{"id":635,"date":"2021-02-22T18:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/ending-the-horror-of-seeing-your-face-on-zoom-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-22T18:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:14:08","slug":"ending-the-horror-of-seeing-your-face-on-zoom-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/ending-the-horror-of-seeing-your-face-on-zoom-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending the horror of seeing your face on Zoom | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Describing cancer | Fatberg weight | Word wheel | Lockdown sceptics | Zoom<\/p>\n<p>With many years\u2019 experience as a specialist oncology nurse, I have always felt strongly that it is not appropriate to describe a cancer experience with words associated with war (combat, battle, fight). Who has a choice with cancer? But what words should we use instead? Grace Dent described it well for me (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/food\/2021\/feb\/19\/british-grief-centres-mainly-around-the-making-of-sandwiches-grace-dent\" title=\"\">British grief centres mainly around the making of sandwiches<\/a>, 19 February). \u201cCovid monster\u201d and \u201cghoulish cousin, cancer\u201d seems much more fitting \u2013 thank you.<br \/><strong>Ann Davis<\/strong><br \/><em>Sutton, Cheshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Your report on the fatberg in the London sewer (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2021\/feb\/19\/workers-clear-huge-disgusting-fatberg-from-london-sewer\" title=\"\">Workers clear \u2018huge, disgusting\u2019 fatberg from London sewer<\/a>, 1920 February) says that it was \u2018the weight of a small bungalow\u201d. Until now, I never imagined that anybody had actually calculated the weight of a bungalow, so let\u2019s be knowing \u2013 how did they do it, why, and what weight did they come up with?<br \/><strong>David Evans<\/strong><br \/><em>Market Harborough, Leicestershire<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/feb\/22\/ending-the-horror-of-seeing-your-face-on-zoom\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e6ffeb07e71f639a99c7ec981023aaf1496532be\/0_205_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=68d01b7b96ab151a0facf8e79b1ac6e1\" title=\"Ending the horror of seeing your face on Zoom | Brief letters\" \/>Describing cancer | Fatberg weight | Word wheel | Lockdown sceptics | Zoom<br \/>\nWith many years\u2019 experience as a specialist oncology nurse, I have always felt strongly that it is not appropriate to describe a cancer experience with words associated with war (combat, battle, fight). Who has a choice with cancer? But what words should we use instead? Grace Dent described it well for me (British grief centres mainly around the making of sandwiches, 19 February). \u201cCovid monster\u201d and \u201cghoulish cousin, cancer\u201d seems much more fitting \u2013 thank you.Ann DavisSutton, Cheshire<br \/>\n\u2022 Your report on the fatberg in the London sewer (Workers clear \u2018huge, disgusting\u2019 fatberg from London sewer, 1920 February) says that it was \u2018the weight of a small bungalow\u201d. Until now, I never imagined that anybody had actually calculated the weight of a bungalow, so let\u2019s be knowing \u2013 how did they do it, why, and what weight did they come up with?David EvansMarket Harborough, Leicestershire Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describing cancer | Fatberg weight | Word wheel | Lockdown sceptics | Zoom With many years\u2019 experience as a specialist oncology nurse, I have always felt strongly that it is not appropriate to describe a cancer experience with words associated with war (combat, battle, fight). Who has a choice with cancer? But what words should &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/22\/ending-the-horror-of-seeing-your-face-on-zoom-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ending the horror of seeing your face on Zoom | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}