We receive no government or NHS funding. Around 80p in every pound we spend every year comes from traditional fundraising like skydives and cake sales. Lockdown stopped them almost overnight in one of the busiest fundraising periods of the year.

We are not all suffering in the same way, and we are not all united: rich and poor; able bodied and disabled; weak and strong.

Lockdown can replicate the circumstances of the original trauma: feelings of powerlessness, loss of control or indeed of feeling trapped or imprisoned. It can feel unbearable.

Although wet markets are not common in the west, industrial livestock farming is – and may carry just as a great a risk.

After paying thousands in insurance premiums over the years, many businesses are being told that their insurance policies do not provide cover for pandemics.

The campaign group We Can’t Consent To This said that at least 60 women have been killed by men who claimed their sexual partners gave consent to the violence that resulted in their deaths.

The convenient taboo of talking about the dead is creating rigid political conformity.

Lockdown could result in businesses being forced to reveal where their “mind and matter” really is.

Freed Voices is made up of people who have experienced immigration detention in the UK, and are now committed to speaking out. Between us, we have lost over 20 years of our lives to detention, and we have written this urgent letter to the Home Secretary.