The Sorry State of Aged 'Care'

How does drugging them to death while pretending it isn't euthanasia even fit the definition of 'care'?

If you didn’t think I was mentally invested in the battles we have been waging against the self-elected State in regard to the man-manipulated, or at least man-released, virus, the State-imposed and thoroughly ineffective social distancing, masks and lockdowns, and the vaccines medicines gene therapy toxins, the encroachment of sick and perverted ideologies into our schools and healthcare systems that are leading to children being permanently disfigured and mutilated for absolutely no good reason, or the encroachment of State over our inalienable right to freely think for and express ourselves … I can tell you that I definitely am. And for better or worse, I am invested in what I am going to discuss today.

Fact Check 3:

Full Fact’s Grace Rahman confuses and misuses evidence clearly showing something could have happened, as evidence to assert it definitely didn’t happen.

This post is going to start out as another in my series on fact checking the fact checkers (for our previous fact checker checks, see here, here and here), before we return to my particular interest in this issue.

On the 1st of December 2022 the disgusting and quasi-criminal Facebook and Google-funded Full Fact ran an article by a fact checker journalist (FCJ) called Grace Rahman titled: No evidence midazolam used to kill thousands of patients in April 2020.

The FCJ starts out by linking to a 3 minute video on youtube that she describes as having ‘tens of thousands of views’ and making false claims regarding a 2020 spike in deaths caused by midazolam and morphine injections. ‘We can find no evidence to support this’ she goes on to say, and ‘a spike in Midazolam prescriptions during one of the worst months of the pandemic is therefore not unexpected’.

In the video uploaded to Youtube on 8th July, 2021 and titled: Midazolam, Morphine and Mass Murder by Government Policy we see then Minister Matt Hancock (aka Midazolam Matt) being asked questions regarding the availability of syringe drivers for use to specifically deliver Midazolam and Morphine to patients to ensure ‘a good death’. The video also includes the following graph, which demonstrates that the cumulative and linear number of Midazolam prescriptions issued overlays neatly on the cumulative and linear all-cause mortality numbers for the Over-65’s.

While our FCJ concedes that Midazolam could be used incorrectly and cause death, she claims the evidence Full Fact have doesn’t show it was used to kill thousands of people.

What evidence would that be Grace? Do you have access to the medical records and pathology/autopsy results of all the people who died in 2020?

No?

I thought not.

So, on the basis of what information does she make this claim? She acknowledges the significant rise (almost doubling) of Midazolam prescriptions in 2020 for ‘sedative or analgesic’ purposes in the English Prescribing Dataset and, strangely, seems to make our point - in that she also acknowledges that prescriptions of Midazolam for other purposes that would not be so potentialy life-ending (such as, as an anti-epileptic) did not appear to change.

And then, in her misguided attempt at claiming the author of the video is wrong about it being used to euthenise people, she strangely points directly to the most likely explanation for what it was used for…

And the temporal link…

And this example of what lawyers might call the worst case of refreshed memory from the CQC’s report on controlled substance use in 2020…

So… while telling us that the author of the video is wrong and that there is no evidence to suggest Midazolam or any other drug was ever used in the deaths of people either with Covid-19 or during the Covid-19 peak period in 2020, our FCJ has effectively confused herself into thinking the material she used as ‘factual evidence’ against the video’s assertion…

…actually is evidence that defeats that assertion.

Her ultimate verdict is that Midazolam was used in palliative care… but that conveniently ignores the fact that it is used in palliative care - often where other care is being or has been withdrawn, and in order to promote an albeit ‘comfortable’ death.

Therefore it is used, as the video would seem to suggest, to hasten death - and our FCJ, whilst believing she is denying the assertions she sees as being made in the video, actually provides the initial evidence to substantiate it.

Fact Check 3: Review

Referenced sources:

The FCJ uses a number of NHS sources to support her description of what Midazolam is - and while she links to one source from NICE that describes the use of Midazolam in Palliative Care, she completely overlooks NICE guideline NG163, now deleted but still available on their website at the time she wrote her fact check, that specifically describes the use of Midazolam and Morphine - in the manner described by the video’s author - to hasten end-of-life during the peak Covid-19.

She also overlooked the Oxford University’s OpenPrescribing site that can be used to view the GP prescribing data for every NHS Trust in the country. Openprescribing shows that Midazolam prescriptions rose immediately after the NICE guideline was published - during both the first ‘wave’ of deaths and the second…

In fact, Midazolam prescriptions haven’t abated completely to pre-Covid-19 levels, even now.

And even more damning for her Fact Check, the Openprescribing data also showed that prescriptions for the other drugs suggested for end-of-life care (read: hastening death) in the NICE guideline, Levomepromazine and Haloperidol, also rose sharply during both peaks.

Let’s not forget that the NICE guidelines are the public health guidelines - essentially the government policy for healthcare in the United Kingdom. NICE is a government agency. An arm of the Department of Health and Social Care. And Matt Hancock was the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from 9th July, 2018 to 26th June, 2021 - at the time this guideline was published to doctors and during the first and second ‘waves’ of Covid-19 when the NICE guideline was in force.

We know that a lot of elderly and infirm people incredibly died during the first ‘wave’ of Covid-19. I say incredibly because many were not going out, were in lockdown from family and friends, and therefore had limited chance to catch the disease. I also say incredibly because many, like my neighbour who at the time was in recovery from a short battle with cancer and most certainly would otherwise have lived, had their access to life-saving cancer treatment withdrawn and replaced with the protocol of drugs described in NG163. He died not from cancer… not from covid… but from asphyxiation resulting from impaired breathing secondary to bacterial pneumonia. He drowned in his own lungs in the front room of his terrace house because his breathing was retarded by Morphine and Midazolam administered on prescription several times each day for less than a week.

Dr John Campbell does a nice job of explaining why this combination of drugs would cause death in almost anyone - but especially those who have Covid-19 or even any other form of pneumonia or respiratory condition that causes retarded breathing.

The question remains…

Were the first and second ‘waves’ of deaths from Covid-19 in the UK a result of what the FCJ called using Midazolam and these other drugs listed in the NICE guideline incorrectly and causing death…

Or was their use and any incidental deaths a response to the Covid-19 ‘wave’ already occuring?

I am certain she might argue the latter while many of you, and even I given the evidence I have seen, might argue the former.

Why has this issue got me worked up today?

The final part of this is to return back to the start and discuss why this issue has me worked up today.

Over the last 7 years my mother in her 70’s, without ever completing High School, took herself to university and completed a Bachelor’s degree with Honors, and most of a Master’s, in Ancient History. Her subject? Similar to one of my own pet interests, she was fixated on Ancient Egypt - especially during the Middle and New Kingdoms. In fact, and even though she has been mostly estranged from her four sons for most of the last two decades, I was the proof reader for her Honors Degree thesis exploring the life and reign of Hatshepsut.

Like a lot of elderly people, she had declining strength and weak bones, and just after submitting her Honors Thesis she accidentally tripped and broke her femur. But not to lose her independence, she got mended and several months later returned to her apartment and started the Masters’ degree in earnest. Unfortunately, in 2019 she tripped and broke her leg again… but this time the doctors tried to say it was because she had Alzheimers. When this diagnosis was so easily refuted (a person with Alzheimers could not possibly learn, retain and regurgitate new information such as was necessary to complete and achieve a high pass in an academic degree as she had just done), they moved on to claiming it was dementia. But again, that didn’t work. Yes, we brothers agreed she was ‘mad as a hatter’ and in our adulthoods we had all come to dislike her acerbic and arrogant rants… but her ‘madness’ was simply an affect of her personality. She was not mentally impaired and except for the fact that she was getting weak from a touch of osteoporosis and being kept in a wheelchair, she was still functional and even engaging with professors half her age and completing units of her Masters. As an academic myself I have been able to have several professional conversations with her lecturers and research advisor, and they attest to the fact that even as recently as the first half of last year, she was completely on the ball and, although a little too chatty, on topic and track to complete her work.

However, and while she had survived all the Covid-19 nonsense unscathed… the doctors refused to let her stay in her little apartment as was her wish, and eventually forced the issue of putting her into an elderly assisted living facility. I predicted at the time that the staff at the facility would prevent her from having any independence or even from keeping her mind active by completing her research. I gave it 6 weeks before we would be told that she was bedridden and in need of a do not resuscitate (DNR) order and palliative care. This week, 6 weeks and 5 days after I made that prediction, my eldest brother was called to fly down to where she is. She was exactly how I predicted she would be - bedridden as a result of not being allowed to do anything at all for or with herself. She is bored, depressed and when the facility staff and their lawyer suggested he encourage her to accept a DNR… that is what happened. They had sucked all the final dregs of the spark of life from her now underfed and emaciated body. They made her give up. And what might you ask is the protocol they now intend to use to ‘ease her into death’ and shuffle her along and free up the bed for the next victim person?

Look at NICE guideline NG163 for your answer.

As Joel Smalley commented to me this morning on hearing the above…

It’s not so much “aged care” as “taking care” of the elderly.

A sad indictment on our current communist globalist society.

The Fact Checker ‘Journalist’

For those who don’t know, Grace Rahman is this young woke ‘person’ who goes by the Twitter handle @GraceOddity (an apt description), Tinyletter handle horribleGrace (an even apter description), and gracesassthetique (Grace’s Ass-thetique) on instagram.

Grace is described as having completed an undergraduate degree in Biology at Imperial College London in 2015. Her ‘real-world’ journalism experience appears to have been writing a grand total of seven (yes… SEVEN) articles of a slightly political public interest bent during her trainee reporter position for the Press Association’s The Independent between July and August of 2017 (here), and slightly more vacuous entertainment puff pieces about the shows on ‘TV Tonight’ (e.g.: here, here and here) during a brief work experience position for The Guardian between September 2016 and January 2017 (here). Somehow, this infinitessimal amount of practical experience with no meaningful body of work qualifies the barely qualified Grace to then move over to Full Fact (in March 2018) - for whom she has written over 400 so-called ‘fact checks’ since the start of Covid.

So she’s ‘highly qualified’ and ‘experienced’ in journalism and, like most fact checkers, started fact checking not long after tripping over her crisp black robe on the way up the graduand steps to collect her seemingly unused undergraduate degree…

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I should add as a final addendum that I would have liked one last opportunity to try and resolve our differences. However, due to the various income losses I and others have suffered during the Covid-19 period (I was targetted because I was sceptical of the mainstream media representations on Covid-19 and the vaccines, and constructively dismissed or forced to resign from three posts during the last 30 months), I am not in the financial position to return home in the 5-6 weeks time when their ‘care’ ministrations will have eventually seen her off.

I realise I am not the only one… So many people are in that same position. Loved ones dying on the other side of the planet and even though most of the Covid-19 measures are gone, we are still unable to to see them…

And likely never will again.

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