ADs and their pampered poodles

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

Considering the really awful rates of rapes and violent assaults you hear of happening in South Africa their decision was especially inhumane. It makes me so sad that so many people are being treated so awfully because of this virus and the harsh rules being imposed on them in order to 'protect' them.

@MaxNormal Good God

After feeling terrible most of yesterday I decided to take the day off today.
I got medicine for the vertigo and told to take it easy for a week or two. No hard exercise. So thats my grit and body combat out. Wondering now if yoga or barre will be OK. I get anxious at being so sedentary.

Once the medicine kicked in I was back to work as I felt rubbish but not rubbish enough to be off. But have like 84 hours accrued so taking a day or two off a week.

Just ventured into chat and saw a bloody awful thread about a woman booted out of sainsburys for not wearing a mask. Most of the replies are disgusting.

This pandemic really hasn't bought out the best in people. One day we won't have to wear masks in supermarkets and shops again and I do wonder what those people who are so outraged by the maskless are going to find to complain about. A friend/neighbour of mine who has ms and was having a difficult day with regards to her breathing yesterday went into a shop and was told off by another shopper for not wearing a mask. Her daughter told the shopper off but it is revolting that people feel that they have the right to attack people for this.

Forgot to say @LivinLaVidaLoki I hope you feel better and that you can manage yoga.

I hope you feel better later on today Loki I get very anxious at the prospect of being sedentary too. I'm not a big lover of exercise but I've become quite obsessive about my step count and calorie counting. This all started after covid and I think to some extent it's a control thing.

I didn't watch that bbc video. I think I need to go back to not reading/watching the news. I'm going to work today so that's something. If I can get DS at least a half week of education I feel better. He does very little at home school and I just pace the house constantly worrying myself.

Livin, Yoga with Adriene has a good mix of videos including practices that are low to the ground and don't have lots of changes of level.

I have given up on the half and half of homeschooling for DD2. I am, of course, educating her but leaving the school out of it. They don't care at all.

Thanks for the tip @bogrollbogof

Also, while I'm feeling tired and ranty....

What's with all the "I had to jump through hoops to get my child half an hour at school on a Wednesday but loads of people who aren't even keyworkers or vulnerable are in full time" threads.

Why is it easier to believe that there is some nefarious plot to keep your child out than to believe that other parents jumped through the same hoops?

I was just reading that thread. I think people are resentful of what other people have. I had to give my own head a wobble because DD2's best friend has a place and I felt a bit jealous. And I do think that children physically in school are going to have an advantage, but I don't think it's a nefarious plot.

Morning all

Livin I had a sudden attack of vertigo a few weeks back, I think I posted on here. I was doing a stretch down the side, looked up my arm as per yoga, then fell straight to the floor.

If it's BBPV, you might be able to do above ground exercise but don't turn your head into the position that aggravates it?
Hope you feel better ASAP.

Am I being more harsh than usual or do we have some real drama queens around? Able to post loads while talking about how terrible their bout of Covid is?

Describing the horribleness of a regular lurgy - which no one wants of course - as if it's the worst thing to happen to them ever, and then having a handy oxygen monitor thing? One of which said 99% which made me LOL.

BodyAttack is doable low impact Loki, it's usually fairly obvious how to adapt, but they usually give the low impact version a couple of repetitions in.

Randomly today I feel much less dizzy. Even when I accidentally lay on the aggravating side. I had quite bad shoulder stiffness and pain yesterday so now I'm wondering if the dizziness was caused by a trapped nerve or something. I've taken a couple of prochlorperazine since yesterday but I don't remember them working this well or quickly last time?

I had full on vertigo a few years back and it was heart racing dizziness and claustrophobia because it affects your spatial awareness. It malingered for months and it's the one illness I live in fear of getting again.

Is it just that I'm out of touch - I have never, ever, known anyone who has their own oxygen monitor and I wouldn't expect anyone to unless they had a specific medical condition which might mean it was useful. I may not be the right person to judge though as I didn't have a thermometer until a couple of weeks ago when we thought DD might be ill (I did feel slightly judged by the health visitor when I rang her.) And then the one DH bought was useless anyway because there's no way a baby is going to keep their mouth closed round a thermometer until it goes beep.

We had one that was a strip that we pressed against baby's forehead. Also, we found that kissing the forehead was strangely effective in determining temperature.

We did get in a fingertip oxymeter last year quite early on in all this debacle.
I'd laugh if anyone called me a Covid Denier because we took this cautiously at least a month before the masses did. I just think it is pertinent to be critical about what data is presented, and the cost-benefit of measures.

I think now Covid denier means if you don't wholeheartedly support the harshest and cruellest possible lockdowns.

I have never denied it exists.

Nobody has ever denied it on these threads, very little of it on MN in general.i do see bits of it on things like newspaper comments. Not seen any mention of 5G for a while though

@ISaySteadyOn

We had one that was a strip that we pressed against baby's forehead. Also, we found that kissing the forehead was strangely effective in determining temperature.

I have since acquired a strip one, which is much better. My mum used to put the back of her hand on my forehead and then on her forehead to see if there was a difference.

cost-benefit analysis from the government would be good to see at some point... I believe Julia H-B on Talk Radio has been asking for it for a while. I have however, given up with news - it doesn't do me any favours, just makes me crosser.

Still trying to be "positive" for the sake of the off-spring and in a fit of optimism booked a (UK) holiday for August just so we could have something in the diary to look forward to.

In other good news, my oldest, dearest friend who was somewhat dementorish at the beginning of al this, wrote to her MP yesterday begging them to get kids back to school asap, so the mood is changing.

The denier thing is such a lazy (and/or intellectually arrogant) way of dismissing difficult issues in a single neat package, rather than engaging with massively complex situations to which there are no simple answers.

@BogRollBOGOF

We did get in a fingertip oxymeter last year quite early on in all this debacle. I'd laugh if anyone called me a Covid Denier because we took this cautiously at least a month before the masses did. I just think it is pertinent to be critical about what data is presented, and the cost-benefit of measures.

Oh I'm not objecting to people having an oximeter

It's just the dramatic "I've never been so ill in my life, the oximeter says 99% and I can post here all day" posts.

Agree, we've hit a point where questioning lockdown just gets you labelled a Covid denier.

Glad you are feeling a bit better today @LivinLaVidaLoki

I’ve woken up with a bloody cold! How on earth has that happened. Not been anywhere or done anything for what feels like forever.

There is an article in the Daily Fail this morning where SAGE still want to threaten people with lockdowns to prevent them disobeying the rules once vaccinated. I’m getting a bit fed up of the constantly moving goal posts now.

I also don't object to people having an oxymeter! Just didn't think many people would - but I may well be hugely out of touch in these matters.

We got an oximeter when DH caught covid to check that he didn't need medical treatment.