Jimmy Wales
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Like, oh, like half your staff quit because of whatever, you know, like, OK, like we'll work it out.
We'll find a way through.
And, you know, that's just like good business.
Not by the way, they're masks.
And now it's like they're mandatory.
In the UK, we I frankly think it cost the conservatives the election, although they might have lost it anyway.
But it was this very emotional, like this spectacular photography, spectacular sort of poignant when Prince Philip died.
The queen, you know, her husband has died.
She's in Westminster Abbey, the church for the funeral, and she's sitting literally all alone.
No family, no nobody, because they had to protect the queen from COVID.
Oh.
Okay, fine.
So that's very moving.
It's like, oh, these are really tough times, and I really love the queen.
She's just no trouble at all.
She's great.
And then it emerges a little while later that the night before in Number 10 Downing Street, which is like the equivalent of the White House, they were having a party.
And people were like, are you kidding me?
Like at a time when none of us are supposed to be doing anything, you are having a party while the queen's got to, like, that's just not okay.
guy right yeah yeah yeah no and it's exactly like oh wow like that piece of trust and and you know like the queen like whatever your views are in the abstract on the monarchy like people trusted the queen sure you know and so actually when she came out at the beginning i mean they they trot the queen out everybody listens and she says this is a serious thing we've all got to stay home we will meet again brilliant and everybody's like all right yeah we're british we're