Harvested from a btl link at Off-G. Thank you that poster! About 48 minutes. Crucially important survey of what’s true, what’s not, and what’s happening. Find the time! Peter becomes ever more like the top general on the winning side in a vicious war against a deeply criminal enemy. Not hyperbole; a stone-cold accurate statement of the actual reality.
Just to add my two-pennorth: What Peter describes of his own and his family’s infections with covid-flu, and what a piece of piss it is to see it off, unharmed, was exactly my experience when dealing with it last year: three days of virtually unnoticeable mild discomfort, what time I was “positively reeking of [vitamin C]” * that I was toping as if there was no tomorrow. But there was! And here I still am: long-term, balanced, naturally immune; and no longer able to be infectious to others; and - never under ANY circumstances accepting any of the poison-stabs. And bugger masks, etc. too:
- The famous conductor Tommy Beauchamp, a noted wit and joker, speaking with affectionate joshing about a fellow conductor once quipped: “Malcolm Sargent came here yesterday; positively reeking of Horlicks!” Horlicks, for those too young to remember, was a sort of namby-pamby goodthinkers’ ‘health-drink’ version of cafe au lait without caffeine that was popular in the twentieth century, with people of a certain moral purity. ‘Flash’ - Sir Malcolm Sargent’s nickname - was a bit that way himself, at least in his aura…
