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Did anything even approaching this take place in any of the investigations - internal or otherwise - before or after the finger was pointed at Lucy? I'm playing catch-up with this case, but - this and her miserable, one-witness defence, seem to be the big issues here (along with the bogus stats of course).

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"Does a doctor identifying an association between deaths in a hospital ward and a nurse, mean that nurse is culpable?" No, it deserves full investigation, meaning a full report on the cause of death and alternative reasons for those causes. I answered before reading. Did the Oklahoma nurses trim their finger nails after that?

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I read the article with amazement. How can it be permitted to work as a nurse handling patients with long nails, false nails, etc. I remember a documentary about an Ebola patient in a US hospital and a cluster of patients that developed. I saw the hospital being "cleaned" with papers wetted with cleaning solutions. I saw nurse wearing cocktail rings. Even a wedding ring should be forbidden !

Currently "super bugs" are arriving in soldiers who are returned from the endless wars giong on. They have been hit by shrapnel and are stabilized. But a film of pathogens has attached itself to that shrapnel. As soon as a surgeon tries to remove it, the bacteria get into the bloodstream and infect the brain.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/war-zone-conflict-bacteria-pandemic-1235064261/

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Love your writings and philosophical musings. Nowadays we can only dream of such thorough investigations. just one small thing. You write “ The third element can also be made out where the person absent an intention to caused death”. Shouldn’t that be “were”?

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Thanks. I have edited the sentence. It's odd sometimes how something can sound one way in your head but sound completely wrong when you say it out aloud.

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I wish the defence had looked into this as deeply.

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You and me too. I also wish the UK media had done a better job. Journalists are supposed to be the annoying fleas in the fur. Doubting authorities, asking questions, looking for alternate explanations. None of them looked for similar occurrences elsewhere in the world, as far as I know. Apparently they all wrote what they were told.

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