Christine’s law; lest we forget

There is no end to humankind’s inhumanity.

This is not a unique or a rare story: all those touched by the restrictions to “control” SARS-CoV-2 may legitimately add a chapter to this. We called the piece Christine’s Law, but it could be John’s or Mary's, Narendra’s or anyone’s name who died in isolation.

Christine was a fit grandmother who had a catastrophic stroke in April 2020. Her family were prevented from spending time with her and touching her because of a glass partition. Thankfully in a way, she died not knowing what was going on - but her family still shoulders the hurt and burden.

Ten selected family members were allowed at the funeral. One daughter, who lives abroad, travelled twice through ghostly airports to her mother’s bedside glass partition and funeral.

Whoever devised and implemented such measures belongs to that particular subspecies of people who believe inflicting pain is beneficial because of a distant and probably nonsensical goal.

We looked at the datasets for 25 countries and 17 cohort studies assessing dea…