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SAGE Member – and Communist – Susan Michie Says We Will Need Face Masks and Social Distancing “Forever”

by Michael Curzon
10 June 2021 12:02 PM

Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology at UCL and a leading member of SAGE, says that mask-wearing and social distancing will need to stay in place “forever”, not only for Covid but also “to reduce other [diseases]”.

The top Government adviser and long-time member of the Communist Party of Britain (once nicknamed “Stalin’s nanny” because she tried to smuggle Communist literature into a political conference in a baby’s pram), told Channel 5 News that measures adopted by Brits over the past 14 months should now become a part of our “normal” routine behaviour, just as wearing car seat belts has become commonplace.

David Nabarro, a special envoy from the WHO, said that vaccines won't be enough to end the pandemic, and that we'll need to adapt our lifestyles too.

Professor @SusanMichie, a behavioural scientist advising the government, and epidemiologist Dr @shikta_das join @ClaudiaLizaTV. pic.twitter.com/NzSjnbSgve

— Channel 5 News (@5_News) June 9, 2021

Vaccines are a really important part of pandemic control but it is only one part. [A] test, trace and isolate system, [as well as] border controls, are really essential. And the third thing is people’s behaviour. That is, the behaviour of social distancing, of… making sure there’s good ventilation [when you’re indoors], or if there’s not, wearing face masks, and [keeping up] hand and surface hygiene.

We will need to keep these going in the long term, and that will be good not only for Covid but also to reduce other [diseases] at a time when the NHS is [struggling]… I think forever, to some extent…

I think there’s lots of different behaviours that we have changed in our lives. We now routinely wear seatbelts – we didn’t use to. We now routinely pick up dog poo in the parks – we didn’t use to. When people see that there is a threat and there is something they can do to reduce that [to protect] themselves, their loved ones and their communities, what we have seen over this last year is that people do that.

This line – that “what we have seen over the last year is that people do that” – is faintly reminiscent of Professor Neil Ferguson’s comments when looking back to when Italy imposed a nationwide lockdown last February: “[China] is a communist one-party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with [lockdown] in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.” Professor Michie has realised that she – and the Government – can “get away with” telling people to continue abiding by Covid regulations.

Professor Michie continues:

I think that we can just begin to adopt routines. When we go out of the house, we check that we’ve got our phone, we’ve got our keys, we’ve got tissues, we’ve got a face mask in case we need to use it. It’s not going to be a huge big deal, the kind of behaviours that we are talking about.

Unsurprisingly, Channel 5 News made absolutely no effort to scrutinise these claims. The programme’s presenter raised no objection to the idea that mask-wearing and social distancing could continue “forever”, resorting only to friendly laughter. Professor Michie’s co-panellist, a fellow scientist at UCL, Dr Shikta Das, said: “I think Susan has made a very good point here,” adding that the vaccine roll-out has created a “false sense of security”. She concluded: “I don’t think we are yet ready to unlock.” How’s all that for balance! At last Ofcom won’t have any complaints about this programme.

The video is worth watching in full.

Tags: Face MasksProfessor Susan MichieSAGESocial distancing

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JayBee
JayBee
3 years ago

Claim the effing exemption, you effing cowards and parents!

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Jess
Jess
3 years ago
Reply to  JayBee

“Claim the effing exemption”

I would, you would – but yesterday saw the daily throng of faceless teenagers leaving the brainwashing academy near me – just like nothing had changed. Maybe they reach for their muzzles at the gates.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago

I bet half the parents are relieved and approve of the reversal lol.

Must be pretty obvious to most sane individuals by now that there is no way out of this mental prison created for us by the Govt & Media, outside of large scale revolt.

I’m 99.9999% certain the unvaccinated will be the Govt & Media’s release valve for the discontent they’re brewing. Large scale Stockholm Syndrome experiment ahead my fellow humans!

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QuickDrawMcGraw
QuickDrawMcGraw
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

Spot on!

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

JESUS H CHRIST!!!!!!!
Just when you think people can’t possibly get any more more stupid!!!

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Fingerache Philip

Yes – surely there HAS TO BE a bottom below which it is impossible to go, but blest if I can see it!

Last edited 3 years ago by iane
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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  iane

Totally agree.

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Lucan Grey
Lucan Grey
3 years ago

Given it clearly didn’t stop or slow down the spread last week, why do they believe it will this week?

It’s all begging the question.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  Lucan Grey

Stop asking awkward, logical, questions and get with the narrative!

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

Our children are being weaponised as child soldiers in a propaganda war against us.

For context, here are the daily figures for hospital bed occupancy with covid-19. The usual caveat applies: this is “with” not “because of”.

covid-hospital-beds-May-17.png
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arfurmo
arfurmo
3 years ago

Not just there https://tgs.starmat.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CEO-Community-Letter-May-2021.docx-.pdf

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

There will eventually come a time when operators in the field of public health will live to regret this.

The credibility of this area of medicine has been effectively completely destroyed.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

They may live to regret it, but hopefully not for long.

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iane
iane
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Amen to that!

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

All the behaviour that has led to this totalitarian nightmare remains unchanged:

  • A frightened population with an irrational fear of this virus
  • Governments favouring extreme caution over a proportional response
  • The media promoting fear instead of context and balance.

Unless the fundamental, underlying behaviour changes, nothing will change. And it seems unlikely right now as these three elements reinforce each other in a perpetual cycle of doom.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Unless the basic rationale changes, nothing else of significance does.

… and that rationale – to induce unreasoning fear and compliance in the population – has not changed. Mental illness is the objective, not public health.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

See Ivor Cummin’s circle of life explaining the cycle…
https://youtu.be/QsRCmhjtekE

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karenovirus
karenovirus
3 years ago

Cue outbreaks of mask induced hate crimes as indigenous youngsters blame Indian (and ‘all the same “P*ki’ “) classmates for them still having to wear masks.
All part of the divide and rule strategy.

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Marky7456
Marky7456
3 years ago

“It comes amid rising concern about a surge in the Indian variant of Covid, which early data suggests could be more transmissible than other variants.”

If a variant establishes itself then surely by definition it has to be more transmissible than the variant it is displacing. If it was not more transmissible it would not be able to establish itself. This is because the variant is almost identical to the original and that current immunity, whether natural or artificial, will prevent significant spread of both the original and new variant.

The important issue is whether it is less or more virulent. Is there evidence of increased hospitalisation in Bolton?

Basic viral theory seems to state that viruses will mutate to more transmissible forms in order to survive but that they will decrease in virulence as Transmisibility requires the host to be mobile and in contact with enough potential hosts to spread.

Note that for the Kent variant the mean CT levels needed to detect it INCREASED as compared to the original dominant strains. Higher CT means a lower viral load and hence less virulence.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  Marky7456

No point in wittering about ‘variants’ on the head of a pin. We know it’s all fabrication.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

Hey-up – a down-vote indicating a Daydream Variant Believer here!

I guess it takes all sorts …

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

In a prison, ‘open’ or otherwise, constraints can be imposed at will, rewards for good behaviour taken away at will. Lockdown as a term comes from prisons. We now live in a global prison with different cells. GlobCap and its faithful underlings will decide how we live in our prison.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

We?
No.
They. The fools, the cowards, the zombies, the Covidian fiend-fodder.

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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

‘We’ are unwilling prisoners, rather than the ones fully captured by the psyop. But we do exist physically on the same planet, so we too are in the prison, albeit with rebellious tendancies.

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Awkward Git
Awkward Git
3 years ago

Look up the court judgement from a few weeks ago:

If mask wearing is NOT mandated by law then you CANNOT be coerced into wearing them.

End of.

Spread it around:

https://twitter.com/laworfiction/status/1389969458299604993

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

You don’t have to wear the filthy rag. Don’t wear it.
If your school tries to discriminate against you, sue them.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago

“ by Friday evening, deals had been struck with several local councils to extend the use of masks in the classroom”.

A deal?! That implies to me an exchange of something…so ministers permit these LAs to continue to try to make children wear masks, but in exchange for what?!

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stevie
stevie
3 years ago
Reply to  SweetBabyCheeses

A deal? Emergency law, a new SI, guidance or can they just issue a proclamation.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

In Wales, Drakeford has his sights on “vaccinating” school children so that the ongoing school mask mandate might be able to be eased:
“It may be that later this year even, we will be able to have a program in our secondary schools to offer those young people a vaccination which would make these schools even safer than they are.
And that might allow us to lift some of the other restrictions that we have.
“Wearing of masks in classrooms all the time for example, that makes the learning experience less comfortable than it would otherwise be.”
I cannot find the words to convey just how much I loath that man. What he’s done to the country is bad enough, but now he wants to further harm our children, all to perpetuate the lie that they pose any risk to the population. These people are simply evil.
https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/19310319.drakeford-discusses-vaccines-children-wales/

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Corky Ringspot
Corky Ringspot
3 years ago

Disgusting. Child abuse. The darkest time of this country’s history, bar none.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

I had to laugh when I saw this headline. Did the schools not get the memo that says masks don’t work? Honestly, that is all you can do is laugh, when we watch the same mistakes made day after day, month after month. So many people died, who if given early Tx available with repurposed drugs would have saved lives per Dr. Peter McCullough. Oh by the way, 60% of his pts,, he is now seeing with COVID , had both jabs. Oops, another fallacy regarding efficacy of the “jabs”.

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago

If this is, after all, about ‘depopulation‘, It looks a though it’s bang on target!
The type of parents who can’t see through the nonsense who are unable to protect their own children from this farce, and are so stupid they are actively encouraging them to comply with damaging diktats, really shouldn’t be allowed to breed responsibility for any child.

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imp66
imp66
3 years ago

Follow The (Real!) Science, you authoritarian retards!! Kids are not going to ‘catch’ covid-19, not transmit it. They’ve all been tested twice a week for ages, with almost ZERO (false?) positive test results. How effin’ thick are the experts in charge!?

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tom171uk
tom171uk
3 years ago
Reply to  imp66

Very, very thick!

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