It's time for COVID accountability
Required Reading
COVID-19 was arguably the worst public health disaster in history, and as more and more are now realizing, most of that could have been prevented if the medical industry had been less greedy throughout the pandemic and not put profits before people. Because of this, the unconditional trust the industry made enormous investments to create and has relied upon for decades has been shattered (e.g., a large JAMA study of 443,445 American adults found that in April 2020, 71.5% of them trusted doctors and hospitals while in January 2024, only 40.1% did)
Over the last month, I have received a large number of requests to highlight some of the egregious conduct by our healthcare authorities throughout the pandemic. At the time, it did not feel like the correct time to publish it, but now it does (e.g., something can be done about it).
”In this article, I would like to focus on a few critical areas that need to exposed as we begin exploring the topic of COVID accountability—one of the key issues the Trump administration and the courts will have to address in the near future.
I truly hope we will see some hot-shot experts squirm at their televised trials on charges of crimes against humanity. They’ll need even better lawyers than O.J. Simpson hired.
For example, every person I’ve talked to in the financial and pharmaceutical industries has said that the only thing that really deters criminal behavior is the real threat of criminal prosecution (e.g., going to jail). Typically they will only bend the rules to the point they are afraid a real risk of criminal prosecution exists. As such, one pharmaceutical executive was quite explicit with me—unless criminal penalties are put on the individuals in the industry, this behavior will never stop. In almost all cases, this is never on the table (as the corporate structure is designed to shield its members from prosecution). Still, I believe the current political climate makes this possible.
— A Midwestern Doctor