Today is Mayday
May. 1st, 2020 07:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersHooray, hooray,
The first of May...
But with the lockdown I fear the outdoor activities that close the quote are beyond us all, and not just those who are disinclined to put aside the pleasures of comfort for a little bracing exercise in the usual, only-just-sub-Artic, English Spring.
As is the weather has been unusually clement until yesterday when rain rinsed the coronavirus off the streets and into the sewers.
And let's be candid; London has become a place that is almost unrecognisable.
However what is recognisable is our government's appalling behaviour. Having screwed the PPE thing comprehensively the government has now decided that England & Wales coroners are ordered to exclude issues of inadequate PPE from inquests into deaths of NHS staff killed by COVID-19.
This is completely and absolutely unacceptable, but no-one appears to be kicking up a stink at it. If I were a coroner I would happily ignore such instruction. In fact I rather hope more than one coroner will do so, or maybe even the whole damn lot of them. How dare a government dictate a coroner's findings for political expediency? This really does bear comparison to Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. Brexit Britain, bah!
And then to top it all off, in order to apply for a test for CV19 you need to have a credit check with TransUnion. What the bloody fuck! You need a fucking credit check to get tested for CV19?
Let me repeat that. YOU NEED TO AGREE TO A CREDIT CHECK TO GET A CV19 TEST.
Fuck that. I'm going to do my best to become a fucking super-spreader then. Cunts.
The first of May...
But with the lockdown I fear the outdoor activities that close the quote are beyond us all, and not just those who are disinclined to put aside the pleasures of comfort for a little bracing exercise in the usual, only-just-sub-Artic, English Spring.
As is the weather has been unusually clement until yesterday when rain rinsed the coronavirus off the streets and into the sewers.
And let's be candid; London has become a place that is almost unrecognisable.
However what is recognisable is our government's appalling behaviour. Having screwed the PPE thing comprehensively the government has now decided that England & Wales coroners are ordered to exclude issues of inadequate PPE from inquests into deaths of NHS staff killed by COVID-19.
This is completely and absolutely unacceptable, but no-one appears to be kicking up a stink at it. If I were a coroner I would happily ignore such instruction. In fact I rather hope more than one coroner will do so, or maybe even the whole damn lot of them. How dare a government dictate a coroner's findings for political expediency? This really does bear comparison to Nazi Germany or Communist Russia. Brexit Britain, bah!
And then to top it all off, in order to apply for a test for CV19 you need to have a credit check with TransUnion. What the bloody fuck! You need a fucking credit check to get tested for CV19?
Let me repeat that. YOU NEED TO AGREE TO A CREDIT CHECK TO GET A CV19 TEST.
Fuck that. I'm going to do my best to become a fucking super-spreader then. Cunts.
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Date: 2020-05-04 06:32 am (UTC)Russia is going to have a real problem if its R value is as high as it appears to be over the last few days; there's an unpleasant acceleration curve. Russia could end up as bad as anywhere.
When CV19 sweeps through the world's refugee camps we will see how bloody appalling we are as a species; given that those deaths will have been preventable.
But to get back to the original post, lots of folk just aren't going to download this app; I'm not if I have to give any info to a third party. The government already has my info; and should not require me to provide that to a private company.