Boris Johnson Urges Patience Amid Coronavirus Lockdown

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged his lockdown-weary nation to be patient Monday, arguing that easing social and economic restrictions too soon would create a second deadly spike of coronavirus infections.


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I propose that all the leaders telling everyone to just be patient be moved into a local tenement housing unit for the duration of the lockdown.

Maybe that would incentivize them a bit to work harder at solving things.

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“I refuse to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the British people and to risk a second major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming of the (health system),” said Johnson.

“Boris Johnson? I don’t know him. Is he the coffee boy?”

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Yes and have their college-age children move back home involuntarily; and with all plans, leases, jobs, graduations, and romances put on hold.

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He’s a joke. One thing we can count on with Boris Johnson, much like tRump, is that this guy will get out ahead of his skis at some point or make another stupid boneheaded comment that reverses any decent sentiment or actions he’ll take to deal with this pandemic. He does have the ability to empathize with others, much more now that he’s been stricken with the virus and recovered, but he’s a bit of demagogue so I doubt even that will hold for very long during this crisis. We’ll see…

Nothing like a little bout with the virus to have you changing your rhetoric.

Man, you have a lot of faith in political-type humans…

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I refuse to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the British people and to risk a second major outbreak and huge loss of life and the overwhelming of the (health system),” said Johnson.

Did you hear that Ig-Noble Covidiot Trump?

Even if he is the British Trump…
FFS, listen to your BFF for he has been to the ICU due to Covid!

I have none. That’s why I see how it’s so easy for Boris to sit in Number 10 Downing, with all the trappings, and insist that people in tenement high-rises not that far away from him all have to buckle up for the long haul.

Riots already broke out in the suburbs of Paris in similar situations. This stuff will happen elsewhere.

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