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Lockdown Update Day 112
First up... Cronk! Came across this thread a few weeks ago, and it was just delightful:
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...
And now there's been a development: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
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
~~
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...
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Oh yes, and continuing into next week, which is my first holiday week. Yay. Then again, there are worse things to do than going for long socially-distanced bike rides in a light summer drizzle.
it's people who weren't protected properly.
Exactly. If you're 87 and living in an assisted facility and get maybe half an hour of face time with another human being every day to help you with the most basic functions, it's not like you can choose to lock your door. And to the company who hired that person, taking extra care due to the virus is simply unprofitable.
If you're interested, here's a good rebuttal of the NYT hitpiece. Which I assume came about because the NYT are seeing a lot of Trump fans pointing to Sweden as proof you can get through this without doing anything, which is a) simply not true, and b) hang on, Trump fans like socialized medicine, full sick pay, job security and implicitly trusting the state now? Because that's what our entire strategy relies on. So basically, in the war between Trump and anti-Trump, we got used as a cudgel, and now the entire world is reading that article.
The way I see it, it is a monumental failure of policy, but it's partly due to the responsible health experts (and I do believe putting experts rather than politicians in charge is a good thing) assuming that we actually still have the welfare system we have on paper. Which, after 20+ years of politicians cutting mandatory services with the magical battle cry "But we're doing it without reducing quality of service!", we simply don't. Care homes, hospitals, schools, libraries, social services... it's all been sold at scrap value to clever investors who run it as cheaply as they can and pocket the difference.
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True. Hope the weather clears up though.
Exactly. If you're 87 and living in an assisted facility and get maybe half an hour of face time with another human being every day to help you with the most basic functions, it's not like you can choose to lock your door. And to the company who hired that person, taking extra care due to the virus is simply unprofitable.
*nods* What is this world we live in... :(
If you're interested, here's a good rebuttal of the NYT hitpiece.
Thank you! It struck me as a weird piece (hence my own comment, since the UK & the US are being led by morons, whereas Sweden isn't, they just chose a different path).
So basically, in the war between Trump and anti-Trump, we got used as a cudgel, and now the entire world is reading that article.
Still better than Fox News... ?
assuming that we actually still have the welfare system we have on paper. Which, after 20+ years of politicians cutting mandatory services with the magical battle cry "But we're doing it without reducing quality of service!", we simply don't.
Sorry to hear that. :(
Care homes, hospitals, schools, libraries, social services... it's all been sold at scrap value to clever investors who run it as cheaply as they can and pocket the difference.
Oh yeah, that sounds familiar.