Covid Commemoration? You Must Be Joking
No, I didn’t know either until I read it in this morning’s Daily Sceptic that there was a U.K. Commission for Covid Commemoration, chaired by Baroness (Nicky) Morgan. But we can all sleep easily, because its members have been busy on our behalf, thrashing out how we can best remember the pandemic, through “a Remembrance Sunday-style symbol, dedicated memorials and reflective spaces”. If you thought, as I did, that you might wish to respond to the public consultation which has recently opened, you might want to think again.
First, there is the usual loaded questionnaire. We are at least given a choice on whether there should be a commemorative coin (Q7) but for most questions, ‘none of the above’ is not an option. So you can rank the sort of memorial you would prefer (Q3) and how many memorials we should have (Q4) but not whether we should have a memorial at all. And what and whom are we supposed to be commemorating?
The Commission breathlessly suggests we remember “those who lost their lives and those who cared for those in need as well as those who kept our essential services running or stepped up in other ways such as taking on volunteering responsibilities”. We have all seen that photograph from the Blitz of a milkman, scrambling over the bomb wreckage from the previous night, showing calm – and yes, cheerful – determination to simply carry on and deliver the milk. We can celebrate that stoical sense of duty, which some did evince during the pandemic; but let’s also remember those many who crumbled at the first test and instantly turned to totalitarianism, as vicious as it was pointless. Does the Resistance get a nod?
But it’s the Commission’s first question which reveals most. “The Commission is considering a national day of remembrance” – and we are offered a deathly series of anniversary dates which might be chosen: January 30th (first confirmed case), March 5th (announcement of first recorded death), March 11th (WHO declaration of pandemic), March 23rd (first lockdown), April 7th (World Health Day, apparently) or July 5th (anniversary of NHS being founded). Read it and weep.
In other words, what we are being cajoled into commemorating is a medical event – inevitably, as throughout those SAGE meetings, everything non-medical – political choices, educational harms, economic Armageddon – was off the agenda. Who might think like this? The Commission is made up of Baroness Morgan and 10 members. Four of those hold very senior NHS posts. They are joined by a former Chief Scientific Adviser (ex-Wellcome, Imperial) and by the co-author of the recent NHS leadership review, which advocated more diversity, equity and inclusion – “none of the issues that affect the great majority of people”, as the Daily Telegraph observed.
I think we can see where this is leading. It’s effectively telling us: “It’s time to move on, so let’s just remember those who died (of whatever cause), thank ‘The Science’, renew our vows to ‘protect the NHS’ and forget the rest in the interests of coming together as a nation.”
They’ll be calling for an amnesty next.
Jean Marat is a pseudonym.
Stop Press: A reader got in touch to share his response to the consultation. He said: “It’s made my blood boil and I’ve responded to them already. I didn’t bother to point out that: a) their proforma presupposes that people support the idea; b) they are prejudging the Covid Inquiry.”
This is what he sent them:
I am responding to your consultation about Covid Commemoration.
I support the idea of a Covid Commemoration but only to remind us all of the utter stupidity of our reaction.
Covid is a seasonal respiratory virus with an Infection Fatality Rate not much greater than Influenza and hugely skewed to the elderly. Pre-existing immunity from prior infection by related coronaviruses was completely ignored. Asymptomatic transmission was completely exaggerated. There was no cost/benefit analysis of any pharmaceutical or non-pharmaceutical intervention.
We stopped people being with dying relatives. We limited attendance at funerals. We cancelled weddings. We fined people for sitting on benches. We caused many businesses to close for good. We ruined children’s education. We sacked care home workers. We vastly increased the NHS waiting list leading to indirect deaths and suffering.
We wasted over £400bn and have had a higher rate of excess deaths since February 2022 than during the peak Covid years, 2020 and 2021.
The reaction was out of all proportion to the risk from the disease.
We should commemorate our utter stupidity.
Another reader wrote:
I don’t know if anyone else has tried to complete this survey, but I just did as an ex-pat living in Australia. Apart from the ridiculous construction of the survey, which in many questions forces you to agree with the concept of a commemoration in some form or other, when I got to the final ‘free form’ comment box that asked if there was any other way Covid should be commentated, I simply entered :“The prosecution of Matt Hancock, Chris Whitty, Patrick Vallance, Michael Gove and Boris Johnson for crimes against humanity.” I then pressed the “finish survey” button and was rather surprised to get the below notification (I had definitely not completed, or even seen, the survey before). I wonder if my experience is unique?
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‘Covid is a seasonal respiratory virus with an Infection Fatality Rate not much greater than Influenza and hugely skewed to the elderly.’
Agree with the response, but just to provide a bit of qualification. Prof John Ioannidis (one of the highest “ranked” scientists in the world in terms of monthly citations received), has continued to analyse infection fatality rate and his most recent paper has Covid-19 pegged level with seasonal flu. He always said as the data develops it is usual for our understanding of IFR to be revised downwards. The thing is he is now saying it has always been at the level of seasonal flu. The initial spike in deaths being due to the fact Coronavirus was a novel pneumatic virus to which we had not before been exposed.
‘The initial spike in deaths….novel…blah blah….’
Let me fix it for you.
‘The initial spike is deaths was from old people being murdered and accounted as Rona dead, and other old people dying and assigned status of Rona dead due to the change in the MCCD process along with fake tests which pick up nothing or a common cold but were necessary to gerry-mander panic in the sheeple.’
That is better.
Yes, see Professor Denis Rancourt who has meticulously shown that Covid either (a) behaves completely differently depending on which jurisdiction it’s circulating in or (b) simply wasn’t a thing and the early peak in deaths was caused by the so-called interventions.
Yes, in France after the virus had been frightened by lockdowns, it only did night shift, coming out after 6pm, or 7pm and even 9pm in some places, requiring curfews to be imposed.
It wasn’t ‘novel’. It is a coronavirus variant in a family of long and well studied viruses… four of which first identified in the 1950s and which cause 10% of Colds each year… numerous others resident in the general animal population.
It invades mucosal cells in the respiratory tract in order to reproduce. The mechanism to do this being identical to other coronaviruses but better evolved/engineered (take your pick) to do it.
Its real ‘novelty’ was unlike the other coronavirus and influenza viruses, there is an existing widespread, natural immunity to it, it left the very young untouched and was extremely mild in all but the immune compromised – these being elderly with comorbidity or younger people with health problems.
The ‘spike’ was caused by herding elderly people into death camps – aka care homes – then seeding them with the virus.
I managed to simply ignore all the loaded questions – just didn’t select any of the options. It didn’t prevent me from moving through the survey and completing it.
Same here. I also ignored all the personal data questions. Prefer not to say = mind your own effing business and that’s what I told them.
One more strategy to cement their narrative and stop any reappraisal of the whole catastrophe.
If we commemorate it every year, every year they will reinforce their narrative of what happened.
And with one more despotic action, the establishment succeeds in dismantling yet another thing I believed in and now will start to question: Remembrance Day. Why do we do it? What is being covered up here? Was it a convenient way to shape the narrative of WWI as a moment of enormous sacrifice and bravery of soldiers (which it was) to conveniently draw attention away from the brutality and complete lack of humanity of the people that forced them to do it?
Probably not a popular take, we’re all very attached to Remembrance Day, but it’s so difficult not to conclude that everything, literally everything is a farce.
I agree entirely Stewart.
History being re-written by the “victors.” The hidden malevolence is obscene.
Not sure I’m entirely with you on this one. But the observance of Remembrance Day compared to the “Pandemic Commemoration Day” (or whatever they choose to call it), neatly illustrates the absurdity of such a suggestion:
While Remembrance Sunday acknowledges the brave heroes who fell such that the world would be rid of tyranny, the proposed “Covid Day” does exactly the opposite – celebrates a time when much of that tyranny was reintroduced!
While Remembrance Sunday acknowledges the brave heroes who fell such that the world would be rid of tyranny
OMFG. I’d take the tyranny this glorious heroes (or rather, their rather inglorious butchers) freed me from in order to line their pockets with more than 44.400t of gold the freed Germans had to pay off until 2010 over the political system they gracefully begat to us instead any time.
In 1914, people in Germany where convinced that they had to fight a desparate war of survival against the numerically much superior forces of a Franco-Russian alliance seeking to crush the German empire. This is probably an oversimplification. But certainly a less gross one then this Heroical Fight Against The Tyranny[tm].
The children’s TV show “Stoppit and Tidyup” was prophetic.
It was a lovely sunny day in the land of Do As You’re Told.
“Wear your mask.”
“Stay at home.”
“Rainbow in your window.”
“Control the virus.”
“Clap for the NHS.”
“Get your jab.”
“Eat your greens.”
“Comb your hair.”
“Watch the funeral.” (Of Her Majesty, that is. I refused to do so, while we still have that option, before such things are forcibly broadcast into our homes, 1984-style.)
“Wear your poppy.”
While I do not mind wearing a poppy in itself, and the two-minute silence, I strongly object to the expectation to participate (or else you have no respect for the dead), along with the slogan “wear your poppy with pride”. I am losing respect for all these synchronised actions, they feel more sinister each year. A “commemoration” would be yet another clap for the NHS.
Why do we celebrate Guy Fawkes? The celebration would be far more worthy if he had succeeded.
My son lives in Spain where he is a primary teacher. Each year he has to explain to the children why the UK celebrates Guy Fawkes Night. He says he finds it very hard to do and the children are better informed bye really none the wiser.
But presumably the Spanish children know why every year they celebrate the Virgin Mary – fireworks, festivals, etc?
Most British children wouldn’t, and that’s before we get round to trying to explain to the little Muslims dears.
I did complete this survey, ignoring the sections on HOW to commemorate it, and the ridiculous question about a “Covid coin” (!!), and got to the suggestions box at the end, in which I wanted to write: “We should NOT commemorate the pandemic, however we SHOULD remember it as the time in history when our liberties were unnecessarily curtailed (there is no evidence to demonstrate that lockdowns achieved anything positive), the time in history when we were lied to by those we expect to trust, when the NHS squandered billions of taxpayers pounds on quadrupling bureaucracy at the expense of frontline staff, and when people were manipulated into worshipping at the altar of a false god – an experimental new mRNA therapy that was all but forced (or coerced) into our arms. We should remember this time as a sad time in history when a precedent was set for quarantining the healthy, forcibly closing businesses, destroying livelihoods, and fundamentally changing the relationship between the individual and the state. Absolutely nothing good came from the measures put in place SUPPOSEDLY to mitigate the spread of the virus, and therefore we should remember this time, but not commemorate it, so that we… Read more »
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Choosing to answer only the questions that I could say I didn’t want something to be commemorated and ignoring the rest.
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Surely the most appropriate commemoration would be various effigies lined up at Lewes on 5th November, paraded through the streets, and then burnt? (I don’t agree with the practice of transporting an actual offender to the antipodes, flailing them with tentacles, and dipping them in cockroaches, though it sounds like fun to watch.)
When I first heard of this I thought it was some sort of sick joke. When I found out it was real it made and makes me feel physically sick. How exactly are they going to commemorate? moving pictures of the elderly pleading to be let out of their isolation?, perhaps effigies of the unvaccinated being burned whilst Johnson, Hancock Piers Morgan and assorted celebs cheer on. Perhaps a special vaccine laced with extra clot causing MRNA to give the kids something to remember always.
Commemorate? I want justice, I want reparations from the Big Pharma companies, I want every supporter of Lockdowns and those that terrorised those who were not vaccinated made to answer in a court of law for what they have done, that is the only commemoration that will go anyway to repair the damage these monsters have done.
Incidentally in an already impoverished country caused by the same people who is funding this? and perhaps the insensitive idiots could start the repayment of the debt process by losing their jobs.
It could be commemorated by everyone catching a new and evolved vaccine-evading super-virus, syringes thrown onto a bonfire, and two minutes silence to remember the fallen Common Sense Principles.
The charade must go on. They’re all in too deep.
Some great comments and responses. Glad to see everybody is as thoroughly disgusted by this as any rational and red-pilled person should be. I prefer the Kiwi version. They will remember, on the one year anniversary of the highly unethical and unscientific no jab, no job mandates, all the people who were injured, bereaved and who resisted. If you’re going to commemorate something make sure it’s the right chuffing thing!
“NZDSOS, with New Zealand Rising is holding country-wide events to mark this day and to acknowledge and remember those who got hurt and those who resisted. These will be peaceful events acknowledging the suffering, celebrating resilience and recognising the time we have had doing it hard – and still are. We are leading this initiative to strengthen community cohesion and morale along with showing off (not protesting) our resistance and steadfastness in the face of the unprecedented war against our society, where we are now expected to dob each other in for our political views.”
https://nzdsos.com/2022/11/09/red-remembrance-day/
Between 31st of July 1917 and 10th of November 1917, more than 500,000 soldiers died during extremely bloody close-combat infantry actions with guns, machine-guns, hand grenades and hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets, spades, daggers and other tools under a constant hail of artillery shells of all calibers in a wasteland of mud, water and craters during the 3rd battle of Ypres. The nominal outcome was that the British took a strip of completely devasted Belgian landscape of about 22km length and at most 8km depth. As Werner Beumelburg described it, the location of the erstwhile village of Passchendaele was still recognizable because of the whitish tinge of the mud in this area, this being the powdered remains of the stones the houses which used to stand in there had been built from.
And that was just one battle in 1917.
Calling for a Remembrance-Sunday style symbol for the comedy of murderous errors 2020 – 2022 that was COVID is completely sick. There people can’t be humans or at least, there’s something very much wrong with them.
There is a tenuous link, however, with the various memorials that were erected around the country after WW1 (with due respect to the many many that died in WW1 — you’re right to point out that our country’s trials over the last 3 years doesn’t come even close to the horrors of WW1). These memorials are cenotaph — literally ’empty tombs’. The British government didn’t repatriate most of the bodies of the fallen, leaving relatives with no-where to grieve. The cenotaph provided this ‘grave’ for them. The situation with the vaccines is different, however, the government is not investigating the huge numbers of excess deaths that we’re seeing — leaving grieving relatives with nothing more than a suspicion that the vaccines were to blame. There will be no certainty for them, just a sense that maybe if the Covid response had been more careful and less hubris-filled then perhaps their loved one would have survived for many more years. These relatives could be given relative certainty that it was the vaccines, if only there were more investigations into the cause of death, and proper research into death rates by vaccine status — but government doesn’t want this, so we’re not… Read more »
I think we should have a day of remembrance. There should also be memorials put up in the towns and villages across our country.
The shape of the memorial should be a large stainless steel spike, with a jagged end to the spike, as though the tip had been snapped off.
The day of remembrance should be 8th December, to remember the first Covid vaccine dose given in the UK. At midday on this day we should gather around the spike for a minute of silence while we remember those that fell. It should really be 6:31am, but people wouldn’t get up for that.
In the evening we should have a massive bonfire, and burn effigies of those deemed to be most guilty of the crimes. I suppose we could also have burgers and booze to make it a bit more of a party — after all, there’s no point in being glum all the time.
Suggested addition: Let all the COVID functionaries have a silent parade through London in penitent robes while banging pots and kettles and the populace pelting them with whatever happens to be at hand.
Seconded.
For once I agree with you.
Tried to post this:
Every single day of life schoolchildren should recant this mantra.
‘Sweden got it right, lockdowns were pointless and saved nobody yet caused far greater harms, ‘Midazolam’ Matt Hancock condemned pensioners to their deaths by preventing them from accessing medical treatment in their care homes, the virus was made in a Chinese lab by Fauci, inflation is a direct consequence of printing furlough money whilst shuttering the private sector, the vaccines are killing people, excess mortality is now higher AFTER a ‘pandemic’, the NHS is a basket case and needs to be privatised.
Well it would be a start.
Presumably this will be akin to Holocaust Memorial Day where the victims of a state -sponsored “disposal” are commemorated.
I’ve no doubt this is a political stunt1 intended to gaslight anybody who doesn’t support this pointless exercise. Those who don’t agree with it will be labelled heartless as well as covid-deniers and anti-vaxxers. The best thing is probably to have nothing to do with it while continuing to push for exposure of the truth, accountability and justice.
These people undoubtly believe this was their finest hour and that they proved themselves worthy of their ancestors according to the best traditions of The Black Adder and Dad’s Army (they both take for accurate dramatizations of historical events).
I skipped all the questions and posted something similar in the text box and was able to complete the survey.
I added that the only yearly commemoration I wanted to see was the annual denial of parole for all those jailed!
The very existence of the ‘UK Commission on Covid Commemoration’ reveals a blatant attempt by the government to subvert and pre-empt any open minded and objective inquiry into the whole sorry episode by pre-packaging it as a heroic and necessary national effort.
Perhaps they should rename it. Something like ‘Defence Committee for the Inquiry’. Bound to be a lot of work to cover their position when it starts up.
Exactly!
I tried to complete the survey with a clear explanation of why a commemoration was wrong, but found the comment box was limited to 500 characters. So I deleted most of what I had written and waived my anonymity by supplying name an email address. Looking forward to seeing if I am contacted!
Well, I’ve tried to do the survey and add wording along the brilliantly succinct lines of your reader mentioned above. The survey refuses to accept the comment though it is well below the 500 word count.
The only part worth completing is the final box where you get to suggest how they could commemorate the Plandemic.
I suggested they beam a “Cost of Covid” tracker onto Parliament – updated every minute as the compound interest is added ……. so we can all see just how much money the lunatics squandered.
Somehow I don’t think they’ll take it up.
The fat lady ain’t sung yet.
This is what I have written:
I agree with commemorating a day each year to remember the Covid pandemic. I suggest that the day chosen be 23 March, which in 2020 was the day that Lockdown began.
The emphasis should be on:
1. The utter stupidity, disproportionality and futility of the greatest restrictions of human rights in peacetime, including the closing of churches, making ordinary human contact illegal (except for the Health Secretary), the pointless compulsory masking, and the ruination of small businesses.
2. The credulity of politicians listening to one subset of scientific advice based on demonstratively poor computer modelling and for ignoring their previous plans for dealing with an upper respiratory virus pandemic, no more dangerous than influenza.
3. The total absence of any cost/benefit analysis in the pandemic decision-making, resulting in vast public debt of £400 billion, a health service in crisis and excess deaths from other causes exceeding any possible saving of lives from Covid 19.
4. The ruination of a generation of children’s and young persons’ education.
5. The dangers of experimenting with viruses.
A good commémoration would be Nuremberg style (complete with death penalty) tribunals for crimes against Humanity, with the political class, experts, media commentariat, police, doctors, nurses, pharma execs, snitches and useful idiots in the dock.
If we have Covid comemoration we also need a lockdown comemoration to rember all those that died and are still dying as a result of the lockdown restrictions. As more information emerges about the deadly side effects of the Covid vaccines we might need a comemoration for that as well.
I have not responded as yet. I have to work on tempering my response and controlling my anger or I could be in danger of being imprisoned.