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...

inews.co.uk/news/uk/christmas-cancelled-family-gatherings-boris-johnson-experts-735842?utm_source=%3Fito%3Dsocial%7Ctwitter%7Ctw_theipaper

I've just seen news reports of various supermarket aisles being closed off and shelves covered.

How on earth can bedding not be an essential item? Sometimes people need emergency replacements because of sickness or incontinence.

Some people need a kettle, for making up baby formula, for special drinks, for sterilising things etc. What if their kettle breaks and they need a replacement? That's pretty essential.

So are fridges if you have medicines that need storing below a certain temperature. If my fridge breaks down, I've got about two hours to grab a minifridge from a shop, or about £3k worth of meds goes in the bin and I've got to re -order from the NHS as an emergency.

Same with printer ink and paper. I help people with admin for the DWP and the DWP will only accept hardcopy of, e.g., PIP answers, usually to pretty tight deadlines.

So who gets to decide what's 'essential'? Why can't people be allowed to judge what's urgent for their own circumstances, especially if they have children or medical needs or other relevant circumstances?

Yep @JamieLeeCurtains

twitter.com/GrantTucker/status/1319615885250842624?s=20

Pics of one Lidl, chocolates and biscuits closed off as well. Now I say that is a bridge too far.

I am just stunned by what is happening in Wales, I would never have imagined that any government would tell the populace that a business could not sell any legal products they had in stock and they were not allowed to buy them. I am fearful that we are reaching the point of no return with our freedoms, if I lived in Wales I hope with others I could find a way to refuse to accept this tyranny.

The only hope I have is that as the restrictions get more bonkers those people who are on the fence start to question them more and more.

Stationery banned, but please work from home. EH???

It's bonkers.

One thing I thought we'd learned from discussions highlighting foodbanks is that some people don't have the equipment (e.g. cookers) or the money for gas & electricity, to be cooking meals, or they have disabilities that makes cooking really difficult - so we're asked to donate essential things like biscuits, chocolate, and cup-a-soups for kettles.

@justasking111

Pics of one Lidl, chocolates and biscuits closed off as well. Now I say that is a bridge too far.

If anything is essential in a pandemic it's biscuits.

I don't see how people can even 'prep' for this kind of nonsense. I don't mind storing a reasonable buffer of medications and some staples, but I don't want to have to keep a spare duvet, fridge, kettle and toaster in the hall ffs.

Oh my word. Wales is a nightmare, ain't it? I have a relative living in a remote bit. Do you think I'll be allowed to send her a parcel?

It makes our almost-tier 3 status here feel like a bloody luxery.

Finished work late today because of propping up the bits of the NHS & social care that aren't open. We are all done with it. I know so many people aren't getting the care they need & deserve, but we feel forgotten, because we never stopped working.

Got a bit teary because I was stuck at work, but on the other hand at least there were other people there to talk to in the flesh. It really brought it home that this is the only social life we have, talking shop at work.

Managed to squeeze in a brisk walk with DD between the end of my work & the start of hers. We spotted one of those fairy doors on a tree trunk, which made us smile.

Is there a list of banned items somewhere? Specifically the stationery, chocolate and biscuits bit? Having a row with DH about how stupid this is and he doesn't believe me

To get to this dystopian state has taken less than a year
LESS THAN A YEAR.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-54662795

Drakeford sounds as though he's had some sort of breakdown and completely lost the plot. It's completely mad what is happening in Wales. I said to DH this morning that I could visualise him as a Bond villain sitting in his office stroking a white Persian thinking up even more outlandish restrictions and laughing hysterically.

Do you think there is a secret competition between government leaders to see who can come up with the most bonkers rule?

I can't believe I am saying this but Drakeford makes Boris look sensible😲

@JamieLeeCurtains Ive read that diarrheoa can be a symptom of Covid So hes as thick as mince too.

I thought Boris had gone mad but drakeford is actually making him look sane! And that's worrying! It's like watching a remake of one flew over the cuckoo's nest and Boris, Drakfeford and Sturgeon are competing for who gets certified as the craziest first!! I would laugh if I wasn't so bloody terrified of this dystopia I seem to be living in!!

just so they’re seeking socialism?

helena yes, though I think it was 31st Jan that Hancock said, if there’s a covid outbreak here they would take economic and social measures that would be extremely disruptive. No mention of basic infection control.

@Needwinenow
"said to DH this morning that I could visualise him as a Bond villain sitting in his office stroking a white Persian thinking up even more outlandish restrictions and laughing hysterically."

I'm sorry, but Persian cats are a luxury item. Common-or-garden moggies only, please.
(Reminds me, we need cat food. Do Dreamies count as essential? Try telling the Welsh cat population they're not! It will be carnage).

Is it time for a new thread?

Right on cue, my own cat has decided to sit on my lap!

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/23/welsh-town-prepares-for-firebreak-coronavirus-lockdown-narberth-pembrokeshire?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1603467623

Tbh I'm not a fully-fledged AD by any means, but Drakeford's approach is frighteningly ignorant of how loads of people are having to live.

Can we please have Three Bellends in the new thread title?