Too many people not taking virus seriously
PUBLIC health is the responsibility of us all – it is there in the name.
When someone is sick we have a responsibility to help them, that way we can all rely on the help we need when we fall ill.
It is that behaviour that makes a country or society a community and a home.
So, the other side of that responsibility is to look after ourselves, to look after each other and take actions to avoid sickness where we can.
Today we face Covid-19. Millions have had it, thousands have died, but still some aren’t taking it seriously. We each have a duty to behave responsibly, to act in everyone’s interests and to take the right precautions.
You must wear a mask if you can, keep washing your hands, avoid large groups and, if you encounter someone who has it, to isolate and not spread it to others.
Spreading Covid-19 will take us back to the spring when everything had to close and lock down.
Spreading the virus will cost jobs and lives, risking your own life and those around you.
We have seen too many photographs and videos of groups of people on beaches, at street parties and in shops, not taking Covid19 seriously, but more than 40,000 people in UK have already died and when the virus spreads it will take thousands more.
So, I call on each and every one of you to think seriously about what you do.
Remember what this virus does, remember it kills the weak, the elderly and those of us with brown or black skin more easily than other groups.
For a while – six months, a year or two –we cannot go back to normal, we cannot behave like Covid19 isn’t here, we have to be scared of it. The rules against meeting in big groups are there to save lives not to stop fun, but for now, for this time, we have to fight the virus and change how we behave.
Stop the virus by behaving responsibly and following public health guidelines, not meeting in big groups, and staying at a safe one metre distance.