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Yeah I’m really enjoying the first season, the dad is a great character/actor

The OC Never actually watched it in full as a kid so doing it now

Gotta day people seem to be ignoring the lockdown the longer it goes on, especially with the governments relaxing of the rules. Basketball court near me is full (even though it’s fenced off), park is busy, a lot of groups out playing football, the hills I live by are teeming with people and have been for a lot of the lockdown. There’s no way to safely climb them without being surrounded by people. Just went into Lidl as for the first time in ages there’s no queue and it’s always quiet compared to the big supermarkets, normally walk along to a Tesco Express, Polish Supermarket or Asian Supermarket as there’s never a queue and between the three you can do a full shop. Thought with Lidl having no queue it must be empty...wrong it was busy, security not making people queue and people just being dumb. When woman kept trying to lean over or past me for food...as if there’s isn’t currently a G.L.O.B.A.L P.A.N.D.E.M.I.C I just don’t think the lockdown from the off has been strict enough and nor has the message of how long we’re going to be in this been clear. Government talking about cinemas and restaurants and potential normality as if that’s going to be realistic in the coming months or even years. I can’t not see a second peak tbh but I think as a society, including the government, there is a level of denial that will kill people. This will eventually be blamed on the public alone, their lockdown psychology.

My local park was full of groups today, clearly not in one household. Basketball court full, the roads are busy, I can’t help but think we’re sleep walking into a second peak

Some media rhetoric is that they want to be hero’s, but those pesky unions keep preventing that..the complacency that is setting in feels maddening

When playing it taps into apart of your brain you just don’t feel like you’re using when playing other sports...playing consistently makes it a better watch on the Tele cos you’re aware of what’s happening more and more

I’m not an expert and definitely not well versed in this so I won’t drag an argument on...but the article makes valid points in how personal and national circumstance can often be ignored when claiming obesity, and often obesity as described as being over a certain BMI to be an issue. There is also a growing movement amongst health and medical professionals who would support that rhetoric such as this exists as weight stigma as opposed to it being concrete.

I was referring to the parts that questioned the way obesity is connected to Covid19 in that the obesity rates generally match national obesity rates, which in itself doesn’t show obesity as being particularly harmful just representative of national averages. It also pointed out how obesity rates are generally higher amongst the working classes and these are the same group of people likely to contract Covid. The research done also doesn’t delve into health issues or occupations either, essentially just sees a large portion of obese people and assumes that’s a health risk rather than the reasons behind why there might be a larger pool of obese people

Good article on obesity and coronavirus https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus/obesity-covid-19?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-share-article&utm_content=20200430&fbclid=IwAR0pa36R0GRG14lcwLLAEkFZ5_NdPSTPSHDgKXqNJtt2G7vs7glMjYbeERc

I haven’t played golf enough the last few years to go out and enjoy it without spending a few hours at the driving range first....as it is that grass wouldn’t look so pretty

Not a surprise Doesnt really highlight that the services were cut back because like most services it is operated by generally lower socio-economic employees who have children and families that they need to protect...and also to protect themselves

According to the Mirror

Ever have reoccurring dreams of an old job that you had? That you work there again? Just seen an advertisement for a warehouse I used to work in and that reoccurring dream could be a possibility again

This is shocking but not surprising and the poor nature of what they done is definitely not party specific, it’s an issue that effects politics deeply and I’m not just referring to the smear campaign when I say that https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-leaks-report-antisemitism-racism-diane-abbott-butler-a9468521.html The fact is very little will be done, they might be sacked, someone else will come in and the culture that allows all this shit to happen will remain

Unions for transport workers considering shutting down trains and buses for their employees and the public’s safety. Would be the right thing to do seeing as the government sent everyone out to work without a care

Johnson responded stating that Starmer was misleading the public now as he did not include that the advice at the time was based on the assumption that the spread of coronavirus was not happening within the community. A poor response imo seeing as 11 days after the 12th March the entire country went into lockdown. I don't think Starmer has misled anyone, as of the 12th March and before the government should have been aware of the potential this pandemic had to kill people seeing as it was already making it's way around the world. You would assume it would be very negligent of an official stance that care homes would be unlikely to be hit, with the effects of the virus on show in China and Italy...to then 11 days later introduce an unprecedented national lockdown, followed by further unprecedented measures such as a national furlough scheme due to the spread of the virus. Not to mention that further issues such as lack of PPE gear and lack of testing, which has been encouraged by the WHO from the start, would have added to the deaths in care homes.

One good thing with Facebook is that it's a lot easier to curate your feed by blocking/hiding people, Twitter you end up seeing tweets because someone you follow likes it. I've got to the point now with Twitter that I just create lists, I've got a football journalist list and essentially you click on the list and the entire feed just becomes their tweets and theirs only...football galore.

Very happy to see somebody properly holding the current government to account:

There is a benefit if you can keep it lighthearted, keep up with people, see family photos etc but in general it can be very addictive

News organisations blaming commuters for taking public transport “even though” Boris said to avoid it...really chips away at that hope for accountability tbh.

Anyone deleted social media apps off their phone? Had Twitter deleted for a month now and it’s a very good change of pace, the amount of arguments you’re open to seeing is ridiculous. Just a negative algorithm in general. Also deleted Facebook too, though it’s a lot easier curate your Facebook page as you can just delete/hide people whose political opinions you don’t want to see.

I think it’s more people who just like to see shows of strength, a new slogan for a new lockdown, Boris getting animated in his speeches. Donald Trump lite. There’s a large generation of people in the country who have that Empire mindset, Britain shall never be slaves, stiff upper lip, stick up a flag, start shouting and have their bellies tickled by being told how great they are. Great Britain...the Great British public....it’s an entire generation who’s worth is built on a perception that they are part of the best country in earth vs a generation of people growing up who are globalised, grew up talking to friends all around the world on the internet, less barriers in the way, identity not built as much on flags and barriers but connection to people. Maybe the split there is naturally Labour/Conservatives but it was definitely seen in the Remain/Leave camps imo

No, completely different newspaper. News of the World hacked her phone and as a result were closed down, Morgan was the editor of the Mirror. There were accusations that the Mirror hacked celebrities phones but I don't think it was ever proven. I imagine that's where the confusion has come from and the story that he hacked her phone has stuck. Morgan was fired by the Mirror for publishing photos showing British soldiers torturing Iraqis, the Mirror said that the photos were maliciously hoaxed and so Morgan had to go. Morgan however said: "I was fired. I refuse to apologize. And I refuse to accept that they were necessarily fakes. To this day, nobody has ever been prosecuted for it. They never found out who took the pictures. They arrested somebody, a soldier, but at the last minute, rather than go through with the prosecution and the faking of the pictures, they chose him as a prosecution witness in another torture case, thereby implying that he had credibility. I will apologize if firm evidence ever materializes that they were 100 percent fake, I will apologize." https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/01/piers-morgan-on-phone-hacking-iraq-photos-154551

Morgan didn't hack a dead girl's phone, that was carried out by the News of the World. He is a massive bellend though who stirs ignorance and hatred to draw in his viewership