{"id":318820,"date":"2025-11-21T07:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318820"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:27:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:27:34","slug":"quick-takethe-covid-inquirys-incredibly-predictable-findings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318820","title":{"rendered":"Quick Take\u2026The Covid Inquiry\u2019s (Incredibly Predictable) Findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian Nov 20, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The UK\u2019s Covid Enquiry has published its second report, and its conclusion is as relevant as it is predictable.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Sky News:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The response of the UK\u2019s four governments to the pandemic was a \u201crepeated case of too little, too late\u201d and tens of thousands of lives could have been saved had lockdowns been introduced faster, the COVID-19 Inquiry has found<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all they were ever going to say, and it\u2019s all we really need to know.<\/p>\n<p>The full report is over seven hundred and fifty pages across two volumes, a Tolstoy novel of irrelevance.<\/p>\n<p>This is the point of formal inquiries, months of quasi-meaningless testimony whose only purpose is to eat up time until the public memory has faded, then lend verisimilitude to the pre-written revisionist conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>We already know the truth, and it\u2019s a truth too big a for single sentence conclusion, five years after the fact, to rewrite.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"15\">\n<li><strong> Lockdowns kill people.<\/strong>There is strong evidence that lockdowns \u2013 through social, economic and other public health damage \u2013 are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2020\/04\/01\/could-the-covid19-response-be-more-deadly-than-the-virus\/\">deadlier than the alleged \u201cvirus\u201d<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Dr David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for Covid-19, described lockdowns as a \u201cglobal catastrophe\u201d in October 2020:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We in\u00a0<strong>the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns<\/strong>\u00a0as the primary means of control of the virus[\u2026] it seems we may have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition [\u2026] This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A UN report from April 2020 warned of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-children-un\/u-n-warns-economic-downturn-could-kill-hundreds-of-thousands-of-children-in-2020-idUSKBN21Y2X7\">100,000s of children being killed<\/a>\u00a0by the economic impact of lockdowns, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/un-pandemic-could-push-tens-of-millions-into-chronic-hunger\/2020\/07\/13\/0733e34e-c51e-11ea-a825-8722004e4150_story.html\">tens of millions more<\/a>\u00a0face possible poverty and famine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2020\/06\/1067432\">Unemployment<\/a>, poverty,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32275300\/\">suicide<\/a>, alcoholism, drug use and other social\/mental health crises are spiking all over the world. While missed and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/latest\/2020\/05\/covid-disruption-28-million-surgeries-cancelled.aspx\">delayed surgeries<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200724212540\/https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/jun\/01\/millions-in-uk-miss-cancer-screenings-tests-and-treatments-due-to-covid-19\">screenings<\/a>\u00a0have already seen increased mortality from heart disease, cancer and other conditions in many countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/opendata\/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021\">\u00a0World Bank report from June 2021<\/a>\u00a0estimated close to\u00a0<strong>100 million people had been plunged extreme poverty by so-called \u201canti-Covid measures\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As of January 2023, healthcare services the world over are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230116084254\/https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2023\/01\/15\/why-health-care-services-are-in-chaos-everywhere\">still experiencing chaotic backlogs<\/a>\u00a0in treatment and diagnosis. The knock-on effects of lockdown will likely hurt public health for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/03\/24\/40-facts-you-need-to-know-the-real-story-of-covid\/#iv\">40 Facts You Need to Know: The Real Story of Covid<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lockdowns didn\u2019t save lives<\/strong>, they weren\u2019t designed to save lives, and more or heavier lockdowns would have been worse not better. That is irrefutable.<\/p>\n<p>There are other (equally predictable) findings to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>At the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cm27m300p2yt\">press conference announcing the findings<\/a> Baroness Hallett, chair of the inquiry, also hailed the vaccine programme as a \u201cremarkable achievement\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The most absurd claim is that the four governments of the UK <em>\u201cdid not take the pandemic seriously enough until it was too late\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That is pure revisionism.<\/p>\n<p>This is the reason OffG hasn\u2019t covered the Inquiry much, it\u2019s a movie we\u2019ve seen before heading toward an ending we all saw coming.<\/p>\n<p>The end goal was the report, now published. Which will be cited far more than it is ever read, and will be the primary tent-pole argument supporting quicker and harder lockdowns when the next fake \u201cpandemic\u201d hits.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, that\u2019s module two done. There are eight more to go apparently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/11\/20\/quick-take-the-covid-inquirys-incredibly-predictable-findings\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These \u2018official inquiries\u2019 always help obscure what really happened. In the case of Covid-19, a contrived plandemic became a global health crisis. While at the same time the inquiry&#8217;s findings will help justify quicker and harder lockdowns when the next fake \u201cpandemic\u201d hits   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":318822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318820"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318825,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318820\/revisions\/318825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}