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nthea Turner has been accused of fat shaming and attacking disabled people with a spiel on Twitter about the NHS and the Covid pandemic.
The 60-year-old former Blue Peter host shared a cartoon of a large woman in a wheelchair, carrying a McDonald’s bag, warning a woman without a mask: “Put on a mask! You’re putting my health at risk. “
She captioned the image: “Go ahead!”
He continued to criticize the “selfish attitudes” of people whom he accused of “lazy lifestyle choices” that “put us all in danger.”
She wrote: “I am outraged by the selfish attitudes of people who cannot see that we are actually ‘all in this together’ and the deliberate destruction has an impact on all of us, especially those with other diseases pushed down and the charities. they are losing funding.
“We have to take responsibility.”
Turner added: “If the government put half the amount of money in health it has to lock us up, we would not be in this mess. Keeping McDonald’s open and closed gyms that many councils run and outdoors – Great “
The presenter shared the image on the day the Office for National Statistics revealed that disabled people accounted for six out of 10 of Covid-19 deaths last year.
Labor MP Jess Phillips was one of those who criticized Turner’s comments, saying they “almost killed me.” She added: “Stop with the fucking hierarchy whose life matters!”
Others accused her of “shaming the fat” and making fun of disabled people.
An indignant mother replied: “How dare you, how ignorant a person can be! I have a son who is a full time wheelchair user and is overweight due to his medication, he is very vulnerable from a medical point of view and it is up to us, who are capable, to wear a mask to keep him safe.
“V. poor choice of an image for your argument. “
Another commented: “I was wondering what the point of this was. The lady in the wheelchair tells the truth, that an unmasked person is putting his life at risk. Then I realized that you are actually embarrassing a disabled person. Good job, how nice of you. I hope he’s really proud of himself. “
One person tweeted: “Delighted to see that Anthea Turner has become the latest celebrity to emerge from a long absence from the public eye with a master’s degree in epidemiology.”
Turner responded to some of the critics, writing in a response: “We have to take responsibility and stop using the NHS as plaster.”
When asked what Turner’s late sister Ruth, who died aged 15 after suffering from spina bifida, would do with her post, she replied, “I’ll tell you, Ruth was born with a body that didn’t work and would have done anything. thing having legs that worked, was not voluntarily destroyed by lifestyle choices that ultimately put us all in danger. “
In another response, he said: “Sadly, those of us who have genuinely tried to protect the NHS by taking care of our bodies are paying a terrible price for those who have chosen lazy lifestyles.”
Earlier Thursday, Turner had hailed journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer as a “goddess” after she said that a scientist could wear a gimp mask until the end of time for what he cared about, but ordinary people are sick of face masks.
Turner has been contacted for comment.
The 90s pop duo tweeted that one of them passed Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 without wearing a mask.
One of Fred or Richard Fairbrass boasted that the staff were “lovely” and suggested that they had been “thanked” for expressing their views on the effect of blocking the coronavirus in Britain.
