Thanks for sharing that evaluation, Andy. I'm not a medical professional but that is how it always looked to me (opiate overdose). What did they make of the manner in which the long (and fully inserted) needle was moved all sorts of ways once inside the chest of the poor child? Looked to me like they were making sure they would die. In the video, he moves the needle for at least four seconds during 1:14 to 1:18 until the camera pans away.
It is possible that they were trying to do a pericardiocentesis, you see how he aspirated as he advanced, unlikely but possible. Also the laryngoscope is incorrect as the other doctors mentioned, although the guy never tried to use it so it could be that he carried it around - if i'm not incorrect they have interchangeable blades. Though it looks more like a prop than anything (just a guess).
My family member though was pretty convinced all the children in the video were already dead before they started filming, and the supposed injection wouldn't have been carried out like that, the heart is easy to hit, you don't need to keep moving the needle and syringe, especially not as significantly as they did in the video. another inconsistency, purely an impression based on the medics behaviour, in that they behaved more like mortury workers and not medics.
There is one thing that is not quite right with the conclusion of opiate overdose, and that is if they were given enough to cause significant respiritory depression and also supress conciousness then there would also be much more obvious signs of hypoxia (blueish lips, skin etc). And, even with quite big overdoses pain stimuli such as the chest compressions shown can cause an obvious reaction. Personally I do not think they were medical professionals at all, and that it also wasn't an opiate overdose.
Bit of a difference between criticising views vs being outright insulting which you unfortunately have a habit of resorting to when you run out of anything remotely intelligent to say.
I haven't once said war is bad (even if I do disagree with humans killing humans I'm under no hippy illusions about it. It's in our nature having only had peace on this planet for 8% of the last 3,400 years), I've been highlighting the utter hypocrisy and double standards of what is happening right now.
Makes no difference if Assad drops 1000lbs of bombs or uses chemicals on rebels and the civilians they hold captive or if the rebels did it themselves, they're all still dead just because chemicals were used doesn't make them more dead and it's absolutely ******* stupid to pretend to be outraged just because they died in a way you and the international community deem not acceptable to die as if there's a good and bad way to die and certainly not worth the potential conflict against Russia, Iran and China (China have said they'll back up Russia)
True, but there is also the fact that who ever has used the weapons has broken international law. If there is no punishment that sends a signal to every dictator that they can use these weapons with inpunity. There has to be a price/consequence. If not then this will happen again and again just like it has in Syria already. There should have been concentrated action when the OPCW and UN report concluded that Assad had used chemical weapons.
There is also evidence that the chemical weapons used in 2013, which the OPCW has samples of match the samples taken from two other attacks
Source:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...to-largest-sarin-attack-sources-idUSKBN1FJ0MG
which is pretty damming considering it comes from an independent body, but it does back up what the west has said previously and proves the Syrian and Russian narative was wrong.
