08-11-2020, 01:23 PM
It's a bit annoying because I lose all the momentum working Mondays and Fridays. I think something had to be done. It's the rate that this thing sweeps through populations and how many people are showing severe symptoms. They still don't know for sure whether asymptomatic carriers are spreading it. My guess is yes. I do feel we should be testing more people, and using the systems already put in place for such things instead of handing billions of public funds without scrutiny to inexperienced private companies run by their party's donors. If that's not corruption I don't know what is. I also think after the Cummings affair a lot of people decided 'fuck it' and then a lot of mini spikes happened.
Forcing school and university students back en masse can't have helped matters. Of course "education is important", but I suspect that other reasons were behind this decision. Can't have all that investor owned student accommodation sat empty not being rented can we? As for the schools - no need to work from home so go back to the office before your employers realise there's no need to lease such large properties. Decisions are made in favour of the rentier class, and have been since 1066. So I blame an archer from nearly 1000 years ago.
I haven't really done proper Christmas and New Year for a long time now. It's all a lot of fuss for nothing IMO. I'd rather just have a drink and eat loads. I'll probably spend Christmas Eve cooking up some food for the next few days so having to spend time doing stuff is minimal. If I'm not working that day that is.
Forcing school and university students back en masse can't have helped matters. Of course "education is important", but I suspect that other reasons were behind this decision. Can't have all that investor owned student accommodation sat empty not being rented can we? As for the schools - no need to work from home so go back to the office before your employers realise there's no need to lease such large properties. Decisions are made in favour of the rentier class, and have been since 1066. So I blame an archer from nearly 1000 years ago.
I haven't really done proper Christmas and New Year for a long time now. It's all a lot of fuss for nothing IMO. I'd rather just have a drink and eat loads. I'll probably spend Christmas Eve cooking up some food for the next few days so having to spend time doing stuff is minimal. If I'm not working that day that is.