International News Covid-19 .....

[QR]

So Parliament closes for Whitsun................ till June 2nd...... that is all of them Tories, Labour the lot........ not a peep from anyone.
Same time Boris has "10 days off".................. uproar on the Left.

An MP's job is far more than just turning up at the Houses of Parliament. Although a few lazy ones do manage to reduce it to this. ?️?️?️

 

[MC Yellow]

It was the foreigner. Definitely the foreigner.

It can cause weird symptoms - I have yet to recover my sense of smell after I caught it at the end of March on a ski trip (foreigners!) and I can't smell s**t. Which at least means I can happily change a soiled nappy. My father-in-law's rheumatoid arthritis flared up just after he recovered which the Doc put down to Corona.

Shoved a gallon of Vic up my nose and couldn’t smell a thing. That was about 6 weeks ago and taste/smell is much better but still not right.

No real breathing issues at the time but oddly I am struggling with a sudden need to randomly gulp in air and I am yawning much more than I ever used to.

For me the soar throat and headaches, temp etc was normal (like flu) but I have never felt aching like it. Couldn’t sleep one night because it felt like my hips were trying to pop out.. excruciating.

EDIT : Ski trip end of March? - is that a whoosh?

 

[Essexyellows]

Do you think it's effective management during a pandemic to go to a hospital where there are Covid19 patients and tell the world on the news that you shook hands with everybody?

is your case strengthened or weakened if you subsequently end up in Intensive Care suffering from Covid19?

Imagine if he had not greeted people ... "That Boris Johnson is a bit stand offish".........."Wouldn`t shake hands with the workers"...... yada yada.

We don`t even know if those Covid patients were in an IDU far away from him or not, so it is a huge leap of faith to say he "Shook hands with Covid patients".

How he caught it is not known. I don`t know, you don`t know and he certainly doesn`t. The two events do not have a proven link.

 

[Essexyellows]

An MP's job is far more than just turning up at the Houses of Parliament. Although a few lazy ones do manage to reduce it to this. ???

He`s an MP as well................ in case that slipped your mind.

 

[SteMerritt]

Imagine if he had not greeted people ... "That Boris Johnson is a bit stand offish".........."Wouldn`t shake hands with the workers"...... yada yada.

We don`t even know if those Covid patients were in an IDU far away from him or not, so it is a huge leap of faith to say he "Shook hands with Covid patients".

How he caught it is not known. I don`t know, you don`t know and he certainly doesn`t. The two events do not have a proven link.

Didn't it come out later that there were no COVID-19 patients at the hospital, the whole thing was typical Boris Bullshit?

 

[QR]

He`s an MP as well................ in case that slipped your mind.

Yes exactly. That was my point. What point did you think I was trying to make?

(Serious question: I'm confused that you're confused)

 

[QR]

Sorry but some Tories are beyond despicable.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1263408921559040002

 

[Gary Baldi]

Imagine if he had not greeted people ... "That Boris Johnson is a bit stand offish".........."Wouldn`t shake hands with the workers"...... yada yada.

We don`t even know if those Covid patients were in an IDU far away from him or not, so it is a huge leap of faith to say he "Shook hands with Covid patients".

How he caught it is not known. I don`t know, you don`t know and he certainly doesn`t. The two events do not have a proven link.

Cough. Michel Barnier, via David Frost/Matt Hancock/Dom Raab. Cough

 

[Gary Baldi]

Sorry but some Tories are beyond despicable.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1263408921559040002

Jess Philips in righteous outrage at a Tory shocker... I bet she has been saving that show for a while.

Open question. Should MPs lead by example for the country and get back to work, in as safe a manner as possible? As a show of solidarity for Teachers and other key workers who will be in a harder position?

 

[Marked Ox]

Jess Philips in righteous outrage at a Tory shocker... I bet she has been saving that show for a while.

Open question. Should MPs lead by example for the country and get back to work, in as safe a manner as possible? As a show of solidarity for Teachers and other key workers who will be in a harder position?

As she pointed out, some (and I suspect the vast majority on all sides) have never stopped working.

 

[QR]

Cough. Michel Barnier, via David Frost/Matt Hancock/Dom Raab. Cough

So does that mean Johnson was potentially infecting the patients rather than the other way around? ?

 

[QR]

Open question. Should MPs lead by example for the country and get back to work, in as safe a manner as possible?

Most of them haven't stopped working so your question is null and void.

 

[Gary Baldi]

So does that mean Johnson was potentially infecting the patients rather than the other way around? ?

This was after the visit the YT is so obsessed over

Most of them haven't stopped working so your question is null and void.

No... Going to Parliament is part of their job - committees, debates, votes, etc.

Further, as a visible show of solidarity and in a safe a way as possible, like other employers, it's appropriate for them to go in. No one is advocating going back to a full chamber, but equally, it's appropriate for MPs to start going back to Westminster.

 

[Sheik djibouti]

Maybe if some MPs like dear old Henry are feeling under-utilised, they can offer their support as extra TA's in their local Primary schools from 1st June

 

[Gary Baldi]

Maybe if some MPs like dear old Henry are feeling under-utilised, they can offer their support as extra TA's in their local Primary schools from 1st June

That's only if the relevant Unions are happy to go back. At the moment, they are heavily resistant.

 

[QR]

This was after the visit the YT is so obsessed over

Ah! But nobody actually knows .... so he could have been!

 

[YellowTaxi]

So the Boris Boys now seem to think that either shaking hands with Covid 19 Patients during an Pandemic or claiming that you did when you didn't are both signs of exemplary leadership

Whilst it's impossible to directly link Johnson's bragging about shaking hands with Covid19 patients with the fact that he was subsequently taken to Intensive Care with the disease the first is an example of poor public health practice and the second is an example of the likely consequence.

 

[Gary Baldi]

Ah! But nobody actually knows .... so he could have been!

If you look at the timelines - did this ages ago, they don't correlate, and as further up, the proof of hand shaking in the hospital just isn't there.

It's much more likely that he was infected with Downing St as the likes of Chris Witty got it too.

 

[QR]

Further, as a visible show of solidarity and in a safe a way as possible, like other employers, it's appropriate for them to go in. No one is advocating going back to a full chamber, but equally, it's appropriate for MPs to start going back to Westminster.

Aren't they doing this already?

 

[Gary Baldi]

Aren't they doing this already?

They are, but the time slots are more limited, and as PMQs showed, when a connection goes down, it becomes problematic to get a question answered.

Then of course, there are the face to face meetings outside of committees that just can't replicate virtually.