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.

@NothingIsWrong FT fan here 💕

He’s had to sell up because if lockdown

@NothingIsWrong

Can I add one for the playlist? 1933 by Frank Turner. I think there was a bit of FT love on a previous thread and I am a big fan.

"Stop asking musicians what they think"
He said softly as he poured himself a second drink
And outside, the world slipped over the brink
We all thought we had nothing to lose
That we could trust in crossed fingers and horseshoes
That everything would work out, no matter what we choose
The first time it was a tragedy
The second time is a farce
Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar
But I don't know what's going on anymore
The world outside is burning with a brand new light
But it isn't one that makes me feel warm
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
If I was of the greatest generation I'd be pissed
Surveying the world that I built slipping back into this
I'd be screaming at my grandkids: "We already did this"
Be suspicious of simple answers
That shit's for fascists and maybe teenagers
You can't fix the world if all you have is a hammer
The first time it was a tragedy
The second time is a farce
Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar
But I don't know what's going on anymore
The world outside is burning with a brand new light
But it isn't one that makes me feel warm
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
For the dawn
Aren't you ashamed of this?
I surely hope that you are
We live in a society that's maybe heading for Mars
But down here we still have a shower of bastards leading the charge
Outside it's 1933 so I'm hitting the bar
But I don't know what's going on anymore
The world outside is burning with a brand new light
But it isn't one that makes me feel warm
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn
Don't go mistaking your house burning down for the dawn

DH doesn't understand why I worry so much about the situation though but he seems completely unaware of history (and blames this on the fact he didn't take it at GCSE - nor did I) so I bought him a basic history book. There was a quote from Mussolini from March 1923, "The truth is men are tired of liberty". I've never heard that song, nothingiswrong, but I will have to listen now as it seems to sum up all my worries.

My contribution to the playlist is The Hidden Ones by Missy Higgins

There is a choice
Follow the leader
Or use your voice
'Cause this will just keep up
Until we make a loud noise
And the hidden ones speak up

Where I am they tried to bring in masks for 2 years olds and above in September and several local mummy groups kicked off and it stayed "recommendations". Political protest is still relatively new here and the idea of going on a march would not be well received but it's interesting to see a country trying to head for democracy (maybe) rather than pretending they aren't trying to head away from it.

@justasking111 I noticed this too.

Sigh, about that headline. Saint Boris will cave, and probably already has, he just hasn't told the plebs yet; his spin doctors are getting the papers to do that dirty job for him, so that they'll already be resigned to it when he makes his big announcement (for which my TV will be OFF). Typical, it was probably planned all along, to be just after half-term and Hallowe'en, so he can blame the plebs who trick or treated, the parents who dared to take children to friends' houses, and so he can later say "I did do the circuit break just after half term, as the scientitists (sic) told me to". Cummings is at Saint Boris's puppet strings, as usual.

I guess it's too much to hope for that it's a bluff to increase retail figures this weekend, because we all know what will happen this weekend as a result of that headline. I bet the supermarkets weren't warned.

And I've noticed in the BBC article (vomit) on it, that if it does happen, "mass testing would be accelerated". Why the angry face? Because, as has been discussed on here, even though testing is painted as a good thing, it reveals more cases, which Saint Boris and his merry men will use to claim "it's worse than we thought, so we can lock down for longer than we said".

Sorry to be bringing in this gloomy rhetoric on to what is supposed to be our cheerful escapism thread, but Saint Boris's thinking (if he ever thinks) is so painfully transparent.

Bbc headline this morning: PM is considering a month long lockdown. Apparently this is to save Xmas. When I saw France were locking down I knew this would happen.

DH is a dementor and won't eat out anywhere but ignored him and took the kids to the local Italian cafe which they love for their dinner. First time since February this year; they love it is much. It's nice food and a lovely change of scenery. The proprietor said to us to enjoy it as he suspects they'll be closed again next week. I really felt for him; it's so hard for family owned businesses and they work so hard.

Anyway: I hope schools stay open otherwise I don't think I'll be able to function. I just had a job interview last night saying I wasn't suitable because I didn't have experience with x/y/z in the lab and I spend loads of time explaining how my lab placement which covered this was cancelled due to covid. It's rescheduled for May next year. I hope. But I bet it'll be cancelled again.

When will I see my family again?

Wow I'm running on empty this morning. Bless them, my beautiful kids deserve more.

I feel like I'm living in the eye of a storm. It's all generally quite calm as long as I stay still, don't look at anything, and pretend nothing is happening. As soon as I look properly at what is happening or think too hard about things it's like I'm out of the eye and into the storm.

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the headlines today. I know four people who have tested positive for covid but many more who have lost jobs, businesses and have had vital treatment paused because of it. One is now terminal as her cancer fears were diagnosed as stress by her GP - over the phone. Not to mention two acquaintances who took their own lives.
How many more “non sadly” deaths will it take before the government sit down and logically make plans rather than lurch from one knee jerk reaction to another.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK OFF BORIS!

@NothingIsWrong

Yes I understand this.
I have withdrawn into myself; I no longer read the news or interact with the world. I take the kids to school; I pick them up; and I study online and listen to recorded lectures in the interim. If I keep my eyes and ears and heart closed to everything else I can stay calm and keep putting one foot in front of the other. But outside those parameters I'm lost. I will likely not get a job next year now in spite of my very expensive post graduate research degree that doesn't allow research to happen; I just need to not think about it.

@Iheartmysmart
There is nothing to be hoped for with this govt; they will not do the right thing. Just pray and hope now that a vaccine is announced. I don't even care if it works or not (and I'm designated as ECV) because it'll give the space to get out of this mess and save face.

It’s absolutely disgusting to leak this to the media late on a Friday night too

@SirSamuelVimes

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK OFF BORIS!

Lol Yup

A pox on this government. Bunch of disorganised and childish shits treating us like idiots. Cases in my council area are falling and the death rate hasn't increased at all since June - it stays at a steady 92. I really feel as though I am viewing some alternative media world that I am not party to. (Perhaps it is comparable to the (39 - 45) war years if you lived in a very rural area, kept your own chickens, grew your own veg. Never saw a bomber, a soldier, or heard an air raid siren or a bombing raid, you would have been able to think there wasn't actually a war on unless you read a paper or listened to the wireless, or had people endlessly chirruping at you "Don't you know there's a war on?")

The headline article on the bbc news site (Why do I look at it? My fault) says that part of the increase (17%) is due to 'eat out to help out', but that finished ages ago so how can that account for current cases? I really think that something else is going on.

Just read an article in the BMJ that between 17.5 and 25% of people in hospital caught it while they were there.

So this may sound radical, but maybe the NHS wouldn't get overwhelmed if they stopped making people sick.

It doesn't feel like I can get up and keep going any more

What a bloody mess. Being self-employed with practically no Government support is miserable. I'm generally a planner, and growing up poor financial security has been really important to me, but that's gone. I need a strategy to get through all this but that might need a complete personality charge, so I don't know how that's going to happen!

Yes @Reedwarbler I don’t get the eat out to help out thing either! It was in August

Oh fuck.

Just fuck.

Thanks for the music suggestions, I’ll be playing them at volume 11 on repeat.

I can't do this again. I just can't.
Cases are falling in the North West so the measures put in place ARE working. Why go into lockdown again. I can't. I just can't.

Ha if you venture into the main board there is lashing and despairing that schools are being kept open. But lockdown is clearly necessary. When did we lose the ability to think!

Even though: look it's an article in that not very well known scientific journal called nature that talks numbers about transmissions in schools....

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02973-3?utmsource=Nature+Briefing&utmmcampaign=1abac710dc-briefing-dy-20201029&utmmedium=email&utmmterm=0_c9dfd39373-1abac710dc-45742546

@NannyGythaOgg can I also suggest "The Lunatics have taken over the asylum" by Fun Boy Three.

@NothingIsWrong

It doesn't feel like I can get up and keep going any more

Yes you bloody can - you’re awesome, skilled and flipping superwoman! We all are (well I’m more Blunderwoman) and this is just an exceptionally fucked up situation - the fact we’re still slogging through it says we must be fucking epic!