Reactions to Boris Johnson's NSFW comment on long covid

Former PM Boris Johnson has made a NSFW comment on long covid (allegedly) and it has caused fury with many people.

Long Covid Boris Johnson

It is claimed that he called long covid ‘b******s.

Anthony Metzer KC, speaking on behalf of long Covid group said to the Covid Inquiry: “In October 2020, while the Department of Health and Social Care was publishing guidance on long Covid and called for recognition and support for people with long Covid, then prime minister Boris Johnson scrawled in capitals that long Covid was ‘b*****ks’.

“Mr Johnson has admitted in his witness statement that he didn’t believe long Covid truly existed, dismissing it as ‘Gulf War Syndrome stuff’. The inquiry will be concerned to probe how the former prime minister could possibly hold this view in October 2020.”

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If that wasn’t enough Diary entries by Sir Patrick Vallance were also read out.

Vallance was scathing in his thoughts after a meeting on social-distancing, when he criticised Mr Johnson’s “impossible flip-flopping” and “bipolar decision-making” – writing of “chaos as usual.”

Human shields

In other entries, Sir Patrick reportedly said he felt scientists were “used as human shields” by ministers. On 19 September 2020, he wrote: “[Johnson] is all over the place and so completely inconsistent. You can see why it was so difficult to get agreement to lock down first time.”

Also neither Vallance nor Chris Whitty were consulted in advance about Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme and if they had they would have said it would fuel transmission of Covid.

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"In October 2020, Mr Johnson wrote “bollocks” in capital letters across a Department of Health guidance document on Long Covid"

Anthony Metzer KC, representing Long Covid sufferers at the Covid Inquiry. pic.twitter.com/460KhcBXpl
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) October 3, 2023

Furious reactions

Boris Johnson wrote “bollocks” about long Covid it was revealed today at the Covid Public Inquiry.

I suggest Mr Johnson reads this 👇 review in Nature, apologises, and then fucks off. Permanently. https://t.co/7ZLX7ChDpb
— Gina 😷 SARS2 is Airborne 💚 (@Saffiya_Khan1) October 3, 2023

It's generally a good sign that you are wrong when serially-wrong people like Boris Johnson, Internet trolls and the antivaccine crowd agree with you.

As good a measure as it gets, it almost never fails.

Internet trolls agree with this. They're wrong. End #LongCovid denial. https://t.co/HRNR1BTKik
— Richard Vallée (@richardvallee) October 3, 2023

Boris Johnson wrote staggering slur about his own Government's guidance on long Covid

More than a million people in Britain have been left suffering with Long Covid symptoms, but it's said Boris Johnson did not believe the condition "truly existed"https://t.co/vgno1bXlgs
— Billy Hanlon (@bhanlon15) October 3, 2023

https://twitter.com/CounsellingSam/status/1709229355992302027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1709229355992302027%7Ctwgr%5Ea474dc9d7423d10031585e7c32a371b8c179c6b4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fpolitics%2Fboris-johnson-long-covid-inquiry

“I would rather see "bodies pile high" than take the country into a third lockdown”

“Long Covid is bullshit”

– Boris Johnson

>220,000 dead
~2 million with Long Covid#COVID19 #LongCovid
— GeoCK (@GeoEduOne) October 3, 2023

On 11 November 2020, Vallance wrote No10 is “at war with itself, the Carrie faction with Gove and another with spads downstairs, the PM is caught in the middle … and no one has seen anything like it.” https://t.co/8gE0vLnnaN
— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) October 3, 2023

Boris Johnson wrote staggering slur about his own Government's guidance on long Covid
Johnson admitted in his own witness statement he did not believe the condition “truly existed” and it was “Gulf War syndrome stuff”.#ToriesOut454 #GeneralElectionNow https://t.co/Mc4mKRJGQu
— dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 (@dave43law) October 4, 2023

This is so unbelievable that it’s totally believable. Millions across the world have been debilitated by Long Covid. Many have recovered but a large proportion still have not. Boris Johnson should apologise to all of them but we all know he won’t. https://t.co/Ylu8E6sryw
— Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ (@LaylaMoran) October 3, 2023

"Crude language used by Boris Johnson…showing just how dismissive the government's attitude had been to #LongCovid"

More about the 'Bollocks' comment

Thank you for covering this on national @BBCNews at 10 @BBCHughPym @long_covid @LongCovidKids @BhattMurphy pic.twitter.com/yS0g8KnkS5
— Long Covid SOS (@LongCovidSOS) October 3, 2023

10.

sorry everyone suffering from Long Covid, Boris Johnson said it’s ‘bollocks’ https://t.co/E6JIaypTUR pic.twitter.com/WCqTjycCBL
— Toby Earle 🇺🇦 Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) October 3, 2023