So helpful..first quarantine video, it even has cats!.. all the winning cards.
The Vaccines - I Never Go Out On Fridays - Or saturdays, or sundays....
Love this band.
Justin recently released another video with new duo The Halloweens. Again, funny and uplifting with the usual touch of poignancy, as above:
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Love music
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
#Madrid #covid19 #forcedisolation
Madrid this afternoon. View from my window, forced isolation. Looking at twitter and newspapers like am watching a movie. Surreal for most of us.
Not going to say disappointed at the management of the crisis by national authorities and international organizations because who's expecting any efficiency from them. Yet excited to see those bravely pushing for better ways, new possibly effective approaches like stratified lockdown, rational scientific ideas not based on irrational fear or partisan interests or primitive hasty answers or least controversial safest actions or that which the dumbest masses will approve like we see now.
Same response as in the middle ages? Wait until it's upon us and then shut down?. We should do better. At least here in Spain some private citizens and companies are pulling for all of us as the government fails miserably in every department and day by day falls to new lows. But I don't want to talk politics. These crisis always show the best and the worst in mankind.
We are at the worst of it now, a little more steepness before we start to walk our way back, I think. Then the economic crisis with this government at the helm, a far left chavist vicepresident who even now is trying to maneuver to push nationalization of companies and comunist measures (same guy who's broken quarantine twice to preach about safety) and our comunist minister of Labour (anyone curious, look at pictures of her this days, how worried she is. Seems she spends her time at the stylist, pathetic) ... Ah, I'm talking politics...sorry
Glad my parents are abroad at the moment, in a safer place though that's not saving them from worry and anguish. Keeping in touch with my older family, some have caught it but so far are well..
In the moments of worry and fear most will have, of facing our own mortality much more vividly than usual.. I had a pretty bad experience a few years ago. Kept the circle extremely small, if I had little time I didn't want to spend it on whatsapp and phone calls. But still parents made it larger than I wanted, and people telling me to be positive gutted me most. Why be positive? Be realistic and be you, please. You are going through enough to have to force yourself to be anything or pretend for the sake of others. Process things your way, within limits. A guy writing on google saying he was very pesimistic and yet survived really helped, lol. But everyone's different and need to hear different things. I am practical and therefore what helped me and what I try to convey now is don't lose perspective. It's a time to catch up with acceptance and what life is. And to be proactive and help best we can, there are a million small ways. We may feel sorry for ourselves but pls think of parents of children with cancer, for instance, you'll see what I mean by perspective.
- and I'm fine now btw, turned out to be just another pathology diagnostics mistake.
My cousin works in a hospital, as of yesterday in hers there are respirators for everyone but that is not the case in every hospital. In others those over 65 are sedated and deprived of a few more years of life. The biggest ice rink in Madrid is the new morgue. Many of our nurses and doctors wear trash bags for protection, our pharmacists are out of masks too as are the police.. the government is too useless to buy the proper equipment fast. Tough times, injustice and useless people in charge harder to bear than ever. Almost 10.000 health workers have caught it (data coming from the government, so expect it to be even higher).
Numbers in Spain are not to be trusted as the overwhelming majority of people with symptoms remain untested. Only those with acute cases in hospital are tested (those and the politicians, our president's brother though he didn't have symptoms, his wife, father in law..they have plenty of respirators unused waiting just in case too. O socialism, all the ministers who have fallen ill have gone to private hospitals...). Our health minister is a philosopher who doesn't even know the name of the main drug used against COVID19... And the main reason we have so many cases is our government had a big concentration planned for the 8th (feminism, only socialists and communists, all the other parties were yelled at and forced to leave. Basically the left's best publicity stunt), and they weren't willing to cancel and therefore couldn't take any measures against concentrations until after.
Let's point out that in Spain when the women's right to vote was proposed and passed in 1931 it was done by liberal Clara Campoamor, who defended it against main opponent Victoria Kent (SOCIALIST) who not only opposed it fervently but who once it was passed tried to thwart it with different maneuvers. But now socialists are the ones who decide who can fight for equality and who can not. Pathetic.
With this imposed quarantine the government has taken measures restricting citizens freedom like free access to people's cell phone locations or press conferences hardly ever taking any questions -and when they do questions are selected by the president's censor (he calls himself something else, but that's what he is). In the middle of this massive crisis, with our country already having big trouble because of our deficit (and thank god for EU's supervision, otherwise it would be even worse), our government decides to give away 15 million euros to private televisions. Televisions that have big PROFITS! with celebs getting huge paychecks- I don't want to pay taxes for that, it's pathetic. It is of course a fact now that the mainstream media is their servant. Very worrisome, comes from having the far left deep in the government despite only having less than 13% of votes. First thing they go for, always..
No tax reductions, btw. And making clear their intention to nationalize, appropriate private earnings with the excuse of this emergency...all for the greater good 'course (that coming from our Communist vp, who just moved to a massive house with big swimming pool, guest house and tons of service). Great way to ruin a fantastic country (only with a lot of stupid envious lazy sheep in it).
Ended up talking politics,...
We are at the worst of it now, a little more steepness before we start to walk our way back, I think. Then the economic crisis with this government at the helm, a far left chavist vicepresident who even now is trying to maneuver to push nationalization of companies and comunist measures (same guy who's broken quarantine twice to preach about safety) and our comunist minister of Labour (anyone curious, look at pictures of her this days, how worried she is. Seems she spends her time at the stylist, pathetic) ... Ah, I'm talking politics...sorry
Glad my parents are abroad at the moment, in a safer place though that's not saving them from worry and anguish. Keeping in touch with my older family, some have caught it but so far are well..
In the moments of worry and fear most will have, of facing our own mortality much more vividly than usual.. I had a pretty bad experience a few years ago. Kept the circle extremely small, if I had little time I didn't want to spend it on whatsapp and phone calls. But still parents made it larger than I wanted, and people telling me to be positive gutted me most. Why be positive? Be realistic and be you, please. You are going through enough to have to force yourself to be anything or pretend for the sake of others. Process things your way, within limits. A guy writing on google saying he was very pesimistic and yet survived really helped, lol. But everyone's different and need to hear different things. I am practical and therefore what helped me and what I try to convey now is don't lose perspective. It's a time to catch up with acceptance and what life is. And to be proactive and help best we can, there are a million small ways. We may feel sorry for ourselves but pls think of parents of children with cancer, for instance, you'll see what I mean by perspective.
- and I'm fine now btw, turned out to be just another pathology diagnostics mistake.
My cousin works in a hospital, as of yesterday in hers there are respirators for everyone but that is not the case in every hospital. In others those over 65 are sedated and deprived of a few more years of life. The biggest ice rink in Madrid is the new morgue. Many of our nurses and doctors wear trash bags for protection, our pharmacists are out of masks too as are the police.. the government is too useless to buy the proper equipment fast. Tough times, injustice and useless people in charge harder to bear than ever. Almost 10.000 health workers have caught it (data coming from the government, so expect it to be even higher).
Numbers in Spain are not to be trusted as the overwhelming majority of people with symptoms remain untested. Only those with acute cases in hospital are tested (those and the politicians, our president's brother though he didn't have symptoms, his wife, father in law..they have plenty of respirators unused waiting just in case too. O socialism, all the ministers who have fallen ill have gone to private hospitals...). Our health minister is a philosopher who doesn't even know the name of the main drug used against COVID19... And the main reason we have so many cases is our government had a big concentration planned for the 8th (feminism, only socialists and communists, all the other parties were yelled at and forced to leave. Basically the left's best publicity stunt), and they weren't willing to cancel and therefore couldn't take any measures against concentrations until after.
Let's point out that in Spain when the women's right to vote was proposed and passed in 1931 it was done by liberal Clara Campoamor, who defended it against main opponent Victoria Kent (SOCIALIST) who not only opposed it fervently but who once it was passed tried to thwart it with different maneuvers. But now socialists are the ones who decide who can fight for equality and who can not. Pathetic.
With this imposed quarantine the government has taken measures restricting citizens freedom like free access to people's cell phone locations or press conferences hardly ever taking any questions -and when they do questions are selected by the president's censor (he calls himself something else, but that's what he is). In the middle of this massive crisis, with our country already having big trouble because of our deficit (and thank god for EU's supervision, otherwise it would be even worse), our government decides to give away 15 million euros to private televisions. Televisions that have big PROFITS! with celebs getting huge paychecks- I don't want to pay taxes for that, it's pathetic. It is of course a fact now that the mainstream media is their servant. Very worrisome, comes from having the far left deep in the government despite only having less than 13% of votes. First thing they go for, always..
No tax reductions, btw. And making clear their intention to nationalize, appropriate private earnings with the excuse of this emergency...all for the greater good 'course (that coming from our Communist vp, who just moved to a massive house with big swimming pool, guest house and tons of service). Great way to ruin a fantastic country (only with a lot of stupid envious lazy sheep in it).
Ended up talking politics,...
Misc isolation comfort for the lows:
*All these musicians ... 💗💙💚💛💙
This made me smile, authentically chaotic well intended, fresh, from Chris Martin:
https://www.facebook.com/coldplay/videos/756682838150117/
Nerina, never chaotic, always fun. Streams live show every thursday from her youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=647&v=Pck6G7baXvc&feature=emb_logo
Rufus and his Robe recitals:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B92LtRuFwcH/
Sondre:
https://www.facebook.com/sondrelerche/videos/516237105704418/
Laura Marling is doing tutorials of her songs on her insta (guitar lessons).
Andrew Bird was live on his Facebook
* Cats! (@Bored panda)
*Other animals seeing new animals, too awesome.
* Curiosities/good actions: (via scarymommy)
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