by Iain Davis
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Chapter 12 - Lockdown Mortality
In the UK the National Health Service (NHS) is akin to a religion. Aneurin Bevan, Labour minister of Health in 1948, is venerated as the creator of the treasured NHS and it is by no means unusual for NHS doctors and nurses to be referred to as Angels. Throughout the pseudopandemic the core conspirator's MSM, fact checkers and hybrid warriors, exploited the public's emotional attachment to the NHS to spin any criticism of the COVID 19 narrative, especially peaceful protests, as an attack on hard working NHS staff [1].
This devotion to the concept of a universal health care system, free at the point of need, is understandable. However, with an annual budget now in excess [2] (if perhaps temporarily) of £200 billion, politicians of every party political persuasion have long sought to allow private capital access to this tax funded budget [3].
A single round of chemotherapy can cost the NHS £40,000 or more [4]. The NHS offers a lucrative, tax payer funded market opportunity for pharmaceutical corporations. NHS England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales and the Health and Social Care Service (HSC) in Northern Ireland provide devolved administration of the NHS corporate slush fund. The NHS is funded by the tax payers across the UK.
In 2016 the COVID 19 vaccine manufacturer Pfizer were fined nearly £85 million for profiteering in the NHS drugs market [5]. It was the largest ever UK fine for such a crime, yet it was a drop in the financial ocean for a pharmaceutical corporation like Pfizer. With anticipated first year revenues in excess of £15 billion [6] from their COVID 19 mRNA vaccine gene therapy alone, fines are a cost of doing business for the "Big Pharma."
The common misconception about the global pharmaceutical industry is that their interests lie in providing effective health treatments. This is not how pharmaceutical corporations operate. Their primary goal is to generate profit and deliver healthy yields to their shareholders and investors.
In 2018 the global investment firm Goldman Sachs, one of the world’s leading investors in pharmaceutical corporations, published their report The Genome Revolution [7]. As we move into the era of mRNA gene therapy [8], Goldman Sach's analysis highlighted the profitability risk of curing people.
“The potential to deliver ‘one shot cures’ is one of the most attractive aspects of gene therapy, genetically-engineered cell therapy and gene editing. However, such treatments offer a very different outlook with regard to recurring revenue versus chronic therapies....In the case of infectious diseases....curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients, thus the incident pool also declines …Where an incident pool remains stable (eg, in cancer) the potential for a cure poses less risk to the sustainability of a franchise.”
While the cold logic of this analysis may be difficult to stomach, it makes sense from a business perspective. The ideal patient is never cured and cures are to be avoided wherever possible.
Perpetual COVID 19 vaccination is fantastic because the "incident pool is stable" and there is "less risk to the sustainability of the franchise." Purely from a financial perspective, a COVID 19 cure is not in the core conspirator's interest. As we shall see, profit is welcome but it is not the GPPP’s primary motivation.
The nature of compartmentalisation and authoritarian control meant NHS systems were created which ensured the desired pseudopandemic outcomes. We only need look at the COVID 19 death registration process to know that the manipulation was orchestrated from the top of the organisational structure, not by the rank and file.
From the WHO's engineering of IC10 codes a
nd the State's removal of standard operating procedures, to abandoning basic service frameworks and changing data gathering processes, the health system was adapted to maximise the apparent impact of COVID 19. Amid the fear and alarm created by the propagandists, any doctor presented with a patient's positive RT-PCR result, or symptoms of influenza like illness (ILI), would have been inclined to diagnose COVID 19.
Some localised COVID 19 hot-spots, especially in low income, high density urban centres, placed pressures on NHS provision. However while critical care capacity was increased, overall bed numbers were reduced. More patients received critical care but, irrespective of MSM claims, the pressure in Intensive Care Units (ICU's) was far from unprecedented.
At the time when accurate data was more essential than ever the NHS suspended the reporting of it [9]. The NHS stopped the public reporting of critical care bed occupancy rates and the number of urgent operations it cancelled. They apparently didn't monitor delayed transfer of care, the number of dementia assessment they made or the activities of community mental health teams, and they abandoned any notion of monitoring the quality of ambulance services.
Prior to the eventual release of raw bed occupancy figures, all that could be said was that stories about the NHS being overwhelmed weren't new. The missing data made it impossible to verify these stories at the time. If we take the Guardian as just one MSM example, during the 2020/2021 winter ILI season they published an article titled "Dire warning that London hospitals could be overwhelmed by Covid." This was cited by many as evidence of the unprecedented impact of COVID 19 on the NHS.
However in 2019, when capacity was greater, they published "Hospital beds at record low in England as NHS struggles with demand", in 2018 the headline was "NHS intensive care units sending patients elsewhere due to lack of beds." Then we have "NHS bosses sound alarm over hospitals already running at 99% capacity" (2017); "Hospitals in England told to put operations on hold to free up beds" (2016); "Hospital bed occupancy rates hit record high risking care" (2015); "More patients, overstretched doctors – is the NHS facing a winter crisis?" (2014); "Hospitals scramble to prevent crisis in NHS's 'toughest ever' winter" (2013) and "Hospitals 'full to bursting' as bed shortage hits danger level" (2012).
We could carry on listing essentially the same MSM story about the NHS reported in practically every winter since 1948. This in no way downplays the very real winter pressures that the NHS frequently faces. The remarkable pseudopandemic fact is that the winter of 2020/2021 is one of the few in where the NHS was not close to being "overwhelmed."
The NHS and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) response to the so called global pandemic initially seems unfathomable. However, once we understand that policy decisions were guided by informed influencers eager to sell a plague level health crisis to the public, we can see that they were carefully calculated.
Based upon the pointless social distancing concept, as more space was required between beds, the UK State franchise reduced NHS England hospital bed capacity [10] by approximately 13,000 in preparation for the global pandemic. Similar reductions occurred in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Consequently all the stories about the NHS being overwhelmed by COVID 19 need to be seen in the context of it being significantly smaller. As the NHS explained:
"Hospital capacity has had to be organised in new ways as a result of the pandemic to treat COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients separately and safely.....This results in beds and staff being deployed differently from in previous years.....As a result, caution should be exercised in comparing overall occupancy rates between this year and previous years. In general hospitals will experience capacity pressures at lower overall occupancy rates than would previously have been the case."
This reduction wasn't anything new either. Total NHS capacity, including general, acute, critical, mental health and outpatient "day beds," stood at nearly 300,000 in 1987/88, by 2018/19 more than half had been cut [11]. Meanwhile the budget had increased year on year. Fewer patients were being treated with ever more expensive diagnostics, drugs and therapeutics.
The shift had been away from routine general healthcare in hospitals to increased acute & critical care [12]. This balance shifted further towards critical care in response to the pseudopandemic, as the NHS was effectively transformed from a public health service to a COVID 19 only crisis service. Unsurprisingly the impact of this on mortality from every other cause was devastating. All adding to the unprecedented COVID 19 mortality fable peddled by the pseudopandemic pushers.
Respiratory diseases don't tend to have a major impact in the spring and summer months, therefore NHS planners could expect that a reorganised COVID 19 NHS should have been able to cope. COVID 19 had already been downgraded from a High Consequence Infectious Disease in the UK, and data from China and elsewhere didn't portend disaster. If health services acted rationally.
The NHS appeared to manage the 2020 pseudopandemic spring outbreak with ease. Hospital daily admissions to the so called "COVID wards" reached a peak of 2930 on April 3rd 2020. Thanks to the restructuring, the Health Service Journal reported on the 13th April [13] that "tens of thousands of beds remain unoccupied amid the coronavirus crisis," as they revealed that 40% of general and acute beds were empty with the NHS having four times as many vacant beds as normal for the time of year.
Even in the so called COVID hotspots of London and Birmingham spare capacity was unusually high at 28.9% and 38.2% respectively. At the same time A&E attendance was at its lowest level since 2010 [14]. While the NHS had fewer beds, spare capacity had never been higher. This was a very strange global pandemic.
The pressure on the NHS was predominantly in intensive care units (ICU's). Patients suffering from suspected severe COVID 19 were routinely put on mechanical ventilators [15] (intubation). Intubation requires that the patient be placed into an induced coma. It is a high risk, last resort medical intervention, the monitoring and management of which requires considerable human resources.
While this is a standard treatment for ARDS, typically ARDS corresponds to a loss of elasticity in the lungs and fluid retention (degraded respiratory system compliance) whereas the unusual low blood oxygen levels (hypoxia) and higher carbon dioxide levels (hypercapnia), seen in confirmed COVID 19 patients, frequently did not [20]. It wasn't clear if the treatment benefits of intubation outweighed the invasive risks.
The mortality of patients on mechanical ventilation is very high [16]. In the UK, by mid April 2020, a study by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre [17] found that 66% of COVID 19 patients put on mechanical ventilation died. Other studies [18] suggested the figure was even higher. This compared to a mortality rate of just 19.4% among those who received oxygen without intubation. It should be noted that these patient's infections were generally deemed less severe. Nonetheless the contrast was notable.
Consequently, physicians began to understand that mechanical ventilation for COVID 19 patients was detrimental in a many cases [19]. Especially if used too early [20] in the course of the disease. Sadly, it seems premature intubation contributed towards increased mortality.
Persistently referring to the NHS as the "front-line" the pseudopandemic MSM [21] reported a crisis in the NHS and continually made the false claim that it was under unprecedented pressure. It is no surprise at all that people stopped going to hospital A&E as the MSM highlighted the COVID 19 [22] dangers of doing so. The MSM also suggested booked appointments [23] for emergency care, something the NHS then implemented [24] with predictable, calamitous results.
Throughout the 2020 spring outbreak there was plenty of spare capacity in the NHS to potentially increase ICU provision. Yet that is not the impression the public were given. The construction of the evocatively named Nightingale emergency hospitals [25] in the April and May of 2020 was effectively a PR stunt.
COVID 19 was a known low mortality respiratory disease and the NHS had no reason to suspect they would be overwhelmed during the spring and summ
er months. The forecast addition of other influenza like illnesses (ILI's), in the autumn and winter, suggested this future possibility, but there was no justification for adding temporary emergency capacity to a service experiencing its lowest ever warm weather demand.
Having been instrumental in significantly reducing NHS bed numbers, UK Health secretary Matt Hancock announced the £220m Nightingale project. Avidly promoting the pseudopandemic narrative, entirely contrary to the reality, he said:
"In the face of this unprecedented global emergency, we are taking exceptional steps to increase NHS capacity so we can treat more patients, fight the virus and save lives."
Nightingales sprang up all over the UK, as unused conference centres and sports facilities were turned into makeshift critical care wards and ICU's. Meanwhile existing hospital wards that could have taken that equipment stood empty. This was all reported to the public as proof of the scale of the emergency. The demand never arose. The Nightingale's were wound down or repurposed [26] for other uses. Most having never seen a COVID 19 patient [27].
The purpose of the Nightingales was clearly pseudopandemic propaganda [28] not healthcare. When the NHS did try to move a dozen or so COVID patients to the 4000 bed London Nightingale, they were turned away because the planners hadn't bothered to staff it [29]. The 2000 bed Birmingham Nightingale was repurposed in August 2020. It never treated a single COVID 19 patient [30] and was instead used to stage video conference media events for Matt Hancock.
However, as we headed into the autumn and winter of 2020/21, the period where respiratory illness was likely to have an impact, as NHS capacity had been reduced in readiness for the pseudopandemic, it was at least feasible that Nightingale provision would be required. Certainly the State franchise had been warning of the "second wave" for long enough.
The second wave of hospital admissions peaked in early January and it was at this point that the Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced that the mothballed Nightingales would be reopened at some point. Though he didn't explain who was going to work in them.
