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My personal take is that they are generally taking a view that saying as little as possible is the best strategy. If, hypothetically, they think that his days are, or are likely to be, numbered, then disclosing that would cause damage to the markets, political instability, etc. So the easiest approach is to say all is well, until either all IS well (at least in terms of him being out of the woods, if not necessarily well) or he actually dies, at which point of course that has to be disclosed. I suspect beyond his treatment team, & let's be honest, you'd have to have some very serious security clearance to be allowed to start sticking tubes, needles, drugs, etc., into him, I doubt anyone beyond a tiny handful of extremely close contacts will have any real idea of the prognosis.

Some suggestions that Comet Atlas may be disintegrating so might not be the spectacular show that it could have been. https://earthsky.org/space/how-to-see-bright-comet-c-2019-y4-atlas

I'd say overall that I think he is. He's 55, looks overweight & seemed to fit the bill early on of someone not taking it too seriously. I think in a busy hospital like St. Thomas', you'd be hard-pressed to pretend that someone like him was in ICU & not get somebody, somewhere, blowing the whistle.

I feel a conspiracy theory coming on...

Phart cited the stats quoted in the Yorkshire Post that show that virus patients in ICU have an approximate 50:50 survival chance. However, it's reasonable to assume that he will have been put there quicker & will have a much higher level of care from the absolute top doctors than the 'average' ICU patient, so I'd imagine that the odds are tilted to some degree in his favour. All the same, it's not a position I'd want to be in myself.

These 'conspiracy' conversations always seems to follow the same pattern wherever I come across them. 'Truther' who has absolutely no knowledge of how (using our example here) dust might behave in a low gravity, ultra-thin atmosphere finds a YouTube video & immediately purports to understand it. Someone comes along who has studied Physics or similar & tries to explain that actually, this is highly complex & because of factors A, B, & C, the established theories stand up to scrutiny. Truther, preferring to deal in Janet & John standards of 'evidence' don't understand, but take the complications as proof that their questions can't be answered. Inconvenient truths, flight timetables for example in flat Earth discussions, or the literally tens of thousands of people who would have had to be 'in' on a Moon landing fraud, are treated as part of a global conspiracy. Meanwhile, the truthers refuse to listen to any alternative story than their own whilst convincing themselves that those who actually HAVE looked at all possibilities & reached a different conclusion are sheeple. Numerous posters have suggested simple experimental proof on the shape of the Earth & these always get dodged, so we get stuck in Groundhog Day. It's nothing more than a bit of fun on a football message board, but the sad thing is that I know people in the real world who, to all intents & purposes, are sinking into a quite serious mental illness whereby their self-perception is that they are the only ones who are intelligent enough to know the truth. Where that takes you, of course, is that you need a conspiracy for EVERYTHING, or at least will automatically believe that everything has an alternative explanation involving illumnati, aliens or whatever their chosen 'they are hiding this from us' is.

Really sorry to hear that. That’s such a terrible situation & sympathies to you & your family.

I'd never wish for the death of any human being, but, given his track record with his previous unknown number of children (and his consistent refusal to answer questions about if he even has a basic element of involvement in their lives), that might not make that much difference to Johnson Jr.

My son volunteered...he's still waiting to hear anything.

I really want to believe that this turns out to be the pin that bursts the bubble but the cynic in me doubts it.

On point one; not me! On the more important point, I think like in any industry, companies with the biggest reserves are those that will survive & (sadly) the bigger the club the greater the resources they have to fall back on. The teams who may well fold are those who are either currently overstretched or heavily reliant on matchday revenues to balance the books. Inevitably, the lower down the professional or semi-professional leagues you go, the more you're going to find that. I'd be surprised to see any EPL side go bang, & especially not top half. Teams like Macclesfield, Bolton, Oldham were all teetering on the brink already & this might just be the death knell for them. One or two higher up the system have pushed the boat out to get promotion (Leeds are the obvious example where there was already talk of them hitting serious trouble if they fluffed it again this year) & they could have problems if the season is cancelled. On the subject of Leeds, & much as I dislike them, credit is due to their players who I believe were the first in England to agree to defer wages in order to make sure non-playing staff were paid.

Yes that’s basically correct from what I’ve read. In seriousness, I know from researchers I’m in contact with that they are not willing to say anything with any certainty but there is some optimism that it’s a useful tool once you have contracted it. https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/antibiotics-kill-coronavirus-3534867/

Apparently there's some evidence that azithromycin might bring some benefits...which coincidentally is the antibiotic I'm on permanently & I have a cupboard full of the stuff. If it starts to be proven useful, I might feel an eBay store coming on 💊💊

The point is, they were not going to waste extremely expensive resources to ‘prove’ something they really didn’t need to prove. And this is your ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ to prove your own theories. Seriously, get it done. There are posters on here who live in the Southern Hemisphere. I’m sure one of them could do the photo next time there’s a clear dark sky & compare it to yours. Then it’s over to you to explain your observations.

Why would they do that? Just to prove to a handful of "truthers" 50 years into the future something that they knew to be true anyway. In reality, that's just a sort of 'reverse engineering' of the truth...presuming that because someone didn't do something that proves they couldn't, which in turn proves that your premise must be true. Did you ever organise taking those long exposure shots I suggested of the sky ages back? The star circle ones? Same argument applies really...you can't criticise your 'opponents' over their choices of photography whilst refusing to do your own.

Maybe.

The thing is, if there's one skill that guy possesses it's the capacity to tell bare-faced lies, spout nonsense & then just do a handbrake turn & claim it all as his great wisdom. The whole world heard him say American churches would be packed on Easter Sunday! The worst fear for me is that if he senses he's losing, he will find a way to cancel the election (I assume they must be getting behind schedule anyway with the primaries?)

My local is doing surreptitious deliveries of ale (four pints of their homebrew for a tenner). I have a half drunk bottle of Laphroaig to accompany it as well so my short-term coping mechanism is in place.

It was a good game. I think at my peak I got well past the 8192 marker 🤓

It reminds me of that game from a few years back. 2048 it was called. I used to play for hours & could get massive scores. My boss hated me as she could barely get into the hundreds. Until one day I just asked myself why the chuff I was even bothered & never played again! Still, it was a good game 🤓

Best I’ve managed is 56 seconds which I was chuffed about but I sent the link to my daughter & she’s absolutely hammered me 🥺

I can live with that...I'd also thought maybe classing Alex Jackson as a midfielder as he was a winger really, & leave space for another striker (we seem to have had a lot of Scottish strikers on our books down the years) as I'd have liked to include Les Massie.

It's in the blood Donny...can't help cheating. 😁