Whether or not ‘Freedom Day’ takes place on July 19th, we won’t truly return to normal until at least next spring, says Chris Whitty, warning that it is “going to take quite a long time to get back to normality”. The MailOnline has the story.
England’s Chief Medical Officer hinted that some curbs may have to be rolled back later this year when the NHS faces a “difficult winter”.
But, in a glimmer of hope[!], Professor Whitty claimed he anticipated that the U.K. could return to the “status quo” by next spring.
However, he admitted that he would be “surprised” if British life managed to return to pre-Covid normality before then, adding it was “going to take quite a long time to get back to normality”.
Covid hospital admissions and deaths are expected to rise in the weeks and months after July 19th, when all social distancing measures are due to be lifted in England.
Officials are also bracing for a rise in other respiratory illnesses that have been suppressed by lockdown measures during the pandemic, such as flu.
But it’s hoped enough people will have been vaccinated or protected due to prior infection by next spring that the coronavirus will no longer trigger a deadly surge.
Speaking to the Local Government Association’s annual conference, Professor Whitty said: “There will almost certainly be a Covid surge [in winter] and that will be on top of a return to a more normal respiratory surge.
“It’s going to take quite a long time, I think, to get back to normality and I certainly would be surprised if we got back to what most of us would see as a kind of status quo – before the pandemic – by the next spring.
“Because I think we’ve got this current wave, hopefully there will be a period of quieter Covid after that, and then it will still be quite a difficult winter, especially for the NHS – then by next spring I’m hoping slightly more into a more predictable pattern.”
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Whitty and his companions are getting desperate perhaps? They might begin to cover up and minimise the disasters of the last 15 months if they can keep the fantasy narrative going a little longer, keep attempting to describe a normal summer as a disaster, keep suggesting that the NHS will not cope because of COVID and not SAGE’s wilfully unscientific efforts to circumvent the wisdom of centuries and the pursuit of the coordinated global monomaniacal auto wreck. But the wheels are coming off by the day.
Or could it be that Whitty et al., must keep the story going until something kicks in that they are fully expecting. But, it’s not happening. Yet. Some slight delay?
Who knows? ADE stuff – alien invasion – return of Hitler – etc. etc.
Live your life as you would like to live it. Eat well. Avoid this damaging jab if possible. Protect your kids. Resist this outbreak of Godless evil. Change will come, but not via coercion, or from Big Pharma and the World Economic Forum.
I will not live like it, and will continue to kick off.
Whitty was put into a headlock in a park apparently.
We have been in a… Read more »
The timing or date of the cringe worthy named ‘freedom’ day seems pretty well placed for them to continue their pandemic narrative because it gives people enough time to think things are getting back to normal and then flu season will start and “oh no, look it was a mistake lifting restrictions” and back into lockdown we go.
These fuckers just do not want it to end – EVER!
From The Telegraph:
WHO urges countries to use ‘extreme caution’ when reopening
Dr Michael Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organisation’s health emergencies programme, has urged countries to use “extreme caution” when reopening their economies from Covid-19 restrictions.
Dr Ryan said the idea of allowing more people to be infected has already been proven to be “moral emptiness and epidemiological stupidity”.
He said it is a “dangerous assumption to assume everything is Kumbaya” even in countries where the majority of the population are vaccinated against the virus.
He urged them to take the cautious approach to avoid losing “the gains you have made”.
The WHO also asked countries who are considering or beginning to innoculate children aged 12-15 to reconsider and instead donate those vaccine doses to the COVAX programme, which aims to vaccinate healthcare workers, the elderly and vulnerable in low-income countries.
“[M]oral emptiness”. Get a load of that one. How about the moral emptiness of closing down the economies and healthcare systems (ex. COVID) of virtually every country in the world and blithely accepting the repercussions of doing so.
Must be nice to be Whitty. Huge salary. Guaranteed employment by Big Pharma after retirement from Government service. Extra protection by the Police and the legal system, not available to ordinary citizens (who are not protected from harassment by drunken idiots).Total incompetence in the job (one of the highest Covid death tolls in Europe, economy in ruins as a consequence) goes unpunished and uncriticised. Can say whatever he likes without censorship, while sane and sensible voices are censored by Zuckerberg and friends. Can lie with impunity – in fact the more he lies, the more he is celebrated by the MSM. And directly responsible for the deaths of thousands by failing to recommend effective treatments e.g. Ivermectin – but not put in prison like Dr Shipman.
This zombie-like sociopath has now prohibited me from meeting my parents – deemed an “unneccessary social contact” by him – for two years in a row. Should he manage to corona on until this becomes impossible, as he’s certainly planning to, I’ll consider myself harbouring a very justified personal grudge against him.
Precisely. He is one of the few very public faces of this murderous, illegitimate and illegal dictatorship.
It can’t be that bad as not a single politician in the UK has died of Covid
Proves all the more that those in charge lied when they said Vaccines would end lockdowns. Over 60% now fully vaccinated in UK, vaccines are potent against death and severe illness, yet still talk of bringing back restrictions come fall. Does not surprise me either for I have been saying all along that anywhere restrictions are fully lifted, they will most likely bring them back no matter how high vaccination rate is. I look for restrictions to come back this winter throughout all of the northern hemisphere making the winter of 2021/2022 a repeat of last winter. 16 months later and still hearing it will be a while yet. This will never end and all these so called experts care about is never ending control. Pre COVID life is officially dead never to return again.
The so-called ‘vaccines’ are nothing of the sort; they cannot prevent infection, as a vaccine does, and it was admitted some months ago that they cannot prevent death from a virus that has not yet been isolated and identified, has a survival rate for children of 99.9998% of those infected and over 99.93% for those aged 85+, not all of whom, by a very long way, have caught it. There is no test for the virus, which seems to have replaced flu completely, so no way of knowing who has died of it and who not. Death certificates have been falsified by medical professionals to inflate the figures for the virus and suppress the figures for serious adverse reactions to the ‘vaccines’, the overwhelming majority of which have not been reported, or investigated when they have.
A monumental genocidal fraud is being perpetrated upon the peoples of the world simply for the profit of the pharmaceutical companies and the megalomaniacal fantasies of psychopaths like Bill Gates and Claus Schwab. Expecting those responsible for mass murder and virtual slavery to worry about the personal liberty of those over whom they hold power is naive. Soft martial law was imposed across the… Read more »
The comments about Chris Whitty below are purely personal, and most of them have nothing to do with his policies and his beliefs. What he LOOKS like has nothing to do with a debate. Personal abuse is unhelpful, childish, and dangerous. Someone compares him with Mitch McConnell, suggesting many of the comments are from America. The abuse belongs to the underworld of Breitbart, Icke, and Trump.
Aha, spot the Trump hater.
No hate, just dislike and opposition.
What is it to you?
Are you the only one entitled to an opinion?
Is your opinion the only valid one?
Is yours the only one allowed?
If you mean me, I was simply giving my opinion: that the use of personal abuse is a good way of getting nowhere. Everyone can give his or her opinion on a site like this, whether it’s personal abuse or not.
Opinions are like arseholes – everyone’s got one.
Zero fucks given about yours.
Could it be that everyone mocking and insulting Whitty feels personally abused by him? The
odious piece of shitman is complicit in the deaths of tens of thousands and the misery of millions. Many, many more are going to die as a result of receiving injections of the genetically modified toxins produced by a company he has links to.His victims are under no obligation to be nice about him, or you.
What’s that smell? It’s the stench of pomposity and sanctimoniousness. Your facile attempt at moral superiority would be sickening if weren’t so risible. As it is the sceptics here are laughing at you.
General observation.
Lockdowner = Remainer = Leftist = Statist = Socialist = Communist = Totalitarian = Killjoy
Maybe not quite. I’m an arch lockdown sceptic, but I’m also an ardent Remainer. In both cases, for me it’s ultimately down to freedom.
Funny that this witless Gollum was being depicted as a victim of the British public just last week. I have no doubt it was a psy-op. I think we can all agree here, that the British public is a catastrophic victim to the likes of Gollum and his demands? It’s a shame the act didn’t go wrong in front of the camera and the lads snapped his puny neck.
Britain will have only returned to normality, regained its sanity, credibility and integrity, when he and his lot are finally in the dock.
Why is he still employed? why is he still allowed to appear in the media? All the man does is depress, frighten and drive people to despair. The reason we will not be returning to normal is of his creation. Over 10% of this countries population are on the waiting list. Deaths from treatable heart disease and cancers are way above Covid as killers. The NHS will of course be overwhelmed this winter, as it has been every winter since heaven knows when. However; this time it will be because immunity to colds and flu has been shot to hell because of Whitty and his groups love of incarceration, it will because of Whitty and his group closing down thw NHS. We all know they are waiting in the background for the opportunity to force covers on our faces, carry out some more child abuse and elderly citizen abuse. etc. It has all been his creation. He needs to be sacked and sued
So, remind me, who voted this monster in to run the country?
Desperately trying to show it is him running things no one else.
Makes an absolute mockery of Bozo’s freedom waffle. Not that anyone with a even a minuscule squirt of independent thought would have believed Bozza until it actually happened anyway.
Bog standard psyop. promise, promise, take away, be grateful for not taking more away. FFS
They’ve no intentions of us ever going back to the ‘Old Normal’. Its all ‘Build back better’, Agenda 2030 in action. Whitty and co, and SAGE should be sacked in entirety. One wonders if those SAGE behavioural psychologists/scientists have been using hypnosis on Boris and the rest of the Cabinet.
….rather think they are hand in glove.
Whitty needs sacking. He is briefing the media against government plans.
You’ve misspelled hanging.
ONS figures for last week show one third of those deaths from Covid were in people over 85.
It’s been obvious from day 1 that other illnesses would be suppressed, well to anyone with a brain.
And I know at 71 that I won’t see normal again in my lifetime.
We havn’t broken through to the lockdowners, until they wake uo we are doomed.
Drs Peter Breggin and Fleming think otherwise. And suggest the future is one vaccine after another chasing the virus. Also suggesting we are doomed thanks to the gain of function bioweapon now known as Sars2 And a disease called COVID19. Why is anyone even listening to whitty, any of the sage people or this government. It is completely out of their control. Surely they know that.
Until they repeal the Covid Act whatever they say is rubbish, because they can reverse whatever at the drop of a hat.
So instead of all the hand-wringing and doom-mongering, how about giving people proper amounts of vitamin D to supplement with, in anticipation of winter?
But then, people might not get so ill, and then what would the “experts” do to stay important?
The rational approach? You’re quite right; expect people to live healthily and, as rational adults should, live with the entirely natural phenomenon of seasonal viral infections which, sadly for some, take about the very old, the weak and the sick. I’m sixty five with ‘conditions’, including a chest problem, and I’m not soiling my nappy in trepidation.
I’m going to be dead soon and I am actually looking forward to it.
Of course this will be blamed on eating “too much fat”, or meat. No-one will consider that it was fifty years of undiagnosed diabetes that wrecked my arteries. Now clap for the NHS.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/johnsons-out-on-a-limb-after-bidens-green-climbdown/
Johnson’s out on a limb after Biden’s green climbdown
Since covid is a ruse for agenda 21.. the great reset..
Biden’s failure to win funds for his leg of the deal could cause problems for the Stanley Johnson crew.
Don’t think that Witless was ever normal.
arent you all glad we all voted for this monkey, he saved us from the virus
Include me out of that ‘we’. These days I spoil my ballot paper if there isn’t a credible independent candidate standing.
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It has been obvious for a while now that normality, by which I mean a pre-covid state of affairs, is not coming back in most of our lifetimes. For me it was obvious last summer when covid disappeared and restrictions remained. Covid will never go away and neither will the mad idea that it requires special measures, and those special measures are now baked in as the orthodoxy. There are too many people invested in this for it to be recognised as an aberration.
Hands up if you know anyone who is genuinely poorly directly because of Covid-19 right now. Anyone…. Anyone…. You at the back?? Come along, come along. Try harder… Think man, think. There must be someone….
Last night I read a Facebook thread of a former (narcissistic) acquaintance who must be in his mid forties, no underlying health conditions, active and not overweight. He was gleefully telling everyone that he was now out of hospital and feeling fit and well after two or three days in IC recovering from “really bad covid”. Someone posted that his experience was “a message to all those who say it isn’t real”.
I then read a post on here below from someone whose hospital employed friend had confirmed that younger people are being deliberately hospitalised to boost numbers, rather than being told to stop whinging (ok, I added that bit!), stay home and treat themselves for flu as they would have been told last year. Oh, the other, perhaps most significant, point to make is that he would certainly have had ‘the jab’.
As per my comment above! Deliberately driving up numbers because they have the capacity to admit because …. duh-duh-duuuuuh….. It’s the middle of summer. Good to have that double confirmed – thank you!
*Bangs head against wall for thousandth time – prays for brain damage so as not to have to deal with this utter crap anymore*
Indeed, it was your comment that I was alluding to in my second para. I have this morning had another look at my acquaintance’s Facebook thread to gauge the timeline. He was reposting light-humoured non-covid related memes on 27, 28 and 29 June. His post about leaving hospital, accompanied by a ‘glad to be alive’ smiling selfie, was dated 3 July. So a lot seems to have happened to him in the space of 3 clear days, and there he was for all to see looking healthy and radiant!
Yesterday’s Ministerial Statement by “The Saj” did not rule out domestic Co-vid passports in the future. These wiley b*stards present ” freedom”, knowing full well what they plan around the corner.
Whittless’s comments assume that sub-normality is defined by higher levels of covid cases, whatever that means. I couldn’t give a monkeys about that to be honest now it’s been shown that the NHS doesn’t actually get overwhelmed and die.
All the sub-normality that I care about is all the BS that the government has inflicted upon us and continues to do so. Since none of it has been shown to save lives and has just resulted in a culture of fear, uncertainty, control and bureaucracy can’t we just all agree to ditch it?
That Whitty, Vallance and others have such a hold over Johnson must show, to even the dimmest voter, the hold BIG PHARMA has over BIG BLUBBER.