On the way today to visit my Dad who has a slowly progressing form of dementia, I relate to so much of this. This “long goodbye” is so hard and many of us in middle age are dealing with it.
I’m the coverage I watched (ABC) Harry arrived with Eugenie, Beatrice and their husbands and walked down the centre isle between the two couples.
If you look in places like Twitter (for how ever long that lasts) there is ongoing discussion about long Covid among doctors and scientists worldwide. While most recognise that the heavy measures to prevent Covid infections of 2021/22 will not be accepted in 2022, there is much that could still be done to improve air quality via ventilation and filtration yet almost no public health messaging. Society seems to have quietly decided that those who end up with long term health issues are acceptable collateral damage so that the majority (hopefully) can pretend Covid is over and just live life like it’s 2019. In the meantime, long Covid clinics have huge waiting lists and the molecular science that points towards potential longer term problems from Covid infection is concerning. It’s a bizarre world to live in.
As an average white woman I have done this - to a client I saw out of context - and it’s MORTIFYING!! And this is despite the fact my first boyfriend was Malay/Chinese and I loved his large family. I wished the ground would swallow me. I still shudder when I think about it. I can only apologise On behalf of everyone like me who has done this and didn’t think it was funny at all.
@daffodil You need to provide checksble data sources not just internet rumour when you make comments like this. If you truly believe doctors and researchers all over the world, who dedicate their lives to saving and improving the lives of others, are encouraging people to have vaccinations that will be more likely to harm than benefit then, I just feel sad for you. You must live in fear of even having to go to the GP.
The problem with this, and all similar sentiments, is that it means two things.
@km As even mild Covid can result in significant long term health problems, case numbers are very important. People in healthcare are aware of this. I’m sure the politicians are too, I just don’t think it fits their agenda. WA Professor discussing these issues just prior to Omicron: https://youtu.be/6UzOav3x8Q0
The whole Bula banquet/MAFS thing is putting me off. I don’t watch MAFS.
Clare has made one fundamental mistake here. She is attempting to take the Masked Singer seriously. If you let that go you will enjoy it just as much as I did! 😃
If anyone is really interested in a different type of look at this case there is a two hour analysis of one of the McCann’s interviews by a US statement analysis expert on YouTube. Search for ‘The McCann’s statement analysis’.
I agree Kelly S. If you search YouTube for ‘McCanns statement analysis’ there are two hours of a US expert reviewing an interview with the McCanns. His conclusions support the evidence of the original investigations. I always felt like there was something off about them when I watched them interviewed...
I also love Love Actually, but always thought it is holding a (rather perfectly polished) mirror up to those issues, not condoning them at all.
As far as the endings go, isn’t it true that love does not always run smoothly? The movie reflects this in all loves pain and glory. But it’s still love.