Where has Chris Whitty gone?

[Cakeandcustard123]

Just that really - anyone know why he hasn't been at the briefings for quite a while?

He's vanished again!!

Where's Whitty?

Can we start a campaign #whereswhitty

I wonder if he disagrees with the advice being given so he isnt at the briefings?

I’m not sure where he’s gone, did we all imagine him? Even his infomercial has disappeared from our lives

I believe he was meeting with the teaching unions today along with Patrick Valance.

He's probably at home answering emails from 1000s of female admirers.

It just seems odd he had become the public face of the campaign to fight coronavirus and the public has a lot of confidence in him but he seems to have gone AWOL and Jenny Harries is on all the time (she is good too!)

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel 😂 highly likely! (Not sarcastic, I think he's fabulous. He's my weird crush as he reminds me of my DH. DH is ok with this).

He appeared at the briefing on Monday (think it was Monday, every day is the same...) keeping Boris in check. I always pay more attention when the prof is speaking 🍷

Doesn't he now only appear with Boris? Same with Vallance. The "dream team"

I agree, I do like Jennie Harries.

I think Jonathan van tam is another good advisor and Jennie is good too.

He met with the NEU today along with Patrick Valance.

Oh that's good I didn't know he was on on Monday. Glad he hasn't vanished!!

Has he gone to his second home for the weekend?

That was a joke, I forgot to put the 😆

@Crunchymum I think it takes two of them to prop Boris up and keep him in check 😂

@cakeandcustard123 I agree with you, he needs to be on more. I appreciate his reassurance. Once a week isn't enough!

@whitechoctwix I have a huge crush on ROry Kinear - a better looking version of my DH. Dh was very unimpressed when i told him - he sees Rory Kinear as podgy, bald and not attractive. I think he looks lovely.

I find Chris whitty a voice of calm reason and fundamentally reassuring.

PJs, I hope only told your dp that he resembles Rory Kinnear not that Kinnear is better looking too!

When will he be back on our screens?

Is what we want to know.

It would be helpful if they would tell us in advance who was going to do the briefing!

Yep. I want the line up in advance. If Whitty is on, I’ll watch. He is the voice of reason. And he answers all the questions well.

@PJsEveryday I had to Google Rory as I wasn't sure who he was but he's cute! Your DH shouldn't worry about that comparison 👍

I agree with PP we need to know when Whitty is on the telly.
It's a bright light in the week when every. day. is. the. same...

I think he was meeting the teaching unions today to attempt to reassure them.

I stopped trusting Jenny Harries when she said that being in a large crowd was no more dangerous than being in a small group because when you're in a crowd you're only directly next to a small number of individuals within it and so the people further away can't infect you. Either she actually missed the obvious point that crowds aren't generally static, or (more likely) she thought her listeners were stupid enough that we would.

@TheCountessofFitzdotterel no. I mentioned (whilenwatching James bond) that he resembled Rory Kinnear. It really didnt go down well so I left the better looking sentiment to myself

Jennie Harries - we don’t need to test in U.K, no risk to large outside groups!!
Vallance - herd immunity!! Initial modelling based on wrong disease
Whitty - ‘mild flu, sniffles’, initial modelling based on wrong disease, no need for masks
I am, ahem, underwhelmed by the lot of them.