Thread by @JuliaHB1

A message to all those who think that people wanting an end to lockdown is selfish and don't care about their fellow citizens. Please share this thread... 1/

You can clap for carers, put a blue heart in your Twitter bio & a kid's rainbow drawing in your front window all you like, but if you support an extension to this lockdown, YOU ARE SELFISH. 2/

If you think it's right to be "cautious" and wait "just a few more weeks" just to be "safe" because, hey, you're not that bothered about having 7 people in your home or ordering drinks at a pub bar, YOU ARE SELFISH. 3/

If you think you're a "good person" because you believe health matters more than wealth, because you don't understand that those two things go hand in hand and you cannot have one without the other, YOU ARE SELFISH. 4/

If you continue to ignore the pleas of the 5 million people on NHS waiting lists for surgery or the 300,000 who didn't get cancer referrals because you demanded the NHS only treated Covid patients, YOU ARE SELFISH. 5/

If you don't care about the millions of jobs lost or on hold, the businesses in many thousands of pounds of debt, owing rent, bounceback loans and furlough cash just to stay closed or reopen and not break even, YOU ARE SELFISH. 6/

If you don't care about the rights of millions of people in this country who want to visit their close family living abroad but can't afford to self-isolate, get tested 3 times and miss a week of paid work on their return, YOU ARE SELFISH. 7/

If you think that millions of young healthy people should have their lives and livelihoods - and their chance to find love - wrecked just because you want to be 100% safe from a virus that will never be 100% safe, YOU ARE SELFISH. 8/

If you've been supporting lockdown while working from home, sitting in your PJs on Zoom, while you happily require other people to go out to work to make and deliver your orders from Amazon, Deliveroo & Ocado, YOU ARE SELFISH. 9/

If you're happy for lockdown to continue because your life is pretty much back to normal and you don't really like pubs and restaurants, it's a good excuse not to see your family, and you don't want to go abroad anyway, YOU ARE SELFISH. 10/

Stop pretending you're the NICE people, the selfless people who have sacrificed so much. You've just given up your daily commute & a ski holiday, while you demand that millions of others give up their jobs, their businesses, their families and their freedom. YOU ARE SELFISH. 11/

We need to end this lockdown & get back to normal life. Those at higher risk can take extra precautions.

If you want to spend the rest of your life hiding under your bed, you can do so. But you have no right to demand the rest of us must do it too.

STOP
BEING
SELFISH

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