I recently submitted, below, to the Covid Inquiry a journal of the actions we took as a business to ensure that we remained open for our customers whilst making sure that our employees could work without risk of catching the virus.
When reading it one has to cast one’s mind back to early 2020 when our politicians and many members of the public were filled with fear and hysteria of catching this unknown disease. Thank goodness those days have passed though in many ways there is now a bigger divide within the population. There are those who were always going for tests every time they had a sniffle who now regard it as little more than a mild cold to those who did what the Government told them to do and are still slavishly getting their boosters and wearing masks in certain situations.
Mankind has had to cope over millennia with respiratory viruses and has learnt many lessons as to how to deal with them. In March 2020 all of this was forgotten and instead the approach taken by China, an autocratic one party state, was followed. The cornerstone of this was a lockdown where people were required to shut themselves in their homes. It seems unbelievable looking back on it and it would appear that no thought was given to the long term effects of this on everyone from children acquiring socials skills to the elderly spending their final years in confinement. Not forgetting, the colossal economic cost and the waste of having people perfectly able to work being paid by the taxpayer to stay at home.
Virtually the only practical advice given by Government was on how properly to wash one’s hands, after that it was go home and await orders.
Taking what we knew from the past and applying it here we carried on operating and by the end of our financial year had almost equalled our previous year’s turnover and profit. We have never had any internal transmission, we ditched masks before we were technically allowed and we ignored the diktats coming from the Scottish Government. We had to be careful on this front as we had to keep employees on side as otherwise I could have been in serious trouble should there have been any internal transmission and I lost their trust. It is again easy to say that in a way we were doing the Government’s bidding but that forgets the panoply of fear induced Covid regulations, many aimed at employers and how they ran their workplaces. Many of these regulations were of the micro-managing, one size fits all variety and were like many of the ones aimed at the general population, stupid.
Almost every practical measure we took to prevent transmission – replacing door handles and touched surfaces with copper, air cleaners and UV scanning – is applicable to the prevention of transmission of any virus. We continue to run the air cleaners as they appear to have reduced the number of days off sick and improve the air quality in the office when it is too cold to have windows open. If we were struck with another viral pandemic I would encourage widespread adoption of these as they both filter out airborne particles and the inbuilt UV light kills viruses, bacteria and other microbes.
To stop infection from respiratory viruses in particular, proper vitamin D supplementation, about 4,000 IU a day, and gargling with salt water or preferably a solution of grapefruit seed extract before bed seems to successfully aid the body to repel the viral invaders. Where employees have not supplemented with Vitamin D3 or gargled and then caught the bug, high dose Vitamin C has helped them recover quickly.
These are all measures that are part of humankind’s acquired general knowledge and should have been adopted rather than the costly and draconian lockdown for which we are now paying the price. That these and other physical methods were not adopted more widely is the real crime from the pandemic
Creating a policy of burying one’s head in the sand and waiting for vaccines, which have brought their own problems, is not and should not have been this or any county’s policy.
One of the reasons for making this submission to the Covid Inquiry was that none of the inquiry modules relate to how businesses dealt with on one side the legal requirements put upon us and on the other survival.
To date I have had a general acknowledgement of receipt and an email saying that it has been passed to the “relevant team”, the name of the team was not mentioned so, for all I know, it may be the wastepaper basket one!
December 28th 2023,
Rt. Hon. Baroness Hallett DBE
UK Covid-19 Public Enquiry
London
Dear Baroness Hallett,
I find it strange that the enquiry you chair goes into lots of aspects of the Covid pandemic but I can’t see that any of the modules actually look at practical ways of mitigating the effects of future respiratory virus pandemics. It also is surprising that there is little on how business handled the situation thrown at it; for the engine room of the economy to be virtually disregarded by your deliberations seems rather amiss.
As a business we could not afford to shut down for an indeterminate amount of time when lockdown was announced. As an engineering company selling into the agricultural and materials handling markets with more than 70% of sales overseas, if we had shut we would at the very least have been seriously knocked back and our customers would have been forced to go elsewhere.
In an engineering business there is only a limited proportion of people who can work from home.
The Prime Minister used, when announcing lockdown, the unfortunate term “essential worker” when referring to those who could go into work. Many of our employees felt that referred to those working for the emergency cervices whilst I understood it to be those essential to this business. As we had a substantial percentage who did not agree with me, I decided to furlough them and work on with those who were happy to come in and some of the office staff who could work from home.
The initial advice about washing hands was about the only truly practical advice we received. However, working on the basis of Covid being a respiratory virus we researched as to what had been shown to work against these in the past. We also worked on the principle that we wanted to keep the disease out of the building and if anyone came in with it then they could be identified quickly and helped to get home. Equally we wanted to help those who were fit and healthy to stay that way and be strong enough to repel the virus should they come in contact with it.
As spring was on its way we were able to make sure that there was plenty of air movement in any enclosed spaces where employees were working. We also ensured that there was a ready supply of salt should anyone want to clear their throats and noses through gargling salt water. The correct strength of hand gel could not be purchased at this time, so we purchased raw Aloe Vera extract and Isopropyl and mixed in the WHO recommended proportions. As it was believed that the virus could be transmitted through touching surfaces, initially all surfaces including computer keyboards were treated with isopropyl (rubbing alcohol). Knowing that viruses are killed by ultra violet light we made a number of handheld UV scanners that allowed us to rapidly treat large areas twice a day.
Knowing that copper kills viruses on contact we made and replaced all the original door handles with copper ones and fitted copper sheet to the tops of work benches and the canteen table to prevent any chance of spread through touch. The door push plates were also replaced with copper. Our forefathers used copper, brass and silver specifically because they were known to stop the spread of pathogens, however, this has been forgotten and now most door handles are made from aluminium or stainless steel which have no anti-viral properties. The other measure we took in summer 2020 was to install an infrared thermometer that took our temperatures on entering the building. I am not sure if it has ever detected someone with an elevated temperature due to Covid but it has picked up plenty who have come in after sitting in a hot car or been outside in the sun during their lunch break.
With summer 2020 turning to autumn we needed to find ways to keep the air in enclosed spaces clean without having lots of doors and windows open. We were also keen to find ways of encouraging all our employees to boost their immune systems in make them more resilient against the virus. To solve the first problem we installed a number of air clearers with Hepa filters and built in UV sterilising lights. I had over the years found UV extremely effective at killing all sorts of micro-organisms and these cleaners have been very effective. As to the second problem, I had read a considerable amount of research prior to the pandemic into how winter supplementation with Vitamin D3 with K is very effective in helping one’s immune system fight off respiratory viruses. As the pandemic progressed there were a number of reports coming from Sweden and Spain that confirmed that Vitamin D3 was similarly effective in helping the body fight COVID-19.
Using a commercial testing company we arranged for everyone who wanted it to receive a Vitamin D and general health blood test. Virtually everyone had very low and some almost non-existent amounts of Vitamin D in their blood. We then made available enough Vitamin D3 in either spray or pill form to give everyone at least a daily amount of 4000 IU which we understood to be the amount required to achieve the optimal blood level. Though we had had one person going down with what later turned out to be Covid in February 2020, we had no cases until just before Christmas 2020 when two went down with it, one having caught it from her son and the other from family or friends. The first person stayed away from work but the second one initially tested negative and was told that he probably had flu. Feeling better after Christmas he worked with us in the three days prior to New Year but then tested positive, on New Years eve 2020, but did not pass it on to any of the rest of us who had been working with him.
So far to date we have not had any on premises transmission, all cases that we have had have been isolated ones or between two people car sharing to and from work. A number have had it more than once but no one has suffered seriously.
Throughout the pandemic we were bombarded by rules and guidelines issued by the Scottish and U.K. Governments. Initially we tried to follow and obey them but as almost every week more were added and they became ever more specific we just ignored them as we could not apply many of them to our circumstances and from our experience they were not going to help the situation. By late 2021 we were beginning to notice a number of things:
- Firstly the vaccine did not offer long term protection, contrary to what we had previously been told.
- Secondly: those taking boosters often seemed to go down with Covid within a month or so of getting the shot.
- Thirdly: tests were often giving a negative result when ill but a positive result when better.
- Fourthly: mask-wearing was ineffective and in fact seemed to exacerbate the illness if it developed.
- Fifthly: gargling with grapefruit seed extract in water after testing positive would clear the virus from your throat and nose and lead to a very quick recovery.
In response to points three and four, we reverted our policy to if you felt ill to stay off work but when you felt better to return and not to bother doing a Covid test. We have not yet had any internal transmission resulting from this change. We also allowed people to go maskless when not in close proximity to others and fairly soon dropped the need to wear masks at all and again this has not led to any sort of internal transmission.
I can’t speak for everyone in the business but most have not taken any more than the first booster and some nothing more than the initial two vaccine doses. The key lessons from our experience has been:
- Boosting natural immunity with winter D3 supplementation is very effective protection both against the disease and also helping to fight it should you go down with it.
- Our UV air cleaners seem to be very effective at preventing transmission within an office or other enclosed environment.
- Virucidal effects of copper can be harnessed to prevent spread through door handles and other frequently touched items.
- Masks were completely ineffective at preventing transmission between those sharing cars.
Despite being visited by council employees early on during the first lockdown who asked why we were open, we stayed open throughout the pandemic and though our U.K. business dropped off steeply over the first few days of the first lockdown we had by the end of our financial year made up almost all of the lost ground.
After being on furlough for three weeks a number of employees started calling to find out if they could come back in and by September 2020 we were once again back to a full complement. Come the end of our financial year we repaid the furlough in full as it seemed wrong for our profit to be inflated by the taxpayer.
Based on our experience with Covid I would certainly not be as trusting of Government and its advisers next time round. Much of what came out of Government has proved to be either wrong or plain stupid. An example being of banning people from meeting outside which flew in the face of all experience with viruses that they do not survive in almost any sort of sunlight.
I believe that we demonstrated that by applying known practical, anti-viral measures the disease could be controlled and spread prevented without affecting economic and general well-being.
Yours sincerely,
Alastair MacMillan
Alastair MacMillan is the founder, with his father, of White House Products in Scotland, manufacturing and selling hydraulic pumps and other machinery around the world.
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Despite all of this, it’s still possible to talk to some person well below thirty on one evening and on the next, he’s wearing a really military-grade-looking (paper) face mask to protect him from something (bar staff at Spoons pub in Reading). 🙁
Must be something nasty in the kitchen to justify that!
I suspect that the kitchen serves as hangout for vanished bar staff and that he’s very likely not wearing it there.
Also from Reading. Is that the Hope Tap?
Yes.
It’s ‘Our Wonderful NHS’, if you please.
‘The envy of the world’ don’t you know?
I wish it were true, but I’m not seeing this grand public awakening. The only real acknowledgement I encounter is people openly stating they’re not taking any more jabs and a clear reluctance to go any further than that in the thought process.
The awakening is here though. Don’t underestimate the fact that this seemingly subtle acknowledgment up on the surface of the conscious mind is accompanied by a turbulent rearrangement down below, in the unconscious, where the real ‘belief making’ takes place.
As for the seeming reluctance to go any further, it is only natural. As a species we are hard-wired to avoid pain. And we sceptics are asking people to willingly inflict pain upon themselves, by facing up to the psychopathy that has engulfed us.
As Desmet has said, keep banging on about it. Persevere. Again, and again, and then some more. Fight the good fight. Truth is a manifestation of Light and has a wider spiritual redeeming purpose that makes life worth living.
And a lot of people cannot handle cognitive dissonance
I know an awful lot of people who have JRS (Jab Remorse Syndrome) and have woken up to the tyranny that’s being thrust upon us. Others say they wont have anymore but as soon as the global digital ID /Vax Passport is rolled out and you will need updated lethal injections in order to travel then these second cohorts will
crumble and revert to type aka pin cushions for Big Pharma.
I’m taking the word ‘hidden’ as a verb in that sentence. People in positions of authority must be held to account for what they did and an example made to ensure it can never happen again.
I revel in being right. Right about the LDs, Right about the dead, wounded, injured and psychologically, physically scarred from the LDs. Right about the Poisons. Right about the millions of stabbed dead and injured. Right about the Diapers. Right about the scamdemic. Right about Digital IDs. Right about losing our freedoms, free speech, our jobs, our families, our sanity, our travel, our civilisation. I remind everyone all the time I was right. What Rona taught all of us is that 80% of the pop are stupid, or compliant, or cowardly, or fascistic, or all the aforementioned.
Yes, just like my attitude to it all. What it does demonstrate is how vulnerable society is to the methods used to encourage people to fall in line. A bit like 1930’s Germany in spades, perhaps.
I certainly agree with 99% of your post. I disagree with:
“I revel in being right.”
There is nothing to revel about. What I feel is a terrible sadness at the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Instead of seeking to murder, constrain and control millions why could not decency and a genuine desire to improve the futures of our fellows be followed?
What corrupted mayhem must infect the minds of the psychos who will if they succeed destroy not just humanity but our planet? And all “For a Few Dollars More.”
The dystopian miseries that a reset will bring forward will affect the “victors” too, a bit like a child whose every wish is met at Christmas and by day’s end is so bored that he seeks solace in the discarded wrappings his presents arrived in. They too will become frustrated and bored as the realisation that every whim can be met by nothing more than touching a screen. Where is the joy in that?
Attempting to remodel humanity can only fail. The desire for love, for friendship, for company will always win out. These are hard-wired. And family; the evil attempts to undermine and destroy families will never succeed, this need is part of our birthright. It is doomed to failure.
There is going to be a reset alright but it is our duty to ensure that the evil doers amongst us are wiped from the earth and we must strive to replace their evil with the decency, goodness, compassion and fairness which really is inherent in the majority.
There is one hell of a fight before us.
There is a fight for the soul of humanity. These obsessed geneticists splicing and dicing our DNA have one goal in mind and that is to disconnect our consciousness from our physical bodies. They have no idea what they’re doing and only think of humans as hackable biological entities they can play around with in order to edit out our genetic imperfections.
https.globe.globe/category/consciousness-and-evolution/
Exactly. Seeking to literally digitise the human brain is hubris combined with grotesque ignorance on steroids.
I agree HP. My wife keeps saying to anyone who will listen that I was right from the 2nd day of lockdown when I wrote a 2ft long email to my Tory MP and set out what would happen if we locked down. I then emailed him every 5 days for a year putting him right – mostly from the now Daily Sceptic.
He may not have read it all but he certainly was left in doubt that his support for the Government’s actions was wrong and counter productive and would create a financial burden for the UK.
My next goal for the rest of my life – I am 75 – is to fight Net Zero and the cognitive dissonance that is rampant in the general public and the Green supporters.
Thank you.
Yes. Next up:
These jabs are killing millions of people some quickly, some slowly….
Yep, I’m sure you’ve heard of Dr Ryan Cole? I started following him early on in this scamdemic.
Ever wondered why not everyone is injured or dies from the Covid shots? This 2 min video embedded in this article explains why.
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/14/ryan-cole-gives-his-insights-into-covid-vaccines/
Well at least discovery is speeding up. Over in the climate nonsense world someone posted this, from 2010
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/
noting Willis Eschenbach pointing out that co2 warming effect, being logarithmic, fades (or becomes saturated, as Will Happer now details).
Comments include a chap mentioning Richard Lindzen noting that the co2/water vapour feedback loop was nothing more than a theory in IPCC-1…back in 1990.
The money force is strong in this one.
I am a big fan of Willis Eschenbach. His article about the Diamond Princess cruise ship convinced me in March 2020 that the chances of me dying from Covid (as a healthy 58 yeard old at the time) were slim.
This has all the signs of being a snowball rolling down an Alpine hill.
Let’s hope so. And line up all our recently ennobled Heroes Of The Corona in the valley below.
You need to review the data in Table 3. You’re using the wrong denominator. To get the correct figures for the “Likelihood of dying with/from Covid” the appropriate denominators would be the number of people in each cohort with and without a pre-existing condition, not the total number of people in the cohort. (I have no idea where you would get those denomiator figures though)
What you are currently showing is “the chance of (having and pre-condition) AND (dying with/from Covid)” which is not a very helpful number. What you imply, wrongly, to have shown is “the chance of dying with/from Covid given that you have (or do not have) a pre-existing condition”. Using the correct denominator would make the changes of dying given a pre-existing condition substantially higher, and the chances of dying without a pre-existing condition only slightly higher. I would expect the ratio in the final column then to be much higher (particularly in the younger age groups).
I’m finding people are trying to ignore what went on. They are not willing to admit they’ve been hoodwinked. It will be interesting at Christmas as I will be meeting my step-son-in-law for the first time since we had a bust up back in Autumn 2021 when he refused to let me into his father’s house because I wasn’t jabbed. We haven’t spoken since that day. The rest of that family are total Covidians apart from my Partner. I suspect the gargantuan elephant in the room will be ignored unless….
‘ “I told you so!” Don’t tell me there isn’t a slight pleasure in that? ‘
I disagree. It’s not slight… it’s huge and glorious! 😄
It would be interesting to see the same analysis for deaths from influenza and other respiratory infections. I would suggest likely the same, deaths skewed to the elderly with comorbidity.
So CoV 2 was in fact Just Another Respiratory Virus.
197 000 deaths from ‘flu and pneumonia to date since January 2020, just about the same as alleged CoVid deaths, yet not a number you see published.
Source: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-united-kingdom