Dr Hilary Jones slammed a pub landlord during Tuesday’s Good Morning Britain during a heated row about lockdown.
Hilary, 67, joined hosts Adil Ray and Susanna Reid to talk about the pandemic, but things turned heated when they chatted to pub landlord Rod Humphris on the ITV show.
The pub landlord was questioning the nationwide lockdown put in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Rod Humphris famously threw Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer out of his Bath pub as he didn’t agree with how the opposition responded to the Government’s lockdown plans.
Hilary didn’t hold back as he said to Humphris: “With the greatest of respect, Rod, I think you should stick to pulling pints rather than advising the Government about the policy on the biggest pandemic, public health issue for the last 100 years.
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“In India now, there are 270,000 people a day coming down with COVID-19 and in Brazil, 250 children under the age of nine have died from Covid in the last six weeks.
“518 of them were under one, babies are dying from Covid. If we ignore a pandemic and we say lockdown doesn’t work, how do you think it spreads in the first place?
“Person-to-person contact and if you look at all the countries that locked down earlier, they’ve had better health outcomes and better economies.
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“It’s very simple. Look at every peak we’ve had. What happened when we had a peak of 1,200 deaths a day?”
Hilary added: “We went into lockdown and the numbers came down. It’s very simple.
“You have to have lockdown in a pandemic that kills people. And if you’re saying at 83 it doesn’t matter if you die, you’re saying for the likes of Prince Philip, the last 16 years of his life were meaningless and worthless – we can’t allow that to happen. We can’t be that ageist.”
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Rod said: “Firstly, Chris Whitty or Patrick Vallance said when we went into lockdown, the number of infections, deaths were already falling.
“So there is no established cause or link. This has been researched all over the world – the cause and link between lockdowns and the number of deaths or hospitalisations are just not there.”
Dr Hilary shot back: “Tell me how it happens, then? It’s not vaccinations because they’ve not had time to take effect yet.
“It will reduce hospitalisations and deaths but how do you think we got out of the first two peaks?”
Explaining why he threw the politician out of the pub at the time, Humphris told the BBC: “I had heard that the Labour Party were coming round and he turned up and I told him what I thought of him, basically.
“I think he has utterly failed us as the leader of the opposition. He has completely failed to ask the questions that needed asking, like, why did we throw away our previous pandemic preparedness?
“Why have we just accepted lockdown? Why have we just accepted the loss of all our freedoms?”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
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