#WhyTheyAreDoingThis (with the Incomparable Ince)

 

 I was actually planning on posting this before #WhyAreTheyDoingThis started trending on tw*tt*r, just because it's so good, but anyway yes, here's why. I feel Robin Ince should be given the chance to turn down a knighthood for his stewardship of the Cosmic Shambles during this pandemic; he takes his job incredibly seriously without taking himself seriously and every one of their videos has made my lockdown life a little richer. This Covid-specific Q&A is a particular highlight, whether you want your own questions answered, or something to answer someone else's, or even if you think you know it all anyway but just want to enjoy patient and enquiring minds presenting their findings and discussing their differences. Pretty much everything is covered here, including the problems faced when trying to communicate this stuff: messages require clarity but without becoming so simplified they provoke "rage against the soundbite". I was also interested to learn the two biggest problems attending the coming winter won't be the cold itself, which is actually bad for the virus, but the closing of windows, which will keep infection in, and the turning on of central heating, which will make virus-carrying particles floatier. I've assumed the only thing stopping the current government from turning out similarly useful information packages - like they used to do with seatbelts and the country code -

 

F***ers.

 

... was a hatred of the seventies, but on reflection I suppose the message does have to be allowed to change. So in the absence of Joe and Petunia, or Jimmy Savile shaking an egg in a box, here is an absolute good, to be used unsparingly. Again, their patreon's here.