{"id":121216,"date":"2023-11-02T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/?p=121216"},"modified":"2023-11-02T09:29:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T09:29:27","slug":"whitty-praises-sacrifices-of-vast-majority-during-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gendermyn.com\/politics\/whitty-praises-sacrifices-of-vast-majority-during-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitty praises sacrifices of vast majority during Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Professor Sir Chris Whitty said the crisis had shown a \u201cgreat majority\u201d willing to make sacrifices.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThe reason they took the decisions they took to put their lives on hold, often at considerable personal costs \u2013 social, economic or other \u2013 was to protect largely an older population, most of whom they would never know at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a societal decision made at a huge, popular level. If you look at the approval levels for doing this, over 90% agreed that this was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Covid demonstrated to me was the very strongly held altruism of the British population towards older people and those living in greater disability than themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, the Covid Inquiry heard that ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson was \u201cobsessed with older people accepting their fate and letting the young get on with life and the economy going\u201d.<\/p>\n

This came from August 2020 extracts from the diary of former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance.<\/p>\n

Prof Whitty was speaking yesterday in Central London at the annual conference of health think-tank The King\u2019s Fund.<\/p>\n

During his speech on healthy ageing he said it was right to celebrate progress which means it is \u201cvery rare for people who get through their first 24 hours of life to not survive until their late 70s\u201d.<\/p>\n

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