He told Radio 5's Rachel Burden it was wrong to blame the surge in cases and deaths on the new variant of coronavirus, which was only "slightly" more transmissible and caused the same symptoms.
"They are spreading this virus. Other people will spread it and people will die. They won't know they have killed people but they have."Prof Montgomery, who was on shift as he gave the interview to 5 Live, said it was "a great myth" that hospitals are being overwhelmed with elderly people. He also told how he had gone home for a shower after one of his shifts and been called back because a pregnant patient had deteriorated.
There can be no question but that this is the truth. We must all concentrate more on those who eschew the necessary regulations and are spreading the virus. Heavy penalties must exist for them and society must treat them like we do drunk drivers.
More scaremongering ........ the BBC are a gang of asshles
Not as much as quack medical business who over the years have pushed quackery at us
Hahahahaha get fucked
Coming from a doctor whose job involves having blood on his hands.
Haha on Monday thousands of super spreaders return to education for immense virus transmission with the government’s approval no ppe no social distancing no temperature recorded education lives matter news blackout in the covid cesspits
The individual(s) responsible for letting the virus loose on the world population are the ones with blood on their hands
Here you are, try this one from my partners friend on FB last night.
You never hear the NHS considering that the patients themselves have taken risks, it’s always us healthy that get blamed. I don’t agree with apportioning blame but I am getting bloody sick of being locked down, following the rules, wearing a mask even though I don’t agree
Very unhelpful article! It’s a virus for godsake
Everything that is wrong with the NHS is one inept self obsessed package. How much money has he lost through lockdown?
More msm doom and gloom. Let's keep the masses behind closed doors. Forever and a day as it will take that long to get more beds and more staff in our hospitals. Oh and the never ending supply of vaccine for the ever changing covid arsehole.
Absolutely! All should be masked at all times; unless indoors at home. This virus will not cease until we follow rules advised. I have worn a mask at all times unless at home indoors and washed my hands frequently and only mixed with others at work when allowed, so far so good.
DefundTheBBC .... It's as simple as that Your days are numbered 👊 😂
Notice he doesn’t mention how many have died of covid19. They wheel out these lackeys who take the shilling & lie to create panic amongst the sheep & unfortunately it works
And lockdown zealots have the blood of all the non covid deaths on their hands, see we can all play that game, doesn't really get us anywhere does it?
Agree 100% but the the way the government has dealt with this from day 1 has been amateurish, complete shambles.
Wee reminder BBC harboured one of the most notorious paedophiles ever for years then sacked anyone that spoke out over it.
So Cummings etc aye?
Knowing the BBC this year, it’s ketchup
They'd have to go on a massive rampage to get even close to the malpractice deaths his profession stacks up.
Altern8 were way ahead of their time
Get on with your job.
💯. Those who ‘don’t believe’ in covid or think it’s ok to flout rules should be made to go work in the hospitals for a few weeks. Then let’s see how long their ‘ I’m not Masking up ‘ lasts. The gov needs to enforce a total lockdown otherwise we are going to have the same year
According to full facts 10,000 infections were hospital acquired between August and November. If there is “blood on [..] hands”, then there is a lot going round. How about protecting vulnerable, rather than pointing fingers?
Patronising tnuc
Fuxk off sheep!
Him and his bosses have had 6 months to prepare!! He is to blame!
I am all for following the rules but the BBC using headlines like this really is idiotic.
Bull shit.
Bill Gates bitch
Not as much blood on their hands as the Chinese Government and the World Health Organisation has for trying to cover up the Chinese Covid19 virus when they were first aware of the outbreak.
The only one with blood in their hands are media and anyone profiting from this BS!! Stop it!!!! 99.6% survival rate you have to be joking!!! He shouldn't been able to be a doctor period!!!! A disgrace!!!
and you should be ashamed of yourselves promoting this sort of hysterical hyperbole. DefundBBC
Prof Montgomery is a bill gates stooge!!
Plenty of people have blood on their hands due to their actions, and it's not just those blasé about covid. The coronavirus monomania and related neglect of other illnesses, well who are the killers there?
Compliers are pedo protectors 😎
DebbieFletcher Hospitals have blood on their hands just as much but nothing said about that is there
Absolutely! !
Not as much as this government under BORID
It’s funny that the graphs look identical whichever country you look at... can’t all be disobeying at the same time... at the same time that endemic respiratory viruses rise every year
I completely agree. Tier 4 compliance by individuals in my area of Berkshire is so obviously being ignored. Complacency and selfishness with no appetite for legal enforcement, are now making the Tier system ineffective and therefore the focus must be on the vaccination programme.
has blood on it’s hands for writing a headline like this and promoting fear
Well that’s a very dangerous overboard headline.
What about the Chinese government?
If you want people to take you seriously then the tik tok video aren't exactly helping.
Respect for doctors but with suicide's in the NHS caused by Lockdown stress and domestic violence victims killed during lockdown don't the people demanding lockdown have blood on their hands? Covid19 Lockdown Tier4
after everything people have been through this year, this guy can get in the bin.
That's disgusting...thats terror tactics he and the bcc should be ashamed ...whole families....I'd like to see proof
Yep
That’s by far the most appropriate way to put it.
Wrong headline: BBC News, Sky News, ITV News and all MSM + Govt + SAGE + NHS Tik Tok Doctors & Nurses have blood on their hands and come new year we the people are coming after you mark my words. You have peddled lies and covid is nothing but a globalist coup. GreatReject KBF
possible manslaughter then?
For the people at the back: ASYMPTOMATIC SPREAD IS NOT A THING!
I think BBC that expression is a little strong ..blood on their hands .. firstly can the ...doc prove and back up his claim with factual evidence that not waring a mask I will kill someone or one day he might have a tsunami of legal claims
We've had blood on our hands for all eternity then, as long as viruses have been around
Utter nonsense. Many politicians, those in academia, medicine, etc have all fallen foul of the rules. The media should be doing a better job. Not fit for purpose at the min.
Phil_Osophi No worries.. MSM has a lot brown on their neck for sticking deep down to their shoulders inside the dictators you know where.
Easily washed off in under 20 seconds of hot water
If people are not scared we need to scare them
Rigby and Burley!
State propaganda an people are swallowing this garbage
2018.. people were going out without masks, no lockdown it can't stop flu or covid. Its called living life .. 650,000 die of flu. Those calling for elderly isolated people to be locked in at home & suicides propaganda who picks up that guilt trip ? flu 2018
That’s a laugh, 17% who caught covid did so while in hospital, NHS needs to stop blaming the public and get its act together.
What a w⚓
No, the Governments are responsible for Covid deaths!
Traitors to humanity.
You are a fear machine. Disgraceful. Over the last year you have been at the Sharpe end of manipulation.
What a disgusting article. And in a year when deaths were no higher than many other in the last 30, admissions lower, and respiratory illnesses no worse (if you factor in flu has miraculoualy all bus dissapeared this year and replaced by Coronavirus). And article to antagonise
DefundTheBBC
Typical propaganda from the BBC globalist mouthpiece
This is a really powerful message from the front line, it’s not (just) the new variant of the virus it’s people and their actions that are causing the upsurge in cases - worth a listen, please act responsibly and look after each other
British attitudes - Jekyll and Hyde vibe. One moment you think they are the most libertarian people, the next they turn into authoritarians who endorse strict, repressive measures because there is always some sort of an emergency. And this time around, one with no end in sight!
No doubt that there will be needless death and suffering due to people not observing a proper lockdown as asked and spreading the virus. The headline might be dramatic but it absolutely has truth within it.
The hospitals are empty. Videoing empty hospitals can land you in prison...
Dr activist?
Do you do journalism any more, or just fear-mongering and propaganda. The draconian infringements on our liberties are doing precisely nothing other than trying to create a sense the government is “doing something”. Pathetic waste of taxpayers money.
Absolute wanker
DrEmilyGrossman So do the financial capitalists who promoted the notion that the cure was worse than the disease.
Who listens to the BBC?
Nice try.
Holy shit, the comments. Seems people don’t like having the consequences of thier dumbfuckery pointed out publicly.
Along with BorisJohnson....
StayHomeStaySafe ProtectTheNHS RespectThePolice Have a HappyNewYear2021 at home.
FAKENEWS EVERYWHERE
Maybe.. Is it the same for drinkers,smokers,motorists,drug dealers,the list goes on
A third of Covid deaths have been in care homes where the public can't access. Tell me again who has blood on their hands?
And I’ve had two retards abusing me due to people not giving a shit, even about there own pensioners parents!!
Wonder how many cancer, heart operations him and his colleagues have cancelled? He has blood on his hands too
As do the government for a lot of the care home deaths.
Lockdown measures and those lickspittles who support them without question are responsible for the deaths of many more people...if we’re playing that game.
Nope the gov are responsible for not being straight, the virus exists but the measures are draconian, the cure can't be worse than the virus, the lockdown are part of the NOW and the people are woken
Boris has blood on his hands !!
you spout some absolute shite on this twitter handle fairplay completely lost all respect for the BBC after this yeat
And i bet that doctor hasn't broken any rules himself 😂 sit down pal
Have the government proven the rules work with so many hospitals at capacity and so many deaths.
What utter rubbish! Scaremongering propaganda from the bbcnews team yet again. Remember people this is a social virus doesn’t transmit at work or the supermarkets but if you visit family or friends is the apocalypse
Blaming the public is never a good idea. Most people are following the rules as best they can, even though many seem daft. Can the doctor tell us what else we can do
I blame Chinese Communist Party!
It's also on the government who have made no effort to enforce rules, have made the rules so complicated that people don't understand them, and refuse to use the phrase 'national lockdown', so people don't take it seriously
So do NHS tic tok dancers !!
This government has blood on its hands, for the constant lies and confused information it gives the public. Let’s not forget the clown happily shaking hands on a Covid ward right at the start.. one individual responsible for so much spreading ‘runs’ the country!
I didnt realise medical professionals were in the business of emotional blackmail. Public support wanes for the NHS and such judgements does not help promote any kind of trust or unity
And the TikTok dance routines? 🤷🏻♂️
No doctors have blood on their hands for failing to treat people and stopping carrying out DNRs
100% agree. Sage/Government can only tell us what we need to do, if we don't actually do it we only have ourselves to blame.
Another emotive rant. Most people haven’t got it , how can they spread it. The question is how are people catching it. Are they the ones breaking the rules? The risk of catching it must be very very low if you follow the guidelines. One of those deliberately sensationalist tripe.
Bullshit. NHS incompetence and a weak minded Government is why we are in this mess.
Ask this ‘Professor’ to provide one shred of evidence to support those insidious claims. No ‘test’ can diagnose ‘Covid’. Until that time every ‘positive’ is a FALSE-POSITIVE. End of.
Majority will move to house parties this year for sure. I don’t think lockdowns work. Makes Gov think there in control though I suppose
The problem is they don't care. They are like children who have been told it's dinner time and to put the PlayStation away.
Not nearly as much as the Covid rule makers that have destroyed lives, relationships, businesses, futures, sanity, freedoms. They now know they can stop our lives at any moment without consequences. Do you think that they are not going to employ this again? Fools.