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What about essential workers who don’t have the option of isolating themselves? What about others who can mostly isolate but still need essentials like groceries and prescriptions? Also, those people going to concerts cause the rest of us to have to isolate longer. And before someone says “but the protests” or “but you want schools to reopen”, education/school and institutional racism/police brutality are public health issues too just like this virus. No one is going to be at a higher risk of death, disease, abuse, prison, etc. if they don’t go to a concert or to the theater or a sports game. Social interaction is absolutely necessary, IMO, but it can be done in a safer way in smaller groups, and so can listening to music. As far as I can tell there was no safer way of affecting change in policing and institutional racism than protesting. People of color have been talking about and suffering the consequences of it for years and nothing has changed. These protests seem to be making a difference and I hope they do lead to lasting changes. In terms of education, there is no substitute for in person schooling. Distance learning doesn’t work for most kids, especially for those most at risk for poor outcomes in the first place. Kids who do poorly in school are at risk for all sorts of negative outcomes including early death, chronic illness, and prison. And right now kids are trapped at home with parents pushed to their breaking point, which is a recipe for child abuse, while at the same time those children have less eyes on them to catch the abuse that is happening. So, I support opening schools (with temporary closures if necessary by region) and the protests but I don’t support people going to concerts or restaurants/bars that are ignoring social distancing recommendations. I’ll step off my soapbox now.

I have to say that I've seen less than half of Ferrell's movies? And I saw this because someone said it was like Pitch Perfect but Eurovision instead of college a cappella, and since I adore Pitch Perfect.....Well, it wasn't Pitch Perfect.

I thought Dan Stevens was epic; loved the George Michael hair! Rachel macadams was good but I’m a bit bored of will Ferrell playing the same character and getting slightly worse at it each time. And it’s wasn’t very funny as a whole film to me. i live in the city where the contest was supposed to be taking place so I enjoyed the absolutely inaccurate geography on show. ?

witchkitten - but it's a GOOD soapbox!

Has anyone else seen Eurovision: Fire Saga (or whatever the long title is)? We watched on Friday - it's very long and we were not sober, so I'm sure I missed bits, but it was funny. I expected better, but oh well - I've never really loved Will Ferrell movies, even though this wasn't typical for his style, I don't think. Anyway, Dan Stevens was one of the best parts of the movie. Hilarious and amazing. Interview where he got part of his character from Irina Shayk just slays me https://uproxx.com/tv/dan-stevens-interview-eurovison-song-contest-the-story-of-fire-saga/

Covid is highlighting the weak, selfish nature of most Americans. Waah I don't want to be inconvenienced! It's MY right to do what I want, where I want! What about MAH FREEDOM! For a supposedly "Christian" country, the idea of "do unto others" has certainly been flushed down the toilet. Unfortunately Americans as a whole -- and this is a controversial opinion here, but whatever, I got tons of 'em -- have been gaslit by the notion of American exceptionalism.*** That is, we have been taught from childhood that we live in the greatest country on earth. That what happens in other places cannot happen here. That we are better than others, cause we're the United States of America, dammit. And thus we are blinded to our own faults and the very simple fact that this country is, like every other nation on earth, truly only a hair's breadth away from collapse. That the very systems we believe set us apart are not, in fact, infallible. Unless people wake up and realize that each and every single person has to work for the good of all, then we are doomed as a nation. It's not always about what you want. It's about what others need. Or do we really not give a shit about others? Is America really only ME ME ME? ***We've been gaslit by other false notions as well, most notably that the Cold War ended in 1991, but that's a tale for another day ... ?

Tipper & Al Gore? Oh, 2016.....Trump. Clearly. I hope Melania can be free to live a separate racist life in January 2021......[she's a birther, bitch]