Democide is the word used to describe deaths that are the responsibility of government. The last two years have been filled with them. I have been calling them “hysteria deaths,” because they go far beyond lockdown deaths. The common denominator is that the deaths are a result of panicked non-evidence-based decisions on many many fronts. Here is a very long Twitter thread on hysteria deaths…
In the UK, a former NHS staffer going by John Dee's Almanac has been vocal about this on his telegram posts and substack. He's done lengthy analysis of ONS mortality data going back to 1970. Quite a piece of work. There's also the receipts for the excess doses of midazolam ordered and prescribed in UK care homes from February to May 2020, though it's unlikely anyone will ever be prosecuted for what was essentially mass murder. Shameful. Utterly shameful.
My father as well. In his case there is no direct connection to Covid, and he was 98 and likely in his final year or so anyway, but there is little doubt in my mind that the isolation imposed on him by the pandemic was a factor in the timing of his death and no doubt about the the sad aloneness of his last days. In all candor Mark, I don't typically agree with very much that you write about the pandemic and about public health policy, but I do relate on this human experience score. The way we've handled the situation had had all sorts of tragic sequelae that had nothing directly to do with the medical issues.
I will not be satisfied until they all get a good Nuremberging
In the UK, a former NHS staffer going by John Dee's Almanac has been vocal about this on his telegram posts and substack. He's done lengthy analysis of ONS mortality data going back to 1970. Quite a piece of work. There's also the receipts for the excess doses of midazolam ordered and prescribed in UK care homes from February to May 2020, though it's unlikely anyone will ever be prosecuted for what was essentially mass murder. Shameful. Utterly shameful.
My father as well. In his case there is no direct connection to Covid, and he was 98 and likely in his final year or so anyway, but there is little doubt in my mind that the isolation imposed on him by the pandemic was a factor in the timing of his death and no doubt about the the sad aloneness of his last days. In all candor Mark, I don't typically agree with very much that you write about the pandemic and about public health policy, but I do relate on this human experience score. The way we've handled the situation had had all sorts of tragic sequelae that had nothing directly to do with the medical issues.
Thank you.