The coronavirus letter you’ve just been sent by Johnson is a lie [transcript]
This is a transcript of a short Youtube talk.
[00:00:00] Fellow citizens of this great country of Britain, I’m here to tell you that you’re about to be deceived deliberately by your own government.
[00:00:11] A letter will soon come through your door from them, telling you that unless you get more serious about locking down, the government is going to tighten the lockdown that we are all under. They are trying to put the blame on you for this public health disaster of the Coronavirus and for the lockdown needed, it is indeed needed, in response to that disaster. In the letter, Prime Minister Johnson says, quote, “From the start, we, the government have sought to put in the right measures at the right time”.
[00:00:42] The truth is very different. The truth is that the government have, for two months, systematically flouted World Health Organisation advice on how to deal with this pandemic and that in some respects they are still doing so now.
[00:00:58] My name is Dr Rupert Read, a few weeks ago, I coordinated a letter; a version of which was published in The Daily Mail. It was signed by the editor of Britain’s foremost medical journal, The Lancet, and by the former chair of the House of Commons Science Select Committee. Now the government should have acted well before receiving our letter. They should have moved already to stop flights coming in from Italy and China. They should have quarantined those possibly having the virus. They should have ordered in ventilators and personal protective equipment for carers. They should have begun a mass program of testing. They should have provided enough to live on to all those tempted to work sick. But even after receiving a letter and even after being told firmly by the World Health Organisation that they were letting everyone down through their inactivity, they still did virtually nothing.
[00:01:50] Now, of course, I’m not saying that dealing with this virus crisis is easy. Far from it. I don’t envy the governments and their advisers in their unprecedented task here. But the unprecedentedness of the task is exactly why we needed them to take strong action to protect us and to stay ahead of the curve and exactly why you deserve honesty from them now. The truth is, we didn’t get what we deserve. We didn’t get strong action to protect us. Instead, they wasted weeks on end and then cooked up their utterly disastrous herd immunity plan to infect most of us with this sometimes-deadly disease. And we’re still not getting honesty about all this now. The government are not telling us the truth about why a harsher lockdown may be needed.
[00:02:44] South Korea came through this with no lockdown at all because they acted fast ahead of the virus to mass test, to contact trace, to physically distance. Think about that. South Korea showed the way. The difference between them and us; government policy.
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[00:03:05] The truth is that a hard lockdown is needed now, not for the reason the government is insinuating; they’re trying to blame us, the people, for the mess they created. Do not let Johnson get away with putting the blame for this horrific crisis that we’re now in, on you. The truth is that they, the government, are primarily to blame for the tsunami of infections and the torrent of deaths that Britain is still at the relatively early stages of. They, the government, have not done their first job. They have not protected us. A well-placed source has indicated to colleagues of mine that the Chief Medical Officer was ready some time ago to put in place tougher measures for physical distancing and so on and that these were vetoed at the last minute by the Prime Minister. A Prime Minister who showed leadership by shaking hands with hospital patients in a hospital where they were Coronavirus cases just a few weeks ago.
[00:04:06] Now, if you happen to be someone who has privileged information that you could use to blow the whistle on the full truth about what our own government has done to us, then please go to www.truthteller.life. We all deserve to know the full facts.
[00:04:26] We the people have led in this country and we’ve dragged our reluctant government behind us. That’s the truth. We led by pushing the government finally to act. We led already before that, many millions of us, by cancelling events, working from home, initiating physical distancing, before the government had done anything significant to protect us. And we’re leading now by being there for each other, by supporting our beloved NHS and by demanding that our carers get the personal protective equipment they so desperately need and deserve. We refused to go quietly and meekly into the tsunami of suffering that is coming, a torrent of death that is coming because our government fiddled while the world started to burn. And because for a while, our government’s ludicrous and deadly herd immunity plan meant that we had the most inactive and indeed actively harmful government policy in the whole world on the Coronavirus pandemic.
[00:05:29] Why does all this matter? Am I just crying over spilt milk? It matters because thousands are dying unnecessarily and it matters because we’re still only at the relatively early stages of this emergency and we’re going to need much better leadership to get through it. We will get through this, though not before the government’s prevarication has cost large numbers of British lives. We’ll get through this together. And when we got through it, we’ll memorialize the dead by making damn sure that nothing like this deadly fiasco can ever happen again. And to make sure of that, we’ll need to start with a full public inquiry into how our government came to have the worst policy of inaction on Coronavirus in the whole world; a policy that will have killed many of our loved ones. A policy that means that a harsh and knock-down lockdown may indeed now be necessary.
[00:06:27] It is government policy which has led to the desperate situation we are now in. If a fuller lockdown comes, this will be because they did not act and they must take responsibility for that. They must take responsibility for the need for any harsher lockdown soon to come.
[00:06:52] Thank you for watching. If you agree with this video, then please share it. And please stay safe. When the government doesn’t protect, we the people have to lead the way.
