A pandemic, untamed: Time-lapse of how the coronavirus made its way across U.S. communities since March. Currently, there are twice as many daily COVID-19 cases as after Memorial Day. Cases are rising in 25+ states with the heartland most affected. With @HarvardEthics @MSFTIssues pic.twitter.com/567pugYyFv
— Brown Public Health (@Brown_SPH) October 8, 2020
Trump is the first candidate in the history of elections to personally spread an infectious disease to every battleground state a month before the election. https://t.co/yuC2bJIXQ9
— Andy Slavitt @ ?? (@ASlavitt) October 8, 2020
Trump says the "cure" he received at Walter Reed will soon be widely available. But its maker disclosed that in the next few months, supply will be only ~300,000 doses — the number of Americans sickened in the last week alone. From @Carolynyjohnson: https://t.co/jCEFO7oVpL
— Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) October 8, 2020
Per an Internal White House Memo: Senior staff who interact w Trump must first don protective gear from an “Isolation Cart” — which includes yellow gowns and protective goggles. My latest w @jdawsey1. https://t.co/pIO5RqPr1z
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) October 7, 2020
I like the way @EricTopol puts this — everybody asks me, "When will the 2nd wave of #COVID19 hit?" And the answer is obvious — we're still in the 1st wave, with no sign of a sustained downturn. A second wave? Egads. https://t.co/IdgY7dhewS
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 8, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic’s second wave has hospitals across Russia filling up fast. https://t.co/zjjTa2yCoP
— Meduza in English (@meduza_en) October 8, 2020
Germany 'worried' by spike in coronavirus cases https://t.co/vIFVmS0YFP
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 8, 2020
* ITALY RECORDS 4,458 NEW COVID-19 CASES ON THURSDAY, FIRST TIME ABOVE 4,000 SINCE APRIL 12 – HEALTH MINISTRY@Reuters
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) October 8, 2020
Coronavirus: No countries on Irish green list from Monday https://t.co/TuSXwK6xBq
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 9, 2020
Good myth busting piece on Sweden’s coronavirus strategy which relies on mass testing and good contact tracing + strict quarantine measures. Quite similar approach now to what we’ve seen in South Korea. Keep everything open and educate people on measures https://t.co/BDbduA01GP
— Laura Bicker (@BBCLBicker) October 9, 2020
Australia records second day without COVID-19 death for first time in three months https://t.co/fc4CiAvkMb pic.twitter.com/RmXTu0xbCh
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 9, 2020
New Zealand stamps out the virus — for a second time. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who is facing re-election, called the country’s reopening a validation of its “go hard, go early” response. https://t.co/GFKqlHtkbX
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
Brazil's coronavirus cases pass 5 million & the number of deaths is approaching 150k, according to newly released data. The figures arrive amid optimism that the virus is slowing even though the health ministry reported 31,553 new infections in 24 hours https://t.co/7keWwHMPQ7 pic.twitter.com/9xT3BK9gXE
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
Chile scientists study potential coronavirus mutation in remote Patagonia https://t.co/mEon5YH5uD pic.twitter.com/2fH1tYLVZg
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 9, 2020
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“A fantastic vaccine that is not used will not be successful in ending the pandemic,” says HMS professor Dan Barouch of the need to boost public trust in vaccines at this critical time (via @TIME) https://t.co/dxePUB1bNz
— Harvard Medical School (@harvardmed) October 8, 2020
China joins deal to ensure Covid-19 vaccines are distributed to poorer nations, the biggest economy yet to join the @WHO-led bid to control the pandemichttps://t.co/63SLK11VlF pic.twitter.com/DeocZXRSEh
— AFP news agency (@AFP) October 9, 2020
'Brain fog' following #COVID19 recovery may indicate PTSD. Medical investigators say PTSD plagued survivors of other serious #coronavirus infections, SARS & MERS https://t.co/DDaccabviv via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
An autoimmune-like antibody response is linked with severe COVID19. Preventing dysregulated immune system responses may be as important as treating the virus itself https://t.co/UHSZA6mN3x via @ConversationUS
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
Early #COVID19 cases in Southern California linked to New York https://t.co/pwLr3vuEm2 via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
The monoclonal antibody FDA emergency (EUA) applications are in process for both Lilly & Regeneron. They have much more data than what's been presented from their Phase 2 trials. What they don't have is enough supply.https://t.co/Ro7fqmrXew <-The Title is awful@ScottGottliebMD pic.twitter.com/0uN49OTHBe
— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 8, 2020
Regeneron requests emergency use approval for antibody treatment taken by Trump; stock rises 4% in premarket https://t.co/wvYV3xsucd
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
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Why are coronavirus infections rising again in the US? https://t.co/sdXbG6bDjY
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) October 8, 2020
Doctors and nurses trying to treat the sick and dying in the coronavirus pandemic are dealing with the added burden of patients and relatives who don’t believe the virus is real, refuse to wear masks and demand unproven treatments. https://t.co/ZpFkjZXp8D
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 8, 2020
Keep your ? on the ball
The circles, all going in the wrong direction@COVID19Tracking today
55,000 cases, 975 deaths, >34,000 hospitalizations pic.twitter.com/wA2LJnjGpX— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) October 9, 2020
The US had +49,355 new confirmed coronavirus cases yesterday and +56,652 today – the highest number since August 14th – bringing the total to over 7.8 million. The 7-day moving average has risen back to nearly 47k/day. pic.twitter.com/2Y6PBUIwus
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) October 9, 2020
The @USNavy increased deployment lengths for some ships at sea this year as a means of preventing the coronavirus’ spread, a measure that can potentially elevate work and family stress leading to early separation from the Navy. https://t.co/xHd95VmrQq
— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) October 9, 2020
Serious situation in Wisconsin, where a field hospital is being set up to care for a big surge in covid patients. https://t.co/Ju26IRpU5t
— Caitlin Rivers, PhD (@cmyeaton) October 9, 2020
Opposition to @NYGovCuomo #COVID19 controls has swelled in the Hasidic Brooklyn community to violence: bonfires, physical assaults of reporters, decrying secular Jews as "Nazis." https://t.co/tgjs7rWxfb
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) October 8, 2020
Viewer preference for right-wing TV broadcasts are linked to fewer preventive measures against #COVID19. In other words, the more 'Foxified' you are, the less likely it is that you will mask up & distance yourself from others https://t.co/Tviz0cFWgC via @medical_xpress
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) October 8, 2020
OzarkHillbilly
WASF.
Mary G
Going to be a long fall and winter. The OC has ticked up a bit in cases per 100,000 and hospitalizations, but not out of control yet. I’m missing in-person human contact a lot. The teen turned 17 recently, and though my housemate told the family not to come to the house, they did anyway, all wearing masks and staying out of my areas. Her cousin did bring her newborn baby boy in to show me, and I couldn’t resist just touching the little tiny foot with the little tiny toes for a second and wanted to burst into tears.
Bruce K
Greece: 436 new cases reported Thursday, in line with the numbers we’ve been seeing in the second wave. Six new deaths. There was a report that the government would clamp down more, closing businesses in Attica after 10pm instead of midnight, but apparently they backtracked on that, citing “fatigue”.
mrmoshpotato
Wow.
Mary G
O/T, but Twitler won’t be happy:
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@Mary G: Total shocker. They beat out heavy favorite Donald Trump for his efforts to aid the funeral service sector.
JPL
@Mary G: It’s well deserved.
Tony Jay
Over in Lesser Brexitannia we’re entering the “Nobody could possibly have predicted…” stage of expanding and intensifying local Lockdown efforts, with a row brewing between the (virtually all Labour run) northern and western areas that these measures apply to and the Tory run central Government spin-machine over who decides what ‘partial Lockdown’ means, who gets to see the scientific advice the decisions are based on, and who should be in control of the Test and Trace system that we all know is vital to stopping the spread of the virus. It’s becoming more and more apparent that the imposition of harsher measures and the allocation of funds seems to correlate to the colour of rosette worn by local leaders during elections, with many Tory run areas avoiding Lockdown restrictions despite having higher instances of infection.
As with everything to do with this flabby mob of crooks and henchmen, it’s all about appearances, PR and partisan shithousery, and as ever, the virus simply does not care, it just spreads where the vectors lead it. So we’re still firmly on course for a surge of infections going into Autumn, with the Government having to be dragged kicking and screaming across every decision point, and a late October return to something approaching national Lockdown.
In the meantime they’re shovelling as much public money as they can down the gaping maw of donor greed in advance of January’s deliberate failure to negotiate any kind of Brexit Trade Deal with the EU. So yeah, it’s all jellybeans and honeypies over here.
I fucking hate so many people right now.
OzarkHillbilly
From the AP story:
Chyron HR
@Mary G:
“Didn’t they see me taking credit for the food boxes?” – Dumb Donald, probably
prostratedragon
Uh, …
rikyrah
@Mary G: .???
rikyrah
@Mary G:
Is that the Chef that had beef with Dolt45?
mrmoshpotato
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: Black holes got nothing on that humor.
mrmoshpotato
@Tony Jay:
Many share your feelings here in the States.
Tony Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
It’s about the only thing in their miserable lives they’ve ever earned.
Mary G
@Chyron HR: Now that you mention it, he has tried to take credit for different food boxes:
I have a friend who volunteers at the local food bank, and they pull all the letters out and trash them before giving out the boxes.
Barney
That Wisconsin outbreak is mainly in rural counties, especially the north-east. It’s the worst-looking area in the USA: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html (cases per 100,000 map). Milwaukee County is 29/100,000; many counties to the north are over 50 or even 100. I guess they’re “masks are anti-freedom” crowd.
Amir Khalid
Malaysia’s daily numbers. 354 new cases have been reported, for a cumulative reported total of 14,722 cases.
352 cases are from local infection. 23 cases are Malaysians from other states who have visited high-risk zones in Sabah. Of the rest, 274 cases are in Sabah, comprising 120 close contacts of other cases, 22 fron the Ramai-Ramai cluster, 13 from the Benteng Lahad Datu cluster, five from the Tujuh Serangkai cluster, four from the Laut cluster, two from the Tanamera cluster, one from the Bangau-Bangau cluster, one from the Pulau cluster, one from the new Atap cluster, and 03 from miscellaneous screenings. 21 cases are in Selangor, comprising 17 close-contact screenings, one from the Benteng PK cluster, one from the Jalan Meru cluster, and two miscellaneous screenings. 10 cases are in Kedah, comprising seven from the Tembok prison cluster and three from the Bah Sintok university cluster.
Three cases are in Sarawak, comprising one close-contact screening and two miscellaneous screenings. Three cases are in KL, one from the Bah Puchong cluster, one close-contact screening, and one miscellaneous screening. Seven cases are in Penang, all from the remand prison cluster. Four cases are in Johore, all close-contact screenings. Four cases are in Terengganu, three from the new Bah Sahabat cluster and one close-contact cluster. Three cases are in Negeri Sembilan, comprising one from the Bah Sintok university cluster, one close-contact screening, and one miscellaneous screening.
Two cases are in Putrajaya, both from the Selasih cluster. One case is in Perak, from the new Bah Lada cluster.
Both imported cases are Malaysians, returning from India and Oman.
188 patients recovered and were discharged today, for a total of 10,707 patients recovered 72.72% of the cumulative reported total. 3,863 active and contagious cases are currently in hospital; 68 are in ICU, 25 of them on respirators.
Six deaths from Covid-19 were reported today, all in Sabah: a 54 year old man with a history of hypertension and asthma; a 68 year old man; a 66 year old woman with a history of diabetes, hypertension and tuberculosis; a 58 year old woman; a 57 year old woman with hypertension; and a 64 year old mn with an inflamed prostate. The total is now 152 deaths — 1.03% of the cumulative reported total, 1.40% of resolved cases.
Humanities Prof
@Barney: This is actually Humanities Prof’s wife, an OB/GYN. The county I practice in has a case load of about 200/100K. Small, rural hospital just above being a critical access. So far 4 GPs have caught it despite masking up. I’m resigned to getting it at some point, I just hope it will be mild. 1 of our GPs is currently in the ICU in a bigger hospital.
Amir Khalid
@Mary G:
Your friend has the right idea.
Mousebumples
@Barney: while rural Wisconsin counties are affected, there are also metro/suburban counties that are involved. Brown Co (Green Bay), Outagamie Co (Appleton), and Outagamie Co (Oshkosh) all have 90+% filled hospitals.
By wisconsin standards, I’d call them cities, though we definitely aren’t as metro as, say, NYC or Chicago.
There are definitely some non maskers around, though most people I run into seem to take things seriously. These counties also have college campuses, which may also be part of the issue. (UW GB, UWO, and Lawrence University – in addition to other tech schools)
YY_Sima Qian
Yesterday, China reported 0 new domestic confirmed cases and 0 new domestic asymptomatic cases, 21 new imported confirmed cases and 15 imported asymptomatic cases:
Today, Hong Kong reported 8 new cases, 7 from local infection, source of infection not yet identified for 1 of the local cases.
Amir Khalid
@Tony Jay:
I’m aware that BoJo is PM only because he won the game of musical chairs that the Tories held after the Brexit vote, when David Cameron’s position was no longer tenable. But for Britain’s sake I have to hope that Bojo’s run of abject failure at No. 10 is going to end, because things just can’t go on like this. He’s gotten people killed, the way he fucked up handling the pandemic. Do Labour look like they can govern better, and can this Starmer fellow lead them to a win over the Tories?
Princess
One of the worst explosions of cases right now is in the Netherlands but because it’s a small country we don’t hear about it. The big factor there , my guess, is that they have not encouraged masking. They have been told that the science does not support masking — my B-i-L who lives there told me (I believe he is wrong) that masks are popular but do no good and the leader of the country refuses to impose a wide masking mandate.
satby
@Mousebumples: St Joseph County IN is the same: small city, college town, but surrounded by very red rural areas. The hospital patients are from all over, and though most of the South Bend people mask up, rural people generally don’t. And the two hospitals are almost out of ICU beds in this county.
And you know, I’m just not able to work up a lot of compassion any more for many of them. The mask refuseniks are often obese (presumably with the attendant health conditions since they’re also buying pure crap food), or aged. One guy wearing what appeared to be a portable defibrillator strolled past my booth yesterday maskless and shooting me a glare; I assume it wasn’t the soap that offended him. At this point they’re just wilfully refusing to get with the program like their “favorite president”.
lowtechcyclist
No surprise, of course, but at what point do we say the misinformation that Fox News, OANN, right-wing talk radio, etc. have spread about COVID-19 is comparable to shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater?
I’d say we’ve been past that point for most of the year. When we get a new President and a new Congress, maybe this shit should be outlawed. I’m serious.
Robert Sneddon
He got to be elected PM because in the last election he had a single slogan, “Make Brexit Happen” and that resonated with a majority of voters who gave him a solid mandate to make it happen along with a unquestionable majority of 80 or so in the House of Commons.
Sir Keir Starmer QC, Leader of the Opposition is a flailing attempt by the old-school Blairites to return to the glory days of right-wing hate-the-poors policies that they hope will recover the millions of racist and xenophobic Labour voters they lost by being wishy-washy over Brexit. Starmer’s declared position on Brexit is now that the People have Spoken and he’s all for getting us out of the EU, grovel grovel but he’d do it differently to the tousle-headed moppet somehow.
Much is made of Starmer’s performance at Prime Minister’s Questions every Wednesday but it is just that, a performance. When the Speaker calls a halt to the dog-and-pony show and moves on to the next item on the day’s business, PM Johnson still has a solid majority of 80 and most of the Government benches are True Believers in his vision for Britain. Any talk about Conservative revolts and the like putting his position of PM at risk should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Tony Jay
@Amir Khalid:
Slight correction, Flobalob was elevated to Tory leader and sitting PM in the wake of May’s resignation because he convinced the Tory Party membership that he was the man who could deliver a majority for Brexit, woo the Faragists back into the fold and leverage his media image as “That Funny Posh Bloke off the TV” into crossover votes.
As to Starmer I’m on the fence. The loss of Scotland to the SNP makes it almost impossible for Labour to win a majority in Parliament without substantial gains elsewhere (though Corbyn came agonisingly close in 2017) and the subsequent loss of many traditionally Labour seats due to Brexit-fuelled racism adds an extra hurdle that I can’t see Starmer overcoming thanks to his pre-election role as Labour’s fiercely pro-Remain/pro-Second Referendum Brexit Secretary. He’s trying to 180 on it, but come Election time only the most politically illiterate Blairite booster thinks the Tory Press won’t pound that history relentlessly.
There’s also the unavoidable problem that Starmer won the leadership by presenting himself as the trustworthy custodian of the Party’s progressive shift while also being acceptable to the Labour Right and their Media chums who worked so hard to undermine the Party under Corbyn. People were just tired of the relentless smears and negativity and trusted Starmer to unite the Party, but let’s just say he’s not exactly evenhanded in his appointments, and Party members are starting to bridle at the diktats coming down from Central Office that seem more concerned with stiffling democracy than unifying the membership behind a unifying vision.
I fear that Starmer’s legacy will be a civil-war between the left-leaning membership and the left-hating Party bureaucracy that will cripple Labour while allowing a post-Johnson/post-Brexit Tory Party to reinvent itself via the Media as the only viable repository for White, English Nationalism.
That said, I’ll crawl over broken glass to vote for them. Unlike the people running the Labour Party I don’t see continued Tory role as an acceptable price to pay for ideological purity
ETA – Also what Robert Sneddon said, underlined and in bold.
Robert Sneddon
That’s probably not true but it’s complicated… I once saw a political analysis of the Scottish vote and seat allocation in a number of general elections from the 1980s onwards and there wasn’t a single case where the vote in Scotland determined the Government majority and who was going to be PM.
Sure, for a long time from the 1960s onward, the days of Red Clydeside and the Miners Strike, Scotland was a Labour fief but those times are long gone. I’d attribute that generally to the decline of the man-killing heavy industries (steelmaking, coal mining, shipbuilding etc.) that fuelled that support but even back then it was the 364kg-gorilla of the English vote that decided who went to Buck House in a taxi to offer their credentials to Liz every time, pretty much. As an example the current Government lost six Westminster seats in Scotland in the 2019 election but upped their national total of seats by 48 after the dust had settled.
Sloane Ranger
@Amir Khalid: Labour and the Tories are currently running neck and neck in the opinion polls, but the next election isn’t until 2024 so who knows what will happen between then and now?
The good news is that, unlike Corbyn, Starmer doesn’t frighten the horses (he’s a Sir for a start) and the best slur on him the Daily Mail (RW rag) has managed so far was so weak sauce their own readers were mocking them over it.
It’s conceivable that, if the effects of Boris’ mismanagement of the pandemic are still fresh in voters’ minds and Brexit is the shitstorm everyone outside the bubble expects, Labour will do well, but it will be a stiff hill to climb as the Tories have a massive 80 seat advantage at present. It would take a massive swing to overcome that.
Unlike Tony Jay I think Starmer is closer politically to where the majority of ordinary Labour voters (as opposed to activists) are and that is helpful and, like Tony I will crawl on my belly across to an entire field of broken glass to vote for him plus work my backside off during the election.
Robert Sneddon
A large minority, if not a majority of Labour voters now and in the past are quite nasty narrow-minded racist bigots. They were, even with that said, reliably anti-Tory because they were poor and the Tories were not particularly interested in helping out poor people. Nowadays the anti-foreigner position adopted from UKIP by the Tories has bought a lot of their votes, if not their loyalty. That’s why Starmer has pivoted to the anti-EU position he’s imposed on the Labour Party, a Sun King “L’État, c’est moi” attitude that is unpleasantly familiar to anyone who lived through the Blair years.
BruceFromOhio
Unfortunate, but not surprising. I’m still looking forward to finding a cheap, used Harley in the spring from a dead Sturgis participant.
Gosh, I wonder why that is. What could the two possibly have in common (furrows brow).
Thank you Amir Khalid, Robert Sneddon, Tony Jay, and Sloane Ranger for the UK updates and comments. “Flobalob” has been added to the lexicon.
Sloane Ranger
Ok, after that brief diversion into UK politics, here are yesterdays numbers from the UK.
There were 17,540 new cases nationwide, about 3000 more than the day before. The trend continues its steep upwards trajectory. We have had a total of 561,815 cases to date. Broken down by home nation the new cases were as follows’
England -14,952 (up @3500)
Northern Ireland – 923 (up @100)
Scotland – 1027 (down @20)
Wales – 638 (down @100)
Northern Ireland has now overtaken Wales as having the most cases per 100,000 of population with England third and Scotland fourth.
Deaths – 77 new deaths making a total of 42,598 to date. 70 of the deaths were in England, 5 in Scotland and 1 each in Northern Ireland and Wales. In addition there were 234 deaths which had COVID on the death certificate in the last 7 days.
Testing – 254,579 PCR tests were processed out of a capacity of 307,635. It doesn’t look like the supply chain shortages due to Roche changing warehouses has fed through yet.
Hospitalisations – Still ticking up. There were 3412 people in hospital as of 6 October and 442 on ventilators on the 7th. As you’d expect the majority are in England.
General – Nothing really new. The Chancellor will shortly unveil his new package of measures to help businesses and individuals who have been affected by local shutdowns. Massive fraud has been identified concerning claims under the previous scheme. to be fair, this was expected by everyone. The tighter restrictions in Scotland are due to go into force today.
That’s all.
Sloane Ranger
@Robert Sneddon: It’s true that there have always been elements of the British working class who are racist and xenophobic. I remember the dockers who marched in support of Enoch Powell. That’s who I also said that the failure of Brexit would need to be obvious. That way, Starmer can either run on he’d have done it much better or he would have stopped it, whichever seems best politically.
As for Blair, I’m not an apologist for him. He did a lot of things I strongly disagreed with but, in general, things were better for most people under his government that the previous and succeeding ones. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Friend of mine has COVID and she is on some COVID patient support group on Facebook; some…bimbo, and that is only way to describe this woman’s thinking, was lecturing my friend about how Trump is working hard to get her the Regeneron drug, utterly unwilling to even consider that
a) Regeneron has yet be proven effective
b) Regeneron as designed wouldn’t apply to my friend’s case who according to her doctors immune system is dealing with the virus sufficiently.
c) Regeneron lacks the manufacturing capacity to do the numbers for most people to see it.
I know there a some very stupid, gullible people there, but it’s just dumbfounding running into someone like that who lacks what I consider a normal level of skepticism “The president says it’s a miracle cure so it must be a miracle cure because the Sun King say so”
YY_Sima Qian
I am curious about China’s belated decision to join the COVAX program. Perhaps the Chinese leadership decided that being grouped with Trump’s US and Putin’s Russia is detrimental to China’s efforts at repairing its reputation and expanding its soft power. I would still expect China to fully leverage any vaccine(s) it’s companies and research institutes successfully develop to improve its standing in the developing world and the Global South, outside of and along side its participation in COVAX.
Robert Sneddon
@Sloane Ranger: The one thing I cannot forgive Blair for was his single-minded support for GW Bush’s War on Terror, with the Dodgy Dossier et al which was a disaster for Britain at the time although its effects on, for example, the British military establishment have been mostly forgotten now. He was also a big proponent of public-private funding for government business, including the NHS, which the Tories were leveraging to the hilt until COVID-19 brought the “free markets can solve every problem” credo into serious but not necessarily irreparable disrepute.
Uncle Cosmo
@Mary G: He’s still a prime contender for the Ignoble Piss Prize…
laura
@Mary G: baby toes. What I wouldn’t give to hold a baby right now. We’re starving for human contact – each and everyone. Maybe someday and when that day comes I’m going to hug and love so hard.
Sloane Ranger
@Robert Sneddon: I don’t disagree with you about either of these. I argued with a Blairite in my office against both. We got so loud, everyone else told us to shut up!
My work as a trades union organiser, however, became a lot easier after he came into power. We no longer had to waste resources constantly getting members to re-authorise their check-off and management’s attitude became far more accommodating.
Kayla Rudbek
@laura: I miss being able to cuddle my youngest nephew, and being able to spend time with my next-oldest nephew