BDS (Boris Derangement Syndrome)

[sinkov]

I know it can disturb the balance of a lefty's mind, tip them over the edge even, but some of these fruitcakes are seriously into Tin Foil Hat territory.

"Who would be a conspiracy theorist in this day and age?"

"The prime minister’s hospitalisation may have been a chilling moment for many last week, and not because he is necessarily well-liked. Boris Johnson is nothing if not divisive, but if nothing else, he is probably the most famous person in the UK after Her Majesty the Queen. It brought home to many the reality that the coronavirus disease Covid-19 is a danger, capable of striking down people of all backgrounds. Even those who dislike the PM would not have wished him ill. Well, most of them, for of course, there are plenty who would — and several, so blinded by their loathing of the man, that they are prepared to entertain some pretty wild ideas.

This afternoon, the anti-Brexit campaigner Marcus Ball announced to the world that he had submitted a Freedom of Information request to St Thomas’s NHS Trust in London, where the PM was recently placed in an intensive care unit, to confirm Boris Johnson's condition. Ball claimed that the timing of the PM’s hospitalisation was “too perfect” and that he believed Johnson was “dodging responsibility by becoming a victim.”

Sadly, Ball’s was not an isolated opinion. “The official secrets act” began trending in Twitter, because of a rumour, started by a blog post, that medical staff at the hospital had been forced to sign it, hinting that the prime minister wasn’t even ill.

An editor at the Economist tweeted that he felt the whole episode was far too suspicious. Carole Cadwalladr, meanwhile, hinted that the whole thing was a diversionary tactic, accusing the Mail on Sunday of running the story of Johnson’s “near death experience” through the words of “unnamed friends” whilst “ignoring All The Deaths,” before demanding to know what was happening at NHS Nightingale.

The idea also abounded that the whole thing was an exercise in creating a ‘cult of personality’ around the PM. AC Grayling, still somehow considered a thinker of repute, took to Twitter with his usual linguistic panache to label Johnson ‘Boris the Butcher of Downing Street,’ whilst Frances Coppola suggested that Johnson had been discharged from hospital on Easter Sunday in order to draw direct comparisons with the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

With their imaginations inflamed to such an extent, one might almost think they were worried about something. And worry they might — if the polls are anything to go by, the man so many have forged careers on the back of hating might just have the public’s sympathy. The most recent Opinium opinion poll puts the Tories on 55 percent — an unprecedented peacetime figure for a government, and at the exact moment that a country that so recently voted for radical pro-liberal causes had so many of its liberties suspended, and saw its economy placed in an induced coma to cope with the coronavirus crisis."

[The Bedlington Terrier]

You know I am not his biggest fan, but Jesus Christ this latest conspiracy nonsense has even got me behind him!

I am 100% certain the good doctors and nurses of St Thomas' Hospital do not have the time, nor energy to play this kind of alleged charade.

I must admit I am surprised that he has whisked himself off to his second home to recuperate when Downing Street would be perfectly acceptable. Not setting much of an example with this one I don't think?

[sinkov]

You know I am not his biggest fan, but Jesus Christ this latest conspiracy nonsense has even got me behind him!

I am 100% certain the good doctors and nurses of St Thomas' Hospital do not have the time, nor energy to play this kind of alleged charade.

I must admit I am surprised that he has whisked himself off to his second home to recuperate when Downing Street would be perfectly acceptable. Not setting much of an example with this one I don't think?

Couldn't care less where he goes to recuperate myself BT, just so long as he gets himself better and back running the show asap. What did niggle me, and bemuse me at the same time, was that as soon as the news was announced that he'd be recuperating at Chequers, SkyNews had a reporter and camera crew stood in a field outside Chequers reporting on the fact. Why a police drone hadn't filmed them under the caption 'Not Necessary' I have no idea, nor why some constable hadn't moved them on and told them to go home or be arrested I'm not sure either. Is there one law for us and one for the media, are the police afraid of the media, or in league with them as they were in the BBC/Cliff Richard case ?

I think we should told.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Couldn't care less where he goes to recuperate myself BT, just so long as he gets himself better and back running the show asap. What did niggle me, and bemuse me at the same time, was that as soon as the news was announced that he'd be recuperating at Chequers, SkyNews had a reporter and camera crew stood in a field outside Chequers reporting on the fact. Why a police drone hadn't filmed them under the caption 'Not Necessary' I have no idea, nor why some constable hadn't moved them on and told them to go home or be arrested I'm not sure either. Is there one law for us and one for the media, are the police afraid of the media, or in league with them as they were in the BBC/Cliff Richard case ?

I think we should told.

Journalists fall into the "Essential Workers" category, I'm not sure why though, because they are still spouting their usual drivel.

I want to see inside care homes, I want them to investigate and report back on how we are addressing homelessness.

Let's get some serious journalism done, instead of standing in a fooooking field outside Chequers?

Incidentally for the record, I wish our Prime Minister a speedy recovery and hope he re-opens the economy as soon as possible!

[sinkov]

There was another woke muppet yesterday asking why care home residents aren't being taken to hospital with Covid 19. He needs to get himself to a care home to have a look around, then he might realise that many residents are in no fit state to be transported to a hospital, the journey and the stress of it would see them off quicker than any virus would. Might do the arse-hole more good than just checking his Twitter feed every morning.

[1959_60]

Here is guidance for care homes from the British Geriatrics Society.

It depends on the overlying condition of the resident. A geriatric is a person over the age of 65 who needs care.

https://www.bgs.org.uk/resources/cov...-in-care-homes

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Foooook me 59er. After reading that half of the members on here "need care". Some more than others I might say!

[sinkov]

It depends on the overlying condition of the resident.

Exactly 59, I wonder if the media muppets who have become care home experts overnight have ever spent any time in a care home, and I don't mean a quick trip round a couple of local homes because care homes has become the latest 'issue' trending on Twitter.

[Robus]

Knight Boris, and Nigel too, for their part in giving your country back to you. When I saw the video of Nigel's going away speech in Strasbourg, it suddenly occurred to me: Britons never will be slaves.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Knight Boris, and Nigel too, for their part in giving your country back to you. When I saw the video of Nigel's going away speech in Strasbourg, it suddenly occurred to me: Britons never will be slaves.

I saw this on Facebook, US author unknown, so I have plagiarised the context and Anglicized it for our own purpose.

“We’re seeing the most draconian measures enforced at all levels by our government that most of us have seen in our lifetimes; yet rather than being alarmed by this fraudulent imposition on our lives, so many of us stand on our front steps at designated times and applaud.

People are being arrested for spending too much time outside, men of some religions are being arrested for daring to hold religious services, and some are not. Christians cannot congregate to worship, but it seems that Muslims can.

A child's birthday party is raided by police, a young woman is summonsed and fined for going on a leisurely drive alone because it's deemed "non-essential travel", garden barbeques are broken up by police squads because the family is perceived to be too large.

A lone runner on a beach without any other people around is arrested because he's violating quarantine orders, on the same beach a couple are fined for having the temerity to rest in the sunshine.

People are being denied life-saving medical treatments because they're not a priority right now and deemed not "essential" because our Health Service is focused on one thing, and yet so many of us stand on our own front steps at designated times and applaud .

Businesses are beings forcibly closed and padlocked and owners arrested for refusing to shut down, and we do nothing.

We are flying in Romanian field workers to pick strawberries, and we don't seem to understand the implications.

Our County police forces are using hotlines and online forms asking us to report any of our dissident neighbours who fail to comply.

We are now reprimanding our fellow citizens day after day for not obeying government edicts, and if any of us dare to question what's happening, you lecture us how we're a danger to society and we just don't care about people dying. Rainbows are appearing in our windows telling us to Stay Home and Save the NHS.

We have somehow managed to convince yourselves that the people whose lives are affected by a virus are a lot more important than the people whose lives are being destroyed by the effects of a worldwide economic shutdown and impending worldwide depression, which will make the 1930’s seem like a cake walk.

At what point will we all start asking, “What's going on?” How far does this government of ours have to push us before we are jolted awake from this state enforced coercion and control?

It’s a mightily important rhetorical question to ask right now, “How far are you willing to go along with this?”

Will we soon be told we need to load our families onto cattle wagons along with a single suitcase so that we can all be taken to Virus Protection Facilities for our own safety?

I am coming to the conclusion that “Yes” we would, and the whole time, we would be shaking our finger and yelling at those of us who refused, accusing them of being "a danger to society" and "not caring if people die."

This is taken directly from the original article:
“But they don't have to load you onto train cars and take you to Virus Protection Facilities or force you to comply, because you do that voluntarily.
They control your mind. They control you through fear. They control you by convincing you that the world is a scary dangerous place, but they're here to protect you, care for you, and keep you safe, just as long as you OBEY.
They know that as long as you're locked inside your comfortable home with Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and a mobile phone while dangling a check in front of you like a carrot on a stick, you'll comply.
No force is necessary for the majority of the herd. YOU ARE IMPRISONED, willingly, and you're too blind to see it.”

A scary and very thought-provoking article I think – don’t you?