UK Covid-19 Inquiry: Transparent or what?

The UK Covid Inquiry requested witness statements from four dissenting groups, then asked us not to publish them, then sat on them for 16 months then said they were irrelevant. This is transparency and rigour as practised by Baroness Hallett and her team. Modified statements were all published by the People’s Vaccine Inquiry but the originals are now published in full here.

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Lest we Forget – Part 5

In this 5th article from his ‘Lest We Forget’ series, Hugh McCarthy has teamed up with Professor Diane Rasmussen of UK Column. They looks at the toll of lockdowns on university students. Including interviews with university staff and also linking to testimony from the UK C-19 Inquiry Module 8 (Children & Young People).

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C-19 Inquiry Module 8 – Children and Young People

‘‘It was recognised that government policies and measures were KNOWINGLY causing HUGE HARM to children and young people and that they were paying a HUGE price to protect the rest of society.’’  “There has been no proper explanation for such an EGREGIOUS FAILING…to have recognised that you are INTENTIONALLY doing something that is likely to cause harm…recognise that is IT IS causing harm and yet not having done the work to put in to mitigation or a reduction in those harms is simply inexplicable and has not been explained.’’ This from the KC to the NI Children’s Commissioner.

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Behind Closed Doors

The shocking evidence heard in the Scottish Covid Inquiry about how people in care homes were denied dignity, love and ultimately life through withdrawal of healthcare during covid has now been echoed in England. Together held a panel discussion including the voices of whistleblowers who have not been heard and addressing fears that the inquiry will not join the dots on the evidence and that damaging new law will embed these practices if any kind of emergency is announced in future…

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Killing not Care

Module 6 of the UK C-19 Inquiry has just completed taking evidence, and much of it has been very harrowing. The overwhelming impression is of numerous unnecessary deaths, not from covid-19 but from loneliness, neglect, dehydration, denial of access to basic medical care, and most seriously the blanket application of DNAR notices across care homes for the elderly and even for young adult with disabilities, often without the patient’s consent or the family’s knowledge. Read this and tell me that the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill will be remotely equipped to prevent abuse and coercion.

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UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry – chapter 1

Module 4, report from day 1 of the hearings to which we are not invited. HART was one of a number of groups who were asked to provide detailed witness statements to the Inquiry, only to find we will not be called to give oral evidence. The Inquiry legal team have apparently shared our statements with the Core Participants and indeed with one of their commissioned experts, but have not as yet confirmed whether or not our statements will be available on the Inquiry website.
Preliminary statements from day 1 are not encouraging!

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