Disability in the Middle Ages and the modern. No longer posting here.
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ALT “He was moving around — kind of thrashing. Like, moving, thrashing around on the bed,” Natasha Miller, an organ preservationist in the operating room during the alarming October 2021 incident, told NPR. “And then when we went over there, you could see he had tears coming down. He was crying visibly.”
ALT Miller, who works at Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates (KODA), told the outlet that two doctors refused to perform the organ retrieval after realizing that the donor had wrongly been declared dead. “The procuring surgeon, he was like, ‘I’m out of it. I don’t want to have anything to do with it,’ ” Miller said. “It was very chaotic. Everyone was just very upset.”
ALT In the operating room, Miller recalled the case coordinator phoning her supervisor at KODA for help once they saw signs of life. The supervisor insisted that the case coordinator needed to “find another doctor to do it,” Miller recalled.
ALT Precisely the same logic and language was deployed by the Nazis as justification for their programme to systematically murder disabled people and the chronically ill. The Nazis didn’t start the holocaust with Jews. The started with the disabled. They literally tested gas chambers as a weapon of mass murder on the long-term sick first. Which is why whenever I hear a politician today talk about the need to boost productivity I hear a descendant of the same ideological lineage as the Nazi party. The edges might be smoothed off, the language less obviously fascist, but the underlying core belief remains the same. A less disguised example of state-sanctioned disposal of the disabled is in Canada, where the Maid euthanasia programme is being used to kill people whose only ‘illness’ is poverty. Originally designed to relieve the pain of the genuinely terminally ill, it has been extended via the application of vague rules to those who simply don’t have enough money to live.
ALT Photograph shows an expanded version of the chart paper in the previous tweet. Colour coded post-its are arranged in columns, connected by red string. There are a lot of strings. They connect the names in the left column to accusations in the right column. A lot of the strings connect to one particular person.
ALT Image is of the tweeter's research book, page xv of the Introduction. A couple of lines are highlighted in yellow. They read "and among his political friends he appears to have counted Ralph, Lord Cromwell, whom he joined in the foundation of the college of Tattershall."
ALT Image is of the tweeter's research book, page xv of the Introduction. A couple of lines are highlighted in yellow. They read "and among his political friends he appears to have counted Ralph, Lord Cromwell, whom he joined in the foundation of the college of Tattershall."
ALT Image shows a large sheet of poster paper covered in brightly-coloured post-its connected by brightly-coloured string. The information content will be discussed in detail in the following thread of tweets.
ALT Photo shows a piece of chart paper with blue, yellow, pink, green, and orange post-its arranged on it in an array. They are connected by coloured string. The array will be explained in detail in the tweets following this one.
ALT Picture is of my complicated red string conspiracy guy map of the shenanigans at Bardney Abbey.