Unfortunately you can indeed get it twice and many more times too as it is now endemic in the population. I'm afraid we have got to live with it just like the flu or common cold.
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Is there one rule for us and one for them?
How can he say, with a straight face that he is not isolating?
I can imagine people up and down the land choking on their breakfast. The audacity! This could lead to real social unrest.
He could pass this on to anyone who works at No10. Has he no common sense or decency?
I cannot believe when I read that he is so popular. Why?
Unfortunately you can indeed get it twice and many more times too as it is now endemic in the population. I'm afraid we have got to live with it just like the flu or common cold.
Alegrias1
So far we've had:
Johnson has Covid, Johnson doesn't have Covid. He can't have it because he's had it before, he can't have it because he's double jabbed, he can't have it because it doesn't exist.
He isn't self isolating, he is self isolating, he wasn't going to self isolate but he is now; he's on a pilot scheme, he's not on a pilot scheme, there is no pilot scheme.
What's next? He's isolating with Rishi and they've sent out for takeaway pizza
I know, you couldn’t make it up. Did make me smile though, so thanks for that Alegrias.
Silverlife
You can indeed get it twice, but for most people who are also now vaccinated, the second time will not be serious. Maybe a few symptoms and a bit off colour. But there will always be the exception to the rule. They will probably be very old and have comorbidities. For this reason we should continue to be very careful around our elderly relatives.
Would you like to run the country, with such a lot of moaners writing on Gransnet?
I’m not moaning lightallen, I’m trying to be as positive as I can. I know you can catch Covid twice, or if you’re vaccinated, but I also know that if you do, it’s likely to be extremely mildly. That’s the bright side of the situation. I’m not afraid to go out, but some on here are, and some are extremely negative. Doesn’t mean everyone is though.
So many anti Boris comments but even IF he wasn't isolating there are many, many more people trotting around, mixing with the general public, who have pinged or come into contact with a positive person, all because they think they know better than the scientists - NOT the Government. Instead of condemnation how about someone comes up with a brilliant idea to solve all the covid problems!! We can all be brilliant skaters standing at the side of the ice rink!
It’s up to the government to sort out the Covid problems and guide us. It’s what they’re elected to do. Govern. Not say ‘it’s your responsibility now guys’.
A colleague of mine has tested positive with Covid despite already having had it and being double vaccinated. Fortunately he has no symptoms this time unlike previously when he was quite poorly.
Alegrias1
So far we've had:
Johnson has Covid, Johnson doesn't have Covid. He can't have it because he's had it before, he can't have it because he's double jabbed, he can't have it because it doesn't exist.
He isn't self isolating, he is self isolating, he wasn't going to self isolate but he is now; he's on a pilot scheme, he's not on a pilot scheme, there is no pilot scheme.
What's next? He's isolating with Rishi and they've sent out for takeaway pizza
It’s enough to give anyone a migraine. Pass the paracetamol, please!
Alegrias1
So far we've had:
Johnson has Covid, Johnson doesn't have Covid. He can't have it because he's had it before, he can't have it because he's double jabbed, he can't have it because it doesn't exist.
He isn't self isolating, he is self isolating, he wasn't going to self isolate but he is now; he's on a pilot scheme, he's not on a pilot scheme, there is no pilot scheme.
What's next? He's isolating with Rishi and they've sent out for takeaway pizza
Now come on don't spoil the madness with such a great post 
Anti Boris comments!!
What on earth else do you expect when he has bungled the management of covid and many have died because of his incompetence?
I am fully aware that no government would have made a perfect job of it, but there has been one cock-up after another from this deceitful moral vacuum of a human being.
I had to laugh when a nightclub owner on the London news in a live broadcast said “Boris is a buffoon , and I apologise to all buffoons out there for being compared to him”.
I expect they’ll be a few “ he’s doing his ickle best “ comments to come along soon.,
Luckygirl ?
Talking to a taxi driver today, who said that people are really furious at Johnson.
So those on GN who are critical of the way Johnson is behaving are no different to those in the taxi drivers cab, and others I have met and chatted to on my holiday from the south coast to Northumberland and back and stops in between.
So yet again the arrogance of these people who think that they can say do as I say and not do as I do is revealed. Do hope that people will remember this when elections come round. I am only interested in what medically qualified people say . All these idiots can do is waste money on unnecessary things , making a mess of track and trace and they cant be trusted to put people or safety before their own selfish wishes.
You can definitely get covid twice. Nephew has it for the second time and both his parents. This new variant is very easy to catch. Take care people.
Delta is as we know the dominant strain in the U.K. and causing havoc once again to people’s lives.
Johnson was warned of the variant in JANUARY, and to close borders with the Indian sub-continent.
He prevaricated for nearly 4 months and didn’t do as advise until APRIL.
I never would have believed we’d have such a hopeless PM. He’s a man asleep on the job.
We need a leader with good judgement, not someone who could not work out that not isolating by finding himself a loophole would have caused an outcry.
The management of the pandemic should have included a coalition, so that people's lives did not lie exclusively in the hands of one powerful dishonest man.
He’s like a child that, having learned that he can get what he wants by lying, continues to lie. And he is a man child. There is nothing adult about him other than an ability to procreate. I can’t think of a worse person we could have as PM during a pandemic although Red Mogg comes close.
Or Gove.........what a shower.
Red Mogg. Auto correct strikes again but ‘Red’? It obviously doesn’t know the man!
Red Mogg - love that! 
So, if Boris were to throw in the towel tomorrow, who would the GNetters trust to sort out this sorry mess? Has to be an MP, so Mr Cummings can't stand.
I quite like Brandon Lewis.
Rory Stewart. Oh sh**. He’s left the party…..it’ll have to be Jeremy Hunt then. Can’t believe I’m thinking of Jeremy Hunt as my saviour but at least he looks and speaks like a normal human being unlike Johnson, Mogg and Gove.
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