我的《信報》文章(2022年3月3日A12頁)
《丹麥 的 精神分裂症兒童實驗 與 撤銷防疫》
https://www1.hkej.com/dailynews/article/id/3057983
許劍昭
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儘管丹麥今年(2022)1月27日當天確診新冠病例達到創紀錄的 51,033宗，但政府仍然堅持於2月1日起，率先成為全面撤銷防疫限制措施的歐洲首國(挪威、瑞典緊隨其後)。理據是絕大多數感染者的症狀輕微，兼且超過60%的國民已注射第三劑疫苗。
伴隨人們的歡呼聲，是每天因新冠病患入院和死亡人數的持續上升。面對批評，官方的回應是: 新冠死亡有兩種，
一是「因病毒致死」(Death by COVID)，
另一是「病歿時附有病毒」(Death with COVID);
而後者佔絕大多數。
[Note 1]
這反映了官方的現實思維:有或沒有病毒，那些長期病患者總會死去，因此公眾不用擔憂，也不是一項有意義的政策考慮條件。
由於政府控制死因的判斷權及數據源，民間機構、非官方醫學家等難以挑戰，例如是否充分地對到達醫院之前已離世者進行病毒檢查。
在1904 年創刊的日報《Ekstra Bladet》，用「我們失敗了」(Vi fejlede)作為標題，向讀者道歉，表示在過去兩年的大流行中，驗證官方信息(例如留院及病歿的數據、醫護人員的壓力情況) 的努力失敗。
[Note 2]
Nature《自然》一份於1月18日發表的研究也指出，全球的新冠病歿官方數據，極有可能只反映真實情況的三分之一或四分之一。當中荷蘭、比利時、德國的數據都有缺陷(該研究不包括丹麥)，所以公眾必須對此保持警惕。
[Note 3]
另一個批評焦點是「長新冠症狀」(Long COVID)。Lancet《刺針》於2月7日，發表一份關於23類「長新冠症狀」對丹麥15-18 歲青少年的影響的研究。
[Note 4]
它發現在 6,264 名受感染青少年中，2,997 人（47.8%）在感染八週後，仍有至少一種在感染之前從未發生過的症狀揮之不去。最常見的是頭痛、疲勞、食慾不振、呼吸困難、記憶或注意集中力出現困難(二月中，香港大學袁國勇研究團隊更發現，新冠男患者可能會出現性慾減低和生育能力下降的情況) 。
[Note 5]
受「長新冠症狀」影響的丹麥青少年當中，症狀維持
7-9個月(1,598人) 、
10-12個月(433人) 、
超過12個月(111人)的，
合共2,142人,
比率為71.4%。
縱然如此，當被問及心理感受時，研究發現沒有感染新冠的受訪青少年(21,640人)對生活質素的感覺，較那些患有「長新冠症狀」的人更糟。他們自稱患有皮疹、黑眼圈、嘴唇乾裂、情緒波動，其焦慮和抑鬱的自我評分情況，比「長新冠症狀」患者更劣。
由此觀之，似乎丹麥的決策者認為，利用解除防疫限制，以緩解群眾(尤其是青少年)的精神困擾及推動經濟復甦，必須視之為優先考慮。 至於病老弱仃的早逝和少量年青病人的「長新冠症狀」，則處於較後位置。
這種跟「老吾老，以及人之老；幼吾幼，以及人之幼」(見《孟子·梁惠王上》)相距遙遠的政策權衡雖然難以苛責，但碰巧近期當地出現一輯個人親身經歷精神分裂症兒童實驗的紀錄片，除了令人震驚，也打開了一扇窗，讓外人了解，導引西方抗疫政策寬鬆取向背後的文明衰落趨勢。
[Note 6]
該紀錄片指出，在1960年代初，丹麥有人想研究精神分裂症的遺傳關係。不知道甚麼原因，這項研究間接地從美國中央情報局獲得21,000 美元資助。
研究團隊找到了 207名母親患有這種疾病的孩子(case group)，
另外從孤兒院找來104名孩子(control group)，
紀錄片製作人 Per Wennick 是後者之一。
他當時 11 歲，獲提供
16 丹麥克朗來參加「遊戲」。據其回憶，他常被帶到一家醫院的地下室，坐在椅上，戴着耳機，長時間聆聽大量旨在嚇唬人的陳述、尖叫、噪音;同時有電線貼在身上，測量心率、體溫、出汗量等等(有點類似1971年電影《發條橙》的情節)
但他從始至終，都沒有被告知此遊戲是用来做甚麼。
Wennick長大後想知道這是怎麼一回事，發現實驗在這裡進行，是因為丹麥有一個中央人口登記册系統，但美國沒有。然後追查到將資金轉給丹麥醫院的兩名美國人，其解釋是這筆資金是為了減輕人類痛苦。
但他倆關聯的的組織Human Ecology Fund，與中情局使用酷刑和審訊技術的研究有密切關係(類似情況並非罕見，例如1946 年，1,308名危地馬拉印第安人，在未經同意和不知情下，被安排感染梅毒，進行血清學測試; 總統奧巴馬在 2010年為此事道歉)。
[Note 7]
無論如何，哄騙無依、無靠、無知的孤兒，做一些經歷非常不愉快過程的實驗是不道德的。問題是何以丹麥成年人會這樣做
(類似的問題是:何以在香港，竟然有托兒所的照顧者會集體虐兒)?
Science Nordic《北歐科學》一篇關於丹麥「粗魯青少年」(rude teens)的文章，有參考價值。
[Note 8]
1960年代是青年叛逆權威、傳統、長輩的時代，其巔峰時期以「68ers」為代表。個人主義激進化、自由選擇無限化，成為席捲西歐的時尚浪潮。結果，處理無盡任意的選擇，成為人們一項過量的工作、過艱的任務。
多項研究表明，人們轉向作出幾個選擇之後，縮小生活圈子，只與志同道合的人來往(香港術語是「同路人」、「圍爐取暖」) 。圈外的人被貶低，公眾利益被漠視，同理心蕩然無存(無依無靠的孤兒更沒有價值)。
常見的倫理現象，
說得好聽，是父母給孩子很多自由;
說得難聽，是父母對孩子疏於照顧。
於是一旦年輕人能掙到錢，就選擇離家，往後少看父母
2017 年的調查:
丹麥人平均離家年齡為
21.1，
歐盟平均為26，
意大利為30.1;
丹麥25至34歲仍與父母同住只有 3.8%，
歐盟平均為 28.5%，
意大利為48.9%)。
[Note 9]
一代一代下去，不管是老是幼，「其他人」都變得「無關痛癢」(without relevance) 。為了「無關痛癢的其他」老幼、「無關痛癢的其他人」的健康，不參加派對狂歡享樂，當然更無從說起。
更重要的是，這些父不慈、子不孝、互不在乎(“I don’t care!”) 的壯年人是最活躍的選民，而死者、病老弱仃卻無法投票。
此時此刻的所謂「與病毒共存」，不僅是抗疫失敗的遮羞布，也是文明倒退的里程碑。
Notes
[Note 1]
2022
Feb 1
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60215200
Denmark
has lifted all of its domestic Covid-19 restrictions, including the wearing of
face masks, making it the first European Union country to do so.
More than
80% of the population over the age of five have had two vaccinations and over 60% have been given a third booster dose.
Published: 17 February 2022 17:50 CET
EXPLAINED: Are deaths from Covid-19 in Denmark
increasing?
Denmark's national infectious disease agency on Thursday
published reports and information which addressed claims circulating on social
media and elsewhere that the country is seeing increased deaths due to
Covid-19.
https://www.thelocal.dk/20220217/explained-are-deaths-from-covid-19-in-denmark-increasing/
Are you interested in Danish Covid-19-deaths? Below, you
can see information about deaths with Covid-19 (light🟡) and deaths by Covid-19 (dark🟠).
By = Covid-19 was the reason the person died.
With = The person had a positive PCR-test, but died of
something other than Covid-19.
[Note 2]
2022
Jan 7
Ekstra Bladet, “Vi fejlede”
https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/lederen/vi-fejlede/9072013
‘We Failed’: Danish newspaper apologizes for its Covid coverage by Jon Miltimore
Jan 25, 2022 / 5 mins
/ 6
https://mercatornet.com/we-failed-danish-newspaper-apologizes-for-its-covid-coverage/77074/
[Note 3]
2022 Jan 18
Nature, “The pandemic’s true death toll:
millions more than official counts”.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00104-8
[Note 4]
2022 Feb 7,
The Lancet: Child & Adolescent
Health,“Long COVID symptoms …”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(22)00004-9/fulltext
LongCOVIDKidsDK was a national, cross-sectional
study carried out in Denmark, which included SARS-CoV-2-positive adolescents
and matched controls. All Danish adolescents aged 15–18 years with a positive
SARS-CoV-2 test during the period Jan 1, 2020, to July 12, 2021, and a control
group matched (1:4) by age and sex were sent a survey from July 20, 2021.
Participants had until Sept 15, 2021, to respond. Symptoms associated with
COVID-19, school attendance, and health-related quality of life were
investigated using ancillary questions and validated questionnaires (Paediatric
Quality of Life Inventory [PedsQL] and Children's Somatic Symptoms Inventory-24
[CSSI-24]). Statistical analyses included descriptive statistics and logistic
regression. This study is registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04786353.
[Note 5]
2022
0220
hk01.com/社會新聞/738043/袁國勇研究-男性染疫可致性慾及生育能力下降-康復後仍受影響
[Note 6]
2022 Jan 31
Binoy Kampmark
With Intent to Harm: The CIA, Schizophrenia and Denmark’s
Children
https://intpolicydigest.org/with-intent-to-harm-the-cia-schizophrenia-and-denmark-s-children/
2021 Dec 15
DR, “Jagten på mig
selv” (search for myself)
https://www.dr.dk/presse/jagten-paa-mig-selv-en-film-af-og-om-dokumentaristen-wennick-2
[Note 7]
2013 Dec
PMC,
The US sexually transmitted disease experiments in Guatemala
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828982/
Beginning in 1946, the United States government immorally
and unethically—and, arguably, illegally—engaged in research experiments in
which more than 5000 uninformed and unconsenting Guatemalan people were intentionally
infected with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases. Many have been
left untreated to the present day.
Although US President Barack Obama apologized in 2010, and
although the US Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
found the Guatemalan experiments morally wrong, little if anything has been
done to compensate the victims and their families.
Between 1946 and 1948, health officials
intentionally infected at least 1308 of these people with syphilis, gonorrhea,
and chancroid and conducted serology tests on others. The study originally
began in the United States but was moved to Guatemala when researchers were
unable to consistently produce gonorrhea infections in prisoners at a Terre
Haute, Indiana, prison. The public had no knowledge of the experiments for more
than half a century, and even today little is known about these violations of
medical ethics and human rights.2
[Note 8]
2012 Mar 25
ScienceNordic, “Understanding today’s rude
teens”.
When some teenagers are being
ill-mannered, violent or degrading, it’s not due to a clash with authorities.
It’s because other people are without relevance in their world.
[Note 9]
2018
May 15
Eurostat,
“Bye bye parents: when do young Europeans flee the nest?”
In the European Union (EU), over one young adult out of four (28.5%) aged 25 to 34 were still living with their parents in 2016. Across the EU, this share ranged from less than 10% in the Nordic Member States – Denmark (3.8%), Finland (4.3%) and Sweden (6.0%) – to about half in Croatia (58.7%), Slovakia (55.5%), Greece (55.0%), Malta (51.5%) and Italy (48.9%).
In 2017 in the EU, young people left home earliest in the three Nordic Member States – Sweden (21.0 years), Denmark (21.1 years) and Finland (21.9 years) – as well as in Luxembourg (21.4 years). They were followed by those in Estonia (23.1 years), Belgium (23.4 years), the Netherlands (23.6 years), Germany (23.7), France (24.0 years) and the United Kingdom (24.4 years).
