Liz Truss has covid…

Grandma70s

Irvtgzt, Allsorts?

I've been trying to pronounce it!

GrannyGravy13

Alegrias1

I don't follow anyone on Twitter, but I do go to see what people are saying. Proper people like .... oh, lets say.. Prime Ministers, First Ministers, Vaccine Developers, Scientists....

There's a lot of absolute rubbish on TV but I still watch the good stuff, and I can tell the difference. Criticising individual pieces of content is understandable. Criticising the whole platform is silly

I am not disagreeing with you Alegrias1

Unless a twitter tweet/quote can be verified then it is just someone’s opinion and cannot be taken as fact Similar to GN in that respect.

Well, not necessarily. If a politician posts about their policies, or their diary, that's not opinion, its a fact about them or their lives.

Blue ticks. You want to get yourself a blue tick, apparently. help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twitter-verified-accounts

I have no time for conspiracies regarding Bozo's stay at St Thomas' - he wouldn't have ended up in ITU had he not been seriously ill.

We rightly don't know the clinical details but based on when he was discharged it's highly unlikely he was intubated but very likely to have had non-invasive ventilation, which is also used in ITU.

There is no political capital to be gained from claiming to be sicker than you really are, it's seen as a sign of vulnerability/weakness

He was taken to hospital as a precautionary measure we were told at the time, also that he was in good spirits and working from his bed - this was told to us by government spokespeople. He had minimum oxygen and was discharged after a few days. Again, told to us by government spokespersons. I doubt whether he would have been hospitalised so quickly had he not been pm, but that’s debatable of course. Yes, he could have taken a turn for the worse, but luckily for him he didn’t.

I remember hearing all of that information too Vegansrock
I also remember hearing very different things too eg the 50/50 thing.
We were definitely given contradictory information at the time.

When a well known person ie BJ or the Queen is hospitalised, we have absolutely no right to know anything about their condition or treatment. The only right to information that we have is to know that the person has been admitted to hospital. Any feedback given is normally quite positive in order to prevent panic. Think about how Prince Philip’s illness was reported. We were given little information and what we were given was reasonably positive.
Having been admitted to hospital with Covid myself, not to ITU but on oxygen all the time I was in, I have absolutely no doubt that BJ was seriously ill and in need of hospitalisation.

Johnson definitely seemed rattled when he appeared again after the illness, giving the impression he'd had a bad time. I didn't think it was acting.
Still, he soon forgot about his determination to lose the weight which he'd been told endangered his health.