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Welcome into another thread of alternative reality as we try to nagivate through the Coronacoaster of life.

We may be up, down, spinning around (generally in confusion at the next random edict drawn up on the back of a fag packet) but never sucking the joy out of life.

I can't think of any reason to erect those fences other than they were thinking of policing them to stay indoors. Very worrying that someone thinks it's ok to do that.

I don't understand what's happened to people's sense of proportion that they think it's ok to lock up students "for their own protection".

Reminds me of this C S Lewis quote:

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

They didn't even tell the students what they were doing, DD's BF looked out the window as he was FaceTiming her as he was getting up and said WTF is that as they started unloading it!

@110APiccadilly what an apposite quotation

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-54827702?fbclid=IwAR0dMlnjPgKuOshatfuz_arUEjQDP3wgfGz0whGHaNAqqafkOPsu6kS7Mwg
This is tragic, huge increase in babies and young children being harmed since March.

Sir Charles Walker gave a good speech before the parliamentary vote - here’s the really important bit. I think he’s really hit the nail on the head.
Precisely. Great speech we need more like him, Bone and Swane to speak up.

Blimey @110APiccadilly that’s scarily accurate.

That BBC link is terrible - and that’s just the tiny tip we know about. I really worry about the kids who aren’t seen as vulnerable at all, who are clean, fed and warm and acquiescent at school, so no one sees the terrible harm being done them at home. They are going to continue to fly under the radar long after this is over, but with a terrible burden.

This is my uni just going into the library- totally intimidating and unpleasant

I hate that mask up now thing, it's so aggressive, and I bet students are generally pretty compliant anyway. It must make people who can't wear masks feel horrible.

@DrDiva, @recycledblonde I work in children's social care and I've been seeing this since March, this is the only safe space I've had to talk about this as everywhere else I just got shot down with, the numbers are tiny compared to Covid.....
Like its ok children get assaulted, beaten or killed more often as its only a handful, like they are sacrificing themselves for some greater good.

[quote WouldBeGood]@110APiccadilly what an apposite quotation[/quote]
Maybe I'll put it in the window. With a rainbow, of course. I'm not a monster.

@110APiccadilly 😂

[quote LivinLaVidaLoki]**@DrDiva, @recycledblonde I work in children's social care and I've been seeing this since March, this is the only safe space I've had to talk about this as everywhere else I just got shot down with, the numbers are tiny compared to Covid.....
Like its ok children get assaulted, beaten or killed more often as its only a handful, like they are sacrificing themselves for some greater good.[/quote]
If proof were needed that it's not 'a tiny number', it's now as many as the whole of the under 18s category from covid. So literal proof that lockdown is more dangerous to babies than covid is. But who cares because babies can't make their voices heard.

My teenager is at college today. It just occurred to me that I need to mention that he should probably walk in pairs if he goes to Macdonald's to get lunch.
He's a naturally anxious kid and more into the rules than I am, but I don't think he'll have realised that while he's with his mates in the college building, they need to spread out a bit outside of it.

@starfish88 exactly.
But all you get is 40 odd thousand have died, it would be 500k without lockdown.....

I would fucking love one, just one of these arseholes to spend a week or two in my job during lockdown and then see if they have the same opinion.

@LivinLaVidaLoki I think that would be an interesting experiment as so many people appear unable to see life outside their own little bubble.

Thought this kind of suited this group

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-54824595

@LivinLaVidaLoki to you for your job. I was one of those kids and I was home schooled.

Well this is annoying. DH treating me like a dementor. His family are over from abroad seeing a relative (very ill) they may visit us and I said about meeting up outside

Now our neighbour called the police on people in the garden last lockdown so my concern's not unfounded and I told him it's not my fault we have these rules

He's saying 'it's madness' and 'we can do what we want' and yes I get the sentiment but it is stressing me out now due to these neighbours.

I have said it is up to him and his family but just leave me out of this. Argh.

@DrDiva ((hugs)) for you.

@Orangeblossom7777 You have my sympathy. DH would just ignore the rules if left to his own devices, but my job is at risk if I get caught! (Happily he sees this, and we keep within the rules.)

The thing is, he is actually on that shielding list and think they may have sent an email or something (saw another poster saying they had one)- he's also over 50, and well, male..

Anyway that will have had the result of making him cross as he has to go to work anyway (manufacturing) Argh.

I'm going to stay out of it and let them choose. Not easy though.

Orange “Now our neighbour called the police on people in the garden last lockdown so my concern's not unfounded and I told him it's not my fault we have these rules”

I don’t know what I’d do if I thought one of the neighbours would do something like that.

Difficult situation Orangeblossom7777. I’m stuck in the middle in our house.
Dh and Ds quite dementorish but Dd couldn’t give a shit and basically does what she can get away with. I’m in the middle. I don’t blatantly flout the rules (except have been known to make “unnecessary shopping trips” because I’m bored) but then again I just don’t care what other people are doing. I think mask wearing in shops etc is a waste of time but I do it.

Feeling pretty down today. I’m drinking and eating too much and I just don’t believe this lockdown is going to be for 4 weeks, or that it isn’t going to be reintroduced after Christmas when they blame us for the subsequent rise in cases when we all go mad again.

I'm going to leave it up to them, his family really.

Yes these neighbours are quite strange. I would never have thought people would do that but they seem to have a grudge against some other neighbours and that was part of it.

Luckily the police were sensible and said, no it is Ok to use the garden, they are apart etc and got a sign saying so.

So the police were AD and normal! Good to know.