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Update from The House of Plague, Day 100 (the motherlode)
OK, so I will probably not do daily posts from now on. Although I am enjoying doing them.
However, for now I thought I could dump ALL THE CORONA LINKS into this post, because I still have a good chunk saved up. Basically, every time I came across something interesting I'd save the link, and every evening I'd go through them and pick out what I wanted. But there are still many links that never got their turn in the spotlight, so I figured for this post I could make a clean sweep of everything - also lots of them will be old now, so if I save them much longer they'll be properly ancient history. These are just the corona-centric ones (I have plenty of others!), but I figured I should stay on point today. :)
UK-centric
The government is unwell
Britain’s disease: Coronavirus is a vicious illness which has brutally exposed the weakness of the British government. The UK stands alone, suffering damage which is almost without parallel.
Why I quit working on Boris Johnson's ‘world-beating' test-and-tracing system
We’re not highly trained – we’ve been sitting around doing nothing. This programme is not fit to bring Britain out of lockdown
Coronavirus means that no one's talking about Brexit any more
Coronavirus & Schools
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 20, 2020
•66 schools in South Korea closed today after confirmed CV19 infections
•70 CV19 infections confirmed among French schools leading to closures
•42 pupils & 11 teachers in Finland confirmed CV19+ 6 days after opening
UK opening schools will infect kids
General/from around the world
Europe’s coronavirus lockdown measures compared
Ways of enforcing social distancing differ from country to country.
COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University
Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak
Facebook: Things covid-19 has proven
Facebook: real key workers
Some Amazon Employees With Fevers Are Being Sent Home Without Pay
A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have COVID-19 and two are dead
Dying to go out to eat? Here's how viruses like Covid-19 spread in a restaurant
As US states begin loosening restrictions, a recent viral video from Japan gives an idea of how easily coronavirus might spread
‘Lionhearted’ Girl Bikes Dad Across India, Inspiring a Nation
A 15-year-old migrant girl pedaled hundreds of miles to bring her injured father back to their home village. India’s cycling federation has taken notice.
Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything
Many of the infection’s bizarre symptoms have one thing in common
Sympathy Notes - how to write them, why they matter
And in case anyone was wondering about the Faroes:
Last COVID-19 patient recovers: After two months the Faroe Islands are finally virus free
Lockdown stuff:
'Last normal photo' before lockdown proves social media hit
UK journalist Robyn Vinter gets thousands of replies after asking people to share images of life before lockdown
Finally understood what zoom meetings remind me of. pic.twitter.com/Quca3up2mc
— Blossom Stefaniw (@BlossomStefaniw) May 12, 2020
Live-tweeting PMQs:
Right. As PMQs doesn't make me regret my life-choices again these days, I'll background tweet them today.
— John Bull (@garius) May 20, 2020
Be warned: It'll almost certainly just be an excuse to gawk at MP's audio visual setups.
Neale Hanvey has an electric keyboard! #liveThread pic.twitter.com/1siLjxHMZp
i used to hate in video games when you’d talk to everyone in a town and they’d all be like “did you hear about the PLOT ELEMENT?” and all the ambient conversations are like “dreadful days, these, what with the PLOT ELEMENT and all.” didn’t realize that’s just actually how it goes
— carl (@NightlifeMingus) May 19, 2020
Meanwhile in Berlinpic.twitter.com/YqHvuruOna
— Marcel Dirsus (@marceldirsus) May 17, 2020
Random images etc
And finally, today's art. In honour of the absolutely gloriously beautiful day we've had here, I give you 'Surfers Sunset' (2016) by Emma Haworth (x):
Well, it's been an interesting 100 days... Here's to the rest of 2020!
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Nooooo! Whenever I finish work for the day, the first thing I do is go look for your entry, and it's always there waiting! I shall be bereft!
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(Mind you, I already know what I'm posting tonight, so... I won't disappear.)
Anyway, am thrilled that they have become part of your daily life. That makes me ridiculously happy. <3
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Been watching my first season of The Newsroom a lot; you've been a kind of anchor. Man I wish that show were on the air now! Gotta get the complete series set when I'm able to get to shops.
kerk
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♥ ♥ ♥ That makes me ridiculously happy. And unless the world settles down to being boring again, I sincerely doubt I'll be able to stop myself from posting almost daily... Knowing that it helps people makes it even better.
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What are we missing... I should know this, having been submerged in Good Omens all year, and I even READ the Book of Revelations. Hm. Should make a list & tick stuff off.
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(Which is good!)
Seas of blood next?
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And we started with fires in Australia. :(
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That one about back to school -- timely. I'm very concerned about that and just drafted something for my next post.
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The weather is just stupidly gorgeous right now. I needed something to reflect that.
and the top graphic made me laugh. So true -- who could predict what each day would bring at this point?
At some point things will get better, right? Right? (Don't answer.)
That one about back to school -- timely. I'm very concerned about that and just drafted something for my next post.
Places where they've already gone back have proved this to be true. :(