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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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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