"In the period from 20 March 2020 until appeal in the Republic of Poland, the state of epidemics due to infections with SARS-CoV-2 virus is announced" was the decree of the Minister of wellness of 20 March 2020. In the first period, subsequent regulations, violating civilian rights, were only signed by the head of the Ministry of Health, then Łukasz Szumowski. Only a fewer weeks later, under criticism from constitutional law experts, further restrictions began to be introduced by regulations of the Council of Ministers.
Today, the 5th anniversary of the beginning of the introduction of restrictions in Poland, which in an unprecedented way broke citizens' rights and destroyed the economy. The then governing PiS was responsible. No 1 has borne the work until today, due to the fact that it is impossible to respect it as specified dealing with the current power strictly with political splashes of those decisions, specified as the substance of buying respirators or trying to conduct envelope elections. Nor did the trials take place on these issues.
It is impossible to describe in a short column even about all dimensions of this terrible time, which miraculously finished Vladimir Putin, hitting Ukraine and causing an influx into Poland of hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated Ukrainians, which abruptly ceased to disturb sanitarians. Why – they inactive haven't explained. They have not explained many another issues.
It is that time of forced sitting at home – do you remember that Krzysztof Stanowski taught at the time that it was essential to “sit on your ass” and not to pry? “He made me start regular broadcasts on my YouTube channel. The materials were regularly demoted. The title to which I am primarily associated – “To the Thing” – was 1 of the fewer places where it was possible to compose freely about what level of absurdity we were dealing with. Its symbol remains the closure of forests, but should besides be the closure of cemeteries on 1 November 2020 (why any courageous parish priests did not submit). When, any time later, the Citizens' Network Watchdog Poland demanded the Chancellery of the Prime Minister to answer the question of the circumstantial reasons behind this decision, it was informed that "the restoration of the thought process, which accompanied the Prime Minister in this peculiar decision and the indication which advisory voice was helpful or crucial in its adoption, is virtually impossible and would require the initiation of actions creating fresh information that could later prove unreliable or inaccurate". It is besides worth reminding that the meetings of the medical board at the Prime Minister, chaired by prof. Andrzej Horban, were not documented. On the another hand, we know that many of the doctors there have had lucrative cooperation with covid vaccine manufacturers.
At the time of the pandemic, not only in Poland, books should be created. It would take tens of pages to describe the socio-technical treatments that were sought to scare people and get them to fill out the stupidest government regulations. Who remembers how, before midnight on Friday 26 February 2021, they effectively protected us from scarves and helmets so that 1 minute after midnight, on Saturday, they would become completely ineffective and the only “protection” allowed would become masks?
At least any names or environments with peculiar work must be recalled. I leave aside political strict issues, specified as future envelope elections or questionable purchases on behalf of the government. The fact that the current power is being tried in an unsettled way to settle them does not consequence from its attitude towards the situation at the time – the opposition at the time called for even greater radicalism and dreamed of imposing the work of vaccination on Poles. The current actions of the rulers in these cases are due only to the request for political blood.
The Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is undoubtedly the first among the responsible. He was the 1 who yet owned all the stupidities and regulations that violated citizens' rights. He signed them, he defended them, he created a nightmare creature called the Medical Council. He decided that it was essential to close half the economy first and put hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs on the edge of the plajta, and then – that the economy had to pump in PLN 200 billion, which drove inflation massively. He solved the problem he created. He carried out "thought processes" that stood behind a covid speciality—a monstrous, monstrous part of legislation, to which the then power pressed quite a few additional regulations, while at the same time ensuring that he was released from all responsibility. A bill of respective 100 parties was received by Members respective hours before the vote.
Mr Jarosław Kaczyński, who as the leader of the camp of power accepted all actions and gave them direction, can besides be released from political responsibility.
Two wellness ministers must be placed next: Mr Łukasz Szumowski (until August 2020) and Mr Adam Niedziela. The second bears greater work due to the fact that he besides held office for a long time during the course of covid paranoia. He will be remembered as an ugly character – a dispassionate cyborg charisma, refusing to answer questions and explaining the motives of his actions. Meanwhile, he is liable for over 6 1000 surplus deaths per million inhabitants in Poland between 2020 and 2022, which was the consequence of a evidence in Europe.
Further, we should collectively list hysteric doctors specified as prof. Horban, Dr. Grzesiowski, prof. Simon and another medical celebrities, strengthening the atmosphere of panic, and above all, it is crucial to see all spheres of life through the outbreak. The incomprehensible neither the economy nor the problem of civilian liberties. The pathologies of the medical community then came to light more than ever, especially at the time erstwhile doctors who did not submit to just right communicative began to be brought before medical courts, which frequently resulted in the suspension of the right to prosecute a profession, and thus the demolition of these people.
I remember very well, as prof. Andrzej Matyja, then president of the Chief Medical Chamber, was eager to assure the present that NIL would call on doctors, who did not repeat the authoritative narrative, to translate themselves.
Let us besides not forget the police and its civilian superior, Mr Mariusz Kamiński. Police officers then followed orders on the basis of regulations contrary to the law, which the courts subsequently stated. The broken regulation by them was notorious ne bis in idem – a ban on punishing twice for the same act, as if they refused to accept the mandate they issued a request for punishment to the wellness Department. Invasions were organized armed to the teeth of respective twelve prevention troops on premises that dared to operate despite unlawful restrictions. The police were completely compromised at the time.
Another group are censors who already started putting into circulation present a fruitful communicative that advocates of civilian liberties, demanding reasons for nonsense actions of power, sold Russian message. Joanna Lichocka, the author of La Pasionaria, led to a photograph from the TVP antenna of Jan Więszalski's program just due to the fact that he was doing his occupation – invited people with different views on the situation to the program. Janusz Cieszynski, since 2021 a government typical for cybersecurity, besides practiced soft censorship, indicating media that did not zealously advance covid madness.
The media besides played a disgraceful role, almost erasing separate voices, including the most professional ones, coming from doctors. The hysterical performances of editors Agnieszka Gozdyra or Grzegorz Jankowski will stay in memory for a long time.
Finally, it is crucial to mention the Polish Church, who almost without a word of protest subjected to restrictions and even frequently supported them. It was a great, painful disappointment. It is crucial to remember that specified extremist restrictions on the activity of the Church did not even introduce a deep commune. All the more reason to thank those priests who had the courage to act differently.
There is frequently an effort to justify the power of the time by “everyone did so.” That's evidently not true. And it's not just Sweden that went through the epidemic without major losses, without closing down the economy, not the citizens, not the schools. Many countries were flexible in the restrictions applied, any were dealt with by constitutional courts (not in Poland, due to the fact that the Constitutional Court was completely subordinate to power). Furthermore, while it may inactive be possible to justify the beginnings of the first fewer months of the pandemic, it is no longer possible to approach later erstwhile studies have begun showing, among another things, the mediocre or symbolic effectiveness of the NPI (non-pharmaceutical interventions), i.e. all kinds of prohibitions, orders, restrictions.
Some yet say that the government had to do what it did due to the fact that it was under opposition pressure. Does this mean that the government is always to do what the opposition dictates? Are we to realize that the Law and Justice government feared the civilian Coalition and followed its guidelines, regardless of logic, data, and common sense?
I inactive shyly hope that the people I mentioned will 1 day gotta answer for what they did. present these matters are almost forgotten, due to the fact that we have been absorbed by another issues. But the effects didn't disappear. The children lost 2 years of education, people died, any died present due to the fact that then they were not given investigation or treatments. Businesses closed down.
The author of this text can only have 1 small satisfaction: that he has taken the side of common sense and freedom from the beginning.
Luke Warches
