Lockdown Update Day 318
This petition, calling on the government to restore the Overseas Domestic Workers visa, needs another 3,000 signatures by February. Without this visa, workers are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation by their employers. Please sign and share!
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Reinstate the pre-2012 Overseas Domestic Worker visa with a route to settlement
AND:
UK Gov: Reverse Decision To Close Legal Routes For Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum
Which I found via this Twitter thread.
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The news keeps being weird:
Oh, you're laughing at the hedge fund that got juked by reddit? Well, they're bankrupt now. Are you laughing now? Is it funny now that a bunch of MBAs are out of a job? Can you laugh knowing they're explaining to their investors that they were out maneuvered by POTATO_IN_MY_ASS?
— John Field, "comedian” (@AmericasComic) January 27, 2021
(If you are unsure what this is all about, scroll down the thread there are some good explanations for how it all works.)
A whole bunch of UK corona stuff
“We did everything we could.”
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) January 27, 2021
“Did you lock down when scientists advised?”
“No.”
“Did you raise sick pay so people could afford to self isolate?”
“Also no.”
“Did you sort out testing and contact tracing when infections were low to get a grip on outbreaks early?”
“Err, no.”
Heard of SARS-CoV2 variant from Japan?
— Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH (@ashishkjha) January 29, 2021
No?
How about one from South Korea?
No?
Surely variants from New Zealand & Vietnam?
Of course not
Because these places haven't given rise to scary variants
But what places have.....has big implications for ending the pandemic
Thread
UK place in the world. Worst, third worst, fifth worst. pic.twitter.com/WMD5xPzlOS
— Paul Lewis (@paullewismoney) January 29, 2021
The short list of government incompetence.... pic.twitter.com/JPbY6Q9Qwl
— Man In The Shed (@Think_Blue_Sky) January 29, 2021
And a summary here, depressing as hell, January - May 2020:
100,000 dead
— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 26, 2021
Boris Johnson says: “We did everything we could.”
No, he didn’t pic.twitter.com/CdiTThqe6b
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