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The New Zealand Government Needs to Engage With ‘Freedom Camp’ Protesters, Not Send in the Police

by Richard House
13 February 2022 4:45 PM

Inspired by the Canadian truckers, a number of New Zealand Freedom Convoys started out on February 5th from the tip of the North Island and the bottom of the South Island to converge on Wellington. Most of the South Island convoy is still camped at Picton (top of the South Island), unable to cross the Cook Strait by ferry. The North Island convoy arrived in Wellington early on February 8th and set up camp outside the New Zealand Parliament, blocking local streets with vehicles. While lacking central leadership and coming with a range of motives, all are calling for the lifting of mandated Covid health restrictions.

The anti-mandate protest camp outside Parliament poses a problem for Government authority. The Government’s response so far mirrors the effect (and often, it seems, motive) of the Covid public health orders in marginalising those who do not conform. The protestors have not been met by any politicians, as is the custom in New Zealand with protests against Parliament. They have been classified as an aggressive minority and have been accused of trespassing on Parliamentary grounds.

The Government’s dilemma is that to recognise any of the protesters’ demands will signify Government weakness, which – with declining polls – it can ill-afford. However, to take physical action to remove the protestors risks adverse publicity and the galvanising of more support. Yet to continue ignoring the protest – which appears to be there for the long haul – keeps it in the public eye, with the Government appearing reactive rather than proactive. There is no easy way out.

The Government has mishandled the situation so far. It should have realised that with every increase in restrictions and every mandate the protest movement would gather numbers, initially from those who are anti-lockdown, then anti-vaccine, then anti-mandate. With Government and opposition party apparatus all being so ‘on-message’ with health order controls, this blind spot is perhaps understandable, as few state workers would have raised concerns their bosses don’t want to hear, but as blind spots go it is a big one.

This protest is different to many previous high-profile protests in New Zealand’s history. Rather than a group campaigning on behalf of others, such as with the anti-apartheid protests, it is a group protesting about their personal treatment by the Government. They have ‘skin in the game’; the outcome significantly affects their lives.

On February 10th at around 8am, the police attempted to remove the protest group on Parliament’s lawn – estimated to be at least several hundred by official sources – one-by-one with tactics that resembled a rugby scrum. After taking most of the day to arrest around 120 protestors, the police withdrew. The police violence involved in removing a generally peaceful protest galvanised more people across the country to respond locally or join what they now call Camp Freedom. The central business district (city centre) roads in Wellington are gridlocked.

The inept state response this week shows the weakness of Government and its lack of strategy. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, when questioned about the protestors at a news conference, replied that it was a police matter and not for politicians. This is a serious miscalculation; it is high-stake politics. The failed police operation to forcibly evict the protestors from the lawn was not viable from the start. Purely from a numbers perspective, the rate of protestor removal was never going to succeed. The demonstration of police aggression went viral on social media and brought more protestors to support. New Zealand (unlike, say, France) isn’t accustomed to this intensity of protest.

Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard’s decision to turn on the lawn sprinklers was an act of desperation and source of ridicule. In the festival atmosphere, protestors have responded with humour.

The Speaker’s latest hare-brained initiative is to blast music and vaccine adverts at the protestors. The protestors have brought in food kitchens and first aid tents, and are being creative in responding to the weather challenges as support through social media – like the rain, but much more welcome – is flooding in.

What should the Government have done? With hindsight, the simple answer is to have recognised the limits to its authority when it breached accepted norms of human rights and medical ethics. New Zealand had the benefit of seeing the Covid experience in the rest of the world, but the Government seems to have learned little and failed to anticipate how quickly the situation changes. If it had provided a ‘route to normal’ by announcing end dates to mandates and other restrictions before the protest reached the Parliamentary lawn, it may have taken steam out of the movement. Good leadership unites by providing a clear plan and end destination. Ambiguity and coercion lead to suspicion and division.

What should the Government do now? One thing seems for sure: it needs a political solution rather than a police operation.

Tags: Covid RestrictionsFreedom CampFreedom ConvoyMandatory VaccinesNew ZealandVaccine Passports

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FerdIII
FerdIII
2 years ago

No. Far simp[ler explanation: the NHS and the state murdered old people to ramp up the fear porn and justify the lockdowns. Period. Do Not Resuscitate. Remember that? No where in this article.

They still do the same today. It was similar to pre-Rona as well. Murdering old people is not a new fetish with the NHS. Neither is murdering babies.

Never allow your family or friends to remain in the NHS for any period of time, especially if they are older. You won’t see them again. And the usual excuses as uttered in the article will be used to justify the murder.

Scamdemic.

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stewart
stewart
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

Submitting yourself to medical care has a certain element of a crap shoot to it. That’s always been the case,

I approach healthcare providers as I do any other product or service, with scepticism and fully cognisant that they’re at best not perfect and in many cases are shamelessly self serving. Some might be good some might be ok and some might be absolutely terrible,. Sometimes they know what they are doing, sometimes they are winging it. That’s life.

Where I think the problem is, is where people are forced into treatment and when the sick in hospitals are cut off from their families who can look out for them. The moment it stops being a choice is when it become really dangerous.

My expectations of anything provided by the government are very very low. All I ask is that they allow me the freedom to choose at all times. Is that too much to ask?

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ebygum
ebygum
2 years ago
Reply to  FerdIII

I have to say I believe the elderly were killed in large numbers…because of lack of care, DNR’s, withdrawal of medicine and food, overuse of the drugs in the article…whatever the reason, I believe it happened.

John Dee’s Almanac has a good SubStack on the matter….
https://jdee.substack.com/p/the-iatrogenesis-hypothesis

….this is just a few of his points….and it’s worth a read in full….

I shall just point out that a rapid guideline isn’t the same beast as a full guideline. A full guideline requires an enormous amount of effort by the best clinicians and academics in the business but a rapid guideline can be knocked out by a couple of senior bods in a few days and rubber-stamped without much thought.

The reason I’m digging about like this is that, aside from a peculiar blip last Apr – May, all cause death across England & Wales for 2020 doesn’t show any sign of a pandemic. I had taken this blip to be an indicator of a genuine first wave viral outbreak that was short and sharp.
However, my thinking has recently swung round to that short, sharp shock being due to dangerous discharge and ill-treatment of our sickest and oldest patients, who were evacuated from hospital into care homes where DNR and nil by mouth was the order of the day, along with withdrawal of medications save for dosing with morphine and midazolam in what was effectively an end-of-life care pathway (whether or not end of life was imminent). Laws forbidding visitation and autopsy ensured the saga could be quietly and conveniently buried (literally).
……We now see that the incredible surge in care home deaths during the spring of 2020 wasn’t due to COVID. This is the spike that had been camouflaged by presenting the data as an accumulated series, and this is the spike that shocked me when I unpicked the data. The authorities are going to great trouble to hide the fact that a massive surge in non-COVID death occurred within our care homes during spring of 2020

Over the 11 week period w/e 20th March 2020 – w/e 29th May 2020 some 57,314 care home residents within England & Wales died, 26,575 of which would have normally been expected in accordance with the 5-year mean rate (46.4%). Of the remaining 30,739 excess deaths some 18,104 can be attributed to COVID (58.9%) leaving a somewhat shocking 12,635 inexplicable non-COVID excess deaths (41.1%); inexplicable, that is, until we realise just what murderous policies were implemented across the private care sector during this period.

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Stuart
Stuart
2 years ago
Reply to  ebygum

Great comment…it tallies pretty much with the attached BMJ article for which I make no apology for posting whenever this issue arises

BMJ Article.docx
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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
2 years ago

Amanuensis: “I suggest that our authorities would be well advised to consider an open and transparent review of what occurred over those two years…”

Parliament: “We appreciate Mr Amanuensis’s well-intentioned suggestion, but the science is unequivocal: heat pumps save the planet.”

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Unfortunately, this is probably right.

The government (and opposition) is doing everything it can to ensure that the situation is going to get worse.

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Epi
Epi
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

They will be relinquishing all responsibility once the WHO take over the World.

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jburns75
jburns75
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Amanuensis, do you think you could check out the link to the following paper on PubMed:
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care in the UK and Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic: online survey

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32546559/

And consider appending it to your article?

It’s no smoking gun, but it does seem to encapsulate the attitude of parts of the bureaucratic / medical / academic community to more liberal use of sedatives for euthanasia during the pandemic – particularly in advocating for more liberal rules surrounding administration by unqualified staff.

The cavalier approach, along the lack of consideration of the possibility of incompetence, honest mistakes or malfeasance affecting life or death decisions, is frankly horrifying, and does seem to indicate a level of potentially dangerous official groupthink surrounding the issue.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

You forgot: lessons have been learned.

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TJN
TJN
2 years ago

The questions thus become: Who exactly was responsible for this approach to be taken for those seriously ill with Covid? Was there any ‘encouragement’ delivered from those in Government?

Well for starters Witty and Valence are right up there on the list.

There was a time long ago when senior politicians and advisors carried the can when things went wrong, even if it wasn’t their fault (witness Carrington and the Falklands). Now they get gongs and plush sinecures.

Having said that, the net is slowly being formed to close in on that pair and their acolytes.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago
Reply to  TJN

I suspect that if there was malfeasance those two played a significant hand in it, yes.

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TJN
TJN
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

It doesn’t have to be malfeasance – just negligence is enough to condemn them. And I believe they would find it very hard to escape that charge, at the very least.

And then there’e the point of honour that things went wrong on your watch, so you carry the can – but such principles are out of fashion nowadays.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  TJN

Reckless endangerment of life too.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Don’t ever forget the blatant malfeasance of Farrar, Michie, Ferguson (and many others). Farrar and Michie already appointed to the shiny new sexed up WHO with Global, unlimited powers, which our Beloved Leaders salivate in their haste to sign up to.

Autopsies?
More than one signature on Death Certificates?
Demonisation of Ivermectin etc?
Rubbishing of Vitamin D ffs?

I guarantee that those responsible for all this (and also for Net Zero) will smirk to themselves, realising that indeed, “they could get away with it” (Ferguson). And they have. Next time, turn the dial up to 11 even faster and “Shut Up! We own the Settled Science!”

Even those useless poltroons Hancock and Jeremy Isaak Hunt still preen themselves as gifted genii!

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Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton
2 years ago

That’s a lot of words to say:
Handoncock + NHS Clowns cleared elderly out of hospital into care homes
To make beds for imminent plague
Lockdown + Fear Porn put into overdrive
So even most GP’s terrified also
Vulnerable contracted covid/flu
Treated at arms length as if plague ridden
Many contract pneumonia due to neglect
Speeded on way with Midazolam etc
40,000ish?

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago

I’d be interested in knowing the history of this “treatment”, I hadn’t really heard of this before covid, is this standard practice or simply a new-age one world health way of doing things? Why we were intent on using such powerful analgesics and anaesthetics for the treatment of a respiratory illness, especially since there’s a risk of causing laboured breathing with these medicines is confusing to the uninitiated. I guess it’s about balance and being monitored – though how that jibes with ‘limited contact’ due to infection risk is a bit of a contradiction.

I’m presuming these were only given to those patients on ventilators, it’s surely overkill for anyone otherwise, but these are such strong painkillers and sleep aids I’m struggling to understand their justification – why the most potent? Yes we should be making them comfortable with pain meds but not to the extent it keeps them so deep under they lose the will to live in an induced coma.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  Lancer

I was involved in health care from 1971 to 2001 and I had never heard during that time of this kind of pain management for respiratory illness. Although since the end run is pneumonia, some slight sedation may make it more tolerable in those cases.

But maybe another aspect is being overlooked. The majority of CoVid cases were among elderly with underlying medical conditions so quite likely would already have been on some sedation or pain management – they often have bed-sores, arthritis both painful.

It may be their doses were increased, and it is quite possible to a level that would hasten death… as an act of kindness.

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Yeah, fair enough, I’d never heard of it before, really does sound like a new euthanasia-through-the-back-door approach, more akin to creating Soylent Green or some other dystopian nightmare.

Fair point on the elderly perhaps already on pain management, so will have a certain tolerance. Though surely that’s unique to the individual patient, wouldn’t want to go overdosing someone on morphine who only needs a bit of codeine. Though isn’t that what end of life care is all about – being given an overdose and able to drift off and away in comfort (once you’ve decided you simply can’t take it anymore and aren’t improving)? How this is decided without any influence is the ultimate question of course.

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jburns75
jburns75
2 years ago
Reply to  Lancer

NHS guidelines surrounding use of Midazolam and Morphene in the pandemic, such as this from NHS Scotland:

update 8 EOLC care for the covid patient final for guidelines WIH V1.docx (003).pdf (scot.nhs.uk)

Recommend use of sedatives for ‘end of life’ care in response to symptoms including anxiety. The recommended doses are fatal for elderly people. There’s no requirement for patients being on a ventilator, or even as far as I can tell, proper clinical assessment.

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Lancer
Lancer
2 years ago
Reply to  jburns75

That sounds a lot like the Liverpool Care Pathway, a care package with the potential for abuse. No requirement for ventilator would suggest there’s little else to qualify but being elderly, frail with a comorbidity. In all seriousness that describes anyone over the age of 70. What else constitutes the qualifying process for ‘end of life’ care? If it’s simply a respiratory illness they’re expected to never recover from, that’s plain wrong in my opinion. Covid wasn’t a death sentence – despite many proclaiming it as such.

Appreciate the link.

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barrososBuboes
barrososBuboes
2 years ago

The smoking gun was highlighted early on by the unfortunately named John O’Looney undertaker. He reported that the distribution of deaths between nursing homes and individual’s homes was completely unnatural i.e. all the deaths occurred in the homes and none in the community. Simply by looking at this distribution one can show that it was the interventions that were killing.

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barrososBuboes
barrososBuboes
2 years ago
Reply to  barrososBuboes

“deaths occurred in the nursing homes and none in the community” to be clear.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  barrososBuboes

My brother, 80 years old, was in a care home with progressive vascular dementia after a stroke during the ‘crisis’. Getting information about him was difficult as nobody could visit, but we were told he was unwell but the GP would not attend as that was policy, not to go into care homes.

He was diagnosed – over the phone – as having urinary tract infection and antibiotics were prescribed.

He later, before vax, contracted Covid but recovered after about 3 days, but we were told others had died in the home as they could not be transferred to hospital.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

It’s too late for a “truth and reconciliation” process. The Globalists, Big Pharma, our political class and the mainstream media have systematically lied and lied to us for 3 years …. and most in the medical profession have gone along with the lies and delivered the medical interventions they were instructed to deliver ….. knowing full well the harm they were causing to a great many people.

Trust the medical profession? In a parallel universe.

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amanuensis
amanuensis
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

Sadly, this is probably right. Our authorities (and worldwide) had an opportunity to sort out their mistakes without looking guilty (ie, simple mistakes made in a time of fear and uncertainty) some time ago — instead they doubled down on their misinformation / obfuscation.

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Even Anders Tegnell apologised for his (few) mistakes in Sweden!

Our evil barstewards? Or Fauci and Birx? Not a chance! Never!

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Myra
Myra
2 years ago
Reply to  amanuensis

Brings me back to the question ‘why’? Are they really that unintelligent? As you said, the truth will out.
And they had so many opportunities to be intelligent.

I now think they hope it will all go away with time. People forget, want to move on.

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

Yes unfortunately it’ll never happen as there’s too many corrupt scumbags who do not possess an intact moral compass invested in this false narrative. Too many egos and reputations at stake. The thing is, the more time goes by the harder it is for anyone else who was pro-narrative to do that all important U-turn and show some humility in admitting they were wrong. It’d just look entirely phony and lame, say, in 6 months time, in my opinion. Time is running out for people to search their consciences, switch sides and eat humble pie as a result. We’re not even talking just the Covid-related abuses now are we? Nothing is an isolated incident. It’s becoming more and more obvious, as we look at everything going on globally that results in the harm and control of the masses, that everything is inter-linked, therefore there’s too much at stake for TPTB and they’ll never give an inch. I continue to expect the worst but hope for the best.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I share your views entirely Mogs.

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

The only truth and reconciliation process that would suffice is trial by jury then firing squad.

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olaffreya
olaffreya
2 years ago

The only conclusion I can reach from the past is 3 years is that humankind is incapable of collectively acting ethically, learning from the lessons of history, and acknowledging the truth that abides in real experience and evidence. On this amazing planet the majority are creating a hell, a dystopian faux paradise that I suspect will lead to mankind’s extinction. All in the name of saving the planet and lives. Paradise Lost indeed.

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HumanBeing
HumanBeing
2 years ago
Reply to  olaffreya

I don’t think there is anything resembling ‘human’ in the beings that enforced these policies my friend.

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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

The fact that prescribing of these drugs seems to be increasing despite the vastly reduced impact of winter viral infections seems to indicate, to me, that this treatment is now becoming normalised within the wider healthcare sector.

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
2 years ago

Are the graphs of Midazolam and Morphine injections for the UK or just for England?

It would be interesting to see comparitive graphs for England, Scotland, Wales and NI. I remember an article pointing out that the spikes in deaths in spring 20 and winter 20/21 in England were much higher -adjusted for population size, of course – than in the other 3. It would be helpful to know if there were similar differences in the use of Midozalam and Morphine. between the 4.

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NickR
NickR
2 years ago

During April 2020 hospitals were emptied of about half of their patients. Some returned, but on average hospitals were only 60% full across the month. The spike in prescriptions was spread across a far more concentrated bunch of patients.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago

‘It is easy to forget now that we’re ‘living with Covid’ that there was a great deal of fear of Covid back in early 2020. The Government official line was that Covid could be a very serious disease in all and a near death-sentence for the vulnerable.’

Yet in mid-March 2020, the WHO, closely followed by the UK government’s own specialist advisory committee, officially downgraded the cvd19 threat to the level of seasonal flu.

Last edited 2 years ago by allanplaskett
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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  allanplaskett

By doing so, it prevented medics from repurposing any drug for treatment as is written into the policy regarding high consequence disease, thus paving the way for the emergency use authorisation of the bioweapon injections. If any treatment were available, no bioweapon injection would be permitted.
All part of the overall plan.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
2 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

A good point, something that I have seen suggested somewhere in the last couple of years but I had forgotten about until you mention it here.

This is actually more important than it appears. All of my interaction with doctors these days is bounded by what they are permitted to do rather than what is sensible. NICE and the NHS have very strong control of each individual doctor’s range of action. This is a very bad idea.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
2 years ago
Reply to  Tyrbiter

Not just medics. ALL NHS healthcare professionals have to adhere to NICE guidelines, even where the evidence used to support the guideline is not of the highest quality.
A case in point is from the SLT profession regarding exercises to strengthen the oral musculature following a stroke or in a neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s Disease or MS. NICE guidelines, based on a review of all the available evidence, which in the end resulted in just a dozen papers with an underpowered cohort of circa 1,000 subjects & compared non comparable studies with different outcomes, stated that these exercises had no benefit. What was failed to be assessed was whether resistance exercises had any benefit. I knew from my clinical experience that resistance exercises worked to improve muscle strength & endurance where these exercises were carried out by patients who were years beyond the spontaneous recovery period of 3-6 months, one notable case was 27 years post onset. Yet I was banned from using this therapeutic strategy with my patients. Utter & total madness as it consigned many to a lifetime of artificial feeding & being unable to communicate verbally as their speech rendered them incomprehensible.
Evidence based practice sounds all fine & dandy until the evidence is collated in a fraudulent way. Therapy is a science & an art, the delivery of which is unique to each patient. Therapy is now rote by diktat, if you’re able to get anywhere near a clinician in the first place.

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HumanBeing
HumanBeing
2 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

In the US Fauci did the same with Remdesivir; pulled from clinical trials for killing too many people!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 years ago
Reply to  BurlingtonBertie

Exactly.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
2 years ago

Ask Wancock !!

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JXB
JXB
2 years ago

‘Doctors aren’t evil people (with a few obvious exceptions) and wouldn’t go along with ‘orders from above’ to commit such atrocities.’

But that assumes conscious thought and decision; it overlooks autonomous response and action, just as we don’t think first before moving our fingers from a burning hot object

it overlooks the self-perceived god-like power over life and death, deeply ingrained sentiment of self-righteousness, and conceit of omniscience and infallibility in medical matters: they are ruled by ‘established practice’.

Surgeons still operated in filthy, blood encrusted frock coats kept in theatres long after germ theory and the importance of aseptic technique were known.

‘Doctor knows best! Doctor knows what he’s doing and doesn’t need to explain it to you… just keep still. If the medicine is nasty, the treatment hurting, that means it’s working.’

And it is easy to convince oneself, and others, that an apparent evil in ordinary circumstances when done for good, is not really evil.

(I speak from 30 years experience with dealing with the medical and nursing professions.)

It may shock people to learn that the Winter ‘flu season with the deaths of the weak it inevitably would bring, was not dreaded but welcomed because it cleared out the bed blockers in geriatric and psychiatric wards. And perhaps not as harsh as it sounds. These patients were in poor condition, in pain, no hope of remission, often lonely without visitors, very poor quality of life.

(And it is largely that cohort, let’s not forget, that ‘experts’ and Government were willing to risk the health and lives of our children to ‘protect’ and for whom the whole vaccination programme was introduced to ‘save’.)

The reality of doctors and nurses is not the heroic, front line, dedicated, selfless, caring individuals that is the rosey image the general public has.

All else aside, they behaved appallingly during the last three years and some still are being willing to inject infants with a product known to be of no benefit to them and with a significant risk of injury or fatality.

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
2 years ago

This “end-of-life” euphemism. We all know what happened.

“Doctors aren’t evil people (with a few obvious exceptions) and wouldn’t go along with ‘orders from above’ to commit such atrocities.”

So let’s say that the were being NICE and thought that they were doing the right thing.

*****

Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane 

Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field 
near Everyman Cinema & play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE
………

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Western Firebrand
Western Firebrand
2 years ago

The origins of state euthanasia go back at least to the tenure of Andrew Lansley as Health Secretary. The introduction of the so-called “Liverpool Care Pathway” (the title became discredited and was removed, but the policy stayed in effect) provided the umbrella of “palliative care” to become a means to terminate the lives of the elderly and chronically ill. It was refined into a triage system to decide who would be administered end of life drugs, resulting in a “good death” irrespective of care plans and powers of attorney.

At the beginning of the first lockdown, Matt Hancock is recorded as ordering and importing large quantities of Midazolam for the UK. Despite its labelling and instructions in French language, it was pushed out and often placed into the hands of nurses and care home staff willing to give injections. Large dosages administered in conjunction with morphine (as John Campbell makes clear) suppress respiration and exacerbate breathing difficulties associated with coronavirus. Restrictions on visiting NHS hospitals and care homes provided cover to hide the use of these drugs.

I strongly suspect that three elderly friends who died from “hospital acquired pneumonia” (three different hospitals) were given these drugs to end their lives prematurely.

A review of what actually happened during lockdown is as unlikely as those responsible being brought to account.

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RS
RS
2 years ago

As I understand it, the key point about the advice from NICE, is the fact that the use of morphine + Midazolam suppressed breathing. So for a patient who had a respiratory infection and was struggling for breath it is highly likely that the effect of this treatment would be fatal. Indeed included in the NICE advice was the statement that staff shouldn’t be put off using the drugs simply because they suppressed breathing. From what I’ve read, this policy looks just like government endorsed euthanasia (or murder) of the most vulnerable members of our society at a time when families were excluded and so weren’t there to protect their loved ones. It is in a long list of criminal activity that was, and still is the response to covid19.

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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
2 years ago

Amanuensis is giving health care workers far too much leeway and credence here than they warrant or deserve. I should know, I was one for many years. I saw how the first HIV/AIDS patients were treated back in the 80s and was shocked then by the frankly vitriolic cruelty and victimisation meted out to those poor souls. The same level of inhumanity and cruelty was in play this time around in the way patients were isolated and families denied access, plus compliance with the frankly insane drug treatment decisions like no antibiotics/steroids for breathlessness, only toxic remdesivir or ineffective monoclonals.. I refused to implement the Liverpool Care Pathway on more than one occasion – so was just replaced by others who did; I’m sure that would have repeated this time too with the DNRs and Mid/Morph cocktail. My mum was in a care home for 6 bl**dy years and I watched how she and some of the others were treated when they thought family & visitors weren’t looking (we were a very present, pushy and vociferous family so she was spared the worst, yet they still managed to break her leg on one occasion).Thank the gods she died a few years ago otherwise she’d be just another statistic by now. As Susan Sontag said in “Regarding the Pain of Others’:

“Someone who is permanently surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable of inflicting in the way of gruesome, hands-on cruelties upon other humans, has not reached moral or psychological adulthood.” 

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GrouchoMarques
GrouchoMarques
2 years ago

I’m sure Baroness Hallett’s inquiry will conduct a similar in-depth analysis and find the answers to the questions Amanuensis raises. Not.

Last edited 2 years ago by GrouchoMarques
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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
2 years ago
Reply to  GrouchoMarques

I’d be amazed if Hallett’s Inquiry was as thorough, open and honest as Lord Hutton’s “Inquiry” into the “Suicide” of David Kelly.

And I’m quite sure Hallett will also have prepared to have evidence locked up for 70 years. (Or accidentally incinerated.)

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Grahamb
Grahamb
2 years ago

Then there is the purchasing pattern of said drugs. You can’t prescribe and administer what you don’t have in stock. I seem to recall, there had been some large purchases of midazolam that is not supported by previous years usage to forecast requirements

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Myra
Myra
2 years ago

Thank you for this article. I fully agree.

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago

‘…when it comes to science and medicine eventually the truth will out. I suggest that our authorities would be well advised to consider an open and transparent review of what occurred over those two years, with encouragement given to relevant scientists and medics to come forth and discuss their experiences during the pandemic.’

I hope that relations with our erstwhile EU partners will be sufficiently cordial for representatives from the Netherlands and German health authorities to come over and give evidence to our ‘open and transparent review’ on the matter of the Euromomo mortality statistics for Apr-20 to Mar-21.

I have never heard the theory mooted that viruses recognize frontiers, but something like that needs to have happened to explain the fact that EuroMo graphs for Germany show no death hump in Apr-20, no excess mortality at all in that month, while just across the border to the West, the Netherlands mimicked the UK in having twice their usual average mortality for a period of several weeks.

What happened in Germany? Or, perhaps more pertinently, what didn’t?

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allanplaskett
allanplaskett
2 years ago

Proof that cvd19 risk was officially (UKHSA) downgraded 1 week before lockdown 1 was declared:

UKHSA Guidance on High consequence infectious diseases (HCID),
updated 19-Mar-20

Extract:
‘Now that more is known about COVID-19, the public health bodies in the UK have reviewed the most up-to-date information about COVID-19 against the UK HCID criteria. They have determined that several features have now changed; in particular, more information is available about mortality rates (low overall), and there is now greater clinical awareness and a specific and sensitive laboratory test, the availability of which continues to increase.
The ACDP is also of the opinion that COVID-19 should no longer be classified as an HCID.’

Worth reading in full:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#status-of-covid-19

Last edited 2 years ago by allanplaskett
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Gary
Gary
2 years ago

On the 14th February 2023, Andrew Bridgen MP tweeted, “I have been supplied with lots of evidence from people who believe their relatives died due to the medical interventions brought in as a result of the Covid 19 ‘pandemic’. More questions for Matt Hancock to answer.”

Mr Bridgen is referring to the medical protocol NG163, the “Covid 19 Rapid Guideline”, issued by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) on 3 April 2020. Allegations are circulating that this guidance was used as a trigger to euthanise elderly and vulnerable patients under the guise of ‘with Covid’ deaths thus inflating the appalling death toll in the spring wave of Covid19 in 2020. 

Mr Bridgen subsequently appeared with journalist Maajid Nawaz on the 28th February to explain why he had submitted written questions to parliament requesting an investigation into these allegations. 

The following is a transcript of a recording of victims families alleging that the British state, under Health Secretary Matt Hancock, authorised a policy of involuntary mass euthanasia of the elderly in care homes and hospitals using the drugs Midazolam and Morphine under the cover of ‘with covid’ deaths.

“The following voice messages you are about to hear have been recorded specifically for Andrew Bridgen MP. Following personal experiences that have affected each individual and their families, we have collectively put our faith in Andrew Bridgen to expose the Midazolam euthanasia policy currently being carried out in the NHS in the UK.

Hello Andrew, I would like to inform you that I believe my Dad was killed by the NHS with Midazolam and I have the evidence.

Hello Andrew, I’d like to inform you that I believe my Mum was killed by the NHS with Midazolam and I have the evidence. From Gillian.

Hello Andrew. I would like to inform you that I believe my beautiful Dad was killed by the NHS with Midazolam and I have the evidence to prove this, yours sincerely, Lee.

Hi Andrew. I have extremely strong documented evidence that the NHS pre planned and carried out my fathers murder with Midazolam and morphine. Thank you, Emma.

Hi Andrew. Just a quick message. I believe my father was killed by the NHS with Midazolam and Morphine using protocol NG163 and I have the evidence. Thank you, John.

Hello Andrew. My name is Carol Harmer. My Mum was murdered on the 12th of June 2020 at the Conquest Hospital , Hastings, in Sussex. I’ve got a Freedom of Information request in and found out, to my disgust, that she had been given huge doses of Midazolam and Morphine. When I tried to fight them I was told that they were working within the government guidelines and this was acceptable. Andrew, this is not acceptable, its not acceptable now and we all want justice for our family members that were murdered within this period. Many thanks.

Hello Andrew, my name is Jennifer. My Mums death was hastened by the use of 60 milligrams of Midazolam a day which shows in her medical records, Thanks, bye.

Hello Andrew, my name is Celia. I’m a retired nurse and I have the evidence to prove that my partner was killed by the use of Midazolam .

Hi Andrew, this is Stuart. I wish to confirm that my mother was murdered with one dose of Midazolam and I have irrefutable evidence to prove it.

Hello Andrew, this is Paul. I wanted to inform you I have received a letter of apology from an NHS setting admitting failings for the care of my father. I am confident that these failings, that have been admitted, hastened my fathers death through the use of Midazolam. I have the evidence.” 

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