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Jenny McCann

@jennyeye.bsky.social
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Life long book worm, lover of actual dogs & downward dogs. A difficult person to make tea for. Sandgrounder/part scouser living in London. DMs not welcome ❤️

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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Feeling very depressed about the local election results. Seriously how can people want Reform and Farage in power?! 🤯
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I wonder what will happen to all the post office counters in store, that relocated there when branches shut?
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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!
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
When you watch Beast Games (watching with my teenage son) you really realise how culturally different we are to Americans
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 26/03/2025
The elephant in the room. #SpringStatement
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UK 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Love 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Lauren you were so wonderful in the film. Incredibly eloquent and really brought your beautiful Uncle to life. Sending you and your family lots of love x
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
If you’re in the UK, please do watch this tonight on BBC1 at 8.30pm
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
On 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
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/03/2025
Five 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...
A chart showing nightclub closures. There were 1,247 in March 2020. By December 2024, there are only 851.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Today 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Documentary! Not do 🥴
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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
'Grief, long Covid, PTSD - my life five years since lockdown'
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'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.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It so is. I hope everyone watches Catey’s brilliant do documentary on Monday night
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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is an incredibly difficult weekend for the millions of people in the UK who are bereaved by covid. ❤️
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Please all watch this really important documentary on Monday BBC1
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
One of my favourite books! This will be wonderful
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Poilievre was a shoe in before the tariffs. The election is now wide open.
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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
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/03/2025
This 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.
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Teenagers on How Covid Has Changed Them
This month marks the fifth anniversary of the pandemic. We asked students how their lives are different today because of it.
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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We hope to see as many of you as we can at the wall anniversary event on March 29th! ❤️
A beautiful picture of the red hearts of the memorial wall on a sunny day. The text reads: Saturday 29th March 2025, 12.30 pm - 2.30.pm, National Covid Memorial Wall 4th anniversary.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
These are epic
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 18/03/2025
Brexit has cost UK musicians £914M+ and counting. See the toll in streams, tickets, and vinyl. Sign the petition to act now:
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Total Cost to Musicians Since Brexit - European Movement UK
The 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!
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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The 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...
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BBC Radio 4 - New Storytellers, Friends of the Wall
They’ve painted over 200,000 red hearts on a huge wall in the heart of Westminster. Why?
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This! And finally some sustained press coverage that we are #FiveYearsOn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Poorest children missing more school and further behind after Covid, study says
Those from the lowest income families are now up to 19 months behind peers by the age of 16.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We used to get them every Christmas in the late 80s, early 90s. A biscuit highlight
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I think it will take a very long time for society as a whole to talk it about it. We seem to be at the classic trauma response stage of just pretending it never really happened . Despite the last effects being all around us
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Jason Hazeley @jasonhazeley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Ian 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/...
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You don't want to read this
And I don't want to write it.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
After 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”. 😬😳
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today 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. 💔
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
As 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Few 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 😡😡😡
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s a classic trauma response- to avoid the issue. As a nation we collectively experienced this trauma. It’s very similar to post WW2 etc. no one really talked about it for years. Also cynically, if we all stop & examine what happened during the pandemic, no one Coleman out well
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The BBC has this documentary on the 24th March to mark the 5th anniversary of the lockdown. Please watch it ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On
The story of the pandemic, told through the eyes of those bereaved by Covid-19.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The BBC has this documentary on the 24th March, marking 5 years since the first lockdown www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC One - Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On
The story of the pandemic, told through the eyes of those bereaved by Covid-19.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
You don't want to read this. And I don't want to write it. iandunt.substack.com/p/you-dont-w...
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You don't want to read this
And I don't want to write it.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/03/2025
The coronavirus pandemic has had a lasting impact on schools and students, with many still feeling the effects of virtual learning and social isolation.
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Covid 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.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Possibly one of the most infectious diseases on the planet, which we had eradicated through vaccination 👀
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We all know someone who went a bit weird during the pandemic #FiveYearsOn
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Just 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.
Front page of the Metro
Newspaper in March 2020 reporting the first Covid death in the UK
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UK National Covid Memorial Wall @covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Volunteer 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.” ❤️
Lynn standing at an outdoor wooden podium. She is reading from a red folder. Another volunteer stands near her. Photo by Bruce Tanner.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
And we are also living in an unprecedented time of wide spread disinformation on social media
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
You really don’t. But many people lack the education and critical thinking needed to make wise choices.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
With 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.
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Measles Is One Of The Most Contagious Diseases On Earth
With the Trump administration suppressing public health information, here's what you need to know.
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I 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
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Jenny McCann @jennyeye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
That looks like a great documentary
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