Sunday, November 22, 2020
Interesting development in Portugal
Via the British LockdownSceptics, a report from Portugal.
A national court has ruled narrowly against the use of tests and quarantines, only for the four plaintiffs. There's one possible precedent that could possibly be useful elsewhere, if courts mattered:
A medical diagnosis is a medical act that only a physician is legally qualified to undertake and for which such physician will be solely and entirely responsible. No other person or institution, including government agencies or the courts, has such an authority. It is not up to the Azores Regional Health Authority to declare someone ill, or a health hazard. Only a physician can do that. No one can be declared ill or a health hazard by decree or law, nor as the automatic, administrative consequence of the outcome of a laboratory test, no matter which.If courts mattered, this would break the tyranny of the Public Death Officers, who have turned a criminally false diagnosis of a criminally mislabeled common cold into a capital crime, with no trial or witnesses. It's all guaranteed anonymous thanks to HIPAA. Courts don't matter, so this won't make any difference. Demon governors have been instantly and easily ignoring much broader and stronger court orders in several states, WITH NO CONSEQUENCES. The reporter has a more interesting observation about Portugal:
With Spain and Greece, Portugal is one of the few countries in the so-called West where enough people are still alive to know what a dictatorship looks like. Our numbers are dwindling, as you have to be at least 60 to have experienced the 1974 revolution in any meaningful manner. I was a teenager at the time, and I remember very well what daily life was like under censorship, massively lying mass media, police brutality, arbitrary detention in the name of the “national interest”, etc. — all those things that I hoped never again have to experience but that the current Covid climate has brought very, very vividly to the fore. Yet, it may well be exactly because of such things having happened in living memory that our Government has been less heavy-handed about the pandemic than most others in Europe. And, now to the point, maybe that’s also why our high courts have issued rulings of potentially devastating consequences for the current Covid narrative.EXPERIENCE SURVIVES. THEORY KILLS. However: This doesn't work for Germany, which lived through a much harsher tyranny, and in the East two different tyrannies in a row. Germany is ALWAYS ferociously tyrannical and NEVER learns from experience. Nothing to do with Fascism or Communism or any ism. It's just Kraut genes. ¶ 8:58 AM
