Prof Chris Whitty

[tiggerblue10]

https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-prof-chris-whitty-accosted-in-the-street-12207411

Online abuse and trolling is bad enough but this is horrible. You really need thick skin when you've been thrust into the spotlight over the last 12 months.

What a nasty piece of work!

[jennyjoan]

///I think the fact he was in his shirt-sleeves implied he'd just popped out for something.///

It was warm wherever he was cos I haven't warmed up for weeks now with this bloody weather. Thank God for my lovely central heating.

[andy-hughes]

bhg - // andy //He would have retained his dignity by simply carrying on walking.//

He joined a queue for something and was standing well back from the person in front of him. I think the fact he was in his shirt-sleeves implied he'd just popped out for something. //

If that is the case, I would have walked away and returned to the queue when the idiot with the inflated sense of self-importance had wandered off to try and produce his particularly valueless reportage somewhere else.

[TrevorThePug]

Well oddly enough there are lot of people - including Right Said Fred and the Laurence Fox 'take Whitty down mob' - who think he pretty much deserves this...... and more

[Mamyalynne]

I think his standing in silence was a dignified response, better than turning tail.

[Ken4155]

^
Like i said earlier, TTP, every village has it's own.

[New Judge]

I feel a little for Prof. Whitty. He obviously saw the job as CMO as a nice little number running up to his retirement. No more messing about in Africa up to his neck in tropical diseases. Nice desk job, rubber stamping a few reports, advising politicians how to deal with anti-smoking campaigns, anti-obesity kicks, sugar taxes, that sort of thing. Six or seven years to add to his Civil Service Pension then off into the sunset.

Disaster! Three months into the job and Covid strikes. Suddenly he's thrust daily into the limelight; he's rolled out every few days to paste incomprehensible graphs up on the wall; is tasked, along with Sir Patrick Vallance and a succession of supporting artists, to spell doom, gloom and despondency to a (hopefully) petrified nation. Not what he'd imagined at all.

Absolutely no reason to accost him in the street. What I don't understand is what he was doing out and about in Westminster in his shirtsleeves in this weather. I hope he had a "reasonable excuse". I was also a bit disturbed about the way he removed his face mask from his pocket and put it on. Didn't follow the guidance (which I assume he was aware of) at all.

[Mamyalynne]

The video is reported as being 'undated' and there are also many comments such as 'appears to show' and similar.

[andy-hughes]

Trevor - // Well oddly enough there are lot of people - including Right Said Fred and the Laurence Fox 'take Whitty down mob' - who think he pretty much deserves this...... and more //

There might well be - there are sections of the community who mourn the passing of bear baiting in the street - but that doesn't mean that their views have a scintilla of merit, or deserve a nanosecond of consideration.

And I am curious - 'take Whitty down ...' from what exactly?

[piggynose]

It looked to be stage managed to me.
He didnt look perplexed. A bit stupid putting his mask on for the camera.
Was the little boy calling him a lawyer or layer? I could hear the word "liar"

[bhg481]

He didn't put his mask on for the camere; he was walking along the street maskless and then put on his mask when he joined the queue.

[bobbinwales]

//Chris Whitty gets on my wick with his miserable face and constant doom and gloom. I now avoid him like the plague. Maybe this youth felt the same way??//
Hope I never meet you marjie. WHitty says it how he sees it and we have alot to be grateful for for his efforts If you want to avoid hearing about reality margie that's fine as your the sort that never learns anyway beleiving you know best

[bobbinwales]

A suppose he put a mask on because someone was potentially invading his space. He'd of been criticised if he didnt wear one when close to people

[naomi24]

There are some ignorant oiks around - and I’m not talking about Chris Whitty.

[woofgang]

NJ "I feel a little for Prof. Whitty. He obviously saw the job as CMO as a nice little number running up to his retirement. No more messing about in Africa up to his neck in tropical diseases. Nice desk job, rubber stamping a few reports, advising politicians how to deal with anti-smoking campaigns, anti-obesity kicks, sugar taxes, that sort of thing. Six or seven years to add to his Civil Service Pension then off into the sunset"

As I understand it he continued his clinical work in UK hospitals as well as his CMO job.

[TrevorThePug]

Andy, I just assumed it was the sort of terminology that in-breds used for being hard and ganging up on someone.

Some people call him a liar in the street, others do it professionally on paper for the Daily Mail or Sun.

[andy-hughes]

piggynose - // It looked to be stage managed to me. //

Are you suggesting that someone had a quiet word with the professor and asked him to stand and take random abuse from some idiot with a phone who then filmed the incident?

Really?

[tiggerblue10]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9219801/Mother-boy-filmed-abusing-Chris-Whitty-says-appalled-sons-rudeness.html

[Fatalbertfixer]

Name and shame the little scrote,make it impossible for him to walk the streets without someone calling him out for being the waste of oxygen he obviously is.

[Prudie]

haha ilmargie, those were my thoughts exactly although he doesn't deserve personal abuse he must expect it from the impolite when he's been preaching to us all year.

[iluvmargie]

You hope you never meet me bobbinwales, I can assure you the feeling is 100% mutual. What would you do by the way if you did?? That sounds like a threat to me!