UK PM Boris Johnson taken to intensive care

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Gosh, that was a long time ago.

Added: I remember when he appeared on television as mayor of Baltimore in tears the day after the Colts packed up in the middle of the night and decamped for Indianapolis; it was the first (and I think only) time I’ve ever seen a politician cry.
 
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True, and much more of a filter than Schaeffer ever had.

I remember someone making a t-shirt in the 90s that read: “Governor Schaeffer - Saying things most people only think since 1921.”

He was Biden-esque in that regard.
 
Schaefer was mayor when I first moved away from home and lived in the Baltimore area. I had previously visited a few years ago because I had a friend living in the suburbs of Baltimore. Schaefer and the Rouse Company pretty much resurrected that city from being a complete pit. Baltimore still has some interesting stuff and the Oriole Park at Camden Yards is much nicer than the old stadium, but going downtown now is nowhere near as fun as it was in the 80s and early 90s.

Most of the mayors after Schaefer have been somewhere between mediocre and bad.
Schmoke was okay.
 
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Thank you Jesus for helping Boris to recover. Please continue to be by his side and help him get back to 100 percent health. In Your name I pray. Amen.
 
Very pleased to hear he is out and on the mend but I’m rather displeased by the blasphemous (and cult of personality-ish) headline announcing it in the Daily Mail:

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They could have had a bit of respect for Christians on Easter Sunday by refraining from an implied crass comparison between the Risen Lord and Boris Johnson.

But, yes, British guttural press aside - I’m glad he’s out!
 
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Boris didn’t die first for example
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Indeed, and we must bear in mind that over 10,000 people have now lost their lives to covid-19 in the UK and our death rate is set to become, potentially, the worst in Europe.

Those people have not “risen”.

To focus the media attention upon Johnson, now thankfully recovered, to the exclusion of the thousands who have died and are dying, simply because he is our Prime Minister, strikes me as bordering on the ‘sick’ now.

I’m very glad, as said, that Johnson is out (and he bears no fault for the British press handling of his recovery story) but I’m getting a little tired of the media narrative surrounding this, which looks to me to be somewhat of a convenient distraction from the sobering reality of a frankly appalling death rate and the related scandal of frontline medical staff going without PPE (personal protective equipment).
 
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Nothing wrong with the story as news, or the reaction as positive. The hyperbole is an attempt at " Levity". I seriously doubt the author intended an actual comparison of “risen”
 
Is there anything as cynical as a tabloid headline-writer’s mind?
 
And in the Latin Roman tradition where it is known as the Paschal greeting:

Christus resurrexit! Resurrexit vere!
[Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!]
 
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The hyperbole is an attempt at " Levity". I seriously doubt the author intended an actual comparison of “risen”
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The “levity” is part of what I find offensive about it.

On Easter Sunday, the headline writer is going for a cheap, attention grabbing allusion between Johnson recovering from coronavirus and Christ rising from the dead on this day.
 
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