Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[andysays]

Our Leo is 6 ft 4. So far he has escaped the virus despite visiting lots of places it could be ..
Chances of a cough in his face?
Minimal.

goes out to panic buy stilts

 

[kenny g]

may take on it cunt wants to be "seen as one of the people"

more then likely advise by Cummings to play this card

cunt

Here's hoping he has kept in suitably close contact with Cummings over the past week or so.

 

[andysays]

This town, is coming like a ghost town...

All the pubs, have been closed down.

 

[Yossarian]

Were they not doing this already?

 

[ginger_syn]

A friends thinks it's 'cruel and vindictive' that I went LOL at the news.

They are totaly wrong unless you used lol as a word out loud

 

[tim]

I'm really not sure this is good news at all to be honest. Currently my dislike for, or political differences with anyone is massively eclipsed by being much more worried about social cohesion and the ability of the State to deal with this. If figures like him start going down the fragile grip stability has on things at the moment could slip very, very quickly...

He's an irrelevance; there's a whole fleet of replacements waiting to come into service in the depot. And, anyway, the all just parrot the medical advisers. You've watched too many dystopian movies

 

[LDC]

He's an irrelevance; there's a whole fleet of replacements waiting to come into service in the depot. And, anyway, the all just parrot the medical advisers. You've watched too many dystopian movies

Hopefully you're completely right. But I was work yesterday at the hospital and it feels very on the edge of coping, as it does where I live. Maybe it'll calm down, I hope so, but it really doesn't feel like it would take much for things it unravel a fair bit. It doesn't have to look like Mad Max for it to still be very bad for lots of people.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

He's an irrelevance; there's a whole fleet of replacements waiting to come into service in the depot. And, anyway, the all just parrot the medical advisers. You've watched too many dystopian movies

Yeah. Merkel, an infinitely more capable leader, is in isolation. Doesn't affect Germany's well-coordinated response to the crisis. Likewise, Johnson being incapacitated won't affect the UK's chaotic splatter-gun response.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Prof Neil Ferguson (who I’m always banging on about!) went down with it a few days ago and said he’d been at Downing St the day before showing symptoms. The timeline would fit that it could have been him who infected Boris (typically 5 days incubation period). I wonder if BoJo insisted on shaking hands?

Can we organise a countrywide round of applause for Prof. Neil Ferguson?

 

[dessiato]

Can we organise a countrywide round of applause for Prof. Neil Ferguson?

How do we get him a knighthood?

 

[equationgirl]

Given how Boris has been basically laughing in the face of the virus and behaving like nothing has changed, it was only a matter of time before he caught it.

 

[Raheem]

How do we get him a knighthood?

Wait, probably.

 

[LDC]

Yeah. Merkel, an infinitely more capable leader, is in isolation. Doesn't affect Germany's well-coordinated response to the crisis. Likewise, Johnson being incapacitated won't affect the UK's chaotic splatter-gun response.

It might make no/very little practical difference at the moment, or even if he gets very ill, but I think maybe don't underestimate the impact on the collective sense of stability and order if people see MPs and important people they think of as managing the crisis get ill and die. Again, I hope I'm very off the mark here.

 

[Saul Goodman]

How do we get him a knighthood?

Find an old photo of him hanging out with prince Andrew.

 

[MrSki]

 

[Detroit City]

doesn't BoJo's girlfriend have a kid on the way?

 

[BristolEcho]

I'm really not sure this is good news at all to be honest. Currently my dislike for, or political differences with anyone is massively eclipsed by being much more worried about social cohesion and the ability of the State to deal with this. If figures like him start going down the fragile grip stability has on things at the moment could slip very, very quickly...

Appreciate with what you are saying, but also he was being almost Trump like at the start of this crisis and has generally been a bit shit.

The reason why it's shit is because the resources spent to make sure he's okay would be much better being spent on other people, but there we go. Hope he recovers soon.

 

[tim]

Given how Boris has been basically laughing in the face of the virus and behaving like nothing has changed, it was only a matter of time before he caught it.

 

[klang]

Comrade Covid strikes again

 

[not-bono-ever]

i wish him dead

 

[klang]

i wish him dead

me too but chances are he's just gonna have 'mild symptoms and a speedy recovery'. nothing to worry about for the rest of us.

 

[klang]

are we sure he's not just making best use of the crisis and pulling a sicky?

 

[AmateurAgitator]

me too but chances are he's just gonna have 'mild symptoms and a speedy recovery'. nothing to worry about for the rest of us.

Unfortunately you are most likely to be correct.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

are we sure he's not just making best use of the crisis and pulling a sicky?

Yeah, he probably thinks he needs yet another holiday.

 

[Ted Striker]

Hancock too!

 

[Steel Icarus]

Blimey

 

[klang]

Hancock too!

Comrade Covid strikes again

 

[equationgirl]

Maybe it's going to scythe through the cabinet.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Presumably he looks shifty, sweaty, standing too close to people and like he needs hosing down. How they did tell?

 

[Raheem]

If the whole cabinet has it, that'll make for some sweet, sweet sweepstaking.