ADs may have buggered boilers but we haven't got the clap

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The saga continues to continue with more sequels than a trilogy of trilogies...

Some news taken from the front page of the daily telegraph thismorning.

Cases of covid in care homes have trebled in a month.
The medical regulator has warned that lateral flow tests are unreliable, and therefore will not allow their daily use on pimary school children in schools.
According to the PHE most outbreaks are taking place in care homes - up to January 14th there were 739 outbreaks of coronavirus in care homes.

@ISaySteadyOn When my Nan died we were offered a fairly quick date for her funeral because someone had cancelled. I didn’t realise it was possible to change your mind about things like that.

Morning. Another day in the dystopia that used to be the UK.

DD1 sang a song in front of the other school kids in her class yesterday (she goes in a couple of times a week - all they can provide). They had to fetch the perspex screen for her to stand behind first. She's also most upset they're not allowed to use the class electric pencil sharpener because of covid as well.

World. Mad.

I don't want to be awake today.
DS2 supposed to be online now.
Can't face another day of uncomfortable chairs and being leaned on.
Just want to sleep for a few months.

I have already had to break up fights this morning. And cancel a walk with my friend because I can't leave the children with DH who needs to work.

He'd say I was being martyrish, but he needs to concentrate and not have to think about the DC.

[quote Iheartmysmart]@ISaySteadyOn When my Nan died we were offered a fairly quick date for her funeral because someone had cancelled. I didn’t realise it was possible to change your mind about things like that.[/quote]
I'm sorry but this did make me laugh!

I had to visit the surgery yesterday. I now assume the goal is to make sure the elderly and vulnerable don't die from Covid as they will already have died from hyperthermia in the queue for the doctors'. It is inhumane to make old, ill people queue outside in the rain and cold to access basic medical care.

@110APiccadilly

I had to visit the surgery yesterday. I now assume the goal is to make sure the elderly and vulnerable don't die from Covid as they will already have died from hyperthermia in the queue for the doctors'. It is inhumane to make old, ill people queue outside in the rain and cold to access basic medical care.

A friend waited 3 hours for hers at one of the large vaccination centres. They were instructed to wait in their cars so I'm assuming that lot will be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning

I had a horrible experience this morning. A fellow customer followed me round our smallish local supermarket saying, "Why aren't you wearing a mask?" over and over again. Thing is, I was wearing a face covering. It was one of my cotton snood things. It covered my nose and mouth.

Anyway, she wouldn't shut up. God knows. The duty manager was lovely and asked her to leave in the end.

Sometimes I could weep.

@TooManyPlatesInMotion

I had a horrible experience this morning. A fellow customer followed me round our smallish local supermarket saying, "Why aren't you wearing a mask?" over and over again. Thing is, I was wearing a face covering. It was one of my cotton snood things. It covered my nose and mouth.

Anyway, she wouldn't shut up. God knows. The duty manager was lovely and asked her to leave in the end.

Sometimes I could weep.

OMD

Is she a well known crazy person?

I'm so sorry that happened to you

@TooManyPlatesInMotion

I had a horrible experience this morning. A fellow customer followed me round our smallish local supermarket saying, "Why aren't you wearing a mask?" over and over again. Thing is, I was wearing a face covering. It was one of my cotton snood things. It covered my nose and mouth.

Anyway, she wouldn't shut up. God knows. The duty manager was lovely and asked her to leave in the end.

Sometimes I could weep.

I am so sorry that happened to you.

@ISaySteadyOn and @AcornAutumn thanks. Never encountered her before. However, she was trying to access the back of house/staff only parts of the shop which would suggest there might be something amiss! Manager dealt with it in such a calm and kind way. She's a lovely lady and I imagine she's dealing with all sorts of frankly batshit behaviour at the moment.

Supermarkets attract crazy people, even when things were usual. My Mum worked at the Sainsbury's in the centre of town and they had a whole list of banned people. There was the man who stank (not just smelled a bit, it was like he rolled in fox poo), the woman who did a shit in the toilet paper aisle and the elderly couple who would repeatedly buy a joint of meat and leave it out until it stank then bring it back to complain and get a refund.

I bet that customer was one of those. And I bet the manager has met her before. They remember the crazy ones.

@CruCru re taking a crap in the toilet paper aisle!! Reminds me of when I worked in a bookshop and we found turds hidden behind the Ian McEwan novels.

Doing a student job of hospital admin was an interesting introduction to the range of human life.

Supermarkets, schools and hospitals are great levellers of society.

Bunked off homeschool this morning. I've just needed some hours of a bit of personal space and to listen to the radio.
I feel continually drowned out by the sound of DH's calls permeating the house (he's currently being assertive with one of his team...) and the DCs' home learning or screen time.
It's fog and slush outside and a glimmer of me wants a walk, but the conditions are pretty joyless and I can't quite face it.

Ready meal in the oven... it seemed like a bit of a decadence, but when I looked at the shelf in the supermarket I realised that it was not substantially more than I pay for the two DCs' school lunches, plus me too and it's actually better value!

[quote TooManyPlatesInMotion]@CruCru re taking a crap in the toilet paper aisle!! Reminds me of when I worked in a bookshop and we found turds hidden behind the Ian McEwan novels.[/quote]
Everyone's a critic these days

By which I mean the jobbie-leaver, of course

My local supermarket was busy this morning, they had a lady offering masks to people who didn't have them . She had a whole pile but virtually everyone I saw was wearing a mask. She looked down as she was having to tackle refusers who had been abusive. I bought her some flowers on the way round.

I'm reasonably fortunate as s DS is autistic and I am therefore permitted to take him out for exercise more than once a day and am "allowed" to drive him to parks etc.

I'm concerned about my parents in sheltered housing as their lovely neighbour doesn't from COVID a few days ago. It must be said he was 97 but he was very active and indepemdent so didn't seem 97. It's really shaken my parents so I've told them to stay home except for walking g the dog and I'll get their shopping etc.

It's been very hard but am trying to find positives.

I've finished (nearly) a blanket I was crocheting.
I can get out if I need to.
My experience of having COVID was okay as it was only a mild illness for me.

@NastyBlouse

By which I mean the jobbie-leaver, of course

Haha, yes. It was all very odd as we never caught anyone having a crap in the shop, which led us to conclude that someone was actually bringing turds in with them, putting them behind the books, then pushing the row of books forward again so the turds were well hidden.

How very odd.

Looking at some countries USA, Brazil. I do wonder if there is an acceptable number of deaths. The old, vulnerable, ok that is ok. Somewhat like a farmer they are sanguine about death. Reading today about the rise in care home deaths which are feeding our data. If it was not assigned as covid but pneumonia, alzheimers, heart, etc. would we be up in arms, scared, locked indoors about it???

A friend worked in a ladies boutique, someone asked to use the loo, when she went in the faeces were in the loo around the loo smeared on the walls, on the floor. She phoned the boss saying not my job, locked the shop and went home.

I did see a woman walk down the aisle poop coming out of her as she walked, she went to the checkout with her goods paid and left. Quite extraordinary.

Just "If it was not assigned as covid but pneumonia, alzheimers, heart, etc. would we be up in arms, scared, locked indoors about it???"

The appropriate comparison is pneumonia, and no, we wouldn't.

@AcornAutumn

Just "If it was not assigned as covid but pneumonia, alzheimers, heart, etc. would we be up in arms, scared, locked indoors about it???"

The appropriate comparison is pneumonia, and no, we wouldn't.

I think the difference is you can't 'catch dementia/cancer etc'. People can think the other stuff won't happen to them but covid they can catch.

I do think one of the fundamental differences between healthy people that are terrified of covid and those with more moderate views is how exposed they have been previously to the shit things in life like unexpected severe illnesses and death.

@2020BogOff
I do think one of the fundamental differences between healthy people that are terrified of covid and those with more moderate views is how exposed they have been previously to the shit things in life like unexpected severe illnesses and death.

This, absolutely.

Early doors I used to get irrationally pissed off when people ranted about "if youd seen someone die of covid youd understand....."

I nursed both of my parents through cancer and was with them as they died.

As they stopped eating or drinking because their bodies didnt need it anymore so they got progressively weaker, as they had to be turned and lotioned to prevent bed sores, as they gasped desperately for each breath knowing that each could be their last. The pain and agitation as their body just shuts down, bit by bit until it just eventually stops altogether and they are gone. There is no peace in death until it is complete.

People seem to think that you just slip away onto a chaise longe or something. Tbh, most deaths from covid in hospitals would have been in some kind of induced coma or anaesthesia......so I know which I'd sooner take.