ADs are braving the wind and the rain

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Hi all

I couldn’t find the new thread so here is one I set up. It’s windy out there! Glad I weeded my flowerbeds a couple of days ago.

My mum was in contact with a family who all tested positive for covid. They gave her details to track and trace and she never got a call from anyone so I wouldn’t worry about that coz it’s clearly not working.

Wouldbegood 😂
Yes the wine thing really is bordering on tragedy. I was told by a somewhat dementory doctor (I wasn't there to find a cure for my tasting wine problem!!) that it's 'long covid'. So I can now join the D boards and pontificate and none of them can be mean to me because I SADLY can't drink wine.

To be fair we're in a very low case number area but even so we get a lot of people from outside the area (army town). There's been a few isolated outbreaks in contained areas- army camp, private boarding school so I've heard, tho nothing official but in the shop (which I appreciate is just a snapshot) there's not been any outbreaks that I've heard about. If there was you can guarantee that news would spread like wildfire.

Supposed to be doing housework, just spent 10 minutes chasing a fly round and killing it. Is this what my life has come to?

Yes the covid board is a bit like a horror film - you don't want to look but you can't tear your eyes away. I laugh at a lot of it, especially when some posters are just so earnest with their interpretation of things. It's when people become personally abusive to other posters that I get annoyed, and it's amazing how many do.
My blood pressure was right up this morning, after having recently got it completely under control with various prescribed meds. It is purely because I am so anxious and angry (I hope) so I have now got to make a determined effort to reduce my stress. That ain't easy! Dying of an anxiety induced stroke would be somewhat ironic.

@Curlygirl06

Supposed to be doing housework, just spent 10 minutes chasing a fly round and killing it. Is this what my life has come to?

We have to take what entertainment we can

I'm waiting in the GP surgery. Quiet. It's much better now, with no issues getting an appt. (face masks aside)

checking in. Feeling down today, deflated, hopeless. Just hoping schools stay open but i don't trust a word that any of them say anymore. A couple of weeks ago Boris said there would be no national lockdown and yet here we are. I'll be surprised if we get to Christmas with schools open. I desperately hope we do though - i really don't want to isolate poor ds for months again.

Back on the housework now. It's called waist- high housework this week; if it's waist high I'll wipe it!

Apparently Heathrow is full of people trying to escape on holiday.

@Orangeblossom7777

Apparently Heathrow is full of people trying to escape on holiday.

If I could leave, if there’s anywhere to escape, I’d go.

Nigel Farage is relaunching the Brexit Party as Reform UK for lockdown sceptics.

How depressing.

@Orangeblossom7777

Nigel Farage is relaunching the Brexit Party as Reform UK for lockdown sceptics.

How depressing.

I've just discovered I might agree with Tony Blair (need to look at the detail of what he's said but it sounded fairly sane). I'm not sure that's ever happened before - it's a bit scary.

@Orangeblossom7777

Nigel Farage is relaunching the Brexit Party as Reform UK for lockdown sceptics.

How depressing.

I don’t find it depressing

But I would certainly have preferred a new party to spring up

@Orangeblossom7777

Apparently Heathrow is full of people trying to escape on holiday.

I have to say - a couple of weeks ago I saw BA advertising last minute deals to the Caribbean, flights and seven days accommodation for £629. If I didn't have to work or have children in school I would have been very sorely tempted...

Re knowing people with Covid - my sister thinks she had it pre mass testing and it sounded like a very typical mild case. She felt rough for a couple of weeks but recovered fine.

However - one of DH's clients got it and subsequently died of a heart attack that docs believe was caused by the virus (I didn't know him at all and don't have full details, as a caveat). He was only in his early 30s so horrible situation. But I'm not planning to go around dementoring about it - while deaths in young otherwise healthy people are possible, he was just incredibly unlucky.

Late to the party but ‘Selfish Angela and the Lurking Rut’ has to be a contender for the next AD thread title.

Do we think Trump will win? He won't do lockdown.

I think the situation in the US is so interesting. Mask culture seems to be a bigger thing (in the more democratic states at least) - wearing them everywhere in public even if outside. I’ve seen pictures of people in masks on deserted beaches. Young children in masks seems to be more of a thing too. I’ve seen photos on my Facebook by American friends of their 2 year olds at the playground in masks . My friends seem to meet their families all wearing masks which just just be terrifying and confusing for their babies and toddlers.
And then schools are still shut for the most part. I can’t even comprehend the impact that will have on vulnerable children.

But then, everyone is perfectly free to visit friends and family. I wonder if that’s a cultural / civil liberties thing? It honestly still blows my mind that the government has any kind of right to stop me visiting another person in their own home.

Oh and I would rather go full dementor than support a party led by Nigel Farage!!!

Stress definitely can increase blood pressure. I remember once having it go sky high before a stressful consultant appt once and them commenting 'stressed' next to it as usually it is OK. Breathing exercises meant to help I think

We don't want Nige! Argh

@Orangeblossom7777

Stress definitely can increase blood pressure. I remember once having it go sky high before a stressful consultant appt once and them commenting 'stressed' next to it as usually it is OK. Breathing exercises meant to help I think

Last pg we had an awful time with health care - and at one point we got sent to this consultant to get "permission" to have HB. A more sympathic MW insited on taking my blood pressure before hand - odd as it had been taken days before and was fine - normal though slightly higher than last meeting.

Had this awful bizzare metting - consulant spoke absolute bollocks and insisted our youngest wasn't the age DH and I said but a decade older. They put huge pressure on us have various extra tests one of which was bloody pressure - as if it was high I'd be high risk not low normal pg.

They were really put out it had already been taken not 20 minutes before.

Breathing a sigh of relief that the new Wales rules don't look as bad as I'd feared - will still be able to have a 2 household bubble, and it looks like the rule of 6 has been ditched for that. That's manageable for us.

@TrustTheGeneGenie

checking in. Feeling down today, deflated, hopeless. Just hoping schools stay open but i don't trust a word that any of them say anymore. A couple of weeks ago Boris said there would be no national lockdown and yet here we are. I'll be surprised if we get to Christmas with schools open. I desperately hope we do though - i really don't want to isolate poor ds for months again.

Me too. You're doing a fine job in the wild on schools though! So right about the anecdata - it's all ok when it's "I know 6 people who have had Covid; 2 have died and the rest still aren't recovered - and they're all in their 20s"; but when anyone vaguely measured comes on and says "in my school, there has only been 1 case" they're mocked at best and villified at worst. What's the difference? (other than the first one probably being a lie and the second one probably being true )

@Whoooootaminute Yes! (Well, from that video anyway). I flip flop whether I like him as a person (his autobiography had me in a rage) but some of his comedy is genius.

Well, having developed the mildest of mild symptoms, but annoyingly including a cough, I have done the thing and gone and had a test. We were isolating anyway as I had a confirmed contact... now the waiting game begins. Poor DH is being very stoic but it's the 3rd cough I've had this year and if he can't even go out for a stomp round the block he really struggles.

This week was the first chance we had of a child free day since she was born

Whoop I have just booked a last hurrah of a lovely meal out on Wed evening before Lockdown 2: The Revenge starts.

everyone who is feeling down.

@110APiccadilly

Breathing a sigh of relief that the new Wales rules don't look as bad as I'd feared - will still be able to have a 2 household bubble, and it looks like the rule of 6 has been ditched for that. That's manageable for us.

I echo that. Will add that Wales does not have a snowballs chance in hell keeping the english out of their holiday homes which they will retreat to for a month, we do have the internet. Told my friend in hospitality to brush up her scouse

Had some thoughts about the 2nd December date for the end of this lockdown and posted this elsewhere
Many MPs will not only want their Christmas. They will want their pre Christmas too. Like pre Christmas drinkies, informal get togethers etc. And they will want to be able to do this without being watched like a hawk by the press. Which is what will happen if MPs attempt to do these things during a lockdown. And i very much doubt they will want to sacrifice these.
I bet they are silently cursing Cummings, Ferguson , Farrier et al because they have made being watched by the press even more likely.