SAGE member and Director of the Wellcome Trust Sir Jeremy Farrar says lockdowns are “awful” – citing their effects on mental health, education and job opportunities, to name a few – and that Brits must learn to live with Covid without restrictions. Sir Jeremy is “optimistic” that lockdown will end on June 21st, however, he believes that guidelines on restrictive measures such as mask-wearing should remain past this date. The Mail has the story.
Sir Jeremy… said the measures had had “very profound consequences” on the nation’s mental health, education and jobs.
But he was hopeful that the Government would be able to open up on June 21st based on the data so far – but stressed the next few weeks would be “crucial”.
He pointed out that more than eight in 10 adults would be vaccinated by then, adding that he was “very confident” the jabs were working.
“There is a danger of not opening up and this infection is now a human endemic infection. It’s not going away,” he said. “Humanity will live with this virus now forever. And there will be new variants. This year, next year, the year after, there will be new variants – and we will have to learn to cope with that.
“Lockdowns are awful. They are a mark that you haven’t been able to control the virus in other ways. They have very profound consequences on mental health, on education, on job opportunities particularly affecting people on lower incomes.
“Societies can’t stay in that mode forever.”
Earlier this week Boris Johnson said that while there was nothing in the data to suggest the June 21st ending of lockdown could not go ahead, the numbers were “still ambiguous”.
But Sir Jeremy said he was hopeful the jabs had “separated” the inevitable rise of infections which comes with easing restrictions and the subsequent increase in hospitalisations.
Asked whether he thought the country would be able to open up on June 21st, he added: “If you really push me today, I would say I’m more optimistic because I think that the vaccines have been so incredibly successful.”
He added that based on current data, although he would lift restrictions, sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.
Sir Jeremy also said: “If hospitalisations have remained low and deaths have remained low, I would accept a degree of transmission and I would open up.
“I think this is the hardest decision, frankly, of the last 18 months actually. I am optimistic in the sense that I do believe that vaccines are incredibly safe and very effective.”
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“Sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors” is twaddle. That’s NOT “sensible advice”. There isn’t any research that proves that there is even a statistically significant benefit to mask wearing, let alone a substantial positive effect.
Nothing demonstrates your commitment to the Covid Cult more than donning a mask. If you KNOW that it’s useless and you still do it because you are afraid to take a stand against tyranny, then shame on you. If you are a true believer in Medieval Medicine, of course you’re free to cover your face.
The mask mandate in the UK was introduced in the Summer of 2020 when “deaths within 28 days of a positive test” were in the low double digits per day. It’s a political move and has absolutely nothing to do with “following the Science”. Clearly, the “Scientists” who are relentlessly plugging the useless face-flags are BEHAVIOURAL Scientists, not proponents of hard Science like physics and microbiology and they should be told to shut up and sit down unless they have something USEFUL to add to the conversation.
Susan Mitchie is on the list of people to be tried for crimes against humanity when this shitshow is finally taken… Read more »
Fauci’s mate Farrar backing away? Things bad, Jem?
OK, come out with it: “Children should not be vaccinated, the rna vaccines are too dangerous.”
Say it. Protect yourself. Say it.
Vaccines must have been so incredibly successful last summer too since there was no increase in infections. Oops
Sir Jeremy Farrar appears to know a lot more about the virus than he has revealed to us. The Fauci emails investigation suggest he could have helped engineer a cover up for the Wuhan lab release….along with Patrick Vallance.
https://youtu.be/DNxoVFZwMYw
Excellent link.Should be shared widely.Posted this comment in another comment
“Thanks for the link.An excellent presentation what happened durng the firts days in the outbreak.UK very much involved in a potential cover up.Share this video videly still available youtube”.
Wearing a mask indoors and not being able to sit at the bar in a pub is NOT normal.
Give people the option of taking these ‘precautions’ and let the rest of us get on with our lives. I’m more at risk driving the 18-mile round trip to and from work than I am from this virus.
I’ve only come across a handful of people that have had it, but know of many more who were badly affected by the vaccine.
Farrar is one of the perpetrators. I’m looking forward to giving evidence under oath.
“I do believe that vaccines are incredibly safe and very effective.” Yep 1260 deaths and nearly 1 million adverse reactions safe. 😡
Hanging on to his job. Not worth listening to at all now, and it may be that the whole group has lost reputation with many normal people.
They just can’t let go of their fucking masks, can they. Not quite ready yet to give up their control of the British Idiot.
He’s part of Sage and therefore anything, literally anything, he says is a load of bollocks and should be ignored.
I was going to call him a vaccine whore, but upon reflection, it’s clear he is a vaccine pimp. Scum of the earth.
Farrar was one of the names mentioned in the Fauci releases, and was included in communications between Fauci and Vallance.
He is NOT to be trusted.
More psy-ops! This psychopath is one of those responsible for this unbelievable tyranny we’re living in. I wouldn’t believe a word out of his mouth! Oh but he’s trying to come across as such a caring nice fellow, all the while pushing the fake vaccines and subtly manipulating the poor brainwashed fools. It will be us bad selfish people who claim sovereignty over our own bodies who will be the problem. They’ll have the brainwashed screaming to have us put in camps before long!!
Another parasite upon humanity to add to the list.
Watch the HIGHWIRE- and, in particular, the Jaxen Report (starts after about 30 min).
It is the most stunning presentation on SARS-CoV-2 I’ve seen. Try to follow the email chain.
Which particular report were you referring to?
What an utterly despicable example of humanity. He is what I consider to be an exemplar of:
Top Quality RUBBISH.
Utter shite.
A total oxygen thief.
Sir Jeremy is a Bill Gates footsoldier and his name crops up in the ‘Fauci files’. This is a preemptive PR exercise designed to neutralise the flack which is sure to come.
This is the same Farrar involved in Fauci’s cover up of the Wuhan leak. See Conservative Woman for the story.
They know masks do not work in the medical sense, in fact, they are a joke. But they do know they work in the coercion sense, that the majority hate them and believe if they get jabbed that they will go. Jabs and Passports = Money. We are all cash cows now
We had a pair of electricians in our house last week, all masked up and distanced from one-another while working. While I was in a separate room, it was remarkable to hear one complaining to the other that the fart he’d let off stunk.
So not only did the social distancing do nothing to prevent the ass fumes from reaching his co-worker, but the mask proved useless too. I’m pretty certain fart particles and ‘debris’ will be larger than those in airborne viruses, yet it got through his mask.
Someone described it as trying to stop a tennis ball with a football net
The better analogy is that of trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain-link fence.
He added that based on current data, although he would lift restrictions, sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.
How on earth is mask wearing sensible? It doesnt prevent covid in any way. It stops you breathing properly, an odd thing way to fight a respiratory disease. There is no science at all behind it. This clearly isnt living with covid and getting on with our lives.
Good to hear that more and more in London are going maskless. Let us hope that this spreads out to the rest of the country.
He’s only interested in compliance, not masks per se.
Another name added to my little black book.
“Sir Jeremy Farrar”
Note the establishment label – so frequent amongst SAGE and allies in comparison with the reliable scientists.
… and, of course ‘The Welcome Trust’
… which links to the milk-and-water observation :
“sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.”
Not really a ‘scientist’, then.
A former scientist, or at least someone with scientific ability, which sadly lends him credibility.
Not sensible advice at all. Illogical and perverse advice.
This article carries the wrong headline. It should read: ‘Gates Foundation placeman anticipates prosecution, starts to get his story straight’
I’d like to propose an additional 5 years in the slammer for this dickhead’s glib comments.
On top of his death sentence for treason?
Even the criteria for ‘pandemics’ was changed just prior to the arrival of covid, we must not forget the details of this plan
… and – again – read the Council of Europe report on the Swine ‘Flu debacle if you think this shit-show came out of nowhere. The same strategy was attempted, but collapsed.
If Farrar, Michie, Johnson, Whitty, Hancock, Ferguson et al were in prison and the BBC stopped broadcasting and the newspapers stopped printing and masks, testing and Covid ‘vaccinations’ were abolished and everyone went to work, on holiday, to the pub, nothing bad would happen, in fact, life would be peachy.
June the 21st is the proverbial fork in the road for humanity. You can either grab freedom with both hands and get back on with life, with all the highs, lows and opportunities that this brings. Or you can choose stifling, mind-numbing servitude. It’s up to you, not Johnson and his cronies. Personally, I will accept the risks and choose freedom.
Not humanity, but certainly the UK.
Humanity in states like Texas and Florida got past all this covid nonsense months ago.
Sir Jeremy is nothing more than a vaxx shill!
This is not an article about anything other than enforcing vaccines. It is a propaganda piece for the vaxx, vaxx, vaxx!!
At the bottom of this article is his prediction that all over 12s will be vaxxed by the end of the year and that the vaxx could be extended all children over FIVE if the vaccines ‘are found to be safe and effective’ PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL!
Nothing of interest in this article at all and not worth reading in full except to remind us we are truly in the grip of Nazis intent on harming us in every conceivable way.
They want children vaxxed as per the family unit, the Vaccine Passport is the ultimate goal. To control movement
Yes. Because it won’t work unless you have everyone vaxxed.
I cringe at the notion the mask mandate is just brushed off as a minor restriction. Along with distancing it is THE biggest stumbling block.
Yeah, what would be normal about, say, a nightclub with everyone masked? Except a “specialist” one of course.
It’s really not a hard decision, we have two alternatives really, on the one hand we go free and let what happens happen (very little I suspect). On the other hand, we would have to stay restricted forever, turn the “temporary” nature of this totalitarian state into a permanent one, and life forever in fear of varients. In this latter course, the economy collapses as hyperinflation follows constant money printing to sustain society and we end up in a second dark age and mass starvation grips the world.
If we are not freed on the 21st of June, we will never be free again, it’s as simple as that.
The authoritarian state has taken a veritable route march forward. Whatever freedom we are allowed later this month will be only a couple of steps back.