Newcastle’s Director of Public Health, Professor Eugene Milne, has called on Newcastle fans to seriously consider whether they should attend the St. James Park fixture with Manchester United on December 27th, due to the rapid spread of the Omicron variant. Milne has expressed his concern over the lack of social distancing and mask wearing inside sports stadiums, and urged fans to get tested and receive the booster jab before attending the game. BBC News has more.
The fixture against Manchester United is still due to take place, despite six matches being postponed last weekend.
Professor Milne also said he expected the Government to bring in additional restrictions soon.
Omicron is now the dominant form of the virus in most parts of England and there are likely to be more than 3,000 cases in the North East, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
“Will we end up with more measures? I think because there are still many things we don’t know about Omicron there is a bit of doubt about where we need to go,” Milne said.
“If you ask me, honestly, I think it will probably happen with the way things are going.
“The question is when is the right time to do that and that is a question for the politicians, rather than people like me.”
The Magpies are yet to have any of their matches called off because of the current wave of infections and are due to host Manchester United on Monday.
Milne added: “People need to make a choice about whether they are vulnerable, about whether they are likely to expose other people to risk by going.
“The Premier League has done a lot of work to try and get in place vaccine passports and testing checks for the games.
“One of the things that does trouble me is people travelling to and from games and the difficulties of distancing, mask wearing and so on.
“I would make a plea to people to use those measures because they can reduce the potential for risk.”
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Reconsider implies a choice though, does it not?
Not any more!
I so hope that he gets totaly ignored. In fact as someone who has never felt the need to attend a football match, if I lived near there I think I’d go along specially just to swell the crowd
Yes if it wasn’t hundreds of miles away I’d pop along for sure.
So what he is saying is the vaccines are sh*t, as everyone who goes has to have a Covid passport. Clearly he has no confidence in the vaccine
I hate football having been forced to play the infernal game as a youngster and hated passionately each and every nanosecond but like you if I lived nearer I would be strongly tempted to attend PROVIDED there was NO NEED to display these accursed and Satanic ‘Vaccine Passports’.
Leeds fan here. I will be going to all games just as I went to the celebrations outside the ground when we got promoted even though we were warned not to (oh and what happened to the thousands of infections we were warned would happen afterwards??). People like this can shove their advice up their arse. Wankers!
Exactly right.
I’m still pissed off about them cancelling the midweek Leeds vs Fulham match due to the start of Lockdowns back in 2020 !!! Not watched a Leeds game since before then sadly. I almost renewed my membership for this season but the Covid T&C’s put me off due to me having an extraordinarily large gob and issues with those in ‘authority’ lol.
I saw videos of chants at ER for our beloved fat controller last weekend. It did make me smile !
How are you getting in with the vax pass?
Interesting to me. and hopefully to you.
Comments on youtube that contain anti narrative information now get shadow banned (only you can see them) rather than instantly deleted
The concept of “state” needs to be revised. Google (which owns Youtube) and Facebook (which owns Whatsapp and Instagram) are part of the state.
The squelching method to which you refer is called entrainment. Everyone who has studied behavioural psychology will recognise it. People post stuff (which may be information or may be chat in a chat room) to take part in what seems like a community of some kind. If they get no response whatsoever, they often change their behaviour. That is what “shadow banning” is about. To put it in even fewer words: a behaviour for which there is no reward will get “extinguished”. That’s how the scum who run Facebook etc. think. That is literally how they think – reinforcing desired behaviours, extinguishing unwanted ones.
Well I only used YT (never liked FB anyway) but now I spend more time on the alternatives. Hopefully their service will improve as not a touch on YT quality wise. You have to put up with wading through some crazy and some hateful stuff but that’s a price of free speech I am willing to pay.
So the effect of their psychology has been to make me seek alternatives.
Are they hoping people wont realise and stay with YT?
Carry on regardless, the sooner they stop PCR testing the sooner this all goes away. Their choice, our life.
In the U.S. the NFL changed the testing protocols. League mandates only required the vaccinated to be tested once a week while the unvaccinated (only about 4 percent of league athletes) had to be tested daily. Now with a spike in cases, they are testing everyone much more often. However, I have just read they are now reconsidering this (obviously more testing = many more “positives.”). They have also changed the protocols to allow those who test positive and are asymptomatic (most of those who get a positive test) to more quickly come back and play.
For some reason, they still make the unvaccinated positives quarantine for 10 to 14 days. This is brazen discrimination but nobody cares.
… BTW, more teams and leagues are now getting athletes their “booster” jabs. Remember this if and when we start seeing even more athletes collapsing from vaccine effects in coming days and weeks.
If I was a successful pro athlete I’d take my millions, say thank you and dig my heels in until they fired me. Then look for something else to do.
What a fun sponge.
Doesn’t he understand Newcastle fans have suffered enough simply by being Newcastle fans?
Plus football is more important than life anyway.
Tragic isn’t it that someone who is a Professor of Public Health is incapable of seeing beyond the idea of a risk from an illness that increasingly looks very mild and is probably in actual fact just another cold. He completely fails to comprehend the public health value of going to football or any other sport for that matter, the cameraderie, enjoyment, excitement (hopefully), all things that lift the spirits and make us feel happy and improve our wellbeing generally.
I doubt he cares much about any of that – either he’s drunk on his own power or following orders from his masters, or both. All of these bastards in it together, up to their necks. They can’t break ranks now.
Exactly. He’s in the wrong job.
It’s hilarious people think professors are that utterly incompetent and act from improbable bungling, rather than from political pressure.
While he has been promoted “up to the level of his incompetence”, the same as anyone else in an official or administrative position, he is not saying what he’s saying as a result of “incompetence”. Quite the contrary.
But I don’t believe he is “under pressure” either. He loves it. It’s made his day.
Similarly there are many officials in local councils who will absolutely love being in charge of things like signing off barbed wire contracts with G4S for the local internment camps, and contracts for accelerants for mass pyres. They will be in seventh heaven.
I think you have a point. There are probably multiple reasons people are lying and yes some enjoy it, others are scared of losing their income. Many people are up to their ears in mortgage debt and that is going to get worse soon.
They love their position and pay packet more than the truth or science. I can see how they would slip into that position but this is so big they can’t be forgiven.
Either he just cares about his career or has cognitive dissonance. Most of these guys haven’t done anything of note in their science and have turned to bureaucracy.
They don’t people enjoying themselves in the ways we like to enjoy ourselves. They look at us with contempt.
Come on you Newcastle fans, tell this goon where to go.
Dear Professor Milne, unclear “where we need to go”? – may I suggest the local chemist for a box of Lemsip. Happy to be of help.
Is that in the mode of “A Doctor writes…..”?
Reminds me of “Reader’s Digest” from the 60’s – ‘I am John’s left testicle’ and all that.
Is it THAT serious?
It would probably be a good idea if the owners were to have a general issue of black and white keffiyehs to the Newcastle fans attending. Club loyalty would be displayed, these can also be worn, desert-style, as “face coverings”, thus assisting hygiene, and would also eliminate the need for tea-towels or dishcloths as headgear .
A sign of the times that somebody who espouses such absolute drivel could be a director of Public Health. Shutting sports stadiums is a psy-op and was not part of any previous pandemic plan. People are not going to catch a virus outside, unless they get very intimate, perhaps that is next on the killjoys hit-list.
Good luck to those who try and impose any medical pass system on the travelling Red Army.
Well this is a bit of a pickle. Go to the matches and comp[y with their evil testing/”vaccination” nonsense, or don’t go, and comply with their evil panicker “hide under your beds” nonsense.
Could look at it the other way round, though, of course. Go to the matches and defy their evil panicker “hide under your beds” nonsense, or don’t go, and defy their evil testing/”vaccination” nonsense.
Good job I decided years ago that I was no longer interested in their politicised, professionalised, marketing-driven “sport” nonsense.
More theatre.
Prepare to be locked-down again next week.
Combined with the articles in today’s news demanding the unjabbed be jabbed……
…….we will all be locked-down, and left to dangle, and the press has started to say that the lock-down is all the fault of the unjabbed.
In the immediate short-term, they want to ‘encourage’ everyone to get jabbed. In the medium-term they are sowing the seeds to create a public mood that the government manipulates and proclaims is creating the justification and indeed the necessity to repeal the laws that forbid mandatory jabs.
This is getting nasty.
Once the law is changed – ‘by public demand’ – we’re all stuffed. They will be able to demand that everyone be jabbed.
The jabbed had better be aware that even if they have accepted two, or even three jabs, and have decided thus far and no more – abolishing mandatory jab laws will come back to bite them on the backside too.
They can “demand” what they like, but anyone who wants to inject me without my consent will have to find me first, and then they will have to send some damned strong police officers or soldiers – because as far as I am concerned “NO MEANS NO”.
In The Telegraph they are saying that Germans are to be offered a 4th jab. It takes a special kind of stupid to think you can jab your way out of a non pandemic.
“Offered” in the mafia sense?
Yeah, they put Jacinda Ardern’s head in your bed by way of encouragement.
On a happier note, we are about to see positive tests and symptomatic infections (runny nose) take off amongst the vexed, sorry vaxxed. And what you see among your friends is way more powerful than what you read int’ Sun even.
“Local Democracy Reporting Service?”
Where the hell did that Orwellian outfit spring from?
@huxleypiggles
Excellent question. It’s a network of media operatives with posts at “regional news organisations” that are funded by the BBC, i.e. central government.
https://www.bbc.com/lnp/ldrs
The system seems to have been set up in July 2021 to run for three years.
The list of organisations is here.
It also operates (hopefully this won’t surprise many readers) on “social media”, where the rule is that
From that, one can assume there is cooperation with the 77th Brigade.
Star, many thanks for that, depressing though it is.
You couldn’t make this shit up. Worthy of a banana republic.
Just three more years to flatten the curve then.
This “director of public health” sounds like a schoolteacher: “First I am asking you”…”You understand the difference between being asked and being told, don’t you?” … And to any “footdraggers”: “Now I am telling you”.
What a f***ing way to run a country.
And there we were, thinking we were free to do whatever we wanted so long as we didn’t break the law or commit a civil wrong.
I think the Prof needs to read this first:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/22/triple-vaccinated-more-than-four-times-more-likely-to-test-positive-for-omicron-than-unvaccinated-data-shows/
I doubt it’ll make any difference.
Bill Gates, Fauci have quietly teamed up to form multi-billion dollar vaccine empire. Gates strategically targets his charitable gifts to give him control of the international health and agricultural agencies and the media, allowing him to dictate global health and food.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bill-gates-fauci-have-quietly-teamed-up-to-form-multi-billion-dollar-vaccine-empire/
REVEALED: Sajid Javid’s bumper share options in firm linked to health sector
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19756100.revealed-sajid-javids-bumper-share-options-firm-linked-health-sector/
Vested interests, he should be out on his ear
Well bugger me with a fishfork.
It came out fairly recently that most of the US Congress are balls deep in pharma shares too, to the great surprise of absolutely fucking no one.
There is a guy who claims to have made a shed load of money by following Nancy Pelosi’s husband’s investments.
The tech will also be in your bodies. https://rumble.com/vppv0h-dr.-luis-de-benito-shares-part-of-his-report-on-the-mac-address-phenomenon-.html
I know quite a lot of Newcastle fans and none of them will be put off by a cold going around
Or the cold in general
Eee, ah hope the canny lads keep warm with a loud chant of Go Brandon.
I love the poetic justice of it. Like a final piss take. I will give you a super-mild variant and see how you react. If you piss yourselves again then frankly you deserve everything that is coming to you.
If anyone wants to go to the football then go! We only live once. You could be hit by a car tomorrow and die. What I’m saying here is live your life! It’s been 2 years of people telling others how to live their lives. If you want to stay in forever and hide then do that also!
I can’t go because I will not show any kind of health pass
I’m the same. Won’t take or show a test either to get in. My friend who usually goes with me was at the West Ham and Sunderland games and said no one checked him. I’ve got ticket for Wolves game so might just turn up and see if they do check. If not then I’ll walk in. I’ll watch in the pub if they check.
Take a bottle of wine and a lump of cheese and tell them you are using the Boris loop hole.
Is anybody aware of ANY sporting / large crowd event that has resulted in a massive number of subsequent casualties in the C1984 war?
I’m a freelance journalist. A while back I asked the college sports leagues in America (the SEC, ACC, Big 10, etc) for hard data on the number of “asymptomatic” cases among those who had tested positive. I also asked how many college athletes in these conferences had died or been hospitalized from COVID-19.
Only two spokesman replied to my queries, saying that these leagues either did not have this information or could not disclose it. I thought these non-answers were quite revealing.
I also asked about outbreaks among fans at sporting events and got the only answer to my many questions.
The media spokesman for the SEC told me (via email) that there had been no incidences of “super spreader” events at any of the SEC sporting events that took place last year.
Presumably, this is why the league went forward with full attendance at sporting events this year (last year, they limited attendance to about 20 percent of stadium capacities).
Anecdotally, I have yet to read ONE media report of a big outbreak that was definitively traced to fan attendance at a sporting event. I focussed on colleges with my inquiries, but I note that high schools also played sports last year in front of many fans. In fact, there are approximately 500 high schools that played football in my state alone last year (and now this year). I have heard of no outbreaks at the thousands of games that occurred.
Thank you Sir. Your response clears up the super – spreader nonsense.
So 80 percent of UK adults are now vaccinated, but it is STILL not “safe” to go to an outdoor football game.
That’s fine, I guess. I would just note that the “experts” did not say this would be the case back when they were telling everyone to get their jabs.
What we were told would happen did not happen. What was not supposed to happen did happen.
But 23.5 million unjabbed. UKVS figures.
Didn’t know UK pop. was so large!
Depends on the definition of un-vaxed. 1,2 or 3 jabs? How long ago?
They manipulate the figures depending on the need.
Caveat lector:
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/vaccination-have-a-third-of-londoners-really-not-had-any-covid-19-jabs/
Possibly the only robust conclusion to draw is that London is doing quite well, relative to other parts of England.
You’re on fire today, Star.
Maybe they’re playing with negative numbers! You could be triple un-vaxxed that way, or quadruple and so on. But seriously, the round number of 23 million is more likely to be right – over 40% of the population. What they don’t advertise is the make up of the various groups. However, I wouldn’t be surprised if it mirrored the old ONS ethnicity survey on the subject a year or so ago.
These joy extractors at least don’t have the power of law in England. . They can only prattle in the receptive media. In Scotland we have had Sturgeons cabal of zero covid fanatics order the football off already, along with everything else that makes Christmas a time of cheer. Same game for Wales. Our Parliament of thick seat warming panic merchants, and innumerate data dunces, have gone along with it. I say gone along I mean in a way which makes sheep look like they are exercising proper agency. The public health zealots are loving the control and control freak politicians like Sturgeon, Drakefird and Gove are lapping it up. One harridan from Grampian NHS couldn’t hide her joy at these “necessary restrictions”, grinning through her yellow teeth at the fact that we have the proles under control.
All of Britain needs a libertarian movement that focuses on freedom and fighting back against these unelected safety dictators. The state has changed its shape and I appeal to those on the left especially to stop venerating these goons. Newcastle fans tell Eugene to fuck off, while lustily singing the Blaydon races.
We need inalienable rights and a means of making sure they can’t be removed.
How about a lovely new republic and a brand new constitution? Oh, and guns. Lots of guns.
We need more than that. If we ever stop this we need full disclosure, a “war” crimes tribunal and public execution of ring leaders. This is the most heinous crime since the Nazis and looks set to exceed that. A message needs sending. They are killing people unnecessarily knowingly and “may” be planning genocide.
Cover yourself in shit and soil and industrial waste. The spirit doesn’t care because we endure the filth to get to something better.
Newcastle management even worse than the team.
The most obvious truth is that you can’t run a civlisation on such risk averse terms. Frankly you will be pissed on by a fierce and determined enemy.
I think Putin knows this. If people give up everything to “save” themselves from a heavy cold how much appetite do you think there will be to stand up to a real threat? If I was Putin I’d roll the dice now.
He will.
I wonder how the social distancing is going between the 100,000 troops on the border?
They don’t want their own fans.
I wonder why they bother actually playing.
Are they expecting more players to fall down clutching their hearts? We wouldn’t want that witnessed, would we?
Be a norseman. I spent time with Geordies and time in Scandinavia and Geordies are real Vikings if they stick to their guns. Just understand this at the deepest possible level.
That explains why I hear angry axemen screaming in my head whenever Javid speaks.
Lately I’ve noticed stronger urges too, like the urge to offer libations to Thor before sailing up the Thames in a longship and pillaging Westmonster while screaming ‘VALHALLA!’
We really need a let’s go brandon equivalent chant here in the UK
Just do what you want to do. Are you serious they measure every response. They will take as much as you give away and I won’t be giving those bastards anything. Not now or in five years time. I will be working to destroy the cunts.
As they say in Geordieland, haddaway an’ shite man.
What a useful phrase which, despite being Northumbrian, I somehow missed.
So in Newcastle it will go: Haddaway an’ shite, Brandon. Or Milne, in this case.
Nanny should serious consider then actually emigrate to Michael Moore’s underpants.
I agree. Who wants to watch two shit sides whilst sitting in the cold?
That the experience of pretty much every Newcastle v Sunderland match ever played.
What do rats and Man Utd supporters have in common?
You are never more than 5 yards away from either
Does he realise that any injection related to Covid takes time to be active. Asking to get one two or three jabs is not going to help his cause.
Wait, wait, vaxpässen do not macht frei, you say?
Then what, pray tell, is their purpose?
We could tell you, but then we’d have to jab you.
friend of mine off work since the booster 4 days ago
another is off to an omicron party to get it over with
Sadly they will try to keep the lock downs going until all independent business and social gathering has been destroyed. Just wish people would realise this is really happening.
Optimistically, I think eventually it will drive people closer together in local communities.
NHS may set up ‘field hospitals’ in carparks to cope with Omicron.
It’s almost as if something else is going on than SARSCoV2 mutating to a less harmful variant, the way the HCoV-OC43 coronavirus (which once caused “Russian flu”) did.
To summarise: there is a plan for the ARMY to set up TENTS in HOSPITAL CAR PARKS, supposedly to “help the health service cope” with an epidemic during which the reported death rate has now been FALLING for quite some while.
What would people say if that happened in Emperor Bokassa’s Central African Republic? Or in China or wherever? They should say the same if it happens in Britain.
It’s a Dad’s Army modern come back, isn’t it? With the captain in full panic and his motley crew trying to brew Lemsip using windscreen washer.
So its less deadly than the original strain which had a 99.9 percent survival rate. Riiiiigggggghhhhhhtt
This goes away when the large majority ignore the doom mongers. Laughing at them for being cretins is too good for them. Just ignore them instead. Nothing more cruel for them.
“I think because there are still many things we don’t know about Omicron there is a bit of doubt about where we need to go.”
We know all we need to know – it’s mild. Anyway I can think of far better reasons not to watch Newcastle United – just sayin’.
Not a problem. The final nail in the coffin of my support for this club was them being bought by middle east butcherers.
Reports the Pig Dictator is missing in action having not been seen in public and has missed the last three Cobra meeting
Everything OK at home?
During the flu pandemic of the late 60’s.
Ah yes, back in the days when football was still an honest game and local club really meant local club, not a toy to be played with by rich oligarchs and barbaric regimes.
Oh yeah, Newcastle FC, or Geordie Arabia as I now like to call it, or Wahabbi the lads, or the dune army.
Oh my, won’t someone think of the children and Granny. “Swoons with a fit of the vapours”
So many trying to make a name for themselves
What a profoundly miserable, misanthropic git!
It’s good for people’s mental well-being to get out and do something they enjoy, especially a shared experience. Same with theatre, concerts and so on. This is less to do with public health than with a desperate drive to stop people enjoying life.
Not being allowed to so the things you want to do must do harm to one’s mental health, right?
Gathering with friends who share the same interest is now a negative, per the “health” gods.
Go Geordies. be free lol. Ignore this fuckwit.
The geordie fans are the ones who never wear a shirt even if it is -10C. Their girls go to town in basically a t-shirt and panties for a night out and sleep on the pavement dressed like that, in the same temperature, do you think this twat ever looked out the window at the people he is talking to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af76uwdGCM0
Scandal in Germany
German politician told lies to institute medical apartheid?
Reconsider going to the match, or Unicron will destroy us all!
ps. joking aside, just look at how much they made this character (a giant robot that transforms into a planet which eats other planets) look like a germ or virus. Even the nebula is coloured red to resemble blood.
Unicron > Omicron, a bit too similar for me to dismiss this as predictive programming.
Mr Milne….go and fuck yourself.
Another professor who is unworthy of the title.
‘If you ask me..”. Well. We didn’t.
I’m a Chelsea fan, and a Brentford supporting mate sent me this a little earlier.
See this from Chelsea FC:
https://www.chelseafc.com/en/about-chelsea/faqs/covid
A taster:
‘Supporters will need to show one of the following in order to gain entry to the stadium:
1. Proof of a negative lateral flow test taken within 48 hours of the kick-off
2. Proof of two Covid vaccinations (with the second dose being two weeks prior to the match you are attending)’
———
‘Supporters attending the stadium can show one of the following proof of vaccination documents:
NHS COVID Vaccine Card
NHS COVID Vaccine Passport
NHS app showing two vaccines or a Lateral Flow Test result
An official letter from a GP or Doctor
A physical Lateral Flow Test
COVID Vaccine Passports – this includes all World Health Organisation (WHO) approved vaccines – Astra Zeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Moderna, Sinopharm, Sinovac and Covaxin provided that they are in English’
Medical apartheid. Plain and simple.
I’m expecting the mind-numbing, ‘What’s the matter?’ call from my mate. He’s a compliant sheep. Not a zealot, just passive.
Any proper Chelsea fan still going to the football instantly loses my respect. I mean, I stopped giving my dough to the club when it started advocating taking the knee for a career criminal who lost his life because of issues/an incident which had absolutely nothing to do with his race. So I was already out. But this medical apartheid is another level altogether. Most Chelsea boys I know agree, and also had already stopped going when the mugs started taking the knee.
My Brentford mate will think I’m a weirdo. Even when I give him my reason(s), particularly the medical apartheid, he’ll think I’m being overdramatic. He’s a clever fella, but the term medical apartheid will go over his nut.
I can’t wait to ask him if he had to show his medical bona fides to get in (I don’t know Brentford’s policy, but I imagine it’s similar, and essentially medical apartheid).
“People need to make a choice about whether they are vulnerable, about whether they are likely to expose other people to risk by going.”
So the most vulnerable should avoid the match? Then what about the next most vulnerable group, are they vulnerable enough to be avoiding the match too? And what about those not vulnerable, they might all be asymptomatic spreaders and should definitely avoid the match right? Okay so who’s left? Er…..
Nothing to do with science or health. All about installing a permanent mindset of insecurity and paranoia that we might be causing harm to others, sadistically exploiting our empathy for others – the satanic inversion.
“The question is when is the right time to do that and that is a question for the politicians, rather than people like me.”
That’s right you grovelling little husk, hand all your decision making over to the psychopaths and maybe they’ll let you lick the shit off their boots.
Haven’t spotted this in the Newcastle Chronicle – probably for the best if its not widely read up here. Is the idea supposed to be that the same 60,000 staying indoors will not spread the infections as much? What is it we don’t know about Omicron – there is good data from South Africa and Denmark I believe. What is the BBC Local Democracy Reporting Service – is it like Pravda? I’m confused. ;).
Ah, Newcastle United, the club whose players were reportedly reluctant to take those “vaccines” after the Eriksen collapse…
Asking fans to merely ‘reconsider’? They should be doing it the Australian way because down here we really know how to beat the virus – this weekend’s December 26 A-League Men’s Boxing Day match between the Newcastle Jets and Western Sydney Wanderers will proceed but will take place ‘behind closed doors’ i.e no fans allowed.
This follows a ‘dramatic Covid surge’ and an ‘outbreak’ of ‘cases’ in the Newcastle region which has panicked the soccer bosses into predictable overreaction yet again as New South Wales Health declared a ‘red alert’. And this is for the ‘Oh, Come On, you can’t be serious’, mild-mannered Omicron variant.
If the soccer and health authorities in Australia ever have an original thought in their heads, it would still be lonely.
Just ignore him, it’s the only way.
Professor Eugene Milne suggests people get a booster to lower their immunity before meeting others in a crowd.
What a wise professor he is.
I’m certainly not a football fan, but if I was a Tynesider I would go to St James’s Park just to piss off Milne and his cretinous peers.