No Panadol! They want us to suffer.

Why are they denying us mild pain relief?

One stratagem of control used by governments is to parade before us an array of experts, academics and credentialed professionals (some of whom become celebrities) who tell us how to live our lives.  Nonetheless, sensible ordinary citizens look skeptically at these experts and realize that, by and large, they have no idea what they are talking about though appearing as though they do. One powerful group of these experts is the Therapeutic Goods Administration [TGA].  They have advised the Government that they want to now restrict the mild pain killer Panadol.

Paracetamol is used for everything from arthritis, toothaches, fever to muscle aches and pains.

Half our population rely on a panadol here and there to manage period pain. So are we now under the control of the Government of Gilead from The Handmaidens’ Tale? Remember Margaret Atwood’s warning of female characters subject to a patriarchal system who are denied rights over the control of their bodies.

This process of restricting our access to pain-killers has been a progressive one driven by the TGA whose agenda is to make it appear that they are dealing with the problem of drug abuse but in reality this apprach is smoke and mirrors because they are chasing Nana who is buying tablets for her arthritis.

Panadol also came in an effective combination of codeine and paracetamol called Panadeine. Many a toothache was prevented from interfering with sleep thanks to this drug. Now getting a prescription of this from your local GP is like pulling teeth.

We have to ask ourselves at what point did doctors realize that all their patients were potential drug addicts every time they asked for pain relief ?

The philosophy behind government advised by overpaid experts and academics is that our rulers know what is best for us. It is nothing more than the benign face of tyranny.

This begs the question: why are they denying us mild pain relief?

We are entitled to ask what is the basis for denying us mild pain relief.

The justification for these proposed restrictions is the number of deliberate and accidental overdoses in Australia with paracetamol but these are little more than a few thousand each year which constitutes a tiny fraction of the amount of the drug purchased at chemists and supermarkets. Of these overdoses, last year, 50 people died, a small fraction of suicide deaths.

With such a small number there is no way of knowing if denied Paracetamol, whether these people would go on to choose another method to end their lives.   

However, the figures suggest that they will choose another method, likely a more dangerous one, because restricting certain drugs in the hope of lowering the suicide rate has no effect on the overall numbers.  My own clinical experience has shown me that those who take a serious overdose would not choose Paracetamol if they knew that there was only a very small chance of it killing them.

Years ago I treated a man who had his leg amputated above the knee and his ability to walk and mobilize was much reduced. He had a lot of trouble with the stump which often became sore and inflamed, and it was much harder for him to attach his false leg. He was alone and had lost all his family in an accident. When he realized that if he tried to take his life with Paracetamol or sedatives, he had only a very small chance of succeeding, he simply resorted to a shotgun.

-This Must Not Happen again - chapter 7

What will they restrict next to prevent people from taking or trying to take their own lives, draino, vodka, rope?

The nanny society is one where governments make our minds up for us.

Do they think we’ve forgotten the recent Covid crisis and lockdown, another example of over-reach by the government which was found to be largely unnecessary costing billions and sending thousands of businesses to the wall as has been detailed in Professor Mark Woolhouse’s book, The Year the World Went Mad.

No one asked any of us if we should be prevented from having access to a mild pain-killer that has been available to millions since 1893.

a mild pain killer that has been available to millions since 1893

The thought of all this is giving me a headache. Where did I put the Panadol?