Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[bimble]

If he dies, you know he will be canonised, right? I almost wish him a speedy recovery to avoid the gushing eulogy.

Patron saint of hubris.

 

[dessiato]

Anyway, if I can't get him deaded, I'll just have to hope all the things that happened to patients in the Doctor in the House and Carry On films happen to him. So that's a foot long needle up his arse, bed pans, castor oil, getting his foot in a plaster cast hoisted on a pulley, falling out of the back of an ambulance and getting the wrong leg sawn off.

I once had a very bad accident and was taken to hospital by ambulance. It was very icy. I fell out of it as we pulled up at A&E.

The husband of a woman I know had the wrong leg amputated. He's legless now. He did get a massive payout. But I'll bet he'd rather have his leg.

 

[scifisam]

If he dies, you know he will be canonised, right? I almost wish him a speedy recovery to avoid the gushing eulogy.

If he lives he will be too. There's no win for us here.

 

[phillm]

The enormous security issues alone would have meant everything that could be done in No 10 would have been done there if at all possible. 'Routine tests' are just a smokescreen he is very ill indeed.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I agree you don’t rush the PM off to hospital on a Sunday night for “routine tests”. Also day 10 is when you’re likely to deteriorate.

why do they lie about it though?!

 

[prunus]

Speculation ahead. Chest x-ray and/or CT scan are among the tests that couldn’t really be done in Downing Street (well at a pinch they could have just about wheeled a portable x-ray in in theory but not really practical in practice), so if it’s tests it’s those I imagine. Why he’s been kept in overnight is more suggestive though, monitoring and oxygen therapy and even most IV lines for drugs etc don’t require a hospital setting, and working on the assumption that they’d get him out of there ASAP if they could for the ‘optics’ if nothing else - they must think he’s at least at reasonable risk of needing critical care/ICU.

 

[planetgeli]

If he lives he will be too. There's no win for us here.

We can party.

On Zoom.

 

[Mr Moose]

Patron saint of hubris.

Reserved for Cummings after his ‘if some pensioners die, so be it’ remark, as now his uncle has passed away. Grim.

 

[Pickman's model]

If he lives he will be too. There's no win for us here.

on the basis that the only good tory is a dead tory i think you know which way I lean

 

[Proper Tidy]

Honestly if he carks it now its bad for us politically, the prick will be forever on a pedestal. Like john smith x 100. Far better he massively fucks up in public's eye as he inevitably will, cementing his place as a disaster and a clown and a joke, as he inevitably will, then fucks off dies.

 

[frogwoman]

I despise him but I cant really celebrate him dying of this disease tbh, i wouldn't wish it on anyone. If he died I think things could rapidly get very scary indeed

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Surely if he was on deaths door, he wouldn’t still be leading the Gov?

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[Pickman's model]

Surely if he was on deaths door, he wouldn’t still be leading the Gov?

If he's at death's door at least he'd be leading them in the right direction

 

[Pickman's model]

Patron saint of hubris.

Only because he's the only member of the cabinet who can spell the word and use it the right way in a sentence

 

[Cid]

The enormous security issues alone would have meant everything that could be done in No 10 would have been done there if at all possible. 'Routine tests' are just a smokescreen he is very ill indeed.

And no 'reassuring' video of him bantering away with medicos (through suitable barriers).

Surely if he was on deaths door, he wouldn’t still be leading the Gov?

Dominic Raab 'will chair Covid-19 meeting' after Boris Johnson is hospitalised

The PM was taken to hospital on Sunday after he continued to suffer symptoms of coronavirus.

metro.co.uk

(I know that's not leading, but it is... the initial tentative steps)

 

[Mr Moose]

Surely if he was on deaths door, he wouldn’t still be leading the Gov?

I’m surprised Russian sources haven’t claimed he’s been dead for a couple of weeks already and we’ve been wheeling him around Weekend at Bernie’s style, rather than just on a ventilator. (After it’s the first thing they would think of if Vlad succumbed).

 

[prunus]

Surely if he was on deaths door, he wouldn’t still be leading the Gov?

Conservative MP @Tobias_Ellwood says day to day operations will be handed to @DominicRaab whilst the Prime Minister is in hospital#KayBurley

 

[Smangus]

My watermelon smile seems to be getting wider by the minute.

 

[Mr Moose]

I'm trying really hard not to be an evil enough person to wish death on him but I'm certainly not wasting any pity. And it would be fucking funny. Particularly with his hand shaking herd immunity bollocks of three weeks ago. What would happen to Brexit? The whole election was sold on his grinning idiot face and three words. I bet half the country has barely heard of Raab or most of the rest of the cabinet.

Well if you do write nasty things about him just say well anyone can wade through the thousands of words I have written and pick something out of context to disagree with.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Has that just broken? prunus

 

[Pickman's model]

And no 'reassuring' video of him bantering away with medicos (through suitable barriers).

Dominic Raab 'will chair Covid-19 meeting' after Boris Johnson is hospitalised

The PM was taken to hospital on Sunday after he continued to suffer symptoms of coronavirus.

metro.co.uk

I understand many doctors desired an exchange of views with Johnson

 

[phillm]

EXPERTS eh ?

Putin in hospital...



Boris winging it (again....)

 

[alex_]

It does, actually. The few private hospitals that have tiny intensive care units don't have very good ones. They're posher but not as good medically. There's a reason private hospitals always just happen to be sited really near NHS hospitals.

100% this. Think about the cost of having every capability available “just in case” and all the staff there 24x7 who actually know how to use it, but never actually use it because it’s hardly ever used.

Also - when you are really sick, you want to be treated by medics for whom this is something they see 100 times a week, not something they’ve only seen in a textbook.

whereever he is will leak today - the covid ward surrounded by armed police will be quite hard to hide, ditto the convoy who took him there yesterday.

Alex

 

[prunus]

Has that just broken? prunus

Appeared on my newsfeed at 08:27, that’s all I know...

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

According to twitter it’s being reported he’s at St Thomas’ and on oxygen.

 

[Pickman's model]

It does, actually. The few private hospitals that have tiny intensive care units don't have very good ones. They're posher but not as good medically. There's a reason private hospitals always just happen to be sited really near NHS hospitals.

The proximity is not universal.

For examples the Highgate hospital, St John and St Elizabeth hospital, Wellington hospital, Hadley Wood hospital, Edward vii hospital

 

[prunus]

100% this. Think about the cost of having every capability available “just in case” and all the staff there 24x7 who actually know how to use it, but never actually use it because it’s hardly ever used.

Also - when you are really sick, you want to be treated by medics for whom this is something they see 100 times a week, not something they’ve only seen in a textbook.

whereever he is will leak today - the covid ward surrounded by armed police will be quite hard to hide, ditto the convoy who took him there yesterday.

Alex

I think they’ve said he’s at St Thomas’s, which is just the other side of Westminster Bridge.

 

[weltweit]

I despise him but I cant really celebrate him dying of this disease tbh, i wouldn't wish it on anyone. If he died I think things could rapidly get very scary indeed

I agree with you frogwoman, I wouldn't wish death on anyone.

 

[phillm]