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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2021-12-30 09:17 pm
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Update from the house of Plague (Day Fnarg Year 2) 30th of December

Metro: The UK reported a daily record of 189,213 Covid cases today.

The 189,213 confirmed Covid-19 infections is the latest record to tumble after a fortnight of unprecedentedly high case totals – while deaths also rose dramatically, to 332.

However, those figures are likely to have been inflated somewhat because of delayed reporting over the festive period – and particularly by a backlog of hospital deaths reported by NHS England from December 24-29.

Yet the latest data shows that in the last seven days alone, some 984,147 people have tested positive in the UK.

And what is the government's response? Any kind of lockdown or restrictions? Oh no... (the below is a parody account, but alas, it speaks the truth.)



I don't even know anymore...

Have a bunch of random stuff, under the cut to not take up all of your flists... All of it very vaguely Christmas themed.











Daily Dimash: ... A Christmas video??

Mostly posting this because it's so hilarious to me. Now, he has no Christmas songs (possibly due to being Muslim, idk, but he doesn't seem to have any sort of issue with Christmas otherwise - as evidenced by the video, maybe it's just never been a priority), but this video is very much Christmas themed: Snow, decorations, Christmas trees, Santa, presents, excited children, the lot. HOWEVER the songs have nothing to do with Christmas, it's like they picked them completely randomly. It just makes me laugh.

From Qazaqstan TV: Желдірме (Wind) and Screaming


And now the family is calling, they might have finished the ginger bread house...

ETA: What the hell, let me add more Dimash Christmassy stuff, just so it's all in one place. :)

From Insta, what I presume is a Happy Christmas (or New Year) msg, going by the background:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CYISw8hhq_P/

And also from Insta (possibly from the same event? Was it part of the recording for the video above?) Dimash playing drums in Santa's grotto. Again, no context:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CX38ql2llKN/

Finally, this beyond adorable video of Terry Lin surprising Dimash on Christmas Eve, 2018. Terry Lin was one of the other singers on 'I Am Singer' and the two of them became good friends. When Terry realised how young Dimash was, he exclaimed that he (Terry) was old enough to be his father - hence he got the nickname 'Papa Lin' and tried to do his best for his 'surrogate son'. ^_^ He was one of the guest performers at Dimash's first solo concert (Bastau, 2017) and they have performed together a number of times.



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[personal profile] a_phoenixdragon 2022-01-04 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for sharing these!! And ye gods...when truth gets stranger than fiction!

*HUGS*
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[personal profile] elisi 2022-01-04 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
when truth gets stranger than fiction!
It really really is! :D
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[identity profile] kazzy-cee.livejournal.com 2021-12-31 12:47 pm (UTC)(link)
The only better thing about this new variant is that if you've had the vaccine it doesn't seem to be more than a heavy cold for most people even though that's not very nice, it does mean you're not likely to end up in hospital. It's so frustrating that there's no real action from the powers that be though :(
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[personal profile] elisi 2021-12-31 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
The only better thing about this new variant is that if you've had the vaccine it doesn't seem to be more than a heavy cold for most people even though that's not very nice, it does mean you're not likely to end up in hospital.
Yeah, Darcy's basically better and if he hadn't done a test we'd just have presumed it was his regular Christmas cold. The rest of us seem fine, so here's to vaccines!

It's so frustrating that there's no real action from the powers that be though :(
Not that I'm desperate for another lockdown, but some kind of precautions would be nice, rather than just falling back on herd immunity (which is the only explanation I can think of for the lack of action). :(
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