ADs are elite athletes and can run very fast

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Another thread in the saga filled up (so no forwards link)

I think maybe we're endurance athletes, or maybe multievent like a decathlon

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9121471/Priti-Patel-backs-police-quizzing-people-sitting-park-benches-lockdown.html

We've had a better day on the home school front. Only one of us had a meltdown taking 2 hours to gradually do 20 mins worth of grammar.

In principle the check-ins are good, but by the time 2 children have done 9am, 10am 2pm and 3pm between them and you cajole, bribe and chivvy through the work, that's pretty much all of the daylight consumed.

I feel drained just by being there with them. It's not my work to be engrossed and put my attention in and my attention is totally fragmented, plus emotionally nuturing and encouraging child A while simultaneously being stern bad cop with child B. So I feel spent without having anything to show for myself. Yes DH, I know you have a job with multiple projects and split attention between them, I used to do that kind of thing too (plus your phone calls tend to involve civilised conversation and no fronted adverbials)

Not looking forwards to Brownies... I've already seen half of them on screen today

I watched the video on Facebook (link earlier on) with the forensic pathologist, I think that’s what she was. Very interesting although I confess to not understanding it all. They need more people like her to be allowed to give their point of view on the news/media. Why are alternatives being silenced because I believe we need to hear many different scientific opinions, not just what the government want to scare and brainwash the public with. I also can’t understand why people are not doing their own research instead of blindly accepting all the government spin.
I’m not denying the increasing number of hospital admissions/deaths and very poorly people but there is no balanced debate going on, or if there is, we are not allowed to see it. I also appreciate there are a lot of very frightened people out there but we need perspective.

Apart from that, feeling pretty despondent.

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9122417/PIC-EXC-Priyanka-Chopra-mother-Madhu-caught-FLOUTING-lockdown.html

So I’m feeling kind of more at peace now we’re in the midst of homeschooling/ lockdown .. I guess I feel like we’ve spent since the summer expecting it to happen again and dreading it and unable to make plans and now it’s here, I feel better.. like this is it, this is the eye of the storm, nothing to dread now, just each day to get through. It’s frustrating not to know how many days there are of this, but even though I don’t know yet how long it will last each day done is one day closer to the end.

When I venture onto social media however, I am just furious. One of my relatives went out today to the town centre to count how many shops open (mostly perfectly legally, or if not they were likely just doing click and collects not actually open). He’s high risk and had no reason to be out but obviously wanted to make some kind of “point” on social media about how these places should be shut / it’s not a “proper” lockdown etc etc. WHY do people do this? If they are that high risk they should be isolating (meaning, not going on a walk through the busiest place they could walk around) as it will only be a few weeks or a month until they get the vaccine.. NOT putting themselves at some risk (and therefore putting the NHS at risk) just to get angry at people trying to keep small businesses going and keeping themselves from losing everything. This relative, like many others, could easily stay at home and get food deliveries (plenty of friends / other relatives who would happily do this) but yet of course if he gets it and ends up in Intensive Care he’ll be angry at everyone else.
I hate, hate, hate that small businesses like coffee shops and restaurants offering take away only have become the thing that people have zero-ed in on (now that schools are shut) as the epicentre of the virus. They won’t be happy until every small business has gone under.

I've just responded to my County's request for volunteers to help with the vaccine roll-out - marshalling or similar. I'm working on the theory that the quicker we get this done, the more quickly the rest of us can get back to something closer to normal - and I'm quite efficient and bossy, so could be of use. But who knows if I'll ever hear back??

I had two excellent experiences today reflecting how widely divided we are on these things.
DD2's key worker at nursery asked if I wanted 5 days a week next term and I said yes and asked also for potentially ASC (as I hope to have my research placement by then). Her reply was "we are not running ASC, there's a pandemic if you haven't noticed!". I hadn't realised how much of a dementor she was but she has been going around telling me off during pick ups because "we are tier 5! And no mixing of bubbles!" - this is because Dd1 and DD2 were holding hands on the way to the car, they are 3 and 5 for context.

Experience 2: school mums in the parking, her elder daughter has mental health issues and suffering and was sitting in the car waiting. This school mum was angry and pissed off and came out with this without any fear "who ARE these people dying of covid?! Because every second person I know has had fucking covid and been absolutely fine, and for this we are screwing our country and racking up debt etc".

I'm somewhere in between these two people (more towards school mum, but the rising hospital admissions scare me now).

Anyway it's quite a mess

Kids had school today - DD2 is a changed child coming out... back to isolation tomorrow as our scraps of compassion go. I've emailed again asking if they can find DD2 as a child documented as suffering badly last time, more place for HER as they don't give a shit about MY mental health. As is usual for our school - no reply.

@RobinHobb no mixing of bubbles cannot ever be meant to mean siblings cannot hold hands, what a pillock! I like you veer between both sides of the argument- I hate lockdown but I now know of many people who have been exposed to it (still don't really know many who have actually had it) and don't want more people infected.
@MaudesMum good luck! Hopefully they will contact you and your skills be put to good use!

I am still feeling guilty for using a key worker place for DS. I could have been furloughed but opted not to be because last time was so utterly shit and I'd rather we went to work and school. We've got on so much better since September.

As I declined to be furloughed it's allowed someone else at work to have it and their home situation is utterly shit so they've left to stay with family for the duration. I'm glad I've helped them leave as they were a prime candidate to be kept on as they don't have dependent children but I still feel guilty.

I also don't need the 5 school days but DS is going on all 5 anyway. School requested this because I usually work 4 but it can be any 4 of the 5 week days if that makes sense so the days DS would attend would alter each week rather than staying the same and that'll mess up their planning. His class have a huge amount of key worker/vulnerable children though so all but a few are attending and this doesn't help my guilt at all. I feel so awful for the 20% still at home especially as some are entitled to a place but there's no room.

I really feel like this whole thing is pitting people against each other and allowing resentment to build in a really awful way. Not just with regards to schools but with furlough, the roolz, all of it.

Please tell us which supermarket is thinking of banning people? I work in one and I've not heard anything about this.

I know three people who have had it including my own dear DH. All felt rotten for a while and then got better. One of them, not DH but a friend, has told me that she is so over it (it being the lockdowns).

I would like to know the supermarket too so I know who to write to and avoid.

There are fuckwits really pushing the clapping around here. I'm sat here dreading 8pm rocking noise cancelling earphones already.

Yeah 2021 is gonna be waaaay better than 2020.

It feels like a chicken and egg situation with schools; the more children who are in, the less time and manpower the schools have to put into remote provision, and the crappier the remote provision, the more parents want their children in school.

@zigaziga I know someone who was like that during the first lockdown. He did the rounds of local supermarkets and parks everyday so he could post on social media about how many people were shopping and exercising. I’d think “well they have a better reason to be out than YOU, sunshine!”

I did my bit for a local business today by ordering a load of books (including class set text reading books which school are only supplying to children who are in ) from a small, independent bookshop up the road who are surviving through click and collect. I feel bad about the amount of money we threw at Amazon over Christmas, but with being stuck at home with quarantining children throughout December and then London going into to tier 4 straight afterwards, I didn’t have much choice for Christmas shopping.

Saw something earlier that said police had been stopping people from visiting people at a local NT place if you weren't local enough. Basically if you have to drive you aren't allowed, it's half an hour drive from me and they've been stopping people from my area so if I went I would get fined. Don't they have other things to be doing? Where is the risk? Crashing my car and needing medical treatment? Granted it's a possibility but being sat inside all day doesn't automatically mean I wouldn't require medical treatment. I could just as easily fall over a toy and break an arm or something.

Today has been an ok day, 1 child at nursery and the other one just did his zoom lessons. The thought of doing this for weeks on end is getting to me so I'm trying to put it at the back of my mind and just take one day at a time otherwise I get panicky.

Now the schools are shut, it's "shut nurseries", "shut places of worship", " shut offices", its as if the more is taken away, the more people want to find something else to snatch from other people.
The nastiness and enthusiasm to inflict as much misery on people as possible is unbelievable.

If they shut nurseries then I refuse to work. I'm just not doing it again.

@Weedsnseeds1

Now the schools are shut, it's "shut nurseries", "shut places of worship", " shut offices", its as if the more is taken away, the more people want to find something else to snatch from other people. The nastiness and enthusiasm to inflict as much misery on people as possible is unbelievable.

They are never sated. Bastards.

@Weedsnseeds1

Now the schools are shut, it's "shut nurseries", "shut places of worship", " shut offices", its as if the more is taken away, the more people want to find something else to snatch from other people. The nastiness and enthusiasm to inflict as much misery on people as possible is unbelievable.

I'm really not finding MN representative of reality.

Saw something earlier that said police had been stopping people from visiting people at a local NT place if you weren't local enough. Basically if you have to drive you aren't allowed, it's half an hour drive from me and they've been stopping people from my area so if I went I would get fined. Where is the risk? Crashing my car and needing medical treatment? Granted it's a possibility but being sat inside all day doesn't automatically mean I wouldn't require medical treatment. I could just as easily fall over a toy and break an arm or something.

Isn't the distance thing only guidance and not law?

We went out driving yesterday, DD needs to pass her test for work / college. At the moment she's just sitting at home doing nothing as her job has gone. She's 17 so I think that's against the law to be NEET. We didn't leave the car, nor crash. Don't most accidents happen in the home anyway?!

I don't even have an iron in the fire for any of those, but the spite and jealousy takes my breath away.
I was just grateful that a factory I'm visiting next week will still allow me on site, even though they had a positive case on Monday.
I'll take that over another week on Microsoft sodding Teams any day.

Don't most accidents happen in the home anyway?!

All the incidents I have had needing A&E have happened in the house, in the garden or about a few meters of my house.

Clearly I can't be relied to stay home to save the NHS

In other news - dog just ran out the back door to go to the toilet, skidded on the slippery frost on the patio and splatted into the shed door.

Dog is fine. Dog is sulking. Dog's street cred and pride are severely injured. Humans just laughed.

A thread I looked at earlier about "what is local" someone suggested that you shouldn't drive a distance that wouldn't allow you to walk home if your vehicle broke down, so you wouldn't kill the AA /RAC person who would inevitably be attacked through sheet metal and glass by theoretical mutant corona virus.
Which of course, anyone driving a car is pumping out of their pores at a rate of knots.
So abandoning your broken down vehicle for the foreseeable future while you walk home is somehow the responsible thing to do?

@Curlygirl06 it’s Sainsbury’s according to my friend that works there. You will have to wear a visor if you can’t wear a mask, but I don’t know if that is definite or when it will come in, just what I was told.