ADs and The Brave New World

[BogRollBOGOF]

When you kind of hope that a new thread meanders on quietly because it means that life is being fairly stable...

What are ADs?

Here's the copy and paste job...

Definition of AD
^AD stands for anti dementor.
There are creatures in Harry Potter called dementors, who suck all hope and happiness from you and eventually take your soul. Way back at the start of the pandemic thread after thread was posted on by posters like this and anyone who'd dare question anything or disagree with anything (like putting cheese in your coffee) was bullied off these threads. And so any actual discussion disappeared and it became an echo chamber of misery.^

We are the antidote to that. We follow the rules, but not the "roolz" and we question and discuss with respect to each other. It's all very civil.

[Taswama]

Slight outbreak of madness from otherwise sane boss this week.
Got to work on Thursday to be told Jack had tested positive so I should go home. I explained I hadn't been in the previous day. She said that Mike and Jane (still in the office) had been there yesterday so I might catch it from them. I said I was willing to risk it and stayed at work. Various other colleagues had already been and gone but I actually enjoy working in the office.

(names obviously made up)

[Worldgonecrazy]

I’m hopeful that the question by the MP yesterday asking if he was a fool for following the rules, may lead on to the question ‘were the rules foolish?’

I dislike the word ‘fool’ in both contexts. It’s not a harsh enough word. The rules were pointless, and many people were so scared of passing something they were convinced was a deadly disease on to loved ones, they instead condemned those loved ones to a lonely death.

The mortality rate, even in elderly and cev never justified this cruelty.

I’m sure some people are angry with the government because it means they don’t have to look at their own complicity too hard.

If you had the opportunity to hug a grieving parent but chose not to, that is not the fault of the government. ‘I was just following orders’ is a message that applies to all of us not just police.

I’m so thankful that we only met one such person on our journey of grief, everyone else bent the rules to allow my family to grieve. I don’t know whether that is because I pushed and shared thoughts on where rules either didn’t make sense or could be interpreted, or had loopholes.

Anyway, maybe when we have finished getting angry with the government we can take a long hard period of self reflection as a nation.

[ISaySteadyOn]

How's everyone today? I am wishing children had more of a sense of time!

[Worldgonecrazy]

I’m good and feeling that normality is on a slow march forward. I think the promise of Spring in the air helps!

[ISaySteadyOn]

Maybe. It does feel springy. Dcat off her food because she is hunting ratsies. She always hunts when the seasons change.

I am, unfortunately, dreading half term. No idea what to do with DCs. And I don't want them spending it on screens iyswim. Anyone planned anything or have ideas?

[amicissimma]

Sainsbury's had the £1 bunches of daffodils today. It must be spring!

[justasking111]

That's early for daffodils. Nice to see them.

Interesting graph today in Wales only 15% of positive tests adults last week

[BogRollBOGOF]

@ISaySteadyOn

Maybe. It does feel springy. Dcat off her food because she is hunting ratsies. She always hunts when the seasons change.

I am, unfortunately, dreading half term. No idea what to do with DCs. And I don't want them spending it on screens iyswim. Anyone planned anything or have ideas?

We're going to go to London for a few days
Although I said that 2 years ago... then DH was getting nervous incase some virus from Wuhan was begining to take hold over here. London seemed like the most obviou spread point so we went somewhere else...

I'm just hoping that when isolation goes and the legislation expires, the need for risk assessments by organisations to appease their regulatory bodies etc also goes. There are still too many layers of being needed to be seen to have Covid measures long beyond the explicit mandatory stuff.

Our local authority is still decreeing out for the schools to decree masks on playgrounds... not that it's ever made any fucking difference at all. The cat is out of the bag on that one. There's about 3 in 120 still obliging.

I hope Wales/ Scotland/ NI have a lucid moment soon.

DH will soon be in the daft position that if he gets Covid, he can go anywhere but work as his HQ is in another part of the UK.

[BogRollBOGOF]

@Worldgonecrazy

I’m good and feeling that normality is on a slow march forward. I think the promise of Spring in the air helps!

I'm realising that I can't really remember this time last year. The first half of 2021 is quite fuzzy and clumped together.

Jan, lockdown, grey, dark, a nice day of snow
Feb, lockdown, grey, dark, sun came out on my birthday
March, kids went back to school, nice warm weather late in the month
April, cold and bright
May, wet, cold and shit, still feeling numb
June, disappointing
July, disappointing
Aug, went to Ireland, like revisiting June 2020, England felt far more normal after gradually unclenching.
It was Aug-Sept before my emotions stopped feeling so numb and felt more like a normal range again.

[justasking111]

That's spot on I can't recall huge chunks of last year, it was such a mess in Wales. Memory on FB come up daily and on my photos sod all on either the last two years barring the birthdays

[BogRollBOGOF]

I did have to laugh at a memory a few days back. Jan/ Feb 2020 were awful for parkrun with frequent nation-wide cancellations for a succession of storms. Little knowing what was to come, I was bemoaning that I didn't know what to do with myself on a park-run free morning.

I was Run Director on 14th & 15th March. Uncertainty was thick in the air. We didn't know if we'd be back next week. When I took the juniors bibs and box home with me, I thought we'd be back soon after Easter. Certainly by May. I was out by a year for juniors... more for 5k.

On the theme of running, my current running injury is a typical over-use injury triggered by running a load of autumn and spring races bunched together at the end of 2021. Unintended consequences of restrictions.

[CruCru]

Hi all

We are in France! And it is lovely. I’d forgotten how beautiful it is.

[Worldgonecrazy]

Hi crucru

How are the people? Is it dementoring heaven?

[CruCru]

Not at all! I think French ski resorts have missed the income.

There’s a lady who checks the COVID pass at the main lift at the start of the day but after then, no one asks. Technically masks are required on ski lifts and in queues but people who wear one appear to be in the minority. I think the main apres-ski places might not be fully up and running but am not absolutely sure (am here with my children).

[justasking111]

Where Ds Normally goes it's quieter on the slopes looking at the live webcam. The hotel people are lovely so he hopes they're surviving business wise

[CruCru]

Yes, it’s very quiet for the English half term. The Paris half term is next week so I hope it’ll be busy enough then

[MrsDeaconClaybourne]

@BogRollBOGOF

I did have to laugh at a memory a few days back. Jan/ Feb 2020 were awful for parkrun with frequent nation-wide cancellations for a succession of storms. Little knowing what was to come, I was bemoaning that I didn't know what to do with myself on a park-run free morning.

I was Run Director on 14th & 15th March. Uncertainty was thick in the air. We didn't know if we'd be back next week. When I took the juniors bibs and box home with me, I thought we'd be back soon after Easter. Certainly by May. I was out by a year for juniors... more for 5k.

On the theme of running, my current running injury is a typical over-use injury triggered by running a load of autumn and spring races bunched together at the end of 2021. Unintended consequences of restrictions.

We said the same at school in the staffroom that week in March 2020 BOG Maybe a couple of weeks either side the Easter holidays. Definitely back by May half term. It felt surreal at the time and still does now looking back. Can't believe schools didn't open properly summer 2020 even if pupils had only been in part time.

[BogRollBOGOF]

Oh how I sobbed in June 2020 when on a news bulletin it was announced that the government weren't aiming to get any more year groups back in. That meant 3 months more to go and we were only halfway through. And it seemed stupid then to waste the healthier summer and bank it all up until the autumn/ winter. I can stand by most of what I was saying from the creation of these threads from late April 2020 and still hold my head up high. So many "no shit Sherlock" news stories coming through about the tolls of restrictions that the ADs could tell were inevitable.

Positive noises from NI tonight. Although "guidence" can be a PITA to shift. Better than mandates though.

[justasking111]

Done a lot of mask wearing the last few days, hospital, vets, shopping. Now tonight I've discovered the sore mouth area is spotty one big angry one. 🤬🤬

[Worldgonecrazy]

I’ve seen more FFP3 masks being worn. No issue if people want to protect themselves.

Still a few useless cloth and paper ones, but surely if you’re wearing the latter to protect others, ie you think you might have covid, surely you should just stay the fuck at home

[Worldgonecrazy]

We used to call them conspiracy theories…Bill Gates saying the quiet part out loud twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1494769981581627398?s=20&t=rAuCi-E873oY5kQ8tlMz8w

[justasking111]

@Worldgonecrazy scrolled down to see the Canadian problem

[ISaySteadyOn]

[quote Worldgonecrazy]We used to call them conspiracy theories…Bill Gates saying the quiet part out loud twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1494769981581627398?s=20&t=rAuCi-E873oY5kQ8tlMz8w[/quote]
Sadly?! Sadly?!

[MrsDeaconClaybourne]

Great article in the telegraph this morning. Not sure the link will work because of the paywall but think you're allowed a number of free ones:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/20/covid-made-world-go-mad-know-now-year-lockdown/

[NeedWineNow]

[quote MrsDeaconClaybourne]Great article in the telegraph this morning. Not sure the link will work because of the paywall but think you're allowed a number of free ones:

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/02/20/covid-made-world-go-mad-know-now-year-lockdown/[/quote]
I'd be interested to read this but it keeps cutting me off. Is there any chance you could post the article in full?