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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | There's appears to be a dark chapter of public health and the |
0:03.5 | covert restrictions that has come to an end and it is the this is at NHS |
0:08.4 | that's a national health service in the UK. Here's the headline out of here |
0:12.0 | and that I can explain it a little more. NHS boss orders hospitals to ditch all |
0:16.1 | remaining COVID visiting restrictions as she says no patient should be should |
0:19.7 | have to be alone. Now to me, I thought there's still have restrictions on them. |
0:23.6 | Oh my gosh. Well, what happened? You know, reading is the article on March |
0:27.0 | 2021 NHS put some guidelines out and it allowed patients to have two visitors |
0:31.6 | for about an hour. That's March 2021. This thing was still going on. And so |
0:36.2 | what a survey by the mail online found that a lot of the hospitals were not |
0:41.9 | we're not abiding by that. They were just sticking to the strict no policy, |
0:45.2 | no no visitor policy, which is terrible. So I guess the NHS boss had to make it |
0:49.6 | make it very explicit and say remove all restrictions. And that's also what |
0:53.3 | happened in Florida with Governor Ron DeSantis doing some great work out there. |
0:57.8 | He actually put it into law. I can't believe we actually have to put into law |
1:01.2 | this this basic tenant of humanity. But here's the law. It's it's no patient |
1:06.5 | left alone. And this requires healthcare providers to allow visitors even |
1:10.9 | during an emergency for like end of life situations, labor, delivery. And it's |
1:15.2 | interesting too. They also say for to feed drinking and eating from family or |
1:20.7 | caregivers, they have to be able to be let in to have this happen. And I know |
1:24.7 | we've covered that a lot of times in the past. That's one of the end of life |
1:27.5 | pathways that people go on without really their consent. So a family member |
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