UK Health Minister Sparks Fury By Urging People Not To 'Cower From' COVID

[appalachiablue]

Source: Reuters

LONDON, July 25 (Reuters) - British health minister Sajid Javid was accused of insulting coronavirus victims on Sunday after urging people to take a COVID-19 vaccine and "learn to live with, rather than cower from, this virus".

Javid, who replaced Matt Hancock as health minister last month after his predecessor stepped down for breaking COVID rules by kissing an aide in his office, began his job by urging people to learn to live with the virus.

Britain, which has one of the highest official COVID death tolls, has shifted its strategy to fight coronavirus from using restrictions to limit its spread to opening up society in the hope vaccines will protect most people from serious illness.

Cases are high, but so is uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, and officials argue the shift is needed to help businesses in sectors such as hospitality and the night-time economy. Writing on Twitter, Javid said on Saturday he had recovered after testing positive for COVID...

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-health-minister-sparks-fury-by-urging-people-not-cower-from-covid-2021-07-25/

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[Evolve Dammit]

1. One does not cower from an invisible microbe. One can certainly take necessary precautions though.nt

[appalachiablue]

2. Mr. libertarian tough guy not could

use a visit to the woodshed out back with one of the adults. Teach him about the words he used so carelessly.

[paleotn]

3. Translation.....

Die bravely because of our complete and total Covid failure. Keep voting Tory, England and this is what you get. DieSantis with a BBC accent.

[Delphinus]

4. This.

Unfortunately you translated it correctly.

[BlueWavePsych]

7. Another Tory disaster

[appalachiablue]

9. +1

[Ford_Prefect]

5. Yet another Gormless Tory Twit.

Thank you Vladimir for the gits who keep on giving.

[Layzeebeaver]

6. we must do as our tory capitalist masters require

Loved the "night time" economy quip. WTF?

[Hiawatha Pete]

8. Taking a cue from his conservative brother from another mother...

Ontario, Canada's very own Doug Ford

[appalachiablue]

11. Yes who could forget this one

[IronLionZion]

16. Is that the dude who was caught smoking crack on video?

I thought he died.

[Hiawatha Pete]

20. The late Rob Ford was the crack smoking mayor of Toronto.

Doug Ford is Crackhead Rob's brother and since 2018 is
premier of Ontario partly thanks to our 3 party system where the vote on the left was split.

[DallasNE]

10. Wrong Focus

Had he said "get vaccinated, mask up and social distance, rather than cower from this virus" there would be no issue.

[Grokenstein]

25. Instead, he thinks the virus can be defeated by loud faith and a puffed-out chest.

Come on, Karma! I know you're backlogged AF, but this clown's really asking for it.

[OnDoutside]

12. And to think there's a worse British Asian member of the cabinet, Priti Patel.

When you think of Priti Patel, think Mike Pompeo crossed with Stephen Miller.

[appalachiablue]

13. Ugh, that is bad news, says Thatcher is her hero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel

[OnDoutside]

19. Yes, a truly terrible human being.

[OnDoutside]

23. Have a look at this piece about her background.

The Truth About Priti Patel: The Anti-Immigrant Mindset

[appalachiablue]

26. Serious stuff, she makes Nikki Haley look

a bit tamer from what I saw. Bad news..

[dalton99a]

14. +1. Sadistic, nasty self-hating creature

[IronLionZion]

24. Wingnuts are deplorable regardless of race or gender

[IronLionZion]

15. Preventable disease is not quite like Nazi bombings during WWII

This dude is no Winston Churchill. It's great that Javid, Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro, etc survived COVID but a lot of others have not. People can be vaxxed and masked without cowering from a virus that has killed millions worldwide and is mutating to become even more transmissable.

[bahboo]

17. the fact that a dangerous worldwide pandemic, can be so politicized....

shows we are a deeply flawed species...

[appalachiablue]

18. It certainly does, we're quite flawed

[PSPS]

21. Yes - "help businesses in sectors such as hospitality and the night-time economy" uber alles!!111!!

By now, it's obvious the vaccine is not really a reliable vaccine (i.e., prevents infection,) at least as far as delta goes. That's not to say it isn't worth getting. Everyone should be getting it. However, there are too many cases of vaccinated people still getting infected by the delta variant. The vaccines being administered will definitely protect you from getting serious symptoms and keep you out of the hospital, and that, alone, makes it worth it, for sure. However, if you still get infected, you will still be vulnerable to long-termer side effects such as cardio, brain fog, etc. Plus, you will be spreading it to others. Several of my clients, fully vaccinated in April, have later tested positive. Coincidentally, one of them was in the UK when they tested positive and had to quarantine. He described his symptoms as "just thought my allergies were acting up. I don't know where we could have gotten it. We never do anything." He needed no hospitalization and just waited out the quarantine and traveled back to the US.

Now these nutballs, like this charlatan Sajid Javid, strive to keep people in the denial stage to "help businesses in sectors such as hospitality and the night-time economy." OMG!!!! The horrors!!! People might not be able to go out freely to stay drunk!!11!! Get a tattoo!!1 Just pretend it's all over!1!!

[appalachiablue]

22. Freedum to get high, wasted & infected.

Make sure your bill is paid before you collapse. Libertarian pro corporate, pro greed, toxic individualism and selfish ideology. Haters.

Long Haul Covid can be serious, wreck your health, life and finances for months or years.