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I’ve subscribed purely to thank you.

I lost both of my shielding parents to Covid. Their names were Cliff & Jean Anderson.

My father, carer to my Mum, sat in his home in 2020, watching the news saying this was a cull of the elderly. We saw the discharge of the elderly first hand. We saw them moved to care homes untested. We saw the lies peddled each night. We saw the lack of testing of non Domiciliary care workers & their exemption from the rules. My father was scared. He never went out. We lost that year entirely, forced to FaceTime daily as we desperately sought to keep Dad’s spirit up, to keep them safe. But we couldn’t.

Dad died first. Likely an asymptomatic carer. They weren’t tested. They had to “self declare”. He had an enormous Covid induced stroke. He was taken away on Jan 11 in an ambulance after 4.5hr wait. I never saw or spoke to him again. I caught Covid giving him first aid. My Mum followed him 36 days later.

Collateral damage. Cannon fodder to the incompetents. Numbers chirped out at 5pm on Hancock’s grim reaper clapometer. His nightly death roster while he lied about how good a job he was doing. They don’t belong on that list, they were my irreplaceable loved ones. They were my children’s everything. A hole has been ripped in our hearts. Life will never be the same. I never understood what bereft meant until this.

I wrote to you in the days before your select committee appearance, telling you a little of their lives & asking that you speak honestly and freely. For those of us who are bereft but have no voice. Against a PM & Hancock who lie, who mislead, who cannot even be bothered to have the respect to attend the memorial opposite Parliament. Lest they be shamed by the reality of a symbol of their abject failure. Those nightly numbers sure have added up quickly.

So thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I hope you continue to divulge what you know, until it cannot be ignored, or swept away, or hidden. You were challenged by that fool to produce the evidence, please continue to do so. I have no wish to wait 5-10 years for a whitewash inquiry. The time is now.

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Flora Page's avatar

You are now effectively “the opposition”. I hope that you have or are developing a plan for how to construct some form of structure around that, so that we don’t just end up with other incompetents taking over from the ones you have the dirt on.

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