Nicola Sturgeon’s draconian COVID-19 rules caused children to attempt to take their own lives and parents to consider “suicide pacts”, a public inquiry heard. The Telegraph has the story.
On Tuesday the first day of evidence in the Scottish COVID-19 inquiry heard harrowing testimony of the impact lockdown had on the lives of vulnerable Scots, including young people with learning disabilities and care home residents treated as “prisoners”.
While some victims expressed sympathy for the U.K.’s need to enter lockdown in March 2020, they claimed groups at high risk from the virus were later unfairly prioritised over people with other health conditions.
While Scotland went into lockdown at the same time as the rest of the U.K., Ms. Sturgeon was generally far slower to ease restrictions and reopen society.
The Scottish inquiry is examining the devolved Government’s response to the crisis.
Amber Galbraith KC, representing the learning disability charity PAMIS, said that a “vital framework of support” had collapsed with the imposition of lockdown.
She claimed some of the most vulnerable people in Scotland had been left “abandoned, forgotten and invisible” by the Scottish Government, as services they relied on were abruptly axed.
“Another mother expressed concern about care arrangements for her son if she and her husband became ill with Covid themselves,” Ms. Galbraith said.
“She was told the only option would be for him to be placed in a care home. Some families became so worried that they considered suicide pacts.”
The inquiry heard an account of a mother whose 12-year-old autistic son had been “managing” academically and was “a generally happy boy who was coping with life” before lockdown.
He has since attempted to take his own life five times, the inquiry heard, after the routines and structures he had previously relied upon disappeared overnight.
Rachel Holt, representing groups including the National Autistic Society Scotland, said: “The child’s anxiety increased and he believed that if a person caught Covid they would die or end up in hospital hooked up on machines.”
“The child withdrew from family life. He withdrew from his parents and when restrictions eased, from wider family such as his grandparents. When school started, he struggled with the mask mandate and the constant changes to the rules.
“The child’s first suicide attempt was not treated appropriately and in the [mother’s] view was dismissed with inadequate treatment. It was only after the child’s third attempt on his life that he was referred to a psychiatrist.”
But in the immortal words of Baroness Hallett: “If there’s a possible benefit, what’s the downside?”
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The contrast on DS today, between the face of the beautiful, excellent, incisive, witty Lionel and… that.
I dunno, maybe I’ve been thinking about this stuff for too long, but I’m past caring what these “inquiries” come up with, even if it’s the occasional conclusion “in our favour”. Anyone who doesn’t get that covid was a scam from the start, or close to the start, is not going to get it now. I don’t want inquiries, even if they conclude that lockdowns didn’t work. I want people to say “er, sorry, covid was a bad flu season, the whole thing was madness, we don’t need an inquiry to tell us that”. Even a mildly “balanced” inquiry still cements the idea that covid was something other than a bad cold. There’s no hope.
Any relevant & honest inquiry would focus on the fact that the political reaction to a bad flu season was major overreach & that the withdrawal of appropriate, personalised medical care in favour of blanket protocols was medical negligence.
I don’t think you need an inquiry to establish that. The whole thing was utterly wrong on its face.
An inquiry is needed into how we best prevent it happening again, but that will only happen decades from now, if it happens at all, once the major players are all dead or long retired.
I wouldn’t characterise what happened as a “major overreach” or “medical negligence”. It was folly and evil on an unprecedented scale (peacetime at least) and quite possibly mass murder.
I cannot fathom to this day what possessed people to go through with it, and I never will be able to fathom it.
Those folk who still haven’t worked out that it was all a scam believe the outcomes of inquiries, it was in that context that I phrased my response. I obviously didn’t make myself clear.
If the outcome was worded as tyranny & mass murder, those still blissfully ignorant would hardly bat an eyelid as those facts are beyond their comprehension. Government overreach & medical negligence are concepts that they would be outraged about & grasp. We need to bring folk along with us, not scare them away.
I agree that tyranny, evil acts & mass murder have been committed & here we can use that language & blunt honesty without terrifying each other back into submission to the narrative as to do anything else is just too scary & challenging to even consider. We have to get folk wanting to get into a discussion first before the true scale of the horrors can be discussed.
You are probably right. With respect to “covid” I do not have a shred of optimism. The moment for people to realise what happened has passed. Not a single person that I know personally has ever mentioned having any change of view regarding “covid” or shown any sign of it.
I am more optimistic about the next set of folly and evil – nut zero etc – but not much.
The politicians will never admit that their recetions were of the Chicken Little, the sky’s falling variety.
Of course not as they’d be culpable for harms & committing acts of terror, which can be criminally charged.
“I want people to say “er, sorry, covid was a bad flu season, the whole thing was madness, we don’t need an inquiry to tell us that”.”
I cannot swallow that tof.
The C1984 was cobbled together and all the crap that followed, Lockdowns and how big is a Scotch Egg, tiers, masks etc was the gateway to the nightmare of Agenda 2030.
C1984 was a fear campaign which was priming populations for the intentionally poisonous “vaccines.” The “vaccines” were expected to be the gateway to Digital ID but the Davos Deviants hit an obstacle – too many of us saw through the Scamdemic and refused the jibby jabs so that idea was put on the back burner for the time being in the full knowledge that Billy had a new “deadly virus” ready brewed. However, as the current jibbies seem to be maiming and killing at a rate of knots the delay is hardly a problem for them.
As soon as the next manufacturered crisis is conjured, be it war or “virus” or both the digital ID issue will reappear. Running alongside of course will be Central Bank Digital Currencies and if these are forced on us then 15 minute ghettos will truly be 15 minute ghettos – ULEZ and LTN’s will look like pantomime.
This is all about keeping populations in a permanent state of fear and generating crisis after crisis. Of course each crisis will require the tightening of controls, to keep us “safe” and so it goes on all the while populations are shrinking as the “vaccines” do the job they were brewed for.
It’s all about population Reduction and Control until the Davos Deviants have stolen everything on the planet including US.
‘You will own nothing and be very firkin unhappy!’
I agree, but no inquiry is ever going to admit any of this.
‘….the immortal words of Baroness Hallett: “If there’s a possible benefit, what’s the downside?”
Hallett’s knowledge of the legal guidance in this area appears somewhat hazy. Neither her reputation, nor that of her KC, will survive her scarily inept inquiry.
‘The precautionary principle shall be informed by three specific principles:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/the-precautionary-principle.html
I’m pretty sure I’d find it impossible not to use words like vengeance, revenge, justice or punishment if I or any of my family had suffered anything like the losses or endured the hardships of the countless documented cases relating to the whole Covid farrago. Easy to be washed away in a maelstrom of impotent helplessness, given the magnitude of the task to achieve retribution. As it is, I regularly count our blessings that having read Heneghan, The GBD. Mike Yeadon et al at the outset we dodged a bullet.
Just collateral damage to the evil people who orchestrated the Plandemic – and those who made a fortune out of it.
Now it is the insidious communist Sturgeon that is under lockdown, scared to show her face incase people shout “How many caravans did you steal from your own Independence funds you cretin”?
So many WEF puppets are no longer in place. Is that because they have served their purpose, or is it that they were so incompetent they had to be replaced? You decide.
Not “incompetent” just disgusting.
So they will hear evidence such as this quite happily, probably put on sad faces and shake their heads, but when someone such as Carl Heneghan appears to offer some kind of alternative, they imply he’s a “f***wit” who knows nothing about epidemiology and dismiss his evidence forthwith.
And that poor boy believed that if you caught covid you would end up on a ventilator and die because that’s what his government told him.