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

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it is understood that non-essential stores could be included if they fail to stop customers handling items that could then pass on the virus

you what?

Number None, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link

Routers, radios, tv's spread the virus across the seven seas!

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:06 (four years ago) link

Best wishes to you Colonel. I'm very sorry to hear that.

Alain the Botton (jed_), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link

Tellys and freezers spread diseases

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link

So sorry, CP

the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 20 March 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link

Best wishes CP.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 March 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link

Been thinking of you CP, sorry you have to deal with this shit on top of everything else

ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:15 (four years ago) link

Letting agents are scum

Our housing manager is about to retire so the Housing Association our building was a part of (which is very small and would I’m sure have done right by us) is being taken on by a much bigger HA. They have a lot more money but I have no idea what they’re like to deal with and I’ve had no communication from them about Coronavirus, though I did get something through my door confirming that my standing order had been set up

This article doesn’t inspire much confidence in the larger ones

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/17/housing-associations-under-pressure-to-offer-covid-19-rent-holidays

felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Friday, 20 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link

This is a report on Germany's response (not looked at yet):

I asked this question on here the other day and got a bunch of conspiracy theories and over-complicated answers in my mentions. Basic answers: massive testing (up to 160,000 per week) catching cases early, demography (young ppl) and high hospital capacity. https://t.co/zTPiIunMs0

— Ben Gook (@bengook) March 20, 2020

xyzzzz__, Friday, 20 March 2020 14:29 (four years ago) link

I was thinking yesterday in the absence of bog roll we may see a resurgence for UK newspapers

I stopped doing the free-if-you-spend-£10 newspaper offer from Waitrose, because I never get round to reading them and they're just clutter/a waste of paper - but on the way home from failing to buy some loo rolls there it occurred to me that I should've taken my free inky alternative instead.

When they evicted us from the office to work from home I did nick one pack from a small pile of sealed double-packs of cheap nasty loo roll from work, and felt guilty all the way down the stairs until I saw there was a giant pallet of loo roll and cleaning products beneath the stairs, for a mostly-empty building. (There are still a few people left working there so hopefully they won't go entirely to waste and people will help themselves or redistribute them to other buildings.)

Sorry Col. Poo, good luck wins.

UK govt response really disappointing/worrying - hard to know how much due to incompetence and how much because they really don't care (or worse), but it's really not looking good for the future. ugh - good luck everyone.

a passing spacecadet, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link

just thinking about great stockpilers from political history. When Yagoda's Kremlin apartment was raided by his own NKVD agents during the great terror they found 3904 pornographic photographs, 11 pornographic movies, 399 "foreign music records", 37 pairs of imported gloves, 101 imported children's games, 1229 bottles of wine (some vintages dating back to 1897), 11075 cigarettes + 8 boxes of tobacco and 165 pipes (including some made out of elephant tusks). this lad was ready to self-isolate, although toilet rolls are not mentioned.

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link

101 imported children's games

this is a lot of children's game!

mark s, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link

unless they were all themed versions of monopoly

mark s, Friday, 20 March 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link

tim farron self-isolation update: still alive, if you can call this living

When in self-isolation it's important to exercise, get fresh air and stay positive! pic.twitter.com/08pvat0HNA

— Tim Farron (@timfarron) March 19, 2020

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link

I like to stay positive by imagining Tories dying

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link

g1 group are and always have been a bunch of cunts, so mass phone-sackings vmic

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link

(Daily Record making sure they print the most enormous pictures of pretty sacked worker possible, of course)

God gave toilets rolls to you, gave toilet rolls to you (Tom D.), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link

well, yeah

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link

'The big idea of the 1990s that “the economy” will serve as a regulating superego of our politics is a busted flush. ... we should now never tire of asking: which economic constraints are real and which imagined?' @adam_tooze on top form https://t.co/xS5iceaZzq

— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) March 20, 2020

Tooze says C-19 will be a paradigm shift.

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link

the big essay i've been working on -- abt a very specific shift in music and technology from the late 1950s to the early 1970s -- has become weirdly disorientating over the last week, when i've basically just been trying to tidy up the editor's final queries

on one hand, it is soothing to be thinking about something that the horrible present doesn't really touch

one the other hand, this isn't really true! every time i take a step back to reorientate my context for a sense of how history flowed through this time, and towards what, i get this really intense sensation of "literally none of yr mid-level value judgments apply any more dude"

mark s, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link

things shifting so rapidly at my work; it's a bit disorienting. glad I'm not at the coalface having to factor in all of the re-planning, implementing BCP, working up revised financials etc. I'm in a privileged position and see quite a lot of data for senior people in the business. some of the internal MI is

gday curd nerds (||||||||), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link

insert the emoji for 'my mouth is opening and closing and opening and no sound is coming out' there

gday curd nerds (||||||||), Friday, 20 March 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link

which economic constraints are real and which imagined?

This is the heart of it really isn't it?

Matt DC, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link

once you've been down the yellow brick road and past the magic money tree and see the hairy fat arse of the wizard of oz, there is no way back!

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link

A small transport operation, but one close to the Prime Minister’s heart, has fallen victim to the coronavirus.

The Emirates Air Line – the east London cable car built on the instructions of the then mayor, Boris Johnson – will stop operating indefinitely from tomorrow

ymo sumac (NickB), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link

🐦[’The big idea of the 1990s that “the economy” will serve as a regulating superego of our politics is a busted flush. ... we should now never tire of asking: which economic constraints are real and which imagined?’ @adam_tooze🕸 on top form https://t.co/xS5iceaZzq🕸
— David Edgerton (@DEHEdgerton) March 20, 2020🕸]🐦

Tooze says C-19 will be a paradigm shift.


i agree with all this and yet looking back at 2008 marvel at “our” (capitalists, politicians, media) ability to forget and memory hole entire cosmic shifts in order to maintain a status quo.

Fizzles, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:05 (four years ago) link

he's taking a long time to get around to the punchline here

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link

pubs cafes and bars to close tonight

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link

fucking finally

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link

"we are all in this together" says the man with a literal nuclear bunker for him and his colleagues.

koogs, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:09 (four years ago) link

PROTECT THE NHS is our new three-worder, Dom earning his crust at last

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link

phew, in under the wire

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link

https://t.co/688Ob1Cf8c pic.twitter.com/crlRfnDLem

— Loki (@Lokinash06) March 20, 2020

lool!

calzino, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:13 (four years ago) link

No limit on funding for scheme https://t.co/CD4nDFXkLB

— Nick Eardley (@nickeardleybbc) March 20, 2020

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link

all shops apart from supermarkets and pharmacies to shut

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:15 (four years ago) link

this seems good, if late xp is that right about shops?

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link

... cafes, bars, pubs and restaurants must close tonight. Nightclubs, theatres, gyms, cinemas and leisure centres must also close on the same timescale.

BoE going to need a bigger bazooka

gday curd nerds (||||||||), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link

NEW #Coronavirus job retention scheme.

HMRC grants to cover most of the wages.

Will cover 80% of salaries of workers of up to £2,500 a month.

Will be open for 3 months. Can extend. NO limit on the funding going into the scheme

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) March 20, 2020

(replacing deleted tweet)

stet, Friday, 20 March 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link

not only does Tim Weatherspoon have the Oblivion face but i can hear him doing the voice

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link

Lol vat cancelled

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link

Why 80%?

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link

how's that gonna work for the self-employed?

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link

Self assessment cancelled for a year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

some of you are enjoying this (gyac), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link

and how does this work for people who've been laid off since the government started fucking up their response to this?

uncle-knower is coming for you (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link

there are gonna be millions of newly unemployed and these cunts are fretting about tax. riot time.

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link

My boss has just gone from "fuck this incompetent government" to "Incredible employment scheme for everyone. What a fantastic government we have I must say. Awfully touched" - this is a verbatim quote, btw, smh.

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:22 (four years ago) link

wondering if I can somehow finagle this so the gov will pay me more than the SSP I'm currently barely living on.

I can't pay no doctor bill, but Whitey's on the McAloon (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 March 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link


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