Some voices in medical and emergency care management take a different approach as Canadians head into their second year of pandemic regulation and some states are tightening blockades to minimize hospital overwhelming. I am seeking.
Doctor Matt StraussAn assistant professor at Queen’s University School of Medicine, a life-saving physician in Ontario, said the blockade was unethical and violated the Charter. In addition, they only reduce case numbers in the short term, and their effectiveness in preventing mortality remains inconclusive, he told the Epoch Times.
“The risks for everyone are not the same,” said Dr. Strauss. “So lowering the case rate of healthy 18-year-old patients probably wouldn’t have saved lives, but if I could cut them for 80-year-olds in a nursing home, I would. Probably saved a lot of lives. “
Informed by growing real-world data on blockades and similar restrictions on schools and businesses (called non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)), Strauss wrote the pen. Article published in the British newspaper The Spectator Last October, he filed a proceeding against another blockade.
He argued that “a compulsory government blockade is equivalent to a medical recommendation of anomalous potential harm that does not take into account individual values or personal consent, has no proven interests,” he said. ..
Now, almost seven months later, Strauss hasn’t changed his mind. The peer-reviewed literature is actually piled up compared to the blockade effect, as in the study published in December 2020. Nature “We cannot reliably quantify the effectiveness of each of these NPIs,” he concludes.
Predicting results
Strauss states that Ontario’s pandemic response has caused a surge in other negative social indicators such as suicide and domestic violence.
“Just because I didn’t intend [consequences] It doesn’t mean they are unpredictable. We could have predicted many of the terrible things we are seeing, “Strauss said.
In addition to treating severe COVID-19 infections during a pandemic, he cared for elderly people who suffered negligence during blockade measures, including those who starved to death after food delivery was interrupted.
“COVID is real, and it can really kill people, but that doesn’t mean government policy can’t make it much worse. Unfortunately, I think we’ve witnessed it. I will. “
According to Strauss, the government currently has no excuses for continued infringement of individual rights to protect poorly managed health care systems.
“For me, 14 months from now, I couldn’t significantly increase the capacity of the ICU, so this was much more predictable and modeled, but nevertheless I canceled my dad’s funeral and my daughter’s marriage. Cancel the ceremony and don’t let your child go to school and open your business, “Strauss said.
“It’s a complete condemnation to say now that our health care mismanagers need to be rewarded for their incompetence by gaining the ability to limit our civil liberties. Will be. “
David Redman, a former lieutenant colonel of the Canadian Armed Forces and former director of the Alberta Office for Emergency Management, has repeated similar refrains from the blockade since April 2020. He wrote to Prime Ministers across Canada to express his concerns. Leaders said they had abolished the existing pandemic guidelines and “decided to ignore all principles of emergency management.”
According to Redman, Alberta’s response in particular is only to control the spread of illness and reduce illness and death, the first of the four basic goals of the state’s existing emergency pandemic program. He said he focused and ignored the other three goals.These three “”Mitigate social turmoil by ensuring the continuity and recovery of critical services, minimizing negative economic impact, and supporting the efficient and effective use of resources during response and recovery.“
The key to vaccination to lift restrictions?
Based on modeling released on April 23, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Teresatam, said restrictions could be lifted “this summer” by then. At least 75 percent A percentage of adults in Canada receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 20% receive the second dose. This is a statement that both Redman and Strauss are at issue.
“It is not appropriate within the realm of public health to say how long they keep us in their homes. It should not have the authority to be done by unelected public health authorities,” Strauss said. ..
In deciding whether to vaccinate, he added, individuals should be allowed to assess their personal risk of being infected with COVID-19.
Redman was also critical of authorities using vaccine intake as a criterion to lift restrictions, as he said. Recent panels I am studying COVID-19 management. Both he and Strauss received the first dose of Pfizer vaccine, but he has a similar view to Strauss in assessing personal risk and protecting individual consent for the vaccine.
“Government should not use [vaccines] As a club that opens the economy when it knows it shouldn’t be closed, “Redman told the panel.