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‘I grieve for the person I was before' - Covid inquiry to begin new phase
BBC ^ | 09/08/2024 | Jim Reed & Nat Wright

Posted on 09/09/2024 7:28:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The public inquiry into the pandemic will start 10 weeks of hearings on Monday looking at the impact on patients, healthcare workers and the wider NHS. Covid patients have been admitted to hospital more than a million times in the UK since the virus emerged in 2020, while countless others have had care for other conditions disrupted. The third stage of the inquiry will also examine the impact on NHS staff, the use of masks and PPE in hospitals, the policy of shielding the most vulnerable and the treatment of long Covid. And for the first time, the stories of more than 30,000 healthcare staff, patients and relatives will form part of the material entered into evidence. BBC News has spoken to some of them.

“It was absolutely horrendous. We were really struggling, having to scrounge around for masks and gloves,“ says Mandi Masters, a community midwife from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. At that early stage the NHS was, she says, “working in the dark” as the virus spread from China to Italy and then to the UK. Mandi later caught Covid herself – she is convinced at work – and ended up in hospital on oxygen for three weeks.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: before; chinavirus; covid; greive; person; themagain
Government needs to be held accountable for these lockdowns
1 posted on 09/09/2024 7:28:15 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s “covid”?


2 posted on 09/09/2024 7:29:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My nephew is sick this week with covid. He called me and asked if he should take the Paxlovid he was given (for $25).

I said absolutely not, unless you want to get sick again next week. Tough it out and come away with some natural immunity.

He is not taking it. As of last night he was still alive. /sarc


3 posted on 09/09/2024 7:42:51 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

THE UK is having a proper wide ranging inquiry into COVID addressing multiple areas in a structured manner

Resilience and preparedness
Core UK decision-making and political governance
Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems
Vaccines and therapeutics
Procurement
Care sector
Test, Trace and Isolate
Children and Young People
Economic response
The impact of the pandemic

I wish our politicians were serious enough top do the same.


4 posted on 09/09/2024 7:43:36 AM PDT by JSM_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But government run healthcare is the solution.....

Time for another TikTok dance...,


5 posted on 09/09/2024 7:45:11 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: JSM_Liberty

Wanna bet the conclusion of these investigations will be even more government, higher taxes, and more third world immigration? Maybe throw in “Trump’s fault.” And a “structural racism” for good measure.


6 posted on 09/09/2024 7:47:14 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Organic Panic

Or just bow towards Mecca…

I would write more, but the UK isn’t going to find out anything.


7 posted on 09/09/2024 7:50:52 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: JSM_Liberty

I don’t know how serious and open this inquiry will end up being. We’ll know if they talk about ignoring potentially viable off label treatments like the IVM+Zinc protocols.


8 posted on 09/09/2024 8:08:47 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: BenLurkin

It’s what hit me on Friday, and I’m still down from. Bad, bad stuff, whatever anyone wants to call it.


9 posted on 09/09/2024 9:01:08 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I got asymptomatic Covid in 2020. I’m far more healthy than I was the years before.

My wife almost died of Covid in 2020. She still has lingering health issues.

We are both Purebloods.


10 posted on 09/09/2024 9:06:19 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: gitmo

God Bless you both


11 posted on 09/09/2024 9:07:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27 (God bless you )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“UK”
It’s GONE.
And the EU isn’t too far behind.


12 posted on 09/09/2024 9:07:32 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: BenLurkin

An IQ test most people failed.


13 posted on 09/09/2024 9:18:15 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I grieve the the country that was before.


14 posted on 09/09/2024 9:19:51 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I'm voting for the convicted felon with the pierced ear. )
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To: ChildOfThe60s

My husband and I had it three weeks ago. I was given paxlovid but didn’t take it. The doctor said it would make me feel better fast but it would come back. I said screw that and didn’t take it. I took Ivermectin instead. We are better but I still have a stopped up ear and a blurry eye. It’s getting better though.


15 posted on 09/09/2024 9:32:38 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I grieve when I realize how doctors became so compromised by government overreach (and punishment if they went against the official line) that you could no longer believe what they were saying.


16 posted on 09/09/2024 12:56:29 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Melinda in TN

I talked to my nephew today. He said his fever broke and while he felt poorly of course he is much better.

He is glad he did not take paxlovid.


17 posted on 09/09/2024 2:59:41 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: ChildOfThe60s

My husband is 86 with dementia and it was hard on him. I’m glad it was a weaker variant. He wouldn’t have survived the stronger original. I felt better after two days of IVM.


18 posted on 09/09/2024 4:20:38 PM PDT by Melinda in TN
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