Michéle Wilcox, sjuksköterska och styrelseledamot i MoD, höll ett tal där hon reflekterade över pandemins effekter och dess hantering. Hon uttryckte stöd för Sjuksköterskeuppropet, en protest mot pandemihanteringen, och nämnde att MoD står för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati samt mod. Hon lyfte fram hur pandemin påverkat både individer och samhällen: förlorade liv, långtidseffekter, ekonomiska svårigheter, ökande våld i hemmet och isolering av äldre.
Personligen delade hon sin sorg över att ha följt restriktioner som hindrade henne från att ge sin svärmor fysisk närhet under hennes sista levnadsår. Hon kritiserade de motstridiga reglerna och det bristande vetenskapliga underlaget samt betonade att många började ifrågasätta auktoriteter och söka sanningen själva.
Wilcox avslutade med att betona vikten av att minnas de drabbade, erkänna misstag och ta steg mot läkning, symboliserat genom att tända ljus och hålla en tyst stund.
Talet i sin helhet
My name is Michéle Wilcox, as Andreas
said, and I’m a registered nurse.
I’m also a member of the board
of directors for the political party MoD.
MoD is spelled M O D and in Swedish,
sorry, MoD and in Swedish is both an acronym
for the words human rights and democracy, as well
as a word that means courage or bravery.
I also want to say that I support the Nurses
Appeal, which is a group of over 500 Swedish nurses
that started as a protest to the pandemic Response
We stood outside the Nobel Museum here in the Old Town
a year ago to protest that the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine had been awarded for discoveries that enabled
the development of mRNA vaccines for COVID 19.
This year the 8th of December has been chosen
as Covid Memorial Day, a day of remembrance for
everyone who was affected by the COVID 19 pandemic.
Some people were more personally affected and we
remember especially those who died or suffer from
long term effects of the virus or the
vaccine, from withheld treatment or from the insufficient,
mismanaged or downright destructive treatments that were given.
We were all victims of what could be called the
COVID tragedy in ways that are too numerous to mention.
Companies went out of business
and people lost their livelihood.
Domestic violence increased.
Elderly people were forced to live
in isolation and died alone.
Young people were not allowed to go to school.
Families, friends and workplaces were torn
apart by the vaccination issue.
I will never forgive myself for following the rules during
the last year of my mother in law’s life.
She was over 90 years old, had dementia and
lived in a home and for many months we
were not permitted to visit her at all.
Then we were allowed to meet with her
outside with a shield of plexiglass between us
which meant we couldn’t hear each other.
We were not allowed to touch or hug her.
This woman who had devoted herself to her family
all her adult life and who we knew was
not going to live very much longer.
Why did we obey?
Because we knew that we were being watched and we
were afraid that if we didn’t follow the rules we
wouldn’t be allowed to see her at all.
The ridiculous, contradictory and unscientific rules and
restrictions, the intolerance of dissenters, and the
constant stream of obviously false information from
public health officials in the media had
one positive effect.
It prompted many people who had never
previously questioned authority to start their own
inquiries into what was actually going on.
When we light a candle and stand together in
silence today we remember all those who were affected.
It is also an act
of recognition, accountability and healing.
Michéle,
I feel so deeply touched by your speech and also by what you are telling about your mother in law. I did not know that you too were affected when it comes to our older relatives. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for standing up like this and for your engagement in both Sköterskeuppropet and MoD.
Lots of compassion and love, Gunilla
I meant: Sjuksköterskeuppropet
https://sjukskoterskeuppropet.se/