The Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance has warned that Covid is “evolving rapidly,” adding that measures should remain in place indefinitely to be able to “ramp things up again” if needed. The Express has more.
Sir Patrick was speaking to the Science and Technology Committee this morning following a steep rise in Covid cases. Quizzed on the Government’s “Living With Covid” plan, Sir Patrick was asked how important advice from SAGE was in the proposals. The expert confirmed that SAGE “clearly” played a big part, before adding his own remarks on the current situation.
He said: “This virus has not gone away. It’s not going to go away. It’s going to be a circulating human virus for as long as we can see forward. And it hasn’t stopped evolving. It’s been quite an unstable period, so the virus is changing very rapidly, and it’s got quite a lot of space to evolve into. It’s not a foregone conclusion that evolution to increase growth and transmission – which is what the virus does, wants to do – necessarily is associated with reduced severity.”
Sir Vallance also noted that three things were essential to adopting a living-with-Covid approach: being able to monitor how it evolves; to protect the vulnerable both physically and through vaccines and antivirals; and having the capacity to be “able operationally to ramp things up again if you need to — [this] is crucially important.”
He added: “That in a sense, is also a lesson from the very beginning of the pandemic where the underfunding of Public Health England for many years had caused a diminution in capacity.”
However, the scientist added: “I think the numbers of infections are beginning to turn so we may be quite close to, or at the peak, and it may start coming down shortly. But I expect to see further hospitalisations because of the lag time and further deaths with this. So, that is the consequence of the high levels of infection rates. We should also be aware that there may well be long term problems with Covid infection – Long Covid is still being studied. It’s not a sort of a completely stable situation and it’s not a risk-free situation to run very high levels of infection.”
Hasn’t SAGE been stepped down? When will they leave us alone?
I wonder if the Government has considered finding a less alarmist Chief Scientist.
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Just tell him to f**k off.
Covid and other emergency legislation should be constitutionally prohibited or at least subject to a referendum requiring a 75%+ majority. Also: anyone remotely associated with government, WHO, academia and the health services should be barred from taking or influencing any and all decisions due to gross incompetence and criminal negligence shown during this crisis.
”Evolving rapidly”. These people really do think they are the only ones who can read or understand the meaning of the words relating to mutating viruses.
Vallance is also peddling dodgy climate data and showing Johnson 11 slides that are tweaked to look bad and without proper context. Of course the prime minister is too lazy to look at data himself or employ someone more honest to inform him.
Never mind what was on the 11 slides, dodgy or not, the fact that such a massive, all encompassing government policy should be liable to change on the basis of 11 slides of a presentation from one person is very very worrying in terms of the way government policy is made.
THIS WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN.
STOP THINKING THIS IS SOMETHING RATIONAL.
OUTRIGHT REFUSAL AND FIGHTING BACK IS THE ONLY HOPE OF REGAINING ANY SEMBLANCE OF FREEDOM!!!
I would love to punch his lights out!
The U.K. response changed the day this man had his telecon with Fauci. I believe they decided to use the situation ( which Fauci caused with his illegal gain of function research) as a means to get the clinically untested mRNA style vaccines through the regulatory bodies, for the benefit of their egos and Pfizer profit. The man is a charlatan, in the 17th century he would have been a witchfinder. Science, medicine and ethics thrown out of the window.
With a close family member who suffered the effects of Thalidomide – we do need to question the mindset of someone who continued to peddle harm throughout his career ….
As a Chief Scientific Officer, he clearly doesn’t know much about science, or about humanity. All he sees is risk aversion, damned be everything else.
There are no lamp-posts high enough.
Does anyone know whether Vallance’s comments were being spoken simultaneously at the comments made at Pandemic Recovery APPG,
Parallel universes in plain sight. Incredible!!
Whose side is Vallance on? He’s still talking about a role for vaccines; if he means mRNA vaxxs he MUST KNOW that these are unsafe, potentially fatal. If he does mean these (mRNA), then he is either (a) entirely incompetent (but since he really does know about these effects, we can in fact rule out this possibility) or (b) part of the criminal conspiracy. It’s one or the other. Logic and reason suggest the second.
He’s not going away but now heading up the 100 day response project… The obsession with new viral threats continues its malignant course.
”ramp things up again”? By “things” does he mean people? Because it sure feels that way. Didn’t he retire yet? If not maybe it is time.
yes with the repeat cycle of experimental biologicals…..this thing will never end. Everyone had their third, fourth jab yet? Good luck.
Does anyone listen to these rogues anymore. I believe everyone should ignore the Government and their establishment
9 out of 10 people are rolling up for 4th jab. I know meant that have already had it. Vaillance is just a drug salesman.
A scientific advisor who understands that his policies have killed more than they have saved and sacrificed the health and well being of our children would be optimal. He ,Whitty and SAGE should be held to account – bring back a STAR chamber?
Well, I am quite sure Vallance understands all this – he just doesn’t care as the $ signs rack up!
“I had to take a disabled chap to the Royal Sussex A&E last night, I was for warned that the Hospital is jam packed with humanity and they will probably transfer him to Worthing Hospital. Got their about 9 pm and guess what ? A&E is almost empty . When I asked questions , where are all the Covid Patients I was met with silence or evasive action.
I stopped believing Valance & Shitty months ago and what I experienced last night has only reinforced my belief that this whole thing is not a conspiracy but incompetence on an epic scale.”
https://is-a-cunt.com/2020/12/sir-patrick-vallance/
Old, but still a chuckle or two to be had!
This dangerous, obsessive man needs to be cancelled.
This man (I am allowed to say man aren’t I?) is without credibility or morality and should be totally ashamed of himself.
Boris needs to get a grip of him.
And vice versa of course!
When will a Journalist expose Vallances background, who he associates with, his links to big Pharma and the Wellcome trust and of course his source of finances. The man is up to his eyeballs in the Big Pharma money industry, he needs to keep the fear, the injection in every arm for every possible thing going. What this man needs is to be exposed, disgraced and put on trial with the rest of the power crazed eugenecists.
He would say that, wouldn’t he? Wise politicians (if there are any) might take a different view.
Kill the virus – You don’t get Covid – it is as simple as that: Covid Crusher: Mix one heaped teaspoon of Iodine table salt in a mug of warm clean water, cup a hand and sniff or snort the entire mugful up your nose, spitting out anything which comes down into your mouth. If sore, then you have a virus, so continue morning noon and night, or more often if you want, until the soreness goes away (2-3 minutes) then blow out your nose and flush away, washing your hands afterwards, until when you do my simple cure, you don’t have any soreness at all, when you flush – job done. Also swallow a couple of mouthfuls of salt water and if you have burning in your lungs, salt killing virus and pneumonia, there too.
My simple salt water cure, kills all Coronaviruses and viruses, as soon as you think you have an infection, or while self isolating, before the viruses mutate into the disease in your head and body, for which there is no cure – that is, after you have been out shopping, or mixing with people with potentially, Omicron or Delta viruses, or any other virus.
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“Escutcheon Tubes”
Eustachian Tubes perhaps?
I think of Ali referring to Oscar Bonavena: I ain’t never had a man I wanna whup so bad.” Mr Vallance, you’re the sort of wretch who causes good people to do bad things. You should be deeply ashamed of the tremendous harm you have done.
Genocidal mania is still alive and kicking. This c u next Tuesday needs locking up.
And before next Tuesday, too!
So it’s going to be around forever, like a cold then?
If that happens, as we never used to name individual ‘colds’ or spend a lot of time detecting which particular virus caused it, it would just going the club, as it were. That said, there could be a profitable market for some to try to follow them all!
How did this man ever become a government adviser, why should anyone continue to listen what he has to say. He’s a typical civil servant, promoted to a point of incompetence and then rewarded for it. He is a disgrace and should be sacked.
His opining on climate change is equally dramatic and hysterical, and shows him to be little more than a soothsayer or reader of the runes. Time he was shuffled off-stage and into oblivion
Preferably with a helping hand (or boot)
Mr Vallance is a principal perpetrator of the violently deranged anti-science anti-health genocidal Covid policy assault against humanity and Mr Vallance should now understand that he will inevitably be tried for Crimes Against Humanity and swingeingly sentenced in proportion to his egregious criminal activities, if found guilty.
*SPOILER ALERT* There’s only this many comments because people continue to feed the resident troll. Stop being mugs and ignore, otherwise you encourage the troll to stay. It’s tedious in the extreme.
He should be sacked and any pensions accrued forfieted.
Also he should NOT be listened to.
I’m afraid Vallance needs HIS fundamental human rights removed. He should be forcibly locked up, without trial, no right to see a lawyer and zero rights to anything remotely normal. He should be incarcerated in that way for 2 years and if his mental health shows signs of instability, no treatment should be offered.
Very important for animals like Vallance to be treated the way he callously treated millions of British people….
Don’t just lock him up. Use him. He should be experimented on.
Another thread ruined by a tree troll and people on here who should know better responding.
Could we possibly make some kind of pact that the next thread Tree pops up on we downtick his ridiculous posts until the cows come home but we do not respond – he has totally ruined this thread and stifled any kind of genuine discussion about it.
Sorry you don’t understand your own arguments.
What discussion… It’s just abuse.
I make a point of not responding to trolls.
‘It’ is only able to take up space because ‘it’ gets responses….’it’ feeds off them and propagates more. Come on posters….as Hp says….ignore ‘it’.
Thanks for your support.
The thread was interesting until that canker popped up.
I thought ‘tree’ made some good points, and found his remarks to be entertaining. A bit different than just reporting another previously unknown ‘sports person’ who “collapsed clutching his heart so it must be the vaccine although we don’t know whether he was vaccinated or not”.