Contagion 2020

[pondlife]

Dont know her that well  

A simple I'm.locked out would've been enough explanation  

Reminds me of Mak's early posts from his shared flat in St Andrews, hanging round the kitchen eating ice cream while his flat mates flitted in and out with minimal conversation, or that's the impression I got.  

Apologies if I picked it up wrong, Mak.  

[Charlie Kelly]

 the thought of leaving the house without my phone AND keys is horrifying. 

Such a weirdo. 

The sort of story that keeps the morale up during a quarantine though :

[Walter Sobchak]

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/...41441?s=21

[CritchSmile]

53 deaths it was 35 yesterday

Edit: 55 now

[Hendricks]

San Francisco going full Italy like lockdown for at least 3 weeks at midnight tonight.

[Roger H. Sterling]

55.

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

The stupid fucks responsible for this herd immunity strategy should be jailed for murder when the time comes. Absolutely disastrous hubris. The arrogance to “well ak-chally” this situation and ignore the rest of the world

[Papin]

If the government does shut down all restaurants, bars, theatres and so on, then they'll have no option but to bail them all out, and I'm assuming that's why they haven't done it. Insurance companies will only pay out if you've got business interruption insurance and most of these policies only cover closures due to fire damage, storm damage and equipment breakdown. Even if your policy does state that it covers diseases, they're usually listed as specific diseases and you'll be unable to claim as Covid-19 won't be on the list. 

Genuinely starting to get a bit panicked, that's us now had every table booked for Friday cancel.

Every restaurant near us is doing home delivery now and making bread for a couple of quid a loaf.

[Shuto Makino]

Reminds me of Mak's early posts from his shared flat in St Andrews, hanging round the kitchen eating ice cream while his flat mates flitted in and out with minimal conversation, or that's the impression I got.  

Apologies if I picked it up wrong, Mak.  

I quite liked those flatmates but hated it when they were in the kitchen after I'd done a long shift at Tesco and just wanted to get some food and eat it in my room.

[2MatoFish]

The BBC article just pushed is a disgrace. Talking about how the science has shifted in the last few days; they chose a disastrous line and have backtracked and it'll cost thousands their lives.

And the BBC are just issuing press releases.

[Roger H. Sterling]

Links are cool

[CritchSmile]

The science has moved on

Love this science thing, seems to move about depending on political will

[Nive la France]

The science has moved on

Love this science thing, seems to move about depending on political will

Ken eh, as if viruses are this unheard of phenomenon totally new to science

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

Kuenssberg, obv

The government hasn't changed; the science has.

I am honestly so fucking angry about all this. Pricks like Dan Hodges and that, still all they can think about is the preservation of power for their party. Sick cunts likes

[CritchSmile]

Kuennsberg and Peston have done so much damage to this country in the last few years. Absolute pawns for Boris and Cummings

[Jeff Resnick]

https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/...95008?s=19

[Felix]

Fuck sake.

Lock the entire country down for 2 weeks.

If you're still ill at the end of that - stay in for another 7 days.

[Roger H. Sterling]

Actually quite livid that the original plan on Thursday was to sacrifice 260,000 people and the population just went along with it like it was fine. Why are folk not able to think for themselves and do the tiniest bit of research or outside thinking. You don't need to be an amateur virologist to figure out 1% of 80% of 60 million.

[Currahee!]

Boy at my work is now in 14 day isolation. He had a sore throat and a cough. I was working with him last week.

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

Kuennsberg and Peston have done so much damage to this country in the last few years. Absolute pawns for Boris and Cummings

They are disgusting. And people wonder how totalitarian regimes manage to take root and derive their legitimacy? I just don't see how she isn't sacked in previous years. It has been an incremental process over the past decade to erode accountability, delegitimise opposition and enable the excesses of a right wing authoritarian regime.

And now we're in the midst of a national crisis where we are being governed by Paul Reiser in Aliens.