A decades-long UK scandal in which thousands of people died after being treated with infected blood was covered up and largely could have been avoided, according to a bombshell report published Monday.
More than 30,000 people were infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood in Britain between the 1970s and early 1990s, the Infected Blood Inquiry concluded.
Victims included those needing blood transfusions for accidents and in surgery, and those suffering from blood disorders such as haemophilia who were treated with donated blood plasma products.
Some 3,000 of them died, and more will follow, in what has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the eight-decade history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS).
In some instances, children with bleeding disorders were treated as “objects for research”. Many went on to develop and die from HIV and hepatitis.
But wait… that’s not all.
His team found that successive governments and health professionals failed to mitigate risks despite it being apparent by the early 1980s that the cause of AIDS could be transmitted by blood.
Blood donors were not screened properly and blood products were imported from abroad, including from the United States where drug users and prisoners were used for donations.
Too many transfusions were also given when they were not necessarily needed, the report added.
There were even attempts to conceal the scandal, including evidence that officials in the health department destroyed documents in 1993.
“Viewing the response of the NHS and of government overall, the answer to the question, ‘Was there a cover-up?’ is that there has been,” the report stated.
“Not in the sense of a handful of people plotting in an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead, but in a way that was more subtle, more pervasive and more chilling in its implications.
And the key passage:
“What I have found is that disaster was no accident. People put their trust in doctors and the government to keep them safe and that trust was betrayed,” Langstaff told reporters.
And if you thought this was limited to the UK, think again.
This was in France (wikipedia article is in French but you should be able to translate it to English if you don’t read French).
And since we know with an extremely high level of correlation that most AIDS and Hepatitis patients are the result of homosexual activity and intravenous drug use (often both activities are embodied in the same person) all of a sudden, if you were to need a blood transfusion, or worse your child does, guess what, I’m betting all of a sudden that nonsense of “love is love” and who does what would become of utmost importance and interest to you. Especially since there wee reported case way back then too of multiple instances of knowingly infected gay men intentionally going to “donate blood” (spreading their Anally Injected Death Syndrome as it was popularly known in the 1990s) on purpose.
And if you think that is far-fetched, I’d tell you to look up the word “bugchasers” but I advise you do it on an empty stomach.
The take away in both cases regarding the official medical structures of the UK, France, the USA and every other place on Earth is the one that Venetian children learn and take in alongside mother’s milk:
Never, ever, ever, trust anyone that is even mildly related to “officialdom” or the “government” or any of their systems. That includes doctors, police, military, lawyers, judges, right down to postal workers. And then, naturally, most Venetians don’t even trust their long-standing neighbours they have known since childhood.
Using your own brain to figure things out is really not optional. It’s how my family line has continued to exist despite the fact that genetically we seem predisposed to being too curious for our own good.
It’s also a good idea to know your blood types in the family and know who can donate to whom within it.
What two consenting adults…
…do in the “privacy” of their own home, can kill you.
Or worse, your loved ones.
A decades-long UK scandal in which thousands of people died after being treated with infected blood was covered up and largely could have been avoided, according to a bombshell report published Monday.
More than 30,000 people were infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis after being given contaminated blood in Britain between the 1970s and early 1990s, the Infected Blood Inquiry concluded.
Victims included those needing blood transfusions for accidents and in surgery, and those suffering from blood disorders such as haemophilia who were treated with donated blood plasma products.
Some 3,000 of them died, and more will follow, in what has been described as the biggest treatment disaster in the eight-decade history of the state-run National Health Service (NHS).
In some instances, children with bleeding disorders were treated as “objects for research”. Many went on to develop and die from HIV and hepatitis.
But wait… that’s not all.
His team found that successive governments and health professionals failed to mitigate risks despite it being apparent by the early 1980s that the cause of AIDS could be transmitted by blood.
Blood donors were not screened properly and blood products were imported from abroad, including from the United States where drug users and prisoners were used for donations.
Too many transfusions were also given when they were not necessarily needed, the report added.
There were even attempts to conceal the scandal, including evidence that officials in the health department destroyed documents in 1993.
“Viewing the response of the NHS and of government overall, the answer to the question, ‘Was there a cover-up?’ is that there has been,” the report stated.
“Not in the sense of a handful of people plotting in an orchestrated conspiracy to mislead, but in a way that was more subtle, more pervasive and more chilling in its implications.
And the key passage:
“What I have found is that disaster was no accident. People put their trust in doctors and the government to keep them safe and that trust was betrayed,” Langstaff told reporters.
And if you thought this was limited to the UK, think again.
This was in France (wikipedia article is in French but you should be able to translate it to English if you don’t read French).
And since we know with an extremely high level of correlation that most AIDS and Hepatitis patients are the result of homosexual activity and intravenous drug use (often both activities are embodied in the same person) all of a sudden, if you were to need a blood transfusion, or worse your child does, guess what, I’m betting all of a sudden that nonsense of “love is love” and who does what would become of utmost importance and interest to you. Especially since there wee reported case way back then too of multiple instances of knowingly infected gay men intentionally going to “donate blood” (spreading their Anally Injected Death Syndrome as it was popularly known in the 1990s) on purpose.
And if you think that is far-fetched, I’d tell you to look up the word “bugchasers” but I advise you do it on an empty stomach.
The take away in both cases regarding the official medical structures of the UK, France, the USA and every other place on Earth is the one that Venetian children learn and take in alongside mother’s milk:
Never, ever, ever, trust anyone that is even mildly related to “officialdom” or the “government” or any of their systems. That includes doctors, police, military, lawyers, judges, right down to postal workers. And then, naturally, most Venetians don’t even trust their long-standing neighbours they have known since childhood.
Using your own brain to figure things out is really not optional. It’s how my family line has continued to exist despite the fact that genetically we seem predisposed to being too curious for our own good.
It’s also a good idea to know your blood types in the family and know who can donate to whom within it.
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