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26 Feb, 10 tweets, 3 min read

#LockdownVoices

"I’m at the point where I’d rather have Covid and die than carry on..."

"The last day I worked was March 23 2020. I was a taxi controller. A job I loved and suited me as I have disabilities...

"Unfortunately it’s a business that cannot function without people having a social life and holidays.

The owner couldn’t afford to furlough me so that was it. I was unemployed and only entitled to Job Seeker's Allowance (JSA) at a grand sum of £300 a month...

"...meaning I was at least £500 a month worse off. I only got JSA for six months.

Then I went back to my job for September and October but only half the hours so that was a loss of £400 a month.

Then lockdown again and I’ve not worked November, December and January...

"...and looks like February too so that’s a loss of £800 a month.

Luckily I had savings. Savings that had taken me two years to get, and I was half way to being able to do my 'bucket list' vacation.

So how has the 10 months been?

Just awful. Stuck in the house almost 24/7...

"...with a husband I could barely stand the days he was home when he worked in the office.

No friends or social life which I need for my sanity.

I’ve had so many breakdowns where the tears won’t stop...

"My health has deteriorated because I’m not so active and especially my shoulder as that requires regular massages but I’ve only managed to get one in 12 months.

The pain and discomfort is awful.

I’m at the point where I’d rather have Covid and die than carry on."

@Ldn_Ambulance

Lockdowns cost lives:

➡️ @Ldn_Ambulance attends 60% more suicides or attempted suicides per day than in 2019

➡️ 25% more people had suicidal thoughts in L'down 1 (British Journal of Psychiatry study)

➡️ 560,000 lives will be lost *because* of lockdowns say experts @BristolUni

@BorisJohnson

@BorisJohnson now says our move out of lockdown will be 'irreversible.' But he also said:

➡️ A *2nd* lockdown would be 'completely wrong for this country' (Sep)
➡️ School closures were 'morally indefensible' (Aug)
➡️ Making kids wear face masks in schools was 'nonsensical' (Aug)

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

...and millions vaccinated, whatever happens this "snail's pace" move out of lockdown MUST also be the last...

We won't stop fighting to end these terrible, counter-productive restrictions, as fast as possible.

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

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He was a lively fella who enjoyed day centre activities, family, friends, holidays and all motorsports, and lots of fun, but as weeks went by I noticed a change...

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"I lost an uncle back in March, suffering dementia.

He was left alone to die in his care home.

They tried to say it was Covid so my mum (who had power of attorney) asked to see the test results from the autopsy, all of a sudden they said it wasn’t Covid and...

"...put it down as dementia.

Then in August I lost my Dad. He was a very ill man, six things named on his death certificate, he wasn’t allowed any treatment, if someone is terminally ill and you stop treatment what do you think will happen to said terminally ill person?

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He stabbed himself in the neck...

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17 Feb

#LockdownVoices

"We are locking down but at what cost? What incalculable cost to an entire generation?"

I'm 55 and thankfully have never suffered from depression or anxiety before. Usually a glass half full person.

But lockdowns have pushed my mental health to an extreme...

"I am anxious and depressed a lot of the time. Lack motivation to work and carry out tasks and need 9 to 10 hours sleep just to function.

I was even suicidal last year and spent three nights working out how I could kill myself.

I have NEVER EVER felt like this before...

"I worry all the time for my young adult children and their futures.

The one that is working from home is under unprecedented pressure and has taken hardly any holiday so is burnt out.

With rising youth unemployment they know they are lucky to have jobs...

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@T4Recovery

16 Feb

#LockdownVoices

"Lockdown for me is a living hell. Monday before Xmas I tried to take my own life, mid January I tried again.

If this carries on much longer I can’t guarantee I won’t succeed in doing it...

"I’ve been a sufferer of anxiety and depression for many years, I went through lots of counselling and therapy but the way I handled it was having my friends around me and doing the things I enjoyed.

When I went through bad times I used the things I enjoyed as milestones...

"...to look forward to, to help me get through.

I’d have four music festivals a year booked which were my happy places, they were spread out between March and September meaning any time I struggled I only had a short while before I could be back in my happy place...

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15 Feb

#LockdownVoices

"My uncle - early 70s - found blood in his urine last Feb.

It was Oct before he was fully tested and diagnosed.

'Sorry, Stage 4, nothing to be done. We cannot say for certain that the delay made any difference.' I bloody can!"

@BreastCancerNow

Lockdowns cost lives:

▪️ 1 MILLION women have missed a 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 ...but...

...despite the harms, there's now very good evidence lockdowns do little or nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus - and may even make things worse.

inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…

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@T4Recovery

15 Feb

#LockdownVoices

"Let me begin by saying that I am considered one of the vulnerable.

Over the past nine months, I have felt more vulnerable to the restrictions imposed than anything else.

"The climate of fear has greatly exacerbated anxieties that I was learning to deal with, and the sense that there is no clear end to this fills me with dread.

Prior to the lockdowns, I was rearranging my life into something I loved, after years of difficulty with mental health.

"Although my access to work and therapy have been able to move online, this is a poor substitute for what I actually need.

The face to face social interaction is essential to me being able to engage well with these vital aspects.

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