#LockdownVoices

"It was the first time in about 10 years that I have cried for a patient..."

"This is only partly my story, it belongs to an elderly lady really.

I looked after a 93 year old lady in my resus room this year on Boxing Day. Sadly, the main blood vessel...
"...in her abdomen was leaking.

Whilst taking a history, we talked about how she had felt yesterday.

She told me she had felt physically okay but very sad and angry...
"It was the first Christmas Day she could remember that she hadn’t been allowed to see her grandchildren or go to church.

She cried, I said that I was sorry.

She died about an hour later...
"Her family didn’t make it in time to be by her side but I held her hand and stroked her hair.

It was the first time in about 10 years that I have cried for a patient."

Lockdowns take away basic human rights, including for the very people we're supposed to be 'protecting...'
We're assured lockdowns and restrictions protect people, but:

➡️ Govt’s OWN report warned an extra 200,000 people could be killed *by* first 100 days of lockdown alone: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…

➡️ 1 MILLION women have missed a breast cancer screening say @BreastCancerNow and...
@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 20m+ vaccinated, whatever happens this "snail's pace" move out of lockdown MUST also be the last.

30+ credible scientific papers now find lockdowns do little or nothing to stop the spread of coronavirus - and may even make things worse: inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…
Lockdowns come with terrible costs. We believe this supposed 'cure' is far worse than the disease - and its harms pile up every single day.

Join our campaign now to fight for a better way, at: timeforrecovery.org

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

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How can such a psychological assault even be legal?

What must this be doing to our children?
"It is utterly grotesque!

None of the messaging has been supportive, positive or hopeful.

It is a constant diet of doom and gloom with no hope in sight.

I must say it feels very much by design and very sinister!

Why would a Conservative Govt want to scare the public so much?
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It is disgraceful.

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NINE hours later after several phone calls to hospital, an ambulance arrived.

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"She died 36 hours later.

There were only seven of us at her cremation, not allowed to sit near each other or hug.

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"As a new business, I was without funding for 11 months.

Only now this month have I received £2000...
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I worry that our lives will never be the same, and it keeps me up at night...
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It breaks my heart.

I fear for their futures in this draconian existence we seem to be ‘living’ at the moment...
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"...the man blows raspberries, unable to take him out we stayed at home.

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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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...
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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...
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He was left alone to die in his care home.

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"...put it down as dementia.

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He stabbed himself in the neck...
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