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“Now the time has come to return to a normal daily life,” says the Prime Minister of Norway.
On Saturday 25 September at 4pm, Erna Solberg, Norway’s PM, lifted all Covid-19 restrictions. Going back to normal was not because of reaching high vaccination rates (67% two shots); instead, the overnight decision was made due to “public fatigue“. No further requirement of masks, passports, lockdowns, social distancing, or restricted numbers and best of all, the unvaccinated were not blamed for the decision.
The pandemic is still in Norway, but the country is learning to live again. Solberg encourages vaccination and thanked the different government agencies involved in the response as well as the public.
“I want to say, Thank-you very much Norway“, she said.
Meanwhile, around the world, politicians and health officials are continuing to cause division by giving conflicting information about how to deal with this virus. The storm is brewing as every Tom, Dick and Henrietta around the world are despairing and angry over their countries’ lockdown rules. Normal life, including for businesses, has been cruelly curtailed by doctors and politicians who disagree about COVID-19 treatments and cures.
The US Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act 1986 (EMTALA) has become confusing for healthcare providers. The EMTALA is the federal legislation governing the transfer of patients, which requires anyone coming into an emergency department to be stabilised and treated, regardless of their insurance status or ability to pay. Now they dispute whether a patient unvaccinated for COVID-19 ought to be discriminated against and not given any, or the same, treatment as a vaccinated person. Doctors are divided over the Hippocrates’s edict: primum non nocere – first do no harm.
The divisive ethical debates about coronavirus have doctors around the world considering their training and their consciences.
Dr Alyssa Burgart (Paediatric Anaesthesiologist and Bioethicist) of Stanford University, USA, was asked on the 27th of August 2021, by an NBC interviewer, whether a doctor could refuse to treat an unvaccinated patient. Burgart emphasised that doctors must treat everyone in front of them, as the EMATALA law requires this in practice. She promoted people having vaccines.
There are other US doctors who do not want to treat the unvaccinated, stating that they want to keep their staff and other patients safe from the virus. Shockingly, a patient’s vaccine status therefore may be considered when making triage decisions.
A group of North Texas doctors have now come out saying vaccination status policy will NOT be part of their care decisions.
Documentation of what New Zealand health officials believe is scarce. Thirty-three health professionals have written of their concerns about this particular vaccine and are now being investigated by the NZ Medical Council for expressing their views. Some doctors say the vaccines are safe and effective and are keeping people from getting sick and hospitalised. A doctor spoke at the Mt Maunganui Freedoms & Rights Coalition public stand recently and gave significant reasons why kiwis should not have the vaccine.
It is well documented that Israel, one of the first countries to begin vaccinating, is facing opposition to the mandating of booster shots, as the country has their third and fourth wave of COVID-19.
Doctors are divided about the need for COVID-19 boosters.
Current scientific evidence shows that most people do not need booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines, a team of experts said in a new paper. Research shows that the vaccines remain effective at preventing severe COVID-19, according to the group. Their opinion was published in the influential journal – The Lancet.
While this group of experts agree that boosters aren’t yet needed, doctors and nurses in the United States are divided about whether they are needed and how the United States should prioritize its supply of vaccines, according to a Medscape/WebMD poll of more than 1,700 doctors and nurses conducted 25th Aug. – 6th Sept. (Medscape is WebMD’s sister site for health care professionals).
Donavyn Coffey WebMD 13 September 2021
Fauci foresees ‘full vaccination’ including boosters.
The phrase “fully vaccinated” will eventually change to mean a person has gotten a booster shot — not just the initial doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, predicted Anthony Fauci, MD, the White House chief medical adviser.
WebMD 3 September 2021
Many countries, including New Zealand, are forecasting the use of vaccine passports to incentivise coerce more people into getting vaccinated. Without this documentation, some travel, and access to many services and functions, will be banned. Vaccine passports in Israel will not be renewed unless the recipient has the controversial booster shots.
Professor Zvi Bentwich, physician, clinical immunologist and geneticist, world-renowned expert on AIDS research and Head of the Centre for Tropical Diseases and Aids, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, says:
Even if you want to vaccinate- as we believe is a logical and justified measure, one has to be careful in forcing vaccinations. Bentwich, a renowned immunologist, is part of the Emergency Public Council for Corona crisis. The Group, comprised of doctors, scientists and others have filed a lawsuit with the Israel’s Supreme Court calling the green pass (Tav Yarok) “coercive and predatory”
Professor Eli Schwartz, Sheba Medical Centre (considered one of the world’s top hospitals), who completed a clinical study in the battle against COVID-19, found that by day four, 86% of his patients who took the controversial medication ivermectin recovered. By day 6, 94% recovered. He says,
The problem is that we are in the arms of the pharma and the pharma is looking for new drugs.
CBN News September 21
Last month’s decision by Norway, as well as Sweden and Denmark, to lift Covid-related restrictions, has gained some criticism around the world (Newsweek), but the main criticism in Norway was that the PM didn’t give the nightclubs enough time to prepare for a huge influx of patrons. The rest celebrated.