Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[Marty1]

Sounds like Boris is going to be fine.

"I'm in good spirits and keeping in touch with my team, as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe."

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'in good spirits' but remains in hospital with COVID-19 symptoms — Sky News

Boris Johnson is in "good spirits" after spending a "comfortable" night in hospital and remains there under observation, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said.

apple.news

 

[Chilli.s]

they keep telling us he is still running the show

It must be a whole lot easier to run than I thought.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It must be a whole lot easier to run than I thought.

Making sure the trains run on time is a doddle when there are only three trains a day.

 

[maomao]

Well he's tweeted now so he's definitely fine. That's going to look faintly sick at his funeral that is.

 

[peterkro]

Depending where they've put him in St Thomas's , he'll have a great view of The HOP. Political cartoonists furiously scribbling.

It's quite likely he's on the twelfth floor north wing in which case he's directly overlooking Parliament.

 

[frogwoman]

Got to agree with you Edie , I despise the guy as a politician but don't wish him dead. He's expecting a kid as well.

 

[Raheem]

Sounds like Boris is going to be fine.

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'in good spirits' but remains in hospital with COVID-19 symptoms — Sky News

Boris Johnson is in "good spirits" after spending a "comfortable" night in hospital and remains there under observation, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said.

apple.news

He may be fine or he may not, but a Downing Street press release doesn't really give much of a clue, except for they've obviously decided a photo isn't a good idea for the time being.

 

[maomao]

Articles like this in the Guardian make me think that he's very very ill and no-one's quite sure what to say. I mean it's a rather sparse list of three things that might happen in a hospital with intubation and ventilation rather pointedly left out.

The medical tests Boris Johnson may be undergoing in hospital

Doctors will assess how PM is responding to coronavirus, including breathing issues

www.theguardian.com

 

[existentialist]

Did anyone else get a letter from Boris this morning telling them to stay inside, btw?

Yep, mine came.

I must say - I have underestimated the man. I had never realised he had such a command of the Welsh language (he sent me his letter in English and Welsh)

 

[platinumsage]

Sounds like Boris is going to be fine.

https://apple.news/AaDXmKtRhSKiMnJY

Surely “in good spirits” is a phrase used when other aspects of the situation aren’t so good.

 

[Pickman's model]

Surely “in good spirits” is a phrase used when other aspects of the situation aren’t so good.

it means the doctors haven't told him the news yet

 

[Raheem]

Surely “in good spirits” is a phrase used when other aspects of the situation aren’t so good.

He's also described as 'comfortable', which is what hospitals try to make people when there's nothing more to be done.

The main thing that's missing is any description of his medical situation.

 

[Pickman's model]

Yep, mine came.

I must say - I have underestimated the man. I had never realised he had such a command of the Welsh language (he sent me his letter in English and Welsh)

i'll be complaining if i don't get the same

 

[Pickman's model]

He's also described as 'comfortable', which is what hospitals try to make people when there's nothing more to be done.

The main thing that's missing is any description of his medical situation.

clearly desperate

 

[Calamity1971]

had never realised he had such a command of the Welsh language

Have you forgotten his great ' poppety ping' speech !

 

[Pickman's model]

Have you forgotten his great ' poppety ping' speech !

 

[klang]

i'll be complaining if i don't get the same

i want mine in German. otherwise I won't understand it.

 

[Raheem]

clearly desperate

I'm in two minds. Even if he dies, part of me will still think he was just putting it on.

 

[klang]

I'm in two minds. Even if he dies, part of me will still think he was just putting it on.

it's one thing to use the virus as an excuse to get days off etc, but to use it to fake your own death takes it to a different level and borderlines on taking the piss.

 

[scifisam]

It's quite likely he's on the twelfth floor north wing in which case he's directly overlooking Parliament.

Hey, might be the same room I stayed in actually.

Got to agree with you Edie , I despise the guy as a politician but don't wish him dead. He's expecting a kid as well.

He's not expecting a kid. His GF is expecting a kid. He's expecting a genetic offspring that that he won't have any contact with till they're adults, or, for this one, occasional photo ops.

He ignores his other kids and doesn't even know how many he has. He's not a worried expectant father in any way at all.

 

[frogwoman]

I don't know, near death stuff changes people and I am kinda hoping for a redemption tale.

 

[Ax^]

od

Exactly, just imagine if a certain former Labour leader was in the same position as Boris is now and someone wished him dead - place would erupt in condemnation, and rightly so.

and just imagine the salty you would be crying if it was trump

 

[scifisam]

I don't know, near death stuff changes people and I am kinda hoping for a redemption tale.

Nah, he'll emerge the same as he was.

 

[Pickman's model]

I don't know, near death stuff changes people and I am kinda hoping for a redemption tale.

he's not going to send out for a turkey for tiny tim

 

[Pickman's model]

Exactly, just imagine if a certain former Labour leader was in the same position as Boris is now and someone wished him dead - place would erupt in condemnation, and rightly so.

tbh i don't think tony blair would have made such a god-awful clusterfuck of this avoidable pandemic

but if tb was to die in hospital tonight, there only tears here would be those of laughter

 

[ddraig]

Marty1 do you get all your news from Apple?

 

[Mr Moose]

he's not going to send out for a turkey for tiny tim

However he might bowl a frozen Turkey at Tiny Tim with such Etonian gusto that Tiny Tim’s poor rickets ravaged body is sent flying like a pin in a bowling alley.

 

[Pickman's model]

However he might bowl a frozen Turkey at Tiny Tim with such Etonian gusto that Tiny Tim’s poor rickets ravaged body is sent flying like a pin in a bowling alley.

yeh that's the johnson we know

 

[philosophical]

In good spirits can be an ominous term.
Nelson's body was brought back from Trafalgar in a barrel of rum or brandy (historians dispute which it was).

 

[frogwoman]

Nah, he'll emerge the same as he was.

He might do yeah but so will lots of ppl. that doesn't mean i would feel able to celebrate his death, this entire pandemic is a tragedy and I know of quite a few people who have died of this shit now. I admit I laughed when he was taken to hospital but that doesn't mean I want people to die. Its horrible when anyone dies.