In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Dr. Jenny Harries, the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency as well as the Head of the NHS Test and Trace scheme, said that the public must not attend social gatherings if they “don’t particularly need to” in order to restrict the transmission of the Omicron variant. Harries also called on all those eligible to receive booster jabs to go and get one and play their part in the fight against Covid. WalesOnline has the story.
Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that people could do their bit by reducing the number of social contacts they have.
She said that even if our “vaccines appear to be effective, but we find that the variant is more highly transmissible, having lowish grade infection, but in very large numbers of the population, (it) could still be a significant impact on our hospitals.
“And of course, our behaviours in winter and particularly around Christmas we tend to socialise more so I think all of those will need to be taken into account.”
Asked about working from home, she said: “We’ve seen that not everybody has gone back to work and I’d like to think of it more in a general way, which is if we all decrease our social contacts a little bit, actually that helps to keep the variant at bay.
So I think being careful, not socialising when we don’t particularly need to and particularly going and getting those booster jobs which, of course, people will now be able to have at a three-month interval from their primary course.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: As of today, the Government has brought back mask mandates to a wide array of public settings. A full list can be found here.
Stop Press 2: The crackdown on non-mask wearers on the London tube has begun. MailOnline has more.
Stop Press 3: The Government has rebuked Dr. Harries and distanced itself from her remarks. According to the Telegraph:
Boris Johnson insisted “we’re not going to change the overall guidance, we don’t think that’s necessary”, when he was asked about comments by Dr. Jenny Harries, the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency, who had urged people to avoid socialising “unless you need to” in the run up to Christmas.
Downing Street also heavily distanced itself from her remarks, with the PM’s official spokesman stressing: “It’s not our advice to the public currently. You’ll know the measures we set out at the weekend. The UK HSA is an arms-length body of Government, and Jenny Harries provides advice to the Government, she is not a Government minister. The public should follow the guidance as set out by the Government and indeed the Prime Minister at the weekend.
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3 weeks to flatten the curve.
But not in the part of China governed by the CCP traitors. So much for it ending with the finish of the Great People’s Conference Thingy and the not quite installment of Jumping Jim as president for life.
“But you said that 3 years ago!”
“Did we? Well, we have this thing where we say things that we don’t really mean”.
Sadly, more like 3 years to flatten the population
Three weeks to flatten Xi’s opponents.
Remember the scientists/politicians arguing for a chinese approach?? Oh one of those pieces of human slime is chancellor.
And the other is PM.
Sino Sunak by name, Sino Sunak by nature.
Whose name I will not utter here in line with my longstanding policy of avoiding certain highly offensive words…
“A wet market in the city is thought to be the source of the Covid outbreak”
No Daily Mail reporter, I think you’ve been had.
“…the virus, which is much milder now than when the pandemic began.”
So, the virus is now milder than mild. So, very mild. So very, very mild. So mild, it is milder than a mild thing.
As mild as three years’ supply of Midazolam dished out in nursing homes up and down the country in the three months at the start of the “pandemic”, though? I think not. I think very not.
Today, I yearn for revenge. Tomorrow, I may feel calmer. But forgive and forget I will never.
Because it’s all about a virus, don’tcha know? It’s all about a virus…🙄
It is truly Fairy Liquid.
Oh wait a moment, that’s a hate speech non-crime hate incident…
Well all I can say is; that’s excellent progress and an inspiration to us all. China leading the world in exemplary fashion! They’re playing out 2020 on a loop, ad infinitum.
Yep.
Indeed, it’s Great Leap Forward 2.0! Which really means one step forward and ten steps back, just like the first time.
They are now a perpetual living time capsule of 2020.
Living, actually probably dying, history.
From ‘Reclaim the Net,’ – Japan is pushing Digital ID and threatening citizens with loss of Health Insurance if they fail to sign up.
This is the start of The Big Push.
I posted this in Roundup but probably appropriate here considering the above.
Austria:
Digital ID “prevents identity theft and puts a stop to cybercafé. The Digital driver’s license as the first digital ID in Austria is a milestone on the way in to digitization. I invite you – use the ID Austria and use the digital driver’s license.”
How many more before the week is out?
And abolishes freedom.
Maybe the “Down With Rhodes” people should redirect their efforts?
You’ve got to laugh. I was talking to someone at work about team Christmas lunch today. Last year it was arranged very last minute but that was OK because there were plenty of spaces in restaurants because (his words) “Covid cases were rising”. So I searched the ONS estimates for “covid cases” for last December and compared them to now. Apparently we’re running at TWICE the number of infections now compared to last December but my colleague probably thinks covid has more or less disappeared as he hasn’t seen any headlines about it. Pathetic.
One on the BBC if you’re desperate – “Covid protests in Tibet” (“hundreds demonstrating”).
Remind me where these muppets were for the huge anti-lockdpwn and anti-“vaccine” mandate protests…
And there are no tests specifically designed for COVID-19. Never have been.
And 10% of global Covid deaths are now happening in Germany.
Is the virus that deadly to Germans, or is that also entirely subjective and due to how cases and tolls are attributed and counted aka manipulated by the authorities?
Everyone with a functioning BS detector knows the answer.
I feel for the Chinese. Originally I thought it was a ruse by them to weaken the West, and it played out as such and worked very well for almost 2 years.
But then, The Dictator decided to take and make it, aka winning the international Covid statistics pi**ing contest, personal, by letting his people fight against windmills.
At least he didn’t poison them with mRNA goo, yet.
With a bit of luck this madness will choke off Chinese economic growth and consequent sabre rattling. As Xi Jinping will find out, it’s all very well being a Paramount leader when things are going well and you claim all the credit. It’s not such a comfy place when your rulings go tits up.
Collapsing all of the world’s economies is a brilliant precursor to forcing CBDC on the world, marketed to the masses as The Solution to the problems which the idiots in charge have caused.
That’s the game plan BB.
I can’t be alone in thinking that Xi and his gang will only stop the torture when they are faced with a mass suicide event.
When will we see the complete absence of Chinese goods that we have all become reliant on? Is this what locking down 200 million people is really all about? Because nothing else really makes sense.