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

Funny to read this and remember that outside of this thread a beloved ilxor nearly got banned when US lib monocles shattered cause they were rude about the filth

just posting some highly necessary content here

love you king pic.twitter.com/kfgLDFTNto

— what cloud the new hxh chapter on 🤔 (@nencontrol) March 27, 2020

xp I was sober then and not wanting to get into it

we should adopt said ilxor into this thread

he already posts here occasionally

morbs, silby? it's one of them innit? i rarely peer into American lib hell, because it's usually got too much Fred in the thread, or at least more than I can stomach.

the latter. Actually I realise posting now silby may not be a he, sorry if I got this wrong. calz, not even gonna touch your other point.

It is silby, who is not a he iirc

Xp!

ty wins, I still love silby

yep silby is a fine poster

Funny to read this and remember that outside of this thread a beloved ilxor nearly got banned when US lib monocles shattered cause they were rude about the filth

what's the story here. bunch of cap'n-save-a-cops on the USpol threads?

Maybe best to leave it but it was one of the covid threads, a perfectly fine “hope cops get it lol” post nearly caused an international incident

the fuck

Sky News is reporting that the deaths from coronavirus aren't so bad because most of the people "would have died anyway some time this year"... pic.twitter.com/12PdzyhYki

— Conor McCabe (@CMacCaba) March 28, 2020

graphic is pure brasseye

fucking failed state

Is this #clapforboris thing real?

Honestly can't tell anymore

Law of averages suggests he's already had it at least once.

Person who suggested it seems legit, but I think it'll go about as well as when they tried to get that shitty brexit comedian to #1 on the day the UK left the EU.

Geoff Norcott?

The only clapforBoris thing I've seen was a joke, I'm sure

#borishastheclap

#clapfromboris

Lads

isn’t the clap one of those things it’s increasingly difficult to cure now?

Maybe best to leave it but it was one of the covid threads, a perfectly fine “hope cops get it lol” post nearly caused an international incident

― felt jute gyte delete later (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2020 17:18 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol checked this out and it is unreal

also just found out I'm getting furloughed

unfortunately didn't save up for a concertina in time to use this opportunity to practice

I'm watching a lot of Curb Your Enthusiasm and Star Trek Next Generation.

Do we know how long the lockdown phase will last?

hard lines plax. on both furlough and lack of concertina.

also yes just checked out that thread and silbs makes an acab joke on *ilx* and suddenly high table goes v quiet and says “gosh i think that’s in awfully bad taste”. then it all gets a bit The Invaders.

xp

was pondering that today. presumably to do with the rate of new cases going back down below a threshhold

Honestly so glad for this thread and all who sail in it

And that’s shit plax, hope they’re not cunts about the pay

also wondering that. i think they’re reviewing was it end of april? it’s very hard not to imagine it won’t go on till end of may tbh. also hard to get think schools will go back before september?

also curious what it will look like. it’s not like the gov are going to go “right everyone! pub’s open!” is it?

<3 plax

American ilx is quite inescapably melt-ascendant

actually i shd seize this enforced hiatus to start playing the piano again every day like some thomas-mann-ending-wanting mfer

not feeling that bad about furlough tbh as I am unbelievably lazy and I don't think anyone at work has noticed yet. Mainly because i kill myself working so that nobody finds out. and i could use a break from that. Wandered around islington/hackney today with the dog and I can't imagine how lunatic london, and every other locked-down city, is going to feel when this is over. Especially if half the pubs have folded and everyone's packed into the rest.

will you get the 80% salary thing?

yeah, i mean my pay is so shit anyway it might as well be a hobbie, and since all i'm doing right now is sitting in playing imaginary concertina and not commuting i'm probably saving more than the 20% anyway

ooh which bits of hackney, maybe i saw you?

(i didn't, i haven't even looked out of the window, only the door when i thought the flat oppsite had broken the hatch up to the roof ) (they hadn't)

total shiter regardless, plax. hope everything goes alright for you

xp

thanks buddy. it'll be grand

xp up to clissold park from angel via st pauls rd/highbury new park and then back down via green lanes/southgate road. although a little more aimlessly.

Wishing grandness for plax.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUMHui4WkAAGyJb?format=jpg&name=900x900

‘A warm wish of speedy recovery for Boris Johnson and good luck to the great British people who are the first in the world to experiment with herd immunity starting with the shepherd!’

From La Repubblica

^ aye, that’s awful Plax

Xp

Oh yeah, hope everything works out Plax, don't let the bastards grind you down.

chefkiss.jpg

Germany conducts 500,000 tests in a week, Sky News reports. The British government is aiming to be testing 10,000 per day by tomorrow.

(all the best plax btw)

aye, but nobody is clapping them, always the sign of a poorly funded health service.

sorry plax, all the best

good news folks, no need to worry about getting more ventilators because half of the people who need them are gonna die anyway

The mortality rate for patients put in intensive care after being infected with Covid-19 is running at close to 50%, a report has revealed.

Data from the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) showed that of 165 patients treated in critical care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland since the end of February, 79 died, while 86 survived and were discharged. The figures were taken from an audit of 775 people who have been or are in critical care with the disease, across 285 intensive care units. The remaining 610 patients continue to receive intensive care.

The high death rate raises questions about how effective critical care will be in saving the lives of people struck down by the disease. As a top priority, the NHS is opening field hospitals in London, Birmingham and Manchester, which will incorporate some of the biggest critical care units ever seen in Britain.

“The truth is that quite a lot of these individuals [in critical care] are going to die anyway and there is a fear that we are just ventilating them for the sake of it, for the sake of doing something for them, even though it won’t be effective. That’s a worry,” one doctor said.