Lockdown Update Day 299
You know the way this has been blasted out of the headlines by everything from Trump to Covid to Brexit?
— Rick O'Shea (@rickoshea) January 8, 2021
This.https://t.co/kx8xJ5vnj0
UK
NHS
If everyone who is grateful for NHS staff right now followed and retweeted, we would reach a million by midnight.
— NHS Million đź’™ (@NHSMillion) January 9, 2021
It will take just two seconds to do, and you can help us share important information that could help save lives. pic.twitter.com/k3FkNm7Bdp
If anyone would like to send a message to their MP in honour of tonight's clap for heroes asking them to give our frontline heroes a pay rise instead you can use our tool Hey MP to send them an email and tweet them too! Please do share: https://t.co/Y69Punepwp #clapforheroes
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) January 7, 2021
Corona
Today’s update of Lockdown Sepsis is here!
— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) January 10, 2021
Includes a piece by Toby about how hard done by sceptics are.
An exclusive from a whistle-blower who works in a shop near a hospital who has seen nurses laughing.
A poem from a gamekeeper.#lockdownsceptics pic.twitter.com/8fi3YDCg6p
Brexit
If you love music please help musicians by signing this petition for a Europe-wide visa-free work permit: no one loses from this going ahead; countless people gain. https://t.co/mtx8ZyqnWJ
— Stephen Hough (@houghhough) January 10, 2021
Obviously, I follow events pretty closely but I can’t believe this if from last May. It’s as if the U.K. government spent the next seven months playing Kerplunk. https://t.co/XWoozdJvZ5
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) January 9, 2021
Trans issues
A thread on how absurd the UK is on transgender issues and how the UK got so transphobic
— What The Trans!? (@WhatTheTrans) January 8, 2021
In 2015 Parliament held an inquiry looking into the state of Transgender equality. Trans people of all stripes outlined many different problems across many, many different areas.
US
"I don't feel sorry for congress at all. Oh, I'm sorry, did you have to hide under your desk because of guns? Wah wah wah. I've only had to do that six times since kindergarten. School is terrifying. Maybe now they'll pass gun reform." - one of my 9th grade students, today
— Alisa ValdĂ©s-RodrĂguez, M.S. (@AlisaValdesRod1) January 7, 2021
I just died. I’m tweeting while dead. pic.twitter.com/5tuhIdZfXG
— Anita, not from Knoxville (@anita1956) January 9, 2021
To give you a sense of how 2021 is going
— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) January 8, 2021
More Americans died from covid in the last 3 days than on 9/11, the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war combined, and that's not even a top 10 news story right now.
Lmaooooo this the wildest ban in history. His phone just a brick pic.twitter.com/vnpb79Npb5
— KB24 Forever 17x CHAMPS 7x DODGERS CHAMPS (@KarateSkool) January 9, 2021
More good news: FBI has begun plastering the faces of the insurrectionists sans blur in public https://t.co/NmdRtSW9iJ
— Robert Caruso (@robertcaruso) January 9, 2021
And finally
Parler is banned from App Store. Trump’s twitter account is suspended. Democrats are preparing his second impeachment. The house is blue, the senate is blue, the White House is blue, the motherfucking sky is blue and holy shit I think I had an orgasm while writing this tweet.
— Ida Skibenes ❄️ (@ida_skibenes) January 9, 2021
