The Highwire with Del Bigtree - SCOTLAND’S COVID DRUG COCKTAIL RAISES CONCERNS

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

An ongoing investigation into Scotland’s palliative care COVID deaths under national orders of sedative drug cocktails takes a turn as a key nurse whistleblower has just received a public gag order from the Scottish COVID inquiry. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Everyone wants a reckoning and there will be a reckoning and it takes time. And one place that that time is going into investigation is Scotland. And here's the latest headline over there. And it's not about vaccines. It's about how people were put on palliative care. They basically death pathways when they had COVID. The death protocol, COVID whistleblower Leslie Roberts, believes this one medical blunder cost thousands of lives. So it says in this article, she's speaking out after receiving a restriction order from the

Scottish COVID inquiry that would prevent her from disclosing any of the evidence or documents she has submitted to the probe. Ms. Roberts says she fears the impact will be to stop her and other campaigners from criticizing the Scottish government. So this is still ongoing. It goes on to say it relates to the NG163 end of life protocol from NICE National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. It was issued to doctors and nurses across the UK on April 3rd, 2020 and remained in place until March 21st, 2021. According to Ms. Roberts and other health campaigners, 163 essentially told medics to prescribe a deadly cocktail of powerful drugs to people in hospital and elsewhere who have been diagnosed with an advanced case of COVID-19.

She says they were called Silence Me Drugs. I don't believe any nurse wants to watch their patients die, but I'm afraid that is what happened as a result of the COVID care protocol. So let's go back to those guidelines because this is what, I mean, this is an ongoing investigation in Scotland right now to see what happened, not only in care homes, but also just in hospitals in general. So in April of 2020, this National Institute put out these guidelines here. This was the COVID-19 rapid guidelines for managing symptoms.

And under managing breathlessness, you know, that third stage of COVID, breathlessness, consider an opioid or benzodiazepine combination for patients with COVID-19 who are at the end of life and have moderate to severe breathlessness and are distressed. Now remember, at that time, there was no early prevention. as we as you know peter dr peter mccullough made famous they were looking for early treatment there was nothing so it was basically just people racing through those three stages of covid until they had breathlessness and then it was kind of just like well you know hospitals can't help you until you're there and when you're there just go to the hospital and in in america get put on a ventilator but in the in the in the uk and

scotland in these areas it was basically this this end-of-life protocol that they gave them the drugs so right when that nice protocol was put out, you had 11 in the UK's most senior consultants in palliative care medicine, and they went to the BMJ rapid response, and they wrote this article right here. And it says the protocols, basically these protocols need review. They said, we are concerned that uncritical use of NG163 may create unintended risk for people with suspected or actual COVID-19 infection. The combination of opioid, benzodiazepine, and neuroleptic is used in specialists. specialist palliative care settings for symptom control and for palliative sedation to reduce agitation at the end of life. It takes great skill and experience to use palliative sedation proportionately

so that extreme physical and existential distress are palliated. But death is not primarily accelerated. So it's a very fine line. You have to walk here. They're saying you can't just put this blanket blanket's a thing for all doctors and nurses and, you know, AIDS working in nursing homes, it's not going to work. So they go on to say this. When I think about this, I mean, I think we've all at this point probably had a loved one, an elderly grandmother or grandfather, something like that that's, you know, at the end of life, maybe been dealing with cancer or some disease that's made those like the last bit of time really painful. And at that point, there's that, you know, decision you make, would you like us to make them more comfortable? And you kind of

to realize that we're nearing that moment here. They're talking about doing that for people that have a cold who have, you know, pneumonia, a lung infection. And instead of like curing that, like maybe like how about a vitamin C IV drip or something or some vitamin D, you know what we're going to do? We're going to get the death protocol. We're going to make them comfortable and prepare them for death. I mean, it's crazy. This is a cold, you guys, you know? I mean, really madness. There, like you said, there is a humane place for these drugs. They do have a purpose. And but this, this care pathway was given to the medical community at a time when there were

no answers. They were desperate. They were scared. So it goes on in the BMJ to state this. This is what these palliative care specialists said. The top ones, they said, NG-163 states, sedation and opioid use should not be withheld because of a fear of causing respiratory depression. That's what it does.

If COVID-19 infection were uniformly fatal, this would be an acceptable. statement. But for people not previously known to be at the end of life, there is potential risk of unintended serious harm if these medications are using correctly and without the benefit of specialist palliative care advice. So I reached out to several doctors, several different different hospital systems to see if this was happening in the U.S. too. And none of them really said that they heard any evidence of this happening widespread in the U.S. The U.S. was, when people went to hospital, they were really relying on. on the ventilators. They weren't relying so much in the ventilators in the UK and Scotland.

We didn't need more feed in benzodiazepine. We had ventilators and remdesivir seem to be doing the job well enough. Right. Right. I mean, it was like a nine out of ten death rate with that approach to this thing. And again, you imagine like in this scenario, you have the health department saying, don't worry if you feel like you're killing people. That's not something you should, you know, be alarmed about. This is what we're asking to do. It's essentially what they're saying, right? Don't let the fear of killing them getting in the way of using this death protocol on them. And just the overarching theme here was there was a concerted effort to shut down any conversation about early treatment, just like you said, vitamin D, nothing. Everyone was just wait for the vaccine,

and that that was the protocol. I mean, the unwitten written wink wink protocol. So a year, a month after that protocol, the nice protocol here in the UK was put out. Here's the headlines now. July 2020 drug scandal care homes accused of using powerful sedatives to make coronavirus victims die more quickly as use rocketed 100%. But then there's another arm to this. There are conversations. So people saying, well, you know, these drugs, they could have, it was up to their decision. I'm sure not everyone was trying to kill their patients. But then we have this interesting point. These do not resuscitate orders. And we covered this, but this was in the Guardian of Fury at Do Not Resuscitate notices given to COVID patients with learning disabilities. So it says people's learning

disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic in spite of widespread condemnation the practice last year and an urgent investigation by the care watchdog. So this was, again, it was, it was continuing to go on. That is straight up nagenics. I mean, let's be clear. That's what Hitler, the first thing Hitler did, it was just sort of wipe out the handicapped and those that were, you know, in wheelchairs and things like that. I mean, so to think that they just said, you know, don't revive them. There's no point. Just just let them die. And in the absence of information really at the beginning and with with really fear being pushed by the media by people like Neil Ferguson with his model, you had, you know, a mash casualty incident.

It was a triage, basically a triage stance that these hospitals were going to. So you had these do not resuscitate orders and all this. So wouldn't you believe this is the headline here, Nicholas Sturgeon, she's the PM of Scotland, COVID probe could be the biggest corporate homicide in legal history. Those are big words. And how interesting is it that she stepped down? This is CNN. We don't like to quote them too much, but this is just the article at a timestamp. Nicholas Sturgeon unexpectedly quits as First Minister of Scotland.

So this happened. It's about a year ago. She stepped down, but she's out of there. She saw this probe coming. It's not because of the probe. It doesn't say that in the article. But you can read between the lines and really see that she's probably getting out of there the way of Jacinda Arden, just trying to maybe get a cushy job at Harvard or something

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