Our collective sports memory favors the recent and the victorious. All the excitement and beauty and absurdity in a game or a season builds toward one, objective decision: Who won? A player’s all-time best performance or critical play might get forgotten simply because it happened early, or because their team didn’t win in the end. Conversely, fans might overlook your horrific slump or blooper because you DID win. And if the event ends with one big moment, you can pretty much forget everything else. A conclusive buzzer-beater or walk-off shines so brightly that it risks eclipsing everything around it. As time passes, fewer people remember the details, the context, and the array of possibilities hinging on the big play. That iconic moment acts as a sort of shorthand for the whole story preceding it.
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A few days before Christmas, I received an email from the NHS stating: We are writing to let you know about government advice for people considered to be at highest risk of becoming very unwell if they catch Covid-19. This is because your medical records tell us you are someone with Down s syndrome.
My first reaction was to laugh. This was ridiculous. I don t have Down s syndrome.
Perhaps it was some sort of scam? But the email address looked legitimate, it used NHS-headed paper , contained my correct date of birth and my NHS number, and tellingly the spelling error in my middle name that I ve been complaining to my doctor s surgery about for years.
The British government has amended COVID-19-era regulations to permit the police to access a greater level of track and trace information, but without clear limits on.