We both gettit and are of the school of thought that a mask warns others that you are potentially carrying the virus and thus to be given a wide berth…
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…yers! In the most awfly inconvenient way!
Here’s a pic of me on my way to the bank wearing the wonderful cat-mask Cat-Lady Kim made for me:
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It’s honestly not the Schadenfreude, it is some of the turns of phrase that are making me laugh. Brilliant, somewhat sweary, thread on mumsnet about life in lockdown.
"Even when I go to the toilet someone’s there asking what I’m doing. I’m building a new hadron collider in the u-bend, wtf do you think I’m doing in the bathroom? "
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That was laugh out loud reading even though none of it applies to me
Carinthia.xx
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…story of my life!!! 
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I have the misfortune to live under to auspices of the UK’s worst performing Health Authority, the infamously embarrassingly named Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board. Or Bwrdd Iechyd Pryfysgol Betsi Cadwaladr.
Official biographies of Elizabeth Davies shine a great & virtuous light on the lady in question … a rival to another famously bonkers lady, Florrie Nightingale. Unofficial ones cover her history with less glitter.
It is the largest in Wales, by population and so much the largest by geography it is unmanageable. It covers ALL of North Wales & any attempt to rationalise it is fiercely resisted by its, ever diminishing, supporters.
It’s bern in broad ranging ‘Special Measures’ for 5 years now and in that time has got worse rather than better.
Last week it had to add around 20% to Welsh CV-19 statistics as it found it had ‘forgotten’ to send data to the central authorities.
Its performance is so generally inept that this was simply shrugged off as “Oh dear. Well … that’s Betsi for you”.
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I suspect that many figures will be ‘guestimated’, Armers. In Chesterfield Orsepiddle 72 people have died of Covid -19.
We have no idea of how many have died in Care Homes, or their own homes, how many have been tested, or not, & are only certain that of those tested positive, no follow up of people they have been in contact with has taken place.
And Breathe…
Carinthia.xx
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So first you’ve got the death certificate, which may or may not list it based on whether tests have been done.
And then you’ve got the statistical analysis, which may only take immediate cause of death, or may take underlying condition, or may consider the things in between, depending on whether the analyst has been told to make the problem look serious or not.
About the only reliable data are the figures for excess deaths, and given how much that varies from year to year anyway it’s only really useful for comparing between places rather than saying how bad things are overall.
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I would cheerfully become an excess death if it cured my edake…
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Davis. Which is an odd way of pronouncing Cadwaladr
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Pore Twellsy!
Soo xx
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I sit corrected Gus.
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Which is an odd way of spelling Cadwallader, but they do like to save on their 'e’s. And double L’s tend to be phleghm inducing around Bala.
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Without doubt.
It’s impossible to keep up ‘real time’ numbers and there will be virus induced deaths which are not recognised as such, non-virus ones which are blamed on it and many, many deaths where it is merely one element of many.
I’d certainly agree that only time and a dispassionate review of overall numbers in relation to previous years will give a full picture. But the meeja are to hungry for such patients patience.
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It does make it easier to look her up, though 
One could use ‘Cadwaladr’, true, but it only encourages them.
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More conventionally pronounced /ˈdʒoʊnz/ .
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I’ll have to take your word for that, Dunnock…
Carinthia.xx
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Just ‘Betsi’ would get you there.
Lionised by Welsh Nat’s with quite deliberately partial interpretation of her life a more rounded view, in a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ sort of way would be “a bit of a lass”.
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also encourages them in their ridiculous and perverted spelling. Constant vigilance! Zero tolerance!
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Once at a safe distance, anyway
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