Did you know that “falls,” “lethargy” and “decreased blood pressure” are considered symptoms of COVID-19 (according to Ontario’s COVID-19 Provincial Testing Guidance Update)?

That’s what medical journalist Rosemary Frei uncovered. In her article, Were conditions for high death rates at Care Homes created on purpose?, she says such a broad list of symptoms allows the coronavirus, rather than poor nursing home care, to be blamed for the death of residents.

She gives the example of a woman in an Ontario nursing home who was dehydrated after nine days of prescribed laxatives to treat constipation. Instead of stopping the meds and providing an IV, the nurse on duty refused, saying it would “just prolong the inevitable.”

Inevitable? Yes. Because diarrhea is also on the long list of COVID symptoms. And COVID kills old people. So why even bother?

The same elderly woman, with a history of asthma, later had trouble breathing. Did they finally rush her to the hospital? No. They gave her a shot of morphine. She was dead in three hours, so her daughter testifies.

You can read about this and more in Frei’s well-referenced article.