We need to start estimating the approximate death toll attributable to specific failures (for example WHO refusal to take airborne spread seriously) and rolling out criminal charges against individuals.
26 million dead is well into crimes-against-humanity territory.
For example, it's great that WHO's Chief Scientist has recognized what happened and that it killed people. But now we need to see some accountability.
How many is "an enormous number of lives", roughly speaking?
Who, specifically, is responsible?
It's clearly not an innocent mistake. At minimum, negligence. The SARS Commission provided crystal clear guidance on how to handle a new respiratory illness.
We know how SARS-CoV-2 should have been handled. To act otherwise was a deliberate choice.
WHO received warnings that required action under the precautionary principle established as the standard by the SARS Commission. No room for discretion, or judgment, or for the guilty to try and redefine "precautionary" or "airborne" after the fact.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36763042/
The error bars around the numbers are just a distraction. Tens of millions are dead - that's not hyperbole, it's the cold, hard truth, and doesn't count the harms of #LongCovid
Even 1% of 1% of that is an immense crime.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s…
It's already starting in other countries. Great to see movement, but as usual the little fish go first - very important that accountability gets pushed all the way up the ladder to the worst offenders as soon as possible.
And hospitals and physicians here have been warned they can face liability for failing in their duties here as well.
It's one of the reasons behind those weird declarations that certain non-precautionary approaches "meet the precautionary principle"; or that the principle does not automatically require precautions.
The bad guys are trying to redefine the words they're going to hear in court.
This is a post by Germany's Minister of Health.
Words like "immense" don't even start to describe the scale of the intellectual and moral failures here. EBM Lysenkoism at WHO and elsewhere 👉reduced life expectancy at the population level👈.
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It is not only public health and hospitals that are failing us. Bad advice and the examples of bad behaviour have rolled down to school boards as well. It's worth looking locally at whether yours is living up to minimum standards.
calgaryherald.com/news/local-new…
Also note these completely unambiguous recommendations by the SARS Commission to fix the culture of impunity when it comes to workplace safety.
This is the level at which accountability needs to *start*, and then we go up from there.
p51 in archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
Especially because the way that public health and IPAC have failed us in COVID show they learned nothing from the way they failed us in SARS.
"they cared more about what we looked like to the general public"
(p602 here: ) archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
I'm sure a lot of HCW (and teachers, and workers in many other areas as well) can see where PH / IPAC failed in their duties here (p605 - ): archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
It also makes it clear that public health / IPAC culture is just not fixable.
How many other places are there where you can make the same choices, screw up the same way, and kill (enormous numbers of) people *twice* and nothing changes?
(p607 - ) archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
People in BC will be able to relate to this one in particular. Public health is not an evidence-based field - they use the approaches of "Evidence-Based Medicine" and since that has the word "evidence" in it, it's just assumed that's enough.
(p1140 ) archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
Also of interest RE the pattern of betrayal of worker safety by CMOH / IPAC in BC and beyond:
Particularly important to note that who the authors of the deficient Seven Oaks report were (and that they were also involved in SARS): archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
In SARS, as we have seen again in COVID, infection-control decision making seems to have been driven more by prejudice and magical thinking than by reality (p652 - ). archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/s…
Meanwhile, instead of trying to fix their massive, ongoing failure the big shots at WHO are spending their time trying to redefine words to cover it up. Infectious Disease newspeak is a choice to harm even more people to save themselves.
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