Week 19: 2 August – 8 August 2020
Sunday 2 August
An interesting article on COVID-19 right here on Medium.
[embed]https://link.medium.com/liWJsTmSD8[/embed]
Monday 3 August
[embed]https://youtu.be/vofXP1pm3NI[/embed]
Just listened to a report on BBC Radio 4 about a hospital consultant who was violently removed from the bedside of his dyeing daughter. The video is below and is quite disturbing. He is to sue the police after claiming he was physically dragged from his daughter’s bedside and arrested after doctors said they were to switch off her life support.
[embed]https://youtu.be/HXGn5cRbVPI[/embed]
Tuesday 4 August
Further Presidential anti-Trump campaigning videos from the Lincoln Project. Mmm, they may be making fun of David Attenborough, well that’s not so nice, but still a job well done!
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x1-CVsoEBU[/embed]
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwaklEmDn_0[/embed]
And now one from another organisation that I hadn’t heard of before Juice Media?
[embed]https://twitter.com/thejuicemedia/status/1289345047272370178?s=20[/embed]
And keeping on the sane topic, here’s a tweet from Senator Kamala Harris, who pulled out of the presidential race, which is a real shame.
[embed]https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1289970976789323776?s=20[/embed]
And now for a bot of British Politics? But still connected to the USA in some way?
[embed]https://twitter.com/MartinShovel/status/1289998426227318786?s=20[/embed]
There’s always a politician up to no good somewhere in the U.K. Oh how we pretend we trust them, when we really should never trust any of them.
[embed]https://twitter.com/ShehabKhan/status/1289897797437648896?s=20[/embed]
And for something I have never seen before. A tweet about cycling safety in London. Why just London, why not all over the country. Drivers in the U.K. are animals, yes men and women alike, don’t really give a f..king damn about cyclists, cutting up, speeding past and too close is a major problem. I have experienced it now for over 43 years since landing in the U.K. from The Netherlands, the cycling capital of the world!
[embed]https://twitter.com/MetCycleCops/status/1290230130023907330?s=20[/embed]
Wednesday 5 August
Today is the aftermath after the Beirut explosions. On the evening of 4 August 2020, at 18:08 EEST, an extremely powerful explosion occurred in the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The blast, which occurred after a fire at the Port of Beirut, left at least 135 people dead with a sure possibility of increasing, 80 more missing, and more than 5,000 injured. The footage below contains upsetting images.
[embed]https://youtu.be/k51L0MkRO8E[/embed]
A packed day today and our first time out in a public place for a meal to celebrate our anniversary, since early March 2020. I posted my view on this event on LinkedIn during the night, as both of us struggled to sleep as we had a big meal.
[embed]https://link.medium.com/liWJsTmSD8[/embed]
Oh my god, Trump’s at it again with his crazy stories. CCN unpicks the truth and fake news. More importantly Trumps comments were removed from Facebook and Twitter.
[embed]https://youtu.be/2-4FDaQg4sE[/embed]
This brief report in an email from Medium.
Teachers in a large school district in Georgia returned to schools last week to start planning for reopening. Now, 260 district employees are barred from entering the schools due to either testing positive for Covid-19 or being exposed to someone who had. It’s clear the U.S. is not uniformly prepared for classrooms to safely reopen.
There’s new science that has complicated school plans. It’s increasingly clear that children can get and spread Covid-19 more than initially realized (though likely still less than adults). While there’s no way to reopen schools without any Covid-19 cases, the hope is that case counts could be kept low.
How to do that is complicated, especially for the United States. The United Nations released a statement yesterday calling on countries to safely reopen schools, but only in places where transmission is low. Anthony Fauci, MD, has also shared that he thinks schools in hot spots should reconsider in-person classes. Read more about the latest science on kids and coronavirus here and here.
To support Trump’s downfall The Lincoln Project is not stopping its assault on his presidency and his family in key positions too.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxt7gUCgKY[/embed]
Thursday 6 August
Today I have been married to my wife Clair for 11 years. It has been a wonderful 11 years, but not without it’s challenges. During this time we have had many ups and downs, mainly with family members and especially Clair’s 2 boys, my stepsons. It has been a tough time for certain years, but our relationship has stayed strong and has continued to get even stronger.
I did my 4th Podcast interview in as many months of Covid-19. This one was quite tough. Mel Riley has a had a really tough young life, but there’s a good ending to it all. You can watch the video interview below.
I am a years long follower of Hugh MacLeod (Gapingvoid Culture Design), this image they published the other day definitely struck a chord with me.
[embed]https://twitter.com/stayingaliveuk/status/1290567697672163329?s=21[/embed]
This was in response to Trump’s interview on HBO’s Axios, a line he did indeed say during the interview.
[embed]https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1290621572848418817?s=21[/embed]
I’m not sure how long this interview will be available, they’ve already taken it down from YouTube. No idea why, but here it is below. Hopefully it will stay on that site.
[embed]https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ve1rd[/embed]
Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway on their Pivot Schooled paid for webinar series. Here’s a short clip with Kathy Griffing (comedian) who is brilliant, but I have no idea what she’s talking about.
[embed]https://twitter.com/pivotschooled/status/1290720089340366848?s=21[/embed]
Great ad by Hamilton Perkins, whip I have interviewed on the Share Your Story Podcast.
[embed]https://twitter.com/hamiltonperkins/status/1291041317204656130?s=21[/embed]
Here’s a link to the interview, which was almost 3 years ago to the date!
[embed]https://link.medium.com/liWJsTmSD8[/embed]
Kamala Harris chatting with Sarah Cooper. I’m fond of both these amazing women.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfU7O2ghg3k[/embed]
British Comedy will do it again very soon!
[embed]https://twitter.com/hewitson10/status/1290910853240365056?s=21[/embed]
Friday 7 August
Some tweets I liked over the past few days…
https://twitter.com/KatyJayne101/status/1291034033653260288?s=20
[embed]https://twitter.com/LnDpity/status/1291267981473976321?s=20[/embed]
[embed]https://twitter.com/QuickTake/status/1291131932718379013?s=20[/embed]
[embed]https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1291267337493139456?s=20[/embed]
This I spotted in a Tweet, but it deserved it’s own space, i.e. without the Tweet.
