Lockdown Update Day 112

[elisi]

First up... Cronk! Came across this thread a few weeks ago, and it was just delightful:

In 1883, a drink called "Cronk" started advertising in the Calgary Herald. See if you can spot their ads. pic.twitter.com/yg3dMRDkY6

— Paul Fairie (@paulisci) June 21, 2020

And now there's been a development:

The Guardian: 'Cronk rules everything around me': long-lost beverage resurrected after 120 years
Odd ads for Dr Cronk’s Compound Sarsaparilla Beer, once wildly popular, went viral on Twitter. Now a Canadian brewer is bringing it back

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In corona news:

Coronavirus: Brazil's President Bolsonaro tests positive

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale
Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.
(Personal note: I think we're our own red flag.)

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And it's 15 years since the London bombings. I'm not sure how to feel. 15 years is a long time, but I still remember it vividly; worrying about LJ friends that I knew lived in London, messages flying back and forth if anyone had heard from so-and-so... And having lived in London for 3 years, using those tube stations on a regular basis, it made it all feel much more immediate.

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Today's art is the 7 July Memorial:



Website here, if you want to know more about the design.

ETA: Completely managed to forget that this icon is a product of that attack...

Comments

[ruuger]

And then they keep cutting costs in the name of efficiency, in the middle of a pandemic.

We were very lucky not to end up going your route as well, because most of our deaths at the beginning of the pandemic were also in (private) care homes.

My mother said that back in my home town, people had decided that they would keep corona out of the local care home, no matter the cost (because they knew that they couldn't trust the owners of the care home to do it). She works as a clearner at the school where the daughter of one of the nurses working at the care home goes to, and she made sure the be extra careful to disinfect everything, and the headmaster had similarly ordered that no extra people were allowed in the school building to lessen the chances of the nurse's daughter getting sick.

[beer_good_foamy]

Good on your home town and your mom! If anything, this whole virus thing has proven that people are, generally, better than we think we are. But it's a shame that it has to come down to individuals taking up the slack where the people supposedly in charge don't.