As many of us predicted, the media is full of voices calling on the Govt to introduce new Covid restrictions this autumn.

If they get their way, they won’t stop at the ‘plan B’ we hear so much about.

Already we hear of a 'plan C' to stop people mixing...

[Thread 🧵] They may not get their way this time. 'Case' numbers look to be falling without new measures (surprise, surprise).

The Govt is starting to look at the damage restrictions do and has worked out that ‘plan B’ alone could cost the economy £18bn while yielding dubious benefits.

Exactly 1 month ago, Chris Whitty told the public with great certainty:

"There *IS* going to be an 'exit wave,' there *WILL* be a wave associated with [removing restrictions on 'Freedom Day' 19 July]..."

One MONTH on?

UK 'cases' are actually DOWN 34%... ⏬

[7 day ave.] 🧵

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1414623842081837058

Last November, to justify England’s second lockdown, Whitty made the wild claim in another highly-viewed TV briefing that 4,000 deaths a day were possible imminently without it, before quickly backtracking:

telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/0…

👇#NHSVoices

"I work in a specialist cancer centre.

I have seen patients pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started at all because of Covid... otherwise curable patients now terminal.

The cancer tsunami coming will make Covid look like a walk in the park...

🧵 2/ "I work in a specialist cancer centre.

I have seen patients who have been pulled off chemo regimens half way through or not started on them at all because of Covid.

Unsurprisingly their cancers have progressed and in some cases they are now sadly palliative.

👇#NHSVoices

"I volunteered for the Nightingale Hospitals but was never needed...

...but I’ve watched patients become so unwell due to being too frightened to come into hospital or due to treatments being delayed…

🧵 [Thread] 2/ "I've been a nurse for ten years and now work as a specialist in heart failure.

At the start of Covid we had to suspend all outpatient services, a few of my team stayed to perform telephone clinics and man the phones for patients but the rest of us went up to the wards.

👇#NHSVoices

"Poor process meant many clean wards became infectious as patients were moved before test results back…

Track and trace app forbidden in the hospital for fear of whole teams isolating…."

Thread 🧵 2/ "Throughout the pandemic the guidance on PPE changed several times, not for our safety but due to supply and what was available at the time.

Rest rooms and canteen occupancy cut by 75% and it was weeks before they opened up any other places to have lunch (one was the morgue!)

👇#NHSVoices

"I'm a paramedic. The lockdown backlog has risen to impossible levels.

I honestly think it will come to the point where there is simply no treatment available + patients suffer at home or die: not the v. elderly but the younger + fitter who are just told ‘no’…

🧵 2/ "I’ve been a paramedic for seven years and have worked on ambulances as well as in walk-in centres and out-of-hours services.

The Covid restrictions have meant that there is an enormous backlog of patients who still need to be seen.

👇 #NHSVoices

"Covid took precedence… this led to unnecessary deaths.

I tried to raise concerns but was given many verbal warnings, pulled into the offices and spoken to about 'going above my pay grade' and whistleblowing…

Too many patients were failed...

🧵 [Thread] 2/ "I have been working in the NHS for many years and always loved what I do however the last 18 months has shown me that patient care isn’t at the forefront.

I specialise in Neurology, working with pre-op and post-op care...

👇#NHSVoices

"In its impact on mental health provision in this country, Covid strategy has been a moral disgrace…

We have enacted by diktat a serious moral failure of state, impacting the most vulnerable people.

I am deeply ashamed to have been part of it..."

🧵[Thread] "I work in mental health in England.

The last year has been the worst by far of my entire career.

This has not been because of Covid itself but because of the obsessional focus on Covid related risks at the expense of all else...

👇NEW: Recovery submits complaint to Advertising Standards Agency about dangerously misleading Government advertising on Covid tests

The Government already has a track record of breaching advertising guidelines...

[Thread] 🧵 Earlier this year, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told the Government to remove a radio commercial which made the statement ‘one in three people are spreading it without knowing’ as misleading...

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/2…

👇#NHSVoices

"I’ve been a GP in the NHS since 1986.

I've seen a handful of patients with serious C19 symptoms but 100s of patients suffering due to lockdown.

Cancers diagnosed too late, heart disease due to delays. The list is endless. This is no service. It’s a disgrace."

🧵 "I’ve worked as a GP in the NHS since 1986.

I have been horrified at the way the government have handled the pandemic.

Stopping me seeing my patients face-to-face overnight has been a nightmare for me and my patients...

#NHSVoices

"The NHS is being used to frighten people and hold them hostage in their own homes...

We are supposed to be there to help working class people, not wave a finger at them and police every aspect of their lives..."

[Thread] 🧵 "In my experience, Public Health Wales has been almost completely side-lined.

The government have taken almost complete control of pandemic response with confusing, arbitrary edicts with barely any supporting evidence to back them up...

👇#NHSVoices

"I work front line in two areas of the NHS…

From March 2020 all previous evidence-based science changed overnight…

We had patients die of things they had not sought help early enough for..."

[Thread] 🧵 "I work front line in two areas of the NHS and from March 2020 when all previous evidence-based science changed overnight I knew there was a serious issue greater than that of a new strand of a Coronavirus...

👇 #NHSVoices

"The reduction in access for NHS Dentistry must be explained…

From 25 March to 7 June Dentists were fobbing off patients and dishing out antibiotics like Smarties…"

[Thread] 🧵 "The reduction in access for NHS Dentistry must be explained.

NHSE + PHE forced the closure of ALL dental practices at end of Mar 2020 with only a handful of practices able to see patients face to face during early April building eventually to about 600 practices nationally...

👇 #NHSVoices

"I was reported to NHS England for highlighting potentially missed cancer diagnoses...

Waiting list numbers are now so staggering it’s hard to see how normal services can ever be recovered..."

[Thread] 🧵 "I work for NHS England in the analytical team and have been at the heart of the monitoring of the NHS response to Covid right from the very beginning.

There has been a prevailing narrative throughout the last year plus, and no-one openly challenges that...

🧵 Starting here tomorrow: #NHSVoices

Recovery wants to make sure all voices are heard so the management of Covid is balanced and proportionate.

Many NHS staff have joined Recovery.

They tell us that despite the heroism of many NHS workers, incompetent Govt and management... ...mean our health service is failing.

But we know many NHS staff are frightened to speak out.

They have been warned not to. Threatened, even.

This is very dangerous, because without urgent action to fix the NHS crisis now, patients will suffer and many will die needlessly...

NEW: "We recommend Govt abandon idea of Covid status certification system domestically"

Damning new report by Parliamentary committee @CommonsPACAC

➡️"unnecessary"
➡️"discriminatory"
➡️"detrimental to UK cultural, social, economic interests"

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmse…

Thread 🧵 "appears Govt has pre-empted conclusions of its own review" around Covid certification

decisions "not based on scientific or public health reasons"

"a significant infringement of individual rights"

"fraught with data protection and security risks"

publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5802/cmse…

👇 IT'S FINALLY HERE! 🔥

"How to create your very own 'SCARIANT' - in 10 easy steps"

A @T4Recovery guide to creating and maintaining fear with a never-ending stream of 'new variants.'

Watch the video or read the thread... 🧵 🔥 STEP 1

Learn a basic fact of virology: there are hundreds of thousands of variants of Covid-19, many yet to be discovered.

🧵Thread

🚨How @Ofcom - supposed to uphold free speech in UK - suppresses it on Covid

🚨How govt plans to use this faceless agency to "close down free speech online"

🚨UK taxpayer funds secretive new censorship tool for China-dominated @WHO to control debate online round world @Ofcom, led by @dawes_melanie, is the UK broadcasting regulator.

Its statutory duty? To uphold freedom of speech and ensure responsible broadcasting.

We now see Ofcom betrayed the trust placed in it by the people of the UK, by stifling debate...
ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/wh…

👇DON’T THEY JUST LOVE A VARIANT?

Take action now to stop Johnson and Hancock moving the goalposts on you yet again - here’s how.

🧵 Thread 👇

Please RT 2. Just as we’re looking forward to the lifting of restrictions to our way of life on June 21st - 15 months on from '3 weeks to flatten the curve' remember...

...it is now under threat from the Campaign of Fear surrounding the latest in a long line of variants...

👇BIG:

"Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit SAGE scientists, now regret ‘unethical’ methods..."

Thread... 🧵

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/1… #EndTheFear SAGE committee SPI-B notoriously recommended in March last year that ministers needed to increase "the perceived level of personal threat" from Covid-19 because "a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened"...

#LockdownVoices

"I've gone from being a successful entrepreneur employing 120+ staff to practically bankrupt, and likely to lose my home.

There was little or no support for the company - furlough + bounce back loans nowhere near sufficient, + zero support for me individually... "I was a major shareholder and director of a large Event Production company...

We had turned it from a loss-making £2 million turn over business in 2009 to a £45million turn over profitable business employing 120 permanent and many more part time staff...