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@AcornAutumn hope you manage to make the most of your birthday.

My birthday is in a couple of weeks. I managed to get posh birthday meal in the week before lockdown so felt very lucky. Never thought a year later I’d be in the ‘lockdown birthday’ crew.

Another sceptic here. I think I would have got rebel a few years ago but as I am retired I don't have a real need to be out there for myself although I strongly support any rebelling done by others.

I suspect if it was a quadrant graph I would be high on rebel and stoic as although I feel quite rebellious my actions are mostly apathetic.

Happy Birthday @AcornAutumn

@bakingcupcakes

That's 3 of us in the Rebel party then. Up the revolution!

bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/2021/01/rights-groups-warn-disabled-people-will-bear-the-brunt-of-police-crackdown-on-mask-rules/

Happy birthday AcornAutumn. Hope you manage to have a good day.

It's rained all day here. I've given up on trying to get the dc out. Dd has refused to get dressed anyway. We have made cupcakes. Dh said I thought you were on a diet! Well yes but it's something to do.

They are now watching some science thing on YouTube, dd has smugly informed me its educational!

As I have been moaning at the rubbish they have been watching.

summit.news/2021/02/17/supermarket-calls-police-on-disabled-man-for-not-wearing-mask-tries-to-make-him-wear-yellow-sticker/

Terrifying!

[quote MercyBooth]summit.news/2021/02/17/supermarket-calls-police-on-disabled-man-for-not-wearing-mask-tries-to-make-him-wear-yellow-sticker/[/quote]
Jesus Christ. What is wrong with people?!

The Telegraph front page headline reads:
"Lockdown to continue until cases drop below 1,000 a day".

That's going to be a problem unless we more-or-less stop testing as SAGE say that false positives (for PCR) are between 0.8%-4% and Matt Hancock says 'about 1%'. So unless we do fewer than 25,000 (if rate is 4%) or than 125,000 (if the rate is 0.8%) tests per day, or whatever it needs to be in between, we are never going to find fewer than 1000 'cases' (ie positives) per day and therefore will have to remain in lockdown for ever. Even if no one is actually suffering from Covid at all.

It is another reason I hope the vaccine gets us out of this mess. Because I don't think some people can be reasoned with when they are so afraid but with some distance they might realise where they were headed and stop something similar happening again. But then I'm maybe too optimistic sometimes.

On a side note I think stoic would have been the least likely to be me in that quiz. I wonder what the opposite of stoic is... Sobbing puddle? I have a great deal of admiration for people who can control their feelings

Happy birthday AcornAutumn .
I got skeptic.
Heard on the radio about more people going on shielding list, even if was on that list I wouldn’t shield! I will take my chances. Who is going to pay their wages if can’t work from home! My DH would just get made redundant. Who is going to take that risk.

@amicissimma I’m sure that the government will solve that problem as follows: sneakily do less testing, or “lose” the results, so the figures do drop to less than 1000 a day. They upsold the positive tests to promote lockdown; I’m sure they’re going to do the opposite as well. Since the start, they’ve been altering the facts to suit their plan. Boris wanted to be open for Christmas, come what may: he had to be dragged kicking abd screaming into cancelling Christmas. They’ve probably decided on a precise timetable for lockdown easing, which they intend to follow come what may; they’ll just keep the dates a secret from the plebs, and silence any scientists who would say the wrong things.

[quote MercyBooth]summit.news/2021/02/17/supermarket-calls-police-on-disabled-man-for-not-wearing-mask-tries-to-make-him-wear-yellow-sticker/[/quote]
That's inhuman.

I don't think the new people on the shielding list are being expected to start shielding as such now, it is more about prioritising them for vaccine over less vulnerable people.

It is in the country's and the NHS's interest that anyone with an increased chance of needing hospitalisation for whatever reason should they get Covid to be vaccinated as soon as possible. This particularly applies to people with a higher BMI as they we are more challenging to nurse at the best of times.

Are that’s a relief @NannyGythaOgg. I thought they were going to force people to shield. I’m number 9 on list, I will only be having vaccine to protect my DP’s. Selfish, I know.
My fed up at moment, one bit of good news for example near me, we are getting a vaccine centre and people are still moaning. Because it’s next to a shopping centre, but good bus service and free parking surely that’s good isn’t it, but no someone might go to the supermarket before or after. I give up.
I need to stay off my council’s Facebook page. They could cause an argument in an empty room.

Sceptic here

Sceptic - was there ever any question?!

I'm a skeptic too. Happy birthday for yesterday @flower11 and happy birthday for today @AcornAutumn! I have had an exciting day as the police knocked this morning and asked about my neighbour (live in a block of flats) and it turns out I have been living next door to a cannabis factory! They have been in and out all day and have taken 10 bags full of the plants out. So that is why my downstairs neighbours messaged me last week asking me about the smell, which until recently I hadn't noticed. I did the quiz and am a skeptic too - I quite liked the suggestion it had of avoiding certain sites in order to avoid going down a rabbit hole. I am avoiding a lot of media at the moment in order to keep myself sane!

I’m so fed up today, we’re not going to be allowed out until we can prove our immortality are we!

I hope you’ve had a lovely birthday Acorn

@flower11 and @AcornAutumn happy birthday to you both.

They are saying the restrictions have cost the economy over 4 billion pounds and that over a hundred thousand have died.

A bit of calculation shows that on that basis each death has cost the economy £40,000.

You need to count the 1000s hospitalised too, many with long covid, which will bring the overall cost down My friend’s mum and dad both ended up in hospital, in their mid 50s, critically ill with covid. Sure she’ll be grateful....

I particularly liked the question on the quiz of whether you were born on 30th Feb, I wonder if just putting yes to that question alone would change your result (it was too long a test for me try it)

@Schonerlebnis

You need to count the 1000s hospitalised too, many with long covid, which will bring the overall cost down My friend’s mum and dad both ended up in hospital, in their mid 50s, critically ill with covid. Sure she’ll be grateful....

I don't 'NEED' to do anything.