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BogRollBOGOF · 2020-11-29T00:28:23+00:00

We might be craving tiles, but we'll leave the woodchip and artex alone unless we're feeling very brave... Welcome into another thread covering the whole range of life and death, novelty vegetables, DIY, any other randomness and musings about a certain pandemic.

Jourdain11 · 08/12/2020 22:04

Poor you, DH had a mask rash too. It is miserable!

I am lying on my sick bed with potential Covid waiting a call back. I am trying to say to myself "it is no different to any other illness", but I have an irrational fear that the demented Gods are going to take revenge on me by making me a Sadly Daily.

justasking111 · 08/12/2020 23:09

@Jourdain11

Poor you, DH had a mask rash too. It is miserable!

I am lying on my sick bed with potential Covid waiting a call back. I am trying to say to myself "it is no different to any other illness", but I have an irrational fear that the demented Gods are going to take revenge on me by making me a Sadly Daily.

If you were lying on your sick bed with influenza you would not be having these irrational thoughts, this is where Whitty and the media have succeeded with so many people. It is wicked.

AcornAutumn · 08/12/2020 23:21

@Jourdain11

Poor you, DH had a mask rash too. It is miserable!

I am lying on my sick bed with potential Covid waiting a call back. I am trying to say to myself "it is no different to any other illness", but I have an irrational fear that the demented Gods are going to take revenge on me by making me a Sadly Daily.

I hope you feel better ASAP. Does it feel like a nasty bug? It’s the Ds - in science, in politics- who are to blame for your worries.

I’d dose up on zinc and allicin.

SirSamuelVimes · 08/12/2020 23:23

Hope you feel better soon, @Jourdain11. Don't you dare go being a Sadly Daily on us!

Jourdain11 · 08/12/2020 23:28

To be fair, I have to be hyper cautious about any raised temperature and potential virus or infection - because of my chemo. But still! I was coming down with something every other week when I was having induction chemo, and I've actually had a really good run for ages. Even if it is the dreaded plague, there's no more reason why it should be worse than anything else.

It's being fed all this CEV and shielding stuff all the time. People who have AML, like I have, or having chemo, always have to be super duper careful. It's nothing different!

I actually got a bit riled up by people being made to feel that they should keep their kids out of school and so on, because of being CEV. If you are in chemo there's ALWAYS a risk with kids bringing germs from school. It isn't really a different situation.

Jourdain11 · 08/12/2020 23:34

@SirSamuelVimes I shall do my best not to become a Sadly Daily. I feel like I have not gone through 8 months of this treatment hell to become a fucking government Corona statistic!!

@AcornAutumn I just feel feverish and achey and can't stop coughing. It is probably just my white blood cells crashing out again - grrr. I am probably only thinking Covid because DH had a burst bubble at his school yesterday (the first time ever!).

smallandimperfectlyformed · 08/12/2020 23:34

@Jourdain11 I hope it isn't covid but if it is you know that you have done nothing to deserve it. As we know, it is a virus and something people just get them. Get better soon

Jourdain11 · 08/12/2020 23:38

On a lighter note, DH and some like minded colleagues have been playing Covid Buzzword Bingo during his head's staff briefings.

You get 1 point for the basics: bubbling, Covid-secure, etc.
5 points for a whole phrase: "this terrible disease", "now comma more than ever", "in these challenging times"
10 point bonus for a Boris Johnson randomism: "the armies of science coming to our aid", "Wellington's Prussian allies" and so on.

AcornAutumn · 08/12/2020 23:45

[quote Jourdain11]@SirSamuelVimes I shall do my best not to become a Sadly Daily. I feel like I have not gone through 8 months of this treatment hell to become a fucking government Corona statistic!!

@AcornAutumn I just feel feverish and achey and can't stop coughing. It is probably just my white blood cells crashing out again - grrr. I am probably only thinking Covid because DH had a burst bubble at his school yesterday (the first time ever!).[/quote]
Ah, yes, the joys of chemo. Fingers crossed for a better day tomorrow

Night all

MercyBooth · 09/12/2020 03:13

@Jourdain11

MercyBooth · 09/12/2020 03:15

Now being told social distancing and masks will be with us for many months to come, after being told things will be more normal by Easter just a couple of weeks ago. More nudge theory?

LivinLaVidaLoki · 09/12/2020 06:31

@Sonicthehedgehogg

Dr Hilary is the TV version of the Daily Fail...

Just catching up with the thread.

Is Dr Hilarious still an actual working doctor? Does he see patients, train or engage in any cpd? Or does he just appear on TV?

LivinLaVidaLoki · 09/12/2020 06:41

@MercyBooth

Now being told social distancing and masks will be with us for many months to come, after being told things will be more normal by Easter just a couple of weeks ago. More nudge theory?

@mercybooth I suspect its to try and keep people compliant right now. Playing up that the vaccine isn't the be all and end all (though its been touted as the end game since day 1) because people are now starting to feel (and behave), like those prisoners who see the end of their sentences approaching and are so desperate that they want to try and escape.

AcornAutumn · 09/12/2020 06:52

@MercyBooth

Now being told social distancing and masks will be with us for many months to come, after being told things will be more normal by Easter just a couple of weeks ago. More nudge theory?

Well yes. I thought masks till the end of spring 2021. They just don’t want to say outright because they know more people won’t conform.

RobinHobb · 09/12/2020 06:59

@Jourdain11
Hope you feel better soon!

Taswama · 09/12/2020 07:14

Loving the covid bingo!

Original poster

BogRollBOGOF · 09/12/2020 07:22

I can't see much appetite for such measures lasting beyond Easter. It will be a year of life being written off across society. The weather will warm up and people won't want to cook themselves with face coverings 9 months after the novelty of them and originally being seen by many as a concession to get their freedom back. People won't want to have a second Easter in isolation, especially as Christmas is so very far from normal and many finding that the amnesty is not working for them. And vaccination progress or not, virus rates will plummet.

The first day of vaccines does not immunity make, but by the time the high stakes area of the population (NHS, carehomes, "granny") have been covered, patience will be very thin.

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wanderings · 09/12/2020 07:34

I too hope that all this "restrictions for many months to come" is merely propaganda to keep us sheeple compliant and docile, and not what Saint Boris and his merry men really intend.

It's a three-month nudge every time. Saint Boris's methods are becoming so boringly predictable.
"We can turn this virus around in twelve weeks (about three months)".
"Normal by September."
"Normalish by Christmas."
"Significant normality by Easter."
Just what is the clown with a Messiah complex aiming for, total eradication, which he intends to take all the credit for? Total brainwashing of the plebs?

I'm still waiting for the mass civil disobedience to descend. It's overdue, it should have happened last April as far as I'm concerned.

Also, people keep going on about the wonderfully comfy new masks they've bought. I refuse to invest in them, because I feel that by doing so, we're prolonging their existence. I can just see them sitting in Parliament: "We could make them optional this time, but it's the one thriving industry that Britain has!" I will only buy an expensive one if they become optional.

Jourdain11 · 09/12/2020 07:49

Morning all!
I have mild pneumonia - bacterial, not Covidesque. So I shan't become a Covid stat - 👍👍👍
Currently in the Covid Pit being pumped with antibiotics, so I'm sorry for the short message!

AcornAutumn · 09/12/2020 08:11

@Jourdain11

Morning all! I have mild pneumonia - bacterial, not Covidesque. So I shan't become a Covid stat - 👍👍👍 Currently in the Covid Pit being pumped with antibiotics, so I'm sorry for the short message!

Hopefully they’ll kick in soon. Wish you better ASAP

SirSamuelVimes · 09/12/2020 08:12

@Jourdain11

Morning all! I have mild pneumonia - bacterial, not Covidesque. So I shan't become a Covid stat - 👍👍👍 Currently in the Covid Pit being pumped with antibiotics, so I'm sorry for the short message!

Glad you know what it is now. Hope the antibiotics do their stuff quickly!

AcornAutumn · 09/12/2020 08:13

wanderings “I'm still waiting for the mass civil disobedience to descend. It's overdue, it should have happened last April as far as I'm concerned.“

I’ve given up hope. Psychologically I’m having to start life over with a completely different view.

Weneedmusicandtheatre · 09/12/2020 08:13

@Jourdain11 get better soon. Chemo is shit so many hugs to you.

Blobby10 · 09/12/2020 08:32

@Jourdain11

Morning all! I have mild pneumonia - bacterial, not Covidesque. So I shan't become a Covid stat - 👍👍👍 Currently in the Covid Pit being pumped with antibiotics, so I'm sorry for the short message!

Thank goodness you won't be a Covid-stat!! Hopefully that will make you feel a bit better already! Hope the antibiotics clear the pneumonia quickly

Blobby10 · 09/12/2020 08:33

@wanderings

I too hope that all this "restrictions for many months to come" is merely propaganda to keep us sheeple compliant and docile, and not what Saint Boris and his merry men really intend.

It's a three-month nudge every time. Saint Boris's methods are becoming so boringly predictable.
"We can turn this virus around in twelve weeks (about three months)".
"Normal by September."
"Normalish by Christmas."
"Significant normality by Easter."
Just what is the clown with a Messiah complex aiming for, total eradication, which he intends to take all the credit for? Total brainwashing of the plebs?

I'm still waiting for the mass civil disobedience to descend. It's overdue, it should have happened last April as far as I'm concerned.

Also, people keep going on about the wonderfully comfy new masks they've bought. I refuse to invest in them, because I feel that by doing so, we're prolonging their existence. I can just see them sitting in Parliament: "We could make them optional this time, but it's the one thriving industry that Britain has!" I will only buy an expensive one if they become optional.

That's exactly how I feel but you put it so much more succinctly than I could @wanderings