SAGE member and Director of the Wellcome Trust Sir Jeremy Farrar says lockdowns are “awful” – citing their effects on mental health, education and job opportunities, to name a few – and that Brits must learn to live with Covid without restrictions. Sir Jeremy is “optimistic” that lockdown will end on June 21st, however, he believes that guidelines on restrictive measures such as mask-wearing should remain past this date. The Mail has the story.
Sir Jeremy… said the measures had had “very profound consequences” on the nation’s mental health, education and jobs.
But he was hopeful that the Government would be able to open up on June 21st based on the data so far – but stressed the next few weeks would be “crucial”.
He pointed out that more than eight in 10 adults would be vaccinated by then, adding that he was “very confident” the jabs were working.
“There is a danger of not opening up and this infection is now a human endemic infection. It’s not going away,” he said. “Humanity will live with this virus now forever. And there will be new variants. This year, next year, the year after, there will be new variants – and we will have to learn to cope with that.
“Lockdowns are awful. They are a mark that you haven’t been able to control the virus in other ways. They have very profound consequences on mental health, on education, on job opportunities particularly affecting people on lower incomes.
“Societies can’t stay in that mode forever.”
Earlier this week Boris Johnson said that while there was nothing in the data to suggest the June 21st ending of lockdown could not go ahead, the numbers were “still ambiguous”.
But Sir Jeremy said he was hopeful the jabs had “separated” the inevitable rise of infections which comes with easing restrictions and the subsequent increase in hospitalisations.
Asked whether he thought the country would be able to open up on June 21st, he added: “If you really push me today, I would say I’m more optimistic because I think that the vaccines have been so incredibly successful.”
He added that based on current data, although he would lift restrictions, sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.
Sir Jeremy also said: “If hospitalisations have remained low and deaths have remained low, I would accept a degree of transmission and I would open up.
“I think this is the hardest decision, frankly, of the last 18 months actually. I am optimistic in the sense that I do believe that vaccines are incredibly safe and very effective.”
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That was all fine until “sensible advice such as wearing a mask”. What is sensible about useless virtue signalling.
Quite – unless it gives said little virtue signallers something to keep their minds occupied. Goodness knows I’ve just been reading the Facebook page of a local virtue-signaller this morning and she is a vicious little thing and wishing all sorts of nasty fates on anyone not just like her.
Have you seen Wednesday’s UK Column, where they’d received an email from a supporter who was very upset at overhearing two “ladies who lunch” discuss how people who refuse to be vaccinated should be put into prison camps.
If there was any doubt over how the Nazi party managed to exterminate so many of its own citizens in concentration camps, now we know.
Oh boy, I had a conversation with a young assistant who was carrying out some preliminary tests before my actual eye test. He went out of his way to tell me he and his family were all fully vaccinated…except his sister, who’d refused. He then went on to happily say that their father calls his daughter “scum” everyday because she refused! The assistant then expected me to be in full agreement with him but I was horrified and I told him so! He was a bit shocked and I think he realised he’d overstepped the mark, like it suddenly dawned on him that we are NOT all part of the same group think!
Unfortunately, part of the problem is that most people he comes across probably do buy into his school of thought. They would see absolutely nothing wrong with a father referring to his own daughter as scum.
I’ve mentioned before. I don’t recognise this country any longer. The spiteful, coercive group think, particularly around mask wearing appals me beyond measure.
I’m not a particularly emotional man. But walking round Tesco yesterday,the only unmasked person there, I found myself on the verge of tears.
What on earth have we become?
“The spiteful, coercive group think”
NEVER forget that this has been manufactured – and by whom
I’m forever torn between seeing the brainwashed as victims or as my enemies. They are sort of both. I’m a believer in people taking responsibility for their actions and opinions and their own lives, equally though people in positions of power are more culpable than those who follow them. I don’t want to feel like I am at war with everyone around me, and it’s corrosive and depressing, but equally when people around me are collaborating in the removal of my freedom, I take it personally. It’s hard to find the right balance.
I’m with you, again, on this. I think many of us are finding it hard to deal with good friends and family who have – to put it bluntly – gone ‘stupid’ over this. I don’t have much problem with those who pragmatically choose to take the jab or wear a mask. Even if I’d prefer that they didn’t do so, I’m not going to bound up in pointless alternative virtue signalling. But I am very disturbed at those who I would previously have thught ‘intelligent’ have clearly been brainwashed and are willing to accept the most egregious dribble from sources overflowing with conflicting interests and lies. I’m not chucking years of friendship or kinship overboard – but, like you, I experience a profound disappointment and sense of being let down. I admit I struggle at times. Months ago, I had a telephone conversation with my oldest friend – of some 60 years, and I (well versed in the pointlessness of simply banging on), just expressed scepticism about imprisonment etc. The reaction was a sort of cold disbelief that I should fart in church, rather than the ‘normal’ “Hey – I know this guy – he’s not the sort to… Read more »
To quote from “Burn After Reading”
“Dribble? Dribble?!”
😂
I guess you are like me – he means “drivel” no doubt.
I’ve given up on my best friend (of 35y) because he is a professor of immunology at a minor U.K. university & he wouldn’t even help with some basic points about immunology, the sort of materials he teaches 1st year undergrads. He was worried that if he commented publicly at all, even as simple as “immune responses aren’t limited to antibodies, but include T-cells…” kind of stuff, he’d not get his next grant. The biggest sources of Uni research funding in his area are: MRC Wellcome Trust BMGF Pharma EU (previously). He’d mentioned there was nothing in writing, but his boss apparently had intimated that WT was intolerant of any academic crossing the line. My former pal is very bright. What id not appreciated is how cowardly he is. He’s my age & if he got fired he’d lead a lovely life. His wife is very senior as a rare thing, an expert Chemical engineer qualified in safety. She’s all over the world opening or closing big gas & chemical sites. They’d not miss his money. He agrees with my assessment in terms of the objective science (though he pretends it’s all cockup not conspiracy). I’ve even pointed out that… Read more »
This is what I don’t understand. People that can actually tell the difference between a T-cell from a B-cell and know they’re being lied to are not only able to look themselves in the mirror but can look at their kids and (naively at best) think everything’s going to be alright? Cowardice for sure. But you’ve got to throw in short-sightedness and stupidity of a redefining level. If this shit-show gets to the credits, your kids’ lives are in the toilet, if they’re not in the actual ground. Now just imagine that they work out that you could have made a difference but didn’t. Shame or fraud? Lovely legacy – they’ll be beaming with pride for sure. If my kids can’t breath true, free fresh air I’d rather they didn’t breathe at all – and as I’m more than prepared to die for them, I don’t think I need to qualify my love and devotion for them further. I’m sorry, Mike, he can hang along with anyone else that knows but isn’t speaking out. I don’t expect you to agree but I’m fucking furious and beyond terrified with where this is going. I’ll be eternally grateful for your efforts and… Read more »
They are enemies, do not ever get confused about this. Your own family will turn on you if it suits them.
” I’m a believer in people taking responsibility for their actions and opinions and their own lives”
Me too. But that is totally at odds with the Nanny State (I prefer the term Bully State) so is being systematically suppressed.
I know the feeling. Prepare yourself for the possibility that your neighbours will actively try to kill you this autumn/winter,
I’m seriously hoping not to be here.
Trust me. Never forgive, Never forget, Never again. Is my mantra.
Read ‘A State of Fear’ by Laura Dodsworth and see..
The manufactured has brought to light what was already there.
I share your feelings on that. When I see the masked muzzleoids shuffling around I feel like I’m living in a zombie apocalypse ( which we kind of are )
Many many people hear you and sympathise. I’m going to get myself beaten up soon – I feel it coming – my muttered expostulations are becoming less muttered. Dereham town centre – groups of old people, all fully vaccinated and fully masked up – constantly adjusting their masks in order to chat to each other while thinking they’re avoiding…what? I stopped and asked them openly. What are you frightened of? No reply, just blank stares. What a desperate state of affairs.
I’m the same. When out walking if a masked zombie walks past i mutter ‘take it off’ but lately my muttering has become closer to the shout that I have been suppressing. Also, I did shout ‘lunatic’ at the man that crossed the road to avoid passing me on a footpath, despite me having already stepped into the road to make room for him to pass (narrow path on a country road where I was facing the traffic). My husband is mortified by my muttering and thinks of need to mind my own business.
me too my muttering ‘sheep! sheep !’ at the zombies has become distinctly louder enough that one heard me and was none too happy
In really blatant cases, I say loudly “unclean, unclean”. Might as well amuse myself. Boring husband, know the type
I feel the same, also the only shopper unmasked. I was at the dentist for two hours with the lead person wearing a full respirator kit, the kind I wear if spraying two component auto paints. She also had full goggles. Then she filled my open mouth with some sort of rubber dam, I think to reduce aerosols? I’ve had very many fillings before so I’m not new to this procedure (2nd half of a three root canal filling), technically the dentist was fantastic & a lovely person. But how had she reached these operating conclusions? I’m not symptomatic. I’m extraordinarily unlikely to be a source of anything a youngish fit person can’t beat. The receptionists hid behind 3 metre plastic walls. With no sides on & a slot for paying. I casually pointed out there’d been neither cases nor deaths in our town for weeks. It was hot & sunny. She disagreed, saying she knew loads who’d died recently, the vaccines having arrived just too late. I didn’t have the heart to tell her. People were driving by, windows up, alone. Wearing masks. I despair. Oddly enough, my usual dentist was way too busy. When i visited him last… Read more »
The thing is I actually think he said what said because he thought it would be totally acceptable to me! When I challenged him, in fairness, he did say, very quietly, he thought it wrong, and he then quickly the subject.
His surprise is probably because these people have always thought of themselves as being on the ‘right side’ and are genuinely astonished to hear the other point of view.
Being a Brexiteer, I am very familiar with the feeling of being challenged and rebuffed constantly, of being reluctant to ‘come out’ with my opinion in groups. Its not a nice feeling but it does toughen you up
What the fuck has happened to the human race, animals have more empathy ,if that’s the right word…
And did you say that he had gone too far, revealing his and others medical records, in effect? ‘I’m not interested in your medical records or that of your family, thanks…’
I’m so glad you spoke up. People need to be told. It’s also very sad how quickly these very unpleasant and potentially dangerous views have taken hold. It doesn’t speak well for so much of the U.K. population that they have been duped and manoeuvred into this way if thinking this way without, apparently, having the ability to question anything. All at a time when a greater proportion of the population holds university degrees than ever – need I say more?
My repost to these poisonous fuckers ‘ have you got your canister of Zyklon -B in your handbag?
And shocking just how many people have fallen into this camp. Maybe social distancing isn’t so bad after all as I’ve lost faith in most people! Wait until the next idiotic proclamation where they no longer fit or are willing to fit into the narrative of the moment.
A good little communitarian-in-training.
The mask mandate is psychological lockdown, and this man talks about mental health!
Fine? Sorry, no. There can be no forgiveness without repentance.
Got to keep this number at the front of everyone’s minds forever, and what says Convid better but the visual symbol of compliance, obedience and “safety” that is the dirty nose rag.
I think you missed this part….
In the next breath he would have said something about passports, but that’s for another day, no doubt.
What is sensible about useless virtue signalling.
And thats exactly what mask-wearing is – nothing but virtuous narcissism.
A friend of mine who is exempt told me how a man in a store pointed out (rather loudly so everyone else could hear) that she was not wearing a mask – to which my friend replied she was exempt and held her exemption badge up for him to see – he didn’t say anything and just walked passed without an apology – but what struck her was the this man who was wearing his mask was wearing it just above his upper lip – not only did the mask look grubby but it did not even cover his nose. As useless as they, what was the point of wearing a mask if your not going to wear it properly which most people don’t and many usually wear it like a chin-strap.
Mask wearing is certainly not about public health – they are about compliance and there are plenty of ignorant but willing masked-bullies out there prepared to do the governments dirty work for them and keep the public in line however much they make themselves look stupid in the process.
Just how are these diseases transmitted?
The Rosenau Experiment, 1918-1919 | GG Archives (gjenvick.com)
“The experiment began with 100 volunteers from the Navy who had no history of influenza. Rosenau was the first to report on the experiments conducted at Gallops Island in November and December 1918. His first volunteers received first one strain and then several strains of Pfeiffer bacillus by spray and swab into their noses and throats and then into their eyes.”
So why bother with a mask?
Exactly what struck me. Nobody who has looked at evidence with an open mind could possibly conclude that wearing a bit of cloth on your face, or a visor FFS, is in any way sensible.
He thinks the jibjabs are so safe they should be given to five-year-olds. Read that in full, if you dare.
No shit Sherlock, like what we have been doing for millions of years!
If the public can accept it why not impose it.. doesn’t cost them anything.
He’s an idiot. Cites mental health issue s but says maskturbating should continue. Fuck off and play with your Gates funded sex doll.
That’s more like it. The key to telling them to f off is the Fauci emails/China/Wuhan … https://michaelzfreeman.org/the-usa-how-china-created-a-virus-to-get-rid-of-trump/
Sage along with their psychology unit, BIT, are playing with the public, even Prof Lockdown has been wheeled out to say the same thing, they change the ‘good cop; every week.. The idea is to bring hope then squash it, to wear people down. They want us to accept their passports and think (like the vaccine) that this will bring normality. Well it won’t. They haven’t got the technology ready hence the delays.
Yes its deliberate and planned they are playing their little games with us, it makes great evidence for future papers and books, lectures and lots and lots of money. The equivalent of lots of Mengeles being able to sell the results from his 1940’s experiments
So why aren’t we talking about Fauci emails/China/Wuhan ? – https://michaelzfreeman.org/the-usa-how-china-created-a-virus-to-get-rid-of-trump/
Of course we have to live with it and if government advisors had listened to those who successfully treated patients with Ivermectin, HCQ and Zinc then the restrictions could have been lifted over a year ago but it has a;ways been about VACCINES
The Wellcome trust has links to Gates and his dodgy ideas
I don’t wear a mask and am fed up to the back teeth of the virtue signalling sheep who do as I watch them fiddle about with them all the time spreading their germs about
I’ve just finished reading this by Toby Green who lays out the awful cost the measures taken by government combatting c19
The cure is worse than the disease
https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Toby-Green/The-Covid-Consensus–The-New-Politics-of-Global-Inequality/25562934
And just in case anyone is still in any doubt that this twat is not part of the problem:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/top-british-scientists-linked-to-covid-lab-cover-up/
thanks for posting this link- very useful info.
Exactly. THIS is where you can get them. So let’s get them. Don’t be afraid. It’s like that dojo scene in The Matrix film … “Stop trying to hit me AND HIT ME !”.
I gave up Facebook shortly after this shitshow started last year. It wasn’t good for my mental health. Just reading all the holier than thou virtue signalling and the really quite vile pitchfork and blazing torch lynch mobs who would have been quite at home in the southern US states in the 1920s was enough for me to delete my account.
Well Sir Jeremy, maybe take a walk around London. Only the minority are wearing masks outside and even inside the maskless are growing in significant numbers. Yesterday I saw 2 covid marshalls who couldn’t be arsed, walk into a premises. Social distancing, apart from the ridiculous lines outside some shops, is completely out the window.
I wish I could say the same about my Home County town. Mask wearing is still very much adhered to here both inside and out. I am still the only person not wearing one in the supermarkets I go to. I have friends and family who are make out they are sceptics but they do not demonstrate such. I took my sister-in-law to task for donning a mask to pay for petrol but she just shrugged and said, “It’s easier and not really much of a bother.” Jesus wept!!!!
Obviously, people are reporting different experiences, related to location. I hope your experience is becoming more common – all I can say at present is that mask wearing seems to be rarer outside.
Translation
Please don’t blame me when the day of reckoning comes. I think Lockdowns are a really bad idea they create deaths and mental health problmes and economic devastation. I know , I know I have been on the SAGE group which recommended and supported all these things, but I was trying to be a voice of reason, I was always on the peoples side.
Frankly skin saving of the highest order, if he really thought Lockdowns were wrong etc, he should have said so and resigned from the group and gone public, but no he hangs on, takes the tax payers money and enjoys being in what he see’s as the centre of power. It doesn’t wash
And as for mask wearing all they are is to terrorise and demonstrate obedience, which apparantly this defender of the people still quite likes
This bloke is part of the problem, not part of the solution. It was he and his accomplices who came up with lockdown/vaccine plan. He is not to be trusted and is currying favour as he knows what is coming his way.
sounds like he wants to go on holiday
Sir Jeremy Farrar weighs in. Hard to say where he stands, isn’t it? That he is one of Fauci’s speed-dial and email chums, and was at the heart of the genesis and ongoing roll-out of this grubby and devastating sociopathic exercise leading inexorably towards boosters and vaccine passes and onwards, is not really debatable. That alternative medical treatments to stop the ‘rona in its tracks were available from the outset and yet were brutally suppressed in order to roll out the vaccine juggernaut (vaccine scale-up opportunities) will not have escaped Sir Jeremy’s attention last Spring. That he can, with a straight face, bewail the tragedy and damage of lockdown, is frankly astonishing. What these people knew and when will undoubted be successfully memory-holed. It is clear that one of Jeremy Farrar’s aims here is to shed some crocodile tears about the lockdown damage, make some limp assertions about June 21st and kick the can down the road until the autumn respiratory resurgences and the new software and boosters are ushered in to a mentally exhausted, duped populace.
Quite appalling.
I hope Jeremy and his ilk are feeling a little nervous at this time.
He stands with the enemy
It’s becoming clearer.
Excellent post
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/fauci-emails-top-public-health-officials-lies-covid-origin-treatments/
There are some potentially relevant claims here
Professor Pantsdown has been on Radio 4 again with his regularly scheduled programme of “Never Knowingly Correct”.
Why the BBC fawns over this individual is beyond me. His only expertise is in being consistently wrong about everything.
Give them enough rope…
The BBC and the dictatorship are not separate entities
The BBC is the dictatorships Ministry of Truth
If the dictatorship directs their shill is given airtime, their shill is given airtime
It’s fascinating that the ‘misinformation’ censorship doesn’t seem to include this egregious example of ‘never right’ !
He’s just a useful idiot. He thinks the plebs actually care about the garbage that comes out of his mouth. That anyone actually respects him. The only thing people remember him for is getting exposed for shagging his married lover during lockdown. He’s just used by the government and MSM to perpetuate the fear-mongering, they’re not actually interested in any realistic predictions.
You mean Covid science’ own Ian Patterson
We should be under no illusion as to just how dangerous these people are
It has always been the plan of the green/great reset agenda to do away with the airline and foreign travel industries
In the future only the elites will be allowed to fly and holiday abroad
So how do you go about destroying these industries?.
The people would not put up with an outright ban. So how did they do it?
They invented the Indian variant story. The day after the elections they announced the foreign travel traffic light system
Ever thought why Portugal was on the green list and Spain wasn’t? They knew the European Cup involved two English teams playing in Portugal. Test all the returning fans and hey presto you will find positives for the Indian variant
Move Portugal to the Amber list at short notice as a warning to all that they should not travel this summer
No travel this summer means the end of these industries
As an aside, there are not and never could have been enough Border Agency Staff to have policed the traffic light system this summer
Goal achieved.
What was Farrrar’s role lab leak cover-up?
yes, in one of the emails to Fauci and team – early last year when the lab leak was first suspected – Farrar demanded secrecy before it was decided they would all deny the whole thing – he’s up to his neck in it.
We need to be careful what’s written in this blog until we get access to the emails.
Feast on these
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561-leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails
4 min 20 secs in…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6btJhS66c
Remember
We’re in this together…
It’s really not a hard decision, we have two alternatives really, on the one hand we go free and let what happens happen (very little I suspect). On the other hand, we would have to stay restricted forever, turn the “temporary” nature of this totalitarian state into a permanent one, and life forever in fear of varients. In this latter course, the economy collapses as hyperinflation follows constant money printing to sustain society and we end up in a second dark age and mass starvation grips the world.
If we are not freed on the 21st of June, we will never be free again, it’s as simple as that.
The authoritarian state has taken a veritable route march forward. Whatever freedom we are allowed later this month will be only a couple of steps back.
I cringe at the notion the mask mandate is just brushed off as a minor restriction. Along with distancing it is THE biggest stumbling block.
Yeah, what would be normal about, say, a nightclub with everyone masked? Except a “specialist” one of course.
Sir Jeremy is nothing more than a vaxx shill!
This is not an article about anything other than enforcing vaccines. It is a propaganda piece for the vaxx, vaxx, vaxx!!
At the bottom of this article is his prediction that all over 12s will be vaxxed by the end of the year and that the vaxx could be extended all children over FIVE if the vaccines ‘are found to be safe and effective’ PURE UNADULTERATED EVIL!
Nothing of interest in this article at all and not worth reading in full except to remind us we are truly in the grip of Nazis intent on harming us in every conceivable way.
They want children vaxxed as per the family unit, the Vaccine Passport is the ultimate goal. To control movement
Yes. Because it won’t work unless you have everyone vaxxed.
June the 21st is the proverbial fork in the road for humanity. You can either grab freedom with both hands and get back on with life, with all the highs, lows and opportunities that this brings. Or you can choose stifling, mind-numbing servitude. It’s up to you, not Johnson and his cronies. Personally, I will accept the risks and choose freedom.
Not humanity, but certainly the UK.
Humanity in states like Texas and Florida got past all this covid nonsense months ago.
If Farrar, Michie, Johnson, Whitty, Hancock, Ferguson et al were in prison and the BBC stopped broadcasting and the newspapers stopped printing and masks, testing and Covid ‘vaccinations’ were abolished and everyone went to work, on holiday, to the pub, nothing bad would happen, in fact, life would be peachy.
Even the criteria for ‘pandemics’ was changed just prior to the arrival of covid, we must not forget the details of this plan
… and – again – read the Council of Europe report on the Swine ‘Flu debacle if you think this shit-show came out of nowhere. The same strategy was attempted, but collapsed.
I’d like to propose an additional 5 years in the slammer for this dickhead’s glib comments.
On top of his death sentence for treason?
This article carries the wrong headline. It should read: ‘Gates Foundation placeman anticipates prosecution, starts to get his story straight’
“Sir Jeremy Farrar”
Note the establishment label – so frequent amongst SAGE and allies in comparison with the reliable scientists.
… and, of course ‘The Welcome Trust’
… which links to the milk-and-water observation :
“sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.”
Not really a ‘scientist’, then.
A former scientist, or at least someone with scientific ability, which sadly lends him credibility.
Not sensible advice at all. Illogical and perverse advice.
Another name added to my little black book.
He added that based on current data, although he would lift restrictions, sensible advice such as wearing a mask indoors should still be in place.
How on earth is mask wearing sensible? It doesnt prevent covid in any way. It stops you breathing properly, an odd thing way to fight a respiratory disease. There is no science at all behind it. This clearly isnt living with covid and getting on with our lives.
Good to hear that more and more in London are going maskless. Let us hope that this spreads out to the rest of the country.
He’s only interested in compliance, not masks per se.
They know masks do not work in the medical sense, in fact, they are a joke. But they do know they work in the coercion sense, that the majority hate them and believe if they get jabbed that they will go. Jabs and Passports = Money. We are all cash cows now
We had a pair of electricians in our house last week, all masked up and distanced from one-another while working. While I was in a separate room, it was remarkable to hear one complaining to the other that the fart he’d let off stunk.
So not only did the social distancing do nothing to prevent the ass fumes from reaching his co-worker, but the mask proved useless too. I’m pretty certain fart particles and ‘debris’ will be larger than those in airborne viruses, yet it got through his mask.
Someone described it as trying to stop a tennis ball with a football net
The better analogy is that of trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain-link fence.