Dear Chief Constable Sawyer and Commissioner Hernandez,
These two letters are now posted on my web site - easily linked by people 'googling' <david halpin surgeon> my web site comes up second. I have had automatic responses from Middlemoor and I am confident a senior officer has read them.
I have just walked a mile on Dartmoor with Polly and Trixie, the re-homed and unspayed! JR. 4 cyclists, 5 cars, a light lorry. No 'hairs' ie. people on top of Haytor. No helicopters for the third day - not even the air ambulance. (Grounded? Roster of 13 for each flight.) Yesterday - going to my 28 acres of woodland in Combe to do essential work - 5 ambulances lined up at NA Ambulance station. No sirens. One police car seen.
Many have clapped OUR NHS. But the public can be fickle. A third are badly over weight and ignore, largely, the burden put on the NHS, with diabetes first. A minority torment the A&E departments at the w/e and at religious festivals. A majority has not listened to those few of us informing them that the NHS is at the end of this process -
destabilise>demoralise>dismantle They could note the contracts being given to the likes of Dyson in this 'crisis'.
It is possible that the post WW2 consensus to construct truly public services might come alive. And that, with every citizen believing she and he is being considered properly, the advanced 'social disintegration' will be reversed. We might see TV stations shutting down for some hours as happened years ago, and 'social media' damned as anti-social. ie. Speaking with fellow citizens becomes the norm again.
I write this in memory of Dr Rose Polge. Unknown to the British public, she was probably caring for many dozens of sick patients because of the dangerous shift system required by the European Working Time Directive, along with other strains placed on the shoulders of young doctors, nurses and other professionals. And battling against the terrible IT systems foisted by Blair et al on the NHS.
She swam out from Meadfoot beach, Torquay on a cold February the 12th 2016, and was recovered on Portland 1-04-16, the anniversary of the Health and Social Care Bill of 2012, designed to eviscerate OUR NHS. A quote from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-38364596
Dr Polge had been "afraid of working the weekend" after working five days of an 11-day stretch, the inquest at Torquay heard.
Dr Hawley, her fellow doctor and boyfriend said "I know she was struggling at work with perceived self-doubts. But feedback was that she was progressing well and was actually very capable."
for truth, and for caring - the most important characteristic of any worthwhile society
David Halpin FRCS
Dear Chief Constable Sawyer and Commissioner Hernandez,
These two letters are now posted on my web site - easily linked by people 'googling' <david halpin surgeon> my web site comes up second. I have had automatic responses from Middlemoor and I am confident a senior officer has read them.
I have just walked a mile on Dartmoor with Polly and Trixie, the re-homed and unspayed! JR. 4 cyclists, 5 cars, a light lorry. No 'hairs' ie. people on top of Haytor. No helicopters for the third day - not even the air ambulance. (Grounded? Roster of 13 for each flight.) Yesterday - going to my 28 acres of woodland in Combe to do essential work - 5 ambulances lined up at NA Ambulance station. No sirens. One police car seen.
Many have clapped OUR NHS. But the public can be fickle. A third are badly over weight and ignore, largely, the burden put on the NHS, with diabetes first. A minority torment the A&E departments at the w/e and at religious festivals. A majority has not listened to those few of us informing them that the NHS is at the end of this process -
destabilise>demoralise>dismantle They could note the contracts being given to the likes of Dyson in this 'crisis'.
It is possible that the post WW2 consensus to construct truly public services might come alive. And that, with every citizen believing she and he is being considered properly, the advanced 'social disintegration' will be reversed. We might see TV stations shutting down for some hours as happened years ago, and 'social media' damned as anti-social. ie. Speaking with fellow citizens becomes the norm again.
I write this in memory of Dr Rose Polge. Unknown to the British public, she was probably caring for many dozens of sick patients because of the dangerous shift system required by the European Working Time Directive, along with other strains placed on the shoulders of young doctors, nurses and other professionals. And battling against the terrible IT systems foisted by Blair et al on the NHS.
She swam out from Meadfoot beach, Torquay on a cold February the 12th 2016, and was recovered on Portland 1-04-16, the anniversary of the Health and Social Care Bill of 2012, designed to eviscerate OUR NHS. A quote from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-38364596
Dr Polge had been "afraid of working the weekend" after working five days of an 11-day stretch, the inquest at Torquay heard.
Dr Hawley, her fellow doctor and boyfriend said "I know she was struggling at work with perceived self-doubts. But feedback was that she was progressing well and was actually very capable."
for truth, and for caring - the most important characteristic of any worthwhile society
David Halpin FRCSDear Chief Constable Sawyer and Police and Crime Commissioner D&C Hernadez,
My bona fides as a doctor/surgeon, thinker and writer are plain in this link to the last posting on my web site
https://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/52-articles/covid-19/296-corona-virus-distancing-rational-responses
I should be grateful for your reading and taking notice of it.
Last evening Sue and I went through the gate at the top of our wood, across the Bovey to Widecombe road, to walk a mile on the beautiful moor with Polly and Trixie. The former being keen on rabbits was kept on a lead with nesting birds in mind. There was a heat haze. A few farm vehicles passed by. There was no other human in sight. I could hear a helicopter hovering over Bovey Tracey, and one further away to the west. We walked a triangle of a mile, my wife Sue being partly disabled by widespread osteoarthritis. The 'Bovey' helicopter came over Haytor Down to inspect us. At a 100x, and about 100", it paused, hovered and dipped. I turned towards it so it could take a good photo of me and Polly. Possibly, with facial recognition software, my identity was noted. (I am quite well known anyway, and the same police vehicle had passed a few hours previously close by whilst I was gardening in the same clothes.) All this was a stark reminder, if I needed it, of a most repressive and totally illogical and unscientific lock down.
I insist, that in your positions of great power and responsibility that you view this 40 minute interview of Professor Wittkowsky, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGC5sGdz4kg formerly of Rockefeller University (ironically). He has served as an epidemiologist for 35 years. Every word he utters in response to 3 interviewers is measured and truthful. One interviewer is feint. You will need to ablate the awful adverts.
We have had wall to wall propagandere nero (my invention via the Vatican) from the BBC that, apart from Ben Woolvin of Spotlight never says that people who have died WITH coronavirus, have not necessarily died FROM it. See Wittkowsky. Letter to Ben Woolvin below.
Please also read this piece by an orthopaedic surgeon which underlines one of a myriad of harms coming from an asinine policy. When Mr Cummings encouraged 'weirdos and misfits' to come to No 10 he was behind time.
for truth, reason and justice
David Halpin MB BS FRCS
Dear Ben,
I watch the national and SW 10pm News most nights. I write in appreciation of the way you reported last night. You spoke of 8 newly reported deaths - not necessarily in that day.
Much more importantly you said ' died with corona virus but not necessarilyfrom coronavirus.' I know you read law at Exeter University so weigh each word for its meaning.
In contrast Clive Myrie via the national news spoke of 684 deaths in the previous 24 hours from the disease - not including those at home or in care homes.
Absolute clarity is required. Many are frightened and millions losing their income.
There are many contradictions coming from HMG. There is lack of clarity and few facts. We live in a small house with a beautiful garden and wood right on the edge of Dartmoor at Haytor. The moor is deserted in this extraordinary weather, after very drear months. There would be no danger to families who were previously driven here if they kept their distance. This unusual virus would be greatly diluted in moving air, and the ultra violet light kills viruses as you know. Thousands are confined to often tight houses.
As a doctor I would appreciate more solid facts. 'Tests' What tests? A generic test only for the family of corona viruses? DNA multiplication of tiny traces? Other co-existing viruses? Are any autopsies being done and the causes of death relayed to the BBC anonymously? With viral studies on relevant tissues.
Mr Shukman spoke of a pin prick test for antibodies to the virus. This seemed very unlikely.
As always when dealing with patients, telling facts clearly combats fear and misunderstanding. This piece by Dr Lee in the Spectator makes more points and with elegance -
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/The-evidence-on-Covid-19-is-not-as-clear-as-we-think/amp?__twitter_impression=true
He was a Professor of Pathology and served in OUR NHS. His specialism is absolutely central in the investigation.
yours sincerely
David Halpin FRCS
