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

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.

Loving this begging:

Journalists, production staff, printers and distributors work 24/7 to deliver the country’s brilliant newspapers - providing a lifeline of trusted information for millions during this crisis.

A paper costs less than a cup of coffee. Do your bit. #buyapaper pic.twitter.com/3bbwNksqWk

— Ryan Sabey (@ryansabey) April 7, 2020

providing a lifeline of trusted information for millions

Eh, just look at the results on livescore.com

Political Correspondent, The Sun

a paper costs less than a cup of coffee

why not put your life at risk by leaving the house to buy one

don't think he factored in that everyone is making coffee at home at the moment, probably costs about 11p per cup or something

In other news The Evening Standard was delivered to my door 😷

Gove apparently self-isolating.

Lol

Gove is the one I really want to see struggling into a hospital tbh

Yeah but is he ill?

It's not self-isolating if everybody hates you

No he isn't ill, sending thoughts and prayers tho'

Gove apparently self-isolating.

I'm beginning to think there is a God after all.

dan S, don't read this

agent COVID-19, pls get sarah vine

thoughts and prayers

One of John Cale's best songs that, "Dying on the Vine".

welp

Labour has just released a statement about a video meeting that its new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, and his deputy, Angela Rayner, had earlier with representatives of the UK Jewish community from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Jewish Leadership Council, the Community Security Trust and the Jewish Labour Movement.

After it was over Starmer said that he had used the meeting to stress his commitment to setting up an independent complaints process for the party, cooperating fully with the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into Labour and getting reports on all outstanding cases sent to him personally on a weekly basis. He added:

Over the last few years, we have failed the Jewish community on antisemitism. Labour is a proudly anti-racist party and, going forward, it will not be enough to ‘pass the test’ on antisemitism. We need to set new standards for best practice.

In a joint statement after the meeting Board of Deputies president Marie van der Zyl, JLC chair Jonathan Goldstein, CST chair Gerald Ronson and JLM chair Mike Katz,said:

While we would have fully understood the need to focus entirely on coronavirus at this time, Keir Starmer has already achieved in four days more than his predecessor in four years in addressing antisemitism within the Labour party.

Gove has a family member with symptoms.

VINE VINE VINE please VINE

She's three steps ahead of Coronavirus already:

I don't trust WHO on this. If 6k actual doctors say #Hydroxychloroquine works, I'll take that over the opinion of an organisation that at every stage of this contagion has been at best sclerotic, at worst incompetent. https://t.co/ABdIZtOhwT

— Sarah Vine (@WestminsterWAG) April 3, 2020

nor sure how mouthwash is supposed to help

i for one encourage sarah vine to purchase and consume large quantities of hydroxychloroquine, for science

30 compromised polycules

Didier Raoult, the French physician who's one of the original sources of Trump's dubious hydroxychloroquine #Covid19 "cure"... damn, just who IS it he reminds me of? pic.twitter.com/4KKGC0kpT5

— Ian Penman (@pawboy2) April 7, 2020

trump only trusts doctors with a very specific look

https://i.ndtvimg.com/i/2018-05/harold-bornstein-facebook_650x400_61525239277.jpg

sarah vine for medical attention

lol, well-played vladimir

Vladimir Putin's telegram to Boris Johnson:
"I am sure that your energy, optimism, and sense of humour will help you defeat the illness." https://t.co/PlNfJNNfZA pic.twitter.com/OzjspRfaHl

— Roland Oliphant (@RolandOliphant) April 7, 2020

fuck sake drago himself wouldve stopped at optimism

pic.twitter.com/UJNT7sMaHM

— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) April 7, 2020

flippin' 'eck Tucker Covid 19!

Sarah Vine struggling with her sums, thinking 37% of 6.2k is 6k.