Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden …a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one (Ursula Le Guin)
Hello, I’m Owen Dempsey, an ex General Medical Practitioner in the UK, and more recently a post-doctoral reseacher interested in the psychopolitics of disease screening and totalitarianism in general
Lockdown Scepticism may have its roots in white capitalist supremacism
https://youtu.be/fayeKcjnDNELord Sumption in May 2020 Something in here about disavowing, or eliding: a) The increased risk for vulnerable groups of people who are not very old, the poor and BAME minorities b) The value of the lives lost ‘prematurely’ c) The power of the state to do more to alleviate the harms of lockdown d) … Continue reading Lockdown Scepticism may have its roots in white capitalist supremacism
False reassurance and Mass rapid testing for asymptomatic Coronavirus infection and infectiousness
This requires a little bit of background. The Johnson PM of the UK government announced a ‘moonshot’ programme, many months ago in September 2019, in which there would be mass daily screening for C19, for the asymptomatic, at a cost of over a billion UK pounds. … literally millions of tests processed every single day … Continue reading False reassurance and Mass rapid testing for asymptomatic Coronavirus infection and infectiousness
The Pandemic and an Ethics of Responsibility
Hanaamayer (usefully but, ultimately, inadequately) draws upon Weber’s (transcendental) ethics of responsibility to challenge EBM (Evidence Based medicine) principled conviction (rules-based) to determine good medical practice in terms of a supreme good that ‘maintains life’ on the basis of primarily empirical data and mortality outcomes. The ethics of responsibility places responsibility on individual clinicians to … Continue reading The Pandemic and an Ethics of Responsibility
The Moral argument in favour of Lockdowns
I draw on Walter Wink’s arguments against the idea of a ‘just’ war claiming what is required isn’t proof of the justification of action (war), so much as proof as to why inaction (not going to war) is worse. On this basis, I would argue that, morally, it can be argued, perhaps against Wink, that … Continue reading The Moral argument in favour of Lockdowns
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