love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Boris Johnson Released From Hospital After Defunding It, Shutting It Down https://t.co/Y5GPgGurNS pic.twitter.com/aeNhTEKyDN

— The Onion (@TheOnion) April 6, 2020

Some context as UK PM Boris Johnson is admitted to intensive care:

A new report from @ICNARC found that of 690 UK covid patients admitted to ICU with a reported final outcome, 50% died and 50% lived https://t.co/W9Rg0z68Jf pic.twitter.com/kRSXCwZmz2

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) April 6, 2020

following in Churchill's footsteps by dying

So how likely is it that he was infected by Nadine Dorries?

How many of the 690 were only admitted as a precaution tho statsboy

insisting on shaking the hands of coronavirus patients a few weeks ago probably didn’t help tbf

Many with #COVID19 are felled by fatigue/temperature and use isolation to sleep+recover.
Boris has risked his health & worked every day on our behalf to lead the battle against this vile virus
Lets do our bit for him and @carriesymonds now. Send them our love #getwellsoonboris

— Nadine Dorries 🇬🇧 (@NadineDorries) April 6, 2020

Dorries is actually angry at the virus itself

The Guilties Of Guilty Lane

(xxp) He was just following the advice of his own government at the time - go out and infect yourself for Britain.

Imagine how angry she’d be at someone who’d potentially passed it to him

A hero, sacrificing himself and 249,999 others for the economy.

Dorries is actually angry at the virus itself

Raab was going all Churchillian (surprise surprise) earlier constantly talking about 'defeating' the virus - put 'em up, Rona, let's you and me rassle.

For real, though, I am not sure who on the front bench would be preferable as PM, though I’m also not sure how many would have been cracked enough to go for the herd immunity play.

everyone on the front bench is a swivel-eyed maniac iirc

Can we just have the bench?

Churchill almost died in office too, is this what they mean by Churchillian

I don’t want to spook Johnson, but Dermot Murnaghan is reading the news on Sky News tonight.

Ideally they’d have someone with a military background to coordinate the effort, someone with foreign affairs experience to negotiate the choppy global waters, someone whose views on community Conservatism fit with the new policy landscape. It’s Tugendhat time.

Quite the development

TUGMENTUM IS BACK BABY

Lol Mara Wilson is retweeting Simon Hedges and talking about the Lib Dems, Mara post on ilx

okay fine i am mara wilson, ama about mrs doubtfire

Txt from upstairs neighbor saying she interrupted drug dealers in our porch yesterday and now I can hear people talking out there again tonight. Just generally jumpy at street noises when there aren't meant to be any.

Slight temp and sinus pain this afternoon / evening.

Also posting on wrong thread, is that a symptom?

This is like going to bed before Christmas as a kid.

yeah i need to tune out, just read a book or something

Hold tight boris, trump's got your back on this

And I’ve asked two of the leading companies – these are brilliant companies. Ebola, Aids, they’ve come with the solutions and just have done incredible jobs – and I’ve asked them to contact London immediately

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/f/f1/Harry_Lime-0.png/

Morning.

I love working as a doctor and secretly whispering verses of the Quran into Boris Johnson's ear, secretly converting him to Islam. My boss can't do anything to stop me because he is quarantined and also because he's afraid of being called racist

— Dr. HK (@HKesvani) April 7, 2020

Gove also revealed that, like Dominic Raab, he has not spoken to Johnson since he was taken to hospital in Sunday.

Even stranger than that:

I’ve been talking to members of the prime minister’s team but not to the prime minister himself. The prime minister has a team around him who ensure that the work of government goes on.

If Gove and Raab aren't part of that team, who is?

the bilderberg group and the reverse vampires

It’s Cummings communicating over 5G.

Former adviser to the PM Will Walden offers optimism about his condition:

“His zest for life shines through, he’s a very strong guy, he’s immensely fit... so if anyone is in a good position mentally and physically to fight off this disease then he’s that guy”. @BBCr4today

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) April 7, 2020

BoJo's infamous zest for life pulling him through

oof

damning assessment

that immensely fat fit boris in full

https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ay_115602095_1556804271.jpg?quality=90&strip=all

boris too zaftig to die

If he is just getting high on extra oxygen for the fuck of it, being immensely fit and all and not on a ventilator at all no sir, he's robbing someone else of a bed there. Patient BoJo not unlike Politician BoJo, or "human being" BoJo.

xp ooff

This reminds me of those Ben Garrison cartoons of Trump where some people see a version like that and not reality.

still really confused by the advice here:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isolation-advice/

If you have symptoms
If you have symptoms of coronavirus, you'll need to self-isolate for 7 days.

After 7 days:

if you do not have a high temperature, you do not need to self-isolate
if you still have a high temperature, keep self-isolating until your temperature returns to normal
You do not need to self-isolate if you just have a cough after 7 days. A cough can last for several weeks after the infection has gone.

so like... literally the day after not having a fever? if my fever goes on the 6th day, i can go to the shops on day 7 or 8?

If you live with someone who has symptoms
If you live with someone who has symptoms, you'll need to self-isolate for 14 days from the day their symptoms started. This is because it can take 14 days for symptoms to appear.

If more than 1 person at home has symptoms, self-isolate for 14 days from the day the first person started having symptoms.

If you get symptoms, self-isolate for 7 days from when your symptoms start, even if it means you're self-isolating for longer than 14 days.

If you do not get symptoms, you can stop self-isolating after 14 days.

so if i live with someone who has symptoms, but i don't have them myself, i need to self-isolate for twice as long?

Yes, assumption is the incubation period is around 11 days from exposure with a few days as a safety measure.

i just find it mad that the NHS says i can go to the shops the day after experiencing no fever.

you can keep buying things online throughout your illness and i would encourage you to do so

Gove refused to answers questions about whether Dominic Raab had been handed responsibilities for defence in case the UK came under attack while Johnson in intensive care.

God bless this monumentally stupid country.

RIA Novosti's NHS mole is the advance guard so they know the precise moment to send the T-14s in.

I’m not sure the trident codes will help against the Russian bots inciting a return to the telegram era though inciting violence against anything with an antenna.

In a move to reassure the public, Gove said the government was functioning well without the prime minister, who was admitted to St Thomas’ hospital on Sunday night.

gove getting in on the ids-endorsed 'shade the pm while he's unconscious' action

TBH either Hancock or Sunak being hospitalised would be more disruptive right now and Hancock is giving every impression of bungling the whole thing. The work of government can actually go on without the PM even in a global crisis.