Make sure you’re sitting down when you read this. Finally, the CBC published something sensible:
Cancer specialists are worried about the significant drop in the number of cancer screening, referrals and diagnoses in Canada since the pandemic began in March.
It doesn’t mean that cancer rates are dropping — experts say it means that cases are being missed and people aren’t getting the treatment they need.
I’m one of the people who got caught in this.
I was originally supposed to have a biopsy near the end of May, but that was first put on hold and, later, re-scheduled for 2 months later. Even then, I had to wait for nearly 3 weeks before I got the results.
It turned out I was clean, but I had several days of anxiety wondering when that question would be answered.
No, thank you, Prinz Dummkopf.
Me too BA, I was diagnosed with a return of my colon cancer in January. Surgery for total Colon removal prescribed. End of February I was prepped and on the gurney outside the operating room when they cancelled and sent me home. We will be in touch. Then wait, and wait, and wait. In May they operate but bounced me around like a Fed Ex parcel from room to room and then to another Hospital at 1 a.m. Days later ( one week after the op,) thrown out the door with no follow up or care. Four days later re admitted with infected incision. Two weeks more in Hospital, then three months at home with a Nurse every day, to heal and recover. Two months wait to get the chemo started. Great job by Hospitals that were NOT busy.
Don’t you just love government controlled medical care.
I’m a regular blood donor here in Australia.
For the three years before covid, I exclusively donated platelets, and more often than not, these donations were matched to specific patients undergoing treatment.
By late March this year the number of platelet donations that were required had dropped significantly. I was switched to donating Plasma for the next 8 months.
So, how many people were denied life saving treatment due to the “health experts” re-prioritising resources to deal with the practically non-existent covid crisis?
I bet the policy decisions with regard to Covid kill 10x more people than the virus does.
Agreed. Whole blood donor here, minimum of 3 times per year for the last 10. No donations at all from me since work-from-home started because of the level of difficulties thrown at me in order to donate. When it was an hour or two out of my day, glad to help. When it takes the entire day and added costs (need downtown parking instead of walking from work), not worth it to me.
I think that Covid-19 started out as an imported virus, and then government bureaucrats realized that they could use it to control not only peoples’ movements (my sister calls this “their wet dream”) but that they could reduce waiting lists for healthcare and thus lower healthcare costs. I read in the recent past that healthcare costs were consuming more and more of every province’s budgets and would be going over 50% of the budget if not rationed.
As well, most people use most of their healthcare in their later years when they start to have heart problems and cancers. Get rid of the old people, reduce your healthcare costs.
Prove me wrong…
I have been calling my physicians office since June about several spots on my skin. My doc is waiting for a clinical setting at our hospital to examine and possible remove the spots. The story I get is that he cannot get the area ….because COVID.
We have no Covid in our hospital. Cancer, especially skin cancer, is prevalent in my family (sibs and parents).
Because Kanuckistanians just love their union controlled Marxist/Leninist public healthcare. Now even more people will be diagnosed in time to receive the best palliative comfort care tax dollars can buy.
The government takes full control of your health care, then withholds it from you.
What could possibly go wrong?
Don’t you worry. Some faceless government apparatchik who sitting at home, working on the laptop with full salary and benefits, will just add all the cancer deaths caused from these lockdowns to the Covid ledger. And presto.
Free Healthcare.
As long as infinitely postphoned services is your definition of healthcare.
Along with being taxed into poverty to pay for this “service”.
Perhaps Canadians will wake up if and when they realize the powers that be’s solution to a healthcare crisis,is to deny the public access.
You may have noticed they have no difficulty creating more compliance enforcement agencies,to fine,bully and hector you,yet the concept of actually opening more ICU room and calling up every available medically trained staff seems to have escaped their attention.
Thank God my wife’s shortness of breath caught the Dr’s attention. That resulted in Lymphoma being diagnosed. Five months of treatments with one to go, she is improving. Saskatoons RUH, The Cancer Center and Home Care have been wonderful. One success story dispute the virus scare.
So, here I am. COVID has been a boon to cancer care…..for a few, for a great many others, not so much. If you’ve been paying attention to the COVID stats, deaths both in the spring and now the fall, are in the old folks dying factories. Retirement homes. Predominantly. Makes you wonder if the PTB learned anything from the first go round. Noticeably not. I got one thing to say about it: Ba-aaaaaaaaaa for letting it happen.
Never let a crisis go to waste, I say. Think of all the CPP and OAS saved with every dead Old Folk. Chinah Folk, fly ’em in, they don’t collect CPP. You do know that the CPPIB has offices in Hong Kong, London, UK and New Yawk, right? Don’t think that those bean counters in Ottywah aren’t crunching their numbers on what you “take”, over a lifetime. The Provinces are complicit, because “health care” is their beat, not the Feds. Getcher mask on and stay home. Or else. Especially play a pick up game of hockey….out doors. It’s all about Kontrol, now. The public sector stays home, mostly, PAID while you the Taxpayer aren’t. That’s sure gonna work out in the long term, right?
As for “health care”, I’ve detailed the empty hospitals (I go to three of ’em) in this town, even with elevated “cases”. I’ll be headed there next week, again. In Alberta, about 10% of beds are used, up 10% more since last I checked on Monday…821, with 146 in the ICU. The last number never changes much because we move ’em out fast, when they croak. Available beds are something like 8500 in Alberta proper and I would bet money only Calgary and now Edmonton are seeing any pressure on beds and not much on that. We were laying off nurses earlier this year. Is it any wonder? Flights, if you follow https://flightaware.com/live/ land every day with infected folks (are they really screened?) and told to “self isolate” are still flying in to “service” folks from somewhere else in the world it seems, no Kan-eh-jians. WHO checks? Calgary is one of three major hubs for international travelers into Canada, Edmonton is the one for “nordern Kan-eh-duh” and COVID has caught up with the gene pool that this bug was designed for. Brown people. And it was designed folks, believe you me.
Getting back to “health care”, I’m gobsmacked I’m not already dead, where it regards cancer care, if one were to logically follow my particular case with the COVID crap. I began a care regime in February, right about when whiny Indians stopped occupying the news and COVID took over, and haven’t stopped since. Even had surgery recently, which seemed to take longer than it should to arrive at as a solution, but here we are. NB, my particular “case” has some rather tricky issues, but not unsolvable. I’ve posted about it regularly on this blog. I’m not going into details at this time.
Take charge of your own health care, even rattle some cages these days. All the Docs I deal, or dealt with over the last 19 years I’ve been dealing with cancer, just want to practice in their field. The “political” ones work for the statist NDP, LPOC, CPC, Party’s in your particular Province. The salaries are better in “Administration”, believe me. It’s a private club and you ain’t in it. Have a boo at https://twitter.com/MakisMD for some of the goings on behind the scenes in just Alberta, on “cancer care”. Your experiences in your Province might be different, but I doubt it. I have a sister in Kaybec who keeps me up to date on hers. Awesome. Not. She should move.
Oh, and Biden did not get injected on camera with COVID vaccine, the medico didn’t even depress the plunger. In and out, a bit of alcohol. I wouldn’t touch what they’re offering with your arm.
Nononononononono! Haven’t you heard the provincial government ads? The virus is spreading here in Alberta. Those beds are being held for the overwhelming number of cases we now have.
I’m being sarcastic, of course. Considering the idiocy that’s going on in the medical system right now due to the phony-baloney plague, I’m lucky I had my prostate attended to well before all this happened.
The bollocks we’ve been given here is that we need the 28 day lockdown because the 300 ICU beds are 85% full of COVID patients.
All the plebs are squealing “85% full!”
I’m sitting here thinking “in a province the population of Ontario, how the hell do we only have 300 ICU beds?”
(FWIW, New York State with 30% larger population has over ten times the number of ICU beds)
The efficiency of government healthcare.
What do you expect when the consequences of State bad behaviour only affects citizens and the citizens affected are dying.