break) and only one community group functioning meaningfully.

In positive news, the DCs and their primary school have completed an entire half term.

The post about children wearing masks and loads of posters proudly saying they have normalised mask wearing to their 3 year olds, makes me sick to my stomach. What next - new born babies in face masks?

[quote TheOrchidKiller]@ISaySteadyOn
@DominaShantotto
I can't think of what to say, except for hold on. One foot in front of the other, slowly does it.

@BogRollBOGOF
The Range is nuts. So is our local garden centre in the run up to Christmas. You definitely need to be on top form to go there.

An independent shop near me has lost my custom, thanks to the "if you hate wearing a mask you'll really hate a ventilator," sign placed in the doorway. I hope the customer coming out as I was reading it didn't think my, "Sod off!" was addressed to her.

On a positive note, I bought a cup of tea from the kiosk in the park. They take cash-only payments, & the man there is always smiley. It's little things like being smiled at & treated courteously that are making a difference at the moment.[/quote]
I am so tempted to copy and paste this on every fecking covid thread.
"You do not wear a fucking ventilator. Ventilation was dismissed as the best treatment for covid weeks ago. Do try to keep up if you are trying to post something sensible on here instead of opening your mouth and letting your belly rumble."

Fucking areseholes.

Clothes aren't essential, according to our overlords. Firstly, does "clothes" include masks? Secondly, just to note that I do not have the guts to engage in the most obvious form of protest...