Britain Won’t Return to Normality This Year, Says Chris Whitty
Whether or not ‘Freedom Day’ takes place on July 19th, we won’t truly return to normal until at least next spring, says Chris Whitty, warning that it is “going to take quite a long time to get back to normality”. The MailOnline has the story.
England’s Chief Medical Officer hinted that some curbs may have to be rolled back later this year when the NHS faces a “difficult winter”.
But, in a glimmer of hope[!], Professor Whitty claimed he anticipated that the U.K. could return to the “status quo” by next spring.
However, he admitted that he would be “surprised” if British life managed to return to pre-Covid normality before then, adding it was “going to take quite a long time to get back to normality”.
Covid hospital admissions and deaths are expected to rise in the weeks and months after July 19th, when all social distancing measures are due to be lifted in England.
Officials are also bracing for a rise in other respiratory illnesses that have been suppressed by lockdown measures during the pandemic, such as flu.
But it’s hoped enough people will have been vaccinated or protected due to prior infection by next spring that the coronavirus will no longer trigger a deadly surge.
Speaking to the Local Government Association’s annual conference, Professor Whitty said: “There will almost certainly be a Covid surge [in winter] and that will be on top of a return to a more normal respiratory surge.
“It’s going to take quite a long time, I think, to get back to normality and I certainly would be surprised if we got back to what most of us would see as a kind of status quo – before the pandemic – by the next spring.
“Because I think we’ve got this current wave, hopefully there will be a period of quieter Covid after that, and then it will still be quite a difficult winter, especially for the NHS – then by next spring I’m hoping slightly more into a more predictable pattern.”
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So they acknowledge that one of rhe costs of lockdown will be higher respiratory illesses/deaths because people haven’t been mixing as much…hmm no one ever saw that happening! But that’s OK because ar least covid illnesses and deaths were reduced by lockdown measures (not). What idiots
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It’s great to see voices from the Left standing up to the tyranny (finally)
Why so many are going along with Faucism is beyond me
No chance of Cassandra being out of a job, then.
Only she can know.
Witless doesn’t even look human
The reptiles are showing their real shapes and faces.
Coloured grey to match his persona, he could easily double up as (an) ET. Emmerich is so right.
The ‘banality of evil’?
The face of evil.
Yes, the overall impression is of an insipid weakling, often bullied at school, however, the eyes are those of a shark looking for minnows.
This is moronic personal abuse – it says more about the contributor than Chris Whitty.
As does your pompous, petulant and abusive comment about you. My guess is that you feel personally slighted by my characterisation of (the soulless and amoral mass murderer) Whitty. Did you find school frightening and difficult?
Chris Whitty is not evil, no more than anyone else.
If you write nicely to him I’m sure he’ll send you a signed photograph.
Go to the world of David Icke if you have a thing about reptilian shape-changers
You must be one of them too.
More like a tortoise that’s lost its shell.
No, that title is reserved for Mitch McConnell.
Your comparison of Whitty & Senator McConnell suggests you belong in the nether depths of Breitbart.
He looks like a monster from a Hammer Horror film that was never made.
But he’s a ‘covid hero’ according to the Express. It’s getting harder to think of ways to describe these people.
The real hero’s were the two guys who demonstrated what a lot of us think of the bastard
This is childish abuse which belongs in Breitbart.
You’ve mentioned Breitbart twice, any more and we’ll start to suspect that you lack imagination.
Im pretty sure he said the exact same thing last July.
Wow he expects us to believe we are still living in a pandemic, that flu and “other” respiratory illnesses are supressed by lockdowns and that this will end next spring.
Insanity…wake up people!
He needs to invest in a new crystal ball – the one he is currently using to make his predictions seems to be a bit on the dodgy side.
Borrowed it from Ferguson
Ah! Yes . Dodgy Dick- why has that reptile been allowed to slither back.
He needs to detail his predictions by star sign to gain some credibility.
” I hope Britain won’t return to normality this year” says Chris Whitty, So how have other countries and states managed it.. Are Sage that useless?
Not useless, just ruthlessly committed to their own narrow interests, in Whitty and Vallance’s cases. profit.
I wouldn’t assume that the reason for all of this nonense is intelligent and malicious actors trying to fool others. Rather, thoroughly stupid people fooling themselves.
I haven’t.
Yes
My thoughts exactly.
The mail were running the headline earlier of increasing hospitilisations now at ~400.
Haven’t had time to look into this so any pointers on what is going on and why the increase? Not sure how it compares but the number looks surprising for this time of year.
Honestly who cares, 1500 a day, every day, week, month, year. 2020/21 accounting for full winter seasons will finish with barely a blip on the over all count.
Cowards + useless NHS + corrupt politicians + big business interests = we’re fucked.
Take your point but the only way to counter the narrative is with facts. That is what has got us this far.
I just gave you a load, just not in a very polite way, my bad 🙂
No worries 🙂
A well timed smack in the gob works wonders as well.
Facts! Yeah right! I’ve been bombarding my friends and family with facts since March 2020. It doesn’t make a blind bit of difference. They’re still masking, throwing themselves into bushes at the merest sight of other Homo sapiens, antisocial distancing, plastering muck all over their hands and of course all fully vaccinated. Paul B is right – we’re fucked. As Peter Hitchens said in a recent interview “there is no greater fortress than a closed mind.”
Even this website acknowledged last autumn that you can’t counter people arguing emotionally (based on fear) from the moral high ground with facts. Waste of time. I’d quote the article from here if I could find it.
Wanted: bored furlougher to put together a better catalogue of the articles posted here.
Too many people making too much money out of covid. I’ll believe Whitty if spotty fat arse stopped paying him until he dealt with covid . I guess he’d be learning to live with it pretty quick.
There is nothing to deal with. A convenient crisis has been manufactured from a normal, natural seasonal event, rather like making the annual migrations of birds and caribou and other creatures into a global food crisis that is going to mean death by starvation for every living creature on the plant unless we all stop eating.
PS: I predict a bogus global food crisis before the end of next year.
I bet it is here by Christmas
PPS: for ‘plant’ read planet.
Some of it because of the vaccines, the roll outs associate with getting Covid.
And when they say hospitalisation, are they already in hospital when they get Covid? There must be a lot of catch up ops going on. Covid isn’t going to leave hospitals any time soon.
And the last question, what cycles are they using for pcr currently?
I was thinking vaccines although they are saying these are younger people. I’m guessing from the story these are admitted to hospital which is why i was interested. Haven’t had a chance to chase up the story yet. PCR? Who knows – I don’t what is happening with that beyond it is completely discredited.
My bet is hangovers.
Reminds me…science has established that hangovers can mutate your genes (seriously)…but they insist a vaccine cannot! Pandemic Logic again.
Someone posted a very revealing FOI on here a couple of weeks ago from a Manchester trust. They stated 45 cycles and that they have been unchanged at 45 cycles for the whole shitshow. As most of us here know, ~23 is about right, 30+ is madness and 40+ is criminal.
Even at ~23 the PCR test is not an accurate indicator of infection.
As per instructions on the box.
They’ve been fiddling the PCR tests to obtain the results they want and the public sector who is quite happy to skive off work on full pay is very happy to go along with it.
It’s a gift to authoritarians that just keeps giving.
I think they may be using 25 for those vaccinated and 45 for those unvaccinated.
We perhaps should expect an increase in hospitalisations because the testing rate is going up again (and god only knows how many cycles they’re currently running). People testing positive before or on admission is not an indicator of what they are being admitted for. It’s not a measure of symptomatic covid. The government and public health bods just love to mislead the plebs with meaningless stats.
Healthy people should stop being tested until they do this farce will carry on.
Yes they’re ramming a lot more people into hospital now to deal with pre-existing conditions. Obviously many of them will catch covid in the hospital. Many of them won’t catch covid, but pick up enough viruses to register positive so they will be counted too. No matter how they twist things there still aren’t many “covid deaths” though
These figures can easily be manipulated. They’ve got all these Covid units set up. They don’t want to shut them down. They’ll fill them up with people having mild breathing difficulties who in winter would be kept at home.
Im sure it was back to normal by LAST spring…
No doubt the NHS (still unfit for purpose) is s******g itself at the prospect of a monster Flu season in addition to RSV and everything else.
Im fully expecting people will have to “save” it again from this annual failure to prepare.
400 billion could have bought a lot of nurses
not to mention decent diagnostic equipment – instead of people having to run marathons and other charity drives to fund the equipment that the NHS cannot afford to purchase leaving the UK lagging behind other developed countries when it comes to cancer survival rates etc
It bought a lot of politicians and media outlets instead so at least it didn’t go to waste.
Politicians are cheap.
The bribes are paid once they leave office.
Spot on. I read somewhere – here probably – that Mrs May had been paid a six figure sum by J P Morgan for a speech she had yet to give. A reward for attempting to delay Brexit?
And HCQ, Ivermectin and Vitamin D.
400bn = 3 years of NHS budget. Imagine how many managers and diversity coordinators on 3 times a nurses salary they could hire.
People seemed to be almost back to normal behaviour by last July which is no doubt why they brought in the mask mandate and that was the end of normality.
If for no other reason Whitty should swing for that decision as he 100% knows it’s wrong.
‘wrong’, in either a factual or a moral sense, is absent from this brute’s vocabulary.
It’ll be over by Christmas, they’re just not saying which Christmas.
Things might stand a chance of being back to normal if Messrs Whitty, Valance and other assorted members of Sage and its sub-groups were never quoted again, anywhere. Ditto their equivalents around the world.
One wonders how much quicker we’d return to normality if all politicians and senior bureaucrats had a 75% reduction in pay until all laws and regs were returned to pre Covid status.
Or if they were ALL sent to work from home. MPs to their Constituency offices.
Surprise sur-fucking-prise.
What on earth has it got to do with this unelected, self-aggrandising little bully? His job is to inform government ministers of possible effects of a variety of actions, not to dictate to the public.
He’s a bully of the unassuming, passive aggressive sort, with £600,000.00 worth of shares in GSK or SKG or whatever they’re called these days.
That’s Vallance mate, but i get where you’re coming from.
Thanks for the correction.
Don’t worry, he’s probably got some too.
Let’s hope the next attack on this cunt is a success.
:))
Let’s hope the next attack on this utterly EVIL, completely useless, turtle headed c*nt isn’t a staged one, but one with proper people as opposed to actors!!
Harold Shipman 2.0
Evil liars. This man looks like he’s being eaten from the inside out. I hope it’s his conscience gnawing away.
It’s his real reptile form trying to get out.
:))
You think the brute has a conscience?
I hope he does. From the looks of him, an anaemic, neglected one, pecking.
It would be nice to think that the nematodes of liberty are even now congesting his heart and lungs and blocking the blood vessels of his brain.
He hasn’t got a conscience, sociopaths don’t have one!
Translation: Chris Whitty wants permanent doctatorship.
I like ‘doctatorship‘, pithy and bouncing bomb accurate in its description of just where we are. I wish I’d thought of it myself.
or it could be a typo 🙂
I think “doctatorship” can be credited to Lionel Shriver at The Spectator. That’s where I saw it first, perhaps over a year ago.
March 2020 we were all told it was just three weeks to flatten the curve.
To save the NHS.
Remember?
Then it was …
Sacrifice November to save Christmas.
Sacrifice Christmas to save January.
Sacrifice January, February and March to save Easter.
Sacrifice Easter to save the summer.
Sacrifice this summer to save the autumn.
Now we are more or less being told to sacrifice 2021 to save 2022.
Can you guess what’s coming in spring 2022?
Thats right you guessed it – more sacrifices.
This will not end until WE say it does.
WE seem to be quite enjoying the Dunkirk / Blitz like sense of ‘not-imminent-threat-of-death’ danger that perpetual war allows those who are dead from the neck up and the waist down.
don’t get me started on Dunkirk, a time when we were standing up to evil rather than collaborating it, and if operation Dynamo had failed we would maybe have seen a dark era lasting decades. The memory of that wonderful generation has been well and truly betrayed. At the VE day anniversary last year, we had a sign up saying “be brave like our heroes, no more stay at home cowardice!” And here we are over a year on and the human rights abuses just keep on coming. Disgusting, and utter madness!
I spoke with a friend who is a senior nurse on a respiratory ward in a big city hospital this morning. They say that yes, admissions for covid are younger (30s, 40s, 50s) however, he notes that these admissions have only what would be considered ‘mild’ illness in comparison to those being admitted during previous waves. Were they to have had covid last year presenting with current levels of illness they would have been told to isolate and ride it out at home. These people are being admitted because there is capacity to do so – it is not through necessity per se – and most are being administered dexamethazone, perhaps with some oxygen for support, and are then being discharged. They are not seeing severe illness or death. This follows Roemer’s Law ( a hospital bed built is a hospital bed occupied) and as another friend who works in public health for the NHS said in reference to this – the NHS has still to learn and implement, even after all these years, how to flex capacity – if it’s empty they will find a way to fill it. However, this to me seems all extremely convenient – if… Read more »
Very helpful point. Thank you.
Agreed, good to have real news from the coal face.
It’s the same principle as an old boss of mine used to say “work fills the time available to carry it out”.
‘We won’t truly return to normal at least until next spring or until my Davos controllers are satisfied that their plans for the total reordering of human life on this planet have been fulfilled, whichever is the sooner.’
Summary : “We fucked up. Big time. We got everything wrong, made everything worse, and NHS under-resourced. But ‘snot our fault. It’s yours.”
So much for the irreversible exit from covvijail.
I would have been shocked if Freedom Day actually happened. We are dealing with Evil Sociopaths who detest us. The good cop bad cop pantomime is to break you into submission.
“There will almost certainly be a fake ‘Covid’ surge [in winter] based on our PCR test scam, and that will be on top of a return to a more normal respiratory surge.
“It’s going to take quite a long time – my handlers hope never – to get back to normality, and I certainly would be surprised if we got back to what most of you sheeple would see as a kind of status quo – before the scamdemic – by the next spring.
“Because I think we’ve got this current wave of the hoax, hopefully there will be a period of quieter Covid [evil laugh] after that, and then it will still be quite a difficult winter, especially for the decrepit NHS – then by next spring I’m hoping slightly more into a more predictable pattern where we’ll be coming out of lockdown for a few weeks as we planned for each summer, prior to tightening up the ratchet.”
This man sends shivers down my spine!
So within 24 hours of ‘freedom day’ being reported as “expected” to happen there’s a deluge of reports and quotes from the usual suspects dashing expectations and laying the ground for it not happening at all.
What a surprise !!
I can’t wait to see how many double jabbed have since tested positive and of those the percentage who have died as opposed to the unwashed who passed on the vaccine. I think their narrative might soon be about to unravel.
Is the Albatross that is the NHS worth saving at this point? It’s only purpose seems to be an excuse to ensure compliance with utterly ridiculous rules and regulations.
Nah. They’re preparing the ground work for that. Vaccinated people will catch the older more established respiratory diseases. He’s already announced it. The unvaxed will be the ones catching covid and dying of it. Vaccinated people will be dying of something else.
I won’t be dying of Covid because it doesn’t exist as an isolate, there is no validated test method to prove I have it, and hence no proof it has killed me (or anyone else for that matter!!)
Is anyone else getting tired of the good cop bad cop routine Boris Johnson and Whitty have going on?
Well spotted Wilson
“Normality” So scientific, so sophisticated!
That Whitty, Vallance and others have such a hold over Johnson must show, to even the dimmest voter, the hold BIG PHARMA has over BIG BLUBBER.
Whittless’s comments assume that sub-normality is defined by higher levels of covid cases, whatever that means. I couldn’t give a monkeys about that to be honest now it’s been shown that the NHS doesn’t actually get overwhelmed and die.
All the sub-normality that I care about is all the BS that the government has inflicted upon us and continues to do so. Since none of it has been shown to save lives and has just resulted in a culture of fear, uncertainty, control and bureaucracy can’t we just all agree to ditch it?
Yesterday’s Ministerial Statement by “The Saj” did not rule out domestic Co-vid passports in the future. These wiley b*stards present ” freedom”, knowing full well what they plan around the corner.
Hands up if you know anyone who is genuinely poorly directly because of Covid-19 right now. Anyone…. Anyone…. You at the back?? Come along, come along. Try harder… Think man, think. There must be someone….
Last night I read a Facebook thread of a former (narcissistic) acquaintance who must be in his mid forties, no underlying health conditions, active and not overweight. He was gleefully telling everyone that he was now out of hospital and feeling fit and well after two or three days in IC recovering from “really bad covid”. Someone posted that his experience was “a message to all those who say it isn’t real”.
I then read a post on here below from someone whose hospital employed friend had confirmed that younger people are being deliberately hospitalised to boost numbers, rather than being told to stop whinging (ok, I added that bit!), stay home and treat themselves for flu as they would have been told last year. Oh, the other, perhaps most significant, point to make is that he would certainly have had ‘the jab’.
As per my comment above! Deliberately driving up numbers because they have the capacity to admit because …. duh-duh-duuuuuh….. It’s the middle of summer. Good to have that double confirmed – thank you!
*Bangs head against wall for thousandth time – prays for brain damage so as not to have to deal with this utter crap anymore*
Indeed, it was your comment that I was alluding to in my second para. I have this morning had another look at my acquaintance’s Facebook thread to gauge the timeline. He was reposting light-humoured non-covid related memes on 27, 28 and 29 June. His post about leaving hospital, accompanied by a ‘glad to be alive’ smiling selfie, was dated 3 July. So a lot seems to have happened to him in the space of 3 clear days, and there he was for all to see looking healthy and radiant!
It has been obvious for a while now that normality, by which I mean a pre-covid state of affairs, is not coming back in most of our lifetimes. For me it was obvious last summer when covid disappeared and restrictions remained. Covid will never go away and neither will the mad idea that it requires special measures, and those special measures are now baked in as the orthodoxy. There are too many people invested in this for it to be recognised as an aberration.