First thing I do when I wake up is read the news. Today I read, still half-asleep, that China reported zero deaths for the first time today. I literally cheered. It was weird.
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UK has 3% of the ICU units needed?! That is not good.
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Definitely not good.
I believe that is based on the original baseline capacity, but like many places, the UK is working hard to increase health system capacity.
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I hope Boris makes it through…
Would he be only the second Prime Minister to die in office after Spencer Perceval?
(That was Churchill’s stated aim, by the way :P)
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I did a little research.
Apparently the second ever Prime Minister (Spencer Compton) and the third (Henry Pelham) both died in office.
So did Charles Watson-Wentworth, William Pitt the Younger, George Canning, and Henry John Temple (Viscount Palmerston). I expect there were several more as well…
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We will fight coronavirus in the streets… we will fight it in the supermarkets and the parks; in the schools and the nightclubs; and we will, never, ever surrender!
MPs wish Boris well:
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Although I don’t like BoJo much, and although I first felt schadenfreude when he tested positive, I really hope he’ll get better soon.
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yes the idea of moving average is good to smooth the random walk and make the tendency more readable.
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hmm…
The Sun newspaper. The newspaper of choice of my mother (not necessarily a political choice).
But, alas, the newspaper of choice for me is The Guardian.
Once, when my mother visited she had forgotten to bring her rag with her and I proffered my Guardian. She looked at me and said “This is not a newspaper”
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I first felt schadenfreude when he tested positive
That’s quite callous.
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Not if it’s just your first reaction. When I heard about it my first thought was “Well, that’s funny”, so I can totally understand the feeling.
I think this pretty much settles it anyway.
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It’s funny that someone catches a life-threatening disease, because they don’t share your political views?
Reveals something about people who think that way, certainly.
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No, my point was that you can’t control your first reaction to anything. It doesn’t mean you consciously hope he dies. It’s just human, that’s all.
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No.
The Tories have overseen a decade of austerity that has had profound effects on the ‘ordinary’ people of the UK. People have died from austerity.
Boris’s behaviour was incredulous prior to the Government suddenly thinking ‘fuck’ we better do something about this. The man went round shaking the hands of people with Covid-19.
Something that I learn’t about this week about Covid is viral load. It’s no surprise he’s now in the terrible condition he is in. There is a certain irony.
That said I was slightly emotional when I heard the news. It was shocking.
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No, because he endangered/ probably caused the death of lots of people by reacting to the pandemic in a by now proven absolutely wrong way and now that he got it, too, maybe it will be a nice lesson to not be such a prick next time.
I hope he makes it, though. I hope simple people make it more, but I hope he makes it, too.
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It’s funny that someone catches a life-threatening disease, because they don’t share your political views?
Please let us not make this about politics yet again. The same “well, isn’t life full of ironies?” happened when Rudy Gobert did this :
and then was the first NBA player to be diagnosed with the virus, effectively forcing the league to close down. Of course noone is happy that someone got sick, but I think that most people were like “Rudy, dude, what were you thinking?” … there is nothing political or bad about that reaction and it is actually the moral of many stories and fairy tales around the world, that you shouldn’t ridicule something that is actually dangerous.
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Also, even if this were a reaction to a political statement (which it wasn’t), you’re really quick with making these things personal and insulting people from the other side of the political spectrum. You could have left that last line out and be less antagonistic about people giving an opinion you’re opposed to.
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Kaos’s statement and reaction was fine.
But me, I thought “he caused all this and him being PM they probably kicked someone out of ICU to get him in”, so yeah, I’m callous, guilty as charged.
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Despite my position on the political spectrum, as a Brit this is how I feel…
(from Gaby Hinsliff in The Guardian)
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I live in Massachusetts
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If it was just me I wouldn’t worry but since I’m looking after my dad who is quite old and infirm, I do…
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