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... whilst waiting to see if the kids are or are not going to school next week and walking with imaginary cows.

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Happy birthday, miniBogRoll! The first birthday with double numbers is a big deal.

I don’t quite understand what’s going on. I’m not paying much attention and try to avoid the news etc because it’s so soul destroying, but are cases rising? And how? We’ve just come out of lockdown which was supposed to prevent this, and are mostly in tier 3 now so was the lockdown a waste of time?

They need to tell us where all the cases are coming from and concentrate on those areas instead of this relentless path that they are too afraid to admit just isn’t working.

Hurrah! My local GPs practice - a big one, which covers the entire town - started vaccine-ing yesterday. They've got masses of space indoors as its a new building, so no fear that elderly patients will have to queue outdoors. Tiny piece of good news compared to everything else.

They need to tell us where all the cases are coming from and concentrate on those areas instead of this relentless path that they are too afraid to admit just isn’t working.

Have there been any figures released on where these spreads are happening?

I get worried about the people who seem to have such hugely disproportionate fear. The ‘if I venture out I’ll get it, and if I get it I’ll die’ sort.

I actually think a lot of people will snap back to normality quite quickly. Bin the masks, hand sanitiser back in a cupboard, where’s my ticket to a crowded event, etc.

But there’s also a sizeable chunk who will continue to quaver in fear of stepping out of their own front doors. Some of these people will pass their fear onto their kids. I’m sensitive to this in particular because my mother was a needless fear person and her anxieties got installed in me in certain ways and they are very hard to overcome.

Oh yes and I loathe the ‘death threats from ICU’ type posts. Disproportionate, gloaty, disregarding of the privacy and circumstances of the people who are actually in the photos, and viciously manipulative. It’s cheap, nasty and ugly tactics from very narrow-minded and mean-spirited people.

I was talking to DB yesterday. He was saying that there has always been a subset of prejudiced people who will ‘wish’ the worst eventualities of HIV onto gay people as a kind of punishment for their ‘lifestyle’. It’s a ‘You deserve to get ill in the worst way because of who you are or what you do’ kind of thing. He’s saying he’s now seeing that attitude extrapolated out in the general population around covid. It’s deeply, deeply nasty, divisive and dangerous.

Phew. Rant over

@NastyBlouse I wholeheartedly agree with your rant, and your brother

I'm a SAHM who changed my youngest school because they were so dementary, she was only in reception but her teacher and TA wore a mask all day and she wouldn't talk to them unsurprisingly. I'm relieved to be away but also have the fear it will be just as bad at this new school. The angry fear mongering posts from teachers on here and fb have really shocked me, the venom for small kids, the projecting. I agree there will be people who dont come back from this, but they seem to be revelling in it

I've just rung my mum - if they start to look like locking down we're hitting the road and heading up to hers early to lock down together (we're the only social contact each of us have had as they support me with childcare during holidays).

Brother's freaking out - demanding my mum gives evidence from the NHS about whether or not she's vulnerable and quizzing her over social contacts (and about MY social contacts too). I would say it's because he's got a new baby - but he was like that before all of this.

I can't come back mentally from all of this much longer I don't think.

I really feel for everyone whose family isn't on the same page. Fortunately all of mine pretty much agrees. I've had DB over for a dubiously legal visit so he can meet his niece already. I say dubiously legal, because I bet loads of people would say not allowed, but he held her most of the afternoon which meant I could get some sleep, which meant I wasn't feeling asleep with her at night - that's providing essential care in my book!!

I live in a small to medium sized village, and there are a cluster of villages around us. The local population is small though. Suddenly we have got a lot of cases, comparable in numbers, if you extrapolate upwards, to the amount of cases in Manchester or south Wales. That looks really bad, doesn't it? Except, looking into it further, I found that all the cases were in two care homes in the district. As the people in these care homes do not go out (one of them especially, has severely handicapped residents), these unfortunate people must have caught it from their carers, seeing the residents are not allowed out or allowed visitors. There are apparently no cases in our local population at large.
When is the goverment going to come clean (literally!) about this massive countrywide failure in disease control?

@Reedwarbler It’s so annoying isn’t it. The government aren’t being at all transparent with data, you have to go rooting around various websites for it, and too many people are taking news headlines at face value.
There’s a couple of people who post doom laden comments on our local paper website based on what they’ve briefly read but when you call them out on it with actual facts you get shouted down as a Covid denier. One this morning was saying how 1 in 90 people had the virus and we should be very worried when visiting the supermarket. This may be true countrywide but in our town it would mean 2,500 cases yet we have around 300!

@ISaySteadyOn

I'm one of the SAHM who took 2 of my DC out of school to protect them. But not from any virus. No, I took them out to protect their mental health. I didn't appreciate the school teaching them that they were disgusting little plague spreaders and that teachers were afraid of them.

I absolutely loathe being lumped in with those frightened of the virus (which DH and I have had) and I suspect there are many mothers like me.

I get that completely. For me, my youngest is too young to be a companion for my eldest so keeping her in school was the right thing for us, and obviously keeping her out longer than lockdown would have meant I'd need to quit my career. It's the animosity towards people like me from others who have more opportunity to choose that irks me. Obviously not all SAHM, I'm talking about the privileged 'kept women' in our local group.

I look at the data every day, andd one day we had a big jump (well from 6 to 25) just in our area of the town but nowhere else in the town, so I suspect this is a care home cluster. They're have been a lot more ambulances down our road too, which is the route into one of the care homes .

Briefing at 4pm, cabinet now apparently. Tempted to get in the car and hit the road so we're not caught.

@DominaShantotto

Briefing at 4pm, cabinet now apparently. Tempted to get in the car and hit the road so we're not caught.

Do it, Domina. Get on the road, keep radio off, claim ignorance!

Unfortunately dog kennels closed for the day so can't drop furball off until the morning so it's not an option. I'm broken.

I wonder if the BBC ever get pissed off with them piddling around with their schedule....

Also, are any other countries reporting a new strain?

Also, not to derail the thread or owt but I keep reading the title as hardon colliders.

Just thought I'd share.....

Broken here too. So utterly fed up. Came home after two 14 hour shifts last night to find PILs in the house. MIL had apparently been struggling (I would be too if FIL was my only contact ) We live in a semi detached and next door will certainly have heard. I could barely speak I was so fucked off.

I'm fed up of all the talk of buckling down and following the rules, which I have been bloody doing, with no end in sight. Feeling very hopeless today.

Get in your car @DominaShantotto and drive like the wind!!! I hope everyone here gets to have some form of comfort and relief over Christmas (I'll be working most of it so the 'relaxations' do little for me anyway) and bloody well enjoys themselves

Oh, and if Boris fucks with Strictly then I shall be sending every curse I have in his direction.

Not today, fucker

Just seen on another thread that someone hopes he scraps the Christmas relaxation of the rules, but not the travel ban as they are going away elsewhere in the UK and need a break. FFS.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Also, not to derail the thread or owt but I keep reading the title as hardon colliders.

Just thought I'd share.....

Perhaps the next thread???????????/

They better now cancel Christmas, in total we are only 9, in same tier 3. I’m going, we haven’t been able to go into DP house/garden since September, they can fuck off. Not everyone wants to go for fucking walk in the fucking rain!
My DP are no longer listening or watching the news, so much better for DM mental health.

Speculated that the south east are going into Tier 4 with stay at home enshrined in law... rest of us get one day to bubble for the day itself and that's it. That's from the journos who usually have it all leaked to them.