When the events of Covid 19 began to be reported early in 2020 I was reminded that many years before I happened to turn on the TV one afternoon just in time to catch the tail end of an interview where the person being interviewed said that the intention was to reduce the population of England to 20 million. When asked how this would be achieved the reply was ‘With planning.’ I obviously took this as a warning to be concerned about because family planning has never succeeded in reducing populations so I hastily scrawled the information on a scrap of paper that was at hand.
With the passing of time the details related to this event along with the time period of the broadcast was out of mind so could not be sure how many years before this event had taken place. However, due to the prospect of having to move house and having to sort through boxes stored in the loft, I rediscovered that scrap of paper with the information scrawled on it. Realising that I could mislay it again, I decided to photograph it with my mobile phone, and am glad that I did because it has gone again. This was in October 2020.
The name of Simon Ross was written on the note, along with the date 2011 plus the population figure of 57 million at the time of the interview. I could not be sure if the date of 2011 was the year that the interview had taken place. I had subsequently made many attempts to find information about Simon Ross without success to the extent that I even began to wonder if he was a fictional character.
There were many other things that served as a warning to be wary of the Covid 19 vaccine as well. Though I had made a decision for myself, there were many contradictory reports which meant that we could not be sure if the vaccine was good for people after all. This meant that it would not be right to put out an opinion which would prevent people taking something that could be good for them. This meant that by the time of the vaccine role out it was only three months since rediscovering that scrap of paper.
Time passed by and it was only in November 2021 that I decided to read the print on the back of the remnant of paper to see what it said, so by reflecting the photograph on the phone on the bathroom mirror could read the date of 2014 which meant that it could not have been earlier than that date. It was the reverse of a note from a colleague at work for payment of hours that I had covered for him.
Come the last week in December 2021 I mentioned this information to a millennial who instantly did a search on the millennials favourite phone and instantly the identity of simon Ross was found. Two days later, with this information I came across an article published in the Yorkshire Post written by Simon Ross about population reduction. Of course there was no mention of the planned reduction of population to 20 million.