Update from The House of Plague, Day 12

[elisi]

Two things. (I realise these posts are getting shorter and shorter. But I am collating links. At some point you'll get a long one again.) However these are two important things.

Politics (be angry)

Today we donated our entire stock of disposable scrubs to an NHS hospital. It was just a few sets, because we don't carry large stocks, but they were desperate, so we sent them free of charge.
We don't usually do politics on Twitter, but here's a short thread. [1/5] pic.twitter.com/Z4ygmGr99M

— MedFetUK (@MedFet_UK) March 27, 2020

(Direct link to thread here.)


Poetry (remember beauty and truth)

"We must love one another or die." On #WorldPoetryDay this is 'September 1, 1939' by WH Auden. #worldpoetryday pic.twitter.com/DrerGTYv3q

— michael sheen (@michaelsheen) March 21, 2020

(The Good Omens fandom knew this all along - what everyone needs is Aziraphale to read poetry. direct link)

Comments

[masakochan]

From now on- any kind of disaster film that comes out- which has a functioning & caring government- is gonna be unrealistic. And the disaster won't be the most fictional part. jfc

[elisi]

Preach.

(SOME countries are more or less OK. Like Denmark. But our disaster of a government? Ugh. Douglas Adams was right: They're all lizards.)

[jerusha]

I really did need to hear Michael Sheen read poetry. That was profoundly beautiful.

[elisi]

One of the fundamental fic tropes of Good Omens is Aziraphale reading aloud (usually poetry) to Crowley. And here it is, and it's just as beautiful as we knew it would be. ♥

[desdemonaspace]

I thought it was only us who had to scrounge supplies.

Yeah, retail staff, Instacart packers, truckers - all the people who keep things running - are Big Damn Heroes.

[elisi]

I thought it was only us who had to scrounge supplies.
Alas no. :( ETA: The NHS has been chronically underfunded for the past 10 years, and the result is that we are woefully unprepared for this.

Yeah, retail staff, Instacart packers, truckers - all the people who keep things running - are Big Damn Heroes.
Eat the rich.

[sea_thoughts]

I saw that thread, it's appalling honestly.

[elisi]

It's what happens when you underfund the NHS for ten years... I SINCERELY hope there will be a reckoning once this is all over. >:(

[sea_thoughts]

Me too. I also hope everyone who voted Tory feels guilty.

[elisi]

Or at the very least realise that they were lied to...