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not a prick, by all accounts.

"common sense morality". That's what led me to Jesus in the first place.

Someone seems to have gone to a lot of effort to basically say whether your MP is a Tory.

The first six minutes of this are just, wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgGmYeAm0jk

You’ve made my evening, William x

Julie’s I pad cutting in had me howling!

Too much.

Neither Royston, nor Vasey.

So good.

That is worth watching.

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not a prick, by all accounts.

seems to have overlooked my MP voting to bomb syrian civilians.

Peter Moore's got some nice guitars!

I honestly can't work out whose side I'm on in that, and I find it massively concerning that I care.

Blitz spirit was a thing to some extent but history has a revisionist view of how people behaved doing the war. Both in terms of obeying and abiding the rules and the fact that the mental health toll was basically just ignored.

One of the thing I was thinking about the Spanish Flu is that misinformation we’re surely prevalent in that time, just not well known since to the lack of social media at the time.

You're lining yourself up to be the Executive Producer of the series
of each protagonists' Origin story.

Blitz spirit was a thing to some extent but history has a revisionist view of how people behaved doing the war. Both in terms of obeying and abiding the rules and the fact that the mental health toll was basically just ignored.

I heard recently (can't remember the source, but not just a random internet comment), that psychiatrists were expecting a huge mental health toll from WW2, but actually the net effect was not all that severe and, by some metrics, actually positive. I find that quite hard to believe and wonder if they were ignoring PTSD in actual service people, but in terms of those effectively under lockdown in the UK I wonder if the effect of having a clear external enemy and a clear goal mitigated the effect of the hardships.

Probably helped that the huge majority of the fighting took place elsewhere against enemies that were considered to be (and looking back, proved to be) evil regimes.

Also imagine there was a good sense of effort in (or sacrifice) producing tangible benefits.

A fair number of the population didn't experience any lasting detrimental effects on their lives, some experienced no change at all. For some, their lives improved.

Contrast with the situation we are in.

Viruses are also a lot less visible and random compared to bombs / hunger.

Which obviously suck but you know exactly what you are dealing with.

And there was lots of extra food production in parks etc, so at least as individual you could do something concrete.

Trying to grow your own vaccine isn't really a possibility, so you have to wait and stay in, but perhaps a pandemic feels less like having control at all?

Aled is clearly off his rocker, as is the old guy sat next to him. "PC Clerk" is aligned with Aled so also a bad guy by association.

I haven't read the standing orders so not sure if Jackie Weaver is in the right or not.

Sue and "Julie's I pad" are the clear favourites

Jackie Weaver was on R4 Woman's Hour today, haven't listened yet.

#rep

https://davidallengreen.com/2021/02/did-jackie-weaver-have-the-authority-the-law-and-policy-of-that-handforth-parish-council-meeting/

I read something recently (again can't remember where from, but possibly a Graun article) which spoke about the myth of the Blitz spirit and how there were very significant rises in mental issues in the cities which were bombed. Will try to find it, was an interesting read - though I do appreciate that newspaper opinion pieces =/= actual historianism.

Edit - found it, and it was an actual historian. There are some elements that indicate we may have read the same thing - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/19/myth-blitz-spirit-model-coronavirus

I find that quite hard to believe and wonder if they were ignoring PTSD in actual service people

I don't know when this study happened but the earliest mention of PTSD in the medical world is about 1980.