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We Must Not Forget Lockdown

by Joanna Gray
10 April 2024 5:15 PM

A couple of weeks into that first balmy lockdown, a bed sheet appeared on the hedge of a house along our lane. There was a message painted in red, or was it black? My husband remembers it stating: “Fuck off cyclists.” I remember reading, “Go home joggers.” It only remained on the hedge for a day or so and disappeared. I often think of this bedsheet when contemplating our collective response to lockdowns. Did another neighbour take it down? Or a cyclist or jogger? Or did the people who put it up consider their words to be a bit much and remove it in embarrassment? Where is the sheet now? Washed and returned to the airing cupboard, burned, or used as a dust sheet? I couldn’t possibly ask my neighbours, for then I would have to admit I noticed.

That the exact memory of this aggressive sheet is already fading, worries me.

Before we all forget similar lockdown episodes, is it now time to officially record ordinary life in 2020-21? Future historians will surely thank us – for who could make up the scale of small yet devastating insanities?

I’m thinking of a dinner party we attended in a greenhouse, whitewashed so no-one saw, and muggy beyond belief. And our terrified friend who decided not to visit his father in hospital, “to be on the safe side”, only to desperately regret the decision when the old man died alone. The bunch of flowers we ordered mis-delivered to neighbours, left in their garage for three days, “to decontaminate” and die. Locktails and quarantinis in the woods. Sourdough: an alarming post on WhatsApp where someone requested a new “mother” as his had ended up in the dishwasher. Green tape pasted onto the Victorian tiles in church to ensure social distancing; as if the church had ever been crowded. The chap who videoed children climbing into the taped-off, empty playground, threatening to call the police.

Not so funny now.

According to the U.K.’s National Police Chief’s Council, 525,738 of us made calls to the police about lockdown infractions. Half a million. If there was a historical endeavour to record people’s activities in lockdown, would anyone actually admit to how they behaved?

How many people actually kept their own children in their bedrooms and left food outside the door if they were sent home from school with a message to “isolate” because “someone in their bubble” had “tested positive”? I know of one family whose children were prevented from leaving their home for three months for fear of death. The garden too was verboten.

Etiquette decisions about face masks and when to Covid test. The buying of ‘exemption’ badges. Homemade hand sanitiser. Pleas on WhatsApp to make PPE from pillowcases – hastily cancelled because it was a scam. The washing of online food deliveries. Socialising with your own cutlery and shared bowls of guacamole. Window concerts with socially distanced chairs on the lawn. A decision to use a fan to blow out candles over a birthday cake. The now forgotten ‘House Party!’ app. The pingdemic. Dispiriting family quizzes via Zoom. The National Theatre Live on a Thursday. Joe Wicks.

Oh Lord, the pans. Have we already forgotten the pans? Will people, now part of an NHS waiting list of 7.75 million, ever admit to having banged them in celebration of ‘our’ NHS? One night, on the hill, an old man played his fairground organ.

Perhaps our involvement is still too raw to rake over. The fallibility and greed of politicians is to be expected, but the strange and fearful compliance of the population, and the contortions some made to get round the rules, and others to hug the rules tighter, is vital for future historians to understand.

Four years on, is the scab healing? Could we begin to have a look?

I propose someone arrange straight interviews with everyone willing, in one village, one street, one estate close, in various parts of the country. Any diary entries or relevant emails could be shared and participants would be encouraged simply to record what they did during lockdown, and those half lockdowns, the tiers, the rules of six: their daily routines, the things that frightened them, their doubts, their ways of finding joy in the strangeness of it all and, possibly, actions they took about which they’re now ashamed.

Dare we remember the truth?

Joanna Gray is a writer and confidence mentor. If you are a publisher interested in taking up this project – or run a national historical archive – you have a willing writer/helper. Contact me here.

Tags: COVID-19LockdownNHS

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
3 years ago

That data comes from the primary diagnosis supplement published by the NHS yesterday for patients in England being treated for covid (by the official definition not mine).

So yes those being treated ‘for covid’ are less than half of all +ve hospital patients as at 25th January and proportion still falling.

Both +ve hospital numbers and treated ‘for covid’ numbers clearly falling

Deaths-from-covid.jpg
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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago

Today

Met seeks limits to Sue Gray No 10 parties report – BBC News

My post of two days ago

‘Mrs Dick is repaying the trust placed in her by ‘investigating’ the Pig Dictator
The Pig Dictator welcomes ‘the clarity’ that the police investigation will bring
If the Gray report is published the plebs will be told that no action can be taken as they must await the result of the police investigation
The Gray report may not be published at all until the police investigation is concluded
How many years will the dragged out police investigation take?’

The regime decided some time ago that a wounded Dick was more advantage to them than an unknown prick

Remember where you heard it first

No that’s what I call a slippery pig

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Cecil B
Cecil B
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

How many went to the parties? Fifty plus?

So that is 50+ investigations, and 50+ reports to the Crown Prosecution Service, and 50+ waits for the CPS to make a decision

Then if anyone is charged that’s 50+ court cases to be finalised (in a the middle of a court logjam) before the report can be published

You will not see the Gray report before the next election

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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

This would be Cressida Dick who clapped for the nurses on Westminster Bridge during the ‘pandemic’ without a face mask, whilst her henchmen went round fining people for… er… not wearing face masks!

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Sforzesca
Sforzesca
3 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

And who was apparently in charge when an entirely innocent man was shot dead in cold blood….
Never mind though, it was found to be a clear breach of H and S laws.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

It gives me no end of smug satisfaction that Dick’s surname is an absolutely perfect descriptor. I rest my case.

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cornubian
cornubian
3 years ago

This is what happens to NWO regional managers when they refuse to implement forced injections of experimental toxins and then go on to relax most of the ‘New Normal’ population ‘persuasion’ levers.

In Africa they are simply murdered and replaced with WEF puppets.

In the West they are deposed usually by blackmail from compromising phone or email taps or Epstein-like photo set ups.

Johnsons undoing – partygate.

johnson under investigation.jpg
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TheBluePill
TheBluePill
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Yep. A real war is going on. All while the sheeple pat themselves on the back about their superb analysis on Russia/Ukraine that they thought was their own, but actually got inserted into their brains verbatim by the MSM.

I accidentally flicked over to question time last night, just for long enough for some sheep to be telling us how Ukraine produces most of our gas, FFS. “I know it to be true, I just read it today”. This species is doomed.

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olympian
olympian
3 years ago
Reply to  cornubian

Sebastian Kurz, chancellor of Austria from 2017 stepped down last summer with barely a mention in the British media. There were suggestions of corruption but little detail.
His replacement [who’s name evades me] was in power for only two weeks before resigning. In those two weeks he introduced medical apartheid [lockdowns solely for the unvaccinated- short lived] and vaccine mandates.
Perhaps Kurz was removed because he was unwilling to introduce these measures.
All very suspicious.

I’m feeling positive for the first time in a long time due to the Canadian Truckers, and the massive support they are garnering everywhere the convoy goes.
People offering support on bridges, flyovers and beside busy roads, at all hours of day and night in up to -30 degree temperatures while trudeau hides like the snivelling coward he is.

Truck Fudeau – is that allowed?

Peace

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago

What bedswerving fopdoodle came up with that infantile “no hurtyfeels words”?

No content from me until I know which words will get me instabanned.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

I think it’s just TY covering his ass and pandering to opposition.

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JaneDoeNL
JaneDoeNL
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

That may well be, but it could have been worded better. Right now it reads like it was written by a 10-year old. I’m surprised it doesn’t say ‘Don’t use the F-word or the C-word or I shall tell mummy’.

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rayc
rayc
3 years ago

Same story from Germany a couple days ago – up to 75% of covid-positive hospital admissions are for another medical reason here.

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rational
rational
3 years ago
Reply to  rayc

This actually a good thing.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago

As they have for almost 2 years.

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iane
iane
3 years ago

Oh my: what an astounding revelation! Surely this cannot be correct???

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

A friend’s father went to a hospital exhibiting symptoms of a very bad reaction to a new diabetes drug he had been prescribed without follow up from his GP. They ‘tested’ him and declared he had “Covid” – he was held overnight for “tests” and his son had to fetch him in the morning to get him safely home before they started giving him medication and put him on a “pathway” .

On his escape he was told he would be ‘followed up” by being put on a “Virtual Covid Ward”(?) – indeed they bothered him by phone at home as he recovered from the reaction to the new diabetes drug simply by stopping taking it – all the symptoms of this reaction he had previously displayed at the hospital.

It appears that no-one was interested in his drug reaction – they wanted him as a Covid patient! . He has since completely recovered .

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

The Epidemic of Madness Engulfing the Globe
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/01/29/google-mass-formation-psychosis.aspx
Rates of anxiety and depression have increased dramatically, as well as cases of psychosis as more and more people experience delusional thinking and hallucinations. Similar to the witch trials of the 16th and 17th centuries, society is once again losing touch with reality. Where will it all end? Google Doesn’t Want You to Research Mass Formation Psychosis
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

The big danger is that this fake normal stays
 Join the friendly resistance before it’s too late 
now is not the time to give up 

Saturday 29th January 2pm 
Wake up Wokingham Day 
Meet outside Town Hall,
between Rose Inn & Costa
Wokingham RG40 1AP

Stand in the Park Sundays 10am  make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane 
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD  
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS

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Idris
Idris
3 years ago

Having just skimmed the online Telegraph today still no mention of the huge Canadian convoy against vaccine mandates heading toward Ottawa and Trudeau. Can we have an article on this in Sceptics so I can send to friends who don’t believe it’s happening?

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SomersetHoops
SomersetHoops
3 years ago

This also adds knowledge of the numbers of deaths claimed to be due primarily to covid and as indicated many time by others with other stronger data, but ignored by the MSM that those numbers are very likely to be overstated by at least a third.

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Newman20
Newman20
3 years ago

Of course they are. How many people get admitted to hospital with a cold?

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