Day 70 - Sunday 24th May 2020

Location: London, UK

COVID-19 / Coronavirus Outbreak

Lockdown

I'm kind of done with the news at this point.

I check in every now and then and Twitter is good for the highlights, but there isn't really any "news" is there? It's just sad figures, thousands of people - friends and relations who have died or it's people flouting the rules who seem to think they are above contagion.

What concerns me is that there must be other stuff happening. People are still working, albeit in their pyjamas at home. There IS other news and it's not being reported. What's going on under the radar that when we get through this, we will discover has happened? I felt the same about Brexit - at least half of news broadcasts for 3 years were about bloody Brexit. What else was occurring?

I know that's a bit conspiracy theorist but I stand by it.

Conspiracy theorising online: Memes as a conspiracy theory genre

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