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The uncivilised purporting to keep everyone "safe" as long as their uncivil rules were adhered to to the letter. All those lives degraded and lost on the altar of an alleged pandemic. How lonely and despairing were people's last days and hours while Sturgeon and Johnson scored points off each other. Damning testimony from this Inquiry.

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Yes and the laptop classes worked from their cosy homes, took up growing basil on their windowsills, and baked banana-bread.

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The covid virus took centre stage and was used by our public bodies to withdraw or to severely cut every essential service in society. They made sure that fear and hysteria of the virus was ramped up to such an extent that everyone accepted the unacceptable. It was government gaslighting at its best, power and control over society was gained and reality was distorted. The disabled and elderly were the real victims who suffered the most from the phycological and physical neglect/abuse and the virus was blamed for it all.

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Correct. My adult son has a learning disability, and all his usual activities were cancelled. He just hid away in his bedroom all day and watched TV all night - it was shocking to see the deterioration.

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Truly awful, no infection or any illness management justifies bringing further damage to the disabled and elderly. It had to be known that cutting essential services to the physically and mentally vulnerable would damage them and many irreparably so. The people charged with running this debacle should lawfully be made to answer for the dereliction of their duty to protect the vulnerable in our society.

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Misconduct in public office is lauded in the new normal. Labour MPs are also now beating up their own constituents. :-D

''Misconduct in public office (“MiPO”) is a common law offence that can be tried only on indictment. It carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The offence concerns serious wilful abuse or neglect of the power or responsibilities of the public office held.''

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/misconduct-public-office

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Covid became EVERYTHING even made any colds or other common respiratory conditions PLUS flu disappear .That should tell you everything!

It was all encompassing, swallowing all other services & meaning of life we had lived before 😔

It stripped everyone of their individual rights as a free man woman or child

Used us all in a huge experiment

Never to return to before .....😪

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Child protection at a Scottish secure unit was "consistently compromised", a watchdog has ruled.

Inspectors found young people at St Mary's Kenmure in East Dunbartonshire were often subject to high levels of physical restraint "disproportionate" to the risk they possessed and that only police intervention had prevented "incredibly serious outcomes".

The Bishopbriggs facility was ordered by the Care Inspectorate earlier this month to stop accepting new admissions due to "a serious risk" to the life of residents there.

The full inspection into the unit has now been published, external, with St Mary's stating it would take "all steps necessary" to act on the findings.

The report gave St Mary's the lowest possible rating of one out of six, and listed a number of failings, including that there was "a lack of robust governance around child protection and safeguarding."

The inspectors stated: "Young people were subject to or witnessed unnecessarily high levels of physical restraint and restrictive practice."

This contributed to a "reactive" culture where restraint was "disproportionate to the risks faced".

It added: "People had been harmed in the process of using restraint and there was no documented evidence to inform a culture of learning from significant incidents."

'Unsafe situations'

Other problems included "dangerously low" staffing levels, toilet water running into bedrooms from the showers and door security being regularly breached by people there.

The low number of staff created "unsafe situations where without the involvement of the police there could have been incredibly serious outcomes," the report stated.

The facility cares for a maximum of 24 people. https://www.careinspectorate.com/index.php/inspection-reports?fbclid=IwY2xjawGOZ4JleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHefzYzszu_Vd6qMhC4Nehu2PQKiK7lIVUoH4_r_k0EDhigtSTes3lv78jw_aem_vGzxiaGbIe6tYj5887Rqmw

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Brutal.

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Yes, and as bad as the institutions for young people who challenge services that were supposed to be closed down 40 years ago.

I bet they were all fully vaccinated, though ;-)

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The comment about supermarket delivery slots reminded me about my elderly aunt's predicament which I wrote about (link below, if you don't mind me sharing here). She is disabled and being housebound, the supermarkets did nothing to help. The 'big four' supermarkets would not guarantee dropping shopping over the doorstep due to the 'safety' of their drivers. In the end I recall Waitrose was the only sensible supermarket that would bring goods in. On one occasion - detailed in the article - she was reduced to tears on her doorstep when finding heavy bags of shopping dumped outside which she could not possibly have bent to lift or even carry. Utter madness and a disgrace.

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/dont-kill-granny-just-terrify-or-ignore-her/

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This likely resulted in deaths as she said- ''‘‘It was GRAVELY serious'' so literally disabled people starved to death in lockdown along with the elderly being starved in care homes. Where is the ''alt'' media?

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None of these draconian policies were subjected to any form of consultation, risk assessment, or equalities assessment. As a professional social research interviewer in Glasgow, Central and and West Scotland for the last decade I have often encountered people living in abject poverty and neglect. As a carers activist myself, I was inwardly screaming when these policies were imposed, because I know from my work that the people in the most vulnerable situations of complex multiple deprivation and abuse were precisely those least able to adapt and cope with them.

Me, I was put on furlough, and donated it to the local food bank. I didn't want the blood-money whilst others lives were at risk of despair, neglect and abuse.

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Thanks Rob. What i say to people is if your government wanted to harm or even kill you particularly certain demographics how would they go about doing it? See COVID policies. This was DELIBERATE and being done under the guise of a deadly pandemic of which there is skant evidence at best in their own data it was ever a thing. Good on you for donating.

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I have completely been removed from the electoral register, no longer pay TV license and once I have found a way to protect assets will withhold council tax.

I do not consent nor which to support criminal activity of those destroying lives and the economy , it is not unintentional.

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That's the only way to bring about a real solution so well done Steve.

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Its very simple in essence, we need enough people to wake up to the fraud and stop complying, the saying "it stops when we say it stops" holds alot of weight👍🤝 I sent the council a detailed email saying our democracy is a scam ,they did not rebutt a single comment I made and removed me from the entire electoral register, when they send out the who lives at this address letter, I am not on it🙃 the more people that do this stuff the better🙂

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Our council reacted with the IQ of a snail, by placing concrete barriers on the access road to our country park, and taping off the kiddies swingparks. Let us never forget just how stupid the 'Cooncil' can be.

Nor the real damage they caused. I used to chill out in the park with the dog, and saw one stooped old man out walking , with his stick, in the open air, with nobody close,. wearing his silly paper mask, and it honestly was horrible to see.

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Funnily enough I still think they actually believed their own propaganda and sort of got sucked into it - like a vortex of lies, more lies followed to cover up the original lies, and so on ad infinitum. What's more, in the UK at least, I think that it was Dominic Cummings (yes, Wormtongue) who was the Prime Suspect in warping the ear of Boris.

If so, then why? Well, I think being one of prime architects of the Brexit referendum victory, he was drunk on power and needed more of it. And his ally in Chief was the equally vicious and nasty cheat, Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial. These two, above all others, suckered us into the greatest self-imposed catastrophe since the Iraq War.

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check out and reshare widely the latest posts on the james roguski substack..but beware the censorship gestapo

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what's so good about it?

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read it

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‘‘Disabled people who weren’t shielding didn’t qualify for delivery slots.’’

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