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ADs and the hardon colanders

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CruCru · 19/12/2020 17:54

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AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 10:59

ISaySteadyOn I agree, closing libraries is sinister

I linked the WHO new definition of herd immunity earlier.

We’re going to have to hang on to any physical books that contain the real one.

smallandimperfectlyformed · 22/12/2020 11:09

@RobinHobb you are as entitled to find this as difficult as I do. I am a single mum with 3 kids in a a 2 bedroom flat (although we have gone to stay with my mum as she is my support bubble) but that doesn't mean that I feel that noone else is allowed to find this hard (and obviously I am aware that other people have it harder too, lots of people in fact). Otherwise I would be as bad as those awful people who post the World War 1 memes telling us we can't complain about anything ever again! I would certainly find your exam situation frustrating, you've obviously worked hard and now there's no way to distinguish between you and someone who has coasted through the course.

flower11 · 22/12/2020 11:10

The thought of isolating a child in the house sends shivers down my spine, I hope that those that think this is ok are a very small minority. Otherwise we are completely fucked as a country and for the mental health of young people.

My 74 year old neighbour had it, bad enough for an ambulance to come out. His wife looked after him for the 2 weeks and never showed any symptoms.

LivinLaVidaLoki · 22/12/2020 11:16

I mean it's Sky news but "Cases of the new coronavirus strain spreading rapidly in the UK have been confirmed in Denmark, Italy, Gibraltar, the Netherlands and Australia"

LivinLaVidaLoki · 22/12/2020 11:21

Maybe I should post this more often in the coronazone

ADs and the hardon colanders
Reedwarbler · 22/12/2020 11:22

I didn't believe in cpap person, I thought the second I read it, it was made up.
Went to Bath yesterday to deliver presents to family. If you know Bath, you'll know the traffic is always bad anyway, but yesterday, sheesh, it was more horrendous than usual. I can only think it's people christmas shopping (and why not?). I really think a lot of people are just SO over all this and trying to get a sense of normality back.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 11:24

@Reedwarbler

I didn't believe in cpap person, I thought the second I read it, it was made up. Went to Bath yesterday to deliver presents to family. If you know Bath, you'll know the traffic is always bad anyway, but yesterday, sheesh, it was more horrendous than usual. I can only think it's people christmas shopping (and why not?). I really think a lot of people are just SO over all this and trying to get a sense of normality back.
I think there’s that

But in Bath, they are probably also girding themselves for lockdown aka Tier 4. I expect this to be announced on Boxing Day maybe?

Iheartmysmart · 22/12/2020 11:45

Sorry @Worldgonecrazy. I hope that isn’t in response to my comment to Margos earlier. I really didn’t mean any offence if it is.

BogRollBOGOF · 22/12/2020 11:50

I didn't bother looking at the CPAP thread. When I was in HDU, I was bloody knackered. It was about 8 hours after DS was born that I did the fb announcement and pictures, although I didn't meet him until he was 3hours old anyway.

Carpal tunnel was a bugger, I remember willing my mum to finish on the phone after a couple of minutes and I still had wires everywhere at that point.

I wouldn't have had the energy for extensive reading and posting on MN.

NannyGythaOgg · 22/12/2020 11:53

@LivinLaVidaLoki
Many of their sources are very suspect but often their sources are the government or the BBC, sources we should be able to trust.

I've noticed they are throwing 'Prof Heneghan' out as an insult to anyone that expresses anything dissenting their view or resembling a sensible question.

countrygirl99 · 22/12/2020 11:54

Re the CPAP post, when my dad was in hospital with pneumonia he could barely string together a coherent sentence let alone post on social media. I read the opening post and decided it needs auge pinch of salt and k
Read no more. But I expect there are those who lap it up.

zigaziga · 22/12/2020 12:06

@ISaySteadyOn the libraries bit is my worst bit too.

I’m also a SAHM and I feel bad sometimes for complaining about the relentlessness of parenting in lockdown because I kind of “signed up for this” when I decided to give up working... but I never expected to parent without libraries. They have always been my crutch since my oldest DC was a small baby.

My family don’t live close so we don’t get much help anyway, and this year is much more extreme of course but it’s not that much more than I’m used to. Honestly if I could wave a magic wand and have just one thing back to normal it would be libraries. I could cope then with the next few months of schools are shut and all the rest of it.

RobinHobb · 22/12/2020 12:09

Guys thanks for the messages of support and not flaming me for being ungrateful!

The bastards have reintroduced shielding!!! Wtaf!! I just got the text... (while buying crackers at the garden center!)

RobinHobb · 22/12/2020 12:10

No fucking way
This is complete shit

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 12:22

[quote NannyGythaOgg]@LivinLaVidaLoki
Many of their sources are very suspect but often their sources are the government or the BBC, sources we should be able to trust.

I've noticed they are throwing 'Prof Heneghan' out as an insult to anyone that expresses anything dissenting their view or resembling a sensible question.[/quote]
I had that yesterday
Came as a shock tbh.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 12:23

I mean I didn’t know he’d become a hate figure

I now understand why my sister thinks social media is terrible (she does use it).

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 12:23

*DOESNT use it

Can’t even type today

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 12:24

@RobinHobb

Guys thanks for the messages of support and not flaming me for being ungrateful!

The bastards have reintroduced shielding!!! Wtaf!! I just got the text... (while buying crackers at the garden center!)

Oh dear

Is it the dire warning my cousin got - don’t even go out for fresh air? He ignored it.

RobinHobb · 22/12/2020 12:24

I'm here at the garden center which my kids are browsing in a library like fashion; we had to buy crackers having realised that since we are not going to be spending Xmas with the family, we will need some festive cheer on our table (DH managed to snag a soon to be expired turkey)
It is totally empty. I expected queues but deathly silent except for Xmas music they are desperately playing. I find it so sad. Usually before Xmas it's so lovely and festive here, people doing their last minute shopping and kids around and so on. I know it's not tragic (like a covid ward I'm sure dementors would point out to me), but sad.

RobinHobb · 22/12/2020 12:27

@AcornAutumn
That's the one
Sure @Jourdain11 would have gotten one too.
They can stuff it up their behind.

AcornAutumn · 22/12/2020 12:37

Just looked at it and it seems this time they’ve got enough sense not to “advise against” fresh air.

justasking111 · 22/12/2020 12:41

Was planning to take grandchildren to our garden centre this week, they do an amazing Xmas display every year. We were also going to rspb Conwy for walks see wild ponies there buy bird food. Both closed now.

Re bells we shall be ringing like crazy at 6pm Xmas Eve for all the children to hear they need the magic. We have an old school bell plus a big bell that was on great great grandfather boat a century ago.

Worldgonecrazy · 22/12/2020 13:05

@Iheartmysmart

Sorry *@Worldgonecrazy*. I hope that isn’t in response to my comment to Margos earlier. I really didn’t mean any offence if it is.
Absolutely not. I’m sorry if it came across that way.

We are in a crazy situation where the ‘privileged’ feel it necessary to apologise for having a garden or a job and that we should be more accepting of the shit as we have a warm home to wfh.

It was a rant against the world, not any of my lovely sanity saving ADs.

NastyBlouse · 22/12/2020 13:14

[quote NannyGythaOgg]@LivinLaVidaLoki
Many of their sources are very suspect but often their sources are the government or the BBC, sources we should be able to trust.

I've noticed they are throwing 'Prof Heneghan' out as an insult to anyone that expresses anything dissenting their view or resembling a sensible question.[/quote]
I think a person must be particularly thick to feel that calling someone 'Professor Heneghan' represents any kind of insult.

I mean, the man's a professor for goodness sake. He's literally a Very Clever Person. He might not set forward the current broadly accepted view but he's not a fringe figure.

It's like those people at school who thought calling someone 'Einstein' was clever and funny. Er, no petal

justasking111 · 22/12/2020 13:26

Both my friend and my brother are professors, she is quite loony, my bro. thank god more pragmatic. She knows bugger all about the realities of life with covid is a dispassionate expert. My bro. on the other hand understands human frailty. They both are looking at statistics. Funnily enough she is more pro. china having visited a few times than my DB who has lived there for decades.