2026-07-02
This bogeyman has been running a long while, and as yet we seem to have no resolution. So I am posting a confrontational title to this article because the issue needs to be settled.
Either Midazolam + Morphine is a kindly way to end a person's life in less discomfort than might otherwise have occurred, or it's not. At worst, it may kill the patient, which doesn't exactly square with "First, do no harm".
What part of "Do no harm" do some people not understand?
When COVID struck, independent observers observed that people were apparently dying in numbers attributed to COVID but under the influence of Midazolam and Morphine, leading to them to question whether the fine line between "Murder" and "a comfortable but already inevitable death" was being properly respected.
In that respect we noted that despite the "COVID" death tolls being reported, total deaths from all causes remained stubbornly within normal statistical bounds. How so, in the midst of a deadly pandemic? Because the usual deaths attributed to flu mysteriously vanished.
As anybody with a positive COVID PCR test within the preceding 20 or so days (I don't remember the exact rule) was reported as a COVID death even if they fell under the proverbial bus ... and if they had been hospitalised then they were tested regularly despite nobody knowing the prevalence of false positive results for the PCR test whose results were being treated as gospel truth despite testing labs being set up in record time and inevitably without adequate supervision and training ...
Now call me old-fashioned, but how would anybody hospitalised who subsequently died NOT be reported as a COVID death?
And so it came to pass that the phase "Midazolam Murders" filtered into conversations across the land.
Dr Rachel Nicoll picks up the story for the Daily Sceptic.
