Non-compliant NHS worker claims the majority of his colleagues “believed they were doing good”

Notes From A Non-Believer by Alex Woodward

“Now that the UK CV Inquiry is underway, I thought it would be timely to share some memories of the pandemic based on my experiences at the time, working in an NHS Community Mental Health Clinic, as a Support Service Coordinator.

I’d also like to preface this piece by echoing what Bob Moran said in a recent tweet, that the only thing this inquiry will conclude is that ‘lockdowns were fine, jabs were a miracle and the government just didn’t do enough of it all’.

One evening in early March 2020, my wife and I watched a Channel 4 special called ‘Coronavirus – Are We Doing Enough?’. It featured a number of talking heads, outlining the fresh hell awaiting us all. At this point, there were only a hundred or so ‘cases’ in Britain. One panelist was adamant we were on the edge of disaster, that millions might die if we didn’t ‘act now’.  He was jittery, bog-eyed & absolutely over-the-top in his performance… We turned it off, feeling disgusted & somewhat jaded by the whole thing.

Fast forward three months and I was refusing to enforce the NHS mask mandate on my admin team when it came into play on 15 June 2020.

They had all been working on site up until that point without wearing a mask and nobody had fallen ill. We were the only team told to remain on site in the early days. All clinicians, nurses and psychologists scurried home to safety. A supposed deadly virus loomed large and a clear hierarchy of expendability had been set.

Later that year, when clinical staff gradually began returning to base, compliance with the mask mandate from our health professionals was surprisingly loose – just like the masks themselves. Masks pulled down over the chin, constant touching or readjusting, used masks left around the office, etc. I thought this odd- did they not believe in the threat of this virus? Perhaps they didn’t really believe the masks did anything…

Late Summer 2020. I was told by the new ‘Mandate Enforcement Officer’ (I forget her exact job title) that she agreed with me – that the rules she had been employed to enforce did more harm than good. That the reaction of the gov’ and the NHS was completely out of proportion. I’d often walk mask-less down the corridors of the clinic. Sometimes members of staff would turn their bodies and masked-up faces 90 degrees, spread out like geckos climbing the walls. Truly a sight to behold. I remember a woman on my team who, pointing out my lack of compliance, told me I should be setting an example. I was.

I couldn’t talk face-to-face to staff wearing masks. I felt uncomfortable & irritable. How could these supposedly intelligent members of society be so easily malleable, fearful or just plain dumb, that they couldn’t grasp the second/third order effects of this behaviour? Unironically, I believe gut feeling led me in the direction of non-compliance from the start. A healthy gut works in tandem with our brain, allowing us to trust our instincts and make good decisions. It’s popular opinion that the majority of the population are objectively unhealthy – guts wrecked with booze, fizzy pop, processed food, pharmaceuticals, etc. Call it pseudoscience if you like. I don’t care.

The following also helped;

1. PCR tests cannot detect free infectious viruses.

2. a) One of the symptoms was that you would have no symptoms. b) You could supposedly pass this virus on without having any symptoms.

3. Flu disappeared, Covid-19 appeared – symptoms were ‘flu-like’.

4. ‘Deaths from any cause within 28 days of a positive PCR test’ (See point 1.)

5. We are governed by charlatans, liars & cheats.

There’s more, of course. This is a mere snippet.

I continued to ignore the mandate until November 2020. My line manager pulled me aside & asked me, not for the first time, why I refused to wear a mask. I gave him the same explanation as always. This time, I was told I would have to work from home.

Over three months, as the priority jab rollout began for NHS staff – before the whole country was ‘called up’- we were sadly notified via email about the death of at least three male employees; all relatively young – sudden death, no cause of death stated, requests for privacy, etc. Contrast this to the one (!) member of trust staff who had supposedly died from/with Covid-19 earlier in 2020.

This unfortunate soul’s cause of death was broadcast loud and clear. A streamed Zoom memorial service followed, with an open invite to every member of staff.

I don’t mean to sound angry or bitter. I was certainly both in the midst of it all.

My wife and I felt the very real pressure that came with refusing the vaccination, when ostracisation & loss of income seemed a plausible outcome. It’s hard to describe how alone I/we felt at this time. When everyone around you is losing their minds. Wondering if it’s ever going to end. However, it did end.

As the dust settles, as the excess deaths in all ages continue to rise, more have woken up to what was done to them in the name of ‘public health’. Some angry, some embarrassed, some in denial. Some with heads still buried in the sand, still living in a different paradigm.

Looking back on this time, I recall Solzhenitsyn in his most famous work;

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.”

And I believe that the majority of those I worked with believed they were doing good. I feel no ill-will toward them.

God stepped in just as we were teetering on the edge. ‘Partygate’ appeared.

There is of course a lot more that can be said on this subject. And that is perhaps for another day.”

 

After becoming disillusioned with “NHS groupthink”, Alex Woodward left the NHS in March 2022. He now runs a copywriting business.

Find Alex on Twitter/X @awoodw4rd