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It was not just 2020 when elderly neglected, leading to drugs and death. My ex m-i-l taken in for check up after a fall, April 2022, tested positive, no symptoms, and family banned for 10 days. Once allowed in, they found her dirty, dishevelled, drugged up, incoherent. When she eventually awoke, she was hungry and thirsty. She then developed double pneumonia. Family got her into a hospice, looked after better, died a few days later.

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Sorry to hear that man.

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How awful and sadly so common. Dehydration is common in health care at the best of times but isolations and PPE made it almost impossible for staff to provide even the most basic care.

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No one should be making escuses for the staff it was NOT impossible for them they just chose to ignore their common sense, even basic training. I know of a home carer who was given GP orders not to feed/hydrate an elderly hopsital discharge, she refused.

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I understand where you’re coming from but might there be another way to look at it? Like the general public, care staff were terrified into believing that masks, isolations, vaccines etc were necessary to save lives. They were under pressure from multiple fronts to conform and many left due to the pressure which left the sector short staffed and under even more pressure. Sickness levels were high for obvious reasons. Many challenged the system and I know staff often flouted the rules to offer compassionate care but had to do it in secret. There are some wonderful people in health and social care who have been treated dreadfully and will suffer most. If we blame them instead of the policy makers who sat behind desks and concocted these inhumane policies that they were forced to follow then we add to their burden. I wrote about it here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/valerienelson/p/covid-and-the-pandemic-of-moral-injury?r=ylkfh&utm_medium=ios

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'' might there be another way to look at it?''- Not for me, there have been no apologies. Also the policy MAKERS are POWERLESS without the policy ENFORCERS.

''Sickness levels were high for obvious reasons. ''- many staff were off simply on a 'positive test' no symptoms therefore not ill. Many 2021 ill from jab. This was just another way the health of the elderly was put under pressure.

I'd feel better about it all if there were more care home staff 'whistleblowers' coming forward but i'm not aware of any in 4 years. We have a society of unthinking obedient order followers and that is very dangerous especially in relation to public health policy. https://streamable.com/dragky The removal of all hope was deliberate.

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Valerie, only when you realise what the global agenda is about, will you understand. No pandemic, transfer of money to banks going bust, by lockdowns of normal businesses, pHARMa companies going bust with their lucrative patents soon ending and no new "blockbuster" $$$ drugs on the horizon. Boom! along comes "covid" which enables them to use failed mRNA gene therapy under emergency use regardless of safety and efficacy and even though proven extremely harmful, some say min. 17m deaths globally, billion injuries, it has not been stopped! Why not? I used to work in a hospital as admin on a stroke ward. Patients crying out, unable to speak, paralysed arm, unable to feed themselves, just ignored by nursing staff, laughing and joking at the nurses station. Most do not have one ounce of care or compassion in them. With Convid, no visitors, they got away with murder, by following "protocols" of course.

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DNACOR/DNAR/DNR orders are a key issue. In France too. Here, Jean Pierre (59) without having been consulted, without agreement given, and without prior information from the family or from myself who was his "trusted person" was ruled "no resuscitation" on his file by a resuscitator who did not examine him, the day before of his death by disguised euthanasia.

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One can only conclude from the first hand accounts 'the vulnerable' were targeted not protected.

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yes targeted and certain categories such as people with mental or alcoholic disorders, particularly targeted. And it continues. This week a Val de Marne (near Paris, newspaper relayed the story of parents of a person with Down syndrome who had been arbitrarily declared DNACPR. An emergency release was attempted and, this time, the judge ruled in favor of the family: the treatment restrictions were lifted. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/creteil_94028/cet-hopital-du-val-de-marne-voulait-arreter-ses-soins-un-patient-trisomique-sauve-in-extremis-par-son-frere_61583147.html

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Sounds very familiar vs Scots COVID inquiry testimony. Very troubling!

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😢

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