Loved Ones Remembered On Fifth Anniversary Of Start Of Covid

[naomi24]

//Emotional scenes played out across the UK on Sunday as the bereaved and their communities hosted hundreds of events to mark the fifth anniversary of the start of the pandemic in a day of reflection.//

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c798l9gz4y1o

 

Is it just me who finds this distasteful?

[gulliver1]

Not you Zebo.

[vulcan42]

gulliver, do you even know what a drone is? it's an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). 

[newmodarmy]

 Some here have asked why the 5th  March. It was the fifth anniversary that was commemorated on Sunday 9th March. No mention of the 5th. It's just the nearest Sunday to the date it was declared a pandemic in 2020.

[bednobs]

NMA, you are of course completely right.  wot a muppet i am!

[Peter Pedant]

 

Is it just me who finds this distasteful?

probably

The anglos have always had a reoccupation with honouring the dead - and the Anglican prohibitions against prayers for the dead ( Common  Prayer book from1562) have never been popular

The compulsion to honour the dead peaked 1918 when at long last The festival of nine carols was  invented ( same  fella as Toch-H) - not a  service or sacrament - they were limited by law and the commons ordained ( to seven)

the added la-dee-da from Kings is ver y late ( seventies)

Also the centaph prayers werent exaxtly supported - an act of remembrance  - 

in flanders field the poppies grow, around the gavestones row on row.... by the clergy - altho immediately supported by the veterans

and lastly - the Romans..... lad dee dah. lad dee dah. up down, up down ting a long ting a lling,, any dia de las muertos willl bean excuse to remember the dead and have a piss up

 

[Togo]

I lost family members to covid. At least that is what it said on the death certificates. One had cancer and another had co morbidities that had been in evidence for decades. Now we have the "UK Commision on Covid Remembrance" whipping the emo fragile into a self pitying sob fest. Who the ckuf set that steering commitee up? Who knew they even existed? Who "recruited" the self rightious chancers and who pays for it. Where were the job interviews held? Alba was right pass the sick bag. I dont need some faceless %&*t to tell me it is time to remember, or a day to remember! I remember every day. I remember mainly that it was all, in retrospect, a stupid responce to a stupid research programme that went wrong. Who is going to bring those gits to book? Look under the veil and it is all a self congratulatory excersise by the NHS Charities Together blob. Meeh. Distasteful is being kind. It is reprehensible. 

[Peter Pedant]

you can go and be sick

others find the mindful time to consider old departed frenz