British PM Boris Johnson Remains In Hospital For Coronavirus | Talking Points Memo

LONDON — Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly in good spirits following his first night in the hospital for what his office described as a “precautionary step” after contracting the new coronavirus.


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Hopefully, there will be a president for this.

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Dear British Trump…you should take the doctoring advice of your idol…take hydroxychloroquine!

P.S. Disclaimer - Follow TV Doctor Trump’s advice at your own risk who graduated from Trump University School of Trickery, Thievery & Quackery!

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Let’s hope PM Johnson has one of the milder cases and recovers. Unlike the US prez, Johnson is actually smart, and capable of learning. This brush with death could teach him a lot, not to mention being in an overburdened hospital.

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Prayers for his recovery and comfort for his family.

Bojo

Hosp go

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It appears BoJo’s is not a mild case. It was announced March 27 or so, I think, which likely means he is not contained.

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Any chance Putin gets it? Fingers crossed.

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lol what a fucking joke, he’s been an incompetent xenophobic prick his whole life

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Steve Scalise’s example should put to rest any such hopes.

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He may not be Trump level stupid, but he share’s Trump’s serious case of Dunning Krueger. The idiot of Britain did understand that he was not knowledgable about epidemiology and started with a disastrous policy and a personal reluctance to practicing social distancing, leading to his own infection and possible deaths of thousands.

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Unlikely. There was a video of him suiting up to visit Covid patients and he was wearing a full hazmit suit. I am sure they keep most people away from him.

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darn

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Whenever the official statement is that this is a “precautionary measure” it just means he’s very ill, will probably die but wants to pretend that this virus is still nothing to worry about. He’s just a British Trump. Go back to see Johnson’s statements when the virus was just starting to show up in the UK; they’re almost identical to the denials Trump was spouting. Karma is a bitch.

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Republicans in whatever form don’t care about much except making more money for themselves and their cronies.

Which makes me sardonically laugh when I hear all these commercials that tell me that such and such a company’s primary concern is the welfare of their customers and employees.

No, it’s profit, that’s why corps exist, to make profit for owners and management, regardless. That’s what the gop tells us every day,in every action they take.

And that needs to change, frankly. The profit only mentality. You can’t make a profit without customers, or make a product with raw materials, what good does it do the make PROFIT without having air and water and food? Are they going to eat their cash, and I don’t know what they will do about water.

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Yes, he is lying about the severity because he doesn’t want to give up power. According to several articles in Britain, he has significant difficulty breathing.

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Do you have a link?

OT, but related—
Brexit

That officially happened on January 31, and the UK is officially in a transition period that’ll last through the end of 2020.

The biggest item to be ironed out is a trade deal with the EU. Then stuff like security, intel, etc. Then everything else.

All on the back burner now.

No one’s in power in the UK. The coronavirus is.

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Big tell is if he goes on a ventilator. People appear to have no better than 50/50 chance of survival if a ventilator is necessary.

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The sloppiest-looking world leader on the planet did recently impregnate his girlfriend/fiancee, who is also now showing symptoms of coronovirus. He cannot be too smart if he did not take her welfare into consideration when he was busy pretending that coronavirus was not a really bad thing, and people did not have to take every precaution, now can he?

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