Coronavirus ROI/NI part 3

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The 3rd thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/craicnet/3874978-Coronavirus-in-ROI-NI-part-2?pg=40

It seems that a lot of people have not taken these phase 1 rules seriously. Beaches packed, protests in Dublin, Bbq's with large groups taking place everywhere and sharing pictures on social media.
There has been 3 bank holiday weekends since we were told to stay home at the end of March. Each bank holiday weekend, my neighbours have had a different set of people staying over for the entire weekend. This weekend has been the biggest crowd by far.

I usually like my job but am actually dreading work tomorrow, facing into more months of working from home whilst having thr kids here. I'm dreading work and feel like I'm being a terrible mother to the kids. I wish I could drop them off to the childminder in the morning then head off to the office. This is so unfair on them.

Hopefully we won’t have a second wave.
I was watching all the parties etc for VE Day in the U.K. in early May and was worried about their impact but it doesn’t seem to have triggered a second wave.
We have the virus even more contained at this stage so hopefully any impact of BBQ, crowds and protests will be limiting.
Of course it would be better if they didn’t happen but they did.

But are the uk testing better now? I heard before that they were only testing people in hospital. I know my cousin's partner thinks she had it in London but she couldn't get tested for it. This was before Easter I think. We dont really know how parties and gatherings affected people if they cant be tested.

The U.K. does have more testing now and hospital admissions and deaths are still falling so no sign of a second wave yet thankfully.

I'm fed up waiting 14 days every time something happens.

Oh that's good news. Hopefully the virus is weakening as well.

I'm having chainsaw madness around here. Obviously everyone has been sitting at home staring at their trees and realising they have become too large because there are at least three gardens near-ish me that have had chainsaws operating on and off since this morning.

Funnily enough, I was looking at the silver birch in my back garden a couple of weeks ago and realised that it has grown far too big and it's blocking my view of the mountains as well as casting an afternoon shadow in my neighbour's garden.

It's strimming here. I can hear them going, the lawn mowers will be next. I dont know how they can, it's too hot.
The highlight of my morning was cleaning my oven. I spent the morning cleaning

I was listening to the dulcet tones of Professor Luke O Neill on Newstalk in his usual slot with Pat Kenny.
I think he's great and I was listening to him in the slot pre Covid19. He makes his topics easy to understand.
Anyone else listen to Luke and Pat ?
Two scientists - compelling listening.
Let's hope that interest in the STEM subjects increases -it would be one good thing Covid19 could do !!!

I only listen to RTE gold, no news, no ads just music. Unless I visit my parents garden, they listen to radio 1.
Might check out that on line though.

I really like Luke but I am unsure about masks.I know I fiddle, other people fiddle, and masked people get in my way.

If i go supermarket shopping I wear a mask and gloves.

I do a lot of hand sanitizer before and after going in, and disinfect the trolley, I find I fiddle with a mask. I will wear it if I have to.
Most people seem to constantly be at them, though.

and masked people get in my way.

Eh? Do they jump out from behind shelves or lie across the isles? How do masked people get in your way?

They do, they believe masks give them superpowers. I wear a mask at times, because I think we will have to if we go to one metre. I find if I am looking at tins of soup and a staff member is stocking ketchup shelves two metres away, a masked person will get between us.
I also had one duck under my armpit last week when I was reaching up.
I think we need more education in masks and gloves and sanitising. And not fiddling with masks.
My dd1 has to wear a mask all day in work, and is horrified by supermarket masked wearers!

@eggandonion I know exactly what you mean. I've also seen people wearing masks walking slowly side by side down the middle of the aisle browsing.
I dont wear gloves, I ran out and I found I disinfecting my gloves a lot more. I was overly conscious of touching and carrying germs etc.

Just watching George Floyd's daughter and partner? Ex partner? (The news said the mother of his child) my heart breaks for them but then I got thinking of something else. You know the way some people from all races dont believe in mixing races, I wonder does that go way back in our Gene's as a means of making sure your tribe survives. I also think about that when women are drawn to "bad boys"instead of "too nice" boys. Is that going back to primal gene that the man can provide, kill the beast and bring home meat.
I'd love to know how much the Gene's left over from out cavepeople ancestors affect our desires and discisions now.

I don't know about race but I read a fascinating thing a few years ago. When a baby is born, it's obvious who the mum is, but the dad has to be convinced. Hence all the discussion about looking like daddy.
Bad boys always seem to attract nice girls as well as less nice ones in films!

I heard that too, it wasnt the case with my granddaughter, she's the image of her mother.

My mother in law is convinced all her grandchildren look like someone related to her. They really don't. Some look a bit like one parent, some are an obvious mix, some are the image of somebody. Dh has a set of six cousins, three are the image of their dad and three of their mum - but they don't look related to each other across the 'divide'.
I have a really distant relation - our great grandparents were cousins, but we have the same surname - we could pass as sisters. When we have coffee together in a nice cafe. I dream of going to a nice cafe...

I cant wait to be able to go for tea and a cake.
I see Ming and his legs are all over the internet and the news I saw the clip of the interview, it's the rubbing of the leg that caught me. I had to smile though as i felt it was obvious he didnt know they could see the bottom half.

Poor Ming! That’s my worst nightmare. I’ve taken many a Zoom meeting in my jimjams

I want to give him a wash, a hair cut and a beard cut. Not that would make him a better politician or anything just that scraggly thing he calls a ponytail is a bit ridiculous looking now.
From one extreme to the other with him. First the Ming the merciless look and now too long scraggly hair.

Poor Ming! It was a visceral cringe for him when I saw it. I can just imagine myself being caught like that.
I remember years ago on some panel show. Ming was going on about some cause, not turf cutting - cannabis legalisation I think - and Brendan O Carroll said in prison his locks would be called 'reins'

Next topic: babies looking like their fathers. I've seen it many times, up to when the babies are 6 week ish. It often doesnt last, that's the crazy thing. But I remember seeing a neighbours baby around that age, the cut of his father, just short of outlandishly so in a Pat Mustard manner. I was a kid at the time and hadn't a clue, but cough cough years later I've seen it time and time again. Theres probably something in it, bonding leading to protection I suppose.

Oof! that's a cringey video.
Visceral as you say 7Days.

(BTW, is your username related to a defunct news programme?)

I just say the baby is lovely, what an unusual name if it is something weird.