Daily Sceptic reader Jill Evans said we were right to encourage sceptics to respond to the Covid Inquiry, saying we need “thousands of sceptical submissions”. She has sent us hers to encourage others to write similarly.
Before Covid I was part of a small choir which I had helped to form. I helped out at a ‘Repair Café’, serving the tea and cake to a busy crowd. I was part of a group of eight friends we called the ‘philosophy club’. We gathered monthly to explore a topic in depth and then eat, drink and talk together about life, the universe and everything. I met one-to-one with close women friends and my sister. My small family gathered regularly from three points along the Sussex coast. I swam three to four times a week at a local health spa, visited gardens and our local nature reserves often. I walked both along the coast and in the South Downs. I went to Qi Gong class once a week and had shiatsu massage regularly. I used the local library. My partner and I shared companionable meals, games and conversation frequently with two local friends. Other friends came to stay with us and we with them. The last friends we had to stay were from Norway. My partner was part of the local history society, went to a local jazz club and was a regular at premier league football matches.
The last collective thing I did before we were locked down on March 23rd 2020 was to participate in a large one day singing workshop. I was an optimistic, cheerful person with a satisfying and generally happy life, while I had many concerns about the troubled state of human society and the natural planet.
Overnight in March 2020 all my opportunities for coming together in person – in community and one-to-one – were gone. Overnight I could no longer swim or walk in nature in beautiful gardens or listen to bird song in the reserves. From a life where I had a rich mixture of connections with other people in person, enriching time spent in nature and healthy exercise, suddenly I had a life with a loving male partner, three cats and what connections could be made by email and telephone. We walked each day on the local beach, read books, watched TV and sat in the garden. I wrote a journal and took to making mosaics. I know I was fortunate in my personal situation compared to so many people and yet this locked-down life without a variety of activities, intimacies and community gradually sapped my strength, weakened my spirit, emptied my life of joy and rendered me hopeless.
The elements that felt most oppressive to me were:
- social distancing and all the signage and strange behaviours that went with it
- face masks
- plastic screens
- fear inducing propaganda
- weird and changing rules about what you could do or not with who or how many, inside or outside
- The lack of any real discussion or debate about what we were living through
I was living in a dystopian nightmare imposed by a Government from which there was no escape. Once I learnt about how Sweden was doing it differently without lockdowns and face mask mandates, I longed to live in Sweden!
I was also deeply concerned for children and young people. I think that the wellbeing of a whole young generation was ignored, and that they were oppressed and abused by lockdowns, social distancing, endless testing and perhaps most of all mask-wearing in schools. I believe that schools and universities should never have been closed and masks were a form of abuse.
I was deeply concerned for anyone living alone in lockdown, people imprisoned in care homes, people in dysfunctional and violent relationships, people without garden space, women forced to give birth alone and miscarry alone, people left to die alone, people left to grieve alone and bereaved people forced to be socially distant and masked at funerals. How could the system be so cruel?
By August 2020 I was more miserable and hopeless than ever in my life before. I would wake up every day awash with anxiety, anger and grief. Fortunately, some good friends turned out to be resolutely rebellious and I was empowered to break the rules with others of my loved ones who were willing. Illegal hugs became particularly special. Some of my close friendships were restored to physical and emotional intimacy by Autumn of 2020.
But the nightmare continued on and on for more than two years. I went willingly and without too much thought for three lots of Covid jabs. I stupidly assumed that when everyone most vulnerable had been offered vaccination the world would open up and life would return to pre-Covid normal. I stupidly assumed that vaccines would prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 – isn’t that what a vaccine does? Now I know differently. Almost everyone I know has had Covid at least once and they had all been vaccinated. We were told these vaccinations were safe and effective – I believe we were lied to. My own experience of Covid was brief and unremarkable apart from the nasty metallic taste in the mouth. I have had much worse experiences of flu and other respiratory viruses.
I want this enquiry to answer the big questions
- How could lockdowns be justified? Where was the evidence?
- How could face covering mandates be justified? Where was the evidence?
- How could all the fear-mongering propaganda be justified?
- How could all the weird and ever changing rules be Justified? Where was the evidence?
- How much harm was done to health, both physical and mental, by the non-pharmaceutical measures taken in response to Covid?
- Why was no cost benefit analysis done before lockdowns?
- Why weren’t we told the truth about the vaccines, that they do not stop a person getting Covid or passing onto others?
- Why were we nudged, pressurised and manipulated using behavioural psychology techniques?
- Why were alternative approaches from many highly qualified experts censored, ridiculed and silenced?
Personally I am recovering now. There is some joy back in life. I still feel weakened, lacking in resilience, courage and hope, and unable to find inner peace. I do not trust mainstream media, especially the BBC, I have little confidence in the NHS, and there is no political party that I want to vote for. So much was lost and needs to be rediscovered, reclaimed and restored for living a good healthy life.
I hope that the Inquiry will recommend that a U.K. Government never embark on such oppressive treatment of citizens ever again. There was always an alternative approach: to focus protection on the most vulnerable and let life go on for everyone else. Sweden got it mostly right. Most of the rest of the world made the same horrible mistakes as in the U.K. and we will be living with the consequences for a long time to come.
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Stop The War On Cash
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
What’s really happening?
‘Russian reporter Vladislav Ugolny says Russian soldiers are stuck on the islands of the Dnipro river delta as the water froze, and travelling by boats became nearly impossible.
To quote my friend…….’there is no option other than to wait…….there’s no food…..everyone there will have to be sent immediately to the hospital for treatment.’
So there it is….’
Also:
‘On Sunday night, Ukrainian air defences shot down one of the Russian air force’s very rare, and very valuable, A-50 radar early-warning planes, likely killing all 15 people aboard—potentially including high-ranking officers. A Russian Ilyushin Il-22 command plane was damaged in the same attack.
Down one A-50, the Russian air force may have just two of the jets left; the other six A-50s reportedly are in need of upgrade and overhaul. Unless the air force is willing to risk the last two flyable A-50s, it must make peace with its new inability to provide radar coverage over all of Crimea.’
Still bleating your pro Ukraine b0££0ck$. It’s not our war. Leave it to terminally corrupt Biden and War mongering NATO.
It is not our war…..yet……
Belarus is already part of the new ‘Union State’, Ukraine next, then Moldova.
That gives the ‘Union State’ a frontier from Kaliningrad to the Black Sea, encircling the Baltic States.
Then it becomes our war….
Maybe better to do something now?
Who to believe, every Western government with a Russian border or some random punter on the interweb……
Tricky……or not really.
Not our war ever but we are paying for it anyway. Who to believe, concerned UK taxpayer or war mongering Zelensky fan boy. No, not tricky at all
The lack of a definite or indefinite article, as usual, gives the game away.
‘1. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine……..
4. The United States of America, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate United Nations Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression…..’
It has been our war since 2014. You just didn’t notice.
What game, it’s not a game and you are delusional. It’s not our war, never was our war and never will be our war. It is however disgraced ex prime minister Boris Johnson’s vanity war, he needed one to bolster his Churchill credentials and which he deliberately prolonged and which for some reason current prime minister without mandate Sunak wishes to continue. If you want war go ahead, fill your boots, but not with my taxes.
English is clearly not your first language.
I very much doubt that you pay any tax in Britain, if any at all anywhere.
You don’t sound as though you are old enough.
You’re an idiot, you can’t respond to my comment so you resort to accusing me of being a Russian troll. I was teaching English when the best part of you was trickling down your mommy’s thigh.
Having your mum help you with your comments is not really working for you, is it? Presumably your dad was also Salvador Dali.
Intemperate language invariably indicates a fool and a poseur who has lost the argument and, indeed, the plot.
Not working for me? I’ll be the judge of that. As for your bizarre non-sequitur, is that all you’ve got? As I said, fan boy, you go ahead and start all the wars you like, just not with my money.
Yes European countries have been having a fertility crisis for years now, with native births falling below replacement level, so the Leftards’ answer to this is to make up the numbers ( thereby replacing us natives slowly but surely ) using limitless immigration instead. Because actually finding out the reasons why young people aren’t having babies, or are stopping at just one kid, and then doing something about it, is just way too reasonable and too much like hard work. If you voice concerns about the continuing demographic changes though, you will be the target of the predictable ”Nazi”, ”racist” and ”xenophobe” slurs, just as this Belgian MEP has found out;
”Once conservative MEP Tom Vandendriessche exposed the globalist migration scheme, threats of a parliamentary investigation were launched, accompanied by smears and false accusations, including likening his words to Nazi terminology, as globalists sought to silence any opposition to their agenda.
The European Parliament, dominated by radical left-wing politicians, has initiated an investigation targeting Tom Vandendriessche, a member of the Flemish conservative Vlaams Belang party. Vandendriessche has fearlessly exposed the European Union’s calculated agenda of ‘organized replacement’ through its migration policies.
In his powerful Parliamentary speech, Vandendriessche emphasized that the EU’s migration pact falsely claims to tackle illegal migration. He stated, ‘With the EU migration pact, they claim to address illegal migration. This is an absolute lie. There is no upper limit on the number of asylum seekers, and there is no mechanism to deport fraudulent asylum seekers. Therefore, the asylum chaos will continue.’
Vandendriessche went on to reveal the underlying purpose of the EU migration pact, citing a statement from controversial European Commissioner Ylva Johansson. She openly admitted, ‘There are too few European births, and she aims to replace them by importing 4.5 million non-Europeans annually. This represents a deliberate and organized replacement strategy.’”
https://rairfoundation.com/great-replacement-belgian-mep-stuns-parliament-exposes-their/
So glad to see that the good old Coudenhove Kalergi plan for a Europe of Mongs is going so well .
And who says a gently declining population is a bad thing? A rapidly rising one has not turned out too well for living statndards, has it.
Mogs the immigrant invasion of Europe has been planned for and current national governments are complicit in enabling this. The aim is the destruction of Europe and Western nations.
Low birth rates are simply a symptom. Why would young people want to bring children into this world while their societies are collapsing on a daily basis?
Deliberate destruction.
Is this the same Mogwai who called me a ‘Nazi’ and ‘Gestapo agent’ last week? Sauce for the goose……….
What’s ”sauce for the goose” got to do with anything? I called you those names because 1) you were sneaking around, covertly tampering with my posts for reasons unknown, not even bothering to leave any explanation, and 2) I was wanting to check you were reading what I posted. Which you were, and obviously still are.
Tell me, is there anyone else on your ”Naughty List” or am I ‘the chosen one’? When does my probation end?? Do you get a ”red alert” notification straight to DS Mod HQ whenever I post anything? Bizarro..
More on this ongoing issue of immigration and the significant impact family reunification has on demographics. And the fact the Leftards continue to dismiss anyone speaking out about this as ”racist” or that the ‘Great Replacement’ is just mere far-right conspiracy theory, when there are many sources of data to back this up, is just farcical;
”1976 is the year of the “family reunion” in France of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, the architect of the institutional construction of the European Union. Giscard d’Estaing had recently expressed regret over the reunion. “The idea of bringing in immigrant families seemed natural at the time. With the massive increase in immigration from Muslim countries, it has instead produced deep divisions in French society.”
It starts with the wife and children, then come the wife’s parents, the other children of the wife’s parents and their children. And so on, in a demographic chain that has become repopulation.
A number? Christopher Caldwell provides it in the latest Compact: “By the middle of the century, a fifth of France will be Islamic.”
Caldwell in an essay for the Claremont Review talks about another country that is generous with family reunification, Sweden:
“The Pew Research Center has predicted that, by 2050, if it receives a moderate amount of immigration, Sweden will be 20 percent Muslim. If it receives high immigration, it will be 30 percent Muslim.”
Family reunification of migrants in Germany will reach a new record this year.
The former Belgian senator Alain Destexhe talks about the “avalanche effect of family reunification” in Le Figaro. “In Belgium, 50 percent of immigration is linked to family reunification. This type of immigration is, by definition, exponential and, literally, infinite, through the recognition of refugees, fake or gray marriages, the endogamous character of most Turkish and Moroccan marriages, massive fraud, etc. The almost mechanical consequences of family reunification on demography are never explained.”
37.3 percent of Belgian citizens have an immigrant background. In Brussels this percentage is already 82.5 percent, in Antwerp 62 and in Ghent 41, reveals sociologist Jan Hertogen. “Without immigration, Brussels would only have 250,000 inhabitants, Antwerp half of those it has today.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/383744
Chain migration, the gift that never stops giving !The problem is in what its called .To a westerner “Family” , is normally Western Nuclear ie mom Dad Children , not extended family including 3rd cousins and uncles etc Any famly reunion should be limited to children only and 2 maximum so we dont get families with 15 kids arriving to suck on the welfare teat for life…
Indeed and now the US and the Western press are giving cover for genocide.
This will be the end of the old global order with the US globally vilified much like the Nazis.
““New WEF participant does the unthinkable at 2024 Davos meeting””. Whereas Javier Milei actually did indirectly in a much longer and more nuanced manner.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Pfcd0gWNIog?feature=shared
“Escort services ‘completely booked’ as WEF begins”
I hope those escort agencies have good ESG ratings and meet the required DEI requirements….
Beware a sudden global emegence of monkeypox !!!
The clientele wouldn’t be seen with a counterfeit Rolex so it seems safe to assume these will be real women.
Yes but they are the ones promoting the Alphabet agenda so I am not so certain lol