ADs teach twisted lyrics to their pet tortoise

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Crawling back to normality slightly slower than a tortoise taking the scenic route...

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4173705-ADs-picnic-in-the-park-with-Twinkle-the-Tortoise

Can someone link to the Telegraph thread please?

@Taswama

Can someone link to the Telegraph thread please?

Apres moi, la deluge

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/4209357-Telegraph-state-of-fear-created-by-government

Heading to Aldi avec lanyard...wish me luck

Good luck Acorn. Hope it's ok.

A year ago on this very AD thread, we talked about the nudge theory. This psychological experiment from the telegraph has Dominic Cummings pawprints all over it. He is somewhat obsessed with moulding society.

Look at this government page and the huge number of folk involved with SAGE, interesting those that are not happy to be named.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronavirus-covid-19-response-membership/list-of-participants-of-sage-and-related-sub-groups

One helpful reader of the telegraph put this interesting document up.

@Mary Kistnen over 30 international studies so far demonstrate that lockdowns made no impact on mortality rates in different countries ...this is the latest one

academic.oup.com/cesifo/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cesifo/ifab003/6199605

This reader must be the same age as me, I remember the fear of nuclear holocaust.

.....State of Fear - it is always about controlling populations with fear. As a kid at school we were told how we had a 3 minute life expectancy as the Soviets could hit us with nuclear weapons without warning at any time. I used to sit in the back garden at home in London as a ten year old trying to work out if it was better to live in the outer suburbs with a chance of surviving nuclear attack, but live with terrible radiation consequences, or live in the center of London and get vapourised. That is what I wondered sometimes as a ten year old looking up at the sky. Then they told us the oil would run out and civilisation could collapse. Then AIDS was coming. Then the Ozone Layer Hole meant we would fry to death. Then Global Warming, then Y2K, oh and then Global Warming became Climate Change. Now Covid 19. Next? ......

I've decided my new pet hate is the phrase 'covid secure'. It's being touted around so much given the shops are soon to open and I just want to throw something at the tv.

@Stuffin

I've decided my new pet hate is the phrase 'covid secure'. It's being touted around so much given the shops are soon to open and I just want to throw something at the tv.

Me too!

It promotes the fiction that there are no other diseases out there. Why not “Noro secure”?

And then my brain moves to the actual danger posed by covid 19 and I start going down the rabbit hole of nothing making sense.

Maybe shops, restaurants etc should say ‘we have jumped through hoops to put in place ridiculous procedures to make sure those customers who have spent the last year being force fed fear-porn feel secure’

I prefer living with normal illnesses to existing without them. What's the point in being kept healthy if I'm living like a sick person?

My mood is not great this week.
I'm so done on mustering the motivation to lug out reluctant children into the cold because there's fuck all else to to.
I'm a bit discombobulated because things change next week. We have a day out fior DS2's birthday. He was 6 when we went into all this shit and now he'll be 8. Some of their activities phase back in next week, some the week after. It all feels very jumbled and messy in my head and surreal.

I do need to get to Decathlon next week. While its a miracle that the DCs' trainers from last June still seem to fit, they are falling apart now!

@AcornAutumn

Which North or South 😂 Sorry, I'm such a north Londoner

Last time I was in South London, I was standing a bus stop looking at the map feeling very confused and a lady said "north London? Did you bring your passport?"

I do love those random London interactions!

Ha! This is the kind of thing I say to people.

I'm the mirror image of you; I'm south London and north London confuses me... my capacity to get lost on the Balls Pond Road is well-known among my friends.

I’m pissed off today. My second imprisoned birthday is this week and I couldn’t care less. In fact all it’s doing is highlighting the fact that I can’t celebrate properly or see who I want to see from my own friends and family for another year in a row. And of course I’m in France in their never ending spiral of lockdowns and not opening in between which has been in place since the end of last October. The kids are homeschooling and although the online provision is good, the routine is gruelling and we don’t have enough broadband width, desk space or food in the house!
I woke up to a message from a relative in Canada who is facing yet more restrictions there and she’s had enough and is starting to find it really tough and I just thought - for the millionth time - wtf is going on in the world? Why has common sense still not prevailed?

Bloody to be fair, Balls Pond Road and the ironically named Mare Street are weirdly impossible to navigate.

Aldi was fine last night but I missed a few things because I get so stressed.

Hi all, checking in. Not been around much. Don't feel like I am in a good place. Possibly lockdown related, or perhaps just the realisation that I have made nothing but bad decisions for my whole life.

Generally just fucking fed up. Arguing with dp about it too. Terrific.

Lostinacloud
It's so tough. I think birthdays really bring it home. I stay offline and feel better but then I come back and just find that everyone is as insane as ever. When will it end? (and I'm so surprised at the French - what's happened to the nation that used to be 'en greve' at the slightest hint of anything? They've lost their revolutionary zeal!

TrusttheGene
I was just talking to a friend who said the same kind of thing - just feels that everything he touches goes wrong. It's not true though; it's depression talking. It's incredibly difficult to stay happy and resilient when things do go wrong when the world is such an awful place.
No consolation at all but you're not alone.

We should be pissed off about missed birthdays, easter, xmas etc. it is hard wired into us to come together at these times, nowt abnormal about that.

Well off to consultant this afternoon, gawd it has been a long three weeks carrying this burden alone. I am hoping consultant will say this kidney lesion is nothing to worry about. So I was right not to worry family.

Good luck with it all today justasking111 hope you get good news

Fingers crossed for later justasking111, pob lwc

Thefallthroughtheair
I was originally expecting the french to rebel too but having lived here for around 8 months now I have determined that what they do instead is just blatantly ignore the majority of the restrictions that they are able to and so in some ways their family and personal lives haven’t been as affected as those in the uk. For example I was speaking to a french lady this morning who just spent easter weekend with 27 of her friends and family in a big family house! She thought nothing of it and was telling us all about the beautiful area Being a staunch AD I was happy for her but in some ways it’s a shame that the french dont feel more oppressed so that they feel more inclined to revolt I have to say!

But my birthday woes fade into insignificance compared to your heavy load @justasking111. I really wish for you to receive some good news today x

Good luck justasking xxx

I'm wondering if it's worth trying St Johns Wort. I'm feeling so flat and have for so many months. I miss my old emotional range.

I clung on all winter to Easter as the start of things getting better, so I'm there now. But some of the upcoming changes are quite superficial. It's at least months for normality to creep back and life to feel rich and interesting again. I'm emotionally empty and utterly lacking any motivation at all.

Fingers crossed @justasking111

My gym has stated they are opening next week. Yay! Tried to book a slot. Last time the slots were an hour and a half so you didn't have to get there straight on time, it allowed flexibility. But now they are an hour. So that's that flexibility out the window. It's also meant the slot times have changed. So now the one slot that I used to book that was convenient isn't there. So I've to go at a less convenient time and pray I can actually get in the weights bit (as the numbers are restricted in there) as everyone will be in around the same time. At least the longer slots had the advantage of managing the flow of people a bit.

When will all this shit just be fucked the fuck off. I'm sick of every bit of my life being managed and controlled and having the convenience, spontaneity and joy sucked out of fucking everything.

Justasking. Fingers crossed for you.
BogRoll I'm trying St js wort as wasn't getting on with meds. Can't do any harm and I think it just gives a sense of doing 'something'. I did read a study which said it had the same level of effectiveness as prozac???
Livin. Know how you feel. There aren't enough 'fucking fucks' in the world to express how fucking angry and depressed I am by this shit show.

Thanks @thefallthroughtheair it feels incredibly self indulgent to have such a response to something like a gym slot but it's just one more thing isn't it.

@LivinLaVidaLoki

Thanks *@thefallthroughtheair* it feels incredibly self indulgent to have such a response to something like a gym slot but it's just one more thing isn't it.

Everything is just one more thing left until you're scraping the barrel.

I think this is where now is harder than last year, we were fresher, and getting something back was something, but it was all a bit hollow, and didn't fully recharge us before the autumn/ winter, and this time we know it in advance and the hope is weaker when it really shouldn't be in the face of the actual data.

I totally get your frustration @LivinLaVidaLoki. It is exactly that, just one more thing that is apparently being given back but then is actually still shrouded in stupid rules and lacking all spontaneity or convenience.
I have found myself similarly frustrated that we can’t just go to a shop and pick the new mattress we desperately need. Instead we have to trawl through websites trying to understand what it is we’re buying and waiting weeks for it to be delivered. Fed up with how difficult even the simplest task is, grinds you down.