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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This is not about health it’s about the impostion of a global tyranny on the back of a manufactured medical emergency .. it’s about global Chinafication
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLTuS6tke4344WQD-vbvUTg
Please share far and wide this video needs to go viral
NO to digital medical passes .. Do NOT Consent .. Do NOT comply
We have reached a whole new level of Sick malevolent Evil. So many can’t even see it. That’s what’s killing ME FFS!
My wife has just returned from a trip to Asda in Bridgwater, Somerset quite literally in floods of tears!
She could not believe what she had just experienced.
She went deliberately to find out what it is like since the latest omicron moronic Government Dictat re masks etc.
She has an exempt lanyard from earlier in this psychosis but took a mask ‘just in case’.
She was scared upon entry to the place by a very large security guard clearly dressed to terrify. He was strategically positioned holding up a box of masks near the entrance, approaching anyone not wearing one and clearly threatening that if they didn’t either put their own mask on or use one of the ‘free’ masks he had in the box, they would be physically removed from the store.
She witnessed a young couple, the girl with mask, he without, approached and threatened by the thug. She bumped into the couple a few moments later. The young man was wearing a mask.
Ca was too scared to use the ‘exempt’ lanyard and… Read more »
Don’t go to Asda, simple. I’ve seen nothing like it in my neck of the woods.
Wouldn’t usually. This was a tester. Sainsbury’s is similar here. Unsure about Morrisons and Lidl so far.
You can bet Ca won’t be going back there.
Interesting to see that the government advice on masks only says that: “The best available scientific evidence is that, when used correctly, wearing a face covering may reduce the spread of coronavirus droplets, helping to protect everyone.” It doesn’t mention aerosols. Have they accepted that masks do little or nothing to protect against aerosol transmission?
Have any of these idiots bothered to read the article by Angelique Coetzee, chair of the SA medical association on Page 11 of Tuesday’s “Daily Mail”, saying “” nothing I have seen about this new variant warrants the extreme action the UK government has taken in response to it”. ” mostly mild symptoms”. So the only reason for our stupid PM to clamp down again is to show us that he is in control over the smallest details of our lives and we’d better not forget it. Once a tyrant, always a tyrant.
What would it take for you to want to socialise with her?
Who do these people think they are. They’re only advisors.
It shows who has been in charge most of the time and quite refreshing to hear Boris tell her to shut up.
He just has to tell the rest of them to get lost now, but I won’t hold my breath.
As Ivor & Donal say: Turn off the media and no one could tell that there’s supposed to be a pandemic. That says it all.
It does but they won’t.
Last night Robert Preston said on ITV news that Omicron was surging in South Africa and this is total bullshit. A friend of mine lives in SA and over the past week I’ve checked in with him several times regarding Omicron and he says it’s bullshit, there is no Omicron surge and there is genuinley nothing happening in SA. Yes folks as I don’t need to tell anyone on here, we continue to be lied to.
That wretched woman needs to go. Her miserable countenance looks as though it would shatter into a thousand pieces if she ever dared to smile. Talk about doom merchant.
So which MPs friend has been given the order for the Tfl Enforcement Officers jackboots?
Arrogant, ignorant human(?) with an uterus
Good to see that it’s all going to plan.
There is something called Human Rights. These include the right to privacy and to family life, freedom of speech, the right to free movement and the right to not be medically experimented on. These rights are found in Common Law, Statutes and International Conventions and cannot be taken away. So sorry Jenny won’t be doing as you or what anyone else says. The Govt are there to serve the public and are paid for by the public. They have no rights to control and take away people’s freedoms and there is no lawful right to interfere in people’s privacy and family life. There is no health emergency and there never was, though I will qualify this and say that there is now an emergency of psychological illnesses and insanity.
Better to live normally, and ‘risk’ getting infected by and acquiring lifelong immunity to the latest Kung Flu variant and its motley clan, than to submit to unprecedented state tyranny of mandatory toxic experimental frankenjabs, with known and as yet undiscovered (intended?) dire consequences.
Of particular and growing concern is the reluctance of vaccine profiteers to fess up on the full contents of their latest snake oil – Pfizer to the extent of seeking to delay full disclosure for 55 years!
Could this (see links below) be one of the reasons why are being treated like lab rats, without the right to know what is being pumped into us or to sue our corporate tormentors for any subsequent damage”
https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/transmission-electron-microscopy-reveals-graphene-oxide-in-cov-19-vaccines
https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/murder-just-hours-after-publishing-the-secret-of-the-vaxx-dr-noack-is-dead
They test for the flu since they’ve never isolated Covid-19. Which makes me wonder how they can tell there is a delta variant. They never isolated the virus but they use a test to show the damage of a solution does on monkey kidney cells then show the cellular debris as proof of the virus. So, they can use this method to claim an UNENDING! amount of variants. A lot of cancers and “viruses” are probably just different forms of parasites. Since the tests can’t differentiate between cold and flu and covid then doesn’t that mean ivermectin cures both the cold and the flu? Welcome to “they’ve been lying to us our entire lives about everything”. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Me and my wife, maskless, today in Lidl and large Tesco. Surprised/pleased to see several other also unmasked in each, in the short time we were there. No lanyards to be seen. No grief from staff – seemed indifferent.
My wife visited several shops yesterday, maskless. She reported that she was hugely in the minority but she was given no grief.
Incidentally, she had been quite compliant with The Rules in the past but the foolishness had finally got through to her and she had joined the resisters. I am proud of her making that step.
I thought Omicron was a very small unit of measurement under the not often used SO (Systeme Oirish) system.
People read this stuff and get angry and yet this is not a depiction of reality at all. In poor working class areas of northern England death is ever present. People drink and smoke and generally abuse themselves. This conceit of a middle class risk averse preservationist attitude is socially and geographically limited. This isn’t how people are feeling. Closer to the truth is the sense that there is nothing left to look forward to and that the quality of life has been hollowed out. And you can look at the numbers in terms of the transfer of wealth of several trillion pounds to the tenth of the one percent. It may not be articulated but people know.
Bet she doesn’t get the sack, which tells it all, he keeps this creature in but still has not criticised the Australians for the treatment of Aborigines which is now resembling that of the Jews under the Nazi regime, and if anyone wants to say thats too strong, then how much further do the Australians need to go? They have put these people in camps, and forcibily injected them. Johnson has not criticised the Austrians, the Dutch for shooting live rounds on protesters, and we have this woman?, really?
As the great Martin Luther King said
” He who passively accepts evil, is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”
Speak out, speak up, resist
Anyone remember voting for this Gorgon?
Dried-up as a nun’s chuff. Should agree to enter into a sexless marriage-arrangement with Nonce Whitty- it would at least save two decent people from the prospect of a lifetime of misery (W.M.Thackeray).
As my wise much love departed mother used to say,
“they would have spoilt another pair”
Thanks Ma xx
Who the hell does she think she is? And what gullible idiots are obeying her?
Can folks send this video link to their MP, and ask why they are not defending our freedoms, and why they are not allowing proper political and scientific debate to happen: https://t.me/Libertasuk/1712
So Boris thinks the govt have greater medical and virology knowledge than even their appointed advisers. They ask for advice, then don’t take it, so I hope the govt doesn’t mind if I don’t take their ‘advice’.
Face nappies UNLESS EXEMPT. And they CAN’T insist in lanyards Or proof.
Period.
Sainsbury’s security guy nevertheless tried this with me today despite there were other unmasked people in the store, including employees. Walked past him and said “No” before he could get past his “Excuse me! Excuse me!”. We’ll see how tomorrow turns out.
I have boycotted Sainsbury’s since they jumped on the trans / woke crap but I will have a wander. Any problems and we’ll have the manager.
And this comes on the first day of the renewed enforcement of magical Chinese health mummery — Despite we still don’t know anything, even a completely harmless virus means you can never be free for your entirely life because of The Health Service you’re required to serve! These people don’t lose time when escalating their baseless demands.
Reduce unecessary socialising is a covert-call for a full lockdown as that’s what it was supposed to accomplish according to Chris Whitty. If anybody wants a definition of the nice in nice totalitarianism, just look at this statement of this out-of-control public servant who obviously believes herself to have been appointed master of the public.
Government guidance on mask wearing (updated November 30th 2021)
“From 19 July 2021, there is no longer a legal requirement to wear face coverings in indoor settings or on public transport.”
“You are no longer legally required to wear a face covering in any setting. Therefore you do not need to rely on an exemption if you need one.”
“If you have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering you do not need to show:
“Carrying an exemption card or badge is a personal choice and is not required by law.”
Stop being bullied by tyrants.
Mandates and fines are smoke and mirrors bullshit, psychological tricks to intimidate and make you scared of living a normal life.
Don’t wear a mask, ever, it’s not illegal and you are doing nothing wrong by refusing to wear one.
Mods removed posts that will upset the corporates.
There is in the statutory instrument a ‘reasonable excuse’ not to wear a facemask, viz “to avoid harm or injury, or the risk of harm or injury, to themselves”.
Dr Jenny Harries, as Deputy Chief Medical Officer declared on March 12, 2020 that she recommended not to wear a facemask Jenny Harries because of the risk of harm to oneself. She said that “for the average member of the public” wearing them was “not a good idea…In fact, you can actually trap the virus in the mask and start breathing it in…people can adversely put themselves at more risk.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wearing-mask-may-increase-risk-of-infection-jzz6t0m2t
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-news-face-masks-increase-risk-infection-doctor-jenny-harries-a9396811.html
If your defence is that you take the Deputy Chief Medical Officer at her word, and agree with her that facemasks are injurious to health, then you surely have your reasonable excuse.
Whether facemasks work or not at preventing transmission is utterly irrelevant here. You have a reasonable excuse not to wear one on the grounds that it is harmful to YOU.
Once you have given your reasonable excuse, it is for the prosecution to prove that the excuse is not reasonable because it could not be held by a reasonable person. Not easy when you hold the same… Read more »
And/or go to ebay and pay a couple of quid for a badge saying you have an exemption. Like the old “wooden lie” (“trespassers will be prosecuted”) it could be effective. May not suit the purists but prevention better than cure. And even better for those such as I who do have grounds for exemption and merely temporarily waived exercise of that right on occasions in the past.
If anyone or anyone you know is afraid of authority to not wear a mask, I suggest writing SCAM across the front of the mask with a marker. It would hopefully get others to do it, but it will also break the uniformity and conformity (needed by psychologists) with this scam and hopefully get some of the 40% (as Mattias Desmet said) asking questions and moving towards the 30% who know it’s a farce..
That reminds me … better dig out my Sweden mask
Or just: “Masks don’t Work”.
This evil witch is responsible for killing a few dozen or maybe hundred elderly who will die home alone because of her dangerous scare mongering.
in future years I wish she and all others involved are protected and the lightest sentence given for crimes against humanity is life imprisonment without parole.