Tag: Chris Whitty

A question for Chris Whitty: Given that the WHO, the Department of Health and you – as recently as March 2020 – rejected the suppression strategy, why did you describe focused protection as “wrong scientifically”?

A Government minister has confirmed Chris Whitty's warning that lockdown could be reintroduced in weeks, saying Boris Johnson will "of course" consider more restrictions if the Covid situation becomes "unacceptable".

July 19th "Freedom Day" or not, it is "going to take quite a long time to get back to normality", says Professor Chris Whitty. England's Chief Medical Officer says we won't return to normal at least until next spring.

A summer wave, a winter wave, the threat of new restrictions – Chris Whitty and Neil Ferguson were not holding back yesterday. But for all the doom and gloom, the signs are the summer ripple is already peaking.

Lockdown Sceptics' in-house doctor says Chris Whitty's slide show at yesterday's Downing St briefing was a blatant exercise in biased data selection.

A cabinet source says they expect the end of lockdown to be delayed by "between two weeks and a month" following a "fairly grim" briefing given to ministers by the Government's two most senior scientific advisers.

In denying that herd immunity was ever Government policy, ministers are drawing a distinction between something being policy and accepted as inevitable. If only this distinction had been applied throughout the year.

For the Lockdown panjandrums on SAGE, this Hogarthian image is what they think the average beer garden looks like on a Saturday afternoon. The war on pubs is a war being waged by puritans against joy, says Sean Walsh.