DesperateDan posted:

I have now had three separate emails from labour telling me they are sad I'm gone so can I get taken off that clp list cause it makes me sad

quote:

With the current situation we are celebrating May Day on-line this year. Leading speakers, messages from unions and organisations, music, poetry, film will be running from 11.00 on May 1st. There will be special guests and other surprises.

We are celebrating international workers day. The reality that our society depends on workers could not be clearer at this time. We will be honouring those workers who are keeping our society going – both here and across the world.

But we will not be forgetting key issues facing workers – getting financial support & ensuring their housing; fighting the anti-union laws that try to limit our effectiveness; facing the other great crisis, our environment and the need to get climate change through just transition.

DesperateDan posted:

My clp sec was first port of call when I quit- I meant the clp list in the op but thanks regardless

learnincurve posted:

FFS, boomers are just being asked to only go shopping once a week and maintain a respectful distance away from others, no need to be so dramatic about it. They were happy enough to let us wander home from school aged 8 and then sit in front of the TV alone for hours till they got home, why are they so incapable of doing it themselves.

Isomermaid posted:

Oh yeah, no, I mean, Atlas Shrugged is on there too. Not the dodgiest thing on the shelf it appears, but still powerfully poo poo.

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Top scientists set up ‘shadow’ SAGE committee to advise government amid concerns over political interference
Former UK chief scientist assembles independent group of experts

Top scientists are setting up a shadow version of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), amid concerns about “dangerous” political interference in advice to the government.

Sir David King, a former government chief scientific adviser, has assembled a group of independent experts to look at how the UK could work its way out of the coronavirus lockdown.

He said the 12-strong committee had been created “in response to concerns over the lack of transparency” from Sage.


The body, which will hold its first press conference on Monday, will focus on seven key points, including how testing and tracing can work, and the future of social distancing.

etc.

Total Meatlove posted:

This is like finding out that someone got into interior design and furniture upholstery after watching silence of the lambs.

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Scientists don't necessarily actually know how to run a country though do they to be fair.

WhatEvil posted:

Spoke to my wife's friend yesterday. She works for a British medical device company. They were being contracted by the gov to design a ventilator which could be made rapidly and efficiently in response to coronavirus, despite not having made ventilators before...

The contract got cancelled this week, apparently because they've decided "they don't need loads of ventilators anymore".

Just utterly shambolic.

History Comes Inside! posted:

Some utter oval office that I work with has pitched "if this app works the police should be out doing spot checks and fining people who haven't got it installed, and shops should be checking at the door and refusing to let people in if they don't have it"

What the gently caress is wrong with people

Angepain posted:

Ok buy me a smartphone

Private Speech posted:

I always forget this country still hasn't legalised personal possession of weed (nm. sale it's the Tories we're talking about)

It's such a weird contrast seeing ads for "medical" weed and grow shops on the street when I visit my parents in the Czech Republic

Also they grew some in their garden despite being prime boomer age

His Divine Shadow posted:

My day on a plate today:
05:50 Pot of coffee
09:00 Banana and instant coffee
12:00 Lunch, some stuff I got for free, surplus rations they deliver to old people basically. Literally meat and potatoes.
14:00 more instant coffee
18:30 Finally home, with pizzas and kebab

Guavanaut posted:

CGI Stardust posted:

Labour has released the 7 Core Principles by which it will provide good, unifying opposition during the crisis

The Perfect Element posted:

Prof Neal Ferguson has had to resign cos he was having a lady round to his house. Oops!

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

The only interpretation I can think of is that it's the chart's key, indicating that the UK death toll is represented by the red line



But... if that's the case... why is Italy not in the key? Or more to point, why is the text "UK" not simply next to its respective line, like "Italy" is?

baka kaba posted:

Can't believe all these people are staying at home not working, why aren't they going out and getting new jobs??

Lobster God posted:

https://twitter.com/NicolaRBartlett/status/1258102549472849921?s=19

A Normal Country

OwlFancier posted:

I did once try to suggest to a lady at work that the new LED bulbs were probably a lot less likely to go bang than the halogen ones she was looking for (but that we didn't stock) but she wasn't having any of it.

Why of all technologies you would stan for loving halogen bulbs i do not know, they go bang more often than any other type IME.

Mourning Due posted:

Sorry for the feels, but: if you have a loved one who is in any way in the danger zone for this thing, and you've not told them everything you'd want them to know: take some time today to write them or call them and let them know.

I hadn't written or spoken to my great aunt since early Feb, and while we told each other we loved each other all the time, I never gave her a proper "this is what you've meant to me over the course of my whole life" letter like I'd always planned to. Passed away two weeks ago. Her funeral was yesterday but if course with lockdown, I couldn't go, so it's really lingering.

It's felt like life was on pause during all this, but now that it's happened in left thinking, how did I miss all the red flags? 97 years old, living in a care home, during a mass pandemic and quarantine, where nearly a thousand people died every day. I've been wracking my brain for ways to fill my time in all this, and never bothered to properly write her. Looking back at texts with my mom, I said a couple times, "keep meaning to write to Auntie, but with nothing going on I haven't had anything to say!". Well, I've got a lifetime of stuff to say now, and don't get the chance to. Wasn't even COVID, just an infection that got out of hand over 48 hours.

Anyway, there we are. Talking to a counselor hopefully next week which should help. My wife's been amazing during all this, and her recommendation of still writing the letter has taken a lot of the sting out. But I really, really urge you to avoid this feeling, and take the chance to let those you love know what you feel about them. Even if they don't get impacted by all this, you've only told them something nice anyway.

In any case, going to keep trying to stop beating myself up about it.

Venomous posted:

haven't seen this posted yet

https://twitter.com/MerseyHack/status/1258758842680254465?s=19

in two weeks' time we might wanna specifically check the infection rates around Grappenhall, maybe nominate the whole place for a Darwin

quote:

The new coronavirus can persist in men's semen even after they have begun to recover, a finding that raises the possibility the virus could be sexually transmitted, Chinese researchers said Thursday.

A team at Shangqiu Municipal Hospital tested 38 male patients treated there at the height of the pandemic in China, in January and February.
About 16% of them had evidence of the coronavirus in their semen, the team reported in the journal JAMA Network Open. About a quarter of them were in the acute stage of infection and nearly 9% of them were recovering, the team reported.
"We found that SARS-CoV-2 can be present in the semen of patients with COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-2 may still be detected in the semen of recovering patients," Diangeng Li of Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing and colleagues wrote.

etc

XMNN posted:

I mean, unless you've got some sort of ppe fetish thing going on, I think you're p likely to catch the Roni during sex regardless of whether it's in semen or not

quote:

Human semen can host up to 27 different viruses
By Karl GruberSep. 20, 2017 , 8:00 AM

When scientists discovered that the Zika virus can survive in semen for up to 6 months, people exposed to the disease—especially those hoping to have children—were horrified. It’s now known that the virus can be sexually transmitted up to 41 days. Now, a new meta-analysis has found that 26 other viruses can also live in human semen and go on to infect the bloodstream. Those include the viruses that cause Ebola, HIV, hepatitis B, and herpes. After reviewing more than 3800 scientific publications, the authors also found evidence that at least 11 viruses can live in the testes, including those that cause influenza, dengue, and severe acute respiratory syndrome. These viruses could potentially be found in semen, too, the authors say. Though not all 27 viruses are capable of person-to-person transmission, they can have other serious consequences, like reducing fertility or increasing the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease. Some of these viruses can even cause mutations in the DNA of sperm, which could then fertilize an egg and pass along the virus-induced mutations to future generations.

etc

Deketh posted:

I can't handle the sanctimonious smugness of it all. As if helping the vulnerable and addressing wealth inequality was some childish loving jaunt, and now we can be grown ups again by going back to propping up capital and keeping the working class in their place. What's that, support our public services and fix the welfare system? Look after renters and the low paid? Don't be so silly, the grown ups are back, let's get that debt accumulating again and let's have you work for gently caress all til you die.
It's similar to that ghoul Peston trying to take the piss out of Corbyn with that photo caption. We get it, you fucks, you won. You get to have it all, your corrupt little position, your wealth and vulgar influence. You get to keep manufacturing and inflicting your hellworld on the masses, you don't have to take the piss out of and belittle the people that actually tried to improve life for the desperate.

Bobstar posted:

I'm still holding out hope that people get more conservative as they get richer, not older.

Because there's going to be some upset conservatives in the next few decades if so.

TACD posted:

Long shot request, does anybody still have that tweet with the radio interview with some boomer arguing that she should be allowed her walk on the beach and the interviewer basically got her to agree that she’d rather die than stay inside for a while?

It was from a few thousand years ago, so like a month or two going by the old calendar.