Hmmm, releasing prisoners on the pretext of prevention, and then when aforementioned who’ve been jailed commit new crimes, you have readymade justification for stronger enforcement of isolation. That almost seems too obvious. What is they say? The bigger the lie?
They have deleted YouTube videos of people filming empty hospitals. And so, 'telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act'.
Yes, increasing the chaos.
I received a letter today from the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I guess I am one of those super speshal people who should not leave their abode under any circumstances. It is a very uninspiring letter; there is a blank space where 'Dear strategic enclosure' should be, it is badly written and it keeps banging on about how we should all 'follow the rules' just to ensure we all appreciate that we have regressed into serfdom. What a load of ol' squit.
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This post has elicited quite a few 'Angry' emotes from the 'Like' post feedback option. Hopefully, all of those are in relation to the letter rather to what I said about it. However, if I have made anyone angry with that post then I apologise. Please know that I would never deliberately set out to anger anyone here especially at such a trying time.
I would have posted about this before but I have been struggling with a great deal of anger and did not trust to post when I lacked composure. Then I picked up another virus, my third in the last six months which is very unusual for me. I might go years without getting one; the most I get most years when everyone is coming down with a virus is a head cold. How I picked it up is a mystery too since I have only left the flat to pick up food or my prescription for the last three weeks. Given the stringent social distancing measures in my local supermarket, how could I have picked a virus up from there since that's the only place I've been!?! I am beginning to wonder if the social distancing measures are not very effective at stopping the transmission of viruses
This virus has been interesting though. It began with a nasty headache for a couple of days which I had assumed was due to tension due to getting really angry over the C19 'crisis'. Then I woke up one morning to find that my whole body was shaking. I had got cold in bed even though the flat thermostat said that it was 19 degrees Celsius! I put even more layers on both myself and the bed and gradually warmed up and managed to stop shaking and get back to sleep. I then spent most of the next few days in bed, sleeping and resting as that was all I could manage. My body felt like someone had given me a good kicking all over, I felt queasy and still had the headache, my vision was blurry, I would feel cold so would put on a dressing gown and immediately feel overhot and claustrophobic. I was not feeling great! Today though I actually have some energy and have had more of a normal day which is a relief.
I only mention this really to say that when I awoke and found myself shaking and cold I couldn't help but remember the C's saying that many would get 'chills'. It gave me a wry smile!
Oh, and my friend rang today and said that his friend and her boyfriend have both had C19 recently and that it took them 3 weeks to get over it. Interestingly, she and my friend both reported a great deal of pain in their lower spine. I wonder if it was some DNA re-wiring going on.
Right, time to catch up a bit on this thread. Sorry if this is terribly out of the current flow of the conversation. I just haven't been able to cope with keeping up with this thread recently.
Posting with still 6 pages to read but I need to answer here, becoming sleepyIt's funny, but then again, I have been very depressed for the last couple of days. Don't know, maybe some energies working in the background or something, but it's also just too much at times witnessing what's going on. At this point I can't help but wish punishment and hell reign down on those authoritarian bastards, tearing them to pieces for all the lies and cruelty, including those idiots going full SS supporters. I know that's not very evolved thinking, but I don't know, we had all that crap in Germany before, and the patterns are so similarSorry for the self-pity, I'm actually in a decent situation compared to so many others, but there are better and worse days, and sometimes it's hard to get into an "enjoy the show" mindset. It's just so damn infuriating, tragic and appalling. I hope that perhaps we who feel that way somehow won't fit into the current reality at some point, creating a new branch of the universe, but maybe that's wishful thinking? I guess we have to hold out some more, and I'm sure we can.
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I watched the video and at first also thought that Lavrov was more serious than usual, and it did appear that perhaps he made sure to read from the paper in order to answer in the way it was planned or intended. That perhaps the appeared stress is due to him needing to either lie, or to be extra careful in his delivery.
But then I decided to look at his other talks with the press, and found, for example, this one. It is in Russian and pretty long, but just go through the video and pay attention to his body language. Same serious face, same fiddling, same touching the paper, same partial eye contact.
Also here, if you look through the video, he has a paperclip that he fiddles with, puts it aside, and then picks it up again. Apparently he is a fiddler!Maybe he wouldn't fiddle as much if he was allowed to smoke during the meetings.
So perhaps just like with the previous analysis of the meeting between Putin and Erdogan, we better look at the original footage and also other footage in order to formulate a better impression.
Yes, I have noticed that as well. After the post referring to the session in which replication was discussed, that possibility did occur to me. He hasn't sold his soul to the devil. Or possibly, this can't be done against a person's wishes. You know, freedom of or free will choice.
