Nadine Dorries first UK MP to test positive.

[CoronaVera]

Why always the health ministers?

Health minister tests positive for coronavirus www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51827356

So, what will happen if Boris Johnson does have it? Will he not be seen for 14 days?

if the health department is wiped out by the virus what do you think happens to the country

If known fool Nadine Dorries wasn't in her role, and instead did something like collecting shopping trollies, no one would notice.

She just tweeted 'keep washing your hands!' - presuming therefore she's not been washing her hands enough. Ha. Or maybe, just maybe washing hands isn't enough.

Wow, as health minister you would assume she was following all the precautions and had much better Intel than any of us on how to avoid it as well.

Agreed. But it's Nadine Dorries we're talking about.

Will he not be seen for 14 days

14 MORE days... I mean, PM Cummings will have to continue in role.

Obviously I don't wish ill health or death on any of them, but really they are a bunch of incompetent lying clowns.

From The Mail:

'She held a surgery in her Mid Bedfordshire constituency on Saturday, which was attended by 50 people'

Piss up. Brewery.

And Boris went to see the flood victims.

So, how come if she wasn't ill enough on Saturday to avoid spreading her 'knowledge', she's now 'over the worst' (according to her own tweet)? Is it just a 3 day thing for most people? And if it's only a 3 day thing, how come she got tested? Is it one rule for them and one rule for the rest of us plebs.

What with her and Failing Graying being put in charge of the Intelligence Committee, it's genuinely a brewery pissup situation.

I wish no-one had Covid-19. However, the fact that someone in government had got it may be good for planning and mind focussing.

Do they know who she caught it from? (Category, Eg known traveller, constituent, Dr, patient, ????)

Boris also met the royal family yesterday.

I hope no properly vulnerable folk met her at her surgery on Saturday. Although my nature of needing Dorries' help for anything, that doesn't sound hopeful.

It's no laughing matter but I can just imagine the Thick of It style shenanigans behind the scenes when they all found out. Their comms people and Dominic Cummings will be fuming. This wasn't how it was meant to go.

Zombiefan

You ask an awkward question.

What would happen to our NHS system without our health secretary?

Were you hoping people would expect it to get even worse?

Ok so she had meeting on Saturday, and it’s Tuesday today, and she’s said she’s over the worst of it now. I call BS myself, they’re afraid and want to close Westminster and this gives them the perfect excuse.

Is it one rule for them and one rule for us?

Oh, surely not?

Progression of Covid-19

What would happen to our NHS system without our health secretary?

Genuinely, no one important in the NHS who is actually useful would notice. Media might notice and do some more panic stirring, but otherwise meh. Just another useless bullshit spout in a suit.

Bit premature to say you are over the worst of it by day 5

Her 84 yr old mother is being tested too, after showing symptoms. Not great at all.

Oh shit. Her poor mum.

So how did she get tested? She hasn't recently traveled to one of the hot spot countries, and hadn't had any contact with a confirmed case. Frontline medical staff can't get tested unless they meet these two criteria, even if they have bad respiratory symptoms. Meanwhile Nad gets swabbed on request when she feels a bit ill.

Complete double standards and demoralising for those of us on the frontline who have been left to fend for ourselves

Is it one rule for them and one rule for us?

Don’t be silly, of course it isn’t one rule or even two rules. Testing and self-isolation, and vaccines (if they come) are worked out on a very careful structure with different levels of priorities. We are a demographic country and as such maintaining an elected government must be a priority whether we like the people in power or not.

Because they have stopped testing you are now told to isolate but no one is as offices have not been advised.

So as well as the public she met in her constituency surgery, and Boris, and her mum, she will have had contact with many of her departmental staff. Who will have contact with staff in other departments. And Boris will have had contact with the No 10 staff, who similarly will have contact with other civil servants. So it could spread quite quickly in Whitehall, leaving the emergency response groups in each department having to deal with their own business continuity issues as well as trying to reassure the general public. It clearly shines a light on how easily it can affect the population, and the ripples that will increase the risk of exposure. I hope the Queen and Philip don't catch it after their Boris contact.

One of DS's colleagues was sent home from work in an ambulance today after exhibiting all the symptoms and having been in contact with someone who just returned from Italy (travel industry).

My brother's workplace office in London is being closed from Monday. They can wfh from tomorrow though. All quite surreal.

@Humina what kind of business is it?