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<\/figure>This is not so much something that needs debunking, it is genuine nonsense, as a striking example of the effects of the unfiltered matrix of Chinese whispers that the internet can be – the web at its worst.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
It is about an utterly horrible story that governments, and presumably doctors, nurses, carers and pharmacists were involved in intentionally bumping off large numbers of the elderly by using Midazolam, a benzodiazepine drug I used when practising as a part of what was called the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for palliative care of the dying, particularly when respiratory distress is a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where has it come from?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
If you search the internet for “Midazolam murders”, you are taken to quite a number of well produced websites. They claim most of the first wave of COVID, all that time back in spring 2020, was not due to COVID at all but due to a ‘culling’ of old people in nursing homes using Midazolam. They argue this was done to make the case for vaccines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>Predominant among them is the “Plandemic<\/a>” website, a central portal of wild pandemic disinformation set up by a discredited scientist, Judy Mikovits.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Another is a site called Europereloaded<\/a> who end their mischievous article with a distinctly US evangelical call to arms:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This war of attrition we are waging with nothing more than the sword of righteousness to protect us is being waged with the divine power of knowing in our hearts that we will inevitably overcome our truly malevolent array of adversaries”<\/em><\/strong> Oh dear!<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the same stable comes the Liberty Beacon<\/a> and others such as the Bernican <\/a>who have lodged legal proceedings with the police as well as the International Criminal Court who I fully expect to throw out the groups submission with the daily dose of junk mail.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The essence of their argument is there was increased procurement of Midazolam early in the pandemic around the same time of the first wave. They leap to the conclusion it was so planned to bump off swathes of the elderly; they use the horrific term, “culling”. This is backed up by anecdote which for me reflect (I’m being generous here) sad misunderstanding of medical and nursing care and why I took to write this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It seems that much of this has stemmed from one man<\/a> whose elderly father was prescribed Midazolam and who later died. He claims that his fathers life was shortened by the prescription and this is often the case. There are not enough details reported to come to any firm conclusions, but it seems certain to be that communication might have been lacking, misinterpreted or misunderstood. The focus of the Plandemic issue rests on the reports from this one chap<\/a>. Irony of irony, he was sadly found dead at home, providing excellent fodder for those seeking conspiracy, more so when the investigating coroner found he had sadly died of COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prior to his death, his anger was widely spread online. I cant help but feel a couple of conversations with his local health care providers might have helped him to understand how death is often managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Silas Marner” is George Elliotts wonderful book about life at the start of the Industrial revolution. The story is one of an embittered man whose life is transformed by unexpectedly raising a lost child. She also wrote of ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ deaths.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n Without modern health care I know exactly what she meant. I won’t go into details. There was then little to ease passing. ‘Easy’ deaths are more common now due to modern health care. Symptoms which defined ‘hard’ deaths can be controlled with palliative care, a feature of which are drugs to keep the patient comfortable, even with the predictable side effect of sometimes shortening life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The LCP was an attempt to formalise this but was dropped due to complaints about its rigidity, inappropriate interpretation <\/a>and for me, the copious associated paperwork. In its place is practice more flexibility to meet the individual patients needs. In a way, its attempt to define ‘excellence’ in terminal care shows for me the facile nature of what can be called the politically driven and highly unrealistic “culture of excellence”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/drbannonsblog.aprendo.co.uk\/drbannonsblog_wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bernican.png\")
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Dying in the modern world<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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