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ADs and the hardon colanders

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CruCru · 19/12/2020 17:54

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Jourdain11 · 19/12/2020 21:48

Thanks everyone who has sent good wishes to me and DD. I want to be strong and I think I seem like I am on the outside (mostly through sarcasm and black humour, tbh), but inside I feel like I'm just breaking up in little bits...

Curlygirl06 · 19/12/2020 21:55

Just typed a long post and lost it, sums up everything about this year.
Long short story, I'm getting to the end of my tether.
Hugs to everyone feeling shit, I wish I could fix it for everyone.

Not2bObvious · 19/12/2020 21:55

Joining on from a different but equally bonkers country. Been lurking and it has been a wonderful relief to hear a bit of logic instead of blind fear & judgement. Thank you seriously

BogRollBOGOF · 19/12/2020 21:58

@Jourdain11

Thanks everyone who has sent good wishes to me and DD. I want to be strong and I think I seem like I am on the outside (mostly through sarcasm and black humour, tbh), but inside I feel like I'm just breaking up in little bits...
Sarcasm and black humour go a long way. We are always here.
Bollss · 19/12/2020 22:03

@Jourdain11

Thanks everyone who has sent good wishes to me and DD. I want to be strong and I think I seem like I am on the outside (mostly through sarcasm and black humour, tbh), but inside I feel like I'm just breaking up in little bits...
Mate, you're going through more in one go than I've been through in my entire life. You're doing an amazing job. Please go easy on yourself. You are obviously an incredible mother from what you tell us about your hilarious, strong willed, lovely girls. It's okay to feel a bit broken. Flowers I really wish there was something, anything, I could do to help.
wanderings · 19/12/2020 22:07

That's a good point, MPs not getting to vote on this. It's probably the only reason Saint Boris decided to do a smidgeon of work on a Saturday, he knew he wouldn't get it through otherwise.

Bring on the riots.

BogRollBOGOF · 19/12/2020 22:07

I still admire the spirit in them from telling off the sanctimonious woman in the supermarket for not distancing Grin

AcornAutumn · 19/12/2020 22:13

@Not2bObvious

Joining on from a different but equally bonkers country. Been lurking and it has been a wonderful relief to hear a bit of logic instead of blind fear & judgement. Thank you seriously
Welcome 🥂
wanderings · 19/12/2020 22:13

According to the Express, there was a mini-riot outside Downing Street minutes after Saint Boris's announcement. We need more of these. People are sick to death of being headfucked by the buffoon who is destroying EVERYTHING for the sake of his ego. Hopefully the headlines "Boris cancels Christmas" will now dog him until his dying day, as poor diddums was so desperate to avoid being Scrooge.

AcornAutumn · 19/12/2020 22:20

@justasking111

All week I have had this sense of impending doom, switched off news, fb pages where the government were speaking, just felt the 23 -27th would not be enough for them with the high cases in s wales. In a way weirdly I feel better that we now know for sure that only xmas day will be allowed and shopping is off the cards. It cannot get any worse barring prohibition. Feel so upset for my DS whose newly refurbed restaurant which he bought last year has suffered so badly as has our tourism I grieve for businesses going under. I cannot fathom the dicking about the governments have been doing to our country. France has opened up again in time for xmas, my friend there is happy about that. Friends in USA are seeing high figures with absolutely no end in sight. It has caused deep divisions in their family with covid deniers refusing to rein in their lives at all, when they are doing what they can to stay safe whilst still visiting empty beaches at 7am because later on Miami is out in force it is one long vacation for them.
I thought France was in lockdown too? From a week or so ago?
Lostinacloud · 19/12/2020 22:38

www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uos-nmi070220.php
This article was published on 2nd July 2020 and sets out how covid has mutated into a more infectious strain. I don’t know if this apparent south east England version is a different one to that but it’s clearly not actually a new concept. Be quick to have a read though as other links to this article have already been removed - funny that Hmm

justasking111 · 19/12/2020 22:47

@Lostinacloud

www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uos-nmi070220.php This article was published on 2nd July 2020 and sets out how covid has mutated into a more infectious strain. I don’t know if this apparent south east England version is a different one to that but it’s clearly not actually a new concept. Be quick to have a read though as other links to this article have already been removed - funny that Hmm
I remember back in the summer when Spains figures rose again that tests showed a mutated form of coronavirus that they had back tracked to a small village in the hills. So maybe the virus just evolves and changes more than we know. We talked about the spanish mutation on here a few months ago.
DominaShantotto · 19/12/2020 22:47

It's just beyond awful - and they're going to blame us whatever happens and however much we comply. I'm genuinely feeling toward suicidal (I won't actively do it cos the kids would be destroyed) - but I don't matter.

Jourdain11 · 19/12/2020 23:15

@BogRollBOGOF

I still admire the spirit in them from telling off the sanctimonious woman in the supermarket for not distancing Grin
Oh God, I wasn't even witness to the event and it still haunts me. "WILL YOU GIVE ME TWO METERS!" And all the dementors frothing about the poor, terrified old lady. Not to mention the absolute shock, horror, scandal at the idea of children in shops in the midst of a GLOBAL pandemic.

I hope I am doing alright as a mother, as a partner and as a person. But I feel like I'm failing every day! It's not a great feeling. But I appreciate all your kind words. You are all wonderful people, even if you are murderers FlowersCake

Jourdain11 · 19/12/2020 23:17

@DominaShantotto

It's just beyond awful - and they're going to blame us whatever happens and however much we comply. I'm genuinely feeling toward suicidal (I won't actively do it cos the kids would be destroyed) - but I don't matter.
Of course you matter! I'll sit here and type it all night if I must. X
BogRollBOGOF · 19/12/2020 23:39

@DominaShantotto

It's just beyond awful - and they're going to blame us whatever happens and however much we comply. I'm genuinely feeling toward suicidal (I won't actively do it cos the kids would be destroyed) - but I don't matter.
You matter so much. Despite struggling throughout this whole debacle, you still have warmth, humour and wise words. You are a precious person Flowers
rosettesforjill · 19/12/2020 23:48

Fuck Covid, duck bojo, fuck it all. Feeling fucking furious this evening. Just had my negative Covid result as requested from Zoe as well. What a shitshow.

justasking111 · 19/12/2020 23:58

Just had a peek into a thread about londoners escaping on trains one person keeps replying to those who say they are visiting family to read her CPAP thread, that made me laugh as if they are interested in a dementor thread.

justasking111 · 20/12/2020 00:01

I said to a friend today before the lockdown news that this time around when we locked down people were going to turn nasty, cold weather, short days, long nights a different kettle of fish to the weather and time of year we had in the first lockdown. I think we in Wales have been locked down for more days than anywhere. March until July, then the two week firebreak. Now another 28 days at least until Drakeford will even discuss any adjustments.

AcornAutumn · 20/12/2020 00:01

domina Flowers

rosette have you considered deleting the app?

What’s the old lady and two meters thing? I guess it’s a story from before I joined?

AcornAutumn · 20/12/2020 00:02

@justasking111

I said to a friend today before the lockdown news that this time around when we locked down people were going to turn nasty, cold weather, short days, long nights a different kettle of fish to the weather and time of year we had in the first lockdown. I think we in Wales have been locked down for more days than anywhere. March until July, then the two week firebreak. Now another 28 days at least until Drakeford will even discuss any adjustments.
I think other counties in England have been similar, my cousins have been in local lockdown or Tier 3 forever.
Jourdain11 · 20/12/2020 00:03

Yeeeees, I saw that.

I mean, people do realise that most people who get this virus are mildly ill, right? And apparently, the percentage of asymptomatic cases with this lethal new variant is even higher than with previous ones, said Whitty - 33% vs ca. 25% before.

When I was in hospital with not-Covid pneumonia, my consultant told me that even though I would be more vulnerable to Covid (because of the chemo, no spleen, et .) I would still be "pretty unlikely" to end up seriously unwell from it.

Jourdain11 · 20/12/2020 00:04

@AcornAutumn

domina Flowers

rosette have you considered deleting the app?

What’s the old lady and two meters thing? I guess it’s a story from before I joined?

I try to find the thread.
Jourdain11 · 20/12/2020 00:05

Here we are: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3924623-DD-shopping-and-2-meters

Hoping it is not illegal to link!

AcornAutumn · 20/12/2020 00:17

Jourdain I’m not very child friendly but your D.C. sound great!

That woman approached them in the Stay Alert phase as well, not even the stricter lockdown bit!