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...

I love you lot. Just sayin'.

Tier 2 is creeping. A mere 2.5 days after its official announcement it's now 5-600m from my front door. Ironically, all that lovely countryside that I went panting through in April-May before my unmassaged muscles became too knotty to function, has now been upgraded to tier 2.

I blame those pesky sheep for flocking and not social distancing.

Thanks for the welcome

The tiers certainly are creeping. OP have you got a foam roller for the knotty muscles?

@BogRollBOGOF

I love you lot. Just sayin'.

Tier 2 is creeping. A mere 2.5 days after its official announcement it's now 5-600m from my front door. Ironically, all that lovely countryside that I went panting through in April-May before my unmassaged muscles became too knotty to function, has now been upgraded to tier 2.

I blame those pesky sheep for flocking and not social distancing.

Ah the sheep that explains it here in Wales then. Am going to borrow OH steel toed boots and kick the hell out of them then on my walk this afternoon.

OH snoring here, he has a raging abscess on tooth, has the antibiotics that mean zero alcohol or he will vomit. So drank wine at lunch to say farewell to his Pinot, will start pills after dinner tonight. He had better not puke it is my turn to cook.

I'm in SW London where soon we'll have people dying on the pavements for want of a ventilator.
OR, cases are 'high' - which is obviously an entirely moveable feast - for the same reason they were 'low' in March. Which is that we are wealthy and middle class. So in March, SW London was probably a vector because of all the skiing trips but no one knew because so many would have been asymptomatic. Now, all of the older teens have gone off to Uni, where they will responsibly get themselves tested but results will go against their home address; and any adults with symptoms will responsibly get tested because they have jobs where it wouldn't matter if they had to isolate, and somewhere nice to isolate in, and the money to pay for a private test if they can't easily get an NHS one. These are all unimaginable luxuries in the next Borough, never mind in other parts of London where a Covid test could be the difference between having a zero hours contract and no contract at all.
This obviously makes me very anti-science, and probably means I'm also an anti vaxxer and think a tin hat high fashion. But seriously, we have data which is fundamentally meaningless being used to back up policy which has no required or expected outcomes. Wtf.

HitchhikersGuide, a friend in Ealing explained to me that in March/April, you could hardy walk on the pavements on the hill up from The Broadway because so many people were stopping and struggling to breath from Covid.

Now friends in Richmond, on both sides of the river, are scratching their heads in confusion and saying 'where are all the ill people?'.

I've been lurking on these threads for quite a while but I think the time has come to delurk and just say thank goodness you're here - the only thing keeping me vaguely sane at the moment.

Some of it's my fault entirely - I just can't help sneaking over to the Coronavirus board for some self-flagellation. And then I keep finding yet another person to unfollow on Facebook, having posted a STAY SAFE EVERYONE type thing. You get the picture...

HitchhikersGuide - think I'm not far from you. In the London Borough of Doom and Death (not at all linked to the home addresses of university students). Thank goodness for Sadiq - I feel much more SAFE now that we're in Tier 2...

Feel a lot better writing all that. It's one of those days. Good to meet you all :)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54546058
No action to be taken against Margaret Ferrier MP. Surprise surprise. Another Dominic Cummings whitewash.

@foodledoff, glad to see you!

Ah yes I thank the gods both religious and pagan that our honourable mayor is keeping me safe.
Stay safe everyone.
Ffs

Hello foodledoff.
It is good to vent isn't it.
Though in my case I'm starting to wonder when venting turns into spamming

Why is Sadiq so obsessed with shutting everything down? Is it just an anti Boris thing?

rosettes I don't know. It seems amazing to me that Khan wants his legacy to be a shell of London.

Am I the only one who wishes the government would be clear about their plans? I hate this drip feed of tighter restrictions.

It's basically Tier 2 or 3 till spring, which would make it easier to plan if they just told us!

I went into our head office yesterday for the first time since March. The good thing (singular) was I retrieved my heated styling brush from my locker (yay). The bad things (very much plural) were hazard warning tape everywhere, one-way systems, meeting rooms closed, all the communal mugs locked up, notices everywhere exhorting is not only to keep our distance but to ‘keep
smiling’ 🤮 and virtually nobody there - I’ve seen livelier ghost towns. I went into the (empty) staff cafe to be told I needed a mask ... they have ‘reusable’ ones to give to staff who need them - they are literally just a piece of stretchy fabric with slits for ears cut into the ends ... absolutely zero use for anything but hey it’s a face covering so we’re abiding by the law...

I saw a friend for lunch today - on the AD-D continuum she was a bit further along towards the D end than me (religiously clapped etc) but today she was as fucked off (and as sweary!) as me 😬

@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!

I refuse to sanitise trolleys and baskets because I'm not sure people want my cracked, bleeding, hands from the inevitable contact dermatitis handling the produce.

I similarly refused calls to sanitise my wheely bin handles any more than usual because it's a bloody bin so of course it's bloody filthy and if you were expecting to safely eat your lunch off it pre-covid then you're a bloody idiot.

I never sanitised anything. At the beginning DH asked whether we should with the shopping and post and I said be my guest but I would be leaving it all up to him to do. Surprisingly it never happened

So I won't be wiping my trolley down and given that it should only impact me and my family then I don't see why that would impact anyone else. Although the DM's would say I could spread covid on to every granny in the world by my reckless actions

I don't sanitise either. What a way to wreck your immune system.

I haven't sanitized anything but my hands and funnily enough I am not yet dead.

Well let me tell you something, I picked a trolley from the Dirty Covid Trolleys section by accident the other day and didn't disinfect it or my shopping, and I didn't sadly die. I'm guessing that means I'm immune?

Trolley sanitizing stations here too - whilst obediently queuing 😇 I watched in amazement as a woman sprayed and wiped her entire trolley including all the metal bits! I also watched a staff member wheel an entire tower of baskets from the checkouts pile to the front door pile ----all completely unsanitized! The virus obviously doesn't affect basket handles
I'm getting to quite enjoy huffing and muttering behind my muzzle as I march past the sanitizer crew, grab a basket and have finished my shopping by the time they are in the first aisle

I sanitise my hands when required to (by work, and when attending antenatal appointments). Not doing any more sanitising than that though, my skin is already dry enough!

I’m letting the side down because I like sanitising the trolley handle, I hope it stays after Covid. I’m not cleaning my bin handle. I just wash my hands after touching bin( doesn’t everyone).
I will be annoyed if we go into tier 3 because of the university figures. I checked, and their are 4 people with Covid on the ICU ward.

Waitrose is making people sanitise hands on the way in now. I don't like it either it dries out hands. It's quite busy here still.

Checking in to not lose you again! 😂😂

I've not been here for ages. Unfortunately I keep finding myself lurking on the coronavirus threads. I don't know why I do it. It makes me feel very negative.

The class below DS's are isolating because of a positive case. I'm amazed we're still going. I really don't want everything to stop. Work is getting quieter because the city is quieter. It's making me feel quite depressed.

Somebody asked about Never ending story. I tried to get DS (6) to watch it with me a few weeks ago and he got upset so we had to turn it off. I was quite disappointed. I haven't seen it for years and was expecting him to like it. We've started watching Bake off together though and that's been a great success.