Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[LDC]

Johnson goes (dead or incapacitated), and now with Starmer about surely a national government is much more likely?

 

[equationgirl]

Johnson goes (dead or incapacitated), and now with Starmer about surely a national government is much more likely?

Not sure what you mean by 'national government'.

 

[brogdale]

Johnson goes (dead or incapacitated), and now with Starmer about surely a national government is much more likely?

If Johnson were to die, I'd imagine that significantly more vermin would see the potential merits in getting Starmer to dip his hands in the blood.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not sure what you mean by 'national government'.

govt of national unity - you bring Labour (and maybe the SNP) in and give them cabinet posts.

 

[kebabking]

Johnson goes (dead or incapacitated), and now with Starmer about surely a national government is much more likely?

This.

With Corbyn as LoO it was a total non-starter, but with Starmer it's a real possibility/likelihood.

COBR+ is (almost) a nailed on certainty, GNU is more debatable, but with Starmer it goes into the realms of possibility.

 

[gosub]

Johnson goes (dead or incapacitated), and now with Starmer about surely a national government is much more likely?

Surely there's a leadership contest? Seems to be the politicans answer to just about everything else, and we haven't had one this week.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Surely there's a leadership contest? Seems to be the politicans answer to just about everything else, and we haven't had one this week.

Nah. If Johnson dies, there's no way they would hold a leadership contest straight away, if ever.

 

[Raheem]

He could have 200 nurses and doctors on hand. There is no effective treatment. Either he will fight it off himself, with the help of various bits of equipment (which of course he will get), or he won't.

Of course, but the question was whether he's going to be getting the standard NHS experience of the average person, rather than whether he's superhuman.

 

[Pickman's model]

This.

With Corbyn as LoO it was a total non-starter, but with Starmer it's a real possibility/likelihood.

COBR+ is (almost) a nailed on certainty, GNU is more debatable, but with Starmer it goes into the realms of possibility.

i'd like to see WILDEBEEST

 

[Pickman's model]

Of course, but the question was whether he's going to be getting the standard NHS experience of the average person, rather than whether he's superhuman.

i see tories reporting on twitter the drs and nurses being very attentive to johnson, queuing up with pillows for him

 

[gosub]

Nah. If Johnson dies, there's no way they would hold a leadership contest straight away, if ever.

The mistake you've made there is to apply commonsense

 

[cupid_stunt]

i see tories reporting on twitter the drs and nurses being very attentive to johnson, queuing up with pillows for him

One assumes to put over his face.

 

[Raheem]

i see tories reporting on twitter the drs and nurses being very attentive to johnson, queuing up with pillows for him

The good news is that pillows are dual-purpose.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

One assumes to put over his face.

I assumed that was the joke

 

[Pickman's model]

Nah. If Johnson dies, there's no way they would hold a leadership contest straight away, if ever.

https://www.politicalpartydb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/UK_CONSERVATIVE_PARTY_CONSTITUTION_2009.pdf

 

[equationgirl]

BBC Scotland reporting that anyone suffering with symptoms for more than 10 days may be having an immune response crisis where the immune system struggles to fight against the infection.

 

[Pickman's model]

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.

tbh better him dead as his misjudgements have already cost the lives of many hundreds of people

 

[lefteri]

Some of the posts in this thread are beyond laughable

like the subject then

 

[brogdale]

tbh better him dead as his misjudgements have already cost the lives of many hundreds of people

and, according to this illustrative timeline from the Lancet, the deaths attributable to infections acquired in the 'laissez faire'/herd immunity phase of 'policy' will continue into the third week of this month. The first full day of the present 'lockdown' situation being March 25th.

I suppose after about the 21st we'll be able to gauge the magnitude of the cumulative tory death toll.

 

[kebabking]

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By the end of this, that is likely to have been one of the less important rules cast onto the fire of necessity....

 

[killer b]

the idea that the tory party rules on leadership would stand in the middle of all this is totally laughable tbh. If Johnson dies they'll sort it out at the top, then ((maybe) have an election on the other side.

 

[Mr Moose]

Still hanging in there, apparently.View attachment 205170

Arriving for the afternoon briefing with Michael Gove and Mickey Dolenz.

 

[Pickman's model]

By the end of this, that is likely to have been one of the less important rules cast onto the fire of necessity....

i don't see it as of overarching importance but it may be useful as a stone to cast at raab or gove

 

[Spymaster]

Because you don't make a speedy recovery if you're in hospital for c19 as opposed to having the mild form, he could be there for weeks and once he's out there's stuff like reduced lung capacity to deal with

I'm not so sure about this. Our neighbour's son was seriously enough affected to be taken into hospital and put on a ventilator for 3 days. He was kept in for 2 more days then sent home and is apparently well recovered now, less than 2 weeks later.

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking on this thread!

 

[Part 2]

I'm not so sure about this. Our neighbour's son was seriously enough affected to be taken into hospital and put on a ventilator for 3 days. He was kept in for 2 more days then sent home and is apparently well recovered now, less than 2 weeks later.

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking on this thread!

Was he a pisshead in his 50s?

 

[LDC]

I'm not so sure about this. Our neighbour's son was seriously enough affected to be taken into hospital and put on a ventilator for 3 days. He was kept in for 2 more days then sent home and is apparently well recovered now, less than 2 weeks later.

I think there's a lot of wishful thinking on this thread!

Not my area of work, but maybe just oxygen or NIV, I'd have thought very unlikely on a ventilator for 3 days and then out 2 days later?

 

[Spymaster]

... I'd have thought very unlikely on a ventilator for 3 days and then out 2 days later?

I believe that was exactly the case.

 

[Spymaster]

Was he a pisshead in his 50s?

No. 30s.

 

[DotCommunist]

is it cheating to stick him on my deadpool list, might seem like goal hanging but then some of you are in there with lists full of 90 year olds so...

 

[wayward bob]

I reckon its all going very "death of stalin" within the cabinet right now.

that's tonight's re-viewing sorted, ta