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I respectfully disagree. If he has an ICU bed when he isn’t ‘sick enough’ then it stinks.
If he is really sick enough for an ICU bed then no.10 aren’t being straight about it- that also stinks.
People are bored at home of course they’re gonna speculate, it’s Boris off the telly.
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He's an awful cunt, but he's the one in charge so will rightfully get preferential treatment, if expect this for anyone in charge, first to the bunkers in a war etc. the idea being that the person in charge surviving is a good thing for those he's in charge of overall, if not for one person who may need his bed. This person in charge being useless and actually bad for many people for other reasons is beside the point. As for privacy around his condition, I think part of this preferential treatment comes with less of that
snottyotter
It's toxic because it is politically weaponising the ill health of a now vulnerable man.
It's unhelpful because there is no answer to the question. It plays on fears and a politically convenient distortion of reality. We will never know if the saintly and deserving archetype blue collar working man / women who didn't get treatment because Boris did exists and we'll never know if they were deserving enough, either. (in reality, they probably didn't exist, but theoretically, maybe they did? There is always someone more deserving than insert person here). But it opens up all kinds of pandoras boxes that we cannot hope to resolve here whilst potenitally stoking the rumour mill. That sounds like a net loss to me.
It's also disingenuous and displays a remarkable lack of (or perhaps wilful?) understanding of the reality on the ground - these kinds of decisions about who receives what kind of treatment are made all the time and will continue to be made all the time. Our society is not a classless one of infinite time and resources.