Horrible news. Really sad to hear. Joe Anderson seems a decent guy and this will turn an already impossible job into a total nightmare.
PS I’m actually surprised as to how few high profile politicians and their families have been noticeably impacted by covid so far. I was expecting it to have reduced the size of the HoL a fair bit by now and I’m surprised no one in the Commons has died yet. We’ve certainly lost many people in the arts. It’s an awkward thing to try and phrase and I’ll likely get my words wrong here, but seeing clearly out of condition & obese people like Johnson and Trump recovering arguably makes it harder to get the clear health messaging across. There has to be a degree of “if that useless old fat bastard can survive it I’ll be fine...” thinking occurring out there without maybe grasping these oligarch elites have access to an entirely different tier of healthcare to the rest of us, or the significance of transmission to those less able.