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Recovery: End The Campaign Of Fear

23 Mar, 12 tweets, 5 min read

🎂1 YEAR OF LOCKDOWN: THE AWFUL COST👇

"Just 3 weeks to flatten the curve" today became ONE YEAR of Covid restrictions, and...

🧵 This thread reveals the shocking cost of lockdown to the UK's health, PLUS:

❓Did lockdowns even help the C19 picture?
❓Or in fact, make it WORSE?

@DailyMailUK

🎂1 year of lockdown: NHS WAITING LISTS

As revealed in a @DailyMailUK report:

➡️ NHS waiting list has soared to a record high of nearly 4.6 MILLION

➡️ 300,000 now waiting more than a year for treatment

➡️ Up from just 1,000 when this is all started
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…

🎂1 year of lockdown: CANCER

➡️ 400,000 fewer urgent suspected cancer referrals

➡️ 4.4million fewer life-saving diagnostic tests

➡️ 44,000 fewer patients started treatment last year

➡️ 3 million people missed out on screenings Mar-Sep 2020 alone:

standard.co.uk/news/health/ca…

@IPPR

🎂1 year of lockdown: HEART ATTACKS & STROKES

➡️ Extra 6,000 people died already and...

➡️ 470,000 fewer new prescriptions of preventative cardiovascular medications say @IPPR

➡️ Expect 12,000 extra avoidable heart attacks and strokes over next 5 years
inews.co.uk/news/health/av…

@Ldn_Ambulance

🎂1 year of lockdown: MENTAL HEALTH

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

➡️ Eating disorders in children DOUBLED

➡️ 44% of 18-24 year olds now facing a "clinical level risk" of mental health disorders

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

🎂1 year of lockdown: DEMENTIA

➡️ 43,000 missed diagnoses, denying access to specialist care/treatments

➡️ GP assessments fell 13,000 a month

➡️ Non-C19 deaths in private homes from dementia and Alzheimer’s 75% higher - likely due to lockdown isolation:
alzheimers.org.uk/news/2020-07-3…

@WHO

🎂1 year of lockdown: "DID LOCKDOWNS EVEN HELP THE C19 PICTURE?" [1/2]

Many may say "OK: but what else could we do?"

➡️ Reality: "lockdown" *was* the experiment!

➡️ No LDs recommended by @WHO pre-2020

➡️ No LDs in UK's well-established pandemic plan:

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

🎂1 year of lockdown: "DID LOCKDOWNS EVEN HELP THE C19 PICTURE?" [2/2]

➡️ 30+ credible scientific papers now find "lockdowns" barely / don't stop impact of c'virus:

inproportion2.talkigy.com/do_lockdowns_w…

➡️ Yes: this is counter-intuitive. So why might this be? [see next tweet]

🎂1 year of lockdown: "COULD LOCKDOWNS HAVE ACTUALLY MADE C19 IMPACTS WORSE?"

➡️ Lockdowns may *encourage* dangerous new strains...

➡️ ...by isolating those w/ mild symptoms, so the best spreaders are in hospitals where more dangerous strains are found:

spectator.co.uk/article/covids…

🎂1 year of lockdown: WHAT NOW?

➡️ We haven't even touched the economic damage in this thread...

➡️ But direct collateral damage to UK health is clear: on waiting lists, cancer, heart + stroke patients, dementia, mental health...

➡️ Lockdown has created a crisis in the NHS...

🎂1 year of lockdown: FIX THE NHS CRISIS

➡️ Despite heroism of NHS workers, incompetent Govt + m'ment mean our health service is failing

➡️Without urgent action now? 1 year's just the start

➡️We’ll be locking down to save NHS forever, b/c each LD makes long-term problem worse

🎂1 year of lockdown: JOIN RECOVERY AND LET'S MAKE LOCKDOWNS HISTORY

We must break the cycle of lockdowns. Lockdowns are not just cruel, useless, and wrong. They are literally killing us.

Join the Recovery campaign today and let's fight for a better way: timeforrecovery.org

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22 Mar

#LockdownVoices

"Lockdown triggered panic attacks in my 18 year old, she is now on anxiety medication…"

"My 18 year old has been massively impacted by the lockdowns.

My child has experienced immense anxiety and many panic attacks...

"...so much so she has been prescribed with anxiety medication and is now in private therapy because of long wait lists.

The uncertainty of what has been happening has been extremely hard.

During Sep 20 and Dec 20 she developed anxiety and the panic attacks...

"She got behind in her school work and there seemed to be no understanding or help and support until I demanded it.

Her college course should have been exciting and interactive with lots of team work (Film course) but it has become tedious and a chore as it is now all written.

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19 Mar

#LockdownVoices

"The fear and tension is all-pervasive... rather than schools protecting the children from it, in most cases they ramp it up..."

"We run a small but very successful school photography business that employs 2 people...

[Thread]

"Our turnover normally is around 130k.

Due to the 2020 lockdown, our turnover for the year was less than 60k...

Fortunately we managed to operate at most of the schools during the Autumn to generate that 60k...

"We would usually expect to be going back into schools to photograph class groups from the start of April.

Our feeling this year is that we probably will not be allowed in again until the Autumn.

Another 40% turnover year for us...

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@T4Recovery

16 Mar

👇"NUMBER THEATRE" 📈🎭

UK govt communicated Covid data "with apparent intention of creating a more favourable view of the Govt...

...or even to provoke anxiety rather than help people understand risk," says damning new Parliamentary report.

"This is not acceptable." [Thread]

The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee also:

🎭 Complains of "serious concerns about the lack of transparency and clarity in decision-making" in Govt

🎭 Singles out Michael Gove: his "refusal to appear before this Committee is contemptuous of Parliament"

🎭 Complains of a "moving of the goalposts, which creates uncertainty, makes it impossible to see trends and therefore must stop..."

🎭 "Lamentable and unacceptable:" it is "deeply worrying" Ministers were unable to answer basic questions about lockdown lifting decisions

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@T4Recovery

12 Mar

#LockdownVoices

"I am one of the 3 million left out of all government support, they have told me I must close my business and I am entitled to nothing, this has left me worrying about the future, will they do this again?

[Thread]

"How can they do this to someone who has been a net contributor/higher rate tax payer into the system and never claimed a penny?

The fact that a government can do this with very little opposition is frightening, how would most of the population have coped in my position?

"How would they feel if they were left out?

We are certainly not all in this together.

Then they have the cheek to tell people to retrain, when all learning is virtual, how many years does that take...

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11 Mar

#LockdownVoices

"My husband, under immense pressure trying to keep 200 employees in work, suffered a stroke... our child became suicidal as a result..."

"Throughout lockdown my husband, who heads a family business, has been under immense pressure in...

[Thread]

"...trying to keep all his 200 or so employees in work, whilst keeping the business afloat in spite of decreased sales...

...and dealing with the impact of Covid measures on staff working from home and social distancing in the warehouse for key workers...

"This reached a peak around Christmas with the added impact of Brexit causing problems with imports and exports - an ongoing issue.

In early January, a week into Lockdown 3, my husband suffered a mild stroke which rendered him unable to work for around a month...

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@T4Recovery

9 Mar

#LockdownVoices

"Since early last year we’ve all been bombarded with negative fear-mongering and propaganda from nearly every media platform, and more concerningly, from our own Govt.

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?

"One must conclude, it is done to achieve compliance and acceptance of every freedom and liberty stripped from us.

It is disgraceful.

When news of a virus started to reach us, it never crossed my mind that the UK would entertain such a draconian idea as a national lockdown...

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