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All these stupid rules and restrictions are making me so nervous and uncomfortable of being in stores and shops. Today I just wanted to look in a little stationary shop because I needed something specific from there, but as it was only one customer at a time I waited outside until it was clear to go in. I was just starting to look for what I wanted, and then the clerk in there said, in an impatient voice, "the delivery man is here so stay 2 metres away". The whole shop was about 2 metres long anyway so basically what she was saying was "you idiot have come into the shop at the wrong time, you must piss off while the delivery man is here" (her flat, solemn tone of voice made it obvious). So to keep everyone safe I rushed out of the shop, you know, just in case I or the delivery man might have this stupid virus and not know about it and then we'll all die.
I just can't enjoy being in stores now. It was midday, I didn't know that was the time the delivery man comes, and course it had to be when I was in there. I'm just sick of all the paranoia and the attitude as well ("would you rather be controlled than to die of coronavirus?")
It's like living in a communist country now, with everyone being controlled. I HATE rules. It's a free country and yet I can't go into a shop without the staff looking at or talking to you like they hate you and don't want you in there.

I'm still furious about that woman who murdered her autistic son. It was premeditated murder of a terrified child in broad daylight (first attempt) and in pitch dark (the successful attempt). This biotch tried to drown her child and he was rescued, only to be sent home in her custody, most certainly traumatised and unable to express his fear. Then, she dragged him to the same place and drowned him in the pitch dark so he couldn't be rescued, before lying to police and blaming black men.

It's not that I expect mothers to love and protect their children more than fathers do. I have the same standards for fathers to protect children. I'm shocked and horrified that people sympathise with this killer and excuse the murder as less heinous because "He was autistic", "He must have been a handful", or "The schools were out and she was exhausted without support". That may all be true. Of course more support is needed for families of children with special needs. But at the end of the day, this woman murdered her own, defenceless child. There is no justification. She's a monster. It's like saying "Chavez killed Floyd but hey ... he had a heart condition (or, he wrote a bad cheque) ... (or, some other black people in the history of the world have been violent) ... so it doesn't matter".

I'm annoyed that there aren't two concurrent news stories in the US: Cop brutality involving racism against helpless handcuffed suspects, and Parent brutality involving racism against helpless dependent children.

She's just as racist, violent, and sick as the worst of the cops.

Rant Over.

#JusticeforAlejandro
Rest in Peace sweet boy

If I were a rioting type, I'd riot for the rights of disabled children and adults who are mistreated, manipulated, and / or murdered by those who should protect them the most. It's a widespread tragedy. I've even read stories about our own WP members being abused and exploited financially, physically, emotionally and psychologically by their own families, partners, or caregivers. Some of our members have fled from terrifying domestic situations, others have been harassed and belittled by professionals, and we've all faced discrimination for being who were are.

This poor child deserved more. That baby on YouTube who was "rehomed" deserved more. The autistic residents of care homes who were labelled "Do Not Resuscitate" during the pandemic deserved more. I'm fed up with society's attitude that we are a disposable blight on the landscape: people to pity and fix with self-promoting virtue signalling on an Instagram page, or people to annihilate with justification, if we inconvenience someone else's life.

#Alejandro

Hmph.


I'd rather wish to recall my dad back home where here there are less chaos and with a less severe degrees of prejudice albeit still prejudice.
And despite living a life abroad with his own, familiar and settled away from this life.

I'm very aware that if this comes true, he'd be a stranger in a familiar land -- few of which I may sympathize. But this is just my wish, hypothetical, a small possibly at best.


If it takes to or if one had to take on an entire family branch to recall along just to recall him, so be it.
Most of us never met his brother and my cousins from out there anyway. Perhaps I may even meet this wife of his, too.

After all, both my parents moved on and both their children are no longer kids themselves. Should this wish come true, I can only hope it won't be so complicated.

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Can't believe this needs saying but:

If you have any access to toilets and are able to use them, do so.

If you are too disabled, use your nappies/bedpan.

If you are unfortunate enough not to have toilets (ever, I'm not talking about going places without access on purpose I'm talking about cases of extreme poverty), dig a latrine.

Do NOT leave human waste in rivers, sea etc. People fish from there. They don't want that contaminated with human waste. That's how viruses spread.

People need to stop making it hard for dad to social distance, he says it's 'impossible' If you stay in a dump of a town, stay there during lockdown. Don't make it so people can't go to their own places during lockdown.

Might just find their nearest beauty spots and encourage him to go for a drive in the car. I won't because that's not fair on those who follow the spirit of the law.

As long as a person stays in the car, that person can’t pass along the virus.

I see nothing wrong with long drives, as long as the person stays in the car.

People should be allowed to go for walks, as long as they wear a mask.

They're not doing that though, they're lying on the beaches for hours and potentially spreading the virus past their own town. He could technically just walk the streets but that seems cruel when he has a beach on his doorstep and chose to live somewhere with a beach, they didn't. And masks are in high demand, it's hard for him to get hold of one. He should make one himself but you know 'embarrassment'...

I didn’t know he lives by a beach.

Yeah he does.

Their own cities have parks and things. I get why people don't want to just walk on their own streets but as long as someone has access to a park/beach/green space I don't know why they feel they've got the right to travel to other towns.

The day after, police always guard those areas (including from him, literally just for people who live on the foreshore and couple of streets around there) but if it's a cold day/Monday nobody was going there anyway.

Hopefully if "R numbers" (infection rate) rise, local laws will be announced with nobody being allowed in and out of town.

I know I sound like a hypocrite for saying this but I do read a lot.

Some people need to get the hell off the internet, quit spending all their time talking to other urban English people and talking to Yanks, start listening and start listening to people who have ever lived in a village or in Scotland.

I agree w them that history doesn't really matter if it doesn't affect present day but... just been called taig, told to go home and been warned off someone cos 'so and so is a p....y' (when it's literally true) to pretend 'doesn't affect the present day' thing is true.

We're not Americans.

Topple Cromwell. Topple Thatcher.

I understand what anger, bitterness, envy, self loathing and disappointment so much...

So much, I want to hate it back.
I want to squeeze the life out of those who covet so much, those who are so stuck, those who don't see the other damn way.

Why can't they just damn admit it??
Admit the fact that they themselves are so delusional, they all assume it's a dog eat dog world.

It frustrates me that they don't have to do this. That there are other ways to see things.



But you know what?????
Why bother? THAT'S their wish -- they want to be stubborn -- insisting that the world is a dog eat dog world.

Let them suffer in their delusions.
Let them sleep and remain ignorant, let them stay in the confines of fear and anger.

If they say that the world fails them, so be it.



My only conciliation, if only, to say to them:
Sorry that the world failed you.
That you thought you failed the world and become so guilty about it.

You were too hurt -- so you wish for power and control... Have things easy for you so you don't have to suffer.
And have to spread this hurting in hopes that no one else falls for it too.




A part of me is just sympathetic and just know how hard it is to get out in there.
A part of me could only watch in sorrow.

But a part of me... Simply want to take that burning fire and chuck back at them in frustration because of having enough of their excuses.

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The world has truly gone bat s**t crazy. Rational sensible people have abandoned their steadfast way of being and I dont recognise them anymore.

Where does it end, it seems likely to escalate more, I mean with each passing level, initially I think surely that's it now, we have topped out... but no, there is more. By the time the dust has settled, what will we be left with? It feels like we are being torn apart at the seems.