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I do not believe doctors or nurses had a deliberate intent to cause harm, I think they were given protocols handed down to them from whatever regulatory body they trust and answer to, then followed them to the letter. If they question why the patients do not survive it will never be the protocols it will be rationalised, it is the effect of the "deadly disease" and the patient's age/underlying condition or we followed the protocol and "tried our best" but the patient was weakened by the "deadly disease", there are many scenarios they can play in their head. They then move on to the next patient and repeat the same actions. I think the protocols absolved them from responsibility and encouraged groupthink where no one questioned the authority giving them orders, critical thinking was discouraged. We were all told it was a time of life threatening emergency, doctors are not exempt from succumbing to the same fear and hysteria that was deliberately pushed onto the populations. The scariest thing was the need to blindly follow orders even to the detriment of their patients, it becomes almost a mission. "I'm doing this for your own good" should fill us all with fear.

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In the UK, Chris Whitty - Chief Medical Officer England and his 3 counterparts in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, alongside other ‘high-ups’ in the so called health-care field, signed a letter informing NHS staff that deviating from established NHS rules and practice would basically be overlooked by their professional bodies.

An official get-out-of-jail card issued to formalise and normalise questionable - and abhorrent- practice.

https://twitter.com/CMO_England/status/1326516354300735488

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