Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Thinly concealed chortling...

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Was gonna say that at least that cunt has the good grace to keep the fuck away, after what he did to our NHS. Seems not.

 

[cupid_stunt]

For his sake I hope he’s not on a Dyson ventilator...

If he is, he would be picking-up nicely.

* gets coat.

 

[agricola]

Yeah, it was always bollocks. But in a way that just kind of makes the point, no? It's not like anyone believed that anyway.

Noone did, but that is a genuinely horrifying position to be in when they are trying to manage a pandemic.

 

[Ax^]

As much as I don't like the man and his politics, the fact that it has hit one of the leading figures in the country So badly and with the best medical attention leaves me cold.

Have you seen the video of him saying "I was walking around Hospital shaking hands as i think its important"

the Man hubris and think he was to healthy and young

has lead directly to this

Hey the Guys a Cunt but somethings you don't wish on others

Still would be interesting to see if an Atos interview would deemed him fit for work atm

 

[elbows]

that was still the line at 5pm today

I agree its not a grand conspiracy, but it is telling about how they fib almost as a reflex.

I think its an establishment reflex to try to take control over the timing and detail of stories like this. Its part of buying time, and retaining some small sense of control in a situation where most of the other parameters are not within their control. I dont think the phenomenon has really changed for a very long time, the main thing that has changed is how long they can delay things by, and the way people are connected instantly to international news sources, which has further limited their options over the years. Not that they fully took that last point into account with this pandemic, they seemed to be caught off guard a number of times by how everyone was able to compare their words and deeds to what other countries were doing in near realtime with very little lag.

 

[Azrael]

Yeah, it was always bollocks. But in a way that just kind of makes the point, no? It's not like anyone believed that anyway.

True enough, but as they said in Chernobyl (which everyone's quoting now for good reason), every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. In the midst of an epidemic, when people believing and trusting government advice is of life and death importance, their stream of BS is lethal.

 

[keybored]

He's only there in case he needs oxygen.

Yesterday he only went in for some routine tests.

It's bollocks.

Next it'll be "He's only in that chiller to keep his fever down".

 

[planetgeli]

This is very disturbing. It’s increasingly clear that we’ve been kept in the dark about the seriousness of Johnson’s condition, and no doubt people will now be speculating about what else has been kept from us.

It’s hard to think of a more serious political and democratic time than these days we are living in.

It was pretty clear from 'still in charge' . Anyone who didn't get the doublespeak of that didn't really have a brain and won't be asking more questions now.

It's all political talk. We're not so different from when the Soviets were burying a president every few weeks while insisting everything was ok. We just like to think we are. Like those who thought 'this can't happen to us' . It's happening to us. And in the meantime politicians are going to lie. It's what they do to maintain a screen of normality.

 

[two sheds]

Next it'll be "He's only in that chiller to keep his fever down".

Well he's got form for hiding in one.

 

[Mation]

Surely all methods of death are equally horrendous in that case? I think if you're against cheering death we should do that equally not pick and choose just because this one is closer to home.

He has been a big part of the reason that so many of us have died through Austerity. The benefit cuts, the destroying and fear injected into our communities and our services that supported us including the services we are relying on now. I don't see why we have to change the way we react simply because of the way he died. They created discord amongst us promoting hate of people dressed as "letterboxes" with little regard for the real damage this would cause to peoole and all so they could further their own power.

Lots of people climbing on top of others for going for their government directed daily walk, but Boris was wondering around on TV saying that he shook people's hand with the virus on the 3rd March potentially spreading it to others. His blind arrogance and those that surround him are likely to be a big reason for so many more deaths than needed to happen. We are expandable to them, but we don't need them either and if there is anything this situation has proved it is exactly that.

They laughed every step of the way through the last ten years, and if some people want to laugh at it, particularly those most affected by his and Tory rule, then I think they are entitled without others telling them they shouldn't.

If you're going to laugh at someone suffering, possibly on the brink of death, you should probably equip yourself to cope with the fact that some people won't like that and will say so.

Johnson is disgusting. I still don't wish him dead. Nor will I lose sleep over him specifically if he dies. (Though the repercussions may result in times that are even more 'interesting'.)

I do hope that anyone who comes to understand pain, having previously caused it, will come out of it changed for the better.

 

[Mation]

dp

 

[Steel Icarus]

Naive of me maybe but my opinion nonetheless, I just don't think you get rid of cruelty and heartlessness and so on by adding to the sum of it. I'm ambivalent about Johnson's survival but I ain't cheering it.

 

[Pickman's model]

I would have a much more difficult moral dilemma if it were Dunked-In-Shit in ITU, I'll admit. That man really does directly have blood on his hands, and he doesn't give a fuck. The prospect of him having to contemplate (please god, let him be a believer) accounting for his sins on earth would please me greatly, even though I'm not a believer.

They've all got blood on their hands, Johnson through his decisions has hundreds of dead cv victims to answer for

 

[JimW]

If he does pull through his casually racist quips are going to come out breathier.

 

[LDC]

I'm sure there will be posters on this thread who attended the "Thatcher's Dead party" in Brixton and I'm confused as to what the difference is.

For a start one died of natural causes when they were at the end of their life, the other one is suffering from a highly infectious disease that is killing thousands in the UK and likely hundreds of thousands across the world (both numbers likely to grow), they've likely infected others during their illness, their treatment is taking up limited NHS resources and staff, and his illness and maybe death could precipitate a worse political and social situation for the country.

Seems a bit odd if you can't see any differences?

#losinganarchypoints

 

[not a trot]

Hope no one's bought him an Easter egg.

 

[Ax^]

Saying that if he does die

look at the positives


Most of the public will take the social distancing and staying the fucking home part of the message more seriously

 

[phillm]

#prayforboris

CONCLUSIONS:
Intercessory prayer itself had no effect on complication-free recovery from CABG, but certainty of receiving intercessory prayer was associated with a higher incidence of complication

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16569567

 

[lefteri]

that was still the line at 5pm today

I agree its not a grand conspiracy, but it is telling about how they fib almost as a reflex.

i think maybe they lie to buy time to make decisions before the press are on to them about the thing they lied about

 

[keybored]

i think maybe they lie to buy time to make decisions before the press are on to them about the thing they lied about

They'd look better being human and just saying "We don't know right now, this is all fucked".

 

[Cid]

Can't say I'm laughing, just grimness on grimness. But I am struggling to give a solitary fuck about that cunt.

<feel free to quote me on that when I'm posting my last from an ICU somewhere>

 

[equationgirl]

Sad news, hope he pulls through.

It also makes the past 24 hours of absolute fibs from No.10 seem even more idiotic than it was last night.

Yeah, I don't believe he was working on his red box this afternoon, no way. It's just been one lie after another.

 

[lefteri]

They'd look better being human and just saying "We don't know right now, this is all fucked".

my theory is they don’t care what they look like, it’s just tactics but my theory may well be a load of bollocks

 

[Marty1]

If the PM dies this could panic the nation and lead to a much harder lockdown/police state.

 

[existentialist]

They've all got blood on their hands, Johnson through his decisions has hundreds of dead cv victims to answer for

That's why I said "directly". Smith knew what he was doing - Johnson was, if anything, reckless in his depredations rather than coldly calculating. I appreciate that it's a fine distinction...

 

[Ax^]

If the PM dies this could panic the nation and lead to a much harder lockdown/police state.

yesterday that was coming from people sunbathing in the park over the weekend?

whats your point?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

my theory is they don’t care what they look like, it’s just tactics but my theory may well be a load of bollocks

That would be a tactic, though. Radical honesty in a time of crisis. You might actually look like a leader if you do that.

 

[Cid]

If the PM dies this could panic the nation and lead to a much harder lockdown/police state.

Is that a distant 'fap fapping' I can hear?

 

[killer b]

But I certainly see the dramatic irony in a man undone by his own hubris and calculus of acceptable death

It would be rejected as a script for being a bit too on the nose.

 

[Favelado]

For a start one died of natural causes when they were at the end of their life, the other one is suffering from a highly infectious disease that is killing thousands in the UK and likely hundreds of thousands across the world (both numbers likely to grow), they've likely infected others during their illness, their treatment is taking up limited NHS resources and staff, and his illness and maybe death could precipitate a worse political and social situation for the country.

Seems a bit odd if you can't see any differences?

So it's okay to celebrate death by natural causes of a Tory ; but not one from an infectious disease. That's quite specific. What are the other death celebration rules for Tories?

With regards to the impact on the NHS, I don't think anyone would be cheering on his death and the decimation of the NHS as well.

It could just as well precipitate a better situation. There's a lot of unintended consequences and variables here. Who knows?

Your reply is odd.