Update from the house of Plague (Day Fnarg Year 3) 18th of January

[elisi]

Some good news.

Crime bill: Lords defeats for government's protest clamp-down plans

And I am linking to the comments for this article... They're rather enjoyable!

Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules - Boris Johnson

ETA:

Watch on YouTube

:D :D :D

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Today we went to see [the new] West Side Story, which was very good. (Sorry, no deep thoughts.)

Comments

[shadowkat]

I'm so envious - I really want to see the new West Side Story.

[elisi]

We were lucky to be able to go on a week day. I think there were about 10 people in the whole theatre, and we were obviously wearing masks.

[shadowkat]

I'm leery of NYC. It's possible it will be empty. I'm tempted to try but, it's really just Russian Roulett. The cases are allegedly dropping though, and to get into a theater in the city - you have to show proof of vaccination right now.

[elisi]

I guess it's as safe as possible at the moment... But weighing up the risk is always difficult.

[lilysea]

Crime bill: Lords defeats for government's protest clamp-down plans

While I 100% support giant non-violent protests in not-pandemic times,

I can see a strong public health case for limiting large public protests in pandemic times.

If I was asked "should the chief health officer have the power to ban large in-person protests until hospitals stop melting down at the seams from new COVID cases?", I'd say/vote yes.

But I gather this bill was not anything along the lines of "if X new cases a day of COVID, no public protests; if Y new cases a day of COVID, public protests are fine" ?

[elisi]

Yeah, it's nothing to do with covid... :(

Short vid here summing things up: https://twitter.com/labourlewis/status/1481949083296321541

[a_phoenixdragon]

Good news indeed...ye gods - they put us in bad situations and then want to tell us we can't raise hell about it. Glad they voted no on the clamp down!

*HUGS*

[elisi]

One tiny spark of hope in a sea of depressing news...

[sea_thoughts]

I enjoyed the new West Side Story too. Spielberg did a great job of setting the scene.

[elisi]

I could barely remember the original, so I came to it with fresh eyes. :)

[kazzy-cee.livejournal.com]

I think the most bizarre aspect of all the party stuff is that Mr B thought it was perfectly normal to have wine at a meeting. How often do they do that when they are deciding important stuff !!!! *boggles*

[elisi]

Yeah, Keith Starmer mentioned this... Did you see the post of some shop that had put a sign with 'Office supplies' above its wine? ;)

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Honestly - you couldn't make it up - 'Well yes, I am the Prime Minister and it was my government who introduced and passed all the laws relating to the pandemic - but I didn't actually know that they forbade posh people having work parties... Just, you know, plebs parting in parks, and holding pleb funerals and weddings, and so on.'

[elisi]

Yup. Literally one rule for the general public, and another for them...