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

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.

take care plax! how much is a concertina btw?

a more conspiracy-minded person than i might question just how and why these stories which seem to exonerate the government’s lackadaisical approach to coronavirus response isn’t an issue because sufferers were gonna die anyway are popping up in the legendarily supine uk press over the last couple of days

Tbf I have read that elsewhere about ventilators because it’s a very high risk procedure? Will try to find a link.

As ever the appeal of 'people will die anyway' to people who do not understand what death is

look, life has a 100% mortality rate, trying to keep people from avoidable deaths during a pandemic is the old politics

aren’t we all dead, really?

Please @guardian don’t throw basic statistics out of the window just to get a scary headline. 79 deaths out of 775 ICU patients is not a 50% survival rate. You can’t just consider the deaths and the discharges and ignore those receiving continuing care! https://t.co/yrMVIq90lD

— stuart mcdonald (@ActuaryByDay) March 28, 2020

aren’t we all dead, really?

― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 21:33 (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

*crossly taps the dec 21 2012 mayan calendar sign*

my man

extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac)
Posted: 28 March 2020 at 20:02:17
Honestly so glad for this thread and all who sail in it

enjoy your scurvy everyone

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/28/fruit-and-veg-will-run-out-unless-britain-charters-planes-to-fly-in-farm-workers-from-eastern-europe

and suddenly we find that the demonised unskilled labourers from the eu are actually key workers after all

Sorry to hear that, plax.

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.

That's a nice walk - did you hit the road around there with the animal topiary?

American ilx is quite inescapably melt-ascendant

I don't really think that stands up though? Particularly not in this case, which started with something that'd be over the line here and then got more batshit. I believe silby's on their second tempban in two weeks, and tbh that sounds like a good idea?

That road is Kelross, I think? I still have some photos from around there.

I'm wondering if we'll get to "Congratulations, non-key worker, you are confirmed immune! Turn up at this address for your new life as a delivery driver / farm worker / food packer"

xp that's the one!