ADs and their pampered poodles

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Here we are again, gaining sequels even more rapidly than the Fast and the Furious...

Welcome @ElizabethG81

@CruCru

Crumbs. I’ve just checked out the Coronavirus topic.

Yes, it is particularly bonkers "over there" at the moment. What I saw when I looked last night convinced me to steer clear for the sake of (what's left of) my sanity.

Hi ElizabethG81!

@ISaySteadyOn

Or it's because Biden is safely in office now. Sorry, have just read a whole slew of articles about the US opening up and the harms lockdown has caused. And, though I was not a fan of Trump and never voted for him, the timing seems awfully convenient.

Biden is pro Ireland a bit anti England. I wonder if the fact that the EU have put the blockers on the irish receiving the pfizer vaccine because they have not approved it might make him realise what a strange lot the EU is.

I think it's interesting that while polls apparently say that some ridiculous percentage of us want tighter lockdown, the reality of mobility, public transport use, my own observations of my local town, etc tell a different story.

It makes me wonder what question they ask about lockdown. I doubt they mention the effect on the economy, people's mental health, education and so on. Of course most people are going to say they are in favour of saving lives.

I'm too cowardly to go and look but can any brave person tell me what the response to the ONS's finding that teaching staff are not particularly attacked by the virus? In fact the numbers alone seem to suggest that teachers are safer than the working population as a whole.

I was sad to read that top of the list of covid deaths were bin men, they really are so important to us as a society. Followed by care workers, underpaid, overworked, hopping from home to home daily.

Sorry for saying this when I know so many of you are rushed off your feet and doing stressful jobs but bloody hell I’m bored! My once interesting job which actually engaged my brain is now endless, tedious teams calls and my modest social life has been reduced to TV and wine. And I can’t see an end in sight.

Sorry for the self indulgent wallow!

@Iheartmysmart

Sorry for saying this when I know so many of you are rushed off your feet and doing stressful jobs but bloody hell I’m bored! My once interesting job which actually engaged my brain is now endless, tedious teams calls and my modest social life has been reduced to TV and wine. And I can’t see an end in sight.

Sorry for the self indulgent wallow!

I'm with you on that. I used to be good at keeping busy, but I need external stuff.

These days it's just permanently "on call" mentality with the DCs. It's why I MN so much, because it's bitesize and I don't have to worry about interruprions. Something likre a book that you re-read the same paragraph 5 times before being able to move on, or pausing the TV constantly is just frustrating. If I dare to stick earphones on, you can guarentee that some sod will come and talk to me. Oftrn DH...

Had to send DS1 off during live maths as he was getting stewed up. He somehow mistook my instructions and went off to the TV for youtube. Oh I love broadcasting some yoga videos on top from my phone when he's up to that one. So much less confrontational than shouting at him.
Even better if I can pick an appropriatet heme like bedtime yoga. This one was yoga PE

My children should never underestimate the woman who created them

@Iheartmysmart

Sorry for saying this when I know so many of you are rushed off your feet and doing stressful jobs but bloody hell I’m bored! My once interesting job which actually engaged my brain is now endless, tedious teams calls and my modest social life has been reduced to TV and wine. And I can’t see an end in sight.

Sorry for the self indulgent wallow!

If you can't wallow with us, who can you wallow with?

I'm both rushed off my feet and bored! Worst of all possible worlds.

Oh god, yes, exactly that, tv and wine. I have taken to having my wine delivered from Virgin, and cooking lots of new recipes too. I eat very little during the day, so my main pleasure is preparing something good to eat in the evening for us (by which time I am starving), and having a drink while I do it, a la Keith Floyd, for those that remember him. Of course this also involves visiting the best butchers and delis in the area and possibly a trip to Waitrose as well. I would never have thought my pleasures would become quite so small.

@amicissimma

I think it's interesting that while polls apparently say that some ridiculous percentage of us want tighter lockdown, the reality of mobility, public transport use, my own observations of my local town, etc tell a different story.

It makes me wonder what question they ask about lockdown. I doubt they mention the effect on the economy, people's mental health, education and so on. Of course most people are going to say they are in favour of saving lives.

I'm too cowardly to go and look but can any brave person tell me what the response to the ONS's finding that teaching staff are not particularly attacked by the virus? In fact the numbers alone seem to suggest that teachers are safer than the working population as a whole.

From what I can see (couldn't bear to read much), the narrative is shifting from "all the teachers will die" to "children are VECTORS and will spread it to everyone in their own families, who will die". So they still don't think we can open schools.

Now the thread about high levels of child depression has been taken down

@ElizabethG81

Now the thread about high levels of child depression has been taken down

I wonder why.

Thanks for indulging my wallow

Yep, I’ve noticed the change in tone about schools as well. It’s getting beyond a joke now. I remember my mum, who used to work in a school, picking up a virus which she then passed to me and my sisters! She was fine but two of us were really poorly. Never gave it a second thought, it’s just life.

One headteacher has been frank in a polite way shared on Facebook

That's very passive aggressive. Also, stark. It's illegal to have normal human interaction. That is wrong

Fookin hell. If my daughters head teacher wrote that I’d be looking for another school.

Wow that letter would make me so angry. I apologise to any teachers on here but I can’t help but think that If you are a person that worries about and feels in danger of viruses and other illnesses spread by children then frankly you are in the wrong job. To most people this virus remains as dangerous as any other cold or flu virus that have been living and breeding in schools since time immemorial

Anyway, I’ve just left a rant bomb on the thread about hotel quarantine and so have escaped here for a brief second of sanity before the inevitable onslaught begins.
I have dared to state that I do not agree with the hotel quarantine and that after a year of all doing what we’ve been told to do that people deserve a holiday or to see loved ones abroad at last. I admit I am fairly emotive about this topic because we moved to france last summer and I haven’t been able to see any of my family or friends since because of the endless red tape to come and go and that’s before they introduce a sodding hotel quarantine.

Anyway I know the main argument for this idea is new variants that might be able to get round the current vaccine so I decided to google covid variants. Here’s the info I found on the WHO website which was published in June 2020. 66,776 variants by then so who knows how many exist now!!!
Full link here: www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/98/7/20-253591/en/

They were tracking the origin points of spread through last spring due to the mutations. I remember reading an article that Iceland's dominant strain was via the UK. This was about April/ May.

I’m quite enjoying fighting the good fight “over there”, although I don’t recommend it, it’s draining; and I feel nervous when I get the emails “you have been mentioned in a post”. I’ve been called a mental case; the irony! I see stating my views as an exercise in keeping my own mind intact, and not succumbing to Saint Boris’s brainwashing. He might be totally muddled on herd immunity, but there’s no doubt he’s trying to achieve “herd mindset”. He will fail. The illegal raves are proof of that.

And if any those moralising “look them in the eyes” adverts start appearing on bus stops near me, I swear I am going to sneak out in the dead of night and give them some masks; I.e, amendments. Saint Boris needs to look us in the eye, and swear, on his father’s grave, that he is doing the right thing by destroying the economy, education, and mental health.

Saint Boris: "a risk of educational damage to some students during lockdown". Saying it is a step in the right direction, admitting that his beloved lockdown is causing damage, keep the grovelling coming.

But talk about MINIMISING it! More like a complete car crash of damage to these young people's lives. Piffle waffle as usual. Any concrete words about getting children back in school, or more "I hope" this, "I hope" that, "I hope for the moon on a stick?".

Lol, but he would have difficulty, because dear ole Stanley is decidedly alive and well, and has received both vaccine doses, I do believe.