England’s Chief Medical Officer admits “we may have overstated danger of Covid”
Kit Knightly
England’s Chief Medical Officer testified before the (token and pointless) Covid Inquiry earlier today, claiming he feared the government “overdid it” when talking up the dangers of Covid.
No kidding, Chris.
The Telegraph reports [emphasis added]:
The Government potentially overstated the danger of Covid to the public at the start of the pandemic, Prof Sir Chris Whitty has admitted.
The Chief Medical Officer told the Covid Inquiry he still worries about whether the Government got “the level of concern” right as it introduced lockdowns and shielding measures.
Sir Chris said it was a difficult balance and if anything it was possible that authorities “overdid it” when communicating how dangerous the virus was at the beginning of the pandemic.
Of course, this is all very British understatement combined with “official inquiry dilution”, which automatically transforms “I know we did X” into “I fear we may have done X by accident“.
Whitty doesn’t “think they potentially overstated the danger”, he knows they definitely did. We all do, it’s been pretty much proven.
“Covid” was a tapestry of lies, and a tangle of deliberately inflated statistics created specifically to enable those lies.
That’s all old news.
Yet Chris Whitty himself is a good example of a potentially interesting phenomenon.
From the beginning of the “pandemic” he seemed strangely keen to distance himself from the very panic he was helping to create, and to, in pure Doublethink, underline the complete lack of danger from the so-called “deadly new disease”. See this video, taken from a “Covid Briefing” on May 11th 2020:
Now, that’s not to suggest he was some kind of hero standing on principle – he wasn’t. He was a lying shill who backed the narrative and lies and vaccines as much as anyone – but he seems to have had some level of discomfort with the enormity of the deceit.
I guess you could say this serves as a reminder that – however monolithic the establishment may seem – it is still made up of human pieces that might not always 100% agree about everything.
Yes, the “covid” scam had the backing of almost every establishment institution on the face of the planet, but those institutions are made up of individuals. And at least some of those individuals probably had doubts.
Probably not moral doubts – you don’t climb the heights in intelligence or politics without being some type of psychopath – but maybe rudimentary discomfort over fear of discovery and/or failure, or an ego that doesn’t want to be seen to be the kind of person who tells lies, or one narcissistic eye on how they might be remembered by posterity.
You have to wonder how many there were who in private offered self-serving opposition to one of the greatest lies in history – and how much of a role they collectively played in the ultimate failure of the Covid narrative to go the whole distance.
Something to think on.
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By and large, governments fabricate ‘laws’ to prevent the people from engaging in those things which are assumed to be a breach of the ‘laws’. Chris Whitty, breached those ‘laws’ and should therefor be held accountable for the breach. Hang the prick up by his knuts, and let him swing-in-the-breeze, while the people deliberate the ‘wheres-n-whyfors’ … as was done with the minds of most people in their respective communities.
Prof, Sir … makes a mockery of the idea of ‘titles’ …
So when do we get to hang him?
“Hindsight is 20/20”, as the saying goes.
Overall, Covid was reckoned after a year or so to be ‘about six times more deadly than influenza’. That’s actually fairly deadly, especially to vulnerable groups, but whether its “worth shutting the place down” deadly is debatable. Its just that given the nature of our societies we can’t take time out like this for any emergency, real or imagined, global or personal, without it seriously impacting our society (got to keep making those payments….).
So given that Rancourt and Yeadon, to mention just two, have shown that there was no pandemic at all (Rancourt: care to read his statistical study at his website?) ) and that respiratory pandemics cannot exist (Yeadon), where did you dredge up the “6 times more deadly” prattle?
Buttholes got it right again on their last album in 2001, huh,
The Weird Revolution – Butthole Surfers (youtube.com)
He reminds me of my chemistry teacher, Mr. Jenkins, in his white lab coat who would tell us about the science in a bored, seen it all before, manner.
Mr. Jenkins, though, never looked shit scared like he was reading an autocue.
What? Are we backing off? Will our elite “scientists” (who seem not very interested in the truth) start saying “nah it wasn’t as bad as we thought” and “maybe new technologies weren’t really necessary” and so it is no longer a relevant question whether they were “effective”. Interesting… NOT! Disgusting.
The list of crimes is overwhelming. Going right back to the early days when people were being unnecessarily murdered on ventilator death machines.
Huh, vid didn’t show,
anyway here’s a better one
John Maus – Keep Pushing On (youtube.com)
Still touring UK next month, kids
TV probably still stands as the medium from which the majority of the population get their “news”. And from what I just heard on ITV News, they’re hedging the bit about Whitty overstating the “pandemic” by saying he may also have understated it. All of which pales into insignificance at the blasé certainty of a further statement that THERE REALLY WILL BE ANOTHER PANDEMIC!
Touring next month, far-right kids !
Hey Moon – YouTube
I am a phantom over the battlefield, or something…,
John Maus – Over Phantom (youtube.com)
According to many loads died and that is what is needed to keep the lie going,
even in the alt section some say it was the worse flu they ever had.
but denying that at the moment with covid it is not arrestable offence.
give it a few years it will and has the same psyop type of feel as another thing that cant be mentioned.
that holy of holy denier thing that gets you cancelled, job lose and possible prison etc etc.
looking back on history, this covid thing will be the worse thing that happened and never again.
question to the comment board
Thw wisdom of Whitty…… “I think people always, at the beginning of pandemics, underestimate that it’s actually the science that’s going to get them out of the hole, not all the other things. The other things are holding the line until the science does the work” yet another Guardian article today that’s broaching the possibility / probability that they’re ready for round 2 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/26/future-pandemic-as-big-as-covid-is-inevitable-says-whitty?CMP=share_btn_url
“you don’t climb the heights in intelligence or politics without being some type of psychopath”
So very true.
This modified limited hangout seems to be part of the orchestrated normalization of “COVID”, fka the “SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus”.
I can’t remember the source, but last month I read a comment by some Establishment public health official or epidemiologist declaring that COVID had transitioned from “pandemic” to “endemic”.
Without repeating the points made by Kit, this normalization seems to be a matter of authorities sheepishly or contritely admitting in hindsight that “mistakes were made”– and, while slightly backing off the Big Lie that “COVID” was a deadly plague, reinforces the Little Big Lies underpinning the scamdemic/vax narrative.
Among other deceits, apologizing for “overstating” the risks implies that there was a genuine microscopic pathogen that caused significant and widespread health risks, but it was simply assessed clumsily and inaccurately. Thus, both the assessment and the draconian official protocols may have been unduly harsh– but presumably the problem with the “level of concern” was/is more a matter of degree than kind.
The US is seeing this kind of COVID normalization in the usual place: TV. In recent weeks, I have been infuriated by a new Pfizer ad campaign touting New! Improved! COVID jabs, and parallel ads for Paxlovid. Just do a search for “Paxlovid”, and you will discover endless links discussing the Big Pharma nostrum with endless variations, e.g. “Is COVID gone after taking Paxlovid?” Or “How do I ‘manage’ Paxlovid use along with other ‘COVID’ medications?”
To me, this hangout manages to “confess” that the authorities originally “may have overstated” the risks of “COVID”, but also facilitates the Big Medicine/Big Pharma fraud that implies that although “COVID” has been tamed, as it were, it remains a serious illness that requires Big Pharma remedies. Can you say “Phantom Menace”? 👻 🦠 💉 😡
Yeah, but lessons have been learnt.
Can you imagine if the inventor of that phrase gets royalties !!
To me, from the very beginning, Whitty seemed hugely uncomfortable.I couldn’t help but feel that he was ‘owned’ and unlike most of them you could literallly see it on his face. I won’t speculate about how he became ‘owned’ but even the Branch Covidians reckon he looks like a bit of a wrong ‘un. I have no opinion on the matter…
Sorry to say but Britain had a good share of doublethinkers who need to be all unmasked, not only this bloody idiot (however smart he thought he was). There were many above him allowing this to happen. Where is boris btw ?
Boris Badenov?
It’s that time of year again but this time it’s going to really, really serious and it’s all because we’ve let our guard down apparently https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/26/covid-on-the-rise-as-experts-say-england-has-capitulated-to-the-virus?CMP=share_btn_url
It might even prove to be COMPLETELY asymptomatic, but deadly serious, nonetheless.
Desperately seeking Covid: “Wastewater (sewage) can be tested to detect traces of infectious diseases circulating in a community, even if people don’t have symptoms. You can use these data as an early warning that levels of infections may be increasing or decreasing in your community.”…cdc.gov…https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-currentlevels.html
I always loved that; a virus so rampant and deadly you have to wade through shit to find it 🤡
i guess this new so-called prime superman minister would be working hard to develop tests to detect ‘anti-Semitism’.
(maybe they have such tests already created?)