elisi | Update from The House of Plague, Day 39

Yesterday was all srs bsns. Today I am going the other way...

This Onion piece is from a month ago:

Man Just Buying One Of Every Cleaning Product In Case Trump Announces It’s Coronavirus Cure https://t.co/3bKatQGz04 pic.twitter.com/0kkhWzjl98
— The Onion (@TheOnion) March 25, 2020

So, a suggestion for Biden's campagin slogan:

"Biden 2020: vote for me if you want to live"

FFS people, Trump is bragging about his ratings while 2000 Americans die every day and we're going into a depression
— "testing and tracing asap" david m (@dave_m_) April 24, 2020

The Big Night In was rather lovely, and the home-made format worked very well. BUT. This tweet has a point:

Turned on BBC1, caught the end of Big Night In. Ending with a song by Andrew Lloyd Webber (£6m tax avoidance scheme) and Gary Barlow (£20m tax avoidance scheme) to encourage the public to donate to charities or order to fill a *mysterious void* in the public purse. 🙃
— Michael Marshall (@MrMMarsh) April 23, 2020

Which leads nicely into this video from Australia:

Thanks celebrities, for everything you do for us.#giveusyourmoney pic.twitter.com/URCaZQmGiE
— Greta Lee Jackson (@gretaleejackson) April 24, 2020

(Direct link: https://twitter.com/gretaleejackson/status/1253507484305637376)

And back to politics. From PMQs on Weds. Absolutely priceless. Go read the whole thread:

This is all a massive competition to see which MP's houses look EXACTLY like you'd expect.

Peter Bone's is entirely white and empty.

Read what you want into that.
— John Bull (@garius) April 22, 2020

(Direct link to thread: https://twitter.com/garius/status/1252921383509725185)

Hurrah for the (possible) vaccine. However, in true '2020 is the most absurd year ever', the vaccine is called CHAD:

We made it! The first batch of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine that is being used in the clinical trials here in Oxford was manufactured by my marvellous team at the CBF. We take no credit for the conception or the design, but we will take credit for having gone from DNA construct to...
— Catherine Green (@CathGreenLab) April 23, 2020

And finally:

You think you're having a bad week? My poor colleague has just been in to do her weekly check of the library building. The cleaner has stared deep cleaning the space (so far, so good) and has cleaned the shelves but has put 18.5 bays of books back on IN SIZE ORDER.
— Krystal Vittles (@KrystalVittles) April 23, 2020

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OMG THE LIBRARY. I can only assume this was because entire shelves were emptied at one time leading to the order becoming hopelessly muddled anyway, but OMG.