In Australia we have declared victory and are opening internal borders. Gotta be careful of those foreigners though!!!
I expect us to mess it up again soon.
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Watched our haunted cheese-stuffed fleshy gammon condom of a prime minister turn up three and a half hours late to a press conference he called to announce another lockdown, because he was busy watching the rugby, while his ‘advisor’ leaked the details of the lockdown to his pet journalists on Twitter.
Fuuuuuucccccccccccccccck this country into the fucking bin.
As an American…I 100% understand how you feel
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The best quote I saw after this and the US election news was “someone must have unplugged 2020 and plugged it back in.”
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Britain rues the waves of infection.
That’s a very chokes reasonable and even-handed article, even if it ascribes rather too much direction and volition to the whole sorry process.
is a rather more realistic summary of how the country stumbled to a conclusion (EDIT: almost, h/t @OhBollox) no-one wanted.
Being inside a genuine moment of history like this is weird. You know the magisterial future history books will sound like the Atlantic article, making the whole thing sound inevitable and determined, and bear no resemblance to the chaos of actual events. Looks doubtfully at shelf full of history books
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how the country stumbled to a conclusion no-one wanted.
Well, very few, anyway.
What happened to the hard brexit?
It might still happen. Or it might not, but even then it’ll be hardish. No hurry, there’s still checks watch 603 hours to the end of the transition period.
Essentially it’s still happening. An FTA, which is the most any deal will be, barring a miracle, is a very bare cushion compared to soft Brexit, which was only ever an excuse to get more people to think favourably of the whole affair.
Table showing even an FTA will be a PITA.
Dammit, all angry again. Think I’ve got a touch of this rage virus.
To be honest, it has been so quiet on Brexit I assumed it had already gone through, hard style.
Either way, it is a reset point and government and citizens will continue to optimise a way through the next steps.
At least Biden is in the White House and clearly my mob in Australia are doing our best to piss off China. So I am sure there is wiggle room!
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Scheduled for my first vaccine this Wednesday. Looking forward to it, and will post about side effects, etc. Friend is a neonatologist, got his first shot a two weeks ago or so and reported only a sore arm.
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That’s great to hear!
My wife is in health care, but not front line.
I think based on the announced schedule for British Columbia, she may be getting her first shot in March. I’m not sure about me, though.
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