Has Boris been seen since having Corona

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Just wondering really?
Whether we should be worried? In ITU for a few days, then shuttled off to Chequers,

I think it’s a convenient excuse to remain unaccountable for as long as he/they can string it out.

Imagine if members of the public tried to convalesce in a second home.

I reckon he might try to quietly step aside to shrug off some of the blame for this shitheap the country is trying to deal with.
I'm pleased he didn't die but I will be glad to see the back of him as PM. He's a blathering arse.

There's people with it posting on mumsnet who have symptoms for weeks. Why would Boris make a miraculous speedy recovery just because the media demand it? (almost typed seedy. He's good at that, I'll admit)

I'm hoping it takes a few months before we have to see his lazy arse again.

Shouldn’t he be back at work after 7 days now he’s no longer contagious? You know, like all the nhs workers that he’s now raving about would be pressurised to do?

If I had any money I would willingly pay never to have to see or hear him again.

Interesting guardian article about the course of his illness with some suggestion that while he was obviously very ill he perhaps wasn’t ‘ICU ill’ -

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/boris-johnson-and-coronavirus-inside-story-illness

I do wonder if others presenting as he did would have gone to ITU but then again the PM is, let’s face it, never going to be treated quite the same as the rest of us mugs.

I do find it a bit ironic that Carrie Symonds was tweeting about the wonderful NHS When she’s married to the Tory leader ... but then again on a personal level I’m sure she is very grateful to have her partner safe and well.

If it's going to take a long long time for BJ to recover - ie 1 week for each day he was in ICU as someone here suggested - then they need to get a replacement PM - not the array we're seeing - sort of a pick and mix - at the moment. But one solid semi permanent PM instead.

We need a single voice for the nation to listen to. One person who is accountable. At the moment with Boris going awol the government has a great excuse for doing a shit job.

Dominic Raab is the deputy.

Boris Johnson is the laziest git ever to occupy number 10, and the biggest liar.

He was in itu though and could have died, that takes a long time to recover from, I imagine he's still not well.

Dominic Raab is the deputy

And has all the authority and presence of a damp rabbit

Dominic Raab is the deputy

You wouldn't really know it - and ... we don't need a deputy. We need a proper, fully functioning PM who is authorised to make decisions.

Dominic Raab has no authority or power to make decisions. He just has to wait for orders from BJ - whose a lazy arse at the best of times and as so many of you have pointed out is currently ill.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/acting-prime-ministers

If BJ is not up to giving orders even, he should hand over the role of PM to someone else. We are in the middle of a crisis with no leader - and the longer we have no leader, the worse this is going to get.

He was in itu though and could have died

There's nothing to say he could have died, the only one to suggest that was Johnson himself when he said 'it could have gone either way' which was probably just another slightly more subtle lie than the stuff that usually tumbles out of his mouth

Much as I despise everything that the Tory party stands for, in this case, I think give the twat man a break on not bouncing around for a game of socially distanced tennis for the cameras.

I didn't end up in ITU as I was merely very uncomfortable and knew to spend all night on a pillow on my front), but I have left the house exactly once - for 20 mins/4000 steps - since 25 March and felt like I'd run a marathon. Since that one expedition, I've made it out into the garden twice - yesterday and today - and had to sit down 97% of the time, as I'm out of breath and wobbly from such dizzying feats of physical prowess as going from the settee, up the stairs, sitting on the toilet and coming back again.

Throughout that time (and all through actually being ill/finding it hard to breathe) I worked. But had somebody decided I had to go into work, I'd have been fucked, as a 100m walk to the bus stop, standing up to wait for the bus and then another 100m walk to my desk at the other end would have rendered me incapable of further thought/breath, never mind movement.

He's more than capable of working at his immensely comfortable palace and doesn't need to be paraded for the cameras so we can say how shit he looks.

And, in any case, the last thing we need is one of the others to take over. PM Pritti Patel, anyone? Iain Duncan Smith, fresh from saying that people with CV should go out and work? Bollocks to that.

He needs to step down, the virus crisis might not even be over before he will be out of the picture again for paternity leave which he previously announced.

I think the problem is - he's not making decisions or putting anything into action.

This is either because he's not well enough/capable - he's lazy and likes to use any good excuse - or he and the government don't know what to do and like to be unaccountable (having BJ convalescing is the perfect excuse for this).

We do need a properly present PM - just so that the government are fully accountable for this shit show, if nothing else.

Did people really believe every word that came out of Downing Street? They even tried to claim that the PM was running the government as normal from his bed in ICU at one point. They were hoofing it, and in the process clearly spouting absolute drivel.

Did people really expect him to walk out of ICU and go straight back to chairing government business? That is utterly unrealistic.

I'm not Boris's biggest fan, but I'd give him a break just now.

The guy nearly died and people call him lazy for not working a week after released from intensive care. Some stupid people out there .

They said at the briefing, or I read it in the Guardian, that Cummings and Raab had visited him at Chequers late last week. I can't find a link, but I know I saw/read it. I think he was very poorly and certainly they would take every precaution with him because he's PM. So whilst he needed ITU, perhaps he was sent to ITU earlier than some patients would be?
He looked very unwell in that video, and I'm sure is still not ready to work.

I think he'll be back to Downing St next week and we'll see him again the week after.
Then the following week he'll do the briefing when he grounds us all again .

Why would his death cause mass hysteria?

He's in hiding. He will return when death rates are lower or to announce relaxation of lockdown.

He was laughing and joking with staff according to number 10. He obviously didn't have the version a lot of you have described on here if he was also able to watch films and play games. I suspect he has exaggerated how ill he was. We will never know. It's a shame we elected a man so thoroughly untrustworthy, who lies every time he opens his mouth.

I agree with you Humania although many will think us despicable. He and those of his ilk are odious and will not accept the thousands of deaths on his watch!

Actually, he will probably make a triumphant return on VE day so he can be associated with all the war type victory over the enemy / virus imagery.

Being ill does not make him a hero.

Being ill does not make him competent.

I have my doubts about the stories his publicists pump out. Sitting up in bed chatting to nurses and reading papers does not match my experience of ITU.