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elisi ([personal profile] elisi) wrote2020-06-24 08:40 pm
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Update from The House of Plague, Day 100 (the motherlode)

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OK, so I will probably not do daily posts from now on. Although I am enjoying doing them.

However, for now I thought I could dump ALL THE CORONA LINKS into this post, because I still have a good chunk saved up. Basically, every time I came across something interesting I'd save the link, and every evening I'd go through them and pick out what I wanted. But there are still many links that never got their turn in the spotlight, so I figured for this post I could make a clean sweep of everything - also lots of them will be old now, so if I save them much longer they'll be properly ancient history. These are just the corona-centric ones (I have plenty of others!), but I figured I should stay on point today. :)


UK-centric

The government is unwell
Britain’s disease: Coronavirus is a vicious illness which has brutally exposed the weakness of the British government. The UK stands alone, suffering damage which is almost without parallel.

Why I quit working on Boris Johnson's ‘world-beating' test-and-tracing system
We’re not highly trained – we’ve been sitting around doing nothing. This programme is not fit to bring Britain out of lockdown

Coronavirus means that no one's talking about Brexit any more



General/from around the world

Europe’s coronavirus lockdown measures compared
Ways of enforcing social distancing differ from country to country.

COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University

Coronavirus pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak

Facebook: Things covid-19 has proven

Facebook: real key workers

Some Amazon Employees With Fevers Are Being Sent Home Without Pay

A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have COVID-19 and two are dead

Dying to go out to eat? Here's how viruses like Covid-19 spread in a restaurant
As US states begin loosening restrictions, a recent viral video from Japan gives an idea of how easily coronavirus might spread

‘Lionhearted’ Girl Bikes Dad Across India, Inspiring a Nation
A 15-year-old migrant girl pedaled hundreds of miles to bring her injured father back to their home village. India’s cycling federation has taken notice.

Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything
Many of the infection’s bizarre symptoms have one thing in common

Sympathy Notes - how to write them, why they matter

And in case anyone was wondering about the Faroes:

Last COVID-19 patient recovers: After two months the Faroe Islands are finally virus free


Lockdown stuff:

'Last normal photo' before lockdown proves social media hit
UK journalist Robyn Vinter gets thousands of replies after asking people to share images of life before lockdown



Live-tweeting PMQs:








Random images etc

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And finally, today's art. In honour of the absolutely gloriously beautiful day we've had here, I give you 'Surfers Sunset' (2016) by Emma Haworth (x):

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Well, it's been an interesting 100 days... Here's to the rest of 2020!
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[personal profile] elisi 2020-06-28 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Definitely an interesting 100 days - maybe the next 100 will be better but there is still so much to worry about.
Its just never ending... And Brexit looming on the horizon. :(
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