UK's Boris Johnson's Coronavirus plan: "The UK should just take it on the chin."

[Grokenstein]

Johnson--for all appearances the result of a telepod accident involving Donald Trump and Rob Ford--has decided that Britons should just lie back and enjoy it. Welcome their disease overlords. Surrender peacefully. Let it happen. Let it just wash over them.

Link to tweet

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Another Buffoon

Leading another country that got suckered. Just like the US.

[htuttle]

2. He's no Churchill

[hatrack]

3. What the fuck is WRONG with skin sacks like Johnson?

My God . . . .

[lame54]

22. I can tell you what's wrong with him - same as Trump...

His voters

[enough]

4. Guess he hasn't read the reports coming from Italy. NT

[C_U_L8R]

5. From Churchill to Chinless

“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

[Layzeebeaver]

6. Striking a balance he says?

In all corners of epidemiology there is no such phrase.

Draconian measures in China have halted the logarithmic growth. No other country can demonstrate such an effective response.

I live in the U.K. now. This idiot scares the living (not yet infected) shit out of me.

[Dirty Socialist]

7. Worse than Trump

I should travel to Britain just to gawk at the train wreck that is Boris Johnson. Vote of no confidence, anyone?

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. these types are ass backwards. Awful is great. Worst is best.

Severely mentally damaged.

[GoCubsGo]

9. As I said back when this asshole took office, good luck, UK.

You stuck yourselves with your own Donald Trump. Even looks like him. It's beyond me why anyone would believe that shitsacks like this assclown and our syphilitic, orange wankmaggot are in any way capable of heading a country, let alone running it properly.

[JHB]

10. On that subject...

[LisaL]

11. Some of you might die, but this is is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

[Chainfire]

12. Save the markets, go about your daily business, sacrifice yourself for the good of the economy

I guess the following is old school....


"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Churchill

[htuttle]

13. "Just lie back, and think of England"

[yellowcanine]

18. Good one!

[Roland99]

14. What a swell ol chap

[Javaman]

15. okay, boris, you first. nt

[dalton99a]

16. "Let it cull the old and weak"

[yellowcanine]

17. Churchill: "We shall never surrender." Boris: "Surrender."

[area51]

19. You and your lady friend first, BoJo. n/t

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Misleading edit - he was asked about the government strategy of 'delay'

and he was explaining that 'some' thought we should just 'take it on the chin' in one go, but that is not what he is doing, on scientific advice. Full interview - the question is asked at 6:00:

"I think it would be better if we take all the measures that we can now just to stop the peak of the disease being as difficult for the NHS as it might be"

If you want to criticise the Tories, it should be about the number of nurses etc. in the NHS going into this, which the interviewers move on to.

[coti]

24. Yeah, I was going to say that this characterization of what he said is quite misleading nt

[rockfordfile]

21. That pos is the property of the UK lol

[Aristus]

23. Can you keep a stiff upper lip if you're taking it on the chin?

Those poor Brits and the things they ask their faces to do...