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Chris Whitty Was “Sceptical” about Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers and Says Decision Was “100% Political”

by Will Jones
25 January 2025 3:00 PM

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.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Chris WhittyCovid InquiryCOVID-19Healthcare workersJenny HarriesPropagandaVaccine MandateVaccine side-effectsVaccines

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nige.oldfart
nige.oldfart
2 years ago

Brown shirts and jack boots come to mind.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago
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Except that this time, they’re coming to you via that friendly little device in your pocket.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago
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You cannot change the national characteristics of a nation …… unless you change the people who make up that nation.

The UK’s national characteristics have been changed by 7 decades of immigration, particularly the mass immigration of the last 30 years.

Merkel only opened the borders to the invaders 7 years ago, so Germany is 6+ decades behind us. They are basically still the same nation they were in the 1930s.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
2 years ago

PayPal is not remotely unsure about where it stands on misinformation. It’s part of the US deep state beelzeblob. It just got the timing wrong.
Is Hunt’s former nanny Dianne Brady still alive do you think and did she look like Billy Whitelaw?

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
2 years ago
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“PayPal is not remotely unsure about where it stands on misinformation.”

I tend to agree. stewart has this theory that these woke global companies are just acting under pressure from governments and all they want to do really is be left in peace to make money. I beg to differ, though I respect stewart’s view and always find his posts interesting. We may never know which of us is closer to the truth.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago

Resist these people, if necessary with any and all force at your disposal. They do not deserve mercy.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

The authoritarian left in the USA has the First Amendment to contend with, which prevents censorship (or at least should). The EU/Germans are just doing their dirty work for them.

It’s no good just moaning, resist the fascists. Join The Global Walkout https://globalwalkout.com/about-the-global-walkout/

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SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
2 years ago

Paypal and its owners need to publicly fight laws introduced to control free speech if it effects them. If they don’t, they are dead. The same goes for all companies such as Facebook and Twitter. Why can’t they use the power they have gained for good. Or are they all aiming to control what people can say or think and destroy it if it doesn’t agree with the controlled standard opinion which is often wrong as it was on Covid and will be proved to be on Climate.

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Kornea112
Kornea112
2 years ago

The DSA was initially set up to control the very large ” gatekeepers”, those companies like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft that stifle competition. The goal was to prevent these companies to be monopolies. Sounds like a noble undertaking. How did it morph into an online censorship and control bureaucracy that operates above the control of any elected officials? More Deep State controls by unaccountable bureaucrats. Just what is needed, all driven by more Germans! Maybe they could get Klaus Schwab involved for some seasoned tyrannical tips.

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Pembroke
Pembroke
2 years ago

It’s a shame the Yanks are no longer interested in freedom of speech. In past times they’d just tell the EU to do one and withdraw their services.

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