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10 Feb, 12 tweets, 5 min read

#LockdownVoices Please RT

"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.

"As I live alone friends are also very important to me.

Despite them living more locally I was unable to meet with them during the first lockdown at all.

Spending months alone has been devastating.

"The level of deliberate fear mongering by government and mainstream media has in my opinion been utterly outrageous.

I think it has been in the realm of brain washing.

"Because I have a scientific background, I am an analytical thinker who is used to questioning and not taking information at face value.

This has been a tremendous asset and saved me from the intense fear I have discovered some friends and neighbours experience.

"I have observed neighbours wearing face masks and gloves to put out their own dustbins, in their own drives.

A ridiculous level of fear.

I am appalled at the level of freedom that has been taken from me and I would never have believed it possible in the UK.

"It has felt like living in post-war East Germany and still does.

I usually vote Conservative. In future I will vote for any anti-lockdown party, which I expect will be the Reform party.

If I don’t have a candidate, I will spoil my ballot paper."

@BreastCancerNow

Lockdowns cost lives:

▪️ 1 MILLION women have missed a scheduled breast cancer screening say @BreastCancerNow

▪️ 200k have spent more than a year waiting for an operation. It was 1,600 in Jan'19

▪️ 560k lives will be lost *because* of lockdown according to experts @BristolUni

...and yet, there are now 30+ credible scientific studies finding ‘lockdowns’ have *little to no effect* on reducing the spread of coronavirus, despite dreadful harms:
inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…

But we are still trapped in lockdown - with no end in sight. #EnoughIsEnough

Covid 19 is serious but we believe the supposed 'cure' is far worse than the disease.

There *is* an alternative.

If you haven't already, please join the Recovery campaign now to back a better way, here: timeforrecovery.org

And read more #LockdownVoices here: timeforrecovery.org/lockdownvictim…

#lockdown #COVID19 #Covid19UK #TimeForRecovery

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

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

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"Situated in an area of high deprivation our child protection numbers (already high) have doubled compared to what they were last year.

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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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👇 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/

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10 Feb

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"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.

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"...risk of quarantines meaning extra time off and cost of accommodation.

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@T4Recovery

7 Feb

“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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