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...

sick of sanctimonious twats on social media crowing on about how marvellous they have been imposing additional restrictions upon themselves

YY @rosettesforjill

'These handcuffs are a lovely fit, don't you think Connie?'
'Yes, personally I love giving away all my freedom and feel everyone should do the same. Shall we get some nice toothy mantraps to go with them?'
'Oooh yes let's.'

@Blobby10 Some businesses are setting up a legal challenge against lockdown. (But I was nuked by MN for linking to one such; they're easy enough to find.)

@LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

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.

Sadly it wouldn't surprise me if the D's will try to put the spin on this that they may have had covid undetected which has caused these heart problems

Always say that I will not be drawn in but now find myself one (of several) Liverpool people defending our city because a couple of hundred kids decided to dance in the streets for a few minutes before the police, with no difficulty, brought matters to an end

I smiled to myself about the spirit of the Liverpool young people, then felt immediately guilty because I'd probably supported the murdering of millions 🙄🙄🙄 (in the eyes of others...)

Welcome @AcornAutumn - what a lovely name!

Just reading further on matters local to us, and, we have no cases AT ALL in our cluster of 3 villages - mind you, we are out in the sticks! That's probably around 3 to 4 thousand people.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8834045/Women-France-felt-like-suffocating-forced-wear-face-masks-childbirth.html

How can anyone think this is acceptable?

FFS.

I live in an area in London that is more like leafy Surrey (we're right on the border of London and Surrey). Our COVID rates here are very low.

But yet we have just been moved to the next tier, because they are treating the immensely big and diverse city of London like it's all the same. Well fucking done. It makes no sense at all.

I really don't know how much more of this bullshit I can take.

Ah, there you are.

Been into plague-infested tier 2 city of death.

Very quiet. Probably a good time to do shopping.

Last week someone swore blind that you couldn't enter half the shops without scanning the app or leaving your details- it's a load of rubbish! If anything, there's less scrutiny on shop doors because no one's shopping.

Woman serving me in one shop sighed & said, "all this is getting ridiculous."

I did a double-take over a woman on the tram who removed her mask to gel her hands, & then rubbed hand gel into her face before replacing the mask. You can't be too careful.

Just checking in. Think I need to come off MN again but it's like a car accident... You know you shouldn't look but can't help yourself.
What a heap of shit. I wish all the screaming numpties who want this shit show would just lock themselves away and bleach their shopping and their kids to their hearts' content but just leave the rest of us alone. How have we got to a stage where we have government-by-social-media?
And every time someone says 'well you'd feel differently if your loved one had died of Covid' , I want to say ' no I wouldn't you simplistic idiot. And what's more, I've never met your 80 year old gran who was 'taken too soon' so honestly no, I don't actually care more about her than about the effing long term shit show we're creating. In similar vein, you utter moron, you don't give a shit about my 88 year old mother's worsening dementia or indeed any other issue. Because you're a self-serving idiot with a brain the size of a pea and no moral compass. '
Ah that's better.
God I'm so angry. In case I hadn't made that obvious

@HitchikersGuide

Just checking in. Think I need to come off MN again but it's like a car accident... You know you shouldn't look but can't help yourself. What a heap of shit. I wish all the screaming numpties who want this shit show would just lock themselves away and bleach their shopping and their kids to their hearts' content but just leave the rest of us alone. How have we got to a stage where we have government-by-social-media? And every time someone says 'well you'd feel differently if your loved one had died of Covid' , I want to say ' no I wouldn't you simplistic idiot. And what's more, I've never met your 80 year old gran who was 'taken too soon' so honestly no, I don't actually care more about her than about the effing long term shit show we're creating. In similar vein, you utter moron, you don't give a shit about my 88 year old mother's worsening dementia or indeed any other issue. Because you're a self-serving idiot with a brain the size of a pea and no moral compass. ' Ah that's better. God I'm so angry. In case I hadn't made that obvious

You are funny. But seriously stick to like minded people which for me excludes Drakeford who is seriously getting off on covid, hands down pants I do wish someone would find him a prozzy he could work it out on perhaps he could be deflowered in his allotment shed.

Well we know Boris aint getting sex at home with a baby, Hancock well doubt it. Drakeford deffo. not. Whitty as if, Sturgeon only with a whip and stilettos. The solution is for them all to get laid frequently and well then maybe they might be a bit more level headed when it comes to deciding what is best for the country. They all need a heavy dose of endorphins in my humble opinion to put a daft grin on their faces and a measured decision on covid.

@TheOrchidKiller

Been into plague-infested tier 2 city of death.

Very quiet. Probably a good time to do shopping.

Last week someone swore blind that you couldn't enter half the shops without scanning the app or leaving your details- it's a load of rubbish! If anything, there's less scrutiny on shop doors because no one's shopping.

Woman serving me in one shop sighed & said, "all this is getting ridiculous."

I did a double-take over a woman on the tram who removed her mask to gel her hands, & then rubbed hand gel into her face before replacing the mask. You can't be too careful.

Leeds tier 2 threatening tier 3 DS says is a ghost town, tumbleweed blowing through, just need Wyatt Earp at one end and John Wayne at the other with folk nervously looking down from their windows to complete the picture.

@pearlypidge you may be quite near where I am. Cases at 68 and weekly cases growing at less than 10%. Doesn't fit into the criteria for tier 2 and lots of other places with much higher rates and growing much faster are still in tier 1

Lurked for ages but have to vent in a haven of sanity..

My colleague is a very smart person. She is paid to be a critical thinker, look at things very objectively and make decisions according to cold, hard facts. I let slip in one of our (virtual) meetings that I was having a bit of a crap day, having found out that a good friend is in hospital with Covid and is in a critical condition - friend has leukaemia, has been very ill for a while and I haven't seen them in person for months (being a disease vector and all), but it's still tough on their family.
Colleague's reaction was to repeat solemnly that the bloke who came to sort out her roof tiles KNOWS for a FACT that there won't be a vaccine and we'll just have to live like this for ever. She accepts this without question and was busy parroting it to the rest of us while insisting we had to STAY HOME AND SAVE LIVES, of course.
The effort of not saying "and why on earth are you blindly accepting this?" did distract me from worrying about my friend, I suppose, so that's something..

It's the fact they're blatantly talking bollocks I can't take. A 'hard lockdown' that some seem to be frothing for doesn't seem to have worked in Spain; SAGE all seem to have their own agenda and everyone knows that a 2 week 'circuit breaker' will turn into 4 months just like the last one did, minus the clapping on a Thursday night where we can come out of our houses, blinking like enthused moles at the sight of Other People and shuffling obediently back again for another bloody Zoom call.
Can't really summon up any positivity at the moment.

It clearly isn't going to be like this forever! (Surely!) We aren't still living in fear of Spanish Flu or the Black Death. And I don't really understand all the vaccine pessimism. Why are all these clever scientists bothering to develop them when Jane on Facebook is so sure that they won't work? 🙄

Our local Ban Hammer has been working himself up again today.

We should, apparently, BAN couriers, delivery drivers and contractors from all of the buildings (I live on a development in London with numerous buildings and a management company running it all). He doesn't even want them driving onto the street unless the vans can be hosed with disinfectant. (I'm not making this up, I promise.)

He also wants people under 30 BANNED from the local shop, because they 'won't social distance' and they 'cough all over the produce' and they 'can't be trusted to behave'.

Furthermore, he would like to BAN deliveries from the development entirely because apparently people are ordering too many unnecessary items, requiring couriers to visit the site more often putting him at risk.

You see, he has x-ray vision so he can see into all of the cardboard boxes that arrive and can tell at a glance which items are 'necessary' and which are 'unnecessary' on behalf of 1,200 people.

Oh and he's just started calling for boots on the ground to enforce all of this as well. So an armed response to ensure the under-30s don't cough on his cucumbers. I'm sure the Army are readying an armoured personnel carrier and a crack troop of squaddies as I type this.

'Down with this sort of thing!' etc

This circuit breaker is for the NHS nothing more. We will emerge like moles to have some kind of a xmas, then locked down once more. Do the government think we cannot do the math. Shut down 23rd October 28 days, hey 23 November, then roll into xmas get the turkey out of the way and second lockdown of an indeterminate length from 28th December. Absolutely no snogging on NYE or parties.

Justasking - yes there does seem to be a lot of general wanking off.
Maybe there could be a business making sex toys which breathily list the symptoms of Covid and how many ventilators are available.
If wealthy, you could upgrade to one smoochily sex-talking about long Covid. And the gold standard would be one covered in pictures of children locked in prisons, crying giant nurses and a lone happy pensioner being tended to by robots.

@HitchikersGuide
What you say makes much sense.

It's all about the covid though, innit?

Also, @pearlypidge, Surrey= London, just as everything above Watford Gap = The North, except for The Midlands which only = Birmingham. There might be a few other places on the UK map, like Bournemouth & Snowdonia, because they are the only places to go flocking to on a bank holiday. Scotland & Wales obviously feature, but mostly Northern Ireland gets forgotten about.

Kent is weird though. Some of it = London when it suits it, & the rest of it is practically in France.

Orchid killer.
It is all about the deadly deadly virus. But if we save just one life... It will all be worth it.

Lol you lot are on form today. Brilliant. It’s cheered me up no end.

Just been to Sainsbury’s where we are now required to sanitise our own trollies. The lady in front of me did the whole of her trolley, not just the handle but everywhere her shopping could possibly touch. Nutter!

@Aztectrousers

Lol you lot are on form today. Brilliant. It’s cheered me up no end.

Just been to Sainsbury’s where we are now required to sanitise our own trollies. The lady in front of me did the whole of her trolley, not just the handle but everywhere her shopping could possibly touch. Nutter!

Morrisons has those at the entrance. I ignore it and just grab one.

Quite happy to take the chance given I don't lick the trolley handle