Chris Whitty has said that his “greatest worry at the moment” is whether, should new restrictions be implemented to fight Covid variants, the Government can “still take people with us” and ensure public compliance with tightening Covid laws. The Chief Medical Officer further stated that it will now be harder to gain public acceptance for more restrictions given that the “people put up with two years of their lives being interfered with”. BBC News has the story.
England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty has said his “greatest worry” is whether people will accept fresh curbs on activities to tackle Covid variants.
His comments came after the Government announced quarantines on travellers from some African countries following the emergence of a new strain.
Whitty said he questioned whether “we could take people with us” if restrictions had to be imposed.
But he added that “my overall view is, I think we will”.
England has been through three national lockdowns since Covid first struck. There have also been many local restrictions imposed at various points during the past 20 months.
Whitty told a panel discussion hosted by the Local Government Association: “My greatest worry at the moment is that people… if we need to do something more muscular at some point, whether it’s for the current new variant or at some later stage, can we still take people with us?”
He admitted that some of the changes the public has had to make have been “very destructive” to society and the economy. However, despite his worries, Whitty struck a positive note, saying he believed the Government will be able to maintain public support for Covid measures.
“I think the extraordinary thing has been the ability of the U.K. population, with very, very small exceptions, to just accept that there are things we collectively have to do to protect one another and do collectively, including things that have been very destructive to social and economic situations for individuals and families,” he said.
“Obviously, we want to avoid having to do those at all if we can, and to do the minimum ones necessary, but will we be able to maintain public support?
I think my overall view is, I think we will.”
There have been a further 50,091 Covid cases in the U.K. and another 160 deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the latest Government figures show.
Both deaths and the number of people admitted to hospital continue to trend lower despite the rise in cases. It is likely we’re seeing the impact of the booster campaign protecting the most vulnerable people and keeping them out of hospital.
Worth reading in full.
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”… we could take people with us…”
I’m only sickened that they could take ANYONE with them.
That’s the first thing that Whitty has got right in more than 20 months. Unfortunately, sections of the brainwashed populace, who are unable to think for themselves, will probably kowtow to the strictures of the Johnson junta!!
He’s damn well right on this one for once!
Chris Whitty, shame on you. You know better. When study after study have shown the harm done by masks, lockdowns, school and business closures, you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking about implementing even one of these disastrous interventions. They simply do not work Chris. And you know it.
I hope you’ve written to him directly. I doubt very much he reads these comments.
‘ It is likely….’
It is likely that I will be struck by lightning next month – but very distant odds! It is likely that I will win the Lottery – even more unlikely, as I don’t play!
There are so many hedged bets – likely, maybe, might be, could happen, may be a possibility – that anybody who has ever been taught by a proper teacher will know that they are being played for a fool!
(even Whitless is beginning to realise this…)
Chris who?
“He admitted that some of the changes the public has had to make have been “very destructive” to society and the economy. “
Still lying. We didn’t HAVE to carry out Whitty’s destructive policies …. SWEDEN, SWEDEN, SWEDEN.
But he’s right about future compliance. Ain’t gonna happen mate. #I’m done.
And Texas, and Florida and India.
And Japan and most of Africa.
Chris Whitty should be worried. Haven’t and now, we won’t.
Seems to me there are three groups of people.
The Terminally Terrified
The Lockdown Zealots
Everyone else you says Go f**k yourself
HURRAH! Whitless gets something right for once! No flamin’ way am I complying with anything this absurd bunch of Peppa’s come out with. No to their life threatening jabs and no to their mask mandates which Whitless and Vallance pronounced as pointless in 2020:
https://twitter.com/JamesLadbroke/status/1412710376651821057?fbclid=IwAR1crWKbgVFHgm6usOQfwKwGWcOlhEEPzFhqd1x1UDJSZTD0f-YPeXmzYfs
There will be a new variant invented every few weeks/ months to keep the gullible terrified of their own shadows. It is up to the rest of us to resist this b.s. and lead by example. Sure we’ll be lambasted by MSM, by politicians and the sheeple, but f*ck it. It’s time to stand up, suffer their slings and arrows and bury this charade.
If He and Boris have been watching the comments in the daily telegraph and here the should be dammed sure we not going to follow them or the new rules
Seen the headlines in the Sunday Times and the comment section? It could not be more biased towards the vaccination and stirring up trouble against the unvaccinated than if the CEO of Pfizer and Bill Gates had crafted the paper together.
The paper should carry one of those bylines like the Amercan news channels where they state the Sponsor
“bought to you by Pfizer”
His first statement was correct. I shan’t be complying with any of it; but I didn’t before. No masks. No tests.
He makes my skin crawl, shudder.
Can you please jettison the ‘Worth reading in full” at the end of these articles – particularly when redirecting to the BBC. Alternatively, you could change it to “For more utter tripe”
Translation: Chris Whitty says the public has seen through the complete and utter shite he has spouted for 21 months.
I wish that were true, but the majority still seem to fall for it.
He admitted that some of the changes the public has had to make have been “very destructive” to society and the economy. However, despite his worries, Whitty struck a positive note, saying he believed the Government will be able to maintain public support for Covid measures.
How is that a positive note?
Took them all of a day to bring in more restrictions.
i think i might have Covid 18
So dont have any more restrictiosn then .Fuckwit science tells us none of them worked anyway except in the minds of the stupid and anyone who reads the Daily Mail
Why tackle Covid variants .Someone explain
People you dont have to do anything you dont want to do regarding this shitshow.You are many and you are free.Just consider the drastic change in an instant it woud require in this country to coerce you all into coercion .It cant happn ,stop over thinking it, ,stop wetting your self and stand up for your freedom ,your children,your way of life and for gods sake stop pretending that any refusal will end in death or torture or prison .Any restriction in place now in this country exists because 60 million people let a few dozen politicians make it that way Enough is enough
Honestly Chris thers no need to worry
Chris Whitty is worried that next time people won’t just harangue him
He like many others should face trial for at the very least manslaughter
Sorry you twat. You lost me last year
and having just had my daughter’s parents evening and being told that she has not progressed in the last 18 months – with the teacher nodding and winking as to why – I am fucking done with anything you imply is necessary. I just wish I had a way to exit the PAYE system so I can do the decent thing and stop paying towards you lot wrecking our lives and our futures.
To the elitist psychopaths –
You have crossed the fucking line.
ZERO compliance and open subversion is all you will get from us.
“Chris Whitty worried….”
And so he bloody well should be but not for the reason he’s stated.
I hope he’s developed an owls neck, he’s going to need it to be able watch his back for the rest of his life.
Mad Scientist. Playing good cop, so when the next announcements come, people will think he’s honest, Behavioural Science # Follow the Science
Omicron produced like a rabbit out of a hat, just as predicted. Meanwhile, notice how Saint Boris has been silenced for the moment; perhaps he’s still crying that he didn’t get to do his Little Britain impression of Marjorie Dawes with “we have a nooooooooooo variant”.
I’m sure this is a pre-emptive nudge. The Gestapo don’t yet want to address the public with “you must” or “you must not”, or even “let’s do this”; he’s saying it so that the good, obedient
brainwashedcitizens might say: “we’ll prove you wrong, Mr Whitty”. He’ll be thinking “yep, people are cancelling their office Christmas parties, just in case… the nudge worked”.As for us… let’s indulge his worry. Fool me once, etc.
Fool me booster, sorry, fool me 3 times
The fat controller is gently rocking back and forth in a corner somewhere. The pressure has got to him, he spends hours (apparently) checking his social media popularity and he can’t be liking what he’s reading. They’ll explain it away as being an ‘exhausted parent’ and that he wants to spend more time with his family.
This loathsome creature has nothing to say and he’s saying it too loud. Sooner or later a reckoning will take place. Rejoice in this knowledge.
On to something far more interesting and important. I’ve been watching Teen Wolf (’85) with my son, and I still say Boof piddles all over Pamela. What was Scott thinking!