{"id":590,"date":"2020-11-02T09:21:11","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/?p=590"},"modified":"2020-11-02T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T09:37:41","slug":"and-now-back-to-the-pandemic-already-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/02\/and-now-back-to-the-pandemic-already-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"And now, back to the pandemic already in progress…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By all accounts, the UK will follow the lead of Germany and France and institute a second national ‘lockdown<\/a>‘ on Thursday, expected to last ‘at least a month.’ As was the case with the first lockdown, this one is likely a reasonable move being made a bit too late<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The specifics of the restrictions<\/a> are still evolving. They’re being layered on an existing hodgepodge of already unclear regional restrictions, and imposed on a population struggling to dig their last few fucks out of the sofa cushions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most things will close, but not schools or universities – ’cause young people are sure to socially distance, and there’s been no evidence of the youth being asymptomatic spreaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m sure it’ll all go swimmingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I doubt we’ll be greatly affected. We’ve really only gone out to get food – ignoring the whole move house thing – and aside from brunch at our local cafe, that’s almost exclusively been from the grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll go try to get a haircut this morning, and we’ll make it a point to lunch in our local cafe over the next few days, as they don’t really do takeaway and will almost certainly close for the duration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things have been a bit busy lately so I\u2019ve not had as much time to read as I\u2019d have liked, so I was pretty happy that yesterday afternoon I finished The Deficit Myth<\/a>, the first I\u2019ve read about so-called \u2018modern monetary theory.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found it intriguing, and will plan to find and read a more rigorous treatment of the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, once the move was sorted out I booked the first available driving test… in late February<\/strong>. So I paid \u00a310 for an app that monitors cancellations at the DVLA and helps you reschedule. I\u2019m now scheduled for 21 December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the one hand, two months sooner for \u00a310 seems like good return on investment, on the other hand it seems an odd status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Test scheduling, like many other things, doesn’t actually work, and that doesn’t seem to bother anyone.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By all accounts, the UK will follow the lead of Germany and France and institute a second national ‘lockdown‘ on Thursday, expected to last ‘at least a month.’ As was the case with the first lockdown, this one is likely a reasonable move being made a bit too late. The specifics of the restrictions are … Continue reading “And now, back to the pandemic already in progress…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-london-calling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oubliette.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}