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Regarding suicide. Retired CPN but working on nurse bank til Feb 20 when I stood back due to initial concerns about health (ashamed to say, but even I succombed to Fear at the beginning!). Live in my previous catchment area and can say I regularly supported ex clients I met on my daily walks. Even had ex patient approach me for support when her paramedic son in law hung himself beginning of second lockup in October 20. Did this willingly..these people had been ABANDONED by community mental healt services! Witnessed one wee family absolutely blown apart! It was and still is shocking! I tried to revalidate my registration citing these hours as in extraordinary circumstances of "pandemic" but 200 plus hours of support not acknowledged by NMC and left the register in 21 as a result. Apologies for long post but this makes me so angry. I was a dedicated experienced mental health professional and not a day goes by I do not miss my vocation.

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Thanks for sharing these stories are so important given no lessons are really being learned.

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It is sad to see that the professionals who have the most to offer their patients are the ones being driven out of their jobs. Thank you for telling your story and for helping those vulnerable people. The state deliberately inflicted fear into most of us in 2020, what is most important was eventually recognising the lies and manipulation, we all became aware at different times.

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🙏thank you Amat. To be honest, whilst it broke my heart to relinquish my registration, Specialist Practitioner in Mental heath nursing in the Community, I could not work in NHS after witnessing the Covid Nonsense. I can barely engage with my own GP now. But regarding community mental health...from what I hear and see The Nonsense was used to dismantle this whole service. 😢

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Yes, the fear was real and palpable, and government has blood on their hands. They deliberately created it, after all - because on observation alone we would not have even known there WAS a pandemic here in Kilsyth. We also lost a close young family friend/neighbour to suicide in Dec 2020 and it was heartbreaking.

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I am so sorry for your loss. That is awful. What happened during those times was pure evil. 🙏for justice one day

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Energy is already paid for by the government through the national grid. Energy companies are brokers not suppliers. Also, it is perfectly legal to have your own meters fitted as long as they're installed and certificated by a qualified electrician. There are a growing number of people who haven't paid for years (nearly 3 for me) and there's nothing they can do about it. I was happy to pay mine until the point at which they doubled the price of the energy AND standing charge. When is enough enough? I also stopped paying the fraudulent council tax 2 years ago. Again, there's little they can do because there is no obligation to pay it and contrary to popular belief, it goes straight to central government. Here's the thing. I can afford to pay it. I'm retired and financially better off than when myself and my wife were working but I'm not giving the government who are nothing short of terrorists, to spread they're death and destruction across the world. That's what I lose sleep over, not a knock on the door by scumbags masquerading as debt collectors

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Thanks for all that Paul. I'm personally aware of the ''energy supply'' scam i'm just shocked no one has been able to take these brokers to task over it in the courts. I admire your resolve and what you are doing. It is the real solution.

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+++ En France aussi. Par exemple, moi, ici, (Bourgogne) j'ai renoncé à me chauffer depuis deux ans. Juste un feu de cheminée dans ma chambre 7°C dans le reste de la maison… et encore il n'a pas encore fait vraiment froid cet hiver !

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This was published today - looks like Calderwood chickened out of giving testimony: what a coward! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy37q159z7o

Dr Catherine Calderwood resigned as chief medical officer in April 2020

Published

12 December 2024, 10:13 GMT

Updated 49 minutes ago

Scotland's former chief medical officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, has been excused from giving evidence to the UK Covid Inquiry on health grounds.

The medic, who resigned during the pandemic after breaking lockdown rules, was given a year's grace in December 2023 after she was deemed to be unfit to provide evidence.

Inquiry chairwoman Baroness Hallett, who said she had received regular updates, has now issued a ruling excusing Dr Calderwood indefinitely.

She said the decision would be open to review if the situation changed.

Baroness Hallet said she had "carefully considered the importance of Dr Calderwood's evidence to the issues being investigated" in the next stages of the inquiry.

She said all core participants were offered the chance to provide any further observations by 5 December.

The chairwoman added: "Having reviewed the medical evidence provided to me and having received no observations from core participants, I am satisfied that Dr Calderwood should be excused from further participation in the inquiry."

Lockdown scandal

Dr Calderwood resigned as chief medical officer in April 2020 - two weeks after the UK-wide lockdown was imposed on 23 March.

She had been given a police warning for breaking the rules by making two trips to her second home in Earlsferry in Fife with her family, more than an hour's drive from her main home in Edinburgh.

The former chief medical officer had fronted TV and radio adverts urging the public to stay at home to save lives and protect the NHS.

In January 2021, Dr Calderwood was appointed national clinical director of the Centre for Sustainable Delivery at the Golden Jubilee hospital in Clydebank.

She has since been appointed as professor of practice at the University of Strathclyde, and joined the board of Women in Sport, a charity that aims to tackle inequality, in May this year.

She gave evidence to the early stages of the inquiry in July 2023, telling it that Scotland's communication with scientific experts in London during the pandemic was hampered by poor technology.

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Thanks Rob. I have little doubt you are correct.

''looks like Calderwood chickened out.''

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I wouldn't have trusted a single word she said anyway: "she was deemed to be unfit to provide evidence."

Was that on medical, or moral, grounds?

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She went from quick witted, optimistic and driven to totally unfit in five or so years. That's quite a downfall.

https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h5251

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Calderwood was not keen on scaring the public with daily COVID death figures Freeman basically said absolutely not this will get compliance.

https://biologyphenom.substack.com/p/newformer-chief-medical-officer-for?utm_source=publication-search

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