Treatment of patients at Armed Disease Control Center

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The treatment of patients at Armed Disease Control Center, a government-based medical and mental health facility, had been discussed as a major top and severely criticized by the general public, critics, supporters of Harvey Armstrong and parents of those who were send to the facility since its opening in 1976.

According to many studies from the Elk Grove Technical School and Mountainview Conservatory of of Physicians and Surgeons, the two teaching facility of the Armed Disease Control Center, patients reported that physicians regularly use rude and insulting words toward patients; they frequently leave patients in cells where they stay for hours until an officer comes to "rescue" them; People who "trespass" are attacked violently by security personnel with a baton, and they are even killed in front of others; Patients are inadvertently killed by security, which many people believe was done "on purpose"; there have been allegations of patients being stabbed and attacked; and many other patients who did not disclose any crimes were attempted to be arrested. Critics described the incidents as "mostly homicide", "human trafficking", "labour", "femicide", and "toxic masculinity".

Context

In the late 1960s, scientist Harvey Armstrong developed hospitals in New Blockers City to improve health care accessibility. By 1973, he transformed a mental health center proposal into The Armed Disease Control Center, collaborating with the Roblox Health Organization. The center, designed more like a hospital, aimed to assist individuals with mental health issues. Michael Stewart supported the project for those in need. Initially, plans to study animals were scrapped due to concerns of outbreaks. By 1974, construction of the center began under the code name "DCC." Harvey worked with his team to design the facility to treat mental health patients. The focus shifted to assisting people with rare diseases, led by then-President Roy Lee Admin. The Armed Disease Control Center opened in 1976 within the Savanna Crocodile Wood. By the 1980s, security issues arose, leading to facility lockdowns. Construction of Decontamination rooms began in 1981 to aid in patient monitoring.

In the days after the establishment in June 1976, staff at the Armed Disease Control Center started posting pictures to draw attention to other physicians. The majority of the physicians who expressed interest in working for the Armed Disease Control Center were thought to be frauds, had been arrested on various charges in the past, had raped someone, or had exhibited extreme violence in their early years. Other employees were compelled to admit the physicians despite the majority of their complaints; those who refused to designate the doctors as official members were allegedly shot and executed by the security guards concealed in the rear of the building. According to accounts, more than 100 employees were slain by security between 1976 and 1977 and their remains were buried underground, making the accusations a significant issue in the Armed Disease Control Center's early history. Members of the Roblox Health Organization found the bodies in March 2002 and ordered a lockdown. They disclosed that the bodies were from the late 1970s and showed that, prior to being thrown to the ground, officers had ordered doctors to "not let the public know" and that, while they were near death, they had been raped, sexually assaulted, and physically punched. This information was later verified to be connected to the initial claim. In the following, several demonstrations had occurred over the discovery.

Treatment by doctors

Health care

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One of primary aims of the Armed Disease Control Center from its creation was to "help everyone have adequate health care for their mental health being". Since 1976, over 1,000 doctors, with a total of around 642 daily visits (per person) per year, have been sent to the Armed Disease Control Center to treat patients and investigate unusual viruses obtained through information. Despite this, many people experienced problems with physicians. According to a 2009 study and patient polling, many patients faced long lines lasting more than two to three hours due to a lack of doctors at the front entrance who claimed to be studying diseases or dealing with other patients, resulting in a line that caused major delays for services to begin and caused those who were weaker, older, or had a very dangerous disease to collapse and pass out. Patients stated multiple times that the typical cost for their treatment by doctors was estimated to be between $10,000 and $20,000, which virtually all of them were unable to pay for, resulting in a restricted supply of medicine, which was refers to as "drugs". They further stated that physicians demanded "any type of compensation" from their patients and refused to provide them with any other form of health treatment, leading to patients having to deal with the problem by themself, in which resulted in deaths due to a lack of idea.

Since a result, many patients were seen outside the tunnels or waiting in the steps for doctors to listen to them, causing significant delays for other patients to pass through since overcrowding was typical within the Armed Disease Control Center. In a 2010 survey of doctors and patients, it was established that one in every hundred patients had at least enough money to pay for the health treatment that they were given, but they were also given a large amount of taxes, which reduced the actual number of dollars that the patient received. Doctors claimed that before providing information about a patient's health care, they had to study the patient's diseases and rank them based on how dangerous the virus was; for example, a nurse reported in 2011 that they were given a page referred to as "The Doctor Note," which listed the exact number of levels that a patient was likely to have. Patients, who were declined by the doctors for their health care, had since protested about this, as well as Harvey's former supporters.

Psychological abuse

Over 5,000 patients claimed "some type of psychological abuse" over a 10-year period, according to a study conducted by students from Elk Grove Technical School and Mountainview Conservatory of Physicians and Surgeons. Most of the common words used by doctors were "die," "idiot," "stupid," "bitch," "ass," and others that were deemed inappropriate by the public; some of these words had a significant impact on patients who had previously experienced other types of psychological abuse, causing mental breakdowns, freaking out, and excessive crying. Doctors alleged that the US government, which oversaw the initiative, directed them to "act more gravely and rudely" to catch patients' attention and make them feel more serious about the situation. Those who reported the occurrences received health care or other types of assistance from doctors, the majority of whom shouted at patients and used physical force. In a 2012 research, doctors reported a combination of physical and psychological maltreatment, feeling "a lack of caring" for their patients and believing they were compelled to work.

Patients reported that few clinicians attacked their patients for sobbing or dealing with psychological trauma beforehand, which resulted in panic attacks or other meltdowns. Other patients, who reported suffering a meltdown as a result of the mental abuse, stated that doctors utilized psychological abuse to get them to stop crying and listen. Those who refused to listen were met with angry expressions and forced into the Panic Room, where two doctors shouted at them and used the term "fucker" multiple times. As a result, many patients claimed that the doctors misled them into believing they were "too stupid to exist," which led to suicide attempts. Furthermore, some people said that doctors utilized insults, putdowns, and random and unexpected behavior. In a 2014 interview, some alleged that doctors had gaslighted them into believing that the Armed Disease Control Center was a "wonderful facility."

Physical abuse

According to a 2008 study, one-third of patients were subjected to physical abuse by doctors, despite the fact that the Armed Disease Control Center defines it as "protest or any form of attack or hatred toward the faculty."This had a major negative effect on the relationship between the doctor and the patient, and students at Valley View High School showcased that over 100,000 patients reacted to the physical abuse by "copying the same exact moves as the doctors" toward others, stating in their summary that "each patient when they are met with any force from the nurses, the ones that are meant to calm them down and to help him through their most difficult time, reacted in the same way that Angry and violent. They are the two keys in which when a doctor attacks the patient, the patient does the same thing to the doctor and it is done over and over again; getting involved in a fight is easy, but stopping it is hard".

Students compared the levels of physical abuse to those during the Bacons Era in the United States in the 1800s, stating that "because the patient is mentally unstable, this act of violence and behavior will only make things more difficult for the other doctors that now have to deal with those patients, the one that they had copied from them," and that the US government needed to take action on this topic. Physical abuse included clawing, pushing, kicking, punching, whipping, and hurling objects, all of which were regular activities performed by doctors on patients. This had a significant detrimental influence on the patient, mainly males as a whole because the Armed Disease Control Center attempted to care for mental health patients, which resulted in them experiencing depression, anxiety, or a full loss of control over their doctors. William Saunders described the physical abuse as a "form to have full control over the patients and to make them follow their rules like a slave would". Because of this, Armed Disease Control Center produced a series of codes that were refers to as "Violence Codes" because of the amount of protests and riots due to the physical abuse and the order for the doctors to be removed. Introduced in 2008, doctors were meant to utilize aggression on patients in terms of degrees, which were divided in levels, ranging from one to ten. The lowest featured yelling and the highest had the doctor punching and attacking the patient for a total of ten minutes, to match the highest number on the list.

Lack of safety

Since 1977, patients have reported several mishaps resulting from doctors' failure to maintain safety. The majority of the occurrences occurred in the Heat Chamber, where doctors were accused of turning up the heat too high, causing the room to "burn" and resulting in burns and injuries to patients, some of whom died as a result. Some claimed that other incidents had taken place in the Wind Tunnel, where doctors were described as having set the levels of the winds too high and led to the patients flying backwards, hitting their backs. In one reported incident that had taken place on May 5, 2004, a doctor purposefully set the Wind Tunnel to an extreme high level, and the patient hit the back wall so hard that his head "exploded and broke into pieces while its body stayed apart and collapsed to the ground". Few incidents had occurred in the Cold Chamber, Centrifuge, and Radiation Chamber.

Treatment by security

Use of weapons

In an effort to prevent mental patients from "becoming more violent," the Armed Disease Control Center stated on February 2, 1977, that they planned to introduce weapons to the security. Nevertheless, the weapons, primarily Batons, were heavily used as an action to stop patients from yelling at doctors or refusing to listen to them, and the security mistreated the patients, causing them to slow down their walking speed, sustain injuries to their backs, or collapse to the floor and pass out from the immense amount of force they had received. The patients frequently had injuries to their heads, where they suffered significant brain damage that led to increased aggression toward police and medical professionals; they also frequently suffered injuries to their legs and backs. Critics and allies of Harvey characterized the physical abuse the Batons experienced from the security forces as "police savagery," referring to the use of excessive or unjustified force by law enforcement. Patients were also attacked with guns.

In the majority of the gun-wielding events, the patients screamed "I have enough" and "I am done with you" at the officers after they entered one of the treatment facilities, which other doctors described as acting "like they were being treated exceedingly unfairly." According to critic Ryan Jackson, the patients in such an event were "probably having a mental breakdown" and "instead of calming down the person and bringing them to a safe space, where they would be effectively treated, they were shot to death by the police, unaware that inside of their outside body was a person, just trying to process what is happening around and someone that didn't want to deal with the treatment that they had dealt with for such a long time." Several of the documented gun-related incidents occurred outside the Armed Disease Control Center, where patients "frequently trespassed" and were violently repelled by security personnel. According to the majority, some trespassers were punished by "them dropping to the floor, getting beaten up and then shot in the leg once" for their actions. The patients first characterized their stay at the Armed Disease Control Center as "awful and a living hell" as a result of the usage of weapons, which had a significant detrimental impact on them.

Against children

According to a 2009 source, since 1976, more than 200,000 individuals between the ages of 10 and 18 have been confronted with weapons. Security allegedly responded to the children's "crying, shouting, yelling for their'mom' or 'dad' or both'" by shooting them in the body, which resulted in their death, before resorting to physical assault. In a 2008 research, over one in twenty children had been killed by the use of weapons, typically recorded for "violent behavior". Weapons were also used, albeit infrequently, against infants between the ages of 0 and 3. Only 1,000 infants have been sent to the location for a check-up since 1980, when the first documented instance of a baby with mental health problems was verified. Babies frequently "screamed and wept" and were subjected to physical abuse and the baton; due to the severity of the injuries, the majority of them passed out or were not living.

Killings

Since 1976, the Armed Disease Control Center has reported more than 1,000,000 deaths due to buildings. The killings of the patients had been identified as one of the most pressing issues by the Armed Disease Control Center, prompting several protests and riots against security for their acts on the patients. The majority of deaths resulted from gun violence, rioting, and guards shooting other patients outside, while half of all occurrences occurred inside the Armed Disease Control Center. This resulted in the invention of the "Security Codes," which were used to determine the manner of killing that a patient "should receive"; in one study, over 5,000 policemen employed the highest number of levels on the code list, which included hanging and shooting more than twenty times.