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10 Feb, 7 tweets, 2 min read
#LockdownVoices
"I have invested everything in my business… now we are close to bankruptcy..."

"I have invested everything in my travel business. It was booming, breaking records until lockdown 1. Because we only get paid when we travel, all bookings made have been cancelled...
"...meaning we are close to bankruptcy.

The future looks bleak with the government approach to travel completely ad hoc and now we are looking at restrictions that will make international travel impossible for most people due to cost of testing multiple times and...
"...risk of quarantines meaning extra time off and cost of accommodation.

This means travel will once again become a privilege of the rich.
"It feels like no matter what we do the business is doomed as it will take too long to rebuild the sales and income.

Doesn’t seem much point trying anything else. I will not stop fighting until the end. Literally."
Lockdowns are destroying millions of jobs and livelihoods that go with them:

▪️ 2 million small limited companies in the UK support 7.6 million jobs

▪️ Yet govt has forced many to shut their doors, with no support, for almost ONE YEAR... and...
Never forget: this was sold to you in MARCH 2020 (46 weeks ago) as "just 3 weeks to flatten the curve"

Now @MattHancock "isn't prepared to speculate"(!) about when restrictions will be eased - let alone removed

Those goalposts just keep on moving, don't they?

#EnoughIsEnough
Never-ending 'lockdowns' come with terrible costs, not least to our small business owners. Covid 19 is serious but we believe the 'cure' is far worse than the disease.

If you haven't already, join our campaign now to fight for a better way, at: timeforrecovery.org Please RT

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"Lockdown ended my 20 year career… a colleague committed suicide and I’m now on anti-depressants."

"Lockdown effectively ended my 20 year career as a nightclub DJ.

A colleague from one of my venues committed suicide shortly after we went into lockdown.
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I’m fortunate to have a stable income from another source or I probably wouldn’t still be here.
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#LockdownVoices

"I’m a Headteacher with over 1,000 students… schools need to be open now…"

"As a Headteacher of a secondary school with over 1000 students we have no in-school transmissions and yet we remain closed...
"Situated in an area of high deprivation our child protection numbers (already high) have doubled compared to what they were last year.

So many staff and parents are paralysed with fear due to hysterical media headlines which don’t reflect their stories.
"I worry that children next year will have weakened immune systems. How will they cope with flu next year when it returns?

I worry that there will be more obesity (we have already noticed this amongst our children) and that all those ‘lost’ children will never return.
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10 Feb
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"I have been in extreme pain since March 2020."

"I have an implant for nerve pain. My review which was due has been cancelled three times and as yet I still do not have an appointment...
"I have been too afraid to switch my device on in case something went wrong... worrying that they would be unable to see me.

So I have been in extreme pain since March 2020.

My breast cancer screening was also delayed by over 6 months.
"I live alone. My brother, sister and nephews live in different parts of the UK.

Being unable to see them for several months at a time has been devastating for me, as we are a close family who usually see each other every month at least.
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10 Feb
👇 CAN YOU HELP? 👇 [New campaign resource]

We hear yet more voices in the media calling for a longer lockdown in a naive drive for 'zero Covid.'

Now, we'd like to ask for YOUR help to counter these misguided commentators by sharing the Recovery campaign's vital messages...
...with friends, colleagues, and in your local community.

We need to rapidly build our membership base so we are of such scale that we cannot be ignored...

And we have launched a new campaigning hub to help with this... the Take Action resource here: timeforrecovery.org/take-action/
You will find a downloadable campaign leaflet for community campaigning, a letter guide for writing to your MP, with a templated letter for you to download and send or adapt.

You can find out who your MP is with their contact details using the look up link too...
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"To our horror, my once gorgeous girl started to hurt herself by slicing parts of her body…"

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“My partner is a lockdown policy death.

He was a serving police officer for 40 years, retired, and died in the first lockdown, on June 15th.

He wasn’t seen face to face until our 999 call, and died within 24 hours of heart failure.
"He had been very, very ill all through since January 2020, he did have a heart scan eventually in April.

We were told he would be seen as a matter of urgency, but he wasn’t, nobody ever saw him until he called 999 and he died next day.
"The cardiologist told me that in fact when my partner had that scan in April he was a palliative patient then.

But his GP refused to see him face to face, then lost his scan, then told him he wasn’t sure how to refer him on to a specialist as it was lockdown.
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