I wish I'd known to blank out the medication name in the quote I originally objected to from the video transcript. I had no idea so many people would fixate on it.
What I objected to was her choice of words "euthanizing people at industrial scale" as though a good many front line health care workers wouldn't have quickly caught on to that and refused to let theirs be the hands that murdered.
Those that
did observe and
object were told to shut up, or sanctioned, or fired, and in some cases efforts were made to destroy them Professionally and
Personally.
This is not a new subject on this Forum. It has been hashed out in gruesome detail over these past several years.
I
know that most Medical Professionals would never go into a situation where the goal was wholesale death.
However, we cannot ignore that the formerly universal ethic of "First, do
no harm" has been deprecated, if not outright gutted in the past decade. By way of example, "Assisted Suicide" has become not the last option, but only one of the first offers of "Care" in our Neighborly-Nation to the North. "Standards of Care" are used not only to offer info on best practices (ostensibly), but to Judge the employees (Doctors and Nurses included) of the massive for-profit companies that have become endemic as well as to offer Lawyers opportunity to seize in filing lawsuits for any with the temerity to step outside their bounds, and garner threats from regulatory agencies when Medical Professionals stray a little too far off the "Reservation".
Personally, I know a very caring, professional ER Nurse that at the height of the madness, stated quite publicly that if you didn't take the zap, "F*** you! Don't come to the Hospital. Stay home and die." Her "Social Media" friends piled on with the
Right On!'s and the
You tell 'em's.
Never underestimate the power of Propaganda, Regulation, Ostracizing, and the threat of loss of Employment and licensure to warp people's thinking.
Never.
Never.
Never under estimate those the power those things wield.
Perhaps we can now get past this and back to the core of Naomi Wolf's arguments.
