LIES APLENTY FROM THE MEDIA, THE SPOOFS, GOVERNMENTS and UN AGENCIES


THE "ESTABLISHMENT OF EVERYTHING" THAT PULLS THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF US COMMONERS HAS REVEALED ITSELF AS PATENT LIARS.

AND, AS THEY TRIP OVER THEIR LYING TONGUES AND ARE FOUND OUT, ALL THEY CAN HOPE FOR IS TO AVOID A REBELLION THAT LAYS WASTE TO THEIR LUXURY HOMES AND IVORY TOWERS. WHY ARE THEY PUSHING FOR TRACKING, GUN CONTROL AND ARRESTS AND PUNISHMENT OF NON-COMPLIERS......... THE SILENCING OF THE LAMBS !

Enough has been posted here, on this very site, to contradict their globalist plutocratic narrative, not to mention hundreds of thousands of op-eds, statements, declarations, posts and videos from qualified as well as citizen researchers and medical professionals to sink their rotten Ship Of Fools to the bottom of the Swamp.

This is the latest ............. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CONFIRM THAT THE VIRUS WAS NOT MAN-MADE.. See below from the complicit leftist media - it has a picture - that seals their deal. These are the collaborators that gave us indisputable evidence of WMD's in Iraq and committed calumny against Syria for the atrocities that they - the Intel Agencies along with the MSM - carried out themselves. What a cabal of criminal collaborators and conspirators !!

On the matter of the possibility that the virus is bio-engineered, see our series of Virus Origins here and ff ... https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4241737328913596347#editor/target=post;postID=2294864168944276148;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=49;src=postname 

It has been nothing but lies and misdirection from the top, including from China, Dr. Fauci, the W.H.O. and the media that brought about the crisis and they have covered up the role of big pharma, U.S. support for the Wuhan Lab, the theft of viruses from a lab in Winnepeg, the role of the Chinese spy, Prof Lieber, the experiments that shut down Fort Detrick and on and on it goes. ENOUGH. And that goes especially for the tech giants who own social media platforms that ban opinions and discussion not in keeping with the globalists' narrative.
[NOTE: The term "Spoofs" herein is used as a parody derogation for "Spooks"i.e. Clowns]

HERE IS THE LIE. A COMPARISON OF AN EXCERPT FROM MSM FIRSTLY, FOLLOWED BY THE OPINION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WHO DISCOVERED THE HIV VIRUS.

SOURCE: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-us-covid19-was-not-manmade/news-story/ae6f87d6f1d49715c15c277680c38f92?utm_content=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=EditorialSF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook 

FROM NEWS.COM ...
The US intelligence community has concluded that the novel coronavirus gripping the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered.
“The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement.
“The intelligence community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.
“The (Intelligence Community) will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
The statement came after US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he might seek damages from China over the outbreak.
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Picture; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP.
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Picture; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP.Source:AFP
News reports say Mr Trump has tasked US spies to find out more about the origins of the virus, at first blamed on a Wuhan, China wet market selling exotic animals like bats, but now thought possibly to be from a virus research laboratory nearby.
Suggesting that Beijing has not been forthcoming about the disease, which has infected about 3.2 million people and killed over 227,000, Mr Trump said Monday that there were many options to “hold them accountable.”
“We are not happy with China,” he said.
“We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source.”
The US intelligence directorate said it always boosts resources for study and analysis during national security crises.
The intelligence community “will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan,” it said.

COMPARE THE SPOOFS PROPAGANDA TO THE FOLLOWING .....

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created In Laboratory

In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has added his voice to those who believe the new coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Interviewed on the CNews channel in France, Montagnier asserted that the virus had been designed by molecular biologists. Stating that it contains genetic elements of HIV, he insisted its characteristics could not have arisen naturally.
Asked by the CNews interviewer what the goal of these molecular biologists was, Montagnier said it wasn’t clear. “My job,” he said, “is to expose the facts.” While stressing that he didn’t know who had done it, or why, Montagnier suggested that possibly the goal had been to make an AIDS vaccine. Labeling the virus as “a professional job…a very meticulous job,” he described its genome as being a “clockwork of sequences.”
“There’s a part which is obviously the classic virus, and there’s another mainly coming from the bat, but that part has added sequences, particularly from HIV – the AIDS virus,” he said.

Growing evidence that the virus was ‘designed’

Montagnier also pointed out that he wasn’t the first scientist to assert that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Previously, on 31 January 2020, a research group from India had published a paper suggesting that aspects of the virus bore an “uncanny similarity” to HIV. Taken together, the researchers said their findings suggested the virus had an “unconventional evolution” and that further investigation was warranted. While the researchers subsequently retracted their paper, Montagnier said they had been “forced” to do so.
In February 2020, a separate research paper published by scientists from South China University of Technology suggested the virus “probably” came from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city where it was first identified. Significantly, one of the research facilities cited in this paper, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, is said to be the only lab in China that is designated for the study of highly dangerous pathogens such as Ebola and SARS. Prior to the opening of this laboratory in 2018, biosafety experts and scientists from the United States had expressed concerns that a virus could escape from it. As with the paper published by the Indian researchers, however, the Chinese scientists’ paper has similarly been withdrawn.

Involvement of the pharma industry

Professor Montagnier has long demonstrated that he is not afraid to challenge the prevailing views of the scientific establishment. Previously, in an interview recorded for the 2009 AIDS documentary ‘House of Numbers’, he had spoken out in favor of nutrition and antioxidants in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As the co-discoverer of HIV and a Nobel prize winner, Montagnier’s statements in this interview gave valuable support to Dr. Rath and other scientists who, for years beforehand, had been warning the world about the pharmaceutical business with the AIDS epidemic.
In a similar way, his assertion today that the coronavirus was designed by molecular biologists raises serious questions about the possible involvement of the pharmaceutical industry. As Montagnier infers, a manmade virus whose genome consists of a “clockwork of sequences” and includes elements of HIV could not have been assembled by amateurs. With estimates of the total global economic cost of the coronavirus varying from $4.1 trillion to $20 trillion or more, the ongoing questions about its origins are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.


Paul Anthony Taylor

Paul Anthony Taylor

Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

You can find Paul on Twitter at @paulanthtaylor

LIES APLENTY FROM THE MEDIA, THE SPOOFS, GOVERNMENTS and UN AGENCIES


THE "ESTABLISHMENT OF EVERYTHING" THAT PULLS THE WOOL OVER THE EYES OF US COMMONERS HAS REVEALED ITSELF AS PATENT LIARS.

AND, AS THEY TRIP OVER THEIR LYING TONGUES AND ARE FOUND OUT, ALL THEY CAN HOPE FOR IS TO AVOID A REBELLION THAT LAYS WASTE TO THEIR LUXURY HOMES AND IVORY TOWERS. WHY ARE THEY PUSHING FOR TRACKING, GUN CONTROL AND ARRESTS AND PUNISHMENT OF NON-COMPLIERS......... THE SILENCING OF THE LAMBS !

Enough has been posted here, on this very site, to contradict their globalist plutocratic narrative, not to mention hundreds of thousands of op-eds, statements, declarations, posts and videos from qualified as well as citizen researchers and medical professionals to sink their rotten Ship Of Fools to the bottom of the Swamp.

This is the latest ............. INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES CONFIRM THAT THE VIRUS WAS NOT MAN-MADE.. See below from the complicit leftist media - it has a picture - that seals their deal. These are the collaborators that gave us indisputable evidence of WMD's in Iraq and committed calumny against Syria for the atrocities that they - the Intel Agencies along with the MSM - carried out themselves. What a cabal of criminal collaborators and conspirators !!

On the matter of the possibility that the virus is bio-engineered, see our series of Virus Origins here and ff ... https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4241737328913596347#editor/target=post;postID=2294864168944276148;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=49;src=postname 

It has been nothing but lies and misdirection from the top, including from China, Dr. Fauci, the W.H.O. and the media that brought about the crisis and they have covered up the role of big pharma, U.S. support for the Wuhan Lab, the theft of viruses from a lab in Winnepeg, the role of the Chinese spy, Prof Lieber, the experiments that shut down Fort Detrick and on and on it goes. ENOUGH. And that goes especially for the tech giants who own social media platforms that ban opinions and discussion not in keeping with the globalists' narrative.
[NOTE: The term "Spoofs" herein is used as a parody derogation for "Spooks"i.e. Clowns]

HERE IS THE LIE. A COMPARISON OF AN EXCERPT FROM MSM FIRSTLY, FOLLOWED BY THE OPINION OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WHO DISCOVERED THE HIV VIRUS.

SOURCE: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/coronavirus-us-covid19-was-not-manmade/news-story/ae6f87d6f1d49715c15c277680c38f92?utm_content=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=EditorialSF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook 

FROM NEWS.COM ...
The US intelligence community has concluded that the novel coronavirus gripping the globe originated in China but was not man-made or engineered.
“The entire Intelligence Community has been consistently providing critical support to US policymakers and those responding to the COVID-19 virus, which originated in China,” the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a statement.
“The intelligence community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not man-made or genetically modified.
“The (Intelligence Community) will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
The statement came after US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he might seek damages from China over the outbreak.
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Picture; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP.
A colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (yellow), isolated from a patient sample captured at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Picture; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP.Source:AFP
News reports say Mr Trump has tasked US spies to find out more about the origins of the virus, at first blamed on a Wuhan, China wet market selling exotic animals like bats, but now thought possibly to be from a virus research laboratory nearby.
Suggesting that Beijing has not been forthcoming about the disease, which has infected about 3.2 million people and killed over 227,000, Mr Trump said Monday that there were many options to “hold them accountable.”
“We are not happy with China,” he said.
“We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source.”
The US intelligence directorate said it always boosts resources for study and analysis during national security crises.
The intelligence community “will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan,” it said.

COMPARE THE SPOOFS PROPAGANDA TO THE FOLLOWING .....

Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Who Discovered HIV Says Coronavirus Was Created In Laboratory

In a highly significant development, Professor Luc Montagnier, the French scientist who shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), has added his voice to those who believe the new coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Interviewed on the CNews channel in France, Montagnier asserted that the virus had been designed by molecular biologists. Stating that it contains genetic elements of HIV, he insisted its characteristics could not have arisen naturally.
Asked by the CNews interviewer what the goal of these molecular biologists was, Montagnier said it wasn’t clear. “My job,” he said, “is to expose the facts.” While stressing that he didn’t know who had done it, or why, Montagnier suggested that possibly the goal had been to make an AIDS vaccine. Labeling the virus as “a professional job…a very meticulous job,” he described its genome as being a “clockwork of sequences.”
“There’s a part which is obviously the classic virus, and there’s another mainly coming from the bat, but that part has added sequences, particularly from HIV – the AIDS virus,” he said.

Growing evidence that the virus was ‘designed’

Montagnier also pointed out that he wasn’t the first scientist to assert that the coronavirus was created in a laboratory. Previously, on 31 January 2020, a research group from India had published a paper suggesting that aspects of the virus bore an “uncanny similarity” to HIV. Taken together, the researchers said their findings suggested the virus had an “unconventional evolution” and that further investigation was warranted. While the researchers subsequently retracted their paper, Montagnier said they had been “forced” to do so.
In February 2020, a separate research paper published by scientists from South China University of Technology suggested the virus “probably” came from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city where it was first identified. Significantly, one of the research facilities cited in this paper, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, is said to be the only lab in China that is designated for the study of highly dangerous pathogens such as Ebola and SARS. Prior to the opening of this laboratory in 2018, biosafety experts and scientists from the United States had expressed concerns that a virus could escape from it. As with the paper published by the Indian researchers, however, the Chinese scientists’ paper has similarly been withdrawn.

Involvement of the pharma industry

Professor Montagnier has long demonstrated that he is not afraid to challenge the prevailing views of the scientific establishment. Previously, in an interview recorded for the 2009 AIDS documentary ‘House of Numbers’, he had spoken out in favor of nutrition and antioxidants in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As the co-discoverer of HIV and a Nobel prize winner, Montagnier’s statements in this interview gave valuable support to Dr. Rath and other scientists who, for years beforehand, had been warning the world about the pharmaceutical business with the AIDS epidemic.
In a similar way, his assertion today that the coronavirus was designed by molecular biologists raises serious questions about the possible involvement of the pharmaceutical industry. As Montagnier infers, a manmade virus whose genome consists of a “clockwork of sequences” and includes elements of HIV could not have been assembled by amateurs. With estimates of the total global economic cost of the coronavirus varying from $4.1 trillion to $20 trillion or more, the ongoing questions about its origins are unlikely to disappear anytime soon.


Paul Anthony Taylor

Paul Anthony Taylor

Executive Director of the Dr. Rath Health Foundation and one of the coauthors of our explosive book, “The Nazi Roots of the ‘Brussels EU'”, Paul is also our expert on the Codex Alimentarius Commission and has had eye-witness experience, as an official observer delegate, at its meetings.

Prior to joining the Foundation, Paul's background was in the music industry, where he worked as a keyboard player and programmer with artists including Paul McCartney, Bryan Ferry, Bill Withers, the Verve, Texas, and Primal Scream.

He first became interested in natural health after falling ill with a chronic fatigue syndrome-related disorder in 1991 and subsequently making a full recovery through the use of natural health therapies. After meeting Dr. Rath and Dr. Niedzwiecki at an anti-Codex rally in Berlin in 2002, Paul was inspired to make a life-changing decision to leave the music industry to work for the Foundation and help defend the right of patients worldwide to have free access to natural health approaches.

You can find Paul on Twitter at @paulanthtaylor

SAD TRUTH REVEALED - THE ELDERLY MAY BE DYING FROM MORE THAN COVID-19

While it's common knowledge now that COVID-19 is taking the lives of the elderly in staggeringly disproportionate numbers to the rest of the community, with the obvious factor of a degenerating immune system at play, there may be much more going on.

Australia has been conducting inquiries into abuse and neglect within aged care facilities and while the majority provide a wonderful service, there are some where horrific situations exist. But - and we have discovered a big 'but' - there may be contracts and agreements in place which are exacerbating the problem of disproportionate deaths. And, this applies to aged care in hospitals and in palliative care as well.

We do not know the details of agreements in Australia regarding end-of-life care but have come across a letter from a much experienced paediatrician in the US. No doubt similar issues apply to Australia. His letter is published after this excerpt from today's article in the New Daily......


Another resident has died at the Newmarch House aged-care home in Western Sydney after contracting coronavirus, prompting the NSW Premier to condemn the situation as “horrific” and “unacceptable”.
A 74-year-old man died on Thursday afternoon, bringing the death toll at the facility to 13 after a staff member caused an outbreak by working six shifts despite having mild COVID-19 symptoms.
“The coronavirus has had a devastating impact on all our residents and families,” Anglicare, which operates the facility, said.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian told the ABC the situation at Newmarch House was “horrific” and she has called on the federal government to intervene.
“The federal government [has] involved the [National Aged Care Advocacy Program] to deal with the matter,” she said.
“Because what’s happening there isn’t acceptable and unfortunately you do notice a difference in the way people who run these aged care homes across the nation are dealing with the issue.
“This particular operator has been left wanting on a number of levels.”
The National Aged Care Advocacy Program supports the elderly in aged-care facilities by helping them understand their rights and to make informed decisions while in care.
Thirteen of the home’s residents have died, and many more are infected. Photo: AAP
READ IN FULL HERE: https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/coronavirus/2020/05/01/newmarch-house-virus-federal-govt/ 


THE SITUATION IN AMERICA by Dr. Paul Byrne. [As published on the Abyssum site]....

IT SHOULD NOT COME AS A SURPRISE TO LEARN THAT ELDERLY PATIENTS IN NURSING HOMES ARE LIKELY TO DIE OF THE CHINESE CORONAVIRUS, IT IS NOT SO MUCH THAT SUCH PATIENTS USUALLY HAVE COMORBIDITIES AS IT IS THAT PATIENTS IN MANY NURSING HOMES ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN AGREEMENTS FOR PALLIATIVE CARE AND DNR ORDERS.

Paul A. Byrne, M.D. column
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in nursing homes

Paul A. Byrne
Paul A. Byrne, M.D.
April 29, 2020
We are in the midst of a Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic. Early reports included multiple, now more than 40 deaths in a nursing home in the State of Washington. Twenty percent of the COVID-19 deaths in New York and New Jersey are residents of nursing homes. Many other nursing homes have increased deaths. Is this because the COVID-19 virus is so virulent or other factors?
The Associated Press conducted its own survey in the U.S. and found there had been nearly 11,000 COVID-related nursing home deaths across the country as of April 24. However, just 23 stateshave been publicly reporting nursing home deaths.” https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-04-failure-covid-nursing-home-deaths.html (Accessed 4-28-20)
This is not surprising considering that patients in nursing homes are older and have co-morbidities and therefore, are more susceptible to succumb to an infection.
Most in nursing homes require assistance in living. A prerequisite for acceptance into most, if not all, nursing homes is an Advance Directive for Healthcare. It is common that the Advance Directive will include a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Order.
In addition some may have already unwittingly been put into Palliative care (PC). Most residents of nursing homes and their relatives do not have full and complete information about PC.
Triggers for PC are not limited to incurable diseases that are painful, but include declining ability to complete activities of daily living, weight loss, uncertainties regarding prognosis, limited social support and a serious illness (e.g., homeless, chronic mental illness), perceived psychological or spiritual distress of the patient or family. https://getpalliativecare.org/resources/clinicians/ (Accessed 4-28-20)
PC sets the stage for more deaths for the most vulnerable. How? PC focuses on alleged relief of symptom-burden, not necessarily treatment of the cause, i.e., the underlying medical conditions, treatment of which could alleviate the symptoms. For example, an elderly patient with cancer is noted to have a change in mental status. This could be a result of medication, a urinary tract infection, dehydration, or a myriad of other treatable conditions, not related to the cancer. Yet, in PC the symptom-focus response may be to give Valium-like drugs or narcotics to sedate the patient, omit evaluation and simple tests to diagnose the actual problem, and not provide common medications or interventions that could successfully treat the medical condition causing the symptom(s).
There are many concerns during this time of sheltering at home and social distancing. Separation of loved ones in nursing homes from family and visitors including clergy, done for their protection from COVID-19, was sudden and not predictable and raises other questions concerning care needs of these vulnerable persons.
Doctors and Death – Redefinitions and Participation
How did we get here? Medicine changed drastically and horrifically in 1968 with “brain death” when a Committee at Harvard published “A Definition of Irreversible Coma.” “Brain death” calls a person with a beating heart and circulation, “dead.” Everyone in coma is alive, nevertheless the Harvard Committee without any scientific or medical references, declared that someone unconscious in coma, on a ventilator without brainstem reflexes of the eye and ear, and unable to take a breath on their own, but many other signs of life including being warm with normal color, a beating heart, blood pressure, pulse, oxygen being taken in and carbon dioxide going out, can be considered “dead.” To call a person dead while there are many signs of life and then to participate in organ procurements by stopping the beating heart and removing it thereby making the person definitively dead was a major change in the direction of medicine. This change had and still has an impact on medical practice. Doctors were blinded to the most basic good of the presence of life itself and were now participating in causing deaths albeit with the intention of helping others live. Laws were passed to protect this new definition of death. In 1970 Kansas was the first state to pass a “brain death” statute. Judges and legislators from all 50 states became involved making it legal to call someone dead while the heart was beating with many other signs of life.
Advance Directives and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Orders
In 1990 Medicare and Medicaid were amended to require hospitals and skilled nursing facilities to inform patients of their rights to make decisions concerning their medical care and to periodically inquire as to whether a patient executed an Advance Directive and document the patient’s wishes regarding their medical care. As a result, when entering any hospital or nursing home the patient and/or those who represent the patient are asked if the patient has a Living Will or Advance Directive. This is commonly done by an admission clerk, not a treating physician. If the patient does not have an Advance Directive, quite commonly a “sample” is provided for consideration.
Every state had a “brain death” statute before a Living Will statute. A Living Will is a written statement detailing a person’s desires under some future, hypothetical, circumstances not to be treated. Decisions about non-treatment in the future violate two basic principles of medicine. The first is that a physician gathers all timely, relevant information about the patient before a diagnosis and plan of treatment are made. The second is that a doctor is expected to provide the most up-to-date treatments that can be most beneficial to the patient. Neither of these are available when a Living Will is executed.
Another form of Advance Directive is a Power of Attorney for Health Care. This allows one to designate someone to speak for him/her.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments) is a type of Advance Directive designed to have patients choose to get less treatment and care and once signed by a physician becomes a legal medical order binding future caregivers from providing the care refused. The future, including the onslaught of a coronavirus, cannot be known by the person completing an Advance Directive.
Once society and medicine has accepted 1) calling people “dead” who are really alive, participating in their deaths, 2) advance directives that aim at refusing or limiting treatments and care, it is an easy step to 3) palliative care principles that further limit treatments with their focus on symptoms, not cures.
Then enter coronavirus especially in nursing homes. Everything is in place for those with weak or absent immunity to acquire the virus. Those with underlying disease are more likely to get sicker. Almost everyone in a nursing home has an Advance Directive in place not to be treated and receive less care.
People with disabilities and the elderly are considered to be more likely to die from COVID-19 and therefore they may be denied life-saving or life-sustaining treatments to enable a person who is viewed as more likely to survive to receive treatment.
Nursing home residents, relatives and friends are affected by the involuntary mandated imposition of no visitors. If a person, labeled a “client,” in a nursing home has an acute illness, they are subject to whatever is provided. Their Advance Directive is in place for non-treatment, even for unspecified imaginable illnesses. Many are frail; they are without relatives; treatment depends on whatever personnel in the nursing home provide. Their Advance Directive indicates that the person has chosen not to receive some treatments; thus, it is so easy to translate this into no treatment.
The palliative care movement, preceded by “brain death” and Living Will statutes, is another related change in medical care in our country. Palliative care involves a palliative care team (which can include physicians, nurses, social workers, and chaplains) that helps the family determine when the patient’s care should be shifted away from cure and toward death. Palliative care is less treatment and no care and is a major part of the System of Death that exists in Medicine, the Law and the Church.
The person in the nursing home and their relatives did not appreciate this. This was done before COVID-19. Now, nursing home residents, relatives and friends are stuck with it.
Shortly after the onset of COVID-19, the anticipated need for ventilators started the push to make more ventilators. However, patients in nursing homes with a DNR order will not get a ventilator, even if it might be a temporary treatment that would allow recovery from the virus. Is the death rate among the elderly higher because of their age and co-morbidities alone or because they will not be offered a chance to survive whether that be on a ventilator or possibly due to other innovative care strategies that may have a reasonable chance for even greater effectiveness and improved survival? The Advance Directive may be the mechanism to the ending of their life even if unintended by the patient.
In general, many patients seem to have the idea that ventilator use would mean a comatose existence on a machine indefinitely. How many are informed that ventilator use can be temporary and a means to continued living? The use of ventilator guidelines is being questioned for COVID-19 patients. Are death rates from COVID-19 higher in nursing homes because in the face of advance directives that limit potentially curative therapy, treatments, whether with a life-saving ventilator or with other modalities, are being denied to the elderly?
Palliative Care proponents want opioids to relieve breathlessness and pain. Opioids do not relieve breathlessness per se but make a patient sedated and breathe less because they decrease respiratory rate and volume. The patient too sedated to take hydration or nutrition, dies. They may appear more comfortable but if they are too sedated to respond, one does not really know how they feel inside. They could be motionless and still have nausea, itching, pain, constipation, dysphoria, feel unable to handle their secretions, and other undesired side-effects.
While attention is drawn to their age and co-morbidities in discussing the increased death rates among nursing home residents and while these are valid considerations, what is not discussed is how healthcare has changed to a system of death that does not aim for protection and preservation of lives of those considered a drain on society’s resources.
First came “brain death” with the goal to eliminate persons who needed ventilators. Next, came Living Wills and Advance Directives to discourage life-saving treatments, including ventilators, assisted nutrition and hydration, and even antibiotics. Then most nursing home residents have a “DNR – Do Not Resuscitate” order, which often results in, decreased treatments and care even if not directly related to resuscitation.
Add taxpayer funds to the push for PC for all, even if not dying or in pain. Enter Coronavirus-19 with sudden, social isolation for all, even those not sick. It is no surprise that elderly persons are more vulnerable to disease, but are they getting the care that protects and preserves their life and health and gives them their best chance of recovery?
A ventilator may or may not preserve the life of a person, especially when the person is older with co-morbidities and COVID 19, but denial of a needed ventilator associated with DNR in PC can shorten life and hasten death.

Dr. Paul A. Byrne is a Board Certified Neonatologist and Pediatrician. He is the Founder of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, MO. He is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at University of Toledo, College of Medicine. He is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.

Dr. Byrne is past-President of the Catholic Medical Association (USA), formerly Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at St. Louis University in St. Louis, MO and Creighton University in Omaha, NE. He was Professor of Pediatrics and Chairman of the Pediatric Department at Oral Roberts University School of Medicine and Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the City of Faith Medical and Research Center in Tulsa, OK. He is author and producer of the film “Continuum of Life” and author of the books “Life, Life Support and Death,” “Beyond Brain Death,” and “Is ‘Brain Death’ True Death?”

Dr. Byrne has presented testimony on “life issues” to nine state legislatures beginning in 1967. He opposed Dr. Kevorkian on the television program “Cross-Fire.” He has been interviewed on Good Morning America, public television in Japan and participated in the British Broadcasting Corporation Documentary “Are the Donors Really Dead?” Dr. Byrne has authored articles against euthanasia, abortion, and “brain death” in medical journals, law literature and lay press.

Paul was married to Shirley for forty-eight years until she entered her eternal reward on Christmas 2005. They are the proud parents of twelve children and have thirty-five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.


© Copyright 2020 by Paul A. Byrne, M.D.
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