Coronavirus Disease Outbreak COVID-19 #60

Questions

  • If I was to vote on the upcoming lockdown in parliament , I’d vote no

    Votes: 139 30.7%

  • If I was to vote on the upcoming lockdown, I’d vote yes

    Votes: 204 45.0%

  • I think the lockdown will continue past Dec 2nd

    Votes: 334 73.7%

  • I don’t think the lockdown will stretch past Dec 2nd

    Votes: 73 16.1%

  • If it does, I won’t comply

    Votes: 115 25.4%

  • If it does, I will be complying

    Votes: 196 43.3%

  • I’ve thought about taking my child out of school until this is over/I would if I was a parent

    Votes: 74 16.3%

  • I will keep my child in school as long as I can/I would if I was a parent

    Votes: 170 37.5%

  • I have no confidence in Boris

    Votes: 315 69.5%

  • I have confidence in Boris

    Votes: 36 7.9%
  • Total voters
    453
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velvetn0mates said:
would rather go without seeing my family for one christmas than never seeing them again

this whole thing should bring back the TRUE meaning of christmas and stop people buying their bratty kids 10000s of presents as facebook huns battle it out to share their christmas eve snaps of presents piled under the tree - gross
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The true meaning of Christmas is long gone it's so commercialised now.
 
Platypusfattypus said:
Unless you are in each others support bubbles then you should not be going into each others houses. We can meet up with one person from another household outside for social reasons or exercise so I suppose you could get round it that way
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That's what I thought I could do, wear a mask, social distance, won't need to go in her house as we'll be outside, I just think it'll be safer helping her than folks going into supermarkets!
 
I missed the conference, what was the gist of it and did they announce today’s figures? Thank you x
 
We havnt seen my MIL since March, she has lots of health problems and has been shielding. She refused to see us even when restrictions were relaxed. Now she’s saying she won’t see us at Christmas no matter what Boris says. Any advice on how to proceed/deal with this, while being sympathetic to how she feels. (She does live with her husband so isn’t totally isolated, though her choices are having a really bad effect on her mental health).
 
Rlaw1978 said:
We havnt seen my MIL since March, she has lots of health problems and has been shielding. She refused to see us even when restrictions were relaxed. Now she’s saying she won’t see us at Christmas no matter what Boris says. Any advice on how to proceed/deal with this, while being sympathetic to how she feels. (She does live with her husband so isn’t totally isolated, though her choices are having a really bad effect on her mental health).
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i mean she’s said she won’t see you so there’s not much you can do? Is it because she’s worried for her health? I don’t blame her. At least she isn’t alone. Can you do a FaceTime or skype call over Christmas? Do you have children? If so maybe do something like that whilst the kids open her presents. She’s clearly made up her mind don’t take it personally I bet she would love to spend Christmas with family but if she has health issues then she feels it’s not for the best.
 
Rlaw1978 said:
We havnt seen my MIL since March, she has lots of health problems and has been shielding. She refused to see us even when restrictions were relaxed. Now she’s saying she won’t see us at Christmas no matter what Boris says. Any advice on how to proceed/deal with this, while being sympathetic to how she feels. (She does live with her husband so isn’t totally isolated, though her choices are having a really bad effect on her mental health).
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There's not much you can really do if she's refusing. Does she live near by? Could you wave through the window on xmas day? Or do a drive by? She's not on her own completely so I suppose take some solace in that.
 
hrh89 said:
i mean she’s said she won’t see you so there’s not much you can do? Is it because she’s worried for her health? I don’t blame her. At least she isn’t alone. Can you do a FaceTime or skype call over Christmas? Do you have children? If so maybe do something like that whilst the kids open her presents. She’s clearly made up her mind don’t take it personally I bet she would love to spend Christmas with family but if she has health issues then she feels it’s not for the best.
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She has stage 5 kidney failure and muscle wasting disease. She is worried for her health which as someone who also has health problems I completely understand. But it’s got to the point where she is desperately unhappy and is crying daily on the phone to me. I don’t know how to best help her other than listen. She’s also very angry and aggressive, she makes me feel like the situation she’s in is my fault and somehow I can fix it, if that makes sense.
I have kids but they are all older teens, so present thing wouldn’t go down well with them. They would do a chat though so might try that. Thanks.
 
From what I remember Whitty said a while back that they were overestimating the data just in case it bit them on the ass like last time when they underestimated the death toll and the stats jumped pretty quick

This will not be helping anyone
 
The guy doing the conference OF COURSE went to Oxford with Boris...
 

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Rlaw1978 said:
She has stage 5 kidney failure and muscle wasting disease. She is worried for her health which as someone who also has health problems I completely understand. But it’s got to the point where she is desperately unhappy and is crying daily on the phone to me. I don’t know how to best help her other than listen. She’s also very angry and aggressive, she makes me feel like the situation she’s in is my fault and somehow I can fix it, if that makes sense.
I have kids but they are all older teens, so present thing wouldn’t go down well with them. They would do a chat though so might try that. Thanks.
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Has she seen anyone at all other than her husband this whole time? I can completely understand her fear but that’s so sad. Could you maybe arrange before Christmas something where you could come into the house but maybe wear masks and gloves and just do it for 5 mins? Maybe if she has a dining room that opens into a lounge she could be in one room and you in another? Her fear is so enormous I think that maybe a small amount of really safe controlled exposure to other people might ease her back into it, I don’t think she’ll be able to just go from how she is to full on seeing people. I know that I was really scared about going out early on after lockdown but I had to go to a drs appointment and just that getting out for the first not very long really helped reassure me so I was able to do a bit more x
 
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