{"id":215229,"date":"2020-10-19T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215229"},"modified":"2020-10-21T07:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:13:45","slug":"britons-are-being-sentenced-to-a-slow-agonising-death-by-no-10s-panic-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215229","title":{"rendered":"Britons are being sentenced to a slow, agonising death… by No 10’s panic squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Hitchens \u2013 Daily Mail Oct 17, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
One of\u00a0the filthiest tactics of the Panic Merchants is to claim that anyone who opposes their strangling of the country is callous and cares only about money, not life.<\/h5>\n
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Anti-lockdown protesters wearing face masks depicting Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock near Trafalgar Square on Sept 26, 2020. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Dissenters have been pelted with slime of this kind by Johnson, the man who ruined Britain, and by his dense sidekick, Hancock \u2013 perhaps the first Health Secretary in history who does not know that malaria is spread by mosquitoes. They tell us we wish to \u2018let the virus rip\u2019.<\/h5>\n
Well, Johnson and Hancock, if you care so much about lives, get in touch with Lisa King, as I did. Ask her to tell you about how her husband Peter, a retired taxi driver aged 62, died.<\/h5>\n
It is a horrible, upsetting story, involving a grown man screaming in agony. And in my view it is an absolutely direct consequence of Hancock\u2019s conversion of the NHS into a National Covid Service which treats everything else as a nuisance.<\/h5>\n
Peter King was grudgingly granted (as so many now are) a remote session with a GP who, unable to meet him, and apparently ignorant of his records, diagnosed his severe chest discomfort as reflux. I am not especially interested in blaming this doctor. Under the conditions created by Hancock, he was presumably doing his best.<\/h5>\n
But it was not good enough. Actually the trouble was far more serious \u2013 a stone trapped in his gall bladder \u2013 and the resulting delay meant he was overcome with indescribable pain a few days later.<\/h5>\n
Peter was given emergency surgery to reduce the agony, but needed a more radical operation. He was put on the urgent list for it. But this was still too late.<\/h5>\n
He fell terribly ill again and despite the heroic efforts of paramedics, he died. The many years of happy life which Peter and Lisa King might otherwise have had were wiped out for ever.<\/h5>\n
This is not just some isolated case. Something like 25 million appointments with GPs have been lost as a result of the Johnson Government\u2019s panic (not as a result of Covid, as the hopelessly pro-Government BBC always says. The Government had a choice over how to respond, and took the wrong path).<\/h5>\n
Millions have not had referrals for diagnoses including cancer and heart disease. Some of them will have been scythed down as Peter King was. Others will have been needlessly damaged in smaller, slower ways.<\/h5>\n
But this is what Johnson and Hancock have let rip \u2013 needless pain, needless death. Let them never again dare to pretend that their original bungle, and the later months in which they have tried to save themselves from deserved disgrace, were the only way to save lives.<\/h5>\n
I suspect their panic may well in the end kill more than Covid ever did or could have done. We are in the hands of fools who will not admit they have made a terrible mistake.<\/h5>\n
Those\u00a0still taken in by the cuddly, caring \u2018Boris\u2019 image of Prime Minister Johnson may wish to study his impatient, callous response to a distressing question in the Commons last week about the absurd cladding rules which are preventing thousands from moving home, often at horrible personal cost.<\/h5>\n
Dulwich MP Helen Hayes asked about a constituent, Luke Thomas, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. He urgently needs to move closer to his family for support but cannot sell his flat as it does not have the accursed EWS1 form (mentioned here last week) which is pointlessly blocking so many from moving.<\/h5>\n
Mr Thomas\u00a0has no time to wait for relief. Ms Hayes asked: \u2018When will the Prime Minister end this scandal?\u2019 He brushed this off, referring her to an equally useless answer he gave earlier. If he cares, it does not show.<\/h5>\n

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