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British Conservative Rees-Mogg profiteering over coronavirus

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Jacob Rees-Mogg is the worst of Britain.

Dear Kitty. Some blog:

This 5 April 2020 video from Britain says about itself:

Jacob Rees Mogg’s firm set to make fortune from the coronavirus crisis

EXCLUSIVE: Somerset Capital Management, which the MP co-founded, says market volatility offers a “once or twice in a generation” opportunity to make “super normal returns”.

By Peter Lazenby in Britain:Sunday, April 5, 2020

Jacob Rees-Mogg to profit over coronavirus

TORY Minister and multimillionaire Jacob Rees-Mogg is to become even richer because of the coronavirus pandemic, it was revealed today.

The North-East Somerset MP owns about 15 per cent of a firm that is buying up shares in companies hit by the virus crisis and stands to cash in when their value increases.

Somerset Capital Management (SCM) said that investors have a “once in a generation” chance of “super-normal returns.” Potential gains of up to 500 per cent are being anticipated.

Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson taken to hospital for coronavirus tests: here.

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Jaws Actress Dies of Coronavirus at 91 — Indie Mac User

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Lee Fierro, best known for playing Mrs. Kintner in Jaws, has died of complications from coronavirus, at the age of 91.

Jaws Actress Dies of Coronavirus at 91 — Indie Mac User

Oh man. That really, really sucks, not least because I heard this lovely story about her and her onscreen son recently (it’s from 2014 but it goes around every so often):

Photos of cities in lockdown

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London, taken by Sophie Raworth

Oh, the caption on the bus on that one…

God, it looks so apocalyptic. But I’m glad that sign is there.

New York, from here and here

Los Angeles, from here and here

Yeah, I too thought of that scene from The Walking Dead.

Paris (and a film set there) from here and here

Oakland, from here

God, that’s a striking image.

And Leicester, my home city, from the Leicester Mercury:

She-Hulk Writer Compares Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker To Coronavirus Pandemic — Entertainment Updates

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Even now that the movie has been out in the open for months and is available on home video, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is still a hot topic of debate among fans of the franchise. Of course, when the dust has settled, people may ultimately look back on the conclusion to the Skywalker […]

She-Hulk Writer Compares Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker To Coronavirus Pandemic — Entertainment Updates

Gah. When I first saw this story, I was like “This is not worth commenting about, just ignore it,” but I just – I hate the tendency in nerdy circles (and probably other circles, to be honest) for people to compare harmless things that they personally did not like with things that are actually very harmful, that kill or ruin lives! That’s what leads to attitudes like this, which was years ago and I never forgot it, it was a real eye-opener. There is no situation where it’s appropriate to compare a movie to a rape (unless obviously rape took place during the making of the movie, which depressingly does happen), no situation where it’s appropriate to compare an otherwise innocent filmmaker to a rapist or Nazi, and no situation where it’s appropriate to compare a movie to a virus which is killing thousands of people.

…Especially not on the same day that a member of the Star Wars team did, in fact, die from coronavirus.

Some more positive coronavirus-related things

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I had a lovely birthday, thanks in no small part to all you wonderful people who left messages. :) Right up til that day it was a pretty bad week full of fear and discomfort. I think the tide is starting to turn a little mental-health wise now though.

Here’s some positive, funny, or at least hopeful posts that I’ve been collecting over the past few weeks!

I don’t know who did this but thank you!! from randomactsofkindness
Children leaving uplifting notes for shop owners from MadeMeSmile
Good people exist from HumansBeingBros
Health care appreciation!! 👏👏👏👏 from HumansBeingBros

Stockport Spider-man cheers up kids in lockdown — Geek Native

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This masked hero uses his one-hour of exercise to entertain kids as he does so dressed up as Spider-man!

Stockport Spider-man cheers up kids in lockdown — Geek Native

Today has been a really, REALLY rough day for me. The worst one since the lockdown began. I think I’m just gonna share as much positive stuff as possible this evening. I love this Spider-Man and whoever’s behind him.

More scenes from a pandemic

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Ventured outside for supplies. It was very grey and wet. Signs everywhere.

The guy letting people into the supermarket seemed pretty cheerful, but I heard him talking about incidents elsewhere where customers had deliberately spat on staff.

While waiting in the queue a woman came towards it coughing and coughing and coughing. She wasn’t covering her mouth or making any effort at all not to spread her germs. I try not to wish ill on people but my god did I wish ill on her. She was walking alongside a pram which presumably had a baby in it. I can’t even describe the disgust I felt at that moment.

It’s been a bleak day.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus — Deadline

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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has become one of the country’s most high profile figures to contract the coronavirus. Johnson confirmed the news in a tweet, saying he had developed mild symptoms, including a temperature and a persistent cough, and on the advice of the country’s chief medical officer Chris Whitty had been tested. As…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tests Positive For Coronavirus — Deadline

Twitter I think might enjoy this.

Okay, I don’t wish specific harm on Johnson, I guess. I don’t want him to actually die. But I do hope this teaches him a short, sharp lesson about what he and his party have done to the NHS.

Evangeline Lilly Offers ‘Sincere and Heartfelt Apology’ for ‘Arrogant’ Coronavirus Comments — PEOPLE.com

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“I never meant to hurt you,” Evangeline Lilly wrote

Evangeline Lilly Offers ‘Sincere and Heartfelt Apology’ for ‘Arrogant’ Coronavirus Comments — PEOPLE.com

I just heard this story today and I have thoughts. They’re not pretty. They’re really, really angry in fact.

I never really knew all that much about Lilly but she always seemed pretty cool and interviews and stuff. I liked her in the MCU and The Hobbit. But here, what’s really getting to me is her justification:

Some people value their lives over freedom, some people value freedom over their lives. We all make our choices.”

Putting the coronavirus aside for a second, what Lilly is basically saying here is that she values her freedom over other people’s actual, you know, lives. She apparently lives with her immunocompromised father, and she valued “freedom” over him. I really and truly cannot understand why this is a mindset that so many people seem to have, it horrifies me.

(Page Six framed her actions as “taking a stand against self-quarantining during the coronavirus pandemic.” No, she is not taking a stand, she is endangering others. What the actual fuck. Why is the media so fucking irresponsible. Try ‘Taking a stand against other people’s health’ maybe.)

Yes Lilly’s apology is nice and all but it doesn’t tackle the real issue at the heart of her original post, that she valued her right to do whatever the fuck she wanted more than she valued her father or her children. That’s not the sort of thing that can fixed with a sorry, that requires changing her whole worldview.

I hope once she was done making that post she sat down with her loved ones and explained to them in detail why her right to do whatever selfish thing she chose trumped their right to health and very possibly life.

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