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In the UK, although there was a slight elevation in deaths in 2020, there was no excess mortality.  There was no pandemic.  So, what was causing the covid deaths publicised continuously on television throughout 2020?

Some were iatrogenic deaths and the rest were due to the statistical manipulation of data.

The Scottish covid Inquiry is the world’s only official covid inquiry to reveal the sheer scale of horrors inflicted by government covid lockdown policies.   

Perhaps this is why Scotland’s Chief Medical Office testified on Tuesday at the UK Covid Inquiry that Scottish hospitals were inundated and the number of people in hospital “exceeded capacity on several occasions.” Perhaps it was an attempt to justify the harm that lockdowns caused.

The problem is, Public Health Scotland hospital records show the opposite of what the Chief Medical Officer testified, under oath.

UK Government’s Response to Covid was Inhuman

Speaking to NTD’s British Thought Leaders, Professors Martin Neil and Norman Fenton spoke about their new book which explores the science and data used to make decisions during the covid-19 pandemic.

Prof. Neil explained that although deaths were slightly elevated in the UK in 2020 there was no excess mortality. “There wasn’t really a pandemic,” he said. “The cause of those upticks and death tolls is either statistical manipulation of data or it was what we call iatrogenic effects,” he said.

Iatrogenic effects are harmful effects of medical treatment. “The way that people were treated in old people’s homes, hospitals – primarily the elderly and the vulnerable had a treatment regime imposed on them which was essentially inhuman,” he said.

When there’s a respiratory viral infection, it’s not the flu, for example, but bacterial pneumonia that might ultimately kill someone.  So, during an epidemic or pandemic, there is supposed to be a stockpile of antibiotics to treat the pneumonia.

“In the UK they introduced new protocols that antibiotics were not to be given to those who were suffering from severe covid.  People had ‘do not resuscitate’ orders imposed on them … The social isolation people had to suffer would have a crushing psychological effect on people’s ability to keep going, especially in an old people’s home.  And so on and so forth. It’s those interventions that were causing the death ” Prof Neil said.

“A lot of this has actually come out publicly in the Scottish Covid Inquiry over the last year but hasn’t been publicised in the national press,” he said.

“Another one that needs special mention is the use of opioids to care for people with severe covid,” he said.  “And ventilation … Ventilators in [ ] respiratory aid … had up to 90% fatality rate of people put on the ventilators … and alongside that were changes to the treatment regime that involved the administration of palliative care medicines in the form of opioids. Midazolam in the UK was heavily overprescribed during March [2020] … The dosage rates were so high that they don’t even conform to a palliative care regime – they were beyond that.”

Revelations at the Scottish Covid Inquiry

Biologyphenom has been following the Scottish Covid Inquiry and posting articles on Substack to document it.  There is no indication whether Biologyphenom is a man or a woman, for ease, we will refer to him as a man.  You can search for his articles on the Scottish Covid Inquiry HERE.

Yesterday Biologyphenom posted an article highlighting Prof. Neil’s comments to British Thought Leaders. “A superb interview on all things ‘covid’ with Professors Neil and Fenton,” he said.  “I understandably have a particular focus on Prof. Neil’s comments around the Scottish Covid Inquiry … I highly recommend watching the full video and to check out the Professors’ new book ‘Fighting Goliath’,” he said.

He also noted that the Scottish Covid Inquiry is “the world’s only official covid inquiry to reveal the sheer scale of horrors inflicted by government lockdown policies.”  Earlier in the month, Biologyphenom had highlighted a testimony at the Scottish Covid Inquiry last year by Amber Galbraith KC, the advocate representing Promoting A More Inclusive Society (“PAMIS”) at the hearing.

PAMIS works with children, young people and adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities (“PMLD”).  Galbraith spoke of the impact of covid lockdowns on people with PMLD.  “After 31 years in existence, PAMIS can state with confidence that the covid-19 pandemic represented some of the most traumatic and challenging times for people with PMLD and their families,” she said.

At the beginning of her statement, Galbraith mentioned PAMIS’ written opening statement to the Inquiry.  You can find all the written opening statements for this session HERE and you can read PAMIS’ opening statement HERE.

Independent Misrepresents Statement at UK Covid Inquiry

Returning to more recent news, Biologyphenom posted an article on Thursday about remarks that Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Gregor Smith made on Tuesday during the UK Covid Inquiry. He noted the highlights from Prof. Smith’s testimony:

• The elderly and vulnerable were specifically targeted as groups warranting ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ orders (“DNACPR”) during lockdown.
• Those suffering from ‘‘severe covid’’ would not be given potentially life-saving resuscitation due to a low chance of success and no discussions needed to take place with the patient or their families.
• Prof. Smith was contacted as early as 7 April 2020, just 2 weeks into lockdown, by Scottish Care and Age Scotland over the increased use of coercion for DNACPR orders being reported by and applied to older and vulnerable people. Prof. Smith stated he does not recall the statements from these organisations.
• Emma Price, counsel to the inquiry, asked Prof. Smith: “DNACPRs should always be considered on an individual basis and there is never a justification for blanket policies, would you agree?”  Prof. Smith responded: “I agree very strongly with that.”
• When asked, Prof. Smith said that no investigations were planned nor is he aware of any data on the total number of DNACRP notices used in Scotland during the “pandemic.”

Biologyphenom then goes on the fact-check several statements Prof. Smith made to the UK Covid Inquiry by comparing them to statements made at the Scottish Covid Inquiry and other sources.  The Independent managed to write an entire article about the theme of one of those statements while ignoring the rest of Prof Smith’s four-and-a-half-hour testimony, including his statements indicating the misuse and/or abuse of DNACPRs.

Prof. Smith’s testimony has been uploaded onto the UK Covid Inquiry’s YouTube channel in two parts.  The first part is two and a half hours and the second is two hours.  You can watch the first part relating to the morning session (“AM”) HERE and the second part relating to the afternoon session (“PM”) HERE. The Independent article cherry-picked a small section of Prof Smith’s testimony from the morning session and then the author added his own twist.

“Scotland’s chief medical officer has told an inquiry how his team worked up to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, in their response to the covid pandemic,” the Independent said. The article continued:

Sir Gregor told the inquiry on Wednesday he increased the number of deputy chief medical officers from one to three during the summer of 2020 to handle the increased workload.

“The volume of work was quite incredible at that point in time,” he said.

Chief medical officer and team often worked 16-hour days, Covid inquiry told, Independent, 25 September 2024

As you can see for yourself from the video below, it is not as the Independent made out.  “Sir Gregor” did not tell “the inquiry on Wednesday he increased the number of deputy chief officers.”  The same goes for the statement about working “16 hours a day, seven days a week.”  

What actually happened was that Prof. Smith had submitted a written witness statement (dated 15 November 2023) to the Inquiry for Module 2A held in January 2024. Counsel read aloud a section from his November 2023 written statement to him at the Inquiry on Wednesday. He was asked to confirm that he had increased the number of deputy chief medical officers from one to three over the summer of 2020.

Prof. Smith responded: “Yeah, the volume of work was quite incredible at that point in time and one of the first steps that I took was to enhance that senior clinical team.”

Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer Not So Truthful Under Oath

The Independent is not the only one being creative with the facts.

Biologyphenom noted that Prof. Smith said during the afternoon session: “The number of people who were in hospital [in Scotland] was really quite immense and exceeded capacity on several occasions” (see UK Covid-19 Inquiry, Module 3 Hearing, 25 September 2024 PM timestamp 58:49).

However, as Biologyphenom pointed out, “[The] official data shows quite the opposite” and shared the graph below from Public Health Scotland.

Did the Scottish Chief Medical Officer just lie having sworn to tell “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”?