Ed: Earlier this year we published the letter our reader Frederica sent to her MP (here). She received an answer, dated 21/1/21, which is government propaganda at its finest. First, the abbreviated letter from the MP – we’ve omitted the lengthy middle part:

“Thank you for your email. I am very aware of the negative impact that lockdowns have on people and businesses, but the alternatives to these measures to control Covid would be not only many more thousands of people dying from the virus, but also deaths from other illnesses that could not be treated in overwhelmed hospitals, and the prospect of even more of our economy grinding to a halt with so many people sick or in fear of sickness. […] People write to me every day with problems they are having with their businesses and mental wellbeing. I am not supporting these restrictions lightly and I am too well aware of their costs. The government has no choice but to take the action that it is taking to protect people. Once enough people are vaccinated I do hope we will be able to start lifting restrictions so life can start to return to normal. Please contact me again if there is anything else I can do for you.”

Here is Frederica’s reply, sent on 2nd February 2021:

Thank you for your e-mail dated 21/1/21. I have read it carefully. I note the item regarding NHS statistics. Statistics can be ‘cut’ to illustrate the required result!  Statistics also depend upon the timing of their issue and dissemination!  So the “fear and force” factor continues.  It reinforces the belief – now held by many – that government will never admit fault and will stand by its dogma to the bitter end.

Fear has become the over-riding factor.  Fuelled by government and “experts” to maintain totalitarian grip.  “Experts” whose academic and moral probity has been called into question because their sensationalist “modelled” predictions covering previous crises have often proved to be wildly inaccurate!

Keeping the ‘fear factor’ at peak levels, ‘scientists’ repeatedly discover ‘new strains and mutants’.  This morning (2/2/21) came the announcement that “the Kent Strain has mutated again to mimic the South African Variant.  It has mutated to “escape immune response”!  As though to imply that the mutant virus has some sort of ‘brain’ of its own and that the so-called ‘scientists’ are playing St George to the dragon of the virus!!!  Thus the political ‘dictatorship’ uses this in order to maintain the state of ‘House Arrests’ for as long as ‘new mutant strains’ can be found!

“The vaccines may not be effective” they say. “Natural immunity will not protect people”!  Natural immunity is ‘acquired’ through living!  It is often true that the elderly have less natural immunity.  However, most of them would prefer to end their lives having ‘lived’ rather than ’existed’!  Vaccinations against known ‘diseases’ have been effective.  Vaccination against ‘viruses’ has been known to be a ‘chancy’ process as viruses do mutate.  

The ‘experts’ are no longer convincing the ‘thinking’ public.  On every hand I read comments from those who have realised that the constant spin and hyperbole is designed to keep the population incarcerated and in fear of incurring the notice of the newly created Stasi Police ‘Force’!

The data relating to numbers of “COVID” cases and deaths is deserving  of scrutiny. I read that 25% were through hospital acquired infection;  some 30% resulted from the elderly being sent out of hospital and into care homes (without prior testing).  The number of COVID ‘recorded’ deaths is being seriously questioned.  It  appears that, regardless of any other health implication, if a ‘positive’ COVID test can be applied, then that death records as a COVID death!!!

Hospitalisation seems to be very hazardous for the elderly.  Because, not allowed visitors, there have been reported instances where families have found their relatives have been effectively ‘lost’ in the system and access to information has been stymied by poor communication processes. The current predilection for imposing (often without their knowledge or approval) of DNAR notices is a shocking trend.  I have been reading personal reports that have been logged by concerned and angry relatives who have found they have been blocked by the ‘system’ from looking out for their elderly folk!

The government has been vociferous in its constant exhortations to “Save the NHS”.  What for?  The NHS no longer seems fit for purpose.  It has become the “National COVID Service”.  The ‘services’ that it provides are diminishing rapidly.  Both hospitals and GP’s have closed their doors to the most basic of services.  Surgery waiting rooms are empty!  Services such as ear syringing and podiatry are mostly non-existent.  It used to be a matter of routine to attend a nurse-led clinic to access such service.  Now it is no longer available and patients (most likely to be the elderly) are obliged to pay £50 or more and wait a long time for an appointment as well! 

Why is the 100,000 ‘milestone’ of deaths over a period of ten months deemed so ‘grim’, when in any one year around 600,000 people die for all reasons.  Many of them, being elderly, succumb over the winter period to all the usual respiratory ailments (usually ‘flu and pneumonia) because of either their extreme age or fragility or they have other health constraints. 

You mentioned the backlog of mortuary cases in Kent.  I suggest that this backlog has been caused more particularly by the “COVID secure” requirements.  Sixteen years ago my mother died in November.  The death certificate was issued the following day but I had to wait over a week to obtain an appointment with the registrar and it was a further 14 days before she was interred.  I call that a significant delay time from death to burial.  It was not a year when the NHS was under any more ‘strain’ than usual!  There was no suggestion that bodies were being held in makeshift mortuaries then because of pressure of numbers!

Many feel that government has become hostile to the people (and the elderly in particular) and have now turned from the MSM to other sources for information and debate:

“That a ‘fact’ or ‘view’ has come from an authority should never place it above debate and discussion, as all researchers know. Indeed, authorities can (and have historically) sometimes been wrong, ‘got at’ or otherwise become unreliable. ‘Official’ does not automatically equal ‘reliable’, valid or true.

  • It is only through considering conflicting, knowledgeable and substantiated viewpoints from an objective, informed, unimpassioned perspective that we can hope to arrive at a worthwhile level of understanding. Without such discussion, statements like ‘following the science’ are not merely a nonsense, they’re misleading and dangerous.
  • None of this would matter if, and this is the point, much of the mainstream media had not effectively positioned itself as an authority competent to judge the content, rather than engaging in investigating and reporting on the debates raging (and I do mean raging) among scientists over COVID-19.”

You cite “overwhelmed” hospitals.  I contend that, if hospitals have been recently in danger of being “overwhelmed”, then it is through poor management rather than case numbers.  Following the first wave of COVID and during March 2020 lockdown, there was ample illustration for management to deem, that action was needed to ready the NHS system to prevent any recurrence of infections compromising the ability of the NHS to cope.  The Nightingale hospitals (installed at great expense and with such fanfare!) were never used and were stood down.  Complacency rather than planning by management?

In this last “wave”, NHS staff are attesting (in ‘non-MSM’ arenas) that the hospitals are no more “overwhelmed” than they have been at this time of year than in any other  ‘bad ‘flu year’.  I add a link to an article by James Delingpole that appeared in “Conservative Woman” 28/1/21.  I believe he reflects the situation very succinctly!

You mention the number of ‘excess deaths’ being recorded this year.  I see reports that around 100 people per day have died during 2020 due to an unnaturally (government enforced lockdowns!) sedentary lifestyle, leading to cardio-vascular disease, diabetes and cancers.  100 per day over, say, 300 days (ten months) equates to 30,000 excess deaths.  No-one can be sure how many more will die in the coming months/years through poor diet, lack of exercise and loss of hope or of losing their employment or businesses due to the government enforced ‘house arrest’!  

The Federation of Small Businesses reports 250,000 businesses will collapse in 2021 unless there is support or relaxation of government restrictions.  They say it would bring the total number that have closed to 470,000. So, what is the government plan?  You say that vaccination of the population will bring about the opportunity to start lifting restrictions.  As it has been stated that none of the vaccines can guarantee to prevent contracting COVID (and now the mutations!) and vaccination will need to be followed by a three week isolation period before the efficacy can be felt, it is hard to feel any degree of confidence in the programme!

The number of illegal immigrants still arriving in this country (many of them apparently testing COVID positive) is a scandal!  The fact that they are allowed to wander freely in the community (presumably even they are allowed out to ‘exercise’!) is appalling!  Yet there seems to be no will within government to resolve this unsatisfactory situation.  Defending our borders does not seem to be such a priority as keeping the populace under house arrest!

As things stand, there is no sign of any political will either to relax lockdowns or, at any future time, repeal the hastily implemented laws that have denied a whole people the freedom to live and work normally. Government is ‘savouring’ the power that these totalitarian restrictions have brought them.  Laws are made with minimal Parliamentary scrutiny and this week, ‘adjusted’ on the say-so of the Health Secretary! Government  does not seem to be in any hurry to relinquish such power! The suspicion now is that there are plans to circumnavigate democracy and cancel the May elections yet again!!  

We perceive a government that has wilfully pursued action indebting the country to many billions of £s (to be paid by taxation burdening the current and the next generations).  I see the prospect of a shattered economy; devastation of small business; mass unemployment and a broken and health-compromised population.  The concept of Marxist control seems to have taken hold.  So I end with the following quotation:-

“Lenin was once asked what the main ethos of Communism was, he replied “control.” Control means control of the people. Control of you, control of me, control of everybody. So everything about the people must be politicised in order that they may be controlled by the dominant political ideology. And as such, nothing can be trusted for the simple reason that reality, factuality, decency, morality, reason and honesty are the antithesis of fanatical politics which believes in only one thing – control.”

And that is what is now perceived to be this Government’s intent!  Prove us wrong!

Respectfully, Frederica

 

 

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