Inga Dawson

Bankrupt the Doc, Sidhbh Gallagher!!!

My coworker who lives in DC received five ballots in the mail. Only one was addressed to him — and he didn’t request it.

I don’t intend to share them all. But here’s one of the ones I received this morning.

In a disturbing violation of human rights, Chinese scientists used a 39-year-old “brain dead” man as a xenograft host, implanting him with a lung from a gene-edited pig. Researchers in China reported in the journal ‘Nature Medicine’ that the man remained hemodynamically stable throughout the experiment: “Throughout the postoperative period, dynamic physiological and hemodynamic parameters remained stable, indicating the recipient’s physiological stability and homeostasis over a 216 hour observation period.” The “dead” man lived for nine days producing antibodies against the foreign organ before he died. The amount of Orwellian double-speak in this account is staggering. How can a dead man be kept alive? How can a dead man be stable enough to be used as a test subject for the implantation of an animal organ? How can a dead man produce antibodies? How can a dead man die again after nine days? The answer, of course, is that “brain dead” people are not dead. They have beating hearts, absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide through their lungs, metabolize nutrients, eliminate wastes, fight infections, and reject foreign organs. They act in exactly the way we would predict that brain-injured people would act, and there is absolutely no evidence that their souls have departed. But these neurologically injured people have been redefined as being dead, removing their human rights. Medical ethicist Joel Zivot MD, MA, JM points out that the concept of “brain death” has turned people into resources, commodities to be used for the valuable vital organs they possess. Are we ready to say enough is enough? Or do our desires outweigh our morality as we consider the potential benefits such experimentation may bring? “Brain death” is not death but a utilitarian social construct and a legal fiction. “Brain dead” people are still alive and deserve to be treated as persons, not used as lab rats.

1/ It was revealed today that the acting head of NIAID that replaced Fauci, Jeffrey Taubenberger, has stepped down. There is yet no current information available publicly as to why. Here is a reminder on who Jeffrey is and why having that position was a threat to humans everywhere. 👇