Covid19 Assembly, an anti-lockdown lobby group, has pulled together a powerful letter signed by 133 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives challenging the thinking behind the Government’s response to the coronavirus crisis. The signatories list 10 flawed assumptions, starting with the failure to carry out any sort of cost-benefit analysis of the lockdown policy before deciding to implement it.
1. No attempt to measure the harms of lockdown policies.
The evidence of disastrous effects of lockdowns on the physical and mental health of the population is there for all to see. The harms are massive, widespread, and long lasting. In particular, the psychological impact on a generation of developing children could be lifelong.
It is for this reason that lockdown policies were never part of any pandemic preparedness plans prior to 2020. In fact, they were expressly not recommended in WHO documents, even for severe respiratory viral pathogens and for that matter neither were border closures, face coverings, and testing of asymptomatic individuals. There has been such an inexplicable absence of consideration of the harms caused by lockdown policy it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that this is wilful avoidance.
The introduction of such policies was never accompanied by any sort of risk/benefit analysis. As bad as that is, it is even worse that after the event when plenty of data became available by which the harms could be measured, only perfunctory attention to this aspect of pandemic planning has been afforded. Eminent professionals have repeatedly called for discourse on these health impacts in press-conferences but have been universally ignored.
What is so odd, is that the policies being pursued before mid-March 2020 (self-isolation of the ill and protection of the vulnerable, while otherwise society continued close to normality) were balanced, sensible and reflected the approach established by consensus prior to 2020. No cogent reason was given then for the abrupt change of direction from mid-March 2020 and strikingly none has been put forward at any time since.
Worth reading in full.
Full disclosure: I am on the Advisory Board of Covid19 Assembly.
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A brave, valuable and well constructed letter which effectively lays bare the monstrosity of the government’s actions these last eighteen months. It is a superb indictment of the many crimes committed under the guise of protecting the country and its people.
This letter purposefully shows that those leading the SCAM are quite simply criminals and that is as it should be.
My thanks and gratitude to all signatories.
God Bless.
I really couldn’t have put your comment better myself. Thank you!
Well said!
Really it is too long – but if it wasn’t it would miss out something important. Dilemma!
“It is for this reason that lockdown policies were never part of any pandemic preparedness plans prior to 2020. In fact, they were expressly not recommended in WHO documents, even for severe respiratory viral pathogens and for that matter neither were border closures, face coverings, and testing of asymptomatic individuals.”
This is so important in showing that lockdown was not risk aversion but risk-seeking behaviour.
That’s something I keep thinking myself: The infamous 1200 people who signed the Lancet letter calling the abandoning of the mask mandate a reckless and dangerous experiment were – in fact – asking for their reckless and dangerous experiment to continue.
Yet: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/47-studies-confirm-inefectiveness-of-masks-for-covid-and-32-more-confirm-their-negative-health-effects/
excellent letter – i wonder if any of the addressees will bother to read it.
re point 2 – hospitals go to great effort to clean surfaces, floors etc with strong disinfectants but don’t clean the air – surely some basic UV, heat treatment or other air sanitising treatment within the ventilation ducts would destroy all aerosol pathogens and help stop spread of airborne nastys
Yes, it’s rather long, isn’t it, and I can’t imagine anyone who “believes in” the “big covid” story or who has for political reasons deliberately chosen to pursue lockdowns etc bothering with it. And even those few conscientious believers with the time to do so don’t seem to be able to take this information in.
a letter pointing out what they got right would be a much quicker read – a blank page
Come now, they got something right. It was, hold on, working on it…right on the tip of my tongue…nope, can’t remember it.
Before mid March 2020 things were more or less OK although panic preparations seem to have been starting even then.
The one thing they did well was they mounted probably the best ever propaganda blitz – to the detriment of the entire population.
If they choose not to read it and continue their current path they will be unable to say in the future ‘I was unaware’, that’s why letters like this are so important. I have sent my MP many links to alternative thinking around the response to the ‘pandemic’ together with copied and pasted pieces such as this letter, I have ended all emails with ‘this is sent so that you can never claim you were unaware’. Should there ever be a true inquiry into all this I will forward all emails sent, along with his dissmissive and patronising replies, together with copies of his weekly newsletter he puts out repeating the need to wear masks, get vaccinated and encouraging the young to do so.
I do the same to my MP, Greg Clark. Name and shame yours, please.
Definitely. I have just sent one to mine Ian Liddel-Grainger. I’ll copy the contents into a new comment above.
Link and PDF sent to my MP, Anthony Browne, with the section titles included in the email, and an underlying implication in the commentary that it’s he who must bear as much responsibility for being a member of a ‘Parliament asleep’.
I wonder if decades of breathing in evaporated cleaning chemicals has any effect on long term health of nurses etc
My understanding is that this very attempt to sterilise everything is what creates the conditions for super-bugs. Pathogens without competition will have a heyday and become much stronger. See Dr Zach Bush.
An excellent letter.
Thinking ahead to the public inquiries, there really won’t be anywhere for those that got us into this mess to hide. There’ll be no “we did our best based on info’ available at the time” and ” your saying all this now with the benefit of hindsight but you didn’t say it back in the summer of 2021″. Oh yes it was said – and by any number of people any number of times, and this is another letter to wave in their faces. The sheer arrogance of ministers, SAGE, JCVI and MHRA etc. is simply breathtaking. They just don’t seem to care that one day their reputations and careers will lie in tatters. It beggars belief.
I suspect that the most powerful among them believe that there will never be a day of reckoning.
They should be careful what they wish for. Their crimes are for all to see. I just wish more people would open their eyes.
I’m afraid those ‘public enquiries’ are a chimera. Don’t kid yourself.
Think Iraq.
The whole catastrophe is a ‘Chimerica’. Not sure who coined that but it’s pretty good.
The word “whitewash” also springs to mind.
“They just don’t seem to care that one day their reputations and careers will lie in tatters.”
Well let’s hope so but it all depends on how long it takes for a sufficient number of people to wake up. Not so sure we’re there yet. Sorry for being pessimistic!
So what was the point of having a well thought out, researched and documented international and national procedures for dealing with a viral pandemic?
Procedures for dealing with a viral pandemic much more infectious and deadlier than C19. Procedures that could be tweaked depending on the scale, infectiousness and lethality of a virus and nowhere does it say wear masks and imprison the population, even for the most deadly virus.
I note in the Sunday Telegraph they are saying Swedens “experiment” on tackling C19 was correct and as many have pointed out they followed their national procedures. The zealots are saying Sweden didn’t have a high infection/death rate because of population density, NO, Sweden followed THEIR national procedures to deal with a viral pandemic.
I’m sure there are well thought out and researched procedures for all sorts of situations (from viral pandemics to Nuclear War). It’s such a pity that politicians have an hysterical knee jerk reaction and mentality to ignore well thought out plans for dealing with such events.
I think that Sweden followed the rules for epidemics that the WHO had created long ago (before 2012) and adapted these.
The population density argument in Sweden is false in any case. Most Swedes live in densely populated urban areas equivalent to their neighbours and ours.
An excellent overview. Concise and accurate.
But I have no illusions about the impact because, as we have long known, this is primarily not about public health or realty.
The large majority is still hypnotised – nowhere near pressing for a holding to account.
See also thermageddon and zero carbon.
I rarely swear but, d@mm, that is a great document. To this day I cannot figure out why every good practice learned over centuries were chucked out because a despotic regime locked up their people and claimed they beat Covid (the same government declares it ended rural poverty too so, why are we listening). Of course we all know why: it’s War of the Worlds in the US. Once a panic begin, it naturally spreads. Even though we knew by mid-March the avg age of death was over 80 and 99%+ were surviving. It didn’t matter. Panic spread and very few governments (especially not ours) stood athwart and said “no; we aren’t going to engage in a costly approach with no track record.” Sweden, South Dakota, later Florida decided this but, not many. And I say this as an early sufferer of Covid and someone happily double jabbed.
No cost/benefit analysis! The review of this whole mess had better produce the calculation so the next government can’t hide from reality.
As some wrote, there are 3 presidents dead (no vaxs in their countries) and one on verge (Mexico).
An outstanding piece of work. Succinctly dismantles the rationale behind the key inexplicable events of the recent past. I agree with every word.
This is essentially as per my comments earlier on the thread about the vaccine effectiveness. I’m glad my engineer’s brain is still working fine.
And didn’t we need ‘engineers’ to manage the response though, and not politicians and ‘scientists’!?
I would have added something about the bizarre push to vaccinate people who had already had COVID. That, together with the lack of interest in cost-benefit analysis, which they did mention, should have been enough to flag a scam, even for somebody with no time to fact-check.
A researcher on a C19 email group has pulled together all the available evidence on natural immunity v vaccine immunity & summarised the salient points, most interesting one being that double jabbing of a previously naturally immune person post covid infection renders that natural immunity useless to Sars-Cov-2.
The government was warned time and time again about the colossal damage the lockdown and restrictions route would inflict on the country but they chose to ignore those warnings and instead steamrolled ahead with the insane policy of trying to ‘control the virus’ – they ditched hundreds of years of western enlightenment in favour eastern communist tyranny. Sadly this whole sorry episode does not stop with the end of the restrictions etc – we have the next few years of waiting anxiously to see what the outcome of these experimental jabs are going to be. If its anything like the hasty decision to go into draconian lockdowns then if I was jabbed right now I would be a very worried person indeed.
You only have to look at New Zealand. They are now stuck in an everlasting lockdown for fear of a single ‘case’, thinking they can eradicate the SARS virus. They cannot, as it has an animal reservoir. SARS is utterly unlike Smallpox which could only exist in humans, hence being able to eradicate it. I fear the only way NZ (and Australia) are going to exit this calamity is by mass citizen unrest and revolt. You see the seeds of this in Aus, with police now pepper-spraying 12 year-old kids for not wearing a mask.
“Burn down the village to save it”. There’s a scene in the game Company of Heroes 2 where the Soviets decide they have to destroy their own village with flame throwers to prevent the enemy getting it ( https://youtu.be/CCbLbNC_8ic ). I vividly remember them torching quaint looking Russian homes with flame throwers only to have, to my horror, the hapless inhabitants streaming out and running away. There’s been something of that total war mentality in all of this when hurting and killing ordinary people is seen as “a necessary evil”.
Ask yourselves, ‘who benefits from the Government’s Covid policies?’
The answer to that is the usual leeches who benefit from all big enough Government policies.
As Boris Johnson has said lockdowns work. If that wasn’t the case then the country might run out of loaded revolvers and bottles of whisky.
Congratulations- signed.
Ditto. As a PhD Computer Scientist. The modelling looks total bollox (phrased more eloquently I hope, but that is the gist).
I hadn’t noticed until I looked carefully today, that Prof Whitty has been fitted with antennae – presumably for ease of receiving instructions.
Hair are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos and transmit them directly into the brain. This may be the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
Speaking as one of the follicularly challenged I have to disagree. The benefits of the condition allow me to be well chilled!
Of course this is just an anecdote and not the result of a double blind placebo controlled clinical trial 😎
Thank you to the brave, principled Healthcare Professionals.
What this Government and the appalling left-wing obsessives in SAGE have done is unforgiveable. And I for one won’t be forgiving them ….. ever.
I fully support and applaud the bravery of these people. I do however believe passionately that they and many others have failed to see the Elephant in the room.
A quote made in 2006 by Dr David Nabarro. U.N. influenza Co-ordinator.
” It is not enough just to have a written plan…….You also have to check, test it, and make sure that it works.
Sars-Cov-2 was not what was worrying him!
Superb letter, an extremely important document, an OPEN letter that really should be openly available and promoted to the masses via their generally accepted means of viewing world events and what’s going on around them. MSM. What are the chances of that eh?
Sadly it also assumes that the criminal conspirators, perpetrators, and enactors of this, one of the most heinous crimes in human history, AKA ‘The Great Reset’ will actually give a shit.
Jeez, I do hope it gets to see the light of day.
Although there is too much at stake for too many very powerful people I fear.
Needs to go to all church leaders too.
Superb document.
The only flaw is that the Gov will just ignore it as they have everythjng else.
So when do Whitty Vallance Hancock and Johnson be tried for Treason.
I have just sent this message to my MP Ian Liddel Grainger. Of course, I remain the ‘eternal optimist’. He has never done me the courtesy of acknowledging any of my previous missives.
Dear Ian Liddell-Grainger,
Please could you take the time to read the ‘open letter’ addressed to the UK Governments which can be found at
https://www.covid19assembly.org/doctors-open-letter/
This link is sent so that you can never claim you were unaware.
Yours sincerely,
MPs will never respond on the substance but only reiterate govt policy. The evidence mounts against them.
News from the Ministry of Truth. Dominic Lawson’s bitter piece in the DM blaming the unvaxxed for everything uses a Texan opponent who died recently to aid his case. I couldn’t possibly comment.
https://mol.im/a/9917683
Goodness what brave brave people. Thank you for standing up for us lay sceptics. Just hope it doesn’t get filed under ‘B’ for bin. No disrespect meant far from it but you know what this government is like.
Slight aside. I was protesting/leafleting in my local town centre on Saturday and got involved in a “discussion” with what turned out to be a couple of medical students. They were adamant that Ivermectin didn’t work and actually killed people. When I referred them to Dr Pierre Kory and his work they simply didn’t want to know. For clearly intelligent people they had very closed minds. I came away thinking this doesn’t bode well for the future of medical practitioners or their patients.
They are taught to follow “Evidence-Based Medicine” without understanding that half the “evidence” is missing and some of the rest is lies.
Thanks good knowledge.
A brilliant letter encompassing just about everything realists have been saying for the past 18 months. This needs to be sent to every MP.
Already sent it to mine with a reminder that the letter I sent to him last November contained a lot of what is being said here by doctors and health workers, apart from the bit about vaccines of course which went in a separate letter to him.
I support this letter; I would like to say that the paragraph mentioning mass testing and the use of (RT) PCR could be a whole lot more incisive about the fraudulent aspects of the WHO mandated/Cormen-Drosten signed process whilst acknowledging that other testing regimes “are available”.
May I ask that you amend the signature page to allow people to sign it without disclosing names – which are confirmed to you privately. I ask this because I fear the ending of my career which might be the consequence of my name being revealed. I appreciate this might be viewed as an act of pusillanimity – nothing could be further from the truth – I am convinced of the the facts set out in this letter (how could any sane person not be) and I will continue to put the case to others risking internecine conflict in the process. Please give this serious thought as I am sure I am not alone here.
Mine too. Life in the NHS political shenanigans was complicated enough pre 2020
The problem is that pretty much everything these days leads back to the likes of Blackrock and Vanguard, so there is no competition, no proper dissent and the lobbying power they possess is immense. Decent, unbiased and conscientous people have very little influence.
An excellent letter but I was surprised that they did not mention the deaths and injuries from the vaccination programme.
Wholeheartedly agree; an unfolding nightmare especially in the US
The question then becomes “How has all this been orchestrated on an international basis?” This is not the only mad and destructive process that has been implemented in this way. In a post dated July 2020, but written earlier, I have suggested a mental virus. Raven, J. (2020, July). Some abuses of “science”, logic, and authority illustrated from responses to the COVID-19 threat and especially in the Dynamic Systems Models being used by policy consultants. http://eyeonsociety.co.uk/resources/Abuses-of-Science-and-authority-COVID-19.pdf Also available on Systems Community of Inquiry and Research Gate.
I just watched the Ch4 documentary about the origins of the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’, and it doesn’t look for China, Fauci (and that Peter Dzasack or whatever his name is), the WHO and many of those, whether scientists, clincians, media or politicians (Biden only changed his tune when he sawe which way the wind was blowing, and even then this ‘report’ from the CIA will likely be a fudge) who kept on defending China’s actions and said anything about lab leaks and engineered viruses.gain of fucntion research were baseless conspiracy theories.
The few professionals (many of whom have effectively been shunned/blacklisted) and brave politicians/journalists who HAVE been sceptical about the original ‘evidence’ and who’ve been constantly asking questions (e.g. Senator Rand Paul) should be thoroughly commended for their work.
We should be directly threatening China with worldwide ostracisation from trade (cut them off completely) to get to the truth and to make sure this sort thing NEVER happens again, not as Prof (Sir) John Bell appeared (to me) to advocate in the documentary – still ‘collaborating’ with China. Like with the Taliban Afganistan, if you give tyrants, bullies and criminals any quarter, they will see that weakness and exploit it.
I have signed the letter and posted the following in the “comments” box: Yes. The lockdown of information, especially via the almost unknown duties imposed on Ofcom, is the most serious component of the Emergency Powers Bill. AND the virtual elimination of consideration of the deadly and destructive effects of the Lockdown Policies is unconscionable. BUT your letter treats these things as somehow manufactured within the UK. The most striking thing is that this blinkered thinking and these policies have been replicated, apparently on a local basis, across most countries of the world. To me, the most important remaining question is how all this has come about. I wrote about this over a year ago in Raven, J. (2020, July). Some abuses of “science”, logic, and authority illustrated from responses to the COVID-19 threat and especially in the Dynamic Systems Models being used by policy consultants. http://eyeonsociety.co.uk/resources/Abuses-of-Science-and-authority-COVID-19.pdf Also available on Systems Community of Inquiry and Research Gate.