“Our grave concerns about the handling of the Covid pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK” [22 August 2021]:
We write as concerned doctors, nurses and other allied healthcare professionals … We are taking the step of writing this public letter because it has become apparent to us that:
- The Government (by which we mean the UK government and three devolved governments/administrations and associated government advisors and agencies …, hereinafter "you" or the "Government") have based the handling of the COVID pandemic on flawed assumptions.
- These have been pointed out to you by numerous individuals and organisations.
- You have failed to engage in dialogue and show no signs of doing so. You have removed from people fundamental rights and altered the fabric of society with little debate in Parliament. No minister responsible for policy has ever appeared in a proper debate with anyone with opposing views on any mainstream media channel.
- Despite being aware of alternative medical and scientific viewpoints you have failed to ensure an open and full discussion of the pros and cons of alternative ways of managing the pandemic.
- The pandemic response policies implemented have caused massive, permanent and unnecessary harm to our nation, and must never be repeated.
- Only by revealing the complete lack of widespread approval among healthcare professionals of your policies will a wider debate be demanded by the public.
In relation to the above, we wish to draw attention to the following points. Supporting references can be provided upon request.
- No attempt to measure the harms of lockdown policies. …
- Institutional nature of Covid. …
- The exaggerated nature of the threat. …
- Active suppression of discussion of early treatment using protocols being successfully deployed elsewhere. …
- Inappropriate and unethical use of behavioural science to generate unwarranted fear. …
- Misunderstanding of the ubiquitous nature of mutations of newly emergent viruses. …
- Misunderstanding of asymptomatic spread and its use to promote public compliance with restrictions. …
- Mass testing of healthy children. …
- Vaccination of the entire adult population should never have been a prerequisite for ending restrictions. …
- Over-reliance on modeling while ignoring real-world data. …
“The UK's approach to Covid has palpably failed. In the apparent desire to protect one vulnerable group – the elderly – the implemented policies have caused widespread collateral and disproportionate harm to many other vulnerable groups, especially children.
“Moreover your policies have failed in any event to prevent the UK from notching up one of the highest reported death rates from Covid in the world.
“Now, despite very high vaccination rates and the currently very low Covid death and hospitalisation rates, policy continues to be aimed at maintaining a population handicapped by extreme fear with restrictions on everyday life prolonging and deepening the policy-derived harms.”
Also see: “Six Covid facts we’re in danger of forgetting”:
- The infection fatality rate
- Animals carry the virus
- Sweden
- Israel and waning immunity
- The recovered
- Nonvaccinated versus vaccinated
