Responding to the Government’s plan on Living with Covid, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson Daisy Cooper MP said:
The Conservatives have been planning to end free Covid testing for more than two months, yet still we have no clarity on what this means in reality.
Boris Johnson wasn’t even able to answer the simple question of whether any free testing plans would be kept in place for essential workers, such as NHS staff, or for those who are clinically vulnerable.
This so-called plan has been cobbled together on the back of a fag packet. People are being asked to exercise personal responsibility whilst wearing a blindfold and having their hands tied behind their backs.
Once again this shambolic Government is taking our NHS and care services for granted whilst hanging vulnerable people out to dry.
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As someone who has caring responsibility for vulnerable parents, both of whom are clinically vulnerable to covid, this is extremely worrying.
My Father has dementia ( mild to moderate at present), but, as anyone who knows anything about dementia. They are extremely vulnerable to any infection that can bring on delirium, making someone go from moderate dementia to advanced stages of dementia that they do not bounce back from.
With cold and flu, symptoms appear before being infectious and so I know to stay away….That is not the case with covid and I could be infectious without even knowing it.
Having access to tests allow me to reduce that risk, though not fully.
There is no way I could afford to pay for multiple tests a week, especially if we see price gauging as we have seen with other things during this pandemic.
Yet again this Government is abandoning the most vulnerable sections of society in order to preserve the liberties of everyone else.
Where is the enquiry into Covid? If now is the time to abandon all restrictions, then what possible reason can the Government have not to start the enquiry? But then wonders what the point would be anyway, it will cost millions of pounds and I very much doubt the arrogance of the Government will learn any lessons from it anyway
I get a horrible feeling that, in his desperation to regain public adulation, the PM has jumped the gun on removing all COVID restrictions.
When can I have my second booster, please?
“Now is the time for personal responsibility”, says Boris Johnson this afternoon.
‘Nuff said. You couldn’t make it up in an alternative universe.
@David Raw. Fully agree – and this comes from a Prime Minister who refuses to take responsibility for anything!
Matt I can only sympathise with your situation it must be a constant worry and with a government seemingly so out of touch with the way so many people have to lead their lives it is most distressing.
David, your statement echoes my exact thoughts when reading Johnson’s words in this morning’s headlines, do as I say not as I do!!
We do have to get on with life as best we can but we can doso reasonably whilst maintaining a few easy to do proceedures. Wear a mask in enclosed spaces, isolate if you have the virus. test befor gatherings. With testing available to enable this and also those with the virus to know when they are clear would put a damper on the spread and help the vulnerable to join in with life with slightly less worry.
I will do thesethings and I hope that others will too.
New variants are very likely and their severity may be mild or extreme. Lets do the simple stuff ahead of ‘too late’.
Final thought. Resposibility! Boris Johnson has no concept of his responsiblity as an individual or as a so called leader.
Might the ending of “free” Covid testing, which presents the deficiency myth/fraud as being more important than the the lives of people and the pro social management of society, be an excellent opportunity to destroy the Conservatives’ damaging economic policy of Neoliberal Economics?
Similarly, might our party promote the awareness that tax only contributes to the payment of governmental costs and that H.M.G must spend more than it taxes back so that there is money for citizens and for the private sector?
Might we also bring to the fore differentiated inflation factors such as supply chain difficulties?