@lemonodor That sucks hugely ☹️ @abigaildisney any chance of using your platform to try to pressure the suits to offer paid furlough?
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Richard Rose
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@PlayingSane @matthaig1 @caitlinmoran @SarahMillican75 @TheStage @IndustryMindsUK @talkcommunity1 @EquityUK @SpotlightUK @Rubywax @ShentonStage I am attempting different bread recipes and will today start growing "grandson of Albert" my new sourdough starter. Let's see if I can keep him alive during the plague times!
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What IS everyone managing to do right now?
Whether it's a spring clean, diving into a book, or working on a from home creative project please take a photo & share using #whatyoudoing
Let's focus on all the things we CAN do for a while.
#strongertogether
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THREAD. I finally managed to get through to the coronavirus team and to say that it did not go well would be a gross understatement.
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Tracy Brabin WY 🌹@TracyBrabin
Thank you to the 1000s of #freelancers who responded to my call for evidence on how #COVIDー19 has affected them. I’m overwhelmed & humbled. Using your stories, I will be asking govt for a temporary universal basic income guarantee that includes #freelancers & #selfemployed.
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A temporary universal basic income guarantee is needed from the Government in the current public health crisis to include freelancers and the self employed
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@themikepan Hopefully this is something being worked on as part of the mythical asset management update that has been talked about for the past 10 years yet has never actually gone beyond some wireframes as far as I can tell
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@soozibags @matthaig1 Except they're not. Unless you think advising older to people to avoid cruises, stopping testing unless you're admitted to hospital and advising that you don't need to self isolate if you live with someone with coronavirus symptoms will slow the spread...
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@matthaig1 They dont 'want' it they accept it is inevitable. All we can do is slow and spread it out, which is (believe it or not) what they are trying to do.
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@sunny_hundal No. Rational people looked at the overwhelming consensus amongst experts that Brexit was a bad idea and disregarded the tiny minority who said it would all be fine. This is what people are again doing. It is not ideological, it is about trusting the consensus view of experts
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"I don't trust our experts when there are other experts taking a contrary view."
I understand the temptation to say/think this. I feel it too.
But this is exactly what happened during Brexit: people listened to experts that told them what they wanted to hear.
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We spend all our time arguing our governments should not give into populist panic, they should listen to experts and scientists.
Now the govt is doing that, and half of Twitter wants populist panic 🤦🏽♂️
This is why we can't have nice things 😂🤔
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Are you an epidemiology or public health expert? Please read and consider signing:
#COVID19
docs.google.com/document/d/1kS…
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@damocrat Because every other medical expert and country is taking a different tack and the gov is balancing the health impacts with the economic impacts based on their own priorities which are largely based around not caring if little people die as long as they continue to make money.
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@mrjamesob Broad consensus of who? The broad consensus of medical professionals I work with is that we're utterly fucked and completely unprepared compared to other countries...
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The broad consensus at the outset was that the U.K. was much better prepared for pandemic than other countries. Remembering this puts our apparent divergence from other countries’ responses in a more comforting light.
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@faisalislam Herd immunity is what you get when you either have sufficient people immunised against a disease that it can't spread (we have no vaccine) or when everyone has already had it and it has killed everyone it is going to kill. Encouraging this process is an interesting plan
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Vallance asked by Justin about “herd immunity” if we want more people to get it - he says you can’t stop it, and its going to become an annual event...
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Mark interviews the nudge unit behavioural scientist whose advice has driven the epidemic response so far -
Mark Easton@MarkEastonMedia
Government #coronavirus science advisor Dr David Halpern tells me of plans to ‘cocoon’ vulnerable groups.
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@geekylonglegs @chick_in_kiev Here in the UK we have a wonderful woman Jack Monroe who writes cooking on a budget (£1-£2 a day) recipes including an entire book of recipes from only tins. All recipes are also free online. Very very good for these situations cookingonabootstrap.com
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UNIFIED CUTLERY THEORY
This is a combination of Spoon Theory, Fork Theory and Knife Theory, metaphors used to help disabled people explain fatigue and stressors to themselves and abled people.
Abled friends please share! This cost me many spoons and I'm well into knives.
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@RealSexyCyborg @philh8714 @Gin_ev_ra It pains me to say it but this is the case in the UK. Even our "left" newspapers are overwhelmingly staffed by privately schooled, Oxbridge educated scions of the upper and upper middle classes. It makes for very distorted reporting ☹️
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@philh8714 @Gin_ev_ra Journalism has also joined writing as an acceptably prestigious profession the well-off can dump not particularly useful (or qualified) spouses and adult children. With positions secured largely though nepotism and not requiring livable salaries due to spouse or parental funding.
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Time to play our favorite game with foreign China correspondents- "Lying or Illiterate?"
Bill Birtles@billbirtles
My building committee in Beijing this morning stuck this note on my door - telling neighbours I’ve been to Korea and urging them to report if I leave. Plus had to sign a doc agreeing to 14 days home quarantine, and send temps twice daily via WeChat #COVID2019
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@pgcd @BrentNYT @GreatDismal @jbouie But that would involve criticising the Hegelian world view from which we also derive Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, critical theory etc...
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i know my essay on race and the enlightenment is making the rounds again because i’m getting a bunch of extremely angry email about it. it’s a good essay, i think. you should read it! slate.com/news-and-polit…
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@chris_bish_78 @drjanaway Remember when you ask someone with serious MH issues to give you their history you are asking them to recount all the most unpleasant and traumatic incidents in their life to a stranger, usually at a point where they are at their most vulnerable.
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@drjanaway In every interaction with patients, relatives/carers and colleagues remember the smallest of actions can have the biggest of consequences, and think about how you say things - words can be powerfully healing or damaging. Last of all, always be kind
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@avarakai @Pady_oFurniture @Doddford @db_is_db @Debbie_abrahams Oh look children... A racist moron 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
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@Pady_oFurniture @Doddford @db_is_db @Debbie_abrahams I usually don't spoonfeed than kids. But, here I was talking about no-go zones for you guys as it has Sharia law. Enjoy your beer there & you'll see reality.
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Very disappointing that a friend can't respecfully criticise another friend. Isn't this the sign of a healthy democracy?
TIMES NOW@TimesNow
#Breaking | Sources: Govt of India responds to British MP @Debbie_abrahams; says her Visa was valid till Oct 2020, but it was revoked because she was found indulging in activities against the interest of India. TIMES NOW's Athar Khan with details.
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@StevePeers @cliodiaspora Oh yeah, it's vastly more complex than the stereotype I just find it interesting to see where these stereotypes originate and how they match up to reality as stereotypes (strongly?) shape people's thinking and the discussion of these topics
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@RicheyRose @cliodiaspora "Two-thirds of British citizens living in the EU, excluding the UK and Ireland, are aged 15 to 64 years, and more 15- to 64-year-olds live in Spain than any other EU country." Anyway, the correct comparison is with immigration rules for workers, not retirees.
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