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

I would've thought the head of the civil service could be coordinating plans from various departments.

Ultimately their execution or otherwise would be up to cabinet/johnson but I don't know enough here.

Stupid, war-horny, tomayto, tomahto.

Choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/RUDAlLfoyy

— Marine A Hyde (@spagbolshevism) April 15, 2020

I compare my cooking to the 2nd miles davis quintet, and these fules to shed 7!

you should see the fn glorious bread i've been baking

black market flour

Stupid, war-horny, tomayto, tomahto.

― Andrew Farrell,Thursday, 16 April 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Is this in the wrong thread?

We’ve got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They’re man-made. Roasted on top of a baguette. Very nice!

That chicken guy is a legend in food Twitter circles. All his cooking looks disgusting and he's a noted creep.

lol at ‘marine a hyde’

you can't beat a good piece of incinerated baguette completely saturated in chicken fat!

I hate to go there yet again, but you guys are a lot funnier than any of the tweets you post - apart from Simon Hedges.

According to my notes Sam Bowman food tweets ARE clearly a wind up though.

tbh I assume at least some of the left twitter gags with 7 likes that end up itt ARE ilxors

I need to master that grandstanding left twitter style because I probably get something like one like a year and that is usually someone liking someone saying I'm wrong!

some people seem to spend all day adding : what a twat! to every jimbob, toby young or whoever's tweet usually saying stuff like Tories are grand and eugenics is nuff good and all poor people should die of c-19 in factories to save the economy. I always agree with them but just aren't motivated enough to do it myself.

7 likes is the dream i never yet attained tbf

the best tweets but the worst clout

to be clear the tweets are bad

Is this in the wrong thread?

My recommendation is to read around a little.

my best tweet got me blocked by a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and it got one like from a scouser friend of mine called Dave!

i long for blocks more than likes tbh

Andrew - anything you'd like to recommend?

you should see the fn glorious bread i've been baking

We’ve got chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They’re man-made. Roasted on top of a baguette. Very nice!

tbh I assume at least some of the left twitter gags with 7 likes that end up itt ARE ilxors

my best tweet got me blocked by a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and it got one like from a scouser friend of mine called Dave!

This is genuinely winning at Twitter!

xyzzz__ - I'm being snarky, the comment you quoted was replying to the comment above yours, feel free to deruffle yr feathers.

Ah ok. Multiple conversations and threads, it happens

Lol the state of this fucking scab union

NEW: GMB Labour staff branch will debate a motion today demanding that Jennie Formby "apologise personally' to staff named in the leaked report pic.twitter.com/sDZETio7Oj

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) April 16, 2020

This sounds horrific.

"don't call them heroes if they don't have a choice". today's @vittleslondon an account of what it's like to work on a production line producing ready meals for our supermarkets and the disempowerment of those who work at bakkavor, by @WorkersAngry https://t.co/BQy2p6hqAb

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) April 16, 2020

Keir's got their backs, he is just waiting until they are dead to award them posthumous medals.

Willie Thornberry pic.twitter.com/pwD8TU9H9Z

— Football Manager Hair on Politicians (@visualsatire) April 16, 2020

lool nearly choked on my beer at this one

Children of Men vibes increasing in intensity

Christopher Nolan would charge £20m for this pic.twitter.com/9mn0AbMbrk

— Will Davies (@davies_will) April 16, 2020

pure city 17

shot

It’s the Queens birthday next Tuesday. Let’s throw her a surprise. At 9am 21st April, we are calling on the whole country to sing Happy Birthday from our windows and doorsteps. Let our song bring good cheer not just to Her Majesty but to the whole nation #singforthequeen pic.twitter.com/867EbD9PVg

— Ben Fogle (@Benfogle) April 16, 2020

Hi Ben, I’m a student at Norwich University, and I’d love to reference your tweet in my dissertation about guys who were breast fed into their mid 20s. Do I have your permission to reference the tweet?

— Herdam Unity (@DuncanBadhew) April 16, 2020

special bonus ‘using a child as a human shield’ content

Some of the responses seem pretty mean spirited to a well intentioned idea from a 9 year old. I have always taught my children to be kind and thoughtful. We watched the speech with 24 million other people and Iona thought it would be a nice way to say thank you. Kindness matters pic.twitter.com/1WCmjo3iAC

— Ben Fogle (@Benfogle) April 16, 2020

fuck off iona

"little pigs should be seen and not heard" is a harsh old proverb and it is with a heavy heart I invoke it here!

oh no i'm getting that condition when I keep repeating myself when I'm lying

oh no i'm getting that condition when I keep repeating myself when I'm lying

it's Karl Marx's birthday on the 5th May. just sayin'

A very nice guy I used to know insisted Ben Fogle was the most horrible person he had ever had to work with

His mum's been on the telly a lot recently.

is he related to jared

let's collectively try and will the Rona to enter the palace and infect the queen by all shouting Die Parasite!

Q: Sky analysis shows 70% of health and care staff who have died from coronavirus were from a BAME background. What can you do about that?

Raab says the government wants to investigate this.

Whitty says it is critical to find out who is most at risk.

Three risk factors are very clear: age, having a disease such as cardiovascular disease, and being male.

He says being a member of an ethnic minority group is less clear as a risk factor.

He says he has been looking at this carefully. Public Health England is looking at it too.

But at this point in time, “this is not yet clear, in terms of ethnic minorities”.

there’s a name for people who see inequality of outcomes as a genetic question, can’t remember what it is. hmm it’ll come to me

Toby Youngs?

Some diseases disproportionately affect minorities, aside from environmental/ behavioural factors. It seems unlikely that COVID is one of them. Whether one could intersect with COVID risk factors (Type 2 diabetes in South Asians being 2x national norm, etc) might be more important.

wrt the NHS, two factors are potentially the crisis predominantly hitting metropolitan areas (not much point in looking at % of BAME staff across the whole NHS if people are most at risk in London, Birmingham, Manchester, etc and whether white doctors / nurses tend to retire earlier or move into the low-risk private sector in larger numbers after a certain age.

However, it’s difficult to look at cases like the pregnant nurse who was kept on high-risk duty after the cut-off point where she should have been deployed elsewhere, or where more than one NHS worker complained about being ill and was ignored to die at home, and not wonder whether there is a racialised component to how people are being treated.

Probably the only genetic component to this is how hard men are being hit by it.

even that more likely to be hormonal i think

I saw some speculation that vitamin D levels might be significant and that is affected by skin colour and climate, but idk