Cull of the old

Niall McCrae

Early in the campaign against the covid regime, some outspoken characters such as Kate Shemirani warned of genocide. They referred to the depopulation agenda of globalists, some who have hardly hidden their misanthropic zeal. Bill Gates, for example, believes that the best way to save people is to radically reduce their procreation. This theme has continued with the covid vaccines, which cynical conspiracy theorists believe will be used as birth control, or perhaps to directly kill recipients. 

I have tended to eschew these outlandish claims. However, after 18 months of witnessing unbridled tyranny my perspective has changed from ‘surely they wouldn’t?’ to ‘maybe they would’. There is plenty of evidence that rather than saving lives, the authorities in Britain and other Western countries have allowed thousands of elderly to die unnecessarily. 

Older people are the most vulnerable to covid-19, as they are to influenza and other seasonal respiratory infections. Unsurprisingly the majority of those recorded as dying within 28 days of a positive covid-19 test are aged over 70. However, a high percentage of the total of 128000 deaths in the UK is likely to be due to comorbidities; furthermore, covid-19 testing is riddled with false positives. 

The most reliable data on the scale of the pandemic is in overall mortality. There were 14.3% more deaths than the average for the last five years (607922 in 2020 compared with a mean of 532077 from 2015 to 2019). Lockdown sceptics argue that the rise of 75845 was less due to covid-19 and more due to denial of healthcare. Was the death toll for diseases other than covid an unanticipated collateral effect, or was it a predictable sacrificing of older people?

• Care home scandal

In spring 2020, health secretary Matt Hancock, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and senior hospital managers made a diabolical decision to discharge thousands of sick older people from hospital wards to care homes. Most of the discharged patients were not tested for covid-19. Some would have contracted the disease in hospital and seeded it in a vulnerable community. Consequently, half of the covid-19 deaths in 2020 were in care homes.  Instead of saving lives, the health authorities that should serve older people betrayed them. Let’s not mince words: this was institutional manslaughter.  

• Vital treatment obstucted 

Alongside the pretence of ‘saving lives’, the slogan ‘protect the NHS’ was constantly drummed into the public by the government. Combined with the propaganda of fear, which terrorised older people into self-isolation (‘shielding’), access to vital assessment and treatment was heavily curtailed. Older people with serious health conditions were deterred from going to hospital, while GPs stopped face-to-face consultations. The impact of this denial of a fundamental right to healthcare was shown by the Office for National Statistics mortality data for 2020: deaths at home rose by a third. The emptiness of hospital car parks was a sign that the authorities could not hide: wards and clinics other than for covid-19 cases were so quiet that nurses could rehearse dance routines for TikTok videos.  

• Euthanasia

In March 2020, as covid-19 was spreading rapidly, health secretary Matt Hancock ordered two years’ supply of midazolam, a potent sedative of the benzodiazepine class.  On 17th April Hancock told the House of Commons Health & Social Care Select Committee of a ‘delicate supply chain’ for intensive care drugs, and in May 2020 Pharmaceutical Journal reported that Hancock had asked for further stocks of midazolam to be diverted from France. 

However, midazolam is hardly a drug of choice for patients with severe covid-19. As a respiratory depressant, it will compound the symptoms of pneumonia and respiratory failure. In terminal care, midazolam is used for ‘breakthrough’ pain in patients receiving intravenous morphine, although as is not analgesic the real reason is a swifter death. Not insignificantly, this drug is used for execution of condemned prisoners in the USA. 

Retired neurologist Patrick Pullicino, who previously raised public concern about the Liverpool Care Pathway for replacing palliative care with euthanasia, believes that midazolam is serving the same purpose.  ‘Did care homes use powerful sedatives to speed Covid deaths’, asked a Daily Mail article, which state that prescriptions for midazolam outside hospital doubled in April 2020 compared with the average monthly total. 

Another dubious practice in what became the National Covid Service was the increase in ‘do not resuscitate’ labelling. This means that if a patient has a cardiac arrest, they will not be saved. The Care Quality Commission has been struck by an avalanche of complaints about such decisions being made without consent of the patient or family. Instead, doctors have been making blanket orders for categories of people including the elderly. Hundreds may have died unnecessarily. 

• Slow suffocation

The most visible symbol of the pandemic is the wearing of masks. The older generations, perhaps through altruism as well as fear, seem to wear them most frequently, including in areas where they are not mandated. The fact that masks are ineffectual was shown by the Danish population study, and by the second wave in the winter when cases and deaths escalated despite widespread face covering. 

Indeed, masks are all pain and no gain: they are no barrier to the tiny particles of a coronavirus, but they trap foul air. Research by Haral Walach and colleagues, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that masked schoolchildren are inhaling dangerous amounts of carbon dioxide, at an average of 1.3% (six times the safe level of 0.2%). Clearly the impact will be worse on frail older people, particularly those with respiratory conditions. I have passed on the pavement too many masked octogenarians with a deathly grey pallor, having deprived themselves of fresh air. 

• Vaccination

Scientific research demonstrates that the covid-19 vaccines cause a temporary suppression of the immune system. In most countries the vaccination programme began with the vulnerable older age group, and a clear pattern was seen of a subsequent spike in deaths from covid-19. I wrote on UNN about how Gibraltar, which rapidly vaccinated its whole population, suddenly had the highest per capita mortality in the world. Similar surges occurred in Israel, UAE, Jordan, Chile, Colombia, Portugal, Serbia and other countries. In India, where the virus was contained by ivermectin in the autumn, introduction of the vaccine was followed by the worst daily covid death tolls in the world. Weakened immunity did not only raise the risk of covid-19 but also the many other infectious diseases rife in India. 

A study funded by Public Health England showed a 48% higher incidence of covid-19 infection within nine days of the vaccine. While the immune system of a fit and healthy younger adult may recover in a fortnight, a frail older person may be at higher risk for several weeks. It is unlikely that many of these post-vaccination deaths in the elderly were reported on the Yellow Card system, as they were attributed to a mutant strain of covoid-19.  But I would estimate than tens of thousands of older people in Britain had their lives shortened by the very substance that was meant  to protect them. 

Heads should roll for this cruel carnage.