I think there has been a sense that advice and decisions happen behind the scenes. Thomas's personal network of family, friends, associates & neighbors include Susan Poel, William Mcfarland, Marilyn Williams, William Russell and Ladena Williams. Sage and the scientific community knew from the beginning that they were dealing with a government that had set itself against “experts” and had just been elected on a manifesto full of non-evidence-based promises. (Error Code: 100013) Professor Susan Michie has said Britain is in a "national crisis" as COVID-19 cases rapidly increase. Do you think, with hindsight, we should have been more far concerned with direct consequences, rather than possible knock-on behaviours?I do. It comes after the Government launched a new advert that asks people to “look in the eyes” of frontline medical workers and Covid-19 patients and tells them to stay at home. On Independent Sage all through the summer we have been saying the government must use these months to drive down Covid transmission in the community towards zero. The psychologist and member of Independent Sage on the flaws in the Conservative government’s response to Covid-19, and its failure to build trust through honest communication, Last modified on Sun 20 Sep 2020 08.14 EDT. “I think we should throw everything we can at really driving transmission down to a low level. Professor Susan Michie said current lockdown measures are ‘the problem’ and not people who aren’t sticking to the rules. I stopped because there was too much of a contradiction between what I thought and what was being said and done. The news of a vaccine “may be making people feel complacent” about lockdown rules, a government scientific adviser has warned. Prof Michie described nurseries and places of worship, which are both allowed to remain open during lockdown, as “superspreading events”, and said she had heard from a lot of people who are “really distraught” about going to work. Professor Susan Michie, director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at UCL, said an “overwhelming” number of people were sticking to lockdown rules as she questioned how Government messaging was being targeted at the public. And at the beginning, I was very uncomfortable about these events going ahead. Was there not a case for the scientific community to say: we are not going to operate on these terms?The reason Sir David King set up the independent Sage was that he was so disturbed by the government strategy and the secrecy around the science. In terms of the false promises, the government didn’t have to make them. Prof Michie, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (Spi-B), said current lockdown rules were not enough to tackle the more infectious variant of Covid-19, which Boris Johnson revealed may be associated with “a higher degree of mortality”. I was looking at an interview you did with Andrew Neil at that time, when you were concerned about the unintended consequences of, for example, cancelling sporting events. Glasziou and Michie are among the founders of the BESSI collaboration. Coronavirus: Cummings row 'undermines trust in government and more people will die' - scientist. It doesn’t appear to me that they’ve read the advice. The fact remains that changing behaviour is at the heart of how to get out of this pandemic and behavioural scientists have not been used as they could have been. We’ve probably published 60 or 70 papers over the past six months. And I remember that interview. Government scientists and behaviour experts have rejected suggestions that the rise in Covid-19 infections is a result of the public flouting social distancing rules. Professor Susan Michie. Certainly not since the “Stay Alert” type messaging. I guess when the inevitable inquiry eventually happens, it will focus on those early weeks in the middle of March, when infection was rife, but we were slow to lock down. Susan Michie: 'Bars and pubs and other high-risk places should not be open', Prof Susan Michie: ‘One of the worst things leaders can do is to start to blame others when things go wrong.’, usan Michie, 65, is a professor of health psychology at University College London and leader of the, “world-beating app” – just one that works. Susan Michie is an adviser on the government’s Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours. They went to pubs and bars. Political advisers now have huge amounts of power. Professor Susan Michie, a psychologist with SPI-B of SAGE, speaking on LBC Radio with Andrew Castle on 4 October 2020, declared how the population had been complacent by not following COVID–19 regulations. “But actually all the data show that the overwhelming number of people are sticking to the rules with one exception which is self-isolation. They wasted all that time. LONDON (AP) — Faced with the spread of COVID-19, the U.K. is advising its citizens to keep calm and carry on. Susan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London and a government adviser, said “having more things open sends a … They seem to have a pathological fear of owning mistakes. Quite an achievement and evidence of the time and effort she is dedicating to the cause… Personal details about Susan include: political affiliation is currently a registered Democrat; ethnicity is unknown; and religious views are listed as unknown. We now do have the benefit of hindsight and learning from the rest of the world. At the start the government kept saying “we are following the science”. Do you think Sage could have been more robust in calling that out?It’s a very difficult situation. I was on Sage in 2009 when I think there were just 14 scientists, during the H1N1 pandemic. Britons could be asked to wear masks in shops and on public transport as part of an easing of lockdown measures, a leading Government adviser has suggested. There is only one way of getting the economy back on track and that is to consistently do all the things necessary to drive transmission of the virus down. Ministers have started to blame young people for the increase of transmission of the virus, when they did what the government told them to do. A scientist has said the new coronavirus variant should be treated as a “new pandemic within a pandemic”. Now, they have even stopped saying that. None of that was done. “In fact I would say that it’s not so much people not sticking to the rules, but it’s the rules themselves that are the problem.”. Public health specialists who sit on SAGE, independent SAGE or have won awards in their field talk to SKWAWKBOX about coronavirus, variants, the tier system and more L-R: Prof Susan Michie of SAGE and Independent SAGE; Prof Kailash Chand, former BMA deputy chair; public health leader Prof Gabriel Scally of Independent SAGE Tonight's Skwawk Talk… Taking into account various assets, Thomas's net worth is greater than $100,000 - $249,999; and makes between $20 - 29,999 a year. We should have had outdoor summer camps for schoolchildren, should have brought back retired teachers in the way that we brought back doctors and nurses, and should have utilised the many empty buildings so we could create proper distancing for schools. I have to say I haven’t seen very much of that coming through in terms of the government’s response. Member of the British Communist Party of 40 years; Donated £14,000 to the Labour Party under Corbyn; Wife of former Corbyn SpAd Andrew Murray; Mother of Labour’s Head of Complaints Laura Murray; Dr Zubaida Haque. Specifically, we said bars and pubs and other indoor high-risk places should not be open. And so I supported what Chris Whitty was saying and what the government was saying. Dr Adam Kucharski, an epidemiologist at the … Communist Party Leader Susan Michie (left) said recently that her party would be working flat out to get Jeremy Corby into Downing Street Ms Michie's father, … Glasziou and Michie are among the founders of the BESSI collaboration. The very much partisan members of the shadow SAGE group include: Professor Susan Michie, a 40-year-long member of the British Communist Party, who donated £14,000 to … S usan Michie, 65, is a professor of health psychology at University College London and leader of the Human Behaviour Change project funded by … Was that delay based on a hunch about the British context – the British character – that we couldn’t go too far too fast? Glasziou and Michie … The situation was so serious at the beginning that you wanted to give the government, in a sense, a chance to get it right?The population was prepared to do that too. “Make a really effective test, trace and isolate system so when inevitable outbreaks occur there’s a system there that can manage it and prevent it getting out of control again.”.