SARS CoV-2 coronavirus / Covid-19 (No tin foil hat silliness please)

Josep Dowling said:
The responses to that tweet are just vile. Why can’t people seperate their politician opinions even when a man is potentially dying.
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Probably because said politician and his party have been responsible for so many actual deaths?

Edit: I haven't clicked on the tweet and won't, nor do I wish death upon him. I'm just explaining why some may struggle to find sympathy since that's what you asked.
 
Maagge said:
Denmark to start opening some parts of society from the 1st of May. Starting with first to fifth grade, I think, and then slowly more stuff.
All major summer events are cancelled though and we'll keep a lot of other things shut down until the 1st of August and gatherings of more than 10 people are illegal.

This is on the back of seemingly keeping the spread of the virus in check and managing the amount of patients in intensive care.
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15th September, CPH half.... please be back to normal by then.
 
Maagge said:
Denmark to start opening some parts of society from the 1st of May. Starting with first to fifth grade, I think, and then slowly more stuff.
All major summer events are cancelled though and we'll keep a lot of other things shut down until the 1st of August and gatherings of more than 10 people are illegal.

This is on the back of seemingly keeping the spread of the virus in check and managing the amount of patients in intensive care.
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This whole movement to try and get things moving again seems so premature.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Some of the replies in that are sickening. It really doesn't matter if you think he's a cnut or not. The guy is a human being with a baby on the way ffs.
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Absolutely no benefit reading twitter responses. It'll always be filled with cretinous idiots. Usually the vast majority on hoax accounts.
 
Josep Dowling said:
The responses to that tweet are just vile. Why can’t people seperate their politician opinions even when a man is potentially dying.
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Because people are dicks, and the loudest, neediest, most self righteous tend to be among the most dickish.
 
I really hope he pulls through.

I'm no Boris fan but this goes way beyond politics.

The ramifications if he dies would be huge.
 
So am I right in thinking that there is a actual chance of the Prime Minister dying of covid 19, what a surreal thought.
 
horsechoker said:
Great, so we're putting them in harms way. What are we gonna do when they get sick?

From what I've seen in other countries, the police are wearing masks and gloves
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Police are always in harms way. There’s been people off sick but pretty much all have come back within a week or two. Not many officers are kicking up a fuss because they’re ingrained with just getting on with shit. Regardless of guidelines there is absolutely no way officers can be sitting at home purely because they were near someone with the virus.
But yeah an officer is unlikely to spend an entire shift wearing a mask and gloves. You assess the situation, this person was just sat in a park on a bench and they kept distance. Had they been going into a house where there had been violence, you’d go in wearing gloves and a mask. You assess yourself too. Officers with asthma and health conditions have been told to work from home.
 
SalfordRed18 said:
I'm sorry, I won't be happy if he dies, but I'm not gonna sit here send him my best wishes.

The man was happy to let thousands die to achieve herd immunity so it's quite ironic if he's one of them.

I hope it doesn't die simply it's the last thing the country needs right now, but I'm not going to suddenly forget him twiddling his fingers and allowing us to get in this situation.
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Did you just describe our PM, and more importantly a fellow human being, as "it?"

You need to take a look at yourself, not just for that, but for the sentiments in this. Not the time or the place.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
Boris is an utter twerp but the man was following the advice of Sir Patrick Vallance, and when that advice changed, his strategy for the country changed with it.

He’s got a baby on the way, I hope and I’m sure he’ll pull through.
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Yeah, I'm not sure that you can blame Boris for anything during this crisis. They've been reactive, obviously, because this virus is inevitable not matter how much you prepare for it in advance. The government have put a lot of stuff in place that's working, as well as the financial help for millions of people. Ok, it's not perfect and our NHS is a mess but I'd put that blame on Cameron and Osbourne. Maybe Blair and Brown as well, but definitely not BoJo. His government has made all the right moves imo.
 
RedDevil@84 said:
Most countries wouldn't create panic in the minds of everyone by giving minute to minute updates on PM's ill health.
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No need for updates but don't insult peoples intelligence by claiming going into hospital was merely precaution.
 
TheGame said:
They are obviously trying to play it down to not panic the country.
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The fact he needed to be given oxygen to aid his breathing before being moved to ICU says it all. Wouldn't surprise me if he's on a ventillator.
 
BluesJr said:
Lack of transparency at a time like this is another major feck up by this government.
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If he died we probably wouldn't know until a proper response has been organised. Well, unless the news leaks which it probably would.

Also can we make a rule about posting if the worst does happen? Fake news can spread so easily in this situation, it wouldn't surprise me if people just started spreading rumours on twitter
 
Don't like him or his party one bit, but I certainly don't want him to be going through this either. I hope he pulls through. Whatever you think of his leadership, it's a scary time to not have any leadership at all. Especially as the alternative is Raab.

Give it Corbzy til the end of the season.
 
hp88 said:
He's not exactly an old man but it doesn't look like he lives a healthy life, imagine the pressure he must have been under for the past few weeks.
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Anyone else with the virus would have been under total rest, with zero mental exertion.

Boris has most likely been clocking the hours trying to run the show, as well as worry about his pregnant partner too.

Im sure working over the past few days, while he's been sick, hasn't helped him. Would that extra stress and exertion have further weaken his immunity system while suffering from covid19?
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
Boris is an utter twerp but the man was following the advice of Sir Patrick Vallance, and when that advice changed, his strategy for the country changed with it.

He’s got a baby on the way, I hope and I’m sure he’ll pull through.
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I can't believe you are still finding a way to reason that decision almost one month later. It doesn't matter if he listened to fecking Pope, the point was that he was going against what WHO recommended and against what entire world was doing. If he told him that he jumps off a bridge, does that excuse him of making a suicide?
 
Sir Matt said:
While obviously I hope Boris pulls through, hopefully he now understands how disastrous and idiotic his initial strategy and delayed response to the pandemic were. He wasted precious time and initially was prepared to plow straight on for "herd immunity" despite it being obvious that tens of thousands of people would die. It's very rare for politicians to have to suffer the repercussions of their own actions in the same way normal people do. Hopefully Boris will be one of the lucky ones who make it through, but there will be thousands deaths that might have been avoided with a more competent response.
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What a stupid fecking post. Just wish him the best and then take him to task when he recovers.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
People still can’t quite get their heads around the following... until the UK health service is overwhelmed, no-one but Covid-19 is responsible for any deaths.
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I'm sorry, that is an idiotic commentary. You know nothing about this, and the fact you learned nothing in the past few weeks, unlike most posters in here, is quite unnerving.
 
Pink Moon said:
Probably because said politician and his party have been responsible for so many actual deaths?

Edit: I haven't clicked on the tweet and won't, nor do I wish death upon him. I'm just explaining why some may struggle to find sympathy since that's what you asked.
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How would you have acted differently?

Because plenty of other countries have had an even worse time of it than us.
 
Amar__ said:
I can't believe you are still finding a way to reason that decision almost one month later. It doesn't matter if he listened to fecking Pope, the point was that he was going against what WHO recommended and against what entire world was doing. If he told him that he jumps off a bridge, does that excuse him of making a suicide?
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Do you think the UK health service is gonna end up overwhelmed @Amar__?

And bullshit ”the entire World” was doing it. France got fecked, The US might end up monumentally fecked, Belgium, Holland. All hit at least at hard if not worse than Uk.

If you wanna blame Boris for listening to the advice of his experts, who can absolutely have a different view to the WHO (who aren’t at all blameless in this), fair enough, but that’s a big fecking call to make. Might as well disband all of your national teams of experts & rely solely on international bodies instead.
 
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Drawfull said:
You're not sorry, you're just a monumental insensitive bellend. You're welcome.
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How did you work that one out? Do tell.
Sandikan said:
Did you just describe our PM, and more importantly a fellow human being, as "it?"

You need to take a look at yourself, not just for that, but for the sentiments in this. Not the time or the place.
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That was a genuine typo tbh I'm posting off my phone, but I'm not overly about the sentiment tbh.

People can take some sort of morale high ground but the fact is, he was happy to let thousands die, based off advice or not.

I'm not going to suddenly forget who is and why we're in this situation because he's victim of his own stupidity and is in ICU.

That's all I'll say on the matter but I'll end up arguing all night.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
15th September, CPH half.... please be back to normal by then.
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It'll be a close shave. I had the 1st of August wrong. It's the end of August.
BluesJr said:
This whole movement to try and get things moving again seems so premature.
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If you look at the graph on this page (should be self explanatory) it might be alright to test some measures. It's all conditioned by people adhering to social distancing etc.
 
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Is this wannabe hunk in charge of the UK right now?
 
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