Boris Johnson tests positive for Covid-19

[Wilf]

Yeah. "responding to treatment, stable" = still critically ill.

though i think they repeated yesterday's phrase about breathing unassisted.

 

[equationgirl]

They may as well be saying 'move along, nothing to see here', it would be just as convincing...

 

[Teaboy]

Well, once he ended up in ICU he was never going to be up at out in a couple of days regardless of how well he is responding to treatment.

 

[Cid]

Yeah. "responding to treatment, stable" = still critically ill.

In good spirits, don’t forget that he’s in good spirits.

 

[klang]

In good spirits, don’t forget that he’s in good spirits.

i just had a very good spirit.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

This may seem callous. I cant but think of Boris in ICU having to listen to the final breaths of dying patients and face the fact that he was too up his own arse about herd immunity to put a decent plan of action in place until it was very nearly too late.
Will he be a changed man after this? Will he ever see that he and his advisors were wrong and made grave mistakes that have cost lives?

I'd hazard a guess Johnson's in a room to himself rather than in a ward with others, but I read this yesterday, a man's account of being in covid-19 ward when other people are dying and it makes for very grim reading.

Dad rushed into hospital with coronavirus on moment fellow patient died

Craig Farley-Jones was fighting coronavirus in hospital

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

 

[Marty1]

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: "My thoughts are with Boris Johnson and his family tonight. Thanks to the #NHS staff for their hard work and dedication."

World's politicians send best wishes to Boris Johnson in intensive care

News of the PM's deterioration sparked an outpouring of support and best wishes for a quick recovery

inews.co.uk

 

[Dogsauce]

There's a "Clap For Boris" Facebook group now...

Those passenger manifests for the South Atlantic transports just write themselves these days don’t they?

 

[equationgirl]

World's politicians send best wishes to Boris Johnson in intensive care

News of the PM's deterioration sparked an outpouring of support and best wishes for a quick recovery

inews.co.uk

Not being rude Marty1 but why are you still posting how much you hate the left on a website that is predominantly leftwing?

 

[Marty1]

Not being rude Marty1 but why are you still posting how much you hate the left on a website that is predominantly leftwing?

I don’t (hate the left), many of my posts including the one you’ve just replied to kind of prove such.

 

[platinumsage]

Has this happened yet?

This is the sum total of what was said:

 

[gentlegreen]

I don’t (hate the left), many of my posts including the one you’ve just replied to kind of prove such.

Jeremy Corbyn saying what he is obliged to say - although he does actually have a much greater natural love of humanity than I personally can muster at the best of times.

 

[BassJunkie]

Just for the record - I don’t have an internet fetish over Boris and Trump, I just think independently from MSM reporting.

But that’s a great post

What is MSM? The Guardian? The Daily Mail? Fox News? Al Jazeera? The BBC? The Morning Star? Breitbart? Do they all think the same?

If so, what's the non-MSM media? Random websites?

 

[Marty1]

What is MSM? The Guardian? The Daily Mail? Fox News? Al Jazeera? The BBC? The Morning Star? Breitbart? Do they all think the same?

If so, what's the non-MSM media? Random websites?

A lockstep narrative (‘liberal’ perhaps)?

Brexit & Trump have been the key indicators that the electorate rejected adhering to the MSM narrative.

 

[bimble]

What is MSM? The Guardian? The Daily Mail? Fox News? Al Jazeera? The BBC? The Morning Star? Breitbart? Do they all think the same?

If so, what's the non-MSM media? Random websites?

Please not another load of pages on here all about Marty. He is not interesting.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If he's on oxygen, he's not breathing unassisted is he?

 

[BassJunkie]

A lockstep narrative (‘liberal’ perhaps)?

Brexit & Trump have been the key indicators that the electorate rejected adhering to the MSM narrative.

Thanks for the reply. I seem to remember most of the media in this country (the most read newspapers at least) were in favour of leaving the EU. So I see Brexit as the electorate approving the 'MSM' message. We can't both be right, but we could see who is by looking at the front pages of the Daily Mail in the first half of 2016.

 

[Dogsauce]

If he's on oxygen, he's not breathing unassisted is he?

not being mechanically ventilated. He‘ll just have one of those tube things in the nose pumping out oxygen which gets mixed with his own natural breathing. Pretty basic, had that myself during/after operations.

 

[Lord Camomile]

If he's on oxygen, he's not breathing unassisted is he?

I was wondering about that, but I assume the mechanical process of breathing is unassisted, they're just changing the mix of gasses that's going in in the first place?

 

[BassJunkie]

Please not another load of pages on here all about Marty. He is not interesting.

Point taken, sorry. I genuinely don't know what people mean when they say 'MSM' and thought it an opportunity to find out. I didn't.

 

[Dogsauce]

When he come out the other side of this it’ll be unbearable. Some glib phrase like ‘Bounce Back Britain’, using himself as an example of how you can ‘get back on your feet’. Like the pep talk from some shit David Brent manager. I don’t wish him dead, but maybe he can just lose the power of speech or something like that?

 

[Marty1]

Please not another load of pages on here all about Marty. He is not interesting.

 

[Pickman's model]

And he's got the clap bimble

 

[Pickman's model]

When he come out the other side of this it’ll be unbearable. Some glib phrase like ‘Bounce Back Britain’, using himself as an example of how you can ‘get back on your feet’. Like the pep talk from some shit David Brent manager. I don’t wish him dead, but maybe he can just lose the power of speech or something like that?

there's no need to wish him dead when cv seems quite capable of obliging without any supernatural assistance

 

[SpookyFrank]

I don’t wish him dead, but maybe he can just lose the power of speech or something like that?

He barely had it to start with. Only about one in five noises out of his mouth is a recognisable word.

 

[Raheem]

A-hem!

 

[Wilf]

If he's on oxygen, he's not breathing unassisted is he?

It's probably correct at the most literal level. He's got a facemask or one of those nose prong things, not ventilator/intubation. But yeah, things would probably go south for him if he wasn't on oxygen.

 

[Pickman's model]

A lockstep narrative (‘liberal’ perhaps)?

Brexit & Trump have been the key indicators that the electorate rejected adhering to the MSM narrative.

except for the fact that prominent elements of the msm supported brexit eg the mail and the telegraph. did the electorate reject their narrative?

on reflection don't bother answering as it's plain as a pikestaff that you've come unarmed to a battle of wits

 

[bimble]

"clinically stable" are the words they are using to describe his condition and i'm not at all clear what they mean.

 

[Pickman's model]

"clinically stable" are the words they are using to describe his condition and i'm not at all clear what they mean.

dead