British PM Johnson will be back at work on Monday, office says

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British PM Johnson will be back at work on Monday, office says

 

FILE PHOTO: Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in London, Britain March 22, 2020. Ian Vogler/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, a Downing Street spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday, after having recovered from a case of coronavirus that sent him to intensive care for three nights in early April.

 

Johnson, 55, will take back control of a government under pressure from the economic fallout of shutdowns aimed at curbing the spread of the highly infectious virus, as well as a rising death toll.

 

As of Saturday, Britain has recorded more than 20,000 deaths from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.

 

Criticism is growing over the government response to the pandemic, with limited testing and shortages of protective equipment for medical workers and carers.

 

Johnson's stand-in leader Dominic Raab has faced questions over how Britain will ease the lockdown without a deadly second wave of infections.

 

Britain's interior minister urged Britons to stick to the lockdown rules earlier on Saturday. But many lawmakers want restrictions to be eased to bolster the economy, which budget forecasters say could be heading into its deepest recession in more than 300 years.

 

Johnson was taken to St Thomas's Hospital in central London suffering from COVID-19 symptoms on April 5, and spent April 6-9 in intensive care.

 

(Reporting by Sarah Young; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-04-26

 

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[JoePai]

Having been on the receiving end he is best placed to lead the country

[TheDark]

12 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Having been on the receiving end he is best placed to lead the country

Only, if he had learned his lessons and he starts listening to the scientists and healthcare professionals, instead of continuing his entertaining, yet useless rethorics. 

[Chomper Higgot]

Welcome back Boris, you’ve got some questions to answer.

[Surelynot]

8 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Welcome back Boris, you’ve got some questions to answer.

He will have relapse in days, retire to the countryside and try to sit it out. As a proven liar and work-shy, third-rate journalist he wasn't cut to to deal with this kind of s**t. (Got that from the Daily Mail)

[evadgib]

Cometh the hour...

They've flung the kitchen sink at him since December and won't stop until his primary task has been completed. In the meantime he'll be distracted separating fact from fiction re this virus.

[JusticeGB]

Welcome back Boris hopefully the pound will have a small bounce upwards too.

[Surelynot]

3 minutes ago, evadgib said:

Cometh the hour...

They've flung the kitchen sink at him since December and won't stop until his primary task has been completed. In the meantime he'll be distracted separating fact from fiction re this virus.

Who? The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, the BBC, The Telegraph, The Sun.........oh! You mean The Guardian?

[evadgib]

48 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Welcome back Boris, you’ve got some questions to answer.

I'd like to see a no notice surprise appearance @ GMB studios on Monday morning where he could neuter an unprepared Piers Morgan on live TV by playing him at his own game. What better way is there to announce that he's back than sorting that Pratt out?

 

Trump recently de-platformed Morgan too which can't have come as a surprise...

Edited April 26, 2020 by evadgib

[Surelynot]

1 minute ago, evadgib said:

I'd like to see a no notice surprise appearance @ GMB studios on Monday morning where he could neuter an unprepared Piers Morgan on live TV by playing him at his own game. What better way is there to announce that he's back than sorting that Pratt out?

Bla bla, waffle waffle, muttered joke, more waffle, throw in a few blatant lies, avoid giving any answers and.....oh! We're out of time.

[TheDark]

3 minutes ago, evadgib said:

I'd like to see a no notice surprise appearance @ GMB studios on Monday morning where he could neuter an unprepared Piers Morgan on live TV by playing him at his own game. What better way is there to announce that he's back than sorting that Pratt out?

Sounds like the numbers of people who are supporting Johnson are thinning as the time goes by and his actions has been seen.

 

Perhaps there is hope for UK's future after all. Perhaps this temporary insanity is finally going to be over?

[johnnybangkok]

Oh excellent news. I think the majority of the UK will now be happy that such a competant, intelligent and bastion of the NHS will now be back at the helm of the Covid crisis.

Apart from the 20,000 dead of course. 

[sammieuk1]

He has to come back as he has found out what universal credit pays after a 5 7 week wait????

[Surelynot]

How times have changed!

[Surelynot]

Gove needs him back. He doesn't want himself tainted too much by this crock of..........

[Rookiescot]

Brace yourselves for more banal slogans and empty rhetoric. 

One thing is for sure. He wont accept any blame for the shambles thats ongoing and will avoid any interviews where he might get questions.

Maybe a nice simpering chat with Laura Kuenssberg or something.

[evadgib]

1 hour ago, Surelynot said:

Bla bla, waffle waffle, muttered joke, more waffle, throw in a few blatant lies, avoid giving any answers and.....oh! We're out of time.

Waffling like a....recycled poster ????

Edited April 26, 2020 by evadgib

[natway09]

And will it make any difference ??

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, evadgib said:

Cometh the hour...

They've flung the kitchen sink at him since December and won't stop until his primary task has been completed. In the meantime he'll be distracted separating fact from fiction re this virus.

‘Separating fact from fiction’ and then delivering the fiction is perhaps his only skill, and he does it with aplomb.

[johnnybangkok]

3 hours ago, evadgib said:

Cometh the hour...

They've flung the kitchen sink at him since December and won't stop until his primary task has been completed. In the meantime he'll be distracted separating fact from fiction re this virus.

Do you genuinely think Boris and the tories have done a good job with this? 

Both S. Korea and Taiwan have shown how to handle this pandemic through early testing, identifying and isolating which in turn has led to low rates of infection and (relatively) few deaths. The Tory government were warned about this way back in January and dragged their heals through firstly their herd-immunity debacle (before they realised that 200-400,000 people were likely to die) and then their lack-lustre approach to testing and providing much needed protection for front-line staff (still to be solved). Even now their much vaunted 100,000 tests per day is nowhere near realisation and it's only thanks to self-isolation and the 'British spirit' that this virus has at least been limited to 'only' 20,000 deaths.

The UK is supposed to be a world leader in science and scientific facilities yet seems to have been caught completely unawares with a pandemic that EVERYONE has been warning of for years as a matter of when not if.

Once this all calms down then I believe an open enquiry needs to be held to hold the Tories and Boris to task over why the Uk was so ill-prepared for this, why so many had to die and why so many will be financially ruined through the governments actions (or lack of).

    

[spiekerjozef]

Welcome back Boris.

Nothing changed much since you were on leave.

It was already a mess and it still is. No improvements whatsoever.

[sawadee1947]

Chain and gag him in the sake of UK 

[evadgib]

53 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Do you genuinely think Boris and the tories have done a good job with this? 

Both S. Korea and Taiwan have shown how to handle this pandemic through early testing, identifying and isolating which in turn has led to low rates of infection and (relatively) few deaths. The Tory government were warned about this way back in January and dragged their heals through firstly their herd-immunity debacle (before they realised that 200-400,000 people were likely to die) and then their lack-lustre approach to testing and providing much needed protection for front-line staff (still to be solved). Even now their much vaunted 100,000 tests per day is nowhere near realisation and it's only thanks to self-isolation and the 'British spirit' that this virus has at least been limited to 'only' 20,000 deaths.

The UK is supposed to be a world leader in science and scientific facilities yet seems to have been caught completely unawares with a pandemic that EVERYONE has been warning of for years as a matter of when not if.

Once this all calms down then I believe an open enquiry needs to be held to hold the Tories and Boris to task over why the Uk was so ill-prepared for this, why so many had to die and why so many will be financially ruined through the governments actions (or lack of).

    

The short answer is no I don't, yet this pandemic is similar to a tsunami when it comes to planning & UK wouldn't have a clue how to react there either although would catch up within a similar timeframe.

 

As for the death toll; I am of the opinion that the 20k died with the virus rather than from it and that quite a few had underlying conditions as explained. The '500k' prediction has long since proved to be pie-in-the-sky, & the Nightingale hospitals are near empty.

[RuamRudy]

8 minutes ago, evadgib said:

The short answer is no I don't, yet this pandemic is similar to a tsunami when it comes to planning & UK wouldn't have a clue how to react there either although would catch up within a similar timeframe.

 

As for the death toll; I am of the opinion that the 20k died with the virus rather than from it and that quite a few had underlying conditions as explained. The '500k' prediction has long since proved to be pie-in-the-sky, & the Nightingale hospitals are near empty.

Ultimately, everyone dies as a result of the same thing - lack of oxygen to the brain. What we will never know, however, is how many long, happy years have been stolen from those who were living with underlying conditions and could have gone on to live for much longer, but who's demise was hastened because of COVID-19. 

[evadgib]

48 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Ultimately, everyone dies as a result of the same thing - lack of oxygen to the brain. What we will never know, however, is how many long, happy years have been stolen from those who were living with underlying conditions and could have gone on to live for much longer, but who's demise was hastened because of COVID-19. 

That takes us back a couple of weeks to the example of Eddie Large; A transplant patient who died of heart failure who also had the corona virus yet the latter was spoon-fed to the public by MSM with hardly a mention of his underlying health probs.

[JAG]

2 hours ago, johnnybangkok said:

Once this all calms down then I believe an open enquiry needs to be held to hold the Tories and Boris to task over why the Uk was so ill-prepared for this, why so many had to die and why so many will be financially ruined through the governments actions (or lack of).

Or even, perish the thought, an open enquiry into every aspect of the problems and shortcomings exposed by the pandemic. Why were we unprepared, were we unprepared compared to other countries, what were the physical, environmental, climatic, demographic and medical conditions which meant that its effects differed from other countries. These are all issues which need to be examined. Perhaps it could concentrate on what led to the pandemic, how we reacted as a nation, and what lessons could be learned. Once that has been covered, I'm sure that you can have a couple of days to shout at Boris and the Tories!

Edited April 26, 2020 by JAG

[Sujo]

1 hour ago, evadgib said:

The short answer is no I don't, yet this pandemic is similar to a tsunami when it comes to planning & UK wouldn't have a clue how to react there either although would catch up within a similar timeframe.

 

As for the death toll; I am of the opinion that the 20k died with the virus rather than from it and that quite a few had underlying conditions as explained. The '500k' prediction has long since proved to be pie-in-the-sky, & the Nightingale hospitals are near empty.

And your opinion is not based on facts.

[evadgib]

25 minutes ago, Sujo said:

And your opinion is not based on facts.

It is nonetheless my opinion and you are entitled to it ???? 

[johnnybangkok]

5 hours ago, evadgib said:

The short answer is no I don't, yet this pandemic is similar to a tsunami when it comes to planning & UK wouldn't have a clue how to react there either although would catch up within a similar timeframe.

 

As for the death toll; I am of the opinion that the 20k died with the virus rather than from it and that quite a few had underlying conditions as explained. The '500k' prediction has long since proved to be pie-in-the-sky, & the Nightingale hospitals are near empty.

You all make this seem like it was some big surprise. That no one knew there was a chance of a pandemic; like swine flu hadn't happened, that avain flu was just a myth, that MERS was fiction, SARS, HiN1 and ebola were all just fake news.

The pandemic threat has been around for an awfully long time and so has the answer; Test, identify, track and isolate. Do it quick, do it early. Don't be in a position where you can't protect your fist responders, your nurses, your doctors, your essential workers. This is not me reinventing the wheel. This is common procedure. Yet this government decided to dilly and daly over their 'herd immunity' debacle and it soon became apparant that they were no where near capable of testing on mass admitting 'that none of the 17.5m antibody tests it ordered in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic work well enough to be used' (https://www.ft.com/content/f28e26a0-bf64-4fac-acfb-b3a618ca659d).  

As previosly mentionerd, S. Korea and Taiwan got it right. Why the hell didn't we?

 

Oh and by the way, happy to see your 'they were on their way anyway, all Covid did was give them a push' musings. Says everything really.

Edited April 26, 2020 by johnnybangkok

[evadgib]

11 minutes ago, johnnybangkok said:

Oh and by the way, happy to see your 'they were on their way anyway, all Covid did was give them a push' musings. Says everything really.

I may just as well have posted in Swahili