Opinion
During the Covid pandemic, it rubbed a great many people the wrong way that nurses in supposedly swamped hospitals had plenty of time to rehearse impeccably-choreographed Tik Tok dance videos. This is what they’re doing, while Grandpa’s urgent cancer screening is cancelled for the sixth month running?
But were some nurses up to something much, much darker than self-aggrandizing dance videos?
Last year Jonathan Engler and Jessica Hockett published a carefully researched article which offered a horrifying but plausible explanation for at least some of the otherwise unsolved ‘problem’ of New York’s all-age sudden covid death spike in the spring of 2020, which with a crisis of covid deaths in North Italy catalysed lockdown in the West. They postulate a number of factors, grounded in part in the 2006 Hurricane Katrina evidence, that created the semblance of pandemic.
We at The BFD are not the only independent media to have long pointed to the evidence that Covid policies wreaked more harm than the virus itself — certainly more harm than good. What the new research argues is that the sudden spike in deaths, either in New York or in Italy, cannot be explained by Covid alone.
The debate as to how much ‘pandemic’ harm was caused not by a virus but by the dystopian response to the perceived threat of a virus has been raging for some time now.
Jonathan tweeted about this last year in relation to Lombardy and that thread was turned into this Panda article.An analysis of the spatial characteristics of deaths during the spring 2020 wave in Northern Italy was carried out by him along with a Panda colleague; this suggested that it looked nothing like a spreading virus, and more like the sudden imposition of a policy response.
More recently, Jessica has essentially come to the same conclusions about New York: that something terrifyingly unnatural appears to have happened, which cannot be explained by the sudden spread of a deadly virus.
As the data shows, in just a few weeks in 2020, there was a ferocious spike in deaths which ended as fast as it came. In less than a month, deaths dropped back to normal and remained there, with one or two minuscule bumps, through the next two years. Anyone still holding out that this was caused by the virus needs to explain why, firstly, New York’s “Covid” death spike was more than double that of the infamous 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and, secondly, why no other places saw a death spike even approaching that of 1918.
Moreover, unlike elsewhere, the increase in deaths was seen across a younger demographic, not exclusively in the elderly […]
all-cause hospital inpatient weekly death counts in the 20-59 age group were dramatically elevated for a short period, by a shocking 6-fold at their peak, with nearly all these deaths being coded as ‘covid’.
In fact, in New York, the percentage increase in all-cause deaths during the spring ‘1st wave’ period was the same in the 20-69 year old age group as in the 70s and over:
In other places, however, what we were told was the same disease caused by the same virus left the younger age groups largely untouched, with nearly all deaths being in the elderly.
This discrepancy remains completely unexplained.
We know that in places like Scotland, “emergency measures” in nursing homes were implemented, including a policy of applying Do Not Resuscitate orders (DNRs) without the knowledge of the individual or their family that may have green-lit the implementation of end-of-life policies involving the administration of midazolam and other drugs.
But were these people really at the end of their lives? Or did hospital staff, in the panicked atmosphere nurtured by governments and public health bureaucracies, take it on themselves to end peoples’ lives? Not just “for their own good”, but from a hysterical drive for self-preservation? Dr Vinay Prasad points to the unique and pervasive pall of fear.
‘In our whole medical career, doctors have never been personally afraid the way they were [with covid]’ […]
Official guidance (see for example this from a British anaesthetists’ professional association) certainly reinforced the idea that one of the benefits of early intubation was to reduce the aerosolisation of virus, such that it would be safer for those caring for the patients […]
journalist Alex Berenson was early to point out that ventilator shortage may have more to do with overuse ‘to protect staff’ than to being overwhelmed by patients in respiratory failure.
Public anger at draconian medical mandates often invoked the atrocities of Nazi Germany — but there is no need for any such melodrama. For a much more recent example of the banality of evil, we need only look to New Orleans in 2006. What apparently happened at the Memorial Hospital Center, post-Hurricane Katrina, is as shocking as it is well-documented.
When flooding knocked out power to the hospital, most patients were evacuated. But not all. The fate of those left behind is a salutary lesson for judging what happened in New York in 2020.
‘On September 11, mortuary workers recovered 45 bodies from the hospital. Toxicology tests were performed on 41 bodies, and 23 tested positive for one or both of morphine and the fast-acting sedative midazolam [branded as Versed in the US], although few of these patients had been prescribed morphine for pain. In the following weeks, it was reported that staff had discussed euthanizing patients. Some reports went further; Bryant King, an internist at Memorial, told CNN that he believed “the discussion of euthanasia was more than talk.” LifeCare [a provider long-term acute care for severely ill patients] told the state Attorney General’s office that nine of their patients might “have been given lethal doses of medicines by a Memorial doctor and nurses.” King publicly charged that one or more healthcare workers had killed patients, based on conversations with other health care workers.’
Following an investigation into the deaths described above, the local District Attorney (DA) decided there was sufficient evidence to charge three medical staff with four counts of second-degree murder. Charges against two were later dropped in exchange for testimony.
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Unfortunately, the saintliness of medical staff being so firmly established in the public mind, coupled with political timidity, meant that all charges were dropped and the whole affair discreetly swept aside. As some governments belatedly conduct inquiries into just what went on during the Covid panic, possible unpleasant truths about the medical industry must not be allowed to be similarly hushed up.