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President Michael D. Higgins has urged people to do “everything possible” and redouble their efforts to avoid infection in a special message released six months after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic.
In tonight’s speech, the president said that defeating the virus requires “positive commitments from all of us.”
We must encourage each other to contemplate the “light that will surely come from all our efforts when they are renewed and redoubled.”
He said the core values of solidarity, caring, compassion and kindness would help us follow the guidelines and protect others in an “act of good citizenship.”
“I believe that now, with our schools reopened, we must muster a new determination to give our efforts, as the late John B Keane would say, ‘our best almighty.’
President Higgins said we must address the “loneliness experienced by those who have been separated from their former supporters. We must acknowledge and address the loss of the social, economic and recreational practices that were their ties to life.”
While violations of solidarity in our efforts to combat Covid-19 had “damaged” social cohesion, concerns about these violations should not “dislodge us from our common purpose” of suppressing the virus by following public health advice.
Looking ahead, the president said that the post-Covid economy “must have care as a central purpose” with compassion in both our use of language and the way we act.
Read the full President’s speech
He expected people to communicate with kindness and not with “cold language that invokes fear.” Rehearsing for “Doomsday” was useless. “We should encourage each other and draw strength from that.”
President Higgins concluded: “Let us all agree that the greatest act of appreciation we can show to all those workers who take risks for us in essential services, day and night, is to redouble our efforts to prevent infection. Let’s do it together. “
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