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Boris Johnson Suggested He Thought Covid Was ‘Nature’s Way of Dealing With Old People’
(www.bloomberg.com)
The same OLd PeoPLe that vote for these motherfuckers
this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2023
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They had already voted for him. At that point, they've fulfilled their use, and if anything he'd probably be quite happy to off a few of them.
He was never a party man. His entire cabinet would happily see the Conservative party burn once they've got their money and power out of the public.
And they have. It's gonna be fun seeing how few seats they get next election
They should be utterly decimated...but I lost my faith in the UK voting public a long time ago. I have a few friends in Tory strongholds like Surrey and Somerset, and even now they're fully against the potential for a Labour government.
IMO the best thing that could happen to traditional conservatism is for the party to be annihilated at the next GE. Get the US-style identity politics and populism shite out, see it for the damage it caused the country, and give a populist Labour government some competition under a leader that isn't a fucking nutjob.
Something something leopards and faces
He's almost 60. He is not exactly a spring chicken.
He was also significantly over weight during this period with little exercise and, in a high stress job (not that it stopped him from his afternoon naps).
He also caught COVID quite early on (Late March), which was no surprise as he liked to attend parties when all this was going on, and was hospitalised for one on one care early for preventative care including oxygen back when oxygen was being restricted for preventative care.
I am not suggesting the PM shouldn't have had the best care available, more that hes proven to lack empathy of anything he hasn't experienced himself, so is highly unlikely to understand just how overloaded the NHS was at this point and that his experience was anything other than privileged.
Herman Cain, yes you can!
He ended up in ICU after contracting COVID, after all.
Does he not realize that he's pretty much in that group now? And a massive chunk of his voters already are? Is he saying he thinks mother nature has it out for him?
You can be damn sure that he'll get the best medical care available on the planet for himself.
This was before he caught it, so he probably did eventually realise yeah
Surely not, he's quite fit right, he goes on all those runs.
Which only supports my notion that he is terminally stupid. Those "old people" are their primary voter base.
Hot Take:
He's fuckin old too
Meh, attacking pensioners’ livelihoods never cost Tories votes, why should attacking their actual lives?
That's because all of the things that Tories do are reported on the internet, and that's a scary place that their voters don't look at.
Imagine working your entire life and then dieing to covid during retirement. A tiny fraction of your life was free.
Image of devoted hardworking employee that will go places is form of manipulation.
Why can't we slap empathy into people? How was this bloodsucker ever welcomed into the halls of power?
No one else there has any either
Oh, you can. You'll need a large hammer for that, something like 5kg or bigger.
Didn't realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.
Good thing it's only old people.
I had a friend die from covid at 38. Another guy down the road died in his early 30s. They were both fat but probably should have had another 20 years at least.
Cancer is natural, should we stop treating that too?
"Placental cancer is nature's way of dealing with unborn babies." -- Boris Johnson, probably
They hated him because he told the truth
Surely he just said that as a joke. I know I have
Elegant!
I mean, it's true, but not really helpful or necessary to say it out loud.
Its as true as saying AIDs was nature's way of dealing with gay people. Which is to say it's absolutely untrue and way of passing off moral responsibility to anthropomorphized concepts.
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Disease and starvation has always been nature's way of dealing with the elderly and weak. You can look to any species on earth and this is true. We aren't special just because we are human, we have just been smart enough to mostly avoid it. Why the fuck did you feel the need to bring up aids and gay people? It has nothing to do with any of this.
It's literally the same argument. A virus exists that disproportionately affects a group of people. That group is uninteresting to me so instead of just saying I don't give a shit I call it a force of nature.
We are a little special because we can conceptualize how our actions will affect the spreas of a disease. A world leader is a little more special in that regard because they can enact policy to curb disease on a wide scale.
Having the knowledge and power to help and not doing anything is a moral failing. Blaming it on nature is covering that failing with nonsense.
A virus or disease exists to affect an organism, it doesn't care if that organism is young, old, gay or straight. No one is saying it isn't sad that people die, just saying that's the purpose of diseases and viruses, they use people to reproduce and typically older people die more often than others, just because it's sad doesn't mean it isn't true.
Nature has a way of dealing with unwanted offspring. That's why I didn't think think what Melissa Dexler did was that big a deal.