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...

Helena you can visit your mum if she needs care or if stuff needs doing in her house, I think.

My mum has a highly variable heart condition so her needs are highly variable!

What does. “Tonto” mean please?

Essex trending on Twitter again.

just going absolutely crazily angry

Sir Terry of the Wogan would have had a field day. Janet and John stories would be totally AD - and he would come close to getting sacked I suspect. Close enough that, if it wasn't Sir Terry but some minion they would be gone (I remember Kenny Everett getting sacked for suggesting that someone passed her driving test just because she was the transport minister's wife - and again I think for something to do with Margaret Thatcher.)

Pretty sure Sir Terry of the Pratchett would have written a brilliant book but my imagination cannot imagine what - may well have involved the Wee Free Man as main characters.

[quote RobinHobb]@DominaShantotto
I know you considered dropping out
What stopped you? [/quote]
The kids really - and the fact that apart from a few annoying ones, I really like the people in my course cohort.

[quote RealityExistsInTheHumanMind]@MissEWeatherwax
@SirSamuelVimes
You can get a good idea that someone is an AD if their user name has a Terry Pratchett reference. I haven't seen anyone with a name like that dementing. And there are quite a few about. I may go back to my aintentdead one.[/quote]
Your aitentdead name would ruffle a few dementor feathers :o.

Unfortunately, I've seen a few pokemon dementors (and the silph Road is bloody full of them)

@RobinHobb I have some experience with degrees (from both learning and teaching sides) and also with dropping out of them!

One thing I would say is that if your coursemates aren't working, they're idiots - once you've all graduated it's just possible they might need that knowledge they're refusing to acquire. If you're continuing to learn through the course, and to enjoy learning, then I wouldn't let other people being idiots put you off. On the other hand, if the new conditions mean the course itself isn't as good, I'd be inclined to ask if you can defer for a bit. You might be eligible for a different qualification in the interim on the back of the work you've done, if that's any help.

Don't know if any of that is helpful!

DRIP DRIP LEAK LEAK again in Wales through the BBC o course, we heard yesterday through a friend who attended meetings and knows exactly what Dripford is planning for Wales, just get it over and done with please lock us up again now. Our schools finish on Friday so less school missed, Why the media blackout, everyone should know so they can prepare, there are staff to give the bad news to, orders to cancel, customers and clients to contact. He really does not give a stuff on his Cardiff throne.

Ok - back to my old name - seems even more relevant now.

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Perhaps Jingo is the closest book he wrote. Otherism, Racism, Speciesism

Welcome to the new people to the sanity corner. I've not been online a lot last couple of days (and better for it) because we're rapidly finding with online learning that the staff can't quite work out the workload for us yet... so what would once have been a 3 hour block of lectures (according to the lecturer) is now basically the equivalent of one or two hour's timetabled work but online of course... and then reading for the seminar on top of that - I'd reckon it's a good day's work if you went at it hard.

I know it's just an adjustment thing - but bloody hell it's kicking my arse at the moment! Probably a positive thing and me being overly conscientious - while some of the mean girl crowd are sat there filling in their seminar homework WHILE in the breakout groups we're meant to be discussing it in! There's a small group who are total leeches on other people's work - lots of us shared resources and revision notes and things last year - this year most of us are determined not to fall into the trap!

Also having more fun with school - DD2's woes I've mentioned before (now being denied a phonecall discussion with SENCO) but DD1's been getting shit from one of the lads in her class who has a mum who goes in and plays hell at the least provocation and usually gets what she wants (she wanted snookums moved away from the "naughty" boys who got him into trouble and they redid the class lists to please her... funnily snookums is still a right little shite in the other class - but that's the fault of the OTHER set of naughty boys) so I'm going to have to raise that one tomorrow!

twitter.com/CCriadoPerez/status/1315209969650880515?s=20

Lets talk about hot homes. The practice of putting covid positive elderly into nominated settings thus getting them out of hospitals, lumping them together to protect clean care homes. A friend in this type of care is up in arms as is the profession she says they are death camps.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/english-councils-told-to-set-up-hundreds-of-covid-dedicated-care-homes

Local paper hinting that our upgrade* to tier 2 will be within a couple of weeks. Previlence is consistently moderate through the city... but lowest in the area that had a consistent drip of cases after we were one of the original top 5 in the country at the point of lockdown.
We are not Nottingham.
Our hospital has consistently dealt with cases from places like Burton through the summer. One of the first NHS staff to die was in our trust, but his death right at the start of lockdown must have the timeline of catching it before we realised it was wisespread in the community back towards February... so where did he catch it? It is unlikely to have been knowingly on Covid duty as was insinuated in the media. If it wasn't travel which was falling on the radar, it was in the community through his regular life/ work. So how much exposure has the comminity already had???

*Upgrade, in the same kind of way that humans are upgraded into cybermen.

@justasking111 what is being proposed for care homes should have people out on the streets protesting if we were allowed. This week feels like Groundhog Day, the government has learnt nothing from the mistakes they made in the spring. Yet people still believe that all the measures are to protect the vulnerable.

"Hot homes" is really the same equivilent as Covid wares and "clean" wards.

Given that most dementors think it's a guarenteed death sentence of the grizzliest kind to anyone over 70 or clinically vulnerable, there isn't much to lose.

It makes sense to have seperation to minimise contact between contaminated residents and staff and is the safest way to manage keeping "clean" homes "clean". Hopefully you can then increase human contact and quality of life.

Really it's a return to old school convelescent nursing.

this report gave me the rage earlier.

Did someone REALLY think this was sage advice?

To add- it was advice given to isolating students, to 'wait a minute' of the fire alarm goes off to allow the non isolating students to evacuate first.

twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1316751466590330880?s=20

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Rachel Clarke
@doctor_oxford
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The Prime Minister just rejected Marcus Rashford’s appeal for free lunches for impoverished kids over Christmas.

And yet ‘Eat Out To Help Out’ cost nearly as much as an entire summer of free school meals.

Hungry kids in poverty mean nothing to him

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54545772

Thanks for replying all
@110APiccadilly
What's making me want to drop out I guess is the fact that there is no robust assessment in the msc course anymore. So student x who has no understanding of subject (which is my assessment based on working on group project with him) will get the same (high) grade as me with no effort or work.

Last term you could pass - even ace -the assessments without having read a single lecture. They were just handing out the degree because "covid". Whether rightly or wrongly it devalues the degree and grade for me.
It's a bit like: why study if there is no assessment at the end of it?

This is why I am thinking of deferring till next academic year when hopefully people will have gotten over their terror of covid. In the meantime I can try and find some sort of internship I guess. God knows. Don't know how I will make finances work.

[quote justasking111]Lets talk about hot homes. The practice of putting covid positive elderly into nominated settings thus getting them out of hospitals, lumping them together to protect clean care homes. A friend in this type of care is up in arms as is the profession she says they are death camps.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/english-councils-told-to-set-up-hundreds-of-covid-dedicated-care-homes[/quote]
It does make sense to have Covid care places for people recovering from Covid or for palliative care. There are unused wards and care homes that could be utilised.

Workers should volunteer for such work, live in or partially live in 10 on, 10 off with a Covid test 2/3 days after end of shift run and be paid enhance wages. Preference given to people under 50 and previous infection

With some lateral thinking it could work. Telling a care home 'you're it' is not the answer

I want to get I anet dead on a face mask or The futures shit from Umbrella academy, but not sure if I’m brave enough to wear.
Am the moment I wish I was either a bear or a hedgehog and could hibernate until it is all over. But probably need to be sleeping beauty, cause it ain’t going to be over by spring is it.
It’s just same shit different day.

@profpoopsnagle

this report gave me the rage earlier.

Did someone REALLY think this was sage advice?

Not sage advice but possibly they thought it was SAGE advice .

@IAintentDead

Ok - back to my old name - seems even more relevant now.

“It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
Perhaps Jingo is the closest book he wrote. Otherism, Racism, Speciesism

I properly cried reading jingo. Actually, I properly cried reading a lot of the sam vimes books.

I wonder what stage 4 will be for Scotland

It’s grim

Makes me dread the grimness ahead.

But anyway. Was out and we found a cafe 4.50 for huge bowl of nachos. 2 quid for huge bowl of soup an egg roll was 1.50

We will be a fat family soon 😂😂

Can someone explain why Nottingham (highest rate in the country) is in tier 2 but Liverpool is tier 3?
I (naively) thought the tiers were going to be based on per 100k rates?!