Killing Innocents with Impunity

If they can get away with this, they can get away with anything

The Massacre of the Innocents of Bethlehem - Matteo di Giovanni, c. 1488

Danielle Alvarez would have told the people who killed her that she loved them, says her mother.

"Danielle had a wonderful life and she loved life and everyone [and was] always hugging and telling everyone she loves them," writes Rebecca Charles. "I am sure she told the very same doctors and nurses 'I Love You.'"

Danielle was intellectually disabled, due to a brain injury at birth. She was 28 years old when she was admitted to Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital in New York, with a cough, no fever, and normal vital signs. Forty days later, after being administered lethal levels of medication, placed on a ventilator with no documented need for such, physically restrained, and denied nutrition for twenty days – Danielle passed away.

The details of those forty days are chilling, and are not for the faint of heart. Some of those details are recorded in an affidavit of medical malpractice, filed by Dr. Dennis Barek MD, in support of Rebecca's malpractice suit against the hospital, doctors, and nurses who she says are directly responsible for her daughter's death. Dr. Barek writes:

"It is my opinion that Danielle should not have been admitted, due to her Normal Vital signs, normal pulse oximetry and blood work that was done on the first day in the emergency room."

"I am of the opinion based upon my review of the records thus far that [defendants] should not have overdosed her on narcotics and other high risk /black label medications (Fentanyl transdermal patch), and when they did it was a breach of the prevailing professional standard of care for DANIELLE CATHLEEN ALVAREZ."

"It is my opinion that the Hospital and Dr’s were in violation of informed consent, when they put Danielle on EUA experimental drugs Remdesivir and Toxcilizumab without Daniele’s mother and legal guardian consent."

"It is my opinion that the Overdose of Fentanyl injection, Fentanyl Stat injections, and Fentanyl transdermal patch was one of the contributing factors in her death. Evidenced by her Autopsy report, showing she had double the lethal levels in her blood in post-mortem cases."

Representatives of Northwell Health Glen Cove Hospital have not made any public statement about Danielle's death, or the lawsuit her mother has filed.

We now know that hospitals across the country received billions of dollars from the Federal Government under the CARES Act, as long as they followed protocols such as the ones that killed Danielle. Numerous stories of "death by hospital protocol" have emerged over the past few years, and nurses and other medical professionals – many of whom lost their jobs and were targeted by orchestrated harassment campaigns for speaking out – have attested to what they believe was the intentional killing of patients in exchange for Federal money.

Did the medical staff at Northwell Health Glen Cove deliberately kill Danielle Alvarez? As incredible as it may sound, the evidence is compelling that they did.

On April 5, 2024, Danielle's mother, Rebecca Charles, filed a lawsuit against the hospital and 42 members of its staff. Unable to find an attorney to represent her, Rebecca filed the suit on her own. Rebecca is currently still seeking legal representation, and is working to raise money to cover her legal costs. In December, the judge dismissed all but six of Rebecca's 44 initial defendants. Depositions of these defendants are now scheduled for May 6th, 7th and 8th, and Rebecca Charles is working hard to find an attorney to do the depositions.

(If you would like to donate to Rebecca's legal defense fund, you may do so here. You can find her "Death by Hospital Protocol" app, for reporting similar crimes, here.)

Because we still make a pretense of living in a civilized society, those defendants ought to have a chance to defend themselves in court. If there is something missing from Rebecca's account of her daughter's death (an account that is based on the hospital's own records), or if there is some other way to interpret the actions of hospital staff, then the doctors and other defendants should have a chance to present their side of the story.

The outcome of this case (and of other lawsuits being brought against hospitals and medical professionals accused of implementing protocols that they knew would kill patients) is critical to the very survival of our civilization.

If this sounds hyperbolic, consider that it is a matter of public record that hospital administrators and staff imposed protocols that killed patients in exchange for money from the Federal government. The only thing that is uncertain is the degree of intentionality in those killings. But to believe that all of those involved were ignorant of the effects the protocols would have (especially after months and even years of watching them in action) defies credulity.

Moreover, these people were shielded from accountability for their actions by the PREP Act which grants immunity from lawsuits to medical institutions and healthcare providers administering "covered countermeasures." In New York, providers were further protected by the Emergency or Disaster Treatment Protection Act (EDTPA), which protected hospitals and medical professionals from liability except in cases of willful misconduct or gross negligence, and which was repealed in April of 2021.

It should go without saying that anything like the liability shields provided by the PREP Act and the EDTPA have no place in a functioning civilized society.

As Rebecca Charles points out, though, even the terms of the PREP Act do not cover actions that are intentionally harmful or deadly. A close examination of the facts surrounding her daughter's death, and of the deaths of a great many other Americans who happened to be in hospitals during a time when those institutions had a financial incentive to kill patients, makes it difficult to believe that these deaths were not intentionally caused.

We'll see what the court says.

But to put it very plainly: If the courts in our country fail to hold accountable individuals who knowingly administered lethal medications and other treatments to patients in order to receive money from the Federal government, then we are finished. Because if the folks who feed at the trough of the state can get away with this, then they can get away with absolutely anything. Our society may stumble along for a while longer, but its foundation will have been revealed to be nothing but sludge.

The most fundamental function of a legal system in a civilized society is the protection of its members from being harmed or killed by other members. That's it. Once that protection – however robust or feeble it may be – is gone, nothing else matters. This is what is at stake in these cases.

To be clear: Civil penalties with dollar awards, are not enough. What is necessary to demonstrate a functioning justice system are criminal penalties. What is needed is for the people who perpetrated and participated in these (most likely) intentional killings of innocent humans to spend the rest of their lives in prison. At the very least.

But these cases are a start. They represent humanity clawing back just a little parcel of the enormity of ground that has been lost to savages like the ones who killed Danielle Alvarez. Savages who (most likely) decided to participate in the killing of innocent human beings, just because they were too afraid to stand up to their superiors, too afraid to lose their jobs or careers, or, at the highest levels, because they just wanted the money.

If we cannot manage to defend ourselves and our loved ones against cowardly savages like these, then we really have nothing left at all.