Has anyone seen Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO)?
Professor Whitty became the CMO in 2019 and was a regular face on TV telling us all about the pandemic. In televised news conferences, he and Boris Johnson would tell us all about the R number, how many deaths there had been and how we should stay at home and avoid people to reduce the spread of the virus. He earns approximately £210,000 ($240,000).
He did such a great job during the pandemic that he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 2022. So we are now looking for Sir Whitty.
For two years, Sir Chris was everywhere, telling us all to social distance whilst sun bathing outside in the Summer.
He was a keen lockdown advocate and warned us to take them seriously.
He constantly told us to get vaccinated because it reduced transmission and so helped to protect others.
Together with Jeremy Hunt, he circumvented the advice of the Joint Committee for Vaccinations and Immunisations (JCVI) to approve Covid vaccines for children. The JCVI were hesitant to approve the vaccines due to a lack of safety data.
He told us how important climate change is and how it will put people’s health at risk.
And he was part of the decision making process that saw unvaccinated care workers get sacked. NHS nurses, doctors and staff were on their way to suffer the same fate before a last minute U-turn. However, Chris wasn’t happy with that decision and still applied pressure on NHS staff to get vaccinated. He wrote to them all telling them it was their professional responsibility to get vaccinated.
However now he has gone missing. With the Omicron variant being dominant you might say that the man deserves a break after being on TV every day for the last few years. I would agree with you if there weren’t so many people dying at the moment.
Since March of this year, excess deaths have shot up, the majority of which are not Covid deaths. In this last week alone there have been 1,372 excess deaths in England and Wales which is 14% above the five year average.
The number of excess deaths at home is 26.3% above average, in hospital 10.5% above average and in care homes 10.4% above average. As I have said before, after a pandemic (which sadly kills the frail and elderly), there should be negative excess deaths.
So what is going on? What is causing these excess deaths? Why are so many excess deaths occurring at home?
But most importantly, where is our CMO to reassure us that these excess deaths are being investigated and measures being taken to eliminate them?
He’s been spotted lecturing about his favourite subject, pandemics. He’s been tweeting about flu/Covid vaccines and monkey pox but nothing about this mysterious killer causing excess deaths.
Where’s Whitty?
He's consulting with the Nudge Unit.
The various talking heads around the UK’s pandemic response are either trying desperately to rewrite their part in this shambles or to fade into the background and hope nobody notices them. They know what they’ve done, they know how big a ckusterfuck it has been and that, sooner or later, there will be a knock at the door