Test and Trace Boss Tells Public Not to Socialise Unless Necessary
In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme, Dr. Jenny Harries, the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency as well as the Head of the NHS Test and Trace scheme, said that the public must not attend social gatherings if they “don’t particularly need to” in order to restrict the transmission of the Omicron variant. Harries also called on all those eligible to receive booster jabs to go and get one and play their part in the fight against Covid. WalesOnline has the story.
Dr Jenny Harries, Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that people could do their bit by reducing the number of social contacts they have.
She said that even if our “vaccines appear to be effective, but we find that the variant is more highly transmissible, having lowish grade infection, but in very large numbers of the population, (it) could still be a significant impact on our hospitals.
“And of course, our behaviours in winter and particularly around Christmas we tend to socialise more so I think all of those will need to be taken into account.”
Asked about working from home, she said: “We’ve seen that not everybody has gone back to work and I’d like to think of it more in a general way, which is if we all decrease our social contacts a little bit, actually that helps to keep the variant at bay.
So I think being careful, not socialising when we don’t particularly need to and particularly going and getting those booster jobs which, of course, people will now be able to have at a three-month interval from their primary course.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: As of today, the Government has brought back mask mandates to a wide array of public settings. A full list can be found here.
Stop Press 2: The crackdown on non-mask wearers on the London tube has begun. MailOnline has more.
Stop Press 3: The Government has rebuked Dr. Harries and distanced itself from her remarks. According to the Telegraph:
Boris Johnson insisted “we’re not going to change the overall guidance, we don’t think that’s necessary”, when he was asked about comments by Dr. Jenny Harries, the Chief Executive of the U.K. Health Security Agency, who had urged people to avoid socialising “unless you need to” in the run up to Christmas.
Downing Street also heavily distanced itself from her remarks, with the PM’s official spokesman stressing: “It’s not our advice to the public currently. You’ll know the measures we set out at the weekend. The UK HSA is an arms-length body of Government, and Jenny Harries provides advice to the Government, she is not a Government minister. The public should follow the guidance as set out by the Government and indeed the Prime Minister at the weekend.
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I wonder how much the cabal is paying this stupid fucking bent witch …
Anything over the minimum wage is too much
Anything is too much.
Indeed IanC and the BIG question of the day, how much more of BlowJo globalist cabal controlled Govt narrative do we have to swallow? Mask once more required for shops, taxis, trains and buses… yet Omnicrap doesn’t lurk in pubs, bars or restaurants. Right? Waiting staff need to be masked all the time but eating/drinking clients not… Right? Children in schools need to be masked throughout lessons, but not once they walk home in friendship groups…Right? It all makes complete sense! And now JIT for Christmas the absolute scariest mutant variant [till the next one] is rampantly on the loose again so it also makes total sense to get boosted.. jabbed ASAP with the very same old clot-shot-shit from 20 months back to fully protect yourself … Right? Didn’t anyone in Westminster catch virologist Barry Schoub, Chairman of South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19 Vaccines, declaring the new Omicron virus as simply “mild.”… Savage Jabbid…. Prof. Whitty or Vallance…. Right? Don’t you think it odd too, that masking-up for Xmas isn’t just required here in the UK, it’s the very same deal over there in the USA…. It’s almost as if we’re all in a global lockstep with something…… Read more »
Brilliant comment. Thanks. Said it all, pithily, with controlled vehemence and not a bit of wit.
Careful, we don’t want to argue their case to enforce masking everywhere. Just point out the damned things are a show of obedience and nothing else.
Correct. Peter Hitchens pulled Mike Graham up on that point yesterday on Talk Radio.
Spot on , if only that was the rolling MSM news bulletin !
Anything but a public flogging for gross misconduct in office is too little.
The part of her job in which she gets to tell the country what to do, I bet that part she’ll gladly do for nothing.
This is it. Her bank accounts need to be examined. And her dustbin for brown envelopes.
Can’t do that, she lives in the dustbin.
Who the hell is this women to think she can tell me anything about my private life? Take a hike off a pier.
And we are paying the bastard’s wages.
And many are still paying BBC who promote them.
These corrupt individuals never give up, there is billions of £$ behind this scam/hoax. Just ignore.
Surely she doesn’t seriously believe this nonsense? Once it’s spreading in the community (which it probably is by now) it’s going to continue to do so – there is no evidence that ‘decreasing our social contacts’ will actually make any difference at all, but of course the usual playbook is in use, and that decrees that if something clearly doesn’t work then we have to keep doing it over and over again in the hope that it magically does work this time.
She was one of the more sensible ones back in March last year – no sign of that now.
She was. In fact she was the only one seemed to speak sense. Now? It’s “take a booster for the jabs that don’t work (but are causing serious harm in lots of cases, and it’s STILL NOT BEING TALKED ABOUT!)” and “Christmas is nearly here again and we’re revving it up to get it cancelled yet again! We care SO much, you lucky, lucky people !😆”
Perhaps she has been visited by the men in black balaclavas at her home at 3am to ‘encourage her to speak the truth’.
It’s not even a booster. It’s a full 3rd dose of the poison.
How can we take a booster to protect us from the Moronic variant, when it doesn’t yet exist? Even the main vaccine doesn’t work against the Delta variant, and as is increasingly clear, isn’t working against the original virus but is instead doing immense harm.
Think about it. The Moronic variant has only been around a few days, yet the govt are telling us to take the booster to protect us from it. It isn’t physically possible to create that specific booster in that timeframe. Further, is the booster now a triple booster, i.e. Original virus + Delta + Moronic?
Jab every three months merrygoround official.
“….even if our “vaccines appear to be effective, but we find that the variant is more highly transmissible…”
What she means is: the vaccines do not work very well – if at all for this variant.
I am glad I am healthy and have natural immunity rather than relying on dodgy medicine
Sure it will.
Keep rolling out these dumb technocrats and watch the last shreds of our faith in our institutions dissolve to nothing.
And they’re not going to cancel Christmas? Yeah, sure!
Just like the huge coincidence that councils were advertising for Covid marshals a couple of weeks before the new mask mandate, they are doing this one small step at a time.
The boiling frog technique, but at some point fairly soon they may well find out that they are the frogs.
When? And who will be doing the boiling? You?
Yes, and advertising that they will be trained to issue FPNs.
The names and addresses of Covid marshalls should be published and posted everywhere round town.
Oh, just piss off!😠
Jenny the Grinch
On your bike, you jumped-up harridan. Every social gathering is necessary if we say so, and neither you nor any other tinpot tyrant will tell us otherwise, you odious piece of filth.
Now sod off!
Why not follow the scrawny-necked one and see what kind of socialising she does?
I’ve got a better idea I give you the finger and you give me my rights back.
Rights aren’t gifted, they are exercised and defended.
The ugliest woman in the world says it’s not good to socialise
She would know
What’s the matter, Jen, got no friends?
Belgium’s Health Minister could be competition?
Good grief. It’s akin to making a junkie drugs czar.
In fact, why not? It seems there are no depths to which we can’t sink. So don’t rule it out!
The rate as farcical suggestions coming true suggests this has already happened or is the majority of drugs czars.
personally i suspect the same alphabet agency corporations funding internet censorship engines are also getting funding from organising the drugs trade.
Or the human-equine hybrid, Jecinda Ardern, giving kiwis permission to see their families and use their bathrooms again.
Looking at her pallor and general demeanourt I think she probably died some considerable time ago and is only able to function due to sophisticated electronics
Fuck off and stop telling people how to live their lives. If I want to invite 20 people in to my living room then I will!
What the hell did people expect!! Once the Great British public rolled over at 3 weeks to flatten the curve that was it, that was the green light for the revolving door of intrusion into our daily personal lives. No one listened to us, they called us conspiracy theorists, covidiots, anti-vaxxers, when really we just joined the dots and followed the evidence to it’s logical conclusion… that this will never end, that these people will demand more, and that once you give away WILLINGLY your human rights you are pretty much screwed.
God help us.
‘conspiracy theorists, covidiots, anti-vaxxers’
Yup. Been called all of those. Not so much lately though. Give the brainwashed public a chance to get really pissed off – I think this is coming. They’re about to be told that the toxic nonsense they queued up for doesn’t work.
NEIL: What do you mean, revolution?
RICK: Blood runs! Flags wave! Come on, everybody, throw down your tools and knock down the barricade. Come on, run into the Winter Palace. Run into the Winter Palace and stand on tables, waving bits of paper at each other! Yes! Yes!! Hello, are you the Czar?!
It is time for the People’s poet.
An evil dangerous, utter fuckin idiot spouting nonsense.
You have to wonder at the selective use of the Precautionary Principle: start restricting liberties ‘just in case’ when it comes to potential infection. Here ‘no evidence’ is the excuse for draconian action. But when it comes to potential vaccine harm we get the opposite of the Precautionary Principle: here supposedly ‘no evidence’ of medium to long term harm means that they are ‘safe’.
Anyone seen the fines for non-compliance with facemasks? For repeat offenders, £6,400 per occasion for individuals failing to wear a rag when entering a relevant place, or £10,000 per occasion for failure to display a suitable notice outside premises or not enforcing the wearing of masks (or asks people not to wear them).
Now, I think we can reasonably say that these fines are draconian.
That’s what the official propaganda says, but so far as I’m aware no legislation has appeared yet!
Oh yes it has. It was out yesterday.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1340/contents/made
Ta. That doesn’t seem to have been linked from any of the government pages, so presumably they don’t want to draw attention to it!
It is interesting also that the exemptions don’t appear to match precisely some of the descriptions put out in certain podcasts, alt. media etc where I’ve heard people saying the fact of merely claiming an exemption confers exemption. Which I thought sufficiently idiotic as to need verification.
I wonder if the visually shamed in the Daily Wail piece’s photographs would have been molested by enforcers in the first place if they had been displaying a badge simply stating that they have an exemption.
As for the following, it is sheer garbage; bandannas etc will suffice?!
How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own
I have no idea what one would have to do to end up actually paying one of their ‘fines’ but it would involve extreme stupidity and/or hostility.
The magic words ‘I’m exempt’, will suffice.
Why do we need to restrict the transmission of a relatively mild virus?
This is a virus that affects you worse as you get older. Which means unless there is a realistic prospect of stopping it, you are better of getting it today than tomorrow.
And there is no realistic prospect of stopping it. The only question is when you will catch it, not if.
Assuming you believe life is for living.
Nothing they have done, absolutely nothing has slowed the spread of this supposedly novel virus.
Just ignore them and get on with your life.
‘This is a virus that affects you worse as you get older.’
This is only partially true – a bit of a misconception. Although there is some elevated mortality at the older end, by and large, it follows the curve of natural mortality.
Remember – at an early stage, it was found that the average age of death from Covid was greater than the general average.
Its just the case that older people die at a higher frequency.
I’d suggest that while infected (or post jabbed) you are more liekly to have metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes and thus your internal age moves up (perhaps a year?) and the Gompertz curve takes care of the rest.
Perhaps she can confirm that she has cancelled all of her social activities for the next month including Christmas with her family.
Do not comply. Hold the line.
Warming us up for further restrictions
The only consolation is that most countries are also f*****d, even others that have a decent constitution but have given away too much power to the centre from the periphery
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/the-narratives-fail/#more-16006‘
So here we have it – lockdown by stealth, what a surprise not. She and the rest of the Covid cabal can simply go and do one!
Or just catch the bug, have a hot toddy or two and enjoy lifelong immunity.
Nasty authoritarian harridan.
Go away and stop telling other people how to live their lives!
Never have so many of the rich and their hangers on been concerned about my health
You are essential.
Your job is essential.
Every walk you take is essential.
Every trip you make to the shops is essential.
Every trip you make full stop is essential.
Every social gathering you attend with friends/family is essential.
Do not allow these tinpot dictators to tell you otherwise. Do not change your plans. In fact, make more plans. Ring more friends and arrange more get-togethers this Christmas and beyond. Stay active and do not allow yourself to be defeated.
Shove it.
Don’t forget what this Dr Jenny Harries said as Deputy Chief Medical Officer on March 12, 2020. She said that wearing a facemask was “not a good idea…You can actually trap the virus in the mask and start breathing it in.”
As of 4am this morning you could end up being fined £6,400 per occasion for following her scientific and medical advice.
How these wretches have perverted science and medicine!
Quote from the same clap-trap at the time..’This is because people wear the same mask over and over again, lay it down on unsanitary surfaces, and fiddle with it while wearing it’… fancy that!
“Fined”?
The lies our fathers told us
You are at risk from a virus
Lockdowns work
Washing your hands works
Masks work
Social distancing works
Variants will kill you
PCR tests work
Track and trace works
Sanitiser will save you
Closing pubs works
Red. amber and green lists work
Vaccines work
Politicians are on your side
Cancelling Christmas works
Buying only essential goods work
Medical experiments on children for the greater good
Closing the borders works
Boosters work
Walking in the same direction as everyone else will save you
Not travelling five miles from your home will save you
The police are your friends
Three weeks only
Freedom Day
The media tell the truth
Closing schools is good for children
Old folks in care homes were not euthanised
This is not genocide
Big Brother is dressing you
According to the government dashboard, a total of 115,179,248 jabs have been given as of 28 Nov. And yet the medical authorities are still clamouring for more restrictions and lockdowns. There’s an obvious conclusion to be drawn from this: the “vaccines” are so poor they’re really not worthy of the name.
well they’re not vaccines using the pre lockdown definition.
just like it’s not a pandemic using the pre lockdown definition.
The WHO definition of ‘pandemic’ changed in 2009, which was the occasion for the Swine Flu pseudopandemic.
Since 2009, all you need for a (pseudo)pandemic is an infectious disease. No one need be hospitalized and die.