Matt Hancock has admitted “do not resuscitate orders” were “wrongly applied” during Covid and should be “reviewed” – but defended lockdown and said its supporters need to unite to defeat sceptics. The Telegraph has the story.
The former Health Secretary told the Covid Inquiry the practice [of DNRs] had been used inappropriately during the crisis, denying people access to potentially life-saving treatment.
He also suggested the U.K. should lock down faster in the event of a future pandemic, despite concerns over the impact of the “medieval” measures.
“Do not resuscitate” (DNR) orders, which instruct doctors not to attempt CPR if a patient’s heart or breathing stops, are generally only supposed to be drawn up with the clear agreement of the person in question.
But concerns were raised during the crisis that blanket DNRs had been imposed on vulnerable people without their consent.
Giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry on Friday, Mr. Hancock said it was “obvious” the orders had been “wrongly applied” in some circumstances and backed an investigation into their use during the pandemic.
The former Health Secretary was asked whether he would support a “systemic review” of all DNR notices put in place in early 2020.
He replied: “I certainly think a review like that should be looked at because it’s obvious that there were cases when DNR notices were wrongly applied. And I think the issue of consent is so important here.” …
Critics have raised questions about whether the benefits of lockdowns outweighed the impact on economic growth, children’s education and people’s mental health.
But Mr. Hancock suggested the U.K. should act even faster in the event of a future pandemic, telling the inquiry: “There needs to be a national debate, in my view, about how we respond immediately.”
He said: “The absolute number one thing that we can do to avoid this sort of trauma for NHS staff is to bring in lockdown measures early in response to a pandemic-level pathogen.
“And I think that those who understand the consequence of waiting before bringing in measures that are going to be necessary need to unite to win that argument.
“There are still people making the argument that lockdown wasn’t necessary, or in future we should try to do without it.
“I think that is false, wrong and dangerous, and the case needs to continue to be made so that should a pandemic-potential pathogen [hit us], which could happen at any time, we’re ready.”
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What I’ve learnt about them is that they were well worth avoiding, especially w.r.t. the way they were marketed.
Remember
As many of you know, four weeks from today, in the King’s Bench Division of the High Court of England, shall be heard:
The King on the application of Mark Steyn
vs
The Office of Communications
What is it
Britain and indeed the world owe Doctors Heneghan and Jefferson a huge debt for putting themselves front and centre in this battle with the anti human forces behind big pharma. I remember the early days when these good men were the very essence of politeness and restraint, now, quite rightly the gloves are off.
God bless them both.
Even though it has been more than four years since the start of “covid”, and fair while since “covid” was “over”, I cannot fathom the enormity of what was done, and the lack of interest most people show in it to this day. Articles like this really bring this home to me. Monstrous.
With you on that tof.
It’s almost like every morning I wake up and wonder if it was all a bad dream. I will never get my head round it.
That is pretty much where I am. I lay in bed this morning and couldn’t help but think “what have the youngsters got in front of them?”
It looks to me as if Orwell’s ‘1984’ is a real possibility within a barbaric muslim nightmare. I don’t see a future of hope I see a future of violence, depression and drudgery. Bleak. Very bleak.
It can seem like that
I just try to take care of me and mine and don’t give the bastards the satisfaction
I will never forget and never forgive. I want the guilty men and women treated the same way the Nazis were at Nuremberg.
A nightmare, like you and Hux, just cannot get my head around what happened and how it happened.
I though we Brits had something about us, the Bulldog spirit is dead and gone.
I thought we would be what Sweden were, and I thought Sweden would act like we did!
Something is seriously broken in the British psyche, it is a dead psyche it is no more!
I’d read into disaster planning and dystopian end times, but just never saw it coming. When the CMO’s of the British nations announced on 19th March 2020 the reduction from HCID I honestly that was it, we would be scaling back the rhetoric and the scaremongering, and calling out Neil Ferguson as the charlatan he clearly was – how very wrong I was!
I even naively believed that the NHS existed to save us!
I regret nothing I did in resisting the madness, but friendships have been lost!
I’m yet to regret not getting the vax that’s not a vax, and still strongly believe I made the right call, and will be vindicated.
Ditto !
https://youtu.be/BnTjmSv8VNo?si=88jzHda1vOoA1W5C
Paul Weston on YouTube with the perfect accompaniment to this article. Lots of Abduls on the take – literally.
A sincere thank you for all the hard work you have done over the last 3-4 years re the “pandemic” etc and for your work prior to that in trying to extol the benefits, nay necessity, of evidence based medicine.
I look forward to seeing Carl appearing on the BBC soon – no doubt shortly after the Guardian has invited him to write a series of articles criticising lockdowns, masks, school closures, social distancing, modified RNA and their untested lipid nanoparticles, the dangers of mass vaccination etc. etc.
That said, remember he’s up against luminaries such as the writer of this tripe –
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-jab-coronavirus-saved-lives-humanitarian-crises
According to the author of the linked Guardian article the AZ “vaccine” saved 6.3 million lives in 2021 alone. Later in the article we get this…
“We only know those who were harmed by it but cannot pinpoint those who benefited.
Again, this makes it trickier to pinpoint a vaccine’s success and assure people of its efficacy.”
But they were able to pinpoint efficacy to 6.3 million lives. This Robin Mickie is quite frankly a dangerous liar.