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Mark Fletton's avatar

I read the list of 'items' that the so-called 'Inquiry' is due to report on over the coming weeks and months. It included PPE deficiencies, 'preparedness', 'test and trace', and several others.

The one item I didn't find on that list? The moral aspects of the whole thing.

The morality of ordering people to stay in their homes, basically for 23 hours a day - similar to what someone in HMP estate gets.

The morality of a government instilling fear in its own people, quite deliberately, as set out in the SPI-B document from 23rd March 2020.

The morality of coercing people to take a medical procedure, potentially on pain of losing your job and livelihood if you didn't.

The morality of valuing my life, or any other individual's life, as more or less important than anyone else's. The impact on my life, for example, of all these measures - designed to 'try' to save the lives of someone else - was never considered. 'Save granny' seemed to trump 'save those who these measures would inevitable harm and, pretty clearly, end up killing.

Fit, healthy people who were never at risk from 'Co vid' but whose lives were expendable, if necessary, in an attempt to save the lives of others - in a situation where the success or failure of that purported attempt could never possibly be proved.

Just adds insult to injury.

And those of us who have had our lives ripped apart by what I contend were these immoral and unjustifiable measures now appear to be 'collateral damage'.

This is what happens when you trust your government. They take it, abuse it, and walk away smelling of anything, because it really doesn't matter how they smell at that point. They're gone - on to the next thing.

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ShoutyMum's avatar

Beautifully put Julie.

Welcome to the next episode of Matt and Jeremy get thrown under the bus and there are no repercussions because “it was a GLOBAL pandemic” don’t cha know.

We’ll do better next time, blah blah blah.

I mentioned Event 201 at work last week and they looked at me all gormless like I’d grown an extra head. How could they possibly have known?!!!! Cue much hand wringing...... “oh I don’t know, maybe they planned it.” A look of puzzlement from the girl next to me as she says “I’m not buying that”. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️ You don’t have to buy it dear, the truth is free.

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