Lockdown Update Day 230

[elisi]

For the Americans:

OH MY GOD! 😍
How did Martin Luther King manage to make every word of a 3-minute speech perfectly applicable to an election 56 years later!?#Election2020 pic.twitter.com/JaE9Opn2cZ

— Femi (@Femi_Sorry) November 2, 2020

ETA: omg this thread:

#BREAKING Polls are set to open in 48 hours across the US as the authoritarian regime of Donald Trump attempts to consolidate its hold over the troubled, oil-rich, nuclear-armed, north American nation. Analysts are sceptical the election will end months of political violence.

— gathara (@gathara) November 1, 2020

(Whole thread here. And unrolled here)

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For the Brits:

Once more unto the bleach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wards up with our English dead.
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man
As armchair epidemiology:
But when data galore blow in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the ostrich;

1/6 pic.twitter.com/j0jgNpuuUp

— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) November 2, 2020

(Thread: https://twitter.com/mikegove12/status/1323154977574002689)

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Re: A day may come when I send an actual email, but it is not this day!

[elisi]

And yeah, fine so far, they did stress that unis will go on as normal (which in our case means blended learning, depending on the subject). I just hope that the lockdown helps, things get better, and I am able to go home for Christmas.
*crosses fingers & toes* Our government is deeply incompetent, but otoh I don't think they'd risk cancelling Christmas...