• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

The Covid Inquiry is Insulting the Victims of Lockdown

by Will Jones
8 December 2023 9:00 AM

What gives the relatives of Covid victims the sole right to the moral high ground, asks Allison Pearson in the Telegraph. Lockdowns were devastating, and their victims were often far younger than those of Covid. Yet the Covid Inquiry puts the spotlight on the former while largely ignoring the latter. Here’s an excerpt.

I really must stop watching the Covid Inquiry, it’s bad for the blood pressure. Even the element of drama is lacking because we all know how this story ends: Lady Hallett, shaggy blonde bob shaking sorrowfully, will find that chaotic, ‘shopping-trolley’ Boris locked down too late (even though notably un-chaotic Germany only locked down two days earlier than us). Bad Boris also raised commonsense objections to lockdown and refused to keep the population masked and social distancing in perpetuity, as recommended by Susan ‘Stalin’s Nanny’ Michie of the SAGE scientific advisory group. 

Given the choice between Boris’s hale-fellow magnanimity and Michie’s joyless authoritarianism, I know which I would choose, but that is very much not the preference of this appalling establishment sham. 

Relatives of those who died from Covid are allowed to be present (holding up laminated photos of the deceased) which gives proceedings the feel of a tribunal in Revolutionary France hellbent on personal revenge rather than what they should be; a rational and honest assessment of whether shutting down the country was justified. 

After the former Prime Minister apologised on Wednesday – “I understand the feelings of these victims and their families, and I am deeply sorry for the pain and the loss and the suffering,” said Boris – four protesters stood up, holding signs which said: “The dead can’t hear your apologies.” 

What gives those people the right to sole occupancy of the moral high ground? Of course their losses are terribly sad, but the median age of death from Covid (about 83 years) was not that different to the normal life expectancy for men and women before the pandemic. What about younger people killed or traumatised by lockdown? 

Where are the photos of the formerly happy girl who developed anorexia in 2020 and tragically took her own life (as recounted by the girl’s mother to a rightly upset Julia Hartley-Brewer on her Talk TV show)? How about the one million youngsters currently on a waiting list for mental-health services, a shocking queue that would stretch from London to Manchester? 

Any portraits perchance at the Inquiry of the bereaved at funerals who were not allowed to console each other, not even when they lived in the same house for goodness sake? Or the pregnant women who went through miscarriages alone because, apparently, having the father with them was too much of a Covid risk? 

How about the distraught, self-isolating spouses of confused and lonely care home residents who could not visit while staff trooped in gaily with their Tesco carrier bags? What about the grown men and women who still cry into their pillow at night fretting that their darling mum or dad died thinking they had abandoned them? 

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Allison PearsonBaroness HallettBoris JohnsonCollateral DamageCovid InquiryLockdownLockdown harms

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

German Media Realise Their Health Minister is an International Laughingstock

Next Post

Bristol University Axes the National Anthem from Graduation Ceremonies Amid Students’ Claims it is “Old-Fashioned” and “Offensive to Some”

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

14 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago

I haven’t really followed the Covid Inquiry much if at all. As soon as I realised that it was just an exercise to appear as if it was a serious attempt to get proper justice, I lost interest. “Harder and sooner” seemed to be the mantra that would eventually surface in time for the next pantomime emergency. Pearson does a good job in attempting to bring focus onto the other victims, those of the diabolical lockdowns. However, the term of reference of the inquiry also cover:

  • the procurement and distribution of key equipment and supplies, including PPE and ventilators;
  • the development, delivery and impact of therapeutics and vaccines;

Will the inquiry therefore focus on the ridiculous notion that ‘vaccines’ were developed in a time-frame that was unlike the normal development time for a proper vaccine and were still only ‘experimental’ at time of distribution? Or the horrendous deaths and harms that have ensued as a result of using an untried medical procedure on what was really just a sort of flu or maybe something else? Or the massive profits made by Tory minster ‘mates’ providing PPE that wasn’t even fit for purpose? No, no and no. This is what Pearson should be writing about not shilly-shallying around of the edges of the issue.

Last edited 1 year ago by Hardliner
107
-2
transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

“shilly-shallying around of the edges of the issue.”

That sadly is what most “covid sceptic” MSM journalists and mainstream political figures do.

63
-1
Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

You can throw end of life care ‘pathways’ into that mix, with the procurement of Medazolam & Morphine.

Last edited 1 year ago by Ron Smith
34
0
Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Spot on ATR. Alison Pearson (and I know I keep on banging on about this but…) was all for vax passports something for which I’m finding very hard to forgive her and one of the reasons I stopped listening to Planet Normal. Also think you’ll find a “donation” of over $3,000,000 to the DT from a certain W Gates (Mr Vaccine) is the reason she doesn’t mention the dreaded V word and all its appalling consequences. It all stinks.

9
0
FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Not sure what the point of the rant or article is?

1-Just because someone you know was murdered by the bio-weapon shot does not mean that you are ‘for’ the fascist LDs

2-Just because you are against the fascist LDs does not mean you negate the 150K murdered by the stabbinations.

People like myself happily sit in the pro-real science, anti-fascist, anti-poison camps and are both anti-fascist LD and anti-pharma injectables.

LDs probably murdered some 30 K – many of them old and done in with midazolam. This sham inquiry could care less. Thousands of others would have died (suicide, drug overdoses, alcoholism which can manifest in long term illnesses, eventual organ failure).

The damage to families, marriages, children, SMB is unbelievable and often permanent. This sham inquiry and Doris-shake-your-mammaries-at-midnight-in-Westminster-party-time, could care less.

This entire episode of Pharma-Medical Nazism across the G20 all planned and coordinated was simply a pilot project. This sham inquiry is a part of that planned process and pilot (called a ‘retrospective in IT nerd talk).

69
0
Epi
Epi
1 year ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Can’t argue with that.

5
0
huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/corruption-corruption-everywhere-how-the-covid-debacle-made-the-scales-fall-from-my-eyes/

Liz Hodgkinson at TCW detailing how the Scamdemic has really opened her eyes. She will certainly be speaking for many of us at DS.

43
-1
Monro
Monro
1 year ago

Why is this inquiry so stupid?

‘Chinese authorities delayed reporting the existence of the virus to the world. Studies of antibodies in stored blood and stored wastewater from across the globe — including Italy, the US, Brazil, and elsewhere — found traces of Covid’s presence in autumn 2019, long before the world knew about it. Even a January 2020 lockdown would have been too late: our fate was sealed once the virus was abroad in the world.’

‘Sweden did better than nearly every other country on earth in protecting human life. It has among the world’s lowest cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths since the start of the pandemic. And it accomplished this feat without lockdown.’

JAY BHATTACHARYA, Friday, 8 December 2023

Why is this inquiry so stupid?

39
0
JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago
Reply to  Monro

It depends what’s on the agenda. A cynic might observe that it only looks stupid if one believes in something that isn’t on the list. It might make sense if one suspects that it’s a political whitewash job.

14
0
JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

You’re right w.r.t the Labour Party. There was no effective opposition in 2020 – indeed, it was even worse than that, given what Drakeford got up to in Wales. I know at least one member that left the Party; wouldn’t be surprised in membership revenue went down.

22
0
Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Those protesting about the many Covid Jab victims (dead, injured and bereaved) were told to stay on the other side of the pavement.

photo_2023-12-08_15-14-10
Last edited 1 year ago by Lockdown Sceptic
21
0
Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Lockdown Sceptic

Abby Robberts was arrested protesting with the yellow boards, good woman. She was on GB News in the early days.

17
0
RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

The Establishment wants the power and opportunity to do it again in the future, so of course it will find that lockdowns were justified and necessary…. but should have been sooner, longer and harder with even more draconian punishments for those who don’t comply.

The whole thing is an absolute farce.

20
0
Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

The Relatives grief circus should have been restricted to those that died OF Covid and were under 70 years old – that would thin things down a bit!

6
0

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

The Sceptic EP.38: Chris Bayliss on the Commonwealth Voting Scandal, Sarah Phillimore on the Bar’s Scrapped EDI Plans and Eugyppius on ‘White Genocide’

by Richard Eldred
30 May 2025
1

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

30 May 2025
by Toby Young

There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe: MIT Professor Dr Richard Lindzen

29 May 2025
by Hannes Sarv

German Pensioner Receives 75-Day Prison Sentence in Latest Speech Crime Scandal to Hit the Federal Republic

29 May 2025
by Eugyppius

BBC ‘Damages Countryside’ to Film Chris Packham’s Springwatch

30 May 2025
by Richard Eldred

Comedian’s Show Cancelled Over Liverpool Parade Crash Joke

30 May 2025
by Richard Eldred

News Round-Up

33

Comedian’s Show Cancelled Over Liverpool Parade Crash Joke

27

Miliband Attacks Blair Over Net Zero Criticism and Admits He Could Lose Seat to Reform

18

German Pensioner Receives 75-Day Prison Sentence in Latest Speech Crime Scandal to Hit the Federal Republic

23

BBC ‘Damages Countryside’ to Film Chris Packham’s Springwatch

14

Are Schools Actually Institutionalised Childcare?

30 May 2025
by Joanna Gray

Trump is Handing Africa to the Chinese for the Sake of Social Media Clout

29 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Hooked on Freedom: Why Medical Autonomy Matters

29 May 2025
by Dr David Bell

So Renters WILL Pay the Costs of Net Zero

29 May 2025
by Ben Pile

The Net Zero Agenda’s Continued Collapse Into Chaos

28 May 2025
by Ben Pile

POSTS BY DATE

December 2023
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Nov   Jan »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

POSTS BY DATE

December 2023
M T W T F S S
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
25262728293031
« Nov   Jan »

DONATE

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

News Round-Up

30 May 2025
by Toby Young

There Will Be No Climate Catastrophe: MIT Professor Dr Richard Lindzen

29 May 2025
by Hannes Sarv

German Pensioner Receives 75-Day Prison Sentence in Latest Speech Crime Scandal to Hit the Federal Republic

29 May 2025
by Eugyppius

BBC ‘Damages Countryside’ to Film Chris Packham’s Springwatch

30 May 2025
by Richard Eldred

Comedian’s Show Cancelled Over Liverpool Parade Crash Joke

30 May 2025
by Richard Eldred

News Round-Up

33

Comedian’s Show Cancelled Over Liverpool Parade Crash Joke

27

Miliband Attacks Blair Over Net Zero Criticism and Admits He Could Lose Seat to Reform

18

German Pensioner Receives 75-Day Prison Sentence in Latest Speech Crime Scandal to Hit the Federal Republic

23

BBC ‘Damages Countryside’ to Film Chris Packham’s Springwatch

14

Are Schools Actually Institutionalised Childcare?

30 May 2025
by Joanna Gray

Trump is Handing Africa to the Chinese for the Sake of Social Media Clout

29 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Hooked on Freedom: Why Medical Autonomy Matters

29 May 2025
by Dr David Bell

So Renters WILL Pay the Costs of Net Zero

29 May 2025
by Ben Pile

The Net Zero Agenda’s Continued Collapse Into Chaos

28 May 2025
by Ben Pile

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

wpDiscuz
You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences