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| Report: British PM 'extremely concerned' over second coronavirus wave |
| 2020-07-29 |
| [Arutz 7] - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reportedly "extremely concerned" that a second wave of coronavirus could hit the UK within two weeks, British media reported on Tuesday. Johnson earlier warned we are seeing "signs of a second wave" of COVID-19 in continental Europe, and there are now fears it could reach Britain within 14 days. A Downing Street source told the Mail Online on Tuesday, "The PM is extremely concerned by what he's seeing abroad and fears we could be seeing the same thing here in a fortnight." "People have got to realize we are still in the middle of a pandemic. He wants to go further on opening things up and getting people back to work, but he knows it'll be his head on the block if things go wrong," added the source. The warning comes after a spike in cases forced Johnson to impose 14-day quarantine on thousands of Brits returning from Spain. After announcing a lockdown on March 23 in order to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Britain, Johnson in May outlined a roadmap for a return to routine. The British Prime Minister himself dealt with the virus and even had to go into intensive care. He later revealed that his health deteriorated so badly after contracting coronavirus that a strategy was drawn up in case he died. But, but, but, he's not over 80! Related: Boris Johnson: 2020-07-17 China's Deepening Geopolitical Hole Boris Johnson: 2020-07-13 When we have herd immunity Boris will face a reckoning on this pointless and damaging lockdown Boris Johnson: 2020-07-11 How China seduced its useful idiots: Chinese communists infiltrated Britain to push their party line in a plan designed to blind us to Beijing's thirst for world domination, new book claims |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #18 People are avoiding testing.Even when sick not getting tested. Go on vacation but don't tell anyone where you are going. This is now the norm in my area. Oh, we will still have the vigilant brown shirts to protect us all. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-07-29 18:41 |
| #17 I REALLY don't want a lung transplant. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-29 17:26 |
| #16 I’ll take the combo treatment. Why would anyone not take all radical measures to beat this thing? Work at home, wear a mask, daily temp, don't mingle, teleconference, home food and supply delivery and lock the gate. Like choosing between cancer treatments. Should I take the easy route and hope it goes into remission or take 6 months of hell to cure it? Sure some people don't have the luxury of choice but they do have the luxury of rational behavior. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-07-29 17:02 |
| #15 I interviewed a CV survivor last week for a project I am trying to organize. She was infected in march, cleared by april, still having problems here in july. Weakness and easily exhausted. Her descriptions of the symptoms were pretty graphic. This isn't something you want to catch. |
| Posted by: flash91 2020-07-29 16:57 |
| #14 You're assuming this is not an urban legend, TW? A fair question, g(r)omgoru — I am making an assumption, yes. Given overworked labs dealing with multiple tests of individual patients and multiple data collection organizations requiring copies of test results, people walking away from filled out forms that then got mismatched to test samples is certainly plausible. I have seen a number of first-person reports, but they were not analog friends/relations, so I concede it’s possible they’re all dogs or the equivalent. My bottom line assumption is that it’ll be at least a year before the data is cleaned up. And also that Mr. Wife can eschew everything hydroxychloroquine if he wants, but at this stage I’ve decided if I get sick I’ll take the combo treatment. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-29 16:22 |
| #13 #11 You're assuming this is not an urban legend, TW? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 13:54 |
| #12 But PM Johnson’s health difficulties does explain the sudden turnaround in how the thing is being handled over there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-29 13:47 |
| #11 Swift tests that report positive results on subjects not tested are no more useful than slow tests that report positive results on subjects not tested, European Conservative. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-07-29 13:41 |
| #10 Tests need, of course, be swift and efficient. From what I heard this isn't always the case, even in Germany. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-07-29 08:59 |
| #9 Learned recently of a lady and her friend near Charleston, SC who signed up for the test. They stood in a long line in the heat for a couple of hours. They finally gave up and left. A few days later they received notification that they had tested positive. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-29 08:57 |
| #8 The Trump administration's response to COVID-19 has puzzled me. Herd immunity isn't going to happen. The first Germans who caught the virus in late January today no longer shows any traces of antibodies. He could catch it again. This means we need to keep the numbers as low as possible. COVID-19 isn't harmless. And we still don't know much about it and what it might do in the future. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-07-29 08:50 |
| #7 The cases are there, whether you test or not. The logic escapes me. It makes a perfect sense - if you're still sailing the Diamond Princess. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 08:29 |
| #6 /\ Game farm owners generally inflate the herd numbers. It really is better for business. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-07-29 07:56 |
| #5 The cases are there, whether you test or not. The logic escapes me. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-07-29 07:56 |
| #4 If you double testing of a virus that is mostly asymptomatic you will get a spike in numbers found to have it. The underlying case numbers probably have not changed. Test more find more. With the %age of false positives being pretty unknown too, it could PURELY be an artefact of testing more! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-29 07:52 |
| #3 "cannot see the difference between testing more and there being more..." Explain? |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2020-07-29 07:49 |
| #2 Yes he should recuse himself from COVID decisions as he obviously (and his rather bumbling government) cannot see the difference between testing more and there being more... Hospitals empty and still killing people by deferring treatment of non-COVID. The disastrous over-response to COVID shutting down the country mirrors how COVID kills, it doesn't, the immune over-response does. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-29 04:39 |
| #1 But remember, lockdown destroys businesses! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-07-29 02:46 |