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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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.
Professor Eugene Milne suggests people get a booster to lower their immunity before meeting others in a crowd.
What a wise professor he is.
Just ignore him, it’s the only way.
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.
Ah, Newcastle United, the club whose players were reportedly reluctant to take those “vaccines” after the Eriksen collapse…
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. ;).
“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.
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)’
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‘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… Read more »
‘If you ask me..”. Well. We didn’t.
Another professor who is unworthy of the title.
Mr Milne….go and fuck yourself.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af76uwdGCM0
Scandal in Germany
German politician told lies to institute medical apartheid?
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?
Go Geordies. be free lol. Ignore this fuckwit.
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.
So many trying to make a name for themselves
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”
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?
Not a problem. The final nail in the coffin of my support for this club was them being bought by middle east butcherers.
“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’.
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.
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
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.
friend of mine off work since the booster 4 days ago
another is off to an omicron party to get it over with
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.
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.
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
Nanny should serious consider then actually emigrate to Michael Moore’s underpants.
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.