respond to these things and the person who pointed this who found this in the first place is going well it's kind of just mild and they're going we need to freak out so who do you trust yeah uh sir patrick valance the uh well what's been recommended is less than what the sage was suggesting in september before the omicron threat was looming hence why people have kind of stopped taking sage anywhere near as seriously even in periods where the numbers are all going down they're still like panic we need to lock everything down sir patrick valance the government's chief scientific advisor joined mr johnson at the press conference he said in the uk might need to face up to the possibility of further action if the omicron variant is very transmissible but there appears to be a little bit of division within the science trademark if we move along there are other members of the sage group saying that well come on guys it's not it's not as big a disaster as you're making it out to be so the omicron variant is not a disaster and some people may be hugely overstating the situation a scientist advising the government says microbiologist professor callum semple says vaccines are still likely to protect you from severe disease and asked whether people should be fearful of the new variant professor semple who sits on the uk government scientific advisory group for emergencies told bbc breakfast this is not a disaster and the headlines from some of my colleagues saying this is horrendous i think are hugely overstating the situation immunity from the vaccination is still likely to protect you from severe disease you may get a sniffle or a headache or a filthy cold but your chance of coming into hospital or intensive care or sadly dying are greatly diminished by the vaccine and still will be going into the future so reasonably who am i more likely to believe the people doomed saying and saying that the whole sky is going to fall or this man who seems to trust in the efficacy of the vaccines and be keeping a calm and collected head over the whole situation yeah i mean that's the point of vaccines yes is to keep you safer from these symptoms one of these vaccines is the fact that you get them you have less chance of dying that's you know we did the job yeah what is it like NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN of the british public have the vaccine or whatever i think something like uh double jabs i think it's like NUMBER_TOKEN ish the concern was never people might die that's that's not a concern legitimate enough to do anything on this kind of level the concern was always will the nhs be overwhelmed that was always the argument and i just keep bringing it up because there was a it just gets forgotten by the wayside people have lost sight of that if everyone's got the vaccine and a vaccine means you don't go to hospital or a massively reduced rate the interest is not going to be overwhelmed that's the whole point of why we spend all this money yeah so we do not need these measures yeah as far as i can tell that was the original argument yeah and now if we go along uh once again in regards to the soft softly softly touch that the media has been taking with this whole thing we've got calvin robinson pointing out that within the ofcom
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