UK PM Boris Johnson taken to intensive care

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Sad news, the Prime Minister is now in ICU (intensive care unit).

His condition has seriously deteriorated.

Covid-19/Sars-cov-2 does not discriminate - everyone, from highest to lowest, is at risk - and this tragic turn of circumstances is demonstrating it.

I think we all knew this was coming, especially after Raab (Foreign Secretary and Deputy PM) admitted during today’s press conference that he had not been in personal contact with the Prime Minister since Saturday, which did not gel at all with the official press briefs about him still running the country from his sickbed in hospital.
 
It’s just awful news. Thankfully reports are saying he is still conscious. I can’t imagine how his family must be feeling. Hopefully he will recover and be back to normal very soon.
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official press briefs about him still running the country from his sickbed in hospital.
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I did wonder if that was wise - if he has been running the country from hospital, he won’t have been able to get all the rest he needs. At least with Raab now taking the helm he can do so.
 
Said a Hail Mary for his recovery.
The sad part is that a lot of people who don’t like his politics are probaby hoping for a bad outcome.
I will add him to my rosary tonight, as his politics are neither here nor there to me in this situation.
 
Maybe but on the other hand I read a BBC article in which Nicola Sturgeon and the new Labour leader are reacting with well wishes for his health. I myself don’t particularly like his politics yet I find this unnerving.
 
I’ve not seen anyone wish a bad outcome, thankfully. Politics is irrelevant currently, everyone is united in wanting him to have a speedy recovery.
 
It’s good that people are being civil. I was thinking more about the usual ordinary folks who comment on social media.
I guarantee that if our US President were afflicted there would be people on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram openly hoping for the worst.
 
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@Tis_Bearself

I have been very critical of Boris Johnson politically - as for instance, his role in facilitating Brexit and his initial “herd immunity” strategy to combatting the SARS-cov-2/COVID-19 pandemic - and neither have I been particularly fond of him as a person either, in terms of his public persona, however that matters not a jot at the moment.

He is a human being - a son, a partner to his young pregnant girlfriend, a brother, a father and our Prime Minister.

I think I speak for everyone in saying that partisan politics is irrelevant at a time like this, when a man is gravely ill. All we hope for is that Mr Johnson pulls through and makes a full, speedy recovery.

That is reflected in the cross-party sentiments of goodwill on social media from Labour, SNP, Lib Dem, Green etc.

We are all thinking about and (for those of us with a faith) praying for him, his family and his girlfriend.

An example from the head of the SNP at Westminster, Ian Blackford:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1247242649330999301
 
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America could use a lesson of dropping the politics when we are in a pandemic that does not discriminate rich from poor, left from right. We are all human beings at this time and we all want to survive this. I suppose some here would wish ill if Trump got ill. I suppose some here would wish ill if Pelosi got ill ( here meaning America…not CAF.). We can and must be better than that!
 
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America could, but from what I’m seeing on social media already, this is a human problem, not an “America” problem. About half the constituents of the affected man are posting what Vouthon said. The other half let’s just say are not. And they aren’t Americans.

Ah well. Praying for them too.
 
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And they aren’t Americans.
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That is really too bad. I guess it’s the political leaders that are setting their differences aside…unlike here. I’d sure hope the political leaders here would put differences aside but, unfortunately, I don’t have that much confidence in any of our leadership to drop any political angle.

I will say that if President Trump got Covid19, in the back of my brain I’d hear a little voice say, “he should have worn the mask!” But I would definitely hope he recovered.
 
I don’t want to turn this into a Trump thread but I would say that there are disturbing and erratic things that Trump has been doing that as far as I know Johnson has not been doing. I think I’ll leave it at that.
 
No of course not. It just makes it more tempting to do the wrong thing.
 
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I think that to the degree I like him it’s because he looks a little like the late Graham Chapman.
 
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