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   > Michael Ejercito wrote:   
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   >> https://archive.vn/jW1LE   
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   >>   
   >> NHS wants to sedate Down’s syndrome patient for Covid jab against   
   >> mother’s will   
   >> Mother of patient describes ‘covert’ spiking of drinks as ‘tantamount   
   to   
   >> assault’ and breach of human rights   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The patient is the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders   
   >> because he 'lacks capacity' and cannot make decisions for himself   
   >> The patient is the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders   
   >> because he ‘lacks capacity’ and cannot make decisions for himself   
   >> Steve Bird   
   >> 28 September 2024 4:26pm   
   >> A mother has launched a legal battle to stop the state from spiking her   
   >> Down’s syndrome son’s drinks with sedatives so he can be jabbed with the   
   >> Covid vaccine, The Telegraph can reveal.   
   >> Cups of tea and glasses of orange juice have been secretly laced with   
   >> sedatives to subdue the man, in his thirties, so he can be given the   
   >> vaccine and booster jabs.   
   >> But his mother now is planning to prosecute her local NHS integrated   
   >> care board (ICB) for “forced vaccination”, which she claims is   
   >> “tantamount to assault” and a breach of his human rights.   
   >> Adam, whose name has been changed because he cannot be identified, is   
   >> the subject of a series of Court of Protection orders because he “lacks   
   >> capacity” and cannot make decisions for himself.   
   >> His ICB, which also cannot be named, obtained a court order in 2021   
   >> allowing the “covert” spiking so he can be given the AstraZeneca   
   vaccine.   
   >> The court concluded the vaccine was in Adam’s “best interests” because   
   >> he is in a “clinical risk group” due to his learning disabilities,   
   >> autism, Down’s syndrome and obesity.   
   >> The method of sedating him via a drink was chosen because it “avoids the   
   >> use of restraint or physical force” and overcomes Adam’s needle phobia,   
   >> legal papers seen by The Telegraph explain.   
   >> Catherine, his mother, is fighting a fresh application made by the ICB   
   >> to allow care home staff to administer sedation and vaccines without   
   >> having to seek court approval each time the Government issues new   
   >> vaccine guidance.   
   >> ‘The pandemic is over’   
   >> “The pandemic is over and Covid is now treated as little more than the   
   >> common cold,” his mother, who is in her 60s and from the home counties,   
   >> said. “But my son is being categorised as at the same risk as those with   
   >> life-threatening diseases.   
   >> “It is terrifying that this is happening years after the pandemic and at   
   >> a time when we are not required to wear masks or socially distance.   
   >> “As Adam’s mother, I know what is best for him. I think this excessive   
   >> state intervention is unfair, particularly now the Covid landscape has   
   >> changed so drastically.”   
   >> The mother and her legal team have set up a crowdfunding campaign called   
   >> “Stop Sedate-to-Vaccinate” to raise funds for her to fight the NHS   
   >> application for “forced medical treatments”.   
   >> A court previously heard that Adam struggled to follow social distancing   
   >> rules because he liked to “hug” people.   
   >> His carers, including his doctor and a solicitor assigned by the court   
   >> to represent him, believe he needs the vaccine because Government   
   >> guidelines classify him as vulnerable due to his “chronic neurological   
   >> disease”.   
   >> Benefits outweigh risks   
   >> The 2021 ruling by Judge Brown concluded that although Adam “finds   
   >> health interventions distressing” the benefits of the vaccine “far   
   >> outweigh the risks”.   
   >> But his mother, a devout Christian, claims administering the vaccine   
   >> “against his will” has meant he “will not be able to trust people and   
   >> his life will be filled with fear”, adding that it amounts “to unlawful   
   >> use of restraint.”   
   >> She also claims he has lost weight and “is healthier than the average   
   >> person” who “hardly gets a cold” and has already had Covid which was   
   mild.   
   >> The judge concluded she was in no position to rule on the efficacy of   
   >> the vaccine or some of the other theories about it which were based on   
   >> “extraordinary and dangerous misinformation”.   
   >> In her ruling allowing the initial vaccination, Judge Brown wrote how   
   >> she understood “genuine and legitimate concern from some, about the   
   >> administering of a new vaccine to combat a new virus”, adding how some   
   >> people “legitimately and in good faith, raise questions about its   
   >> efficacy and possible side effects.”   
   >> ‘Waste of public money’   
   >> The mother’s lawyer, Stephen Jackson of Jackson Osborne Solicitors, said   
   >> Adam’s four years of good health without vaccination since the pandemic   
   >> “speaks volumes for his natural immune system.”   
   >> “This is a scandalous waste of public money. The Joint Committee on   
   >> Vaccination and Immunisation assesses they need to jab approximately   
   >> 10,500 people like Adam to avoid just one non-severe visit to the hospital.   
   >> “At £25 a shot, that’s £262,000 that could be better spent, leave   
   aside   
   >> the cost of these proceedings.”   
   >> A spokesman for the UK Health Security Agency, the government body   
   >> responsible for public health protection, said it would be   
   >> “inappropriate” to comment on a specific case.   
   >> He added: “Vaccination is voluntary on the basis of informed consent.   
   >> Where an adult is unable to consent for themselves it is a matter for   
   >> their doctors to consider their best interests in collaboration with   
   >> relatives.”   
   >> The integrated care board, which insists Adam’s sedation and vaccination   
   >> are legal, declined to comment “because of patient confidentiality”.   
   >> The case will be heard at the Court of Protection in November.   
   >> Inside the secret sedation plot   
   >> As a “thank you” for having a mug of breakfast tea and a glass of orange   
   >> juice brought into his room, Adam invariably hugged the staff he trusts   
   >> so implicitly at his care home.   
   >> Unbeknown to him, on five separate occasions over the last 16 months   
   >> those drinks were laced with a “covert anxiolytic medication” – a   
   >> powerful sedative. Twice he became groggy before eventually succumbing   
   >> to a deep sleep.   
   >> Each time, a team of senior carers, a nurse and the home’s manager stood   
   >> quietly outside the room awaiting the nod to enter. One of them was   
      
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