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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It’s very short, won’t take long
No public confessions, please….
The questions are deliberately worded to trip people up. Please find the guide I copy-pasted below.
Yes, I noticed that. You have to read the questions very carefully!
You do but just as well don’t bother reading and just answer – this has all now reached a level of pure insanity and inequity that will bring its downfall. It’s so explicit now that you can taste how things are shifting, albeit slowly.
Some of the questions are basically double-negatives. Obviously a ploy to get the results they want. Oh, a bit like a YouGov poll !
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Done.
What a crappy consultation though.
I think the crappiness is intentional. They are mocking us.
A disappointingly awful survey form, with the saving grace that you can type in something at the end…
I am probably now on a register somewhere as ‘Enemy of the State’
My responses were under the name of Jonas Salk so should be OK.
See you in the gulag, then.
There are too many of us to be in there all at once, so I suppose we’ll have to go in shifts, get the treatment, then be allowed out for a while and monitored…….
Ha! Moment passed way back for me.
Have filled in the form, and agree that it is of very poor quality.
Why consult after threatening and coercing with it for months, and after supposedly cancelling it? Ass backwards.
If most people agree with the mandates, the ‘plebiscite’ proves gov was and is and will be correct?
What next, vote to rubber stamp wokery or the validity of multiple gender identities?
Needless to say if most participants are critical of mandates, their views are unrepresentative or will be ignored.
Evil things cannot be rubber stamped by a phoney democratic process. They remain wrong even if ALL people agree with them.
By backward asses.
Unbelievably lousy structure for the consultation, plus no e-mail address to allow you to send them a precise account of your views.
A friend gave up, as did I.
URGENT: The abolition, sorry ‘amendment’ of the Human Rights Act is probably a more vital consultation to respond to. It tries to partly replace individual rights by individual responsibilities and this pernicious concept of the ‘greater good’. Deadline 8th. March.
Yes, the HRA is a big worry, have done that one too, structure a bit better
There is a petition (for all the good it will do):
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607712
I believe this is intentionally worded in the most convoluted way possible. “Not, negatively, with not being.” Had to re-read both questions to make sure they weren’t double-juking me into the wrong opinion.
I have just filled that survey in and berated them for their deliberately confusing questions. Shocking. Whatever happened to the campaign for clear English?
Anyway, I gave them a piece of my mind.
‘Clear English’ might have garnered them more of the type of response they don’t want?
Good job they didn’t give you a piece of their mind.
They couldn’t spare it
You are being optimistic if you think they have a mind.
Same here.
I watched Mrs Dee fill in her submission.
Nowhere does it bother to ask what one thought of vaccination as a way out of the covid mess.
Having just finished reading the first part of RFKennedy’s exposé of Fauci and his team of charlatans, I might ask why the push on vaccines when they went to such lengths to suppress any early medical interventions that might have saved many lives.
In particular, doctors sending home patients who presented with covid, so that they could either get better or end in hospital seemed to be the establishment-approved response.
Groups of doctors worldwide who teamed up to find and offer early intervention protocols were either silenced, threatened or written off as quacks (by the real quacks).
And all the time, wealth was transferred from the taxpayer to Big Pharma.
This survey won’t win any prizes from the Plain English campaign. One question in particular contains a double negative. Probably deliberate. Read everything carefully before you answer.
Double negatives come naturally for authors that have been trained in doublethink. What a nightmare it must be inside their contorted brains.
Yes, I thought it needed a good re-read, so as not to come a cropper.
That woman in red really needs to lose weight… it’s the truth….
Rarely do people talk about the communists book-burning (amongst endless other atrocities). Take China for example…
We are not allowed to discuss exacly what type of books were burnt, who wrote them, and why.
The consultation is garbage.
“How can the government increase uptake of the vaccine?”
What a load of crap.
Strangely enough, I received an email a couple of days ago, stating that as I’d signed the petition against mandatory vaccination, there was now a public consultation and a link was enclosed to complete the form. I loath everything about the Tory government but I do think it was a positive step to raise more awareness of the consultation.
I chose not to use the enclosed link but used a link I’d saved previously. Paranoid moi? Not at all.
Whenever I fill in Government questionnaires I feel very uneasy and slightly dirty. And as though I’m voluntarily identifying myself to the authorities ahead of some future nightmarish purge I’ve imagined.
Use this then. https://www.minuteinbox.com/ You can use it longer than a min if you need it. But it is a throwaway email box.
I completed the last one. I’ll complete this one too not that it will make any difference; they will do what they want.
Ah but….a “consultation” does tick a box.
They absolutely will do what they want. The so-called consultation is worthless.
This is taken from the Government response to the original consultation:
DHSC undertook thorough analysis of the more than 34,900 consultation responses and considered the feedback received. Overall, the consultation showed that, while a majority of respondents (65%) did not support the proposal, the responses from the health and social care sector were mixed, with some groups (for example managers of healthcare or social care services) mostly supporting the proposed legislative change while others (for example service users and relatives of service users) were mostly opposed.
So, apparently it doesn’t matter what us plebs think or want. It’s not us they want to consult with.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1032203/making-vaccination-a-condition-of-deployment-in-the-health-and-wider-social-care-sector-government-response.pdf
They consulted the nation about our membership of the EU in 2016 and look how hard they tried to ignore the result.
Suggested & template answers for some of the questions, to save time, esp the 2 “open questions” at the end. Obviously, check you agree before using.
Q) Which of the following best describes your preference for this requirement?
A) “I feel strongly that the requirement should be revoked”
Q) Thinking about yourself, your colleagues, your staff or care providers who are hesitant to get vaccinated, do you believe there are other steps (other than those set out in the original consultation) the government and the health and social care sector could take to increase vaccine uptake?
A) No
Q) Are there particular groups of people, such as those with protected characteristics, who would be particularly negatively affected by a COVID-19 vaccination not being a condition of deployment in healthcare and social care?
A) No
Q) Are there particular groups of people, such as those with protected characteristics, who would particularly benefit from a COVID-19 vaccination not being a condition of deployment in healthcare and social care?
A) Yes
Q) Which particular groups might be positively impacted and why?
A) Most people, and most patients, health workers, carers, would be positively impacted. There’s increasing evidence indicating vaccines are ineffective, and that natural immunity from having Covid is effective. There’s growing evidence of vaccines causing harm. Mandatory vaccines would cause loss of highly skilled staff, which would add to staff/skill shortfalls and worsen waiting lists, both of which are already dire. Avoiding this will be highly beneficial, retaining skilled staff, and improving waiting lists.
Q) What actions can the government and the health and social care sectors take to protect those with protected characteristics or the groups you’ve identified, if a COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of deployment?
A) Major government changes are needed. We need people who truly care in power, not people with the most business connections or the highest budget to market themselves. A full scale review of government spending must be conducted. The government spent at least £10bn on the Covid test and trace programme, and £15bn on personal protective equipment (actual figures may be higher, more research needed). How much true benefit for the people did this result in ? Could that money have been better spent ? A full scale review of health care protocols/processes must be conducted. Very concerning reports have emerged about procedures that don’t seem designed to protect people’s health, eg procedures regarding do-not-resuscitate orders, the administering of midazolam, and the use of ventilators.
From #strongertogether
Not at all:
The coercion continues – behind the scenes – despite covid ‘vaccines’ increasing the risk of infection in the vaccinees by 2 to 3 times.
Given the risk of serious adverse effects from the ‘vaccines’, this coercion goes against the Nuremberg code.
Savage Jabbit is guilty of crimes against humanity.
As usual, the words in this ‘consultation’ are deliberately vague and herd you into giving the ‘correct’ answer. I’ve pasted below some guidance to help anyone interested …
THIS LINK HAS TEMPLATE ANSWERS TO SAVE TIME, ESP FOR 2 “OPEN QUESTIONS” AT END :
https://pastelink.net/supvh8r9
Please complete : brief official survey (4 or 5 minutes)
https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/61fd3b71f0d963706f2a7193
Suggested & template answers for some of the questions, to save time, esp the 2 “open questions” at the end.
Obviously, check you agree before using.
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Q) Which of the following best describes your preference for this requirement?
A) “I feel strongly that the requirement should be revoked”
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Q) Thinking about yourself, your colleagues, your staff or care providers who are hesitant to get vaccinated, do you believe there are other steps (other than those set out in the original consultation) the government and the health and social care sector could take to increase vaccine uptake?
A) No
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Q) Are there particular groups of people, such as those with protected characteristics, who would be particularly negatively affected by a COVID-19 vaccination not being a condition of deployment in healthcare and social care?
A) No
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Q) Are there particular groups of people, such as those with protected characteristics, who would particularly benefit from a COVID-19 vaccination not being a condition of deployment in healthcare and social care?
A) Yes
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Q) Which particular groups might be positively impacted and why?
A)
Most people, and most patients, health workers, carers, would be positively impacted.
There’s increasing evidence indicating vaccines are ineffective, and that natural immunity from having Covid is effective.
There’s growing evidence of vaccines causing harm.
Mandatory vaccines would cause loss of highly skilled staff, which would add to staff/skill shortfalls and worsen waiting lists, both of which are already dire.
Avoiding this will be highly beneficial, retaining skilled staff, and improving waiting lists.
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Q) What actions can the government and the health and social care sectors take to protect those with protected characteristics or the groups you’ve identified, if a COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of deployment?
A)
Major government changes are needed. We need people who truly care in power, not people with the most business connections or the highest budget to market themselves.
A full scale review of government spending must be conducted.
The government spent at least £10bn on the Covid test and trace programme, and £15bn on personal protective equipment (actual figures may be higher, more research needed). How much true benefit for the people did this result in ? Could that money have been better spent ?
A full scale review of health care protocols/processes must be conducted.
Very concerning reports have emerged about procedures that don’t seem designed to protect people’s health, eg procedures regarding do-not-resuscitate orders, the administering of midazolam, and the use of ventilators.
Is this the government taking advice on mandatory vaccinations as per the Dr. James and Jarvid conversation which took place at the beginning of January this year?
I argge with others.Questions are in English but written to trick you.
I filled it in but it is quite obvious that, with the questionaire being focussed solely on the needs and sensitivities of people with supposed ‘protected characteristics’, the rest of societly do not matter to this govt.
Its a classic example of cultural Marxism in action. Those practicing cultural Marxism in order to destroy Western civilisation split society into two main groups – the oppressors and their victims. The ‘oppressors’ are straight White males and the ‘oppressed’ are people defined by our Marxist govt as having ‘protected characteristics’ ie women, blacks, gays etc.
The end game is to grow the numbers of ‘oppressed’ and empower them enough to topple/replace the ‘oppressors’. In other words, in the long term, the plan is to destroy a strong and powerful society that succeeded simply because it was dominated by trail-blazing straight White men.
This is why, in the consultation described above, the govt is only interested in attending to the sensitivities and meeting the needs of people who are NOT straight White men.
On Friday I received an email directing me to the ‘consultation’ because I had signed the petition against vax requirement.
At the end of the form are questions along the lines of: Any instances where this mandate would be good/bad for certain groups of people needing care. I basically said that not mandating would benefit all, because if mandated, then staff numbers and staff motivation/morale would be affected. Also, I mentioned naturally acquired immunity of staff vs vax ‘immunity’.
They don’t seem too fussed ‘consulting the public’ beforehand for all their impositions. Anyway, this is just more bullshit – just going through the motions type stuff.
Have fun – leading questions as usual with this garbage. Did it earlier in the week and commented to my heart’s content.
Loved the double negatives on a couple of questions – they could not make their mind up what they want you to answer obviously!
Disgustingly worded survey as ever. The original ‘consultation’ document recorded 65% of respondents against mandation. That was ignored, seemingly because an opinion poll they commissioned claimed the public were in favour. I’m not holding my breath.
Please, please, PLEASE can we have a rest from these disgusting pictures of muzzled harpies injecting muzzled zombies?
No – wonderful being muzzled. Love it. Greatest thing on planet Earth. Who could not be orgasmic at being muzzled? Mask and be proud! Show your true self – inane and fundamentally flawed. Oops, something went wrong there.
Have spent ages trying to work out what this means…. ‘are there particular groups of people, such as those with protected characteristics, who would be particularly negatively affected by a Covid 19 vaccination not being a condition of deployment in health care and social care?’ As I read it it is asking…..who would be worse off by there not being a vaccine mandate? My answer would be nobody but I think I may have fallen into a trap I can’t see.
I have yet to do it but from comments and docs it appears
And you really think it’ll make a difference what any of us, the plebs, say?
What that consultation tells us is that the NHS is obsessed with putting people in categories and boxes, rather than treating people as individuals.
95% of it is categorisation. Othering people into ‘in-group’ and ‘out-group’. We would do well to stripping labelling from the NHS. That alone would save millions and allow front-line staff to get the job done.
Done already. Made it clear that discriminating against the unjabbed when the jabbed can also get and pass on Covid is nothing more than pure discrimination. Hence unacceptable in a democratic country. Even one on its last legs