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Friday 20 March 2020

THE LIMITS OF EXPERTS’ MEDICAL ADVICE


 THE LIMITS OF EXPERTS’ MEDICAL ADVICE


It is an old wisdom that if you ask any expert specialist, particularly a medical expert specialist, for their advice on how to keep safe, you will wind up with advice that focuses too much on the immediate problem and too little on your general welfare.

Let me give you an example. 

My own father in his late 70’s developed cancer and was therefore given the standard recommendation of six doses of chemotherapy. 

Anyone who has had cancer will know that with each dose of chemotherapy your general health is impacted more and more seriously. 

By the fourth dose I said to my father that I thought he should not take any more.  After all the prognosis on this cancer was one where, even if it came back it was sufficiently slow developing that he would probably have died of something else before it could get him. 

My father, having been a good soldier was determined to carry on with the cancer specialist’s instructions and so he did complete the course of six chemotherapies.  The impact on his health however, was so bad that the last one had leached the calcium out of his bones and as a result he had a collapsed vertebra, which left him in agony for the rest of his life.

The Government in its panic over the Chinese Virus (aka Corona Virus) has asked its medical experts and specialists for medical advice on what is best to do to keep the vulnerable safe.  The predictable result has been that the medical experts have advised such a thorough Safety First policy, that the Government probably already crashed our economy by following it. 

This is of course a drastic failure of political leadership. In this type of situation it is the job of politicians to balance the expert, specialist, medical advice with the need to keep the economy and society going. 

It is worth remembering that so far as we can tell, all those who are under 65, unless they have underlying serious health conditions, are unlikely to be seriously affected by the Chinese Virus. 

The more elderly, the more at risk people are.  That is of course partly because the older you are the more underlying health issues you naturally acquire and the more fragile your health becomes. 

People who are at risk should of course, on any sensible basis, consider taking precautions, however the rest of society which is not at much risk really should be carrying on as much as they can without unnecessarily putting those at risk at yet greater risk.  That would have been the sensible approach. 

What we have seen instead are wild panic measures for a disease which may well be far less dangerous than would have called for such measures.

I thought it was interesting that, when asked by Jeremy Hunt in the House of Commons Health Committee earlier this week, the Government’s medical expert admitted that we might well have 55,000 cases in the country with just over 100 people who have now died of it.  If that is the percentage of deaths to infections, then the Chinese Virus is far closer to the death rates in flu, than it is to the death rates for Bubonic Plague as the above graphic shows. 

Our political system, as it currently stands, seems to select far too many people for high office who prove to be incompetent once appointed.  This inherent political incompetence, combined with wildly irresponsible, hysterical scare-mongering by our wholly unprofessional mainstream media, seems, yet again, to be creating a policy disaster. 

The excessive “Safety First” type of thinking on a much more minor scale has become all too prevalent in the Health and Safety “Precautionary Principle” based thinking of officialdom. 

There is of course no true “safety” for any of us. As the Book of Common Prayer's Funeral Service, rather gloomily, points out:- 

“Man, that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.

In the midst of life we are in death; of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased?”


6 comments:

  1. It is interesting because in large part, government policy has been driven in the BBC studios.

    That needs to be addressed urgently,

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  2. Brilliant article, and brilliant photo illustrating the true insignificance of the Corona-Hoax. Meanwhile, if the startling reports from Veterans Today turn out to be true, no medicine will cure the terrifying real cause of the so-called "coronavirus". It was pesticide research that led to SARIN, which Veterans Today says causes the SAME SYMPTOMS of death as the Coronavirus.

    "There is an additional unconfirmed report from a high level intelligence asset that low-level Sarin gas has been dropped on Iran, Italy and Spain to mimic CV19. Sarin can take two weeks to kill and causes death by pneumonia. It is undetectable. Long story here to be told later if confirmations come in, a very nasty story. From a classified source, translated from Russian:

    "Sarin gas is classified as a lethal nerve gas, no matter how low its concentration, it causes death by paralyzing the muscles of the lungs (this is the reason for the concentration of deaths in the elderly who suffer from chronic diseases or pneumonia– incubation period of the gas in the air 3 months), the last month of the epidemic. A person can walk for two weeks and then die, without knowing that he has this gas (this is a 15-day quarantine reason without using anything except artificial respiration) that has no medical treatment possible when inhaled (the reason for a British statement to be prepared to die).

    This gas was classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.

    Death rates in Italy, Iran and elsewhere seem to confirm the Russian allegations, that if CV19 is real, deaths are "salted" with Sarin to bring numbers up and create panic."

    https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/03/19/slam-dunk-proof-iran-threatens-missile-attack-on-us-bio-weapon-labs/

    This means that the "Coronavirus Tests" and "Vaccine" will provide an opportunity to introduce minute amounts of sarin directly onto the skin of the patient, as was done experimentally to the young RAF engineer Ronald Maddison in 1953. But in his case, they soaked a small patch of fabric on his forearm with 10 drops of Sarin.

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  3. To destroy the economy and plunge us into a great depression worse than the 1930's is not commensurate with a few deaths extra, possible from a winter virus
    THere is far more going on here than meets the eye
    That John Hopkins University was doing a pandemic drill alst October along with Bill Gates of ID2020 alliance is rather disturbing.
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/is-bloomberg-behind-the-john-hopkins-university-virus-map-that-has-scared-the-world/
    https://id2020.org/alliance
    Oxford University study is saying that half the UK population could already ahve had the virus which is mild and that its only severe in 1 in 1000 cases. SO why are the govt listening to Imperial Colege and not Oxford University?
    Even then Imperial have down graded thier scary stats saying that 500,000 would die in the UK to 20,000 in the UK
    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/uk-government-downgrade-coronavirus-as-no-longer-highly-dangerous/
    HOWever every week in the UK 12500 people die of which 2500 are from respiratory infections (ONS figures)
    In 2010 the 'experts' warned that 65,000 people would die in the UK from Swine flu in the end only 250 died. Why do we listen to these 'experts'
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242147/The-false-pandemic-Drug-firms-cashed-scare-swine-flu-claims-Euro-health-chief.html
    https://www.wodarg.com/
    THis doctor know about viruses, scroll down for English

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  4. Just that currently, with 1297 hospitals across UK and say 17,000 hospital admissions (assuming all these reported cases go to hospital which is unlikely), that’s on average only 13 admissions since the beginning of the year per hospital (if all reported cases were admission cases) and less than 1 death per hospital over the same period (compared with 100 or so ‘normal deaths’ assuming all died in hospital which is clearly not the case).

    How is this overloading hospitals??

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  5. https://www.wodarg.com/
    by Wolfgang Wodarg
    The corona hype is not based on any extraordinary public health danger. However, it causes considerable damage to our freedom and personal rights through frivolous and unjustified quarantine measures and restrictions. The images in the media are frightening and the traffic in China's cities seems to be regulated by the clinical thermometer.
    Evidence based epidemiological assessment is drowning in the mainstream of fear mongers in labs, media and ministries.

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  6. https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/34-years-ago-a-kgb-defector-described-america-today

    The third stage would be "crisis". It would take only up to six weeks to send a country into crisis, explained Bezmenov. The crisis would bring "a violent change of power, structure, and economy" and will be followed by the last stage, "normalization." That's when your country is basically taken over, living under a new ideology and reality.
    This will happen to America unless it gets rid of people who will bring it to a crisis, warned Bezmenov. What's more "if people will fail to grasp the impending danger of that development, nothing ever can help [the] United States," adding, "You may kiss goodbye to your freedom."

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