March 1, 2024

A February 12, 2024 Slay News.com article reported that thousands of elderly COVID patients in the United Kingdom (U.K.) were secretly euthanized in April 2020 by injection with the drug Midazolam.  This disturbing claim came from an investigation directed by Wilson Sy, director, Investment Analytics Research Australia, and made public by Craig Kelly, the national director of the (conservative) United Australia Party.  

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The alleged euthanasia claim seems unlikely because in the U.K., it is regarded as either manslaughter or murder by the National Health Service (NHS) and carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.  And unlike in Trudeau’s Canada, even voluntary assisted suicide is illegal and punishable by up to 14 years’ imprisonment.   In addition, the drug Midazolam is not for euthanasia.   It’s a widely used anti-anxiety medication.  However, Drugs.com cautions that it is risky for patients with a cough, wheezing, or trouble breathing. 

Having had a career in analytics, I was skeptical.  I reviewed the ResearchGate investigation documentation fully expecting to find fake news.  Instead, I found that the report was exceptionally well researched and documented, and the claim appears valid.  The truth was buried on pages 14–16 (emphasis mine):

“Shortages of hospital beds were already felt before the pandemic. Therefore, there was apprehension that UK hospitals could not cope with the anticipated surge in COVID-19 cases.  It is clear that the highest priority of UK public health policy, early in the pandemic, was to avoid hospitals being overwhelmed, like those sensationally reported in northern Italy around that time. The NHS created new guidelines in March 2020 to facilitate discharges from hospitals, stating “Unless required to be in hospital, patients must not remain in an NHS bed.”

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“In a move which was later judged irrational, many elderly were discharged from hospital and died in care homes across England.  As a result About 28,000 care home residents died in April 2020 across England, which represented about one third or 33.5 percent of all deaths in England.  Many of the UK elderly with comorbidities or terminal illnesses have died with euthanasia in care homes, and not from COVID-19 due to few cases of infections early in 2020.” …

“New guidelines were rapidly developed in early 2020 by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for managing COVID-19 symptoms, including those at the end-of-life.  The rapidly developed new guidelines effectively opened the door to implement a policy of euthanasia in UK during the pandemic.”

However, while researching for a previous article in October 2021, titled “COVID and Medical Ethics,” I recalled that the statistics from Our World in Data confirm the initial overall COVID death rate in the U.K. was disproportionately higher than in the European Union.  However, those initial high death rates occurred months before April 2020 and reoccurred a year later.  This inspired a second look. 

Open “COVID-19 Data Explorer — Our World in Data” to view the updated trend chart used in that earlier analysis and compare COVID daily death trends for the U.K., the U.S., Sweden, and India.  At a glance, it is easy to see some puzzling variations in each country’s daily death rates.  These anomalies were likely due to differing COVID treatment protocols, the timing of new variants, vaccine policy, and other variables.

This simple forensic analysis helped confirm an even greater medical mass murder:

United Kingdom, population 67 million: The COVID death trend data for JAN 2020 and FEB 2021 confirms it was disproportionally high.  The real blame goes to its government provided “free” healthcare because hospitals were overwhelmed even before the pandemic.  Their treatment protocols, like those of most wealthy countries also placed all bets on the vax, lockdowns, etc. and this decision likely contributed to other variations as well.  And anyone criticizing the government treatment protocols was censored.  Final: 3,472 deaths per million people thru 2/18/2024.

Sweden, population 10 million: Sweden was included because it alone rejected severe lockdown measures and as a result it had achieved herd immunity by around FEB 2021.  That lasted until Sweden inexplicably mandated the vax and boosters.  It is now known that repeated jabs confuse the immune system so when a new variant attacks, it fails to recognize it as the real threat and instead attacks the ghosts of older variants.  Sweden alone continued to experience spikes in deaths well beyond MAR 2022.  Was it a coincidence that each major surge in boosters administered was followed by a similar surge in deaths a couple of months later?  Final: 2,576 deaths per million people thru 2/18/2024.

United States, population 333 million: The US is known to have exaggerated its death rate by including deaths with COVID.  Nevertheless, America’s initial two death spikes rose and fell like both Sweden and the UK and all three increased somewhat when the Delta variant arrived around the middle of 2021.  By then the first round of vax had been widely distributed and mandated.  The U.S. death trend remained slightly elevated until the end of March 2022.  Coincidentally, its downturn in deaths resumed as people became more aware of the vaccine’s deadly side effects and several red states had cancelled their vax mandates.  Like in the UK, any dissent was silenced.  Final: 3,472 deaths per million people thru 2/18/2024.

India, population 1.4 billion: This huge country posted a consistently low COVID death rate and set an ideal benchmark.  India alone encouraged the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) starting immediately when COVID arrived.  India’s death rate spiked only once when the Delta variant showed up and HCQ proved less effective.  However, their medical establishment reacted quickly to replace it with Ivermectin, and daily deaths once again returned to near zero for the duration.  India had access to the vaccines, but it was not a priority.  The data confirms that India’s inexpensive treatment protocol saved millions of lives.  Final: 376 deaths per million people thru 2/18/2024.

I conclude that the Slay News report and the investigation are accurate and confirm the death of medical ethics in the U.K.  But wait — more proof that medical ethics is also dying worldwide was provided by the “Our World in Data” COVID-19 death trend comparisons.  These data strongly suggest that if more countries had adopted, rather than outlawed India’s effective treatment protocols, millions of deaths globally could have been prevented.