love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

BCG was the injection which meant for about a month everyone was punching each other in the arm where they’d had their jab.

memorable for my brother whenever you went even close to him flinching away and going “MY BCG!”

― Fizzles, Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:08 PM (yesterday)

this may or may not be a useful data point.

― Fizzles, Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:09 PM (yesterday)

I can corroborate this. It hurt if you whacked it there for at least three or four months, and people hit each other there all the time.

Is the ban on commercial evictions different from the one already implemented for domestic ones?

There was a thing going around leftist online spaces to chant "GIVE THEM PPE" during the clapping last night. I gave it a go but only got puzzled smiles. :/

Is the ban on commercial evictions different from the one already implemented for domestic ones?

If I'm reading correctly it's that commercial establishments won't have to pay back the rents after the crisis is over, while renters will?

I think they still have to pay back the money - it's just an extension to the period in which a landlord can't force a company into winding-up if they haven't paid. It's confusing, though.

Yeah I don't know the ins and outs of that tweet just thought it was interesting enough given how many private renters will be impacted.

This story.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/hospitals-sound-alarm-over-privately-run-test-centre-in-surrey

Contractors going at this all the way, till we lol die.

It's understandable that people are confused about what 'mortgage holidays' and rent deferral schemes mean as you really have to go looking for the details. There's been a lot of criticism of Labour (both Corbyn and Starmer) for not backing rent cancellation but i've not seen much about how that could be worked up into a practical policy. Dan Davies' suggestion of waiving inheritance or capital gains tax equal to the value of any rent waived is interesting. Ultimately, one way or another, the government is going to end up having to pay for it but that would presumably spread the cost over a longer period.

Never been more relatable

I just wanted to tweet this pic.twitter.com/TEzWKynn23

— Cecily (@cecilyleah) April 23, 2020

Strong RADA-graduate-making-his-debut-in-The-Bill vibes to that.

Maybe Line of Duty instead. His character will be dead or in prison by the end of Episode 4.

needs more balaclavamen

clip of charles and camilla absolutely incredible.

Maybe Line of Duty instead. His character will be dead or in prison by the end of Episode 4.

My god @bbc what is wrong with you? Do you want to unleash mobs of Islamophobes on mosques in the UK? Your headlines say "Some mosques open despite COVID restrictions" -- but you don't mention it is a few mosques in Pakistan & Indonesia.

— Laleh Khalili (@LalehKhalili) April 24, 2020

Tired mum 'named and shamed' on Facebook for not joining clap for carers https://t.co/GWAG6tpyYv

— Manchester News MEN (@MENnewsdesk) April 24, 2020

Never been more relatable
― gyac, Friday, April 24, 2020 11:11 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this week's PMQs looks lit

xp clearly tired mum doesn't participate in the clapping because her neighbours are cunts, same reason I don't tbf

He’ll be the mark you’re supposed to believe is conniving against our heroes, only to be your standard issue cheater who gets knocked off in a horrific fashion.

100%.

The good news is that Public Health UK has appointed someone to investigate disproportionate BAME deaths.

The bad news? It’s Trevor Phillips.

ffs

Well well if it isn’t The Economist doing its bit to make us think there’s actually a post covid debt burden which we will all have to pay for. There isn’t, but the Economist and the class it represents wants you think there is so “the debt” can be shoveled into their pockets. pic.twitter.com/f9D8ivDYZT

— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) April 23, 2020

Crying

And in case anyone wanted that out of context clip of him... https://t.co/AZjwTZZWVx pic.twitter.com/oI6FGav6ca

— Labour Vault (@LabourVault) April 23, 2020

oh no

Forensic and erotic, very powerful

The answer to the question ‘where is Dominic Cummings?’ remains ‘the last place you’d want him to be’.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/24/revealed-dominic-cummings-on-secret-scientific-advisory-group-for-covid-19

Starmer_fuckoff.gif

As the comments say the unions will need to stand firm. Now or never moment:

You’re fucking kidding me pic.twitter.com/zcweoX1afO

— Tom Williams (@shirleymush) April 24, 2020

A bit of militancy, as a treat

Found myself reading the Wikipedia page of Fenner Brockway last night and my God, he lived more in one lifetime than most of us could manage in ten. Feel the need to read something proper about him. Think I’ll go visit his statue in Red Lion Square when this is over (incidentally also one of the places where Cromwell’s disinterred and desecrated corpse was allegedly buried).

In Brockway's science fiction novel, Purple Plague (1935), a sea liner is quarantined for a decade as a result of a plague. An egalitarian society emerges.[11]

writing a book called '98 Not Out' aged 98 seems a surefire way of ensuring you'll miss the ton tbh

The public have made great sacrifices to make lockdown work. They deserve to be part of an adult conversation about what comes next.

We are engaging constructively to protect our country and, to that end, I offer a series of considerations for the Prime Minister in my letter. pic.twitter.com/n8ubsUGT8M

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 26, 2020

Talking of disinterred and desecrated corpses...

"They deserve to be part of an adult conversation"

Ah one from the bottom shelf from the spineless melt-rectum repository of centrist cliches ...so forensic I'm probably never going to register to vote again in my life!

In Brockway's science fiction novel, Purple Plague (1935), a sea liner is quarantined for a decade as a result of a plague. An egalitarian society emerges.[11]

is keir inviting us to partake in phone sex

not read Dunty's erotic piece on him yet, but no doubt phone sex with him would be ... earth shattering!

that voice has been known to induce orgasms at Muppet Movie conventions!

unkind to the muppets and unacceptable

http://www.gmhousingaction.com/labour-covid19-renters/

little bit here on him being owned by the landlord lobbies and (shock horror!) watering down Labour's covid 19 landlord policy from rent suspension to rent deferment. hate this creep more and more every day and am developing not very kharmer derangement syndrome.. but all is good!

is keir inviting us to partake in phone sex

oh no

Ministers have ordered production of up to 50 million new immunity tests as part of what experts hope will be a 'game-changing' development in the battle against Covid-19.

A breakthrough by a team of top British scientists means that, by June, people could be able to reliably test whether they have developed immunity to the virus – and then be allowed to return to work and socialise as normal.

people could be able to reliably test whether they have developed immunity to the virus – and then be allowed to return to work and socialise as normal.

i don't think that's... how it works

look it’s in the daily mail it must be true

History will record it as the "August Spike"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWhQsdeWsAAhtCR?format=jpg&name=small

some are saying the man with the mace won't be a shadow minister for long now the labour party is sensible again.

"we need to draw a line under this type of behaviour and have a more respectful public debate"

sir kier is playing the evidence-based bingo game every day

ah yes, the old rheotorical tactic of saying someone ‘claimed’ something outrageous, like 100,000 people were killed by austerity, as a way of deflecting that the figure is actually 130,000 and it comes from ippr research rather than the fevered imagination of a corbynite maniac

Labour isn't "opposition" in any sense any more. I fucking despair. let's keep saying the govt are doing their best while pushing the same line as the C-19 hawks in a polite and respectful manner.

I thought the WHO were saying immunity isn’t guaranteed by already having covid. This isn’t the same thing as saying “you can’t get it again” but it’s enough of a caveat that you should really pause before spunking a big wad of cash on more antibody tests.

Sorry, “you can get it again”.

yeah but this way it looks like you’re doing something and not just thrashing around in a panic because your cabinet is full of some of britain’s most fanatical morons