Boris Johnson has CV - I wonder if he followed his guidelines on hand washing and handshakes

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I hope he's ok.
Honestly

He is experiencing mild symptoms.

I'm not sure why the glee tbh. We might not like him but he's all we've got right now. What does this country look like over the next few weeks with no one at all at the helm if he develops complications? I've just received a FSM voucher for my dd to be spent at Tesco as I am a single parent. Dd is also entitled to go to school as has an EHC, she's not going though as I am not a key worker, so would not utilise this option. A TA calls her every day to check she's ok. Shelves in my local supermarket are pretty full again etc. The attention to detail to her as an individual has genuinely surprised me. The government are managing this crisis whatever they might have done before. Why are we gleeful at the PM having a virus that could kill him and then the possible chaos that could ensue?

Of course they will test the PM, in the same way Charles was tested. I am concerned for the Queen and especially Philip his health has been up and down for a while

It’s a good job hes been doing remote meetings with the queen and other such people in the last week

World leaders have been coming down with COVID at a higher rate than their populations

It's inevitable - they have to meet so many people,
including public health officials who will have had contact with front line doctors

What a nasty post, OP. If just one single person that he had been in contact was a carrier and didn't know they had it, he could have caught it.

He was downplaying the virus for weeks, wasting time and playing with our lives, can't believe how many people are saying he's doing a fab job???? When other countries were closing borders his government was saying it's fine to travel! No sympathy from me unfortunately, my sympathy hours to those who lost their lives because his decisions.

What a nasty post, OP

Did you see this bit?

hope he's ok

And this is the person who was saying a few weeks ago that it was ok to do handshakes

news.sky.com/video/coronavirus-i-shook-hands-with-everybody-11948548

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that coronavirus would not stop him greeting people with a handshake, adding that he had shaken the hands of everyone at a hospital where infected patients were being treated.

Johnson was speaking at the announcement of Britain’s plan to deal with the expected spread of the virus, which included a warning that as many as one in five employees could be off work at the peak of the outbreak.

The global death toll from the virus is over 3,000, prompting a range of official, and sometimes contradictory, advice on how to prevent its spread.

France recommended last week that people do not shake hands to prevent the spread of the virus, while Switzerland has said its residents should consider dropping the everyday greeting of kissing each other on the cheek.

Johnson however, exhibited no such caution.

“I’m shaking hands,” Johnson said when asked how he planned to handle visiting dignitaries.

I don't begrudge him a test either, and I'm a Tory hating NHS nurse. Of course he needs to be tested. He's in charge of the whole country during this crisis after all. And for all we know, he may have asthma or type 2 diabetes.

I don’t wish him ill but I also can’t forget that he stood and addressed the nation a couple of weeks ago and told us some of us needed to die to gain immunity and then proceeded to do nothing more than tell us to wash our hands and ignore very public rebukes from the WHO.

I understand he doesn’t have absolute power but he is happy to figurehead a government that apparently doesn’t give a shit how many people die or needlessly suffer.

You get back what you put out.

Yet another rich person tested over NHS staff who have treated Covid-19 patients (but when display symptoms are told to self-isolats).

He is the prime minister. It's kind of an important job

This thread needs to go.

And for all of those expressing glea and lack of empathy over this, newsflash, you might be next.

And for those saying that we needed to be doing x and y, the truth is that nobody knows the answers because this virus is so new.

Italy went into lockdown and as yet there is no let-up in their diagnosis and death rates.

In fact i read something yesterday from an epidemiologist saying that a sharp spike is inevitable even after a lockdown so it doesn’t necessarily stand that Italy had it right and we didn’t.

every country is in the same position and every country is doing things differently.

In South Africa for instance, all travel is banned, only one person is allowed out at a time, no dog walking, no exercise, only trips to the food shop are allowed, and no home deliveries.

Will that make a difference? who knows. But in a country which has the highest HIV population in the world it’s possible that even those stringent measures won’t curb the virus.

This thread needs to go

Why? This was the PM who has been blase about the whole thing and then going and saying he was happily shaking hands with people.

Of course anyone might get it. I have more sympathy for people who have been trying to do the right thing rather than people who have been blase about it and carry on handshaking.

@AlternativePerspective I know what you mean, but he was doing nothing for weeks. They could have prepared ventilators. They could participate un the EU scheme. They knew the situation was bad, but told us to... wahs our hands? Schools in France banned foreign travel. Boris was insisting travel is fine, even to the countries like Italy where clearly things were going downhill.

Of course, no one can predict if the measures will work. But we had no measures for weeks, exposing more and more people. For someone who said they were fine for our families and us to die, I don;t really have much sympathy. He will have access to best hospital resources while a mother of three was considered not a priority. He'll be fine.

Matt Hancock has just been diagnosed as well. On SKY now.