The highly recommended HART bulletin this week has a piece on how the NHS is failing Covid patients by not offering any adequate early treatment, despite the now plentiful evidence of the clinical effectiveness of a number of safe, repurposed drugs.
Nearly a year and a half after the country was locked down to protect the NHS, how is the NHS performing in managing the very condition that so threatened it?
If you suspect that you or a member of your household is suffering from COVID-19 the advice is to get a test and contact NHS 111 for advice. When you do this you are asked a series of questions designed to ascertain how seriously ill you are. If you report “red flag” symptoms such as severe breathlessness or oxygen saturations below 90% quite rightly you are advised to call 999. But what about the less severe cases? The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued guidance to clinicians on how to assess and manage patients with COVID-19. Patients not severely ill and requiring hospital admission are managed in the community. The guidance advises symptomatic treatment such as a teaspoon of honey or linctus or even morphine sulphate tablets to suppress coughing. This in itself is bizarre advice, given that the British National Formulary (BNF) only recommends morphine for treatment of cough in palliative care with a ‘reminder of the risk of potentially fatal respiratory depression’. Paracetamol or ibuprofen is recommended for fever. For breathlessness it advises to keep the room cool and open a window. For agitation and anxiety it even recommends a trial of a benzodiazepine (a tranquiliser medication) despite this potentially leading to respiratory depression.
What does not feature in the guidance is early treatment of COVID-19 in the community. Drug treatments such as dexamethasone and remdesivir are recommended for hospital patients. There are a number of established medicines such as ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, zinc and famotidine which have been advocated for early treatment. The evidence in favour of ivermectin, in particular, is growing rapidly as this meta-analysis by HART member Professor Norman Fenton and his colleague Professor Martin Neil shows.
Similarly, early administration of inhaled budesonide (an asthma drug) has been shown to reduce the likelihood of needing urgent medical care and reduced time to recovery while a peer-reviewed study in the USA showed fluvoxamine (a common antidepressant drug) prevented clinical deterioration in outpatients with clinical COVID-19.
The U.K. has been quick to roll out COVID-19 vaccines that are still undergoing their clinical trials yet seems reluctant to explore the possibility of cheap treatments with long established safety records. Surely this begs the question why?
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The Home Secretary does not decide what the police do. That is decided by a quango called the College of Policing and a trade guild called the Association of Chief Police Officers, or names something like that. Both have been fully taken over by the wokery and Blairism of the past 25 years.
Freemasons might have something to do with senior officers. They have been established for a long time.
I reckon the coppers were better when the freemasons were in charge, at least they were patriots.
I see Enoch Burke has been arrested again in Ireland because he refuses to conform and turn his back on his principles. Much admiration for him because he’s defiant in refusing to be bullied, threatened or to bow down to the wretched gender ideology which is polluting our societies and poses a serious threat to our kids. What a hero this man is, who just happens to expose the unethical and corrupt state of the law at the same time. Ireland’s police and judiciary, much like the UK, are a total disgrace, to put it mildly;
”BREAKING: Teacher Enoch Burke arrested at Wilson’s Hospital School after refusing to endorse and affirm transgender ideology.
Judge Barry O’Donnell, who made almost €400,000 from 2016-2018 representing TUSLA as a barrister, ordered his arrest.
TUSLA is the Irish State ‘Child Protection’ agency, an organisation saturated with LGBT ideology, urging staff recently to learn about cross-dressers and drag performers, and making acceptance of LGBT and transgender ideology a condition for fostering children.
What a mockery to expect Enoch Burke, a Christian teacher, to sit before this man and expect justice.”
https://x.com/EnochBurke/status/1830622162362745233
They would probably make it mandatory to have the jab before adoption. That is what seemed to happen to a mate who was in the adoption process. But I remember his partner was a Carer is that might have played a part. I remember him saying that he had to show that he had the jab — and me being outraged that he found entertaining more than anything.
I suppose Killing 80 year olds in the park is the new scumping or knock a door run is it?
All seems to be accepted as normal these days!
BUT, don’t you dare tweet about it!
https://www.gbnews.com/news/five-children-arrested-dog-walker-park-leicestershire
Are there any Non, Non-crime Hate incidents we can ‘commit’?
Or is it non-crime -hate- non-crimes?
It’s getting confusing.
I can image a principled officer saying, ‘get back to me when you have an actual crime to report because we are rather busy’. and then getting the sack by the Woke paramilitary wing of the Police.
Isn’t theft under £100 now legal by default. Just give the crime number and forget about it!
I remember being astonished to read a book called “The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” by Richard Feynman. —-I discovered that light can be in two places at once.
But I never knew Police Officers had this same remarkable quality. They can be apprehending someone who just wrote a naughty sentence on social media while at the same time arresting someone for carrying a knife or for actually having just plunged a knife into someone. —-Quite remarkable. ——But actually Police Officers are not light beams at all are they? And since they cannot be in two places at once perhaps it is best to be in just the once place and forget all about the naughty sentences.
You can’t use a word like ‘hate’ in this way because it doesn’t take a genius to see that to configure this word thus is essentially an attempt to pretenend to do one thing whilst actually doing another. And there is no place for black magic in our society. Kennedy talked about the perniciousness of secrecy and cited Athens where it was a punishable crime to shy away from difficult controversies. And hatred isn’t an anti-spritual state if properly applied. Perhaps hate the sin but not the sinner is the best formulation.
Peak Orwell Non-Crimes Are Crimes