Covid Is Still Out There

Like 500k other people in the UK, (Google) I am still living in part isolation/shielding with no end in sight. For people like me, lockdown never really ended because society dropped all precautionary measures.

Immunocompromised means that, due to a specific health condition, or because they receive certain treatments, they have a weakened (compromised) or impaired (suppressed) immune system. (Google) With Cerebral Palsy, (a health condition) my day-to-day immunity functioning is difficult.

Thousands are struggling with Covid, with Long-Covid

It’s not right or fair that we are being singled out in this way. There are thousands of people struggling and/or suffering with Covid, with long-covid or indirectly because they are high risk. What is disconcerting is that it was allowed to happened on such a large scale, it's still out there and it's still being ignored by the UK Government.

I manage walks, and if the weather is okay, I'll mask up and head over to a local coffee shop, but won't sit inside. It is no life, but without small concessions, I would be permanently locked in my home.

The WHO is still tracking Covid (new variants)

So, Covid is still out there. The WHO is closely tracking with interest one variant (VO1), XBB.1.5 and six other variants, BQ.1, BA.2.75, CH.1.1, XBB, XBF and XBB.1.16. (Source: https://www.business-standard.com/)

Charities and individuals continue to campaign

Charities and individuals have campaigned for over three years to get the UK government to change their stance on lifting all precautionary measures. There are also no precautionary measures in hospitals. It should be mandatory for patients and medical staff alike to mask up, so that the clinically vulnerable are protected. In care homes also.

There are still many high risk and vulnerable people out there who need the wider population to protect them. People are still dying from Covid because people are following policies that are causing harm.

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colored that joy and mads doodle 👍( ◜‿◝ )👍

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Chuck E Cheese is a restaraunt because it identifies as a restaraunt and if you disagree you'rs transphobic

showed my sister a pic of the cat and she said she had a masc face. for the record i did not sex the cat and just starting she/her-ing the guy for no reason but this isstill sending me for a spin

Interview under the cut :-)

Penelope Wilton: ‘I was never a starlet – I wasn’t cast because of a pretty face’

Ahead of her stint in The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Penelope Winton speaks to Fiona Sturges about her 55-year career in the industry

In a career spanning nearly 55 years, Penelope Wilton has cornered the market in quiet disappointment. As Anne Bryce in the popular 80s sitcom Ever Decreasing Circles, her eyeballs were permanently rotating at the childish antics of her on-screen husband Martin, played by Richard Briers, while in the film Clockwise she was the long-suffering spouse of John Cleese’s calamity-prone headmaster. In Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads series, she played a housewife who couldn’t bring herself to tell her husband she didn’t want to move to Marbella.

In her new film, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, she plays another wife bottling up her feelings. Wilton is retiree Maureen, whose husband, Harold (Jim Broadbent), receives a letter from an ex-colleague informing him that she is dying. Overcome with unexplained guilt, Harold pledges to travel on foot from his home in south Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland (500 miles, give or take), where his friend is in a hospice, leaving Maureen alone at home.  

“First of all, she thinks he’s mad, and then gets very angry, and then very anxious and upset,” says Wilton. “But slowly she starts to recognise how much her marriage means to her, which she hasn’t in the immediate past because this sadness has thrown them apart.” The sadness relates to their late son, David (Earl Cave), who struggled with drug abuse and who, we learn through flashbacks, died years earlier from suicide. Unlike Harold, Wilton’s Maureen isn’t given the catharsis of an epic journey. Instead, her devastation is conveyed through intense bouts of vacuuming and in clipped phone exchanges with Harold. “You never walk,” she tells him, indignantly. “The only time you walk is to the car.”

Wilton and I are talking on the phone: she doesn’t do Zoom and rarely does in-person interviews nowadays. Though she is never less than polite, I sense that, if she had her way, she wouldn’t do interviews at all.

Nonetheless, at 76, she is showing little sign of slowing down, and isstill averaging a movie a year: last year she reprised her role as Isobel Crawley, mother-in-law of Lady Mary, in the second Downton Abbey spin-off film, A New Era, while in 2021 she appeared in Operation Mincemeat as Hester Leggett, formidable head of the MI5 secretarial unit. She still does bits and pieces of TV, most recently appearing in Netflix’s After Life, where she played a widow sharing a graveyard bench with Ricky Gervais’s grief-stricken Tony. Add to that her distinguished career in theatre and it is no wonder that, in 2016, Wilton was made a dame for services to drama.

When I mention her ability to convey deep disappointment with the subtlest of expressions, Wilton bats away the compliment. “If I get a part that requires me to do that, then I’ll do that,” she says. “But it’s also the case that people don’t go around bursting into tears. Most of the time we try to stop the tears coming and we tend to apologise when emotion overtakes us. It’s an English trait. I have to say I don’t have that trait as a person, but a lot of people have grown up learning to hold their emotions in.” She adds that she is pleased to see younger generations being more vocal about their feelings. “It’s great that they’re not holding it all in, as I think that is unhealthy. This silent world that Harold and Maureen live in, it’s very sad.”

Wilton is known for keeping her private life private, often delivering a stock reply to prying interviewers about it being better if audiences don’t know “my inside leg measurement”. What is known is that she has been married twice: first to actor Daniel Massey, with whom she had a daughter before they divorced in 1984 (he went on to marry Wilton’s sister, Linda), and then to Ian Holm, her co-star on The Borrowers, whom she divorced in 2001.

Wilton says she became an actor “because I wasn’t very good at anything else, and I liked stories and storytelling”. Her father, a businessman, had no interest in the performing arts, but her mother, Alice Travers, had been an actor and dancer. Wilton began going to the theatre at 15 and quickly realised she would “prefer to be on the stage than in the audience”.

But it was Ever Decreasing Circles, one of the biggest sitcoms of its era, that made her famous and which, she says, “I enjoyed more than I can say. People still have a soft spot for it, and so do I. Ricky Gervais loved that series and that’s why he cast me in After Life and why he called my character Anne, as a homage.”Ever Decreasing Circles was at its height in the 80s, when industry sexism meant actresses were often faded out after reaching middle age, but Wilton endured. Was that through tenacity on her part, or luck? “It was probably a bit of both,” she replies. “By the time I began doing film and television, I was already [in my thirties]. But before that I was doing theatre, and the parts for women in the theatre were plentiful. But also, I wasn’t ever a starlet. I played real people. I wasn’t cast because of a pretty face.”

Wilton also attributes her longevity to her ability to get on with people (“I can count on one hand the people I’ve really disliked”), and to play close attention to scripts and go “not for the big parts but the smaller and often more interesting ones that might have one or two really good scenes. It’s a good thing to learn, not to think about the size of the role. A smaller role can change a career.” She once told the theatre critic Michael Billington that, when giving masterclasses, she would tell students to do less acting. Watch any number of Wilton’s performances, and it is clear what she means. “I’m not a fan of big acting,” she reflects now. “I have always found you can achieve just as much by showing less and being real.”

Sooooooo I havd a bunch of films I wanted to do for Sci fi month(Day of the Dolphin ,the OG FLash Gordon ,Bacarau) but ...That aint gonna happen .Without going intinto it I have been emotionally exhausted due to mental health reasons ,and have been advised to rest

As fornext months theme,Marvel month isstill on,but it will be a bit more loosey goosey then othere theme months

@ariel-seagull-wings@theancientvaleofsoulmaking @themousefromfantasyland @the-blue-fairie @filmcityworld1 @princesssarisa @goodanswerfoxmonster @amalthea9 @angelixgutz

((I've been thinking about the Kujou Clan after the events in Inazuma, and while Sara is a general, she isstill only an adopted member of the clan and is still very much an outsider. Her older brothers have more sway in the political and other matters regarding the clan.

She also finds herself in turmoil after her adoptive father's betrayal and how that will affect her adoptive family/clan going forward.

Sara also doesn't fully realize that she was only adopted because she would become a powerful and useful tool, so when that is dropped on her, that's going to be a time. Then add on the fact that it wasn't the Shogun (Ei) that gave Sara her electro vision (unlike what Takayuki said), and you have a whole recipe for growth and turmoil (and angst, pain and suffering, probably, because that's how I roll.))

Why Covid is still a force to be reckoned with

Although the restrictions have been lifted in the UK, Covid is still a force to be reckoned with, because although it is massively reduced, it hasn’t gone and is now continuing to spread, according to new stats coming out in the UK. There are 3,264 new cases in Bristol. (Source: Twitter.com)

Trying to navigate my own life with restrictions that have been lifted, continues to be a work in progress for me. Going for walks makes for less anxious times thankfully, I have managed to go to two shops, but it’s still a ‘no’ to restaurants, coffee shops, bars, theatres, or cinemas.

It would be foolhardy to think the virus doesn’t exist, or to think we don’t need to wear masks in public spaces. Whilst I understand some of us are done with the precautionary measures, you have to remember, the virus isn’t done with ‘you.’

While the consensus is we don’t care if we catch the virus, so long as we get our lives back, there are still those people who are vulnerable and high risk, and who have more to lose if they were to catch the virus.

For those of us who are vulnerable, life is very different now. It’s got to the point, where wearing a mask out, means getting some of our ‘normal’ back. I am now in a drip, drip, situation which is giving me time to figure things out, without feeling pressured, or living with fear induced anxiety.

It is important to start making different choices about how we life our lives moving forward, so that we can all stay safe. This is different from what has been the ‘norm,’ but it’s one that helps us all get back into our lives comfortably.

Into the third year of Covid-19, I now feel I can tackle the grocery store with a mask and visor on, but I need to think about timing, when I go.

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Are you... Feeling better?

(@echo-wraith-posting)

uh ithhink,. so.. yes!! notsure iff. onnion isstill calling but. weare stayying with differentt lumiknoll forabit.!! furthheraway.

bisexuality isstill real on my laptop at least

it looks like this on my phone 😭

i dont list it on here mostly on twitter but odelo isstill a very ok name to call me jsyk

oh yeah u died and ur body isstill. somewhere. probably

I... jeez, I remember Mark telling me I died, but I can't imagine that my body is still burried somewhere... I...

I have two bodies now. What the actual fuck.

im full of murder toughts. religion teacher isstill amissionary iwant to stab him to deatj and kill him

oh dear that sounds awful >:(

why were they playing Your Type in the grocery store though. this isstill haunting me it doesnt seem real. its like that one time they played Be Sweet. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE CARLY

NOOOOOOO IM A LIL BETTER OH HEY THE CAPS LOCK KEY ISSTILL ON hehehe im alllllll bettteeerrrrr m just a lil drinky hehe

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Ahhh you’re drunk ok