Chris Whitty... Everything will be ok!

[Mumlove5]

Yes yes and yes!!

YES!

The lecture was given at Gresham College, which has been holding lectures to improve public knowledge of, well, everything, for 400 years.

The Royal Society was hatched out of Gresham College.

www.gresham.ac.uk/about/history/

So looks like the clip has been taken by some other organisation.

I’m totally in awe of how he speaks so eloquently, without stumbling, umming & erring, or fudging up his sentences.

@frumpety its from 30th March

Yes it has perking, a cherry-picked snippet which suits their agenda.
I also went to the Gresham site to find out when it was actually recorded & what else was said.

I'm not going to lie and say I'm not concerned. I am.

But FFS, we got over Spanish flu 100 years ago with none of the tech and advantages we have now. And we'll get over this too.

Sorry 30th April not March

It was from 30th April wasn’t it?

I love him

Nice thread, I like him too.
Interestingly, though: he advises our government and yet I bet most pps here are Boris/govt bashers over the pandemic, even though Whitty is advising.

He is the best thing to have come out of this. Love him

Nice to see something positive, thanks OP!

Interesting that he said significant amount of people won’t even get it. Have we moved on from the prediction that c. 80% likely to contact it? Was that only if lockdown didn’t happen? The advice / predictions change so rapidly I can’t keep up ...

He is a very reassuring,unassuming guy ...he knows his stuff and makes me feel safe!! He is definitely not influenced by anyone and at times has politely disagreed with Boris...who actually is way out of his depth !! I was actually shocked at how disrespectful and shallow some of the MN posters were a few weeks ago because they thought he wasn’t good looking!!!

Oh lord. That should have said, given on 30 April 2020.

Sorry, dates really matter with this, so of course that's where I put my mandatory typo.

Such a lovely voice and gentle eyes. I could listen to him all day.

Yes, he's marvellous etc. But really, is NONE of you bothered about the 'nonetheless...' that so obviously comes with this?

I shall attempt to redeem myself by saying that the transcript of the talk, complete with slides, can be read here:
s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/content.gresham.ac.uk/data/binary/3305/2020-04-30_Whitty_COVID19-T.pdf

@MayFayre yes, he does have a lovely voice, very calming and grounded with a great bedside manner. He'd sound great as a pilot!

Cool calm concise and precise, facts and knowlegable.

Why do we have the listen to the comic BoJo?..

It would be good to see the other 58 minutes of the lecture, as opposed to just this little 1.19 minutes long snippet. Will watch it tomorrow, need to go to bed

I think he is great and so reassuring,there have been some awful shallow comments made about him online that have made me feel so sad for him.

Interesting that he said significant amount of people won’t even get it. Have we moved on from the prediction that c. 80% likely to contact it? Was that only if lockdown didn’t happen?

bumblenbean, I'm not sure which bit you're talking about? He doesn't say that in this clip.

He does say in this clip ( p6 of the transcript): "Of those who do get it, a significant proportion, exact number is not yet clear but it's certainly a significant proportion, have no symptoms at all - they get it without even realizing it."

He might talk later on about total numbers expected to get Covid, but I can't remember.

@VenusTiger and your

Chris Whitty, p19: "This use of a vaccine incidentally is the only situation where you would ever aim for herd immunity – population immunity- as a policy aim."

Saving this so I can listen to it tomorrow