The Collapse of Medical Ethics During COVID-19
The response to the COVID-19 pandemic did not follow established pandemic plans. In fact, the responses were closer to the exact opposite of what appeared in these plans. For example the U.K. Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy 2011 said:
It will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic influenza virus. …
During a pandemic, the Government will encourage those who are well to carry on with their normal daily lives. …
The response will continue to be evidence based… based on ethical principles.
The strategy also suggested that the approaches outlined could be adapted and deployed for other respiratory viruses and gave as an example the first SARS virus. These plans were based on thorough reviews of the available evidence, decades of experience in managing previous pandemics and also on accepted public health principles and ethics.
So, in departing from these plans we also departed from accepted principles and ethics. This occurred in the wider public health response by the imposition of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as quarantining of contacts, social distancing, the enforcement of mask wearing and business and school closures, as eloquently described by Oxford University’s Euzebiusz Jamrozik. It also occurred in the response to individuals with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and in their medical care during the pandemic, as Dr. Clayton Baker outlined.
This erosion of medical ethics, and specifically the departure from obtaining properly informed consent during the pandemic, is addressed in a recent pre-print article by myself and other members of the HART group. In this article we critically examine consent practices before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and then outline how things could be improved to help ensure that patients genuinely get to decide, without any pressure or coercion, what they want medically. To do this we present a new ‘tool’ to help explain to patients key data on the benefits and risks of treatments, and suggest a more rigorous process for seeking informed consent in the future.
Next time, we must do much better.
Dr. Alan Mordue is a retired Consultant in public health medicine.
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There will be another plandemic of some sort. Occam’s Razor points to the last one being planned, the only thing we don’t know yet (or never will) is to what extent it was planned. They tried that same sh@t in 2009 remember with the Swine Flu fake pandemic only to be scuppered be Wolfgang Woddark on the European Medical Board, and a media not totally corrupt at the time. Channel Four News John Snow of all people exposed the corruption.
The timing of Event 201 in October 2019 was a lucky coincidence I tell you.
The risks and benefits will already be known and we can guess by the silence and closure of any scientific debate that it is bad.
However, that is to assume that the jabs were there as a benefit in the first place and not a test run for a more deadly product.
A few lines from SteynOnline. “The Shire has fallen? Not at all. As Humza Yousaf, the first if short-lived Muslim First Minister of Scotland, said in last week’s resignation speech: But we now live in a UK that has a British-Hindu prime minister, a Muslim mayor of London, a black Welsh first minister and for a little while longer, a Scots Asian first minister of this country. So for those who decry that multiculturalism has failed across the UK, I would suggest that the evidence is quite to the contrary, and that is something we should all celebrate. This is not how other societies think: The Palestinian Authority has zero interest in electing the first Jewish mayor of Ramallah. The Supreme Ayatollah will eschew the inauguration of the first practising Anglican to become prime minister of Iran. Chairman Xi does not deplore the lack of diversity on the Politburo: Lack of diversity is China’s strength. Perhaps the rest of the planet is wrong, and the demographically exhausted west is right. Or perhaps “multiculturalism” is just a self-flattering cover for the death-spiral of the civilisation that built the modern world. ~The political class has failed the entire west to the point where… Read more »
Culture is not defined by race – sub-Saharan Africa of one race with multiple languages and cultures proves that.
Culture is common language, shared morals, values, traditions, manners, laws and heritage. It determines and shapes society. Multiple cultures must mean multiple societies – fragmentation of the Body Politic, conflict and warfare – the divide and rule principle.
Multiculturalism is disguised racism. An open attempt to diminish the White race, and supplant it with a new master race.
Anglo-Saxon-Celts are guilty of being White.
Medical Pharmaceutical Industry Complex.
Perhaps medical ethics had collapsed well before the so-called Pandemic – medical staff had been bought and paid for by Big Pharma years ago.
This would explain how accepted medical principles were so easily abandoned, and medical staff behaved in such a cavalier, unethical and unprofessional manner, and why they were enthusiastic pedlars of the money-making mRNA junk administered without informed consent, without any details of safety in use, or evidence to support efficacy.
95% relative risk reduction of infection on an absolute risk of infection of 0.88% does not justify administering a product of unknown risk.
Medical ethics requires a risk analysis of possible harm to the patient from the treatment weighed against the benefit. If the risk of the treatment is unknown this analysis is not possible.
With Infection Mortality Rate in under 70s of 0.2%, the same as influenza, and given the low infection risk, there was no potential benefit to the under 70s from the mRNA inoculation or lockdowns.
Safe in the bosom of ‘our’ NHS – itself a decrepit, corrupt Socialist relic, ‘our’ medical staff have no incentive to improve.
There was an outbreak of opportunism in the pharmaceutical trade, a cynic might say.
You’re right about the lack of proper risk assessment for most of us. The more one looks into it, the more it seems to me that much of that branch of the medical trade is a foreign country compared with most safety related industrial activity. If you ask anyone in the local surgery about what safety integrity level does the product comply with ( say 1,2, 3, or 4), you’ll just get a blind stare, or they might ask something like: “what do you mean?”
“decades of experience in managing previous pandemics and also on accepted public health principles and ethics.”
Could the author please provide a list of these previous pandemics? The only pandemics I am aware of involved the Black Death and I am sure there was no planning during those times.
They boarded you up into your homes during the black death if your family was infected. I suppose that was planning of a sort. The frightening thing is they also did it in China for covid (if true). There are many people who would happily have driven round our countryside with sheets of ply and a nail gun to do exactly the same thing here. In our village these sort of people put signs up on the incoming road telling people to eff off and go home because they didn’t want the germs of strangers floating around. They would have been first in line as a boarding up squad!
I’d refer you to Box 1 on page 10 of the UK Strategy mentioned in the article but to summarise the latest were the Swine flu, Hong Kong flu and Asian flu pandemics. However, there’s also been much experience of managing flu and other respiratory viral surges each winter, which haven’t been labelled as “pandemics”
I have a pretty nasty cold ATM which I caught abroad. Speaking to my neighbours wife this morning (I said, ‘I won’t come close, I’ve got a stinker), she informed me her other half has covid. ‘How do you know?’ I said, covid is just a cold surely? Oh no, they keep covid tests on standby in case of a sniffle! Perhaps I’ve got covid too? But do you know, I couldn’t care less. I always endeavour not to breathe over people if I’ve got a bug, but beyond that, why worry? Coughs and colds are part of every day life. I must say though, I am shocked and surprised that people still test for covid, and seemingly wear the infection as some sort of merit badge, and imply that they are really ill because they’ve got covid and you’ve just got a plain old cold.
Incidentally, I have never tested myself, or been tested for, covid (wouldn’t dream of it) and I never wore a mask either.
“Next time, we must do much better.”
Last time, we should have done much better. Some of us from the profession pointed out the collapse of medicine from March 2020. Some have waited until now, which is a bit late to make a difference.
I agree we should and could have done much better with Covid-19 and would have done better if there had been an open debate without censorship within medicine and science so we could have heard you all ! Some may indeed have waited until now but I was not one of them although not such an early adopter as yourself … I started speaking out from June 2020 when the about-turn on face masks alerted me to something odd going on !
Medical ethics have been ignored way before the Scamdemic years, it’s just that the ‘Covid’ era really brought it home to all of us just how easily highly trained, skilled and ( supposedly ) knowledgeable doctors and fellow health professionals could shelve all those years of hard graft, clinical experience and accomplishment, and be duped to exactly the same extent as Jo Bloggs, who works as a bin man and his wife Jane who stacks shelves in the supermarket. It really was something to behold, that no matter how many letters someone might have after their name and the fact that they, of all people, are the ones who should never have been taken in by the psyop, fell for the entire scam, barely any pushback noted from their profession at all. Then there’s the things we found out that they were capable of doing ( or not doing, in cases of withholding medications or refusing to see patients in person ), which amounted to unnecessary cruelty, needless neglect and patients suffering or dying, directly or indirectly caused by the doctors’ dereliction of duty, lack of professional judgment or harmful intervention. Stanley Milgram would certainly have found this extended experiment… Read more »
Indeed ! Degrees and expertise in a particular area does not mean you have any more common-sense than others, are necessarily more ethical or take a broader perspective. That’s why we always need open debate and no censorship .. everyone can err and lose perspective particularly in the eye of a storm.
The moral and ethical rot set in many years ago. Just one example: aside from the Big Pharma capture of medical education which has been ongoing for decades, the 1990 GP contract following the 1987 white paper on ‘promoting better health’ made certain medical interventions – jabs, smears, etc – more lucrative, thus turning ‘health care’ into little more than a profit-making commodity. Further changes in 2020/21 made it even moreso by requiring higher percentages of certain treatments to be made (jabs, particularly) before incentive payments are given. This turned a profit-making commodity into a factory style conveyor belt system in which individual health is no longer the goal, only income/funding targets.
I agree with your comment that repurposed drugs should have been more widely used and could have saved many lives. I think the medical profession generally, SAGE, the 4 CMOs and CSA are responsible though rather than politicians, they were the ones giving expert advice or in a position to advocate for this approach. On pandemic plans for the future – we already have them in every Health Board and NHS organisation written before the Covid-19 pandemic. The problem is that we haven’t yet reached the point where we accept that we must abandon the approaches used during Covid and return to the original plans !