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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 11 Apr 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted The Telegraph

    Marc Bloch's classic book The Royal Touch -- about medieval France -- gives the pre-history of the thinking here. We're probably two weeks away from people arguing Johnson can heal the sick with a laying on of hands.https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1248788237705007104 …

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    "The health of Boris Johnson is the health of the body politic and, by extension, the health of the nation itself" | writes @allisonpearson #Covid19 #coronavirus #Covid19UK https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/need-boris-health-health-nation/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1586531035 …
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      2. William Earl Burns‏ @williameburns13 11 Apr 2020
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        That's what the Queen is supposed to be for.

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      3. John‏ @johnlk_80 11 Apr 2020
        Replying to @williameburns13 @HeerJeet

        This whole article is taking medieval/early modern ideas about the monarch and applying them to Boris fucking Johnson. It seems like this would work less well in a country that still has a literal monarch, but who knows?

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      1. Jonathan Goodwin‏ @joncgoodwin 11 Apr 2020
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        You should give it in the considerably more metal French title: Les rois thaumaturges.

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      1. David Larson‏ @denosral 11 Apr 2020
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        Too bad Scrofula is a forgotten disease.

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      1. Jack Feerick‏ @JackFeerick 11 Apr 2020
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        L'etat, c'est BoJo.

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      1. Gavin Chait‏ @GavinChait 11 Apr 2020
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        Once he's well, he could donate his blood serum 😜

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      1. Warren Terra‏ @warren__terra 11 Apr 2020
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        Just imagine the photo op when he donates some post-COVID plasma (and unlike chloroquine, there are some promising indications that might actually help people).

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      1. John‏ @johnlk_80 11 Apr 2020
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        Only scrofula.

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      1. Terry Moran  🇺🇸‏Verified account @TerryMoran 11 Apr 2020
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        The thinking is also constitutionally infirm. Kantorowicz’s “The King’s Two Bodies” illuminates the Tudor distinction between the “body politic” and the “body natural,” which, if it applies to the sovereign, surely holds true for the PM. Wishing Boris’ “body natural” good health!

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