Urgent Call to Action on the UK COVID-19 Inquiry
Consultation survey needs completing by tomorrow
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The UK has set up an Inquiry to examine how prepared it was to deal with a pandemic, how well it responded and to learn lessons for the future. As part of the process they want the public to take part in a consultation by completing a survey. This closes tomorrow, 7 April at 23:59 UK time.
I recommend everyone complete the survey so that they realise how abysmally they handled the pandemic and to ensure it never happens again. Please also share this with as many people as you can. Everyone has been affected by the response to the pandemic so everybody will want a say.
The Together Declaration have produced a time saving tool to assist with the survey if you are short of time. Normally I wouldn’t advocate typing in pro forma answers but it’s better than nothing.
I have copied their instructions below.
Question 1: you are submitting as an individual
Question 2: you do not need to provide background about yourself
Question 3: (Page 1) – respond ‘No’
Question 4: This is where you can take ideas and inspiration from the list provided below:
Suggestions of omissions – please personalise your response for greater effectiveness
Mortality Data reporting: why did media only report covid deaths, rather than contextualise mortality in a general sense (e.g. daily cancer deaths, strokes, etc.).
Why was asymptomatic spread suddenly considered to be true and indisputable, in spite of it being completely at odds with all previous understanding of the spread of respiratory viruses? Who was responsible for this?
Where is the focus on children in the inquiry, and the effects the government policies had on them? This must include from birth, as babies have been ignored completely in the current Terms of Reference.
Why was the existing Pandemic Strategy jettisoned and replaced with lockdown of healthy population which had never been done ever before?
Why was the use of ‘Nudge’ & SPI-B used to continually promote fear instead of calming the anxiety levels of the population down? (the deleterious effects of anxiety on immune health being well established)
Why was over half a billion pounds spent on media advertising campaigns, some of which had to be recalled? Also, which body is responsible for assessing the claims made in the government media campaign and what evidence was submitted to them? All advertising claims have to go through ASA so we would like to know how PHE were able to make the (false) claims that they did?
Why was only one institution’s (ICL, Neil Ferguson’s team) consistently used for modelling in spite of each scenario being inaccurate by orders of magnitude? Why were other teams and institutions not consulted?
What were the criteria, who was driving the decisions and why was no cost/benefit analysis carried out for a. Lockdowns, b. Social distancing c. masks and d. border controls?
Death categorisation: Why was ‘tested positive within 28 days of death’ used rather than establishing dying directly from Covid (clinical observation of the patient)?
Death categorisation: Why was so little mention made of underlying health issues and co-morbidities as causative factors?
Who was responsible for the decision to lock down the healthy population (unprecedented) rather than protecting highly vulnerable groups? What evidence was cited? What ongoing verification of evidence validity was done?
Why was PCR mass-testing of a healthy population used when these are confirmatory diagnostic tests, not meant for this purpose?
Why was the decision made to expand vaccinations to all age groups including children when it was clear that the risk-benefit equation did not add up in younger age groups based on epidemiology? Who was responsible for this change in policy and why?
Education: What evidence was used for keeping schools closed for so long? Clinical evidence did not back up the claim that children were primary drivers of spread. Evidence all pointed to most being nosocomial spread in hospitals.
Education: Why were NPIs such as social distancing and mask wearing continued when they were removed in the rest of the population? In higher education why did they continue to not offer (and many intend not to return to ) face- to-face education for so long?
What evidence was there for the mass-testing of healthy children used, again with PCR tests not designed for diagnostics outside of clinical symptoms? Economy: Why were certain sectors (hospitality, health, travel) suspended for so long in the absence of any evidence that they were areas of transmission in healthy people?
Vaccine Passports: Why were they brought in – who drove this decision? This was never debated widely by the public. Vaccines did not prevent transmission so this measure was totally nonsensical.
NHS – why were beds reduced significantly during this period?
Why were so many other illnesses not treated – why were services shut down leading to horrendous backlogs with cancer screening, dental emergencies etc.?
Mental Health: Why were impacts to people not considered when making decisions – especially Children?
Care Homes – why were vulnerable and elderly placed directly back into Care Homes when infected? Why were families prevented from seeing their loved ones? Why was social isolation not considered to be a risk factor?
Emergency Powers: Why was our Democracy and Parliament suspended? Looking at the epidemiological data from the time (age stratification of mortality), there was no justification for this.
Why was the Public Health Act used to implement a Lockdown? This needs to be amended to prevent a recurrence of immediate lockdowns ever again.
Parliamentary scrutiny – cost benefit analysis – not whipped into line without any consideration for costs risks and consequences
Why did Ofcom announce that views different to the government position should not be given attention by broadcasters? Censoring ideas and questions that diverged from government policy was extremely dangerous.
What evidence was cited and used that led to the decision to implement Vaccine Mandates for Care Workers and NHS Staff, given we already knew vaccines did not stop transmission?
Where is the cost-benefit analysis for the ongoing collateral damages from non-pharmaceutical interventions? If there isn’t one, why not? What steps are being taken to handle the consequences now?
For page 3, choose from the relevant suggestions below or add your own individualised ones
Why was the existing pandemic strategy discarded? What evidence or cost-benefit analysis was done to substantiate the government’s u-turn to implement an unprecedented lockdown?
Why were schools closed down? Who decided this and based on what clinical evidence? Investigate thoroughly the ongoing developmental damage to children. Assess QALY effects on the future generations due to educational and social disruptions.
Why were loved ones kept from seeing relatives in hospital and in Care Homes? Why has this persisted until the current time in spite of the inhumanity of the policies for those at the end of their lives?
The notion of asymptomatic spread: all NPIs hinge on this and there is no adequate evidence for it. The universal acceptance of this notion needs to be thoroughly investigated.
Use of PCR mass-testing on a healthy, non-symptomatic population. It is based on the wrong assumption (asymptomatic spread). What evidence was used before making the decision to implement this? Who was responsible and do they have conflicts of interest?
Investigation into the behavioural science (SPI-B) recommendations to intentionally raise fear levels of the general public. Why were psychologists disproportionately represented rather than other medical experts? How were these members selected? Many of the measures, such as mandating mask wearing and advertisements that exacerbated deep fear have consequences that will continue generations to come.
The use of masks. This policy has never done anything except propagate fear. We would like to know who said they were effective and why they changed the party line in July 2020. The lack of efficacy needs to be publicly admitted so people can feel safe in abandoning this totally useless and harmful practice. There needs to be a forensic inquiry into why masks were suddenly adopted (in lockstep across several nations) and who was in charge of this policy. Investigate any individual financial conflicts or that of their affiliated institution.
Health outcomes and mortality following the covid injections. Every single citizen who received the Covid injection should be followed up longitudinally for years in order to get a true assessment of the clinical picture. This should be compared with a comparable control group composed of the unvaccinated population. England is well placed to conduct this research due to having a large population who did not receive the injections. All health outcomes must be included (e.g. cancer incidence, auto-immune diseases, neurological damage and all other disorders that were flagged as signals in the Yellow Card System).
Page 4: answer ‘Yes’:
Finally:
Please use the following to inform your answer (paraphrasing if possible)
A sufficient body of staff should be employed to allow adequate data handling for those submitting their stories and evidence of harm. We are aware that Christopher Chope MP has already received 100,000 emails documenting harms from the covid-19 injections. Each of these should be given the attention it deserves. In addition, a sufficient budget should be allocated to ensure that those harmed are compensated in a meaningful way.
Experts who were silenced from the start of the pandemic should now be meaningfully consulted (e.g. Collateral Global, HART Group, UsForThem, Law or Fiction and Together Declaration among others) in order to ensure there is a breadth of expertise and viewpoints in assessing the information gathered.
By participating, you automatically admit that there was/is a "pandemic," which is false. What is worse is that you also acknowledge that the "authorities" possess the right to determine your life and your livelihood.
Don't.
Also, you are probably signing up for further "inspections."
Already around 2000, I said that you "vote" your rights away, when you vote and, moreover, your only weapon is your unpredictability, so the rules have to leave a bit longer leash...
I like your stack NE, and I admire what you and the Together Declaration are trying to achieve with this, and I like and agree with the questions. But to ask them of the government is to ask the wrong people. The Governments response to all of the questions is simple: We don't give the slightest shit about you, we did this intentionally, please can a majority of you just die but try to make it look like we didn't do it, our boss has given his orders and their are too many of you breeding, and some of think you have some say over your own bodies or over your own authority, you must be crushed. While you are at it, if you could just start fucking your own sex or start cutting of your own penis or sewing up your own vagina and sewing on a prosthetic you'd be doing us a really big favour.
These question need to asked of the people, but they don't want to hear them. I think the only solution, as one of your earlier posts leaned towards, is what we do when the shit hits the fan and how do we build new communities that are self sufficient and able defend ourselves from what ever hoardes are thrown at us to wipe us out. It's time to break out the Ray Mears videos and glass of Scotch.