Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Feeling very depressed about the local election results. Seriously how can people want Reform and Farage in power?! 🤯 120
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 27/03/2025@sarramanning.bsky.social I’ve got the lurgy & your lovely book was exactly what the doctor ordered! Finished in one sitting with several cups of tea. It’s great! Thank you! 100
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025When you watch Beast Games (watching with my teenage son) you really realise how culturally different we are to Americans 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannEuropean Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 26/03/2025The elephant in the room. #SpringStatement 05620
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025'Lives are more important than money!' So proud it was one of our volunteers who shouted that out. ❤️ #LoveAndLoss 082
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 25/03/2025www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comLove and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On review – is it time to wake up from this collective amnesia?For most of us, lockdown was like a bad dream. But this extraordinary film meets the people still riddled with guilt and heartbreak – and paints beautiful portraits of those they lost 010
Reposted by Jenny McCannAlex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23/03/2025On the difficulty with processing loss from Orpheus to Princess Diana and Covid19, via Jesus, Monteverdi, Hitchcock, Mariachi, Moreau, and Disney. This has been a joy and a wretch to pull together (I do the editing, too 😱), for which you repaid me handsomely with your own tender stories of grief. x 98613
Reposted by Jenny McCannJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/03/2025Five years on from the first national lockdown, I looked at some of the less obvious ways society has changed, for @theipaper.com. One that jumped out: nightclubs are in free fall. Full piece: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest... 148320
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Today was the 1st day of lockdown for all of us. As a nation we have a collective shared trauma of Covid. If you lost a loved one you are part of an awful club where today is the start of an unimagined grief . Pls watch this doc tomorrow @mrjamesob.bsky.social @thejeremyvine.bsky.social 030
Reposted by Jenny McCannUnofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 22/03/2025'Grief, long Covid, PTSD - my life five years since lockdown'bbc.com'Grief, long Covid, PTSD - my life five years since lockdown'Anabel Sharma watched her mum die in the hospital bed next to her after they contracted Covid-19. 083
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025This is an incredibly difficult weekend for the millions of people in the UK who are bereaved by covid. ❤️ 4459
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025It really feels this week that we’ve slowly crawled out of a long, dark cold winter. It’s so good for the soul to feel the warm sunshine & see spring flowers blooming. You know you’re Middle Aged when your obsessed with lasagna bulb results 030
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025@naomialderman.bsky.social it would be great, after your wonderful thread #FiveYearsLater, if you could share this COVID doc which is screening on BBC1 on Monday 🙏🙏. It’s so important to the bereaved that people watch & remember 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2025This month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives changed because of it. "Even now, five years later, I am still nervous about germs — I don’t want to get sick. Covid was a very scary experience for me," said one teenager.nytimes.comTeenagers on How Covid Has Changed ThemThis month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives are different today because of it. 1015622
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025We hope to see as many of you as we can at the wall anniversary event on March 29th! ❤️ 2147
Reposted by Jenny McCannEuropean Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 18/03/2025Brexit has cost UK musicians £914M+ and counting. See the toll in streams, tickets, and vinyl. Sign the petition to act now:europeanmovement.co.ukTotal Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UKThe cost of Brexit to UK musicians is staggering. Discover the impact in Spotify streams, Wembley tickets, vinyl LPs, and more. Support the campaign and sign the petition! 05837
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 17/03/2025The episode of 'New Storytellers' featuring the volunteers of the National Covid Memorial Wall airs again tonight on BBC Radio 4 at 21.45 - or you can listen now on BBC Sounds. ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - New Storytellers, Friends of the WallThey’ve painted over 200,000 red hearts on a huge wall in the heart of Westminster. Why? 0113
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 17/03/2025This! And finally some sustained press coverage that we are #FiveYearsOn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPoorest children missing more school and further behind after Covid, study saysThose from the lowest income families are now up to 19 months behind peers by the age of 16. 021
Reposted by Jenny McCannJason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Ian writes so well. And we need way more good writing about the pandemic. It sometimes feels as if we’ve barely started processing those years. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...open.substack.comYou don't want to read thisAnd I don't want to write it. 1216
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 16/03/2025After watching the amazing Adolescence last night (Stephen Graham and Ashley Walter’s deserve all of the awards), I’ve woken up to frantically google “How to talk to your son about Andrew Tate”. 😬😳 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Today is #longcovidawarenessday If you’re not aware, LC, like ME/CFS, devastates lives. And the medical profession has almost entirely abandoned sufferers. And now in the U.K., it sounds as if most will now lose their PIP. 💔 15382161
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025As a Classics student (state school educated blah blah blah), few things make me more satisfied than seeing Classics coming into the mainstream I.e Matt Damon as Odysseus. @rickriordan.bsky.social deserves a shrine for bringing Classics to our times 000
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Few things more depressing than getting letters from both your kids schools about measles. One the planets most contagious diseases that we had eradicated with vaccines 😡😡😡 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it. iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...iandunt.substack.comYou don't want to read thisAnd I don't want to write it. 106587177
Reposted by Jenny McCannThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/03/2025The coronavirus pandemic has had a lasting impact on schools and students, with many still feeling the effects of virtual learning and social isolation.washingtonpost.comCovid shut schools five years ago. Anxiety, learning loss and more linger.The coronavirus pandemic has had a lasting impact on schools and students, with many still feeling the effects of virtual learning and social isolation. 167712
Reposted by Jenny McCannDisappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Just been reminded that I took a picture of the front page of the Metro on the fateful day of the first front page death of Covid on the 6th March at 07:19 in the morning 2020. 710316
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Volunteer Lynn spoke powerfully about the memorial wall at our #DayOfReflection event: “It is a message to those across the water that this is what happens when you get it wrong. It should stay as a constant reminder of the impact of government decisions. It’s a refuge for the bereaved.” ❤️ 1175
Reposted by Jenny McCannGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/03/2025With over 200 cases of measles now reported across 13 states, Amelia Mavis Christnot provides a deep dive into this escalating outbreak and explains why vaccines are more important now than ever.auntiemavis.substack.comMeasles Is One Of The Most Contagious Diseases On EarthWith the Trump administration suppressing public health information, here's what you need to know. 621939425
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I feel really sorry for all the Americans who didn’t vote for Trump. Having to watch this utter shit show, knowing you didn’t want any part of it 000
Reposted by Jenny McCanntristan-uk.bsky.social @tristan-uk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Terrible. Vaccines are one of the most studied and biggest success stories of the last century. Here's a study of 99 million people across eight countries, confirming the covid vaccine is safe. Will this evidence convince people like in the story? Sadly not. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 2291
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025This is heartbreaking. How can we be moving to a none vaccinated society . A society which had eradicated so many of these childhood diseases. We are living in an age of rank disinformation. 100
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I have won the squirrel vs the me/the bulbs battle! It’s been hard fought. The squirrel is devious, taunts my dog on a daily basis with its crafty ways. This year it messed with the wrong gardener. Deployed netting all winter over bulbs & have defeated the squirrel (for now)with spring flowers. 🥇🥇🌸🌷 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Five years on and we’re still going round and round with whether Covid is airborne. There’s no scientific doubt. Denial broke us. healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...healthydebate.caHow denial of airborne COVID transmission broke the world - Healthy DebateFive years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion. 361436567
Reposted by Jenny McCannUK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The Kier Group construction company, who are working on Lambeth Bridge, have been the MOST amazing help to us, from manning barriers to throwing our 2000 carnations into the Thames from the bridge. But what made ALL the volunteers cry was when they presented us with this glorious flower heart. ❤️ 2599
Reposted by Jenny McCannDr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 09/03/2025TW: Covid, trauma Today is the #CovidDayOfReflection in the UK. #FiveYearsOn from the start of the first lockdown this month. Many have moved on. Many cannot. We are in danger of forgetting, when we need to remember even the worst moments. 195
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Toady is the National Day of Covid reflection . An incredible beautiful, sad & poignant event held & organised by @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social . It’s a very odd & strange thing to be part of a group of collective grief & share trauma. #FiveYearsOn 2185
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 08/03/2025You know you’re middle aged when you get excited about using the Merlin app for the first time since Autumn and are looking forward to a spot of Spring weeding in the garden. 120
Reposted by Jenny McCannMayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 07/03/2025ULEZ works. It’s that simple. Expanding the Ultra Low Emission Zone wasn’t a decision I took lightly, but the latest figures show that it was the right one for the health of millions of Londoners. 631872435
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Totally spot on www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCouples fight about housework. Couples divorce about housework. Surely it would be easier if men just did more housework? | Lucy ClarkDividing household tasks fairly and upending some gender norms along the way is good for everyone 010
Reposted by Jenny McCannBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”thebetter.newsFinland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.meIn Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness. 8534277114038
Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Vile tube journey today sandwiched between 2 middle aged men extolling, loudly, the virtues of Tate & Trump as “they’re real men”. One of them even used the term “bitch slapping Zelensky”. I haven’t felt so angry for so long. But did I say anything? No. Now just angry at myself 000
Reposted by Jenny McCannRichard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity. 17507566122555
Reposted by Jenny McCannAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense." 9340381367
Reposted by Jenny McCannOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Well I'd like to thank JD Vance and Donald Trump for making perhaps the strongest case for rejoining the EU that I've seen in 9 years. 382061368
Reposted by Jenny McCannNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025I have this feeling that over the next few weeks I might like to note and mark what I was doing five years ago. Because it is big and real and still feels incredibly present in our lives. I'll use the hashtag #fiveyearson which as far as I can tell is only used about Covid. Do mute if you need. 4413626
Reposted by Jenny McCannJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 04/03/2025For #fiveyearson its a chance for me to plug one of my favourite pieces I ever wrote - the inside story about how No10 was a “plague pit” as everyone working in Whitehall got sick at the time of the first lockdown www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com'No 10 was a plague pit': how Covid brought Westminster to its kneesInsiders tell of a Whitehall in panic mode and reveal virus spread far more widely than was acknowledged 15316