Wear Masks and Don’t Meet Indoors, Says Government Chief Medical Adviser
Brits should return to wearing masks in enclosed spaces and not meeting indoors, the Chief Medical Adviser of the U.K. Government Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said.
Dr. Susan Hopkins’ comments came despite the moves towards ‘living with Covid’ across the U.K. and the lifting of all restrictions in England.
The advice appears to be in response to the recent rise in reported infections, hospitalisations and deaths.
However, the latest figures suggest the recent surge is peaking. Deaths also remain below average for the time of year.
The intervention is a worrying indication of how Government officials will respond should a variant or virus more virulent than Omicron appear. It suggests there is some way to go yet if the country is to move decisively away from the illiberal and disastrous public health policies of the past two years.
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And who elected her?
There are rather too many “independent” technocrats in government at present.
A new priestly class of overpaid finger waggers.
Quite – they just need to give it a rest. It’s the current dominant respiratory virus that targets, sadly as always, the elderly. Sure, it’s a little tougher than before but it was always said that the fallout from economic ruin will make the pandemic look like a walk in the park. Some people seem to think we can borrow £0.5tn without any impact.
That’s the other epidemic, innumeracy.
And innumeracy is worse than illiteracy.
And stupidity and you can’t fix stupid.
“Stupidity” – the scourge of the plebs the darling of tyrants!!
Given the “heat or eat” dilemma posed by the rocketing prices, the big worry for many of the “the elderly” this autumn, winter and early spring next year is going to be starvation or hypothermia, or both. Either way, being frozen and starved isn’t quite the right way to prepare to resist any illnesses doing the rounds. In that regard, it’s about as lethal and unprincipled as the 2020 “clear the hospitals to the care homes” fiasco.
As for this dreadful woman, and the rest of the tinpot dictators (medical, scientific, political et al), one sniff of being able, and encouraged to boss people around is more than adequate to perpetuate their power “kick”. A pox on the lot of them.
I know many elderly people who after three jabs have covid right now. For every single one of them it is a mild to strong cold. Not one of them hospitalised, not one of them dead.
I also know some kiddies and 40 something year olds who got hit hard. Again like a serious cold, no hospitalisation no deaths.
That is a common story. Whilst I’m sure there are bad cases of Covid around, they are pretty rare. I live in a town of 8,000 people and admin the local Facebook group. It’s a relatively close community and we would have heard if people were ending up hospitalised or dying. We’ve sadly lost about 20 over the last two years to respiratory complications (before/after vax) which to be honest considering we have three care homes isn’t that different from normal. Most sensible sceptics don’t deny that Covid exists and it’s a novel weird new respiratory virus with some strange symptoms like the lost of taste & smell. What people like Hopkins don’t seem to get is that it’s the responses that are out of perspective to the risk and that the collateral damage caused by any restriction doesn’t merit their introduction. I’ve been a pretty level-headed “glass half full” kind of guy my entire life but at one point I ended up considering asking for some Diazepam because I was struggling to sleep and kept waking up in a cold sweat – the reason? The restriction that prevented us seeing mum in her last two weeks because she was… Read more »
I’m sensible and convid does not exist,has never been proven to exist, and the first listed disease in history that had no symptoms attached to it!! The test(s) is completely medically and scientifically meaningless on top. This gives rise to the ‘long’ covid bulls*it…. the hypochondriac or attention seekers dream!!
I am sorry you went through such a difficult time with your mum. Something no one should have to endure. May she RIP💕
I was watching something on TV today. A scientist was explaining how the world would lose its magnetic fields and spin out of its orbit if we didn’t follow his carefully studied solution, but we had just one chance to get it right. It was a film from 1957 in black and white called ‘Metallic Man’.
It seems to me that every third or fourth feature film made between then and now has been based on some loner scientist discovering something incredibly significant. No-one believes him of course, until things escalate, and he (and his love interest) manage to reach a panicking politician. The politician, sceptical at first, quickly realises that the scientist is their, and our salvation and gives them extraordinary powers to fix it, which they do, to everyones relief and gratitude. Handshakes and Ferraris all round, and of course he gets the girl.
Its a storyline that repeats and repeats. It has obviously got itself embedded in our psyche that ‘experts’ are right more than politicians and ordinary people for that matter, and that no matter how bizarre the claim, our best interest is to go along with it or face certain doom.
In the case of ‘Covid’ Neil Ferguson gets the girl (well, some other bloke’s wife), and the world goes out of control.
Remember how they saved us from the Millennium Bug?
And the hole in the ozone layer, and AIDS, and witches, and the Jews, and well the list goes on and on.
The science mythos, carefully cultivated since Thomas Huxley and his cronies in the nineteenth century. It’s very like the virtuous cowboy riding into the sunset idea, except that unlike the latter it’s perpetuated in science documentaries and government policies as well as in movies.
What would you prefer?
Real science? Evidence-based decision making? Good enough? We can but dream eh
For her to shut her anal sphincter and give her mouth a chance
One of them gave you a down-tick.
Elections are just about a bunch of clowns fooling the plebs once every five years.
Here is a better idea re ‘masking’. Dr. Susan Hopkins’ should be starved of the oxygen of publicity.
Delete last two words please.
She has to justify her existence. And her salary. “Nothing to panic over, we are on the right course as we are” just won’t cut it.
Well a very large mask on her would be a big improvement.
Two bag job!
It was too good to last.
https://ourdecisiontoo.com/issue/there-s-nothing-left-to-do-but-go-our-separate-ways/320/
The war in Ukraine must be losing interest.
We’re back to COVID scare stories.
4th ‘vaccine’ being rolled out…. the advertising begins!
They are so amateurish, played-out and transparent …but just watch the sheep trotting for their next shot ( sadly, some are hobbling out of breath)!
” Once, twice, thrice…fool me four times ….more total fool me!”
Problem is that the Russians are winning and nasty picture of Ukrainians torturing Russian prisoners ( war crimes) have even been given credibility by the BBC!
Narrative in serious trouble …so switch to ‘Covid Horror’.
It’s a condition called eremophobia, fear of being alone, fear of being irrelevant.
Symptoms include: wanting constant attention or company, histrionic, theatrical behavior and even the pretense of illness in order to manipulate its environment.
She needs urgent psychiatric treatment.
I suggest a podium at which this lady must stand and speak against the raucous laughter of thousands.
They could throw their grubby masks at her too for added effect.
Did she say “because it was so successful last time”?
Precisely.
Sadly I fear many of my fellow Britons will be all too willing to embrace the next wave of nonsense.
https://ourdecisiontoo.com/issue/there-s-nothing-left-to-do-but-go-our-separate-ways/320/
Interesting 🤔
My fear too.
They have learned nothing. Still wedded to their toxic ideology. Because science.
Just bleedin ignore her!
Looney Toon’s………
Justify your fat salary whydoncha.
Clearly there’s no moron shortage in UK regime sinecure circles.
I have a much better idea: All these women past their best-before-end-date who believe they both know what everyone else should really be doing and have or should really have the authority to order them to do so should form a circle of closet totalitarians who absolutely cannot live among other human beings who are allowed to anything on their own. They can then meet daily or weekly or monthly, whatever suits them best, to circle-swab each other in order to detect exciting new pathogens. This can be televised for anyone who happens to be interested in it.
They must not hold press conference from a government supplied pulpit. They must never get within walking distance of other people’s children. All laws regarding unlawful imprisonment, assault with the intent to cause bodily harm and publically soliciting criminal actions apply to them. They must not contact MPs in order to get these laws temporarily or permanently overturned.
Minimum punishment when breaking any of these rules: Get swabbed for eight hours in a row.
A covid-era Greenham Commons, then?
More PCR Big Brother 🙂
All these “women”?
Yes. Why? They seem to be predominantly female in the UK.
The public are apparently more likely to trust a female representative on matters of health. More behavioural science in action.
That doesn’t seem to be working over here. We’ve gone from one useless twit of a Health Minister, male, to another useless twit of a Health Minister, female.
Profanity and abuse are banned so I will leave off saying what is want to say, but the acronym would be the same as fro the Foreign Office.
“Trust the Science” says that men in swimming pools are on an equal footing with women.
Don’t worry – all counter narrative content will soon be banned by ……er…..Nadine Dorries ….this is the new low we have now reached.
Despite what the Twitter fact checkers say, we all know that the jabs are likely behind the recent rise in infections and fatalities.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1507420792161648643
“we” in your context is a tiny subset of the population.
You obviously know you are talking drivel, but seem to want to impress some likeminded folk on the internet.
Judging by he downticks, it is you who is in a small minority.
So why the hell would you come here, then, tree?
Your false diktats shall be ignored to oblivion.
The spirit of humanity is rising. Peacefully.
If she can somehow refute the many scientific papers and circumstantial evidence that say masks, even when properly worn and disposed of, do bugger all, then I may wear one.
I suspect she’s been spending too much time with Sturgeon and Drakeford and has caught something from them.
“bugger all”, or more harm than good?
I’ve yet to see a cost-benefit analysis.
“Scientifik paypers to difikult, need simple!”
“The mask is to coronavirus as a wire fence is to a mosquito. Better?”
Susan Hopkins needs to do some reading of all those research based papers that indicate quite clearly that the wearing of masks offers at best minimal and largely no protection whatsoever in the transmission of Covid. In fact she most certainly knows they don’t work, or she is so uneducated that she should not be employed in any health capacity.
What is it with these moronic public servants? Who encourages them to step forward with their brain dead pronouncements that no one, other than the stll brainwashed, believes.
Spare us please from power mad control freaks!
Calm down.
It is a fact that infections are rising fast, as are admissions and shortly deaths.
It must therefore also be a fact that neither masks, lockdowns nor the vaxxing mania has prevented this rise, since all have been tried again and again and have not worked. Time for a change in thinking, perhaps?
We can surely start by simply challenging the wisdom of Hopkins’ announcement. She is a public figure and should be pressed to explain her reasoning.
You didn’t address her main point. A leading figure will be aware of the ineffectiveness of masks, yet is calling for a continuation of the practice.
Go ahead, display your wisdom. I’d love to see how you connect mask wearing with the points you made about infections etc.
Tree. Tree trees. Dirty tree. Dirty tree and a turd.
Then you’d better go and hide under your bed.
He/she lives in a sheep pen and as such doesn’t have a bed!!
But haven’t all the big brain vaxxers had lashings and lashings of vaccine?
These people are safer than the Crown jewels.
All the the small brain anti vaxxers are at risk and we can afford to lose them.
An entirely unexplored area of this whole saga.
Breaking news – a 98 year old man from China did a hard fart and died, Boris Johnson to lockdown the nation to keep us safe.
That more or less happened in New Zealand.
Are the teeth real?
The wind blows hard from China!
Spoken like a true oppressor! This is SOOooo predictable. Give a few scraggy bones of freedom, then gleefully snatch them back, under the guise of…you’ve guessed it…CASES! Cases that mean absolutely jack, other than the fact that the forever soup-brained can just justify their keeping on shoving sticks into their orifices and excitedly wearing nap-naps again, and the little Karen’s get to be Karen’s again! Makes my bloody p*ss boil that the majority will lap this up yet again like mother’s milk!
Just to reinforce the “cases” issue, my mum, who has never taken a test or received any of the vaxes or even had any covid symptoms in the last two years, is now suddenly being sent PCR tests from the NHS, urging her to test herself if she keeps getting a negative LFT result, if she has symptoms!!!!😲 So she can be given the “latest treatments” of course!
Dear Susan Hopkins, you’re welcome to it! I’m normal. So I won’t.
Are you sure?
No data referenced to support this?
No concerns for the damage that all these extra masks are doing to the environment given that all the data shows they do not work so are not required.
I really hope that people just ignore it as being ridiculous advice but my hope level is currently low.
I was in supermarket yesterday and bashed my hand trying to hand over money to the cashier (just to interpret that’s giving physical cash to to a person who collects payment). Screens all around the person other than where you collect the shopping.
Q1 Do I have an injury claim?
Q2 Does a virus not know how to get round the side of the screen?
I know what you mean.
I was in shop last week – customer in front took AGES to pay for his purchases with his mobile phone (so convenient, don’t you know) because he couldn’t get a signal. I waited patiently (sniggering to self at his antics) and when it was finally my turn I said to the check out guy “I’m going to surprise you by paying with something you haven’t seen in a while”. I handed over hard cash and the transaction was completed in seconds. Hard cash beats mobile phone for speed every time!!!
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I tend not to take advice from quacks especially quacks with any connection to Imperial College. Facemasks for heavens sake, a string of garlic would be more beneficial, at least in the kitchen.
Anyone connected to Imperial College should be horse whipped.
There just isn’t anyone willing to do this. The people responsible for all these restrictions have got away with it time and time again. Just look at Boris and his parties – untouchable. No face mask for him at the G7 meeting. And no face mask for Drakeford at the Indians’ Diwali Disco.
Or tied to a Tree?
The suitable response is profanity and abuse.
I have developed quite a bad phobia of people with masks on. Masks are creepy and intimidating. They used to be associated with criminals and terrorists. Now, in my head, I associate them with aliens, zombies, and brain-dead creatures without faces. I avoid places infested with them, like Tesco and M&S. These people belong in hell.
Me too. I find that m&s is best negotiated in the afternoon or at weekends when most of the zombies are at home and normal working people do their shopping. Morning is the worst time.
Yup, me too. Like some distopian movie. We now have a nation with a significant proportion of its citizens suffering from OCD, PTSD, agoraphobia and arthrophobia. And they’d have you held down and jabbed at gunpoint if they had their way, whilst simultaneously feeling a powerful self-righteousness. It quite does my head in.
Well done Boris and chums, your names will live in infamy for evermore.
I have nothing left to say to these people other than f*ck off. I make no apologies for doing so.
This woman has been watching Groundhog Day again.
In Scotland the mask mandate is still in place. It did nothing to prevent, curb or otherwise interfere with this latest “variant”.
Which is why I ignored it for 2 years.
It’s only for the masked tripled jabbed frightened little rabbits. The rest can carry on regardless
Who elected her ?
what proof does she have about masks?
actually – just knob off you stupid witch doctor.
Whitty will have told her what to say.