A Lockdown Sceptics reader has written to tell us about an unfortunate experience she had with NHS Test and Trace when her deceased husband tested positive for Covid.
On March 17th, my partner died suddenly and unexpectedly. We are still waiting to find out the cause of death, but early indications are some sort of heart problem which no one knew about. Naturally this has been a shock to all of us.
A few days after the event, I received a phone call from a young lady representing NHS Test and Trace who told me that I had been identified as a contact of someone who had tested positive for COVID-19 and that I needed to self-isolate for 10 days. She named my partner as the contact. When I asked where the information had come from, she didn’t know how his name had got onto the database and when I explained that he had died, she didn’t know that either. I know that he had never had a COVID-19 test as he worked from home, so I can only assume that the test was carried out post mortem.
The young lady was very apologetic and embarrassed and, to her credit, didn’t press me further about matters. I really don’t want to blame her for doing her job, but you’d think a bit of context might be helpful for people doing this job.
Inevitably, COVID-19 has been mentioned as a contributing factor on the preliminary report. We won’t know any more now until after Easter, but we owe it to him to find out what took him from us. Whatever it was, he didn’t die of COVID-19 and I find it highly unlikely that he even had it, given that I have to be tested when I go to work (only occasional work and no positive tests to date) and he hadn’t been anywhere. Despite our scepticism, we have kept to the guidance, mainly because all of our hobbies which took us out of the house to meet others have been on pause for the past year. He was a lockdown sceptic from the get-go, and I know he would be incandescent that his death would be recorded as a COVID-19 statistic. I do, however, regard his death as a casualty of lockdown. Perhaps the post mortem will tell us that he had a condition which would have taken him from us sooner than expected, but this wicked and pointless lockdown policy stole the last year of his life and deprived him of the things which gave him so much pleasure in life.
I am beyond angry about how our media and political classes have treated us and so disappointed by the way the people of this country have colluded with them through complacency. Thank you for all the work you do in exposing this dreadful state of affairs.
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What can I say? I feel for the lady.
This highlights one of the most egregious aspects of the patina of lies, sloppy misdiagnosis and exaggeration that covers the Covid issue.
That is the insult to the bereaved that the falsification represents.
The odd one may be ‘sloppy diagnosis’. The overwhelming majority will be deliberate falsification.
This lady obviously has our sympathy but ‘she named my partner as the contact’ is surprising since one of the main features of Track’n’Trace is the anonymity of such information.
From the other end of the scale:
Shortly after Track’n’Trace had got underway as part of lockdown lite (last summer) I was talking to a woman who had just returned from a large get together with family in an hotel up north.
Despite being a vocal skeptic she and the rest of her family duly gave the hotel their correct Track’n’Trace details.
Some days later she got a phone call from an up north relative who informed her that the hotel had been closed the day after their departure because some staff had tested positive.
That lady never did hear from Track’n’Trace so was never advised to self isolate; how we laughed.
I’m not surprised they revealed the identity of the test subject – data protection is apparently no longer a consideration.
After being hounded for weeks by SMS to get the experimental “vaccine”, the GP receptionist finally called me. I answered with a simple “hello” and they immediately started with “hello [firstname], do you want to come and get your jab?”. I politely declined and she said that was fine and she would put it on my record. At no point did she verify my identity in any way before updating my medical records with my response.
When they caught me and I declined, they said, no problem, is your husband of the same view? I said yes (true) and they put him down as declined too, but really, shouldn’t they have spoken to him?
Yes. Indeed. I think TheBluePill’s experience is all too frequent. I’ve had the same thing. I replied ‘No thank you’, she flustered and blustered for a moment or two, and then recovered her composure – I wasn’t awake enough to query the data protection issues involved.
What can I say, I’m so terribly sorry for her and the fact a year of their lives have been stolen.
Another example of the unfeeling absurdity of these “systems”. It is also entirely emblematic of the unending cockups, cruelties and inaccuracies that will inevitably result from the raft of further spying systems now under consideration by the loathsome Gove and others. A blight on our lives, but a pox on all their houses.
I note the title of the piece is “When NHS Test and Trace Goes Wrong”
Doh!!! As if there is anything right about the notion and the practise of ‘Test & Trace’
When NHS Test and Trace Goes Wrong
When it goes wrong?
When does it ever go right?
Along with Operation Moonshot – Test and Trace has been an unmitigated disaster from the start not to mention an extraordinary waste of public money.
The nine most terrifying words in the English launguage are, “I”m from the Government and I’m here to help.” – Ronald Reagan
As true now as it was then.
The money isn’t wasted. It goes straight to friends of the politicians and Bill Gates.
I wonder if Clare Craig would be interested in this story.
I was just watching the Panorama on the testing centre (sorry) it looks as if nothing has changed since the first expose here months ago. Why would it when it keeps the money flowing in the right direction?
What a very sad story.
Many thanks to his wife for sharing this information at this sad time. It is important that these sorts of crazy misattributions of death are brought out into the open. While her husband would be incandescent that his death was recorded as COVID-19, I think he would also be proud of his wife for getting the truth out there.
My deepest sympathies for this lady’s loss. Please thank her for sharing this information at this most difficult of times. I too feel angry at the restrictions on the last year of her husband’s life. It does seem a further insult that his death will likely be misattributed to covid. The best of luck to her in setting things right.
LIES,LIES AND MORE LIES.
SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE LADY CONCERNED.
Track the truth, trace the Devil.
Our hearts are with this lady, her man, and all in like situations.
NEVER GIVE IN, NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET.
I feel this lady’s anger.
I have to say, as a retired frontline RN/RM used to evidence based medical and scientific decision making, that apart from the modern technological overlay, the activities of Public Health during the past year have increasingly resembled some medieval dystopia. I have been astounded at the lack of medical expertise and common sense deployed, on masks, the value of testing with unfit for purpose programs, and a good deal more.
If Whitty, Hancock, et al had taken to appearing at their podiums dressed in hooded cloaks and wearing beak shaped masks stuffed with aromatic herbs, while uttering incantations, instead of expounding on the modelling of a four times proven wrong (in a big way) computer nerd, we would have been served just as efficiently.
That is not a comment on the frontline staff treating actual Covid patients in what must have seemed, at times, nightmare circumstances, or on the desperate efforts of the likes of Carl Heneghan, John Lee and the GBD to bring some sanity into the year’s proceedings.
Incidentally, apart from the HartGroup’s paper on “Covid-19 Overview of Evidence”, not sure if everyone is aware that this appeared a couple of days ago.
https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cesifo/ifab003/6199605
Edit: I note the above link is mentioned today here on the main page.
I get a “403 – Forbidden” when I click on the link…..
These Shenanigans are worthy of The Abbey National/Santander!
I’m so sorry for the loss of this lady’s husband, and salute her for not letting twaddly “died of covid” lie on his certificate. I hope that, if he was vaccinated she also lets the the MHRA know about that too. Especially if it transpires to be something associated with a blood disorder.
Whoever you are, you are in my thoughts and prayers.
My condolences to you and heartfelt sympathy. We know to expect no compassion or truth and I hope going forward someone has the moral capacity within the ‘system’ to correct the wrongs regarding the facts around your husband’s death. Only wish I was able to offer more than words and good wishes.
So sad for this lady and her loss. But I fear this us just the tip of the iceberg.
RIP
Thank you for writing such a heartfelt article. I’m sure your husband would be proud and I know that all the readers are feeling for you. You have been honest and brave and the public need to know the truth about what is going on.
I have heard accounts of deceased partners who have been registered as dying with Covid when it has been very clear that the primary cause of death was definitely nothing to do with it. My thoughts are with you.
Excellent article. The lady’s words in the last paragraph sum it all up beautifully.