Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has told the Covid Inquiry he was “sceptical” about making Covid vaccines mandatory for healthcare workers and the decision was “100% a political one”. The Telegraph has more.
The Chief Medical Officer for England told the Covid Inquiry the decision to implement the mandate was .
Care home workers were mandated to be vaccinated against COVID-19 from November 2021 and were among the first to be given the jabs during the original rollout.
However, this scheme, known as vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD), was controversial. Proposals to widen the scheme to include all healthcare workers were later abandoned and the need for care home staff to be jabbed was lifted in 2022.
Prof Whitty said such a decision was a balance between the risk of having a vulnerable person cared for by someone who may pass on an infection to them and respecting a person’s own autonomy.
“There’s a range of opinions on this and for what it’s worth – but I don’t think it’s worth very much – I’m rather more sceptical than some people that this is a good idea, but that’s a view as a citizen,” Prof Whitty told the inquiry. …
“Every drug and vaccine has side effects, and some of those may be rare, but still severe, and that has to be taken into account in the decisions that are taken about mandation,” he added.
“I was sometimes worried that people were just thinking, ‘people should just get vaccinated. What’s the problem?’
“And my view is that this is a medical procedure, and, more importantly, there will be side effects and they may well be rare around serious and that is an important part of the balance of risk.” …
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, CEO of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and a Deputy Chief Medical Officer in the early phases of the coronavirus pandemic, also had reservations about mandatory vaccination, it emerged.
In an email sent on Feb 15th 2021, Dame Jenny said she was “quite outspoken” on the mandatory vaccination policy.
“I am hugely supportive of getting care homes protected, but I have seen no evidence to suggest that this policy is going to result in more benefit than harm,” she wrote in the email, shown to the inquiry.
But the politicians brought it in anyway. Another thing we can thank the Tories for. And no, it’s not because the ‘experts’ were telling them they had to.
Notice Whitty still won’t acknowledge that the jab didn’t actually prevent transmission – he still appears to hold that there was some ‘benefit’ to others from it. The delusion and refusal to take on board unwelcome facts runs deep.
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“However, this scheme, known as vaccination as a condition of deployment (VCOD), was controversial.”
Of all the words available in the English language, “controversial” is not the word I use.
Fascist, Totalitarian, Anti-Science, Anti-reality. Some words of choice.
Murderous, would be my choice.
If you look at the Patient Information Leaflets for medicines ‘rare’ side effects are not that rare. I can’t find a reference but I think it’s in the order of 1 in 10k. I think the side effects of the jibby jabs were far more frequent than that, but I don’t have a link for that either.
IMHO, many millions of doses led to many many thousands of side effects.
And when it’s made mandatory, the state is guilty of creating a death lottery.
Given the outcomes of the
‘being used under emergency licensing powers, prior to completing full clinical trials’.-medical procedure.
Perhaps ‘genocidal’ will in time become the appropriate word to replace the lame ‘controversial’.
Suffice to recycle a few extracts from a posting on the WHO article earlier today…
…Age-fatality profile that paralleled general mortality
…Hallett’s flying circus is a disgrace
…Familiarise themselves with the principles in the Nuremberg Code
…Over to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
That’s all there is to it.
The whole “covid” theatre was political.
I don’t recall Whitty piping up at the time about or bodily autonomy, nor Harries in defence of evidence based medicine.
I certainly blame the Tories and all the other political parties, but who’s to say that Whitty isn’t misremembering things? At least with Harries she can point to emails she sent at the time, though it’s not stated here who the emails were sent to.
The rats are sensing the cage is starting to close around them. The “it wasn’t me guv” excuses are coming out now. It was Witless who overruled the JCVI and pushed ahead with vaxes for children.
Now that the money and honours have dried up these incompetent fools are having to face the music.
Gonna be a lot of sirs and dames and OBEs and CBEs etc in jail.
Or not.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns voted in favour of it all, for one. But she’s gone to Reform and Musk retweeted her so fine.
Less incompetent fools, more willing monsters.
“Notice Whitty still won’t acknowledge that the jab didn’t actually prevent transmission – he still appears to hold that there was some ‘benefit’ to others from it. The delusion and refusal to take on board unwelcome facts runs deep.”
In my view, it’s actually far worse than this. The countries that rolled out the jabs early experienced some of the highest case rates in the world shortly after roll out. These included the Seychelles and Gibraltar, the last named of which could briefly boast the highest case rates in the world despite jabbing their entire adult population.
By September 2021, UKHSA data was already showing higher case rates in the vaccinated for most age groups, a trend that continued to worsen until April 2022, when the relevant data ceased to be published. The data from New South Wales in Australia, where the jabs were rolled out later, again showed the same trend, the more jabs that an individual receives, the higher the test positivity rate.
To add to the argument, the Cleveland Clinic study released the following year showed a clear correlation between number of shots administered and number of covid infections.
You could quite easily argue a strong case for some form of vaccine passport based on this data, perhaps requiring a test for anyone vaccinated for covid, as these individuals are considerably more likely to catch and therefore transmit the virus to others. Not that I would ever consider wanting to advocate such a policy!
The cessation of that data publishing was one of the major alarm bells for me, as well as how they made it as hard as possible to access the real data. If it’s all upside, why *wouldn’t* you share the data to prove all the antivaxers wrong? (Cos it was BS obviously)
“Reservations, VCOD controversial, sceptical, range of options, side-effects,” blah, blah, blah. Signed: Yours, (with much tap-dancing) Sir Chris Whitty.
Even from Chris Whitty’s own pro-vaccine point of view, he was right to be opposed to compulsory vaccination.
The Telegraph, March 2021: ‘Care home staff to face compulsory Covid vaccination’
Belfast Telegraph, January 2025: ‘only 6.4% of care home workers have taken up the flu vaccine’
Coercion and compulsion create opposition, that and unsafe vaccines.
I must have missed him piping up when it mattered
Yes, and even for the sake of his own pro-vaccine point of view, he should have.
All sides of debates about vaccines should be able to agree that compulsory vaccination is totally unacceptable.
Cambridge Union debate recently
Haris Khan | This House Would Make Vaccines Mandatory | Cambridge Union
Earl Jesse of Freedom Alliance spoke against the motion, which was carried
Ayes: 159
Noes: 133
Abstain: 57
Just goes to prove the observation that the tertiary-educated were (and remain) the biggest suckers.
As others have pointed out, a big part of the life path of that group involves learning to be compliant with norms in order to get on. Of course that’s part of life for everyone, to an extent, but it seems to be worse with the “educated”.
Chris Whitty wrote a scientific paper in 2010 which related to trying ivermectin to cure malaria. Just search for “whitty 2010 ivermectin malaria”
In this paper he mentions that ivermectin has been used by over 80 million people, and is well tolerated at 10 times the recommended dose and thus is considered very safe. It apparently performed well on malaria
He should be arrested.
Link. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27822422
I’ll try to attach a screen shot of the key para from the paper…
Strangely how these highly paid and supposedly qualified and subsequently honoured people seek to resile from positions they formerly and formally adopted just a short time ago.
Nothing to see here … move on …
At what stage, if any, did Whitty make the point that the vaccines didn’t prevent transmission anyway, and so were imposed on medical staff both tyrannically and worthlessly?
He should serve many life sentences for the death of thousands.
Instead, they knighted him.
Evidence? Where is the evidence that this is what he thought and expressed as an opinion at the time?
My personal feeling about this man for what it’s worth, and it’s probably not worth very much, is that he’s a weasely scumbag that is trying to launder his catastrophic legacy.
Chris Whitty was sceptical about vaccine mandated just like after World War 2 the majority of Germans denied they ever supported Adolph.
“Sir” Chris Whitty is just another servant of evil. Those further down the command chain, such as my GP’s nurse (Gracie Jabbem All) may be forgiven their evil due to ignorance and brainwashing, but Whitty is one of the Brainwashers and threateners to anyone down the power pyramid. He knows full well the evil he perpetrates.
He’s supposed to have been one of the UK’s top medicos – and he still cannot grasp the fact that the jabs neither stopped contagion or transmission. What a hypocritical fool
One of the Guilty Men. If he doesn’t get appropriate punishment in this life, I hope he suffers for all eternity in the next one.
He thought all this, but still stood up in front of TV cameras along with Valance et al to urge injections on all including children, to back the Government, they were supposed to be the experts, but they sold themselves cheaply. Whitty betrayed all his medical knowledge, compromised himself in order to ensure he kept his position, and then accepted rewards and honours in exchange for the lives, safety and health of the Adults and children of the country, who incidentally are forking out their hard earned money to keep this man in luxury.
A man who has no conscience, ethics or principles and who is not to be trusted.
Whitty has tried to avoid responsibility for decisions made throughout the whole sorry mess.
He might not be responsible for the decisions themselves, but he absolutely is responsible for the advice he gave.
Not only that, but he PUBLICLY backed the decisions. Civil servants normally cannot be held accountable for government policy, only for advice given. But if they enter into the public realm and publicly back government policy, surely that no longer applies.
They weren’t so vocal publicly, regarding their alleged reservations!
Stinks of attempting to downplay their previous roles!