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.

The 'Kevin the Carrot' are my favourite Christmas adverts.

Blue eggs taste just like normal eggs. We have hens and they lay lots of different colours. Depending on breed. Then panic buying has definitely started.

@MissEWeatherwax

Blue eggs taste just like normal eggs. We have hens and they lay lots of different colours. Depending on breed. Then panic buying has definitely started.

Thanks

Last time I couldn’t get eggs at all so this is an improvement!

Just reading the whole of Liverpool will be “offered” tests

The payment if you have to isolate - doesn’t take any account of SAHP or carers who might incur extra costs as a result of quarantine, nor compensation for any other damage e.g. mental health

If I can’t get to mum, I’d have to find a carer pretty damn quick.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme

Here’s the article about Liverpool

Companies are making a fortune here

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/everyone-liverpool-tested-covid-19-19210041?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

When they were doing our roof they had a small hut they would gather in , no masks or social distancing = construction carries on as normal

My hairdresser has a big place all PPE worn masks visors gloves, every station cleaned constantly, toilet cleaned between each use= hair and beauty to close again.

I think there is some misogyny at play here.

[quote AcornAutumn]Here’s the article about Liverpool

Companies are making a fortune here

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/everyone-liverpool-tested-covid-19-19210041?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar[/quote]
Bloody hell, this is well I dont know what this is. Will watch with interest.

No social distancing if anyone congregates in our playhouse
Even I have to duck to get through the door!

I love Kevin The Carrot.

Just read that guidance and we wouldn’t be entitled to anything. I can work from home and DH isn’t low income. So we would just have to use our savings.
Part of me approves of mass testing and the other part needs my tin hat fitting. But to have shares in testing, I might be rich.

A poem by Jan Beaumont

I'm normally a social girl
I love to meet my mates
But lately with the virus here
We can't go out the gates
You see, we are the 'oldies' now
We need to stay inside
If they haven't seen us for a while
They'll think we've upped and died
They'll never know the things we did
Before we got this old
There wasn't any Facebook
So not everything was told
We may seem sweet old ladies
Who would never be uncouth
But we grew up in the 60s -
If you only knew the truth!
There was sex and drugs and rock 'n roll
The pill and miniskirts
We smoked, we drank, we partied
And were quite outrageous flirts
Then we settled down, got married
And turned into someone's mum,
Somebody's wife, then nana,
Who on earth did we become?
We didn't mind the change of pace
Because our lives were full
But to bury us before we're dead
Is like a red rag to a bull!
So here you find me stuck inside
For four weeks, maybe more
I finally found myself again
Then I had to close the door!
It didn’t really bother me
I'd while away the hour
I'd bake for all the family
But I've got no flaming flour!
Now Netflix is just wonderful
I like a gutsy thriller
I'm swooning over Idris
Or some random sexy killer
At least I've got a stash of booze
For when I'm being idle
There's wine and whiskey, even gin
If I'm feeling suicidal!
So let's all drink to lockdown
To recovery and health
And hope this awful virus
Doesn't decimate our wealth
We'll all get through the crisis
And be back to join our mates
Just hoping I'm not far too wide
To fit through the flaming gates!

@MercyBooth

When they were doing our roof they had a small hut they would gather in , no masks or social distancing = construction carries on as normal

My hairdresser has a big place all PPE worn masks visors gloves, every station cleaned constantly, toilet cleaned between each use= hair and beauty to close again.

I think there is some misogyny at play here.

Nope - lots of misogyny around definitely but I think in this instance it is just compliance and non compliance.

Like hand washing after the loo. More women comply than men.

Hairdressers or any other business on the high street is under greater scrutiny and need to comply for the sake of the business.

Builders are single sites so don't attract the attention of 'enforcers' But I would definitely make sure I kept myself well isolated from them. They will be the ones taking the virus home with them.

Lockdowns don't work - people behaving responsibly works (as well as anything does with a virus) but those that can't behave responsibly do not obey even sensible rules.

And those that obey the 'rules' don't always either. They obey the rules rather than applying a common sense that they do not possess (or that has been frightened out of them.)

Fair post Nanny.

I commented on the isolating your child thread. I said in 2019 that would trigger social services involvement. I was told I was being dramating and people were quarantines for measles and chickenpox all the time. Funny, I remember spending my time with chickenpox playing hungry hungry hippos with my gran.

Morning all. I've not been around for a few days as I'm on holiday! Was so pissed off back end of last week that booked a trip to Cornwall. Just me and the dog. It's lovely, have been chatting to all the locals, I tell them I'm from Cheshire and they've been nothing but welcoming and lovely.

I'm cutting it short because even though I can stay, seems a bit pointless when nothing open so instead I'm breaking up the journey home by staying with my best friend and goddaughter for a couple of days. I'm afraid I've gone full on #IWillNotComply now.

I've had covid, several of my friends have and we're just cracking on with life. I realise that puts me at the extreme end of being an AD and not all of you will agree with me but I just refuse now to play a part in a strategy that is killing every fabric of our society for a virus with an IFR of 0.05% if you're under 70.

I'm spending more time on Twitter, deep diving the data and there's some brilliant people on there who pick apart every single thing Witless and Unbalanced say so I will no longer allow them to ruin my life. I was a good little girl last time but not any more. PIL's have decided they DGAF anymore either as they're 86 and not in great health, but instead of locking themselves away in case they get it they're spending more time with us because they know they've not got long left.

I also realise I've not got as many restrictions on me as many of you have, no little ones, can do my job wherever, trusty sidekick in the dog which is my get out of jail card and a permanent don't mess with me resting bitch face!

I think that lots of people won't comply this time but will say that they are. I'm just not even going to pretend that I am because I think we should be loudly telling this government 'no'. Many of you can't because you've got jobs etc that you're understandably worried about risking if you break the law. I don't so I'll do it on your behalf!

@starfish88

I commented on the isolating your child thread. I said in 2019 that would trigger social services involvement. I was told I was being dramating and people were quarantines for measles and chickenpox all the time. Funny, I remember spending my time with chickenpox playing hungry hungry hippos with my gran.

When my then 2yo broke out with chicken pox when DS2 was 7 weeks old, then he broke out with it at 9 weeks, we spent 4 weeks at home (DS1 returning to his couple of nursery days after his time). I wasn't encouraging DS1 all over DS2, but he wasn't prohobited from being near baby either. I certainly didn't quarentine from them- that would kill a EBF baby! By the last week, bearing in mind that I'd been on crutches with SPD through a long winter, then did not leave the house for a month due to birth injuries then got the chicken pox within a còuple of weeks of feeling human and some kind of mobility, I was going out for walks with baby in the pram and raincovers up. Baby wasn't going to spread anything around, he just slept, fed and had his nappy changed!

People relied on their natural immunity because most adults had been there, done that and been exposed. Prior to vaccination, some would have parties to get the inevitable over and done with, but quarentine was about not spreading it beyond your household (especially for Rubella being particularly hazardous to pregnant women).

Good for you @Ibake

I’ve decided along with some other single friends that we are going to continue to meet up at each other’s homes. We live alone and work from home so are v unlikely to be plague infested. We need to take care of our mental health this time around and some of us were struggling before the second lockdown was announced.

Even my parents have said to still go and see them and they are both vulnerable.

I see there is yet another thread where someone is questioning why some people can’t wear a mask! Wonder if stupidity will be the next virus we need to lock down for ... that will be a long one.

I'm with you Ibake, DD and i have had it recently too so unlikely to be a risk to anyone. I am also reading a lot of Twitter and the Lockdown Skeptics website, I feel like I'm on a "side" of politics I've not been on before, though it's SAGE and the 4,000 deaths a day PHE/Cambridge figure that is actually outrageous.

I must have imagined chicken pox parties, I suppose. (My fourth birthday was an accidental chicken pox party, apparently!)

We are also going for the sensible but refuse to follow rules approach.
I am more scared of the way the country is blind following sage and Cambridge model etc... The imperial modelling was wrong first time round... Now we are following a model that was already wrong when they showed it on Saturday.
Bizzare...
My dds and dsd who don't live with us will continue to come down to stay when they want.
My do is continuing his commute Cornwall to London and is going to office and our flat.
My elderly parents want us to go round... So we will.
I had covid in March and still have positive antibodies... So I am no risk.
I am "meeting" friends for dog walks and running group...outside on the beach..

Exactly @TabbyStar the numbers they're pulling out of thin air mean we should all be getting it on a rolling basis about once a fortnight! It would be laughable if it wasn't what they're actually doing to us.

Here's a list of my fav twitter people, sorry can't remember all their actual handles but they should come up if you search for these names:
Jon the statistics guy
Alistair Haimes
Cricket wyvern
Carl Heneghen
Toby Young
RP131
Anshul
Latimer Alder
Covid Sense bloke
Mike Yeadon
LeProfMoriarty
Talk Radio

Tbh once you follow one you soon find your spiritual home and it makes you question every single thing we're being told. In my case that has made me angry and defiant.

Thanks for that list, I've got about half of them, I'll look for the rest.

I feel pretty angry and defiant because I'm one of the 3m people who fall through the financial safety nets despite having worked full time and paid taxes for 30 years. Abandoning people isn't the way to get buy in.

Our local hospital has released figures of inpatients who've tested positive. Icu is full, all 4 beds of it. I imagine it's full quite often tbh.

I wish they'd say yes there are 120 inpatients with covid. 57 of them were admitted because of covid, 18 of them have caught it in hospital and the rest are asymptotic and in for something else but we had to test them. (Those aren't real figures obvs because I don't have them but I'd really like to know!)

@TrustTheGeneGenie Couldn’t agree more, the lack of transparency around the figures being bandied around is shocking. And people aren’t questioning them!

@TrustTheGeneGenie Simon Dolan just put this on Twitter from a whistleblower. I think this is gaining momentum now. @TabbyStar I'm so sorry you're one of the excluded, it's utterly shit and Martin Lewis seemed to be indicating you're still unlikely to qualify even with the new support packages.

twitter.com/simondolan/status/1323528843454484481?s=21