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

This is horrible.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/31/uk-care-home-staff-at-breaking-point-as-coronavirus-cases-rise

Boy, 13, with no underlying health conditions dies in London after testing positive for coronavirus, Kings College Hospital confirm. https://t.co/1CYJUiELHR

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) March 31, 2020

the real face of herd immunity

Owen Hatherley makes an interesting point on Juliet Jacques podcast that Starmer may need to to keep some of the Labour left around as they’re the only ones coming up with ideas and that a lot of the party’s greatest successes, in terms of concrete lasting institutions like the NHS and OU, were discrete projects given to left-wingers like Bevan and Lee by leaders to the right of them, which might be overly optimistic but we’ll see.

i'd err towards overly optimistic in this case, not trying be rude but just have zero faith in Starmer keeping any Labour left about who actually give a fuck about humanity rather his mysterious sponsors.

The Tory immigration system: "Go Back Home" - after you've risked your lives to save 'ours' https://t.co/da1WoOXqA6

— Maya Goodfellow (@MayaGoodfellow) March 31, 2020

literally not a joke and a joke at the same time.

why do Jacob Reese-Mogg and his nanny look like they're about to drop the finest synth-pop banger of 1982? pic.twitter.com/l3aHv1N1Vg

— elevator muzhik (@elevator_muzhik) March 31, 2020

Trump doing more opposition than the Lab party:

Trump is now also talking about the UK and herd immunity: “If you remember they were looking at that in the UK and all of a sudden they went hard the other way because they started seeing things that weren’t good. They put themselves in a little bit of a problem.”

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) March 31, 2020

I absolutely hate agreeing with Trump, not that the fucker has a leg up stand on.

even a fascist crank like Trump sees that Herd Immunity is just callous inaction dressed up as a strategy that won't work out well for anybody, not that he's done much better himself tbf!

i was gonna say "the cunt doesn't even know what day it is" but then i realised i don't know what day it is

at the time we were on the herd immunity track trump was allowing flights from the uk to the us but not the rest of the eu because he thought boris was doing a great job

Trump doing more opposition than the Lab party

I know this is tongue in cheek but otherwise its such a classic Dan Hodges move.

Estimates from @cmmid_lshtm suggest #UKlockdown could be driving #COVID19 reproduction number below one.

But John Edmunds says they're not to be read as ‘job done’. "They should be used as motivation to keep following UK government instructions."

More 👉 https://t.co/ntBNhte1ZS pic.twitter.com/QAETWzt0pg

— London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (@LSHTM) April 1, 2020

This seems good? I don't even know any more.

not entirely convinced by the self-reporting nature of that study tbh but yeah huge if true

Nothing is good any more just more Tories staying alive

BREAKING: Edinburgh's August festivals confirm they're postponed, for the first time in over 70 years #coronavirusuk

— Severin Carrell (@severincarrell) April 1, 2020

best news I heard since Corden's anxiety attacks!

Bingo

Didn't know Corden had panic attacks, thank you based psychology

he said he's suffering from da rona induced anxiety spikes yesterday. I take much succour from any pain or suffering he has inflicted on himself for once!

The Prince of Wales has made his first appearance since coming out of self-isolation, following his coronavirus diagnosis, to record a video message in support of Age UK in response to the health crisis.

Charles, who is patron of Age UK, said in the footage posted on royal social media accounts: “Having recently gone through the process of contracting this coronavirus - luckily with relatively mild symptoms - I now find myself on the other side of the illness, but still in no less a state of social distance and general isolation.”

In the message, recorded on Tuesday morning by staff at Birkhall, the prince’s home in Scotland

anything's better than posh isolation...

Somebody released the wallabies from East Park in Hull last night and they're running around a council estate apparently 😅

it would feel pretty good to bellow RELEASE THE WALLABIES! into the night you have to admit

I wish I'd thought of it. On the other hand, I don't really remember most of yesterday evening.

563 addtional uk deaths in the last 24 hrs if i'm reading the numbers correctly

Among hospitalised patients - that won't cover the care homes, presumably?

i was gonna say "the cunt doesn't even know what day it is" but then i realised i don't know what day it is

Slightly amazed earlier on to find out it's Wednesday tbf.

are we still on the italy trajectory?

Think the corona traffic controller's shifted us to France

No we are growing more slowly than both, only a bit slower than France though.

Idly wondering how that Smurf festival worked out for the participants now.

Never seen the Stereophonics called that before

reckless smurfs gather in defiance (regret at leisure)

:(

the stereophonics’ singer is smurf-sized iirc

And he works blue

lool!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUcUBu6XgAcHo93?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Catch 'em all!

BoJO sure looking like he's suffering from something tbqh

There's no test for cuntishness

worst livejasmin lineup ever

Dom Raab

Truss with the fucking flag behind her

Matt Hancock still trying to work out how to get the camera on his laptop to work.

neither smurfs nor stereophonics have good names for bad puns

That pic's like a modern-day version of King Arthur's round table - come one, come all and no hierarchy (Cummings aka Merlin lurking offscreen)

Nice unredacted username for Gove there.

mute all

Fuck me there are 738 other Michael Goves?

worst livejasmin lineup ever

Don't know how I missed this, just made me lol painfully

Nice unredacted username for Gove there.

Oh my god why are you still using Zoom you have an array of secure videoconferencing tools and you use a commercial app banned by the Ministry of Defence AND YOU’VE LEFT THE MEETING ID VISIBLE. https://t.co/0cdUvlNR8Y

— Nick Stylianou (@nmsonline) March 31, 2020

https://twitter.com/Lokinash06/status/1245359163955273728?s=20

I proper cracked up laughing at this on my phone on the way home!

https://t.co/oWWImCflC4 pic.twitter.com/ullAd1eqZx

— Steffan Loki (@Lokinash06) April 1, 2020