Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology at UCL and a leading member of SAGE, says that mask-wearing and social distancing will need to stay in place “forever”, not only for Covid but also “to reduce other [diseases]”.
The top Government adviser and long-time member of the Communist Party of Britain (once nicknamed “Stalin’s nanny” because she tried to smuggle Communist literature into a political conference in a baby’s pram), told Channel 5 News that measures adopted by Brits over the past 14 months should now become a part of our “normal” routine behaviour, just as wearing car seat belts has become commonplace.
Vaccines are a really important part of pandemic control but it is only one part. [A] test, trace and isolate system, [as well as] border controls, are really essential. And the third thing is people’s behaviour. That is, the behaviour of social distancing, of… making sure there’s good ventilation [when you’re indoors], or if there’s not, wearing face masks, and [keeping up] hand and surface hygiene.
We will need to keep these going in the long term, and that will be good not only for Covid but also to reduce other [diseases] at a time when the NHS is [struggling]… I think forever, to some extent…
I think there’s lots of different behaviours that we have changed in our lives. We now routinely wear seatbelts – we didn’t use to. We now routinely pick up dog poo in the parks – we didn’t use to. When people see that there is a threat and there is something they can do to reduce that [to protect] themselves, their loved ones and their communities, what we have seen over this last year is that people do that.
This line – that “what we have seen over the last year is that people do that” – is faintly reminiscent of Professor Neil Ferguson’s comments when looking back to when Italy imposed a nationwide lockdown last February: “[China] is a communist one-party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with [lockdown] in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.” Professor Michie has realised that she – and the Government – can “get away with” telling people to continue abiding by Covid regulations.
Professor Michie continues:
I think that we can just begin to adopt routines. When we go out of the house, we check that we’ve got our phone, we’ve got our keys, we’ve got tissues, we’ve got a face mask in case we need to use it. It’s not going to be a huge big deal, the kind of behaviours that we are talking about.
Unsurprisingly, Channel 5 News made absolutely no effort to scrutinise these claims. The programme’s presenter raised no objection to the idea that mask-wearing and social distancing could continue “forever”, resorting only to friendly laughter. Professor Michie’s co-panellist, a fellow scientist at UCL, Dr Shikta Das, said: “I think Susan has made a very good point here,” adding that the vaccine roll-out has created a “false sense of security”. She concluded: “I don’t think we are yet ready to unlock.” How’s all that for balance! At last Ofcom won’t have any complaints about this programme.
The video is worth watching in full.
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Its clear some members of the SAGE committee are so left wing that their objective is to destroy our economy and way of life. Their advice has little to do with Covid or the current data or accurate science. I still see very little benefit in testing the asymptomatic except to swell the profits of big pharma selling the test kits. Calling positive tests without symptoms cases is the wrong use of the word. Cases become cases when there are symptoms which need treatment, so if we used English correctly the situation would be so much better than the government scare propaganda would have us believe. It would be good if LDS gave the daily percentage of deaths due to Covid and a rough estimate of the number of deaths due to the effects of lockdowns, which I suspect would be far higher.
Has there ever been a virus in the history of the world that has required permanent change in behaviour from the whole world?
Quite.
Well that ugly commie cow certainly needs a mask
Basil Fawlty had a moment when he exclaimed:
“My god, you’re ugly”
whilst looking at a nurse.
This is exactly what I said when I saw the picture ATL.
Sorry Susan I’m really bad at forming new habits and it takes me years to catch up with new trends. It took me 10 years before I picked up Harry Potter so for this how about never!
Hateful, spiteful old hag. Go back to Russia – though I doubt that they’d want her either.
They would appreciate her lolly. Not that she would surrender it for the benefit of others you understand.
A commie chosen to advise. Why not add a mass murderer to SAGE? Or somebody from a mental home.
You couldn’t make it up, the mess the clown Johnson and his gang (and pathetic Labour) have made of this relatively inconsequential virus. If ever there was a reminder that Government, especially Big Government is the number one danger to your health and wealth, this whole Covid fiasco is it.
Once a dirty stinkin commie, always a dirty stinkin commie.
TO THE GULAG!!
The frightening thing is that she and people like her are effectively ruling the country now and no questioning of their policies is allowed in the press and media under OFCOM rules.
I wouldn’t want to be within 6 kilometres of her never mind 6 metres! And if she insists on wearing a mask forever, at least it will hide her ugly Commie mug!
I know that I will be preaching to the converted but here are a few of my thoughts.
That this interview and Michie’s views can provoke such a visceral response pretty much tells you all you need to know about the inherent value of what she had to say. That socialising – whether at home, in a pub, or shopping – should be seen as something that is potentially dangerous rather than a normal function of human behaviour is a rejection of our common humanity. It is utterly divorced from our lived experience up to March 2020 and ultimately seeks to sew division, suspicion, and fear by encouraging people to permanently view each other as potential carriers of disease and death.
She sees masks, etc. as an expression of virtue and solidarity. She lays claim to a higher kind of morality that she is handing down to us like a modern day Moses handing down a new set of commandments. However, the truth is that her vision of the future, her philosophy, is inherently misanthropic. What she wants to see as a ‘new normal’ actually impairs perfectly normal human interactions and ultimately damages human relations and relationships. To compare masks… Read more »
I’ve provided numerous depositions to Reiner Fuellmich’s Corona Committee because if my messages develop sufficient traction that they can ignore me, I will likely be assassinated.
Strange though it’ll sound, that is precisely my strategy.
I’ve made is clear that I will not stop. I’m capable of unusual levels of determination. It’s the characteristic which underscores my prior successes in science.
Reiner told me that “whistleblowers are at maximum risk when they stop speaking out & that continuous action is the best protection you can get. Stop & you’ll probably disappear”.
Absolutely – can confirm from my childhood in the former Eastern bloc.
Please do not stop!
At the risk of seeming like a teenage fan, thank you for all you have done and said and continue to do and say. Thank you for being with us on here.
God bless.
This mad woman must have been to Peppa Pig’s school:
https://youtu.be/B6C5-x4gllE
Who is she to decide what is and isn’t a big deal? The arrogance and conceit with which this hitherto unknown academic is allowed to pontificate and spout her rules for how others should go about their lives takes my breath away.
Perhaps someone would like to lock her in a sealed room with asbestos and anthrax for a few days, obviously with her mask. The particles in both of these are larger than those of the virus so a Government sanctioned bit of cloth face covering should provide her with all the life saving kit she needs.
Perhaps she would like to volunteer to do it just so she can prove her point
Hopefully anyone watching those two will sus that they are obviously absolutely bats!! I have never taken notice of what she said and never will!!
Somebody please tell this woman Michie that life is NOT to be spent avoiding diseases! It’s for truly living, making the most out of each day, fulfilling in whichever way you find best. And that’s what I’m now back to doing, whatever Johnson says. Masks and distancing have no place in my life thank you.
But that’s not how Communists think. They are are danger to our way of life- always have been.
We’ve known for years that wearing of typical medical masks have absolutely no impact on transmission of respiratory viruses. Some types of masks (cloth/homemade) result in increased levels of lab confirmed respiratory tract illnesses.
Be aware that this person has no training or practise in matters to do with biological sciences.
This is like asking Fred Dibnah for predictions on trends in fashion.
And Fred would have been more accurate in his predictions!
A friend knew Fred Dibnah. He reckoned that in real life he was just the same as on TV, except for more liberal use of the F-word. He was so knowledgeable as to become quite boring when he was in his cups.
Makes me wonder what Michie is like in real life. Imagine her as a mother.
Fuckin hell – how far are we stretching the bounds of imagination?
At least Fred was good television and a proper Gent.
So angry. Can’t speak.
Masks may hide facial features but perhaps she would also use the only safe method of avoiding transmission and remove herself from our airwaves . For goodness sake she is a psychologist not a clinician and is a dangerous individual for our society; the media must be stopped from interviewing these individuals and turn to the Great Barrington Declaration group / evidence is they are correct!
This moronic woman is clearly not following the science. Maybe Matt Hancock, who always does of course, should have a cautionary word with her.
This woman is EVIL. End of story.
So what the fuck were the vaccines for?
To buy time to set up the 5G system – once that’s running every single thing you do will be monitored. Just wait ’til a camera in every room of your home is demanded. Think that’s fantasy?
Time is running out, and people are fiddling.
But who dare speak what’s really in their minds?
Is this woman insane or evil? Discuss!
Grotesque as the lady is, she is saying what we all know is quite likely to happen.
Once you allow yourself to be treated like a bio-weapon and put under arbitrary house arrest by the state, you will put up with anything – masks, lockdowns, mandated tests, vaccines, no foreign travel, the lot. For as long as they want, which will be forever.
They know it, we know it.
I can’t bear to watch this. Was there any mention whatsoever of the immune system and its function i.e. it’s there to allow us to carry on life without having to be overly obsessed by viruses and bacteria? Or how the world has managed to get as populated as it is at the moment without permanent widespread face mask wearing up until 2020? Or how the function of the upper respiratory tract immune system would be impacted by permanent covering of the entry point to it i.e. the nose? I would imagine the answer will be no.
I would imagine you’re right.
They used to burn witches. Maybe we can consider if that should become part of our behaviour ? It’s as scientific as her nonsense. Maybe we could burn her and see if she melts. If she does not we can stick her in a mask and say she is not a witch as she never died. Job done ✔️ Actually a bag over the head of this vile creature might work as well as a face whatever.
Hey Susan. What type of mask and in what setting and for what disease ? No ? Nothing to add ? Prick.
Communist and psychopath. She’d be happier in N Korea
This cunt needs burning alive.
How is a known communist advising our government…oh right thats part of the plan.
How about a big fat NO to masks, i havent been wearing them since November since I finally woke up to the big fat lies of our leaders!
Still at least people are realising. In the local bakery today where they still only allow 2 people in the shop, the assistant told off these two men for coming in to make it three and one turned around and said, do we live in Nazi Germany? Yes sadly we now do.
Boycott the bakery!
At least the presenter had the good sense to laugh at her. On The BBC, her insane bullshit would have been greeted with solemn reverence. It’s time to start making fun of these people I say.
“When people see that there is a threat…”
I can certainly see a threat, and I’m not talking about a manufactured virus.