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

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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

Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 06:24 (four years ago) link

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


yeah, being on a ventilator makes it difficult to speak iirc

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:14 (four years ago) link

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?

ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:15 (four years ago) link

the bilderberg group and the reverse vampires

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:17 (four years ago) link

It’s Cummings communicating over 5G.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:18 (four years ago) link

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

plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:25 (four years ago) link

damning assessment

plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:25 (four years ago) link

boris too zaftig to die

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:27 (four years ago) link

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.

anvil, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:34 (four years ago) link

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?

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:52 (four years ago) link

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

Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link

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

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 07:58 (four years ago) link

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

plax (ico), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link

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.

ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:13 (four years ago) link

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

ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:15 (four years ago) link

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.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link

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

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link

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.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 08:59 (four years ago) link

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

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link

providing a lifeline of trusted information for millions

Eh, just look at the results on livescore.com

anvil, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link

Political Correspondent, The Sun

groovypanda, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:55 (four years ago) link

a paper costs less than a cup of coffee

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

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:56 (four years ago) link

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

ymo sumac (NickB), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link

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

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link

Gove apparently self-isolating.

ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link

Lol

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:03 (four years ago) link

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

boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link

Yeah but is he ill?

Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:04 (four years ago) link

It's not self-isolating if everybody hates you

Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link

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

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link

Gove apparently self-isolating.

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

Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:08 (four years ago) link

dan S, don't read this

agent COVID-19, pls get sarah vine

megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:15 (four years ago) link

thoughts and prayers

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:21 (four years ago) link

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

Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link

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.

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:30 (four years ago) link

Gove has a family member with symptoms.

VINE VINE VINE please VINE

santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:43 (four years ago) link

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

ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link

nor sure how mouthwash is supposed to help

Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link

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

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link

30 compromised polycules

mark s, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link

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

calzino, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:02 (four years ago) link

trump only trusts doctors with a very specific look

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

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link

sarah vine for medical attention

ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:14 (four years ago) link

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

bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link

fuck sake drago himself wouldve stopped at optimism

ole uncle tiktok (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link


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