Chris Whitty has said that his “greatest worry at the moment” is whether, should new restrictions be implemented to fight Covid variants, the Government can “still take people with us” and ensure public compliance with tightening Covid laws. The Chief Medical Officer further stated that it will now be harder to gain public acceptance for more restrictions given that the “people put up with two years of their lives being interfered with”. BBC News has the story.
England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has said his “greatest worry” is whether people will accept fresh curbs on activities to tackle Covid variants.
His comments came after the Government announced quarantines on travellers from some African countries following the emergence of a new strain.
Whitty said he questioned whether “we could take people with us” if restrictions had to be imposed.
But he added that “my overall view is, I think we will”.
England has been through three national lockdowns since Covid first struck. There have also been many local restrictions imposed at various points during the past 20 months.
Whitty told a panel discussion hosted by the Local Government Association: “My greatest worry at the moment is that people… if we need to do something more muscular at some point, whether it’s for the current new variant or at some later stage, can we still take people with us?”
He admitted that some of the changes the public has had to make have been “very destructive” to society and the economy. However, despite his worries, Whitty struck a positive note, saying he believed the Government will be able to maintain public support for Covid measures.
“I think the extraordinary thing has been the ability of the U.K. population, with very, very small exceptions, to just accept that there are things we collectively have to do to protect one another and do collectively, including things that have been very destructive to social and economic situations for individuals and families,” he said.
“Obviously, we want to avoid having to do those at all if we can, and to do the minimum ones necessary, but will we be able to maintain public support?
I think my overall view is, I think we will.”
There have been a further 50,091 Covid cases in the U.K. and another 160 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the latest Government figures show.
Both deaths and the number of people admitted to hospital continue to trend lower despite the rise in cases. It is likely we’re seeing the impact of the booster campaign protecting the most vulnerable people and keeping them out of hospital.
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You get the government you deserve and you, Scotland, just voted these barstewards back. The Scottish Health Commissar is the same guy who wants to criminalise “hate speech” in the home.
As a resident Scot, I couldn’t agree more. Most in the rest of the UK don’t appreciate the extent of the problems there are here. Corrupt police, corrupt courts, the school system pushing extreme ideologies at the expense of literacy, money stolen from the yes campaign and the imprisonment of journalists (Craig Murray with others to surely follow).
A zeal for population control means there will be a confined lust for lockdowns north of the border
“Corrupt police, corrupt courts, the school system pushing extreme ideologies at the expense of literacy, money stolen from the yes campaign and the imprisonment of journalists”
So just like the UK and all other western democracies. With the odd exception, western politicians appear to be selected for their willingness to stay bought.
It’s worse in several cases. For example:
The about-to-depart head of the prosecution service treated the ‘parliament’ with utter contempt during the Salmond affair. Even Mr Kier Smarmer wouldn’t have tried that.
Education standards are below England’s.
Plus more than one ‘journalist’ arguably committed offences far worse than Craig Murray’s, yet because they either outright fawn over the SNP, or at least give them an easy ride, the police have not pursued them. (To be clear, I am not necessarily defending Murray’s actions).
And the SNP generally ‘own’ the Scottish media and the charity sector in a way that is not remotely true of the Cons in Westminster. It isn’t even close.
A minority put the Sad, Nasty Pondlife back into power.
I agree that Yousaf is bad news. That awful bill is extremely sinister.
Resent the opinion that the people like myself “deserve” this terrible government we have up here. More Scots voted against the SNP than voted for them, it’s not our fault the anti-nationalist parties can’t organise themselves into any kind of organised coalition.
When we start saying groups of people “deserve” whatever unpleasantries are coming their way, that sounds a lot like some of the comments and ideas that are voiced by the self styled health Nazis that most people here abhor.
For the record, I know of no one in Scotland that does not view Humza Yousaf as a complete and utter turd.
Turn the quoted figures into a percentage and you see that you have a choice of interpretation :
(1) Insanely unbalanced sociopathic interpretation
or
(2) Venal manipulation using the innumeracy of a majority of people.
Add to the figures the fact that these are just positive PCR results, and you really do have mental illness induced by the certifiably mad.
P.S. I have in my head the figure of 17% as the proportion of PCR+ results that represent an actual illness ….??? … and about the same for the rate of infectivity. So actual risk – even given contact with someone who is PCR+ is (being generous) about 0.20 squared of the x in 100,000.
Which means about a 0.006% chance of catching Covid in the area with the most PCR+ results.
Before a court takes away your liberty you can have a barrister speak on your behalf
For example that barrister could ask Mr Yousef if he could tell the court what the false positive rate was for the PCR test
No such niceties under a dictatorship
As was shown in the Salmond affair the Lord Advocate is under the First Minister’s thumb…there is an issue with the separation of powers in Scotland
Despite the warm weather there was no march on Saturday
No one on the beach yesterday or today, but we COULD be at the start of a third wave
The state propagandists at the BBC makes Pravda look like a beacon of freedom
And of course Nictator has announced this afternoon it is too ‘dangerous’ or whatever word she used to ‘unlock’ further next week. And of course, everyone goes along with it!
However, I can report from my neck of the woods that apart from the ‘vaccine’ uptake, in which everyone seems to have absolute faith, below the surface, there are a lot of disgruntled people. People seem to be doing their own thing & only paying lip service to the ‘rules’ where they have to.
First time, I’ve been able to say that.