Medical lawfare dedicated to silencing doctors

It can’t get any more frightening  than being caught up in a nasty game for sport and it’s not your sport … you are the target. What worries me is those who get off on such things, vicariously, through nasty films and games, and there’ve been countless examples … Hunger Games spring to mind.

If I introduce the word “diabolical” here, it’s really not far from it. In real life, the Belgian paedo trials, written up in the OoL post The Missing Children, are reprised in the first item of TDS today and also in this article … real life stories in the past included Alisha Owens and Paul Bonacci in America, flatly denied by the perps … but it can be in any field … for example, find out about Dr. Ewen Cameron and Dr. Selwyn Leeks … Cameron was one of the early warning alarms for the world … details obviously suppressed in later media.

And now it’s the hunting down of doctors who speak out:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/10/16/fifty-doctors-back-dr-aseem-malhotra-as-the-good-law-project-takes-the-gmc-to-court-for-refusing-to-strike-him-off-over-covid-vaccine-concerns/

Fifty doctors have voiced their support for Dr. Aseem Malhotra as the Good Law Project takes the General Medical Council to court over its decision not to deem him unfit to practise medicine after he spoke out about his concerns with the COVID-19 vaccines.

In a statement organised by the campaign groups Doctors for Patients U.K., U.K. Medical Freedom Alliance and HART and co-signed by fifty U.K. medics, the doctors say it is “deeply unsettling that the [Good Law Project], an entity funded primarily by the public, would turn its legal machinery toward silencing an ethical doctor”.

“By contesting the GMC’s decision to support Dr. Malhotra’s right to free speech and not to carry out a formal [Fitness to Practice] investigation (on the grounds that his statements were not sufficiently egregious to merit action), the legal action supported by the GLP risks undermining the resolve of medical professionals to speak candidly on serious health issues, a move that would have profound consequences for patient safety and the ethical practice of medicine,” they add.

The organisers say have drafted the statement “to demonstrate that there is a significant body of doctors in support of Dr. Malhotra, who are strongly opposed to and concerned about this case and its ramifications for the medical profession as a whole”.

The nastiest aspect, in my eyes, is that bit about the GLP being partly funded by the public. I wonder how far the public is aware how the funds are being used.
In comments under the article:

the GLP, an entity funded primarily by the public

This statement might give the impression it was in some way tax-payer funded. To be clear – it is non-profit funded by donations.

And a reply:

“We are hugely grateful to have received support from Avaaz, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, Lund Trust, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin, Necessity, 38 Degrees, and Dale Vince, CEO of Ecotricity.”

The enemy.

All of which puts us right back where we were … with the elderly implicitly trusting the medicos, being dutifully jabbed and dying, as well as that other trusting demographic, the young … in many cases with no choice in the matter in their eyes. 

As for care homes for the elderly … sigh. And then our own Grandpa here at OoL and his departed wife.

More broadly over the pond, the lawfare against DJT reaches manic proportions, in clear contradiction of the practices and rules governing elections.

In short, the safeguards have entirely broken down … where’s the Supreme Court when you need it?  As for us … frightening getting older, as medical conditions start to set in.

I stand with Israel

I have remained largely silent these months for reasons personal, but believe that it is important to speak out if one sees true injustice looming large over the way that Israel is being portrayed as the aggressor. After the terrorist attacks from Hamas, after the vile acts perpetrated on Israelis for the sins of being Israeli Jews became widely known; when the true righteous monster which is the Israeli military prepares its vengeance upon the terrorists: all those voice which loudly proclaimed that they stand with Israel suddenly become muted. 

The media world is preparing to show Israel as the monster, when all that Israel has done so far is by means of their air force jets, raining bombs down on places where they ‘think’ Hamas is operating from. But they have not yet sown their deadly cargoes on the myriad places where they absolutely ‘KNOW’ Hamas is operating from, because these places are the purview of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. The ‘World' cries out in horror because Israel plans ‘Revenge’, and they say Israel threatens the Palestinians sheltering in UNRWA schools and hospitals. What they will NEVER admit, is that those same UNRWA schools and hospitals also shelter major numbers of Hamas terrorists, as well as arsenals of rockets and weaponry.

I reckon Israel is justified in whatever she does, as it is Hamas’ responsibility for the use of the schools and hospitals; and it should bear the total blame for whatever form of retribution taken. The fellow-travellers of the BBC verbally attack the Israeli Ambassador because she will not agree that any attack on ‘civilians’ in Gaza are ‘collective punishments’, which is a war crime. What the BBC fails to acknowledge is that the SOLE RESPONSIBILITY for those Palestinians allegedly sheltering in Northern Gaza rests with Hamas; and that Hamas are once more cynically rejecting the facts that apart from those heinous attacks against Israelis, they do and should accept that they are the sole driver of events in Gaza.

Prime Minister Netanyahu must himself take a certain amount of criticism for his orders which withdrew over 2,000 of Israel’s soldiers from defensive positions in the south of Israel adjacent to Gaza, and relocated them under pressure from his right-wing religious Ministers to protect Jewish settlements in the north. The removal didn’t figure in Hamas’ plans for their savage onslaught against Israel, but it may well have helped by the loss of well-armed protection given by those missing Israeli soldiers.

Mine is only one small voice, but there are many like me. Myself?

Don't Be So Quick To Blame GPs...

I know, I know, but hear me out....

Emergency departments, which are designed for serious injuries and life-threatening emergencies only, are seeing an increase in people attending with sore throats, insomnia, coughs and earache.

Well, why not? You have, after all, spent months, nay, years, convincing people these are signs of a deadly disease, haven't you? 

Cases where sore throat was the chief complaint rose by 77% between 2021-22 and 2022-23, from 191,900 cases to 340,441. Patients going to A&E with coughs rose by 47%, from 219,388 to 322,500, while attendances for nosebleeds rose by a fifth, from 47,285 cases to 56,546.

Of course, the blame must be shifted, so GPs are in the firing line: 

Miriam Deakin, the director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, said: “The rise in A&E admissions is piling even more pressure on to an already stretched NHS. Persistent strain on primary care services, including GPs and dentists, means patients often resort to A&E when they cannot access timely care elsewhere.

“Minor ailments such as coughs, earache, fever, nausea and hiccups can and should be managed through more appropriate services such as pharmacies and NHS 111 online. This could ease pressure on emergency departments, whose priority is to deliver urgent care for those most in need. Boosting capacity of staff, beds and equipment in these settings would also significantly help. However, this requires proper funding and support from the government.”

The NHS has funding enough - it's how it chooses to spend it that's the issue.  

The pros and cons of information overload

 One of the effects of social media was to free up information but it also:

a.  Creates a flood, a torrent, of seemingly disparate data snippets

b.  It allows "disinformation" to be deliberately fed in, intermingled, as if it is authentic

The severe limitations of the blog, vlog and tweet (or Gab) format includes the now shortened attention span of the reader. My mate up the road has openly admitted that unless all key points are contained within the first, say, half page, he loses interest, clicks out and goes somewhere else ... that "somewhere else" could include scrolling down a trusted blog's front page, even to the next page.

One way of looking at this phenomenon is the rise of the "influencer" as a "thing", an item, and big bikkies go to such people who use a variety of techniques, intuitive and learned, to push agendas. The "spellbinder idea was put by someone quoted by Amazing Polly some years back:

One Day Travelcard withdrawal

... symptom of a far greater malaise, like bin services severely reduced ... all for our benefit.

On the surface, it just seems another of those "modern" Brit things where ... when once it would probably have been a good thing, it helped, it worked ... now it's a feeling of creeping dread and cynical wondering who gets to benefit ... coz it sure ain't us ... quite the opposite:

No, The Tories Aren't Behind Every Bad Thing That Happens...

Rob Cowen on the Sycamore Gap issue:

Trees can mean an awful lot to us. They are deep-rooted, for want of a better phrase, in our culture and mythology. And the outpouring of grief and anger over the destruction of that single sycamore has been widespread, from environmentalists and nature charities to politicians and celebrities.

Yes, indeed. It was a monumentally awful thing to do. And with the culprit still at large and the motive unknown. 

There is a bitter irony to the fact that on the same day the tree was cut down, the National Trust unveiled its own grim news: a report on the state of nature in Britain.

Not half as bitter as the report that when someone went and planted a new sapling, they promptly dug it up, eh. Rob? 

We live in what purports to be a progressive, civilised and “nature-loving” nation that is one of the wealthiest on the planet and yet we have a government that has just proudly and systematically backtracked on its commitments to meet climate imperatives and torn up its environmental policies and promises.

What does that have to do with someone's lone act of vandalism? Until they are caught, we'll never know if this was politically motivated, will we? 

How can we expect people to form the kind of connections with this living world that might stop a tree-cutter’s saw or force a change in habits if they cannot be in it? How can we ask people to protect something they have no sense of belonging in, or to?

But you see, for Rob, of course it must be a political act caused by 'the Tories'. Because for Rob, everything is... 

One of the main EV issues possibly overlooked …

… by quite a few people … but not by insurance companies. First though, screenshots of snippets from the net:

All that is so … or at least has a strong case for it … my mate today was asking … he wondered if insurance companies fully understood the implications of the carpark fire.

Because if, say, an EV caught on fire and others did too … all those cars are insured, right? For a start, there’s the cost of the vehicle, damage to goods inside, the infrastructureof the carpark itself, the distress caused let alone all the Woke isms breached.

The insurers of the first vehicle to catch on fire is liable for compensation claims from all the other vehicles which went up in flames or fell to the crumbling floors below … in short, there’s a massive class action suit in the offing.

How is this concern going to affect:

# premiums

# the willingness of companies to further insure?

The New ‘Oooh, Me Back!’

Well, I'm sure this comes from rigorous medical research...

The findings come from 10,171 adults who completed questionnaires.

Oh. 

More work is needed to understand who is at risk, how bad it can be and what can be done about it, experts say.

No, I'd start with 'can it be proven to exist?' first, if I were you.  

The researchers behind the new work say the results provide validation for patients who experience problems like this. Investigator Prof Adrian Martineau, from Queen Mary University of London, told the BBC: "People really can feel very run down after a virus. It's not in their imagination and it is a recognised thing."

I wonder if it's recognised in HR departments? 

On the current mayhem

Two statements here … one from Eva Vlaar, one from a Muslim man, no comment by me. It’s long.

So, This Is A Step Too Far, Eh..?

School leaders have accused Labour of “window dressing” after Keir Starmer pledged to introduce...

...supervised toothbrushing for young children in England’s primary schools.

While the policy has long been supported by the dentistry profession as a way of curbing decay, headteachers said it was not appropriate for their staff to check whether pupils had cleaned their teeth.

It's not appropriate to check what parents are sending in for a packed lunch either, but that didn't stop them, did it?

Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: “We have serious reservations about how such a policy could even work. It is not the role of teachers to be making sure children brush their teeth each day.

“Schools already play a role in teaching children about the importance of looking after their teeth through the curriculum, but there has to be a limit in terms of what we can expect them to do.

“We should demand more than window dressing from all of our politicians.”

Oh, be quiet! You've already meddled in things that were the purview of parents, you can hardly claim it's not your role now... 

The British Dental Association, which represents the profession, said it was encouraged by Labour’s proposal, given ministerial inaction over introducing a similar scheme.

So, have the hapless Labour brains trust decided there's more votes to come from dentists than from  teachers? Because maybe they shouldn't have let Diane Abbott do the maths...