Flashback: This is what the liar said in 2021
Chris Whitty, who led the government’s response during the coronavirus crisis has warned that air pollution is as big of a health risk to the public as the virus, the Daily Mail reported.
Whitty seemed keen on once again mobilising members of the public to shame those who refuse to comply with the government’s agenda, calling on people to confront people who idle their cars or use wood-burning stoves. “I think we should make really clear to people the downsides of doing this that they are actually causing significant problems, potentially to vulnerable people and I think almost every parent would consider someone who is idling a car outside their child’s school to be an incredibly antisocial person to have around,” he said. “I think this should be about people saying and having the courage to say, look, please don’t do this,” Whitty added.
Though the report admitted that air quality has improved significantly since the 1980s, it still claimed that air pollution caused between 26,000 to 38,000 deaths per year, though it did not elaborate on how much those lives were shortened.
