What’s the big deal?
Boris Johnson is now in intensive care.
CNN: British PM Boris Johnson is being moved to intensive care as a spokesperson for the PM says his condition "has worsened and, on the advice of his medical team, he has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit at the hospital."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 6, 2020
Nebraska is still open.
Nebraska doctors beg Governor Pete Ricketts for a stay at home order.
He apparently thinks everything will be fine without one, though? maybe? sure. why not. why rush. what's the big deal anyway.https://t.co/3t2OFzxRmd
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 6, 2020
Yeah, Ricketts, we’ll be fine. My school remains open, because the president is not going to close it without an order. We had 7 new cases locally today. We’re just getting started.
By the way, I’m just 20 miles south of Grand Island, the city mentioned in that tweet. We have constant movement between the two cities, and many people going back and forth. Lincoln has been on shut down for at least a week; it’s time to follow with the rest of the state.
Maybe such a high profile case as Johnson will force a re-think about policies.
Nah, Kansas is the real America, not some pansy-assed place like the UK. They’ll fight the virus with guns and prayers!
I’m worried for Johnson and the UK. This is frightening.
Good luck Brexiting Covid-19
I have a load of caveats about BJ, but I was quite staggered by this – as I think quite a lot of UK citizens have been. Whatever you think of him, he is now the Prime Minister and something of the aura of the office – the person in charge – hangs around him. Also, him getting it makes all of us feel more vulnerable.
At the beginning of the outbreak, I had occasional semi-panic attacks – the tightening of my chest I thought must be symptoms – then realised it was only anxiety and I’ve been perfectly well. This brought on another one.
The woman next door had texted me that she had the symptoms. I thought she’d probably be okay, she’s a fit, healthy looking woman. I was very pleased to see her in the garden. In our shouted conversation she said she had been laid low psychosomatically – simple anxiety – and hadn’t had it at all. She’s a sensible, intelligent women, but anxiety is now a normal state of mind.
KBPlayer, I know what you mean. I have been struggling with bronchitis for about a month, and my allergies are acting up – neither thing unusual this time of year. I also suffer from anxiety attacks, and that makes three things making my chest tight. I have to keep reminding myself I don’t have any other symptoms, and just when I’m about to convince myself, I have a hot flash, and start to worry I’m having a fever. It is impossible to just be in the world anymore. Every little thing, even though the symptoms are familiar, almost old friends, but suddenly more sinister than just the normal stresses and strains of being an asthmatic. And everytime I feel it, I send up another curse on Trump.
If there was a benevolent god, Trump and his entire administration would already have succumbed to COVID-19. And Pence with them. I can’t imagine any god worth being a god would want anything to do with the likes of the religious right.