So how do we feel about Sajid Javid telling us not to ‘cower’ from Covid

Great post Parsley
Yes, for the sake of my CEV husband who was hospitalised last year despite shielding;
I’m going to carry on cowering

So we are cowards now in the eyes of the Health Secretary. Lucky old Javid to have had mild symptoms but it is a pity that he doesn't have the political intelligence to look beyond his personal experience. My double jagged friends were quite ill with Covid, one hospitalised and are still recovering weeks later. What an a#se he is.

Yes Galaxy
It’s horrible isn’t it.
Like if you die, it’s because you’re not ‘a fighter’.

eazybee

Perfectly sensible and realistic statement, particularly the part urging people to take the vaccine.

There will always be those who need to be ultra cautious and take extra precautions because of health issues, but a healthy economy is essential to ensure people can live safely, and protect those who can't; a carefully managed return to work and as normal a life as possible is necessary, and the vaccine is one way of doing this.

I approve of the vaccine 100%, but there is a distinct possibility that this reckless 'opening up' will render it useless. With nearly half the population still unvaccinated and unlimited mixing, there is a greater chance of vaccine-resistant strains developing.

The return to work is not being 'carfully managed'. Nothing is.

I am not a violent woman,,but on reading his comments this morning, I would like to kick his a***.
The selfish,stupid, excuse of a politician.

The language we use around illness has always been weird. That's just another example. Fighting, battles, it's all horrible and nonsensical.

Perfectly sensible and realistic statement, particularly the part urging people to take the vaccine.

There will always be those who need to be ultra cautious and take extra precautions because of health issues, but a healthy economy is essential to ensure people can live safely, and protect those who can't; a carefully managed return to work and as normal a life as possible is necessary, and the vaccine is one way of doing this.

Awful.
As well as the obvious insensitivity and ‘I’m alright Jack-ery’, he sounds very ignorant.
This ‘government’ just gets worse and worse.
The words ‘I despair’ are well overused; but I do, I really do

I think that it demonstrates the attitude of those in government. I would also suggest that it much easier to remain uncowered if you have direct access to the best medical care this country has to offer as opposed to the mercies of 111.

Yep- same here!

How very Trump of him.

After all the mismanagement of the current government, they can F off if they think I'm going to take their advice to risk the health of myself and my family in order to hasten their goal of herd immunity.

So all of us adhering to science guidelines have been cowering have we?

I would rather suggest that all those who didn’t follow scientific guidelines were selfish.

No, I wasn’t suggesting that Cummings leaked the comment, more that it was allowed to go out unsanitised.

Typical tory heartless stupidity, really. I shall continue to cower and ignore his predictable idiocy.

Though I appreciate that his message plays into the hands of the 'anti everything' brigade.

Twitter is often not monitored - it’s why I find it interesting. No 10 policy is presumably now to have as many catch it as possible assuming ‘only people dying from Covid are the over 80’s’ or whatever Johnson said. Whilst paying no attention to the risk of developing variants from this policy.

Hancock presumably had to go because he was more cautious (which means it definitely wasn’t Cummings behind the leak, however much he thinks Hancock was useless, as he is more cautious).

The message does seem to play into the hands of those who call the cautious ‘sheep’ and accuse mask-wearers of cowardice.

I am not surprised at the fact that the government is putting the economy before the people, as that is the Tory way, but I am quite surprised at the fact that the message has gone out in this way. It is usually far mor sanitised. Who is managing their Comms now that Cummings is out of the picture.