A Rebuttal To Dr Pierre Kory, Part 2
Admits to “grievous error”, repeats the same mistake, ignores the evidence
Dr Pierre Kory has been humble enough to admit his last article in response to midazolam was in grievous error:
Despite this, Dr Kory has not addressed the rebuttal or points raised — despite my overt attempts to contact him both on Twitter and on Substack — and has opted to again ignore the evidence that runs counter to his position.
He doesn’t mention what his previous grievous error actually was, and conjures up a different invention, trying to stress it is a hypothesis, as if that gives the excuse to omit any evidence entirely and talk anecdotes.
Dr Kory chases down the same mistake of trying to insist there is no malicious intent in the abnormal behaviours of the care homes by, again, pointing to pathways that are non-relevant to the UK, and of which no evidence exists for use in the UK.
Blame The ‘Mass Casualty’
Dr Kory goes on to try to blame a “mass casualty event” for the reason why UK care home mass murdered the elderly. As someone who resides in the UK, this phrase was never mentioned, and this particularly American-centric term only primarily relates to mass shooters, not pandemics.
The UK has very strict gun controls, so ‘mass casualty events’ aren’t a relevant concept, and when they are, they only relate to acts of terrorism, not pandemics. The elderly weren’t at risk of a mass-stabbing or being bombed. Their only threats lay in the care home itself.
The term – defined for trauma (physical injury) – isn’t even relevant to the elderly who are perfectly fine. Remember, the deaths were reclassified as ‘dementia’, a mental health condition, not a physical trauma. This is not a trauma-related injury. His conjurings are irrelevant here – and provides no evidence the UK government was following these sets of American-centric policies.
Adding The Mayo Source
He refers to the American-centric Mayo clinic’s policies.
Perhaps he is hoping his American audience are dumb and won’t understand American policies are not British policies, and if he throws out enough FUD in the form of American policies, they won’t start asking questions about care home treatments in the US as well?
Mayo clinic are a private American healthcare organisation, and have no bearing of relevance on the primarily socialist NHS, whose policies are dictated from the top-down (I.E. from the government).
Indeed, even within the US, healthcare policies are not strictly uniform, no private healthcare provider is obliged to follow the Mayo clinic’s proposals. States may implement differing policies, and often do.
Send In The Greys
Dr Kory then conjures up another invention without proof that UK patients were, somehow, classified according to American standards:
I’m going to play a hand here. I used to work in the NHS. There is no such concept as a “grey status” for a patient. Nor green, yellow, red or black. We have anti-discrimination laws in the UK, to label patients with any kind of discriminatory marker is a no-no. Dr Kory’s ignorance of both UK and European values is showing.
Bedless Source
To show you how disparate values are, if an NHS hospital overflows, it diverts ambulances to another NHS hospital. If an NHS hospital reaches capacity (I.E. there are no free hospitals in a region), it prioritises freeing up beds from the less severely ill. If the NHS hospital cannot free up beds, then it uses ambulances as holdover. If it cannot use ambulances as holdover, then it will do the unthinkable and have beds in hallways.
If it cannot fit beds in hallways, they will refer new patients with lesser conditions to a primary care pathway (E.G. go see a GP). More severely ill patients who arrive will have to sit in the waiting room, with a doctor assigned to do ‘damage control’ on the new patients so they don’t fall ill or die before seeing treatment. Even if they can’t send an ambulance due to capacity, they will still encourage you to travel (E.G. by taxi) to arrive at the hospital, or book you in wait for one.
The concept of an NHS hospital refusing to admit a patient is completely abnormal. In-fact, it is harder to get yourself discharged due to the sheer amount of paperwork! Some hospitals have entire departments dedicated to organising discharge alone!
This is not the American privatised system where profits come before lives, the NHS would collapse first long before it gave up on patients being admitted. It was only by government order did any reduction in admissions of patients occur in 2020. Not by medical healthcare choice, not by triage, not due to overwhelming numbers of patients: government order. These are not the same things. Ask Matt Hancock to show his justification; you’ll get none.
Black Is The New Black
The only colour reference you will find is ‘black’, which relates to a hospital being ‘condition black’. The hospitals were empty. There’s no excuse for this triage bullshit from Dr Kory. Didn’t New York get assistance from a hospital ship that was underutilised as well? If their hospitals were all ‘mass casualty’ why didn’t New York utilise the hospital ship with a capacity for thousands? This absolutely smells.
We can prove it further in the UK, as well; Nightingale Hospitals were deployed. They were under-used too. That’s right, our hospitals weren’t overcrowded, and there was no need for this triage bullshit from Dr Kory. Especially in light of how non-lethal COVID-19 was. Remember how the medical advice was for the general public to stay at home and recover, and only come in if severe? Not exactly “mass casualty event” material.
So even if we humour Dr Kory’s inventions about overcrowded NHS hospitals (file an FOIA for condition black declarations for NHS hospitals pre-2020 and compare to 2020 onwards, I think you’ll find they were lower from 2020 onwards), COVID-19 patients still had Nightingale hospitals they could be referred to. In-fact, that was their entire purpose! And they weren’t used! No overflow! No triage!
In-fact, you had NHS nurses doing TikTok dances.
Is this what our elderly died for Dr Kory? To free up nurses’ time to perform TikTok dances?!
Utter Disbelief
There’s nothing wrong with being unable to accept the position Dr Kory, but it behooves you to raise viable challenges to the actual evidence presented, rather than making appeals to inventions that you haven’t demonstrated that the UK even uses.
ICU approaches involving intubation involve no bearing of relevance on care home staff who are not trained on ICU approaches. Care homes are not “intensive care”, they’re anything but.
Likewise, no rationing of resources occurred, and even if it did, who put you or anyone else in charge to say who lives and who dies in such a proposed rationing system? Was there a vote? Did the families consent? Was a legal bill passed?
Coronavirus Act was a Statutory Instrument (a tool used for legal clarification), not a fully voted-in Parliamentary bill. Many fines under it got tossed out. Read: it was illegal and unenforceable.
This was not simple neglect. Drugs for unauthorised purposes were purchased at the behest of government, and administered to the elderly who weren’t even critically ill, resulting in their deaths. The enormity of it all should not make it difficult to accept; there have been far worst abuses and genocides in history, and usually the elderly and frail are the ones who get it first, along with children.
Over 17 thousand deaths are rookie numbers; denying it won’t make the problem go away, it will make it worse, it will embolden the government to try more. You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. Canada’s literal euthanasia programme – which includes the depressed teenagers, by the way – has killed over 30 thousand people.
Guess what Kory? They invoke the same baseless rationale; to save the healthcare sector some money.
Give billions to Ukraine, save millions by murdering the elderly, the infirm and depressed and free up time for nurses to do TikTok dances.
No amount of rationale makes mass murder justifiable, Kory.
I feel sorry for Dr. Kory, who is a decent man. But he's badly wrong on this. The elderly were murdered. The medical personnel who did it could have refused. They did not, and they'd do it again in a similar situation. I can see how accepting any of that would be hard for a man who is genuinely committed to healing and wants to believe the best of his colleagues, wherever they may be. In this case, they don't deserve it. They deserve prison.
Many nurses employed by the NHS blew the whistle on empty wards and mass murder of the elderly. There were several such exposes in Australia too. At that time, in the US, Kory quite rightly called out the banning of cheap and effective treatments for the covid virus as mass murder. But the wider problem was the false history of disease reduction with vaccines when in fact this was acheived with public health strategies that included sewerage schemes, clean water resevoirs, removal of slums, improvement in nutrition, the discovery of penicillin and antibiotics, and the general raising of living standards from the 1880s onwards.Vaccinations had no positive impact whatsoever. Worse, they triggered a series of injuries that caused autism and new infections such as tonsil/adenoids, and chronic middel ear infections. There is no reason Kory was prevented from learning these realities.