Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To be fair, at least he asked experts when he wasn’t sure. It could be worse.

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  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    IIRC after he got Covid and had a pretty terrible bout with it he actually changed his tune and did something about it. Trump was getting experimental treatments and could barely stand, refused to correct course.

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  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean just riffing your dumb ideas live during a press conference?

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• kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow. He really is the British Trump, isn’t he?

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  • StoneyDcrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Trump is an idiot. Boris plays the fool.

    I suspect this came about because he is trying to distract from a scandal in a Google search. Like when he said he likes to build model buses to distract from the scandal where he advertised lies about brexit on buses. Or when he said he doesn’t like working from home because it “makes him think of cheese” to distract from his illegal wine and cheese party during the covid19 lock down.

    The guy is pure irredeemable scum.

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    • Spendrill@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s not forget the time he hid in a fridge.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is a tactic called memory holing.

      Basically you make something impossible to search for by doing something involving those same terms.

      Many people accused Kevin Spacey of doing this when he took a movie role about a guy who was falsely accused of exploiting minors. But that was just a coincidence, however what Boris was doing was the real deal. He looked up Boris and cheese and you get this weird cheese quote instead of anything relating to his illegal party.

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    • kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The guy is pure irredeemable scum.

      I mean…they do sound similar. 😬

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    • perviouslyiner@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      advertised lies about brexit on buses

      Or ordered a quite impractical routemaster replacement that was more for decoration than for transport (the company who built it couldn’t sell any and went bankrupt)

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• HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2016 was the year that America and Britain we’re in a contest to see which country was dumber, at the time it was believed that America would win, Britain seemed like they were ahead, but America had a trump card.

  Fuck TERF Island

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  • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I give the point to America, because they have at least managed to vote out their idiot. Something Britain still needs to do.

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    • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, but the idea of the Donald Trump actually won the 2020 election will forever be a conspiracy theory believed by idiots. Even though it’s the weakest one considering you is one of the most unpopular incucumbents in US History

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    • interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d withhold judgement before we see whether they vote their idiot back in next year, and there’s a scarily high probability of that happening.

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• shiveyarbles@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s not stupid, he’s well educated. He’s just a colossal asshole.

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  • Treczoks@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    He may be "well educated" in some definition of that term, but obviously not in any reality-relevant topic.

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    • Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, people think "smart" is a point on a linear scale from "stupid" to "educated". In Germany we say "Fachidioten" ("subject idiots") for people that are well versed in a subject, but idiots otherwise. You can study something, even be good in that and still talk bullshit. Heck, you might spout bullshit despite good education in the topic. Knowingly and unknowingly.

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  • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s how I read this too, esp in the context of his disparaging comments about post-covid-condition. This is the same kind of minimising, reduce-the-issue-to-the-rediculous comment as when your aunt looks at you condicendingly and says “I mean, have you tried cutting out avacado toast darling? Maybe that would help you get a house.”

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• moog@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Between him and trump we have, drink bleach, lightbulb in asshole, hair dryer up nose. What will they think of next

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  • snacks@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    horse tranquilliser

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    • interolivary@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No no, that’s ketamine, you’re thinking of the horse dewormer ivermectin.

      And yes yes I know it’s used for humans as well, but the reich-wingers were getting it from veterinary suppliers since you can’t get the human version without a prescription. The idiots didn’t come to think that the dose used for horses is much bigger than what’s used for humans so they took ridiculously high doses, shat out their gut lining and thought that was a sign it was helping.

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  • JohnSmith@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the t-rump bleach method is far more effective. The virus will die…

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mr Cummings gave more details on his claim that Mr Johnson had to be stopped from going to see Queen Elizabeth II in person on March 18 - five days before the first lockdown was announced. He said No10 officials were prepared to prevent him getting into his car. “He rejected our advice,” Mr Cummings wrote. “I was desperate and said something like, ‘If you’ve got Covid and you kill the Queen you’re finished’. [No10 adviser] Cleo [Watson] said she would not let him get in the car. He agreed not to go.”

  Pathologically selfish people struggle with the whole concept of taking care of others, and should not be running countries.

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• MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s so used to blowing hot air

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While I know the internet loves to shit on Boris I will say that this is mirror.co.uk which is a pretty shit newspaper

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• MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You brits really have to choose the smelliest assholes, I mean you could have put a moldy piece of cheese in most places of power and it would do better. Or at least it would be less smug

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  • snacks@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    by smugness I take it you come from a place where they dont also elect complete roadkill? I hope youre not american. Canadian perhaps

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    • MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol no Serbian. We voted for a shit smear with poisonous mold growing on top. But we don’t have the class thing so our smear lacks gravitas

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• tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “The Riddle of Genius.” Ho ho ho.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just get the fucking shot you nimrod.

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  • Tatters@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Johnson has been vaccinated against COVID several times, and it was on the news at the time. The hot air thing was probably before vaccines were available, although this article does not make that clear.

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• Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That's actually not the worst idea in the world. Certainly not the best. I'd like to see it studied.

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• leaskovski@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let's get passed the stupidness of the whole things and look at the concept itself. What is the science here? Blasting heat at a location where COVID bacteria might be lingering?

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  • cucumber_sandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess, but it’s not a virus, not bacteria.

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    • Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess, but it’s not a virus, not bacteria.

      Then what do you think it is?

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• HaunchesTV@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I never had Boris pegged as a ‘high thoughts’ aficionado. Top notch nonsense.

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