Fucking 1st June

[EarlLeighIndamornin]

I have to admit, I cried.

I'm not being UR.

@T0tallyFuckedUpFamily I should have left it at an eye roll too. No where in the constitution does it say that their right to a fucking haircut is more important than protecting the public from the biggest public health issue and global pandemic in a 100 years

I do sympathise but try to look on the bright side, at least he hasn't lost his job yet. It might not be for much longer, it is not like being housebound through illness with little hope of recovery (and usually job and home loss alongside it!).

If you do find it really unbearable, could he consider applying for a job that gets him out of the house? There are actually lots of medical facilities needing support staff, cleaners, admin etc, food shops recruiting, delivery drivers needed if he can drive? Not always paying a living wage but at least he would be out of the house. Or could you or he volunteer for a while to get out of the home, food bank etc?

@theschoolonthehill America does not have 100,000 deaths.

I'm also in the USA. My state has cancelled school until September. Our Governor is going to have Press Conference tomorrow to let us know about the plans/timelines for opening up out state.

YesIReallyDoLikeRootBeer

Up until two weeks ago, the US were only counting deaths that had lab tested positive before or after death. People who died without being tested and those who died at home were not counted. It is reported the actual figure is off by tens of thousands.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis of the H1N1 swine flu virus outbreak in the U.S. in 2009 and 2010 concluded two years later that the actual tally was likely 15 times higher than the officially recorded figures. A 2013 study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health determined the figure was seven times higher than the official count.

To maintain my sanity, I’ve discovered meditation and a weekly session of volunteering. The latter is done safely with minimum contact with others but gets me out of the house!

Combined, they allow me to let off just enough ‘steam’ to maintain this lockdown.

@ilovesooty
😂

In this house the US "freedom marches" have given us our first genuine laugh at a CV story in weeks.

You couldn't make it up.
Oh and the twat asking people to cough on him.🙄

God help the poor American's with even the tiniest bit of brain function....what a shit show to be witnessing.

Can you imagine what it must be like to be a frontline worker and coming home to THAT on the news.

Thank goodness for US protest
WTF?? I’m astounded. What a fucking ignorant and irresponsible comment to make.

Thank goodness for US protests.

Wtf? I guess it’s some form of natural selection though.

We are in the Seattle area and had the first known cases in the nation; because our leaders followed the science we now have less than 800 deaths statewide. We were told weeks ago that the kids won't be back in school until the next school year, so September.

As for the protesters, the numbers are still really low. Our capitol in Olympia had a protest of 2.5k people but the vast majority of people in the state agree with the governor and want to comply. The protestors across the nation are being financially backed by the Koch brothers - extreme right wing billionaires. Not to say 30m unemployed isn't a terrible problem, but encouraging armed insurrection isn't the way to solve a health crisis.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not

American children obviously won't be going back to school before end of August as the usually break up mid May to mid-June.
State schools here in England are much later.

OP I am very, very bored too.

You're struggling to deal with your husband working from home?

Go and volunteer, there are people desperate for support.

Ignorant people will continue to be ignorant. OP maybe be grateful that this worldwide pandemic is being taken a little bit seriously? Or listen to your great orange leader and inject yourself with bleach/dettol!

I’d happily stay in lockdown until January if it meant all those I loved and cared for could stay alive. Actually if everyone could stay alive, I wouldn’t wish this on a stranger. Maybe I’m selfish then🤷‍♀️

For me, is also the shock that governments worldwide think it’s okay to quarantine healthy people

The virus can be spread by people with no symptoms. Governments without an effective testing system do not know who the healthy people are.

Thank goodness for US protests

words fail me too.

Why do people think I don’t know about asymptomatic carriers?

You can find perfectly sane people off MN and in respectable professions, who are anti lockdown, you know. Some of them even work on legal challenges 😱

Finding it difficult to deal with lockdown and becoming anxious and upset as a result does not mean that anyone is ignoring the severity of the pandemic or does not care.

It is a natural response to social isolation. Why do you think organisations like NASA spend so much on research looking at this?

Here is a really interesting study:

Effects of isolation and confinement on humans-implications for manned space explorations

journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.00928.2015

You can find perfectly sane people off MN and in respectable professions, who are anti lockdown, you know.

Medical professions?

@Reallymissthegym You are totally not selfish. I feel the same totally, that's not to say there aren't days that I'm not struggling with being stuck inside. I would just prefer people to not have to suffer and if I have to work from home and home educate at the same time then that's what I will do.

You can find perfectly sane people off MN and in respectable professions, who are anti lockdown, you know. Some of them even work on legal challenges 😱

You mean there are lawyers who want to make money? I’m shocked!

For me, is also the shock that governments worldwide think it’s okay to quarantine healthy people

I don't think most governments think it's ok. I think they think it's the least worse option at the moment. We won't thank them if they don't take action and the virus spreads to the point where systems collapse. If I need emergency medical care for any reason in the next few months I'd like it to be available. I'd like supply chains to keep functioning so I can buy food and other essentials easily. I'd like people to not abandon essential jobs through fear of the virus, as some staff in nursing home staff did in Spain, with the residents left alone in their beds.

This is an unusual situation and the restrictions are time-limited.

My employer told us on 17 March that we'd be working from home for a minimum of 14 weeks, and I now expect that to be at least a month longer as all-staff catch-up meetings have been put into my diary for an additional month. I'm actually glad I knew from the start that this was going to be quite long-term as I haven't had to deal with the hope and disappointment of "perhaps in a fortnight?"

Why do people think I don’t know about asymptomatic carriers?

Because you talk about quarantining healthy people.

You can find perfectly sane people off MN and in respectable professions, who are anti lockdown, you know.

But not at protests in the US where they are promoting conspiracy theories and threatening elected politicians with guns.

Thank goodness for US protests

Words fail me

How about cutting nose off to spite face.

SoVeryLost I haven’t seen my partner for 9 1/2 weeks (lol) and my eldest son is at his dads. I have my youngest still with me. So I am struggling, a lot, but surely it’s worth it to keep people safe?