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.
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.
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Then remove the threat to that teacher. Deport the threat, or threats to a country more in keeping with their values. Multiculturalism is not possible because as in this case a ‘new and vibrant’ culture is making every effort for us all to be in line with their culture.
I quite agree. Did the police not identify the people making the threats? Why should this chap and his family have their lives turned upside down? This is what really gets on my tripe because it should be a blanket rule for everybody. If you come into our countries then you adhere to our laws and respect our culture. Our culture says that we can draw anyone’s god, be it Buddha, Jesus, God, any Hindu god etc..so why should Islam be held to some different standard to all others? If people want to burn some religion’s Holy book then let them get on with it, but why should Islam’s Koran come with the threat of death if none of the others do?
Well I think I’ve made my feelings clear on the entire Islam situation by now, but this is it in a nutshell;
https://twitter.com/NiohBerg/status/1751582000488526119
Evidence is pretty clear that England is an Islamic country at this point. There’s blasphemy laws, there’s Sharia courts all over the place, mosques everywhere, and seems like you can get away with anything as long as it’s done in the name of the prophet, from death threats to sexually abusing thousands of children.
An argument that is often wheeled out is to avoid “inflaming community tensions” but that does not seem to apply when the white community is the one getting “tense” – look at what happened in Ireland with the recent protests
And have you noticed the change in terminology as well? As if it makes it less shocking and disgusting somehow… Since when did the term ”paedophile ring” morph into ”grooming gang”? It would appear that the latter seems only to apply when the perpetrators are of a non-white ethnicity, but paedophiles are exactly what they are and always will be. The victims were all aged from 10yrs – 15yrs old.
We’ve seen many instances of the language being abused and corrupted by our enemies
Which is why tof I am so keen to reject the language.
Misinformation = lies, and so on. Let’s tell it as it is.
Grooming gangs – Pakistani Paedophiles.
Some were 9, and referred to by local councillors and police officers as “prostitutes”.
Well I don’t know if you saw any of the footage online but Tommy Robinson and his supporters did a fantastic job in Telford yesterday. Meanwhile, these were the pitiful nobhead counter-protestors. And this is the problem, in my opinion. The amount of natives who are nothing but out and out traitors to the people. It’s not even the Muslims in and of themselves exclusively, but the Leftards right the way from the politicians and judiciary to the regular folk on the street. We saw with the scamdemic years how readily ordinary people will shaft their fellow citizens and it’s exactly the same with other agendas, including the immigration/invasion agenda. These people are treacherous and delusional;
”Far-left activists from the ‘Stand Up To Racism’ organization hold a protest in Telford, UK against British activist @TRobinsonNewEra
holding a march against child trafficking gangs.
Dozens of activists attempted to disrupt Robinson and the several thousands British citizens who had gathered to raise awareness of around 1,000 young teen girls who had been trafficked and abused by Pakistani grooming gangs over several decades.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1751583087350120596
Yeah, the whole “racist far-right extremists” narrative is crumbling, especially now that Elon owns Twitter and let everyone back in, especially Tommy Robinson. Now everyone that wants to see can see what he’s saying, rather than consuming second and third hand opinions. I recently watched his documentary on the Ellie Williams scandal and it was quite something to see. The courts forced him to shut up and the media just attacked him relentlessly, saying he was there to stoke racial tensions. Here were are, couple of years later, and it turns out the media was stoking racial tensions and the only one there that found out the truth and sided with the victims was Tommy Robinson. But whereas the media was quick to create hatred towards him, now no one is reporting that he got it right and was silenced, and they were allowed to spew out their lies.
So too will this come to light, some day. When they started publishing news about grooming gangs, no one acknowledged that they demonized Tommy for saying the same things. To this day they still call him a racist over saying the same things they said, only much earlier.
The truth will out. But after how long a wait?
Well done for even mentioning the heroic Tommy Robinson. I’m astonished that he is still standing up for British children, after all that he and his courageous wife and family have suffered. I can’t forget Nigel Farage denouncing him as “scum” or some such word a few years ago. I was shocked.
100 agreement Mogs.
A more obvious example of the utter contempt the people of Westminster House have for the people of this country would be difficult to find.
Why is this man’s MP not making a song and dance about this? Let’s guess, it’s a Labour MP elected on the strength of the mullahs harvested postal vote and wouldn’t want to upset the muzzies now would we?
I am sure the absolute depths have not been plumbed yet but for establishment cowardice this takes some beating. As skinner points out the threat to this man must be removed. An announcement should be made, tantamount to a declaration of local war, that if anyone makes a move against this man or his family then the perp and every single relative will be on the next plane to Pakistan and the courts be damned.
#uck ’em!
You’re right, hux. The thing is, it’s not just a reflection of how messed up and incompatible their culture is, but it’s a reflection of *our* culture in how the authorities deal with things such as in the article, the organized paedo predators etc, which just goes to highlight how massively messed up the West is when it comes to all things Islam.
Another thing that’s p’ing me off ( and I could be wrong but it seems to be more of a thing since Oct 7th ) is all of this praying on the streets and in public places, such as on trains/planes, in the aisles, and basically being an all round inconvenience to others. As if there aren’t enough mosques in western countries now! But I know exactly why they’re doing it…
Meanwhile, this from Italy yesterday, when the terrorist-supporting rape-apologist mob hit the streets, deliberately disrespecting Holocaust Memorial Day despite being warned in advance.
”Italian Riot Police use batons against a largely Muslim mob of pro-Palestinian protesters who held an anti-Israel rally on Holocaust Memorial Day.
The Italian government had banned all protests on the anniversary of The Holocaust out of respect for the Jewish community.”
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1751570470485258352
Thanks for the link Mogs.
Whatever the multiculturalists say, we have our eyes. We see and read that is Islam is the most powerful,hateful ideology in any society it enters.
I know it personally from 7/7 and the separate murders of friends and people I knew such as Andreas Liveras and Alex Pigeard.
On top of that I see how it has instilled fear of central London in my Jewish neighbours and led to heroic behaviour on the part of a friend’s daughter at the Supernova Festival in Israel.
Is this comment Islamophobic? No,it is the distillation of my experience and reading of the Koran and Hadith.
As someone once said, “It’s not Islamo-phobia, because we are not afraid.
It’s Islamo-nausea, because the whole world is sick of Islam.”
We sure are. And there’s evidence from all over online to back that statement up. But the treacherous, conniving Leftards keep banging on about the so-called ”far-right” being the real threat. What it is though is that their plans and power are under threat because people are demonstrably waking up to their shenanigans and sick to the back teeth of it all.
https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1751638375826612319
Hear, hear.
What a writhing, simpering coward the headmaster seems to be.
that’s my take too.
I am perplexed that so many people are against the building of a new mosque. I think it should be the goal of everyone living here to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the new mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance.
That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one, which would be gay, “The Turban Cowboy”, and the other, a topless bar, would be called, but “You Mecca Me Hot”.
Next door should be a butcher shop specialising in pork, and adjacent to that an open pit barbecue pork restaurant called, Iraq of Ribs”. Across the street there could be a sexy lingerie shop called, “Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret” with sexy mannequins modelling the wares, and next door an off license called, “Morehammered”.
All this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us.
(Not mine, pinched from a fb post)