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52-year-old grandfather the latest Canadian to choose euthanasia while waiting for cancer treatment
From LifeSiteNews
Dan Quayle’s wife believes that she could still have her husband today if he’d gotten the treatment he needed. In fact, wait times for cancer patients in Canada who are literally dying while waiting for treatment keep getting worse.
On October 7, 2023, Dan Quayle – a British Columbian, not the former vice president of the United States – turned 52. He was hoping to be told that he could begin chemotherapy after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer. It was not to be. “After 10 weeks in hospital, Quayle, a gregarious grandfather who put on his best silly act for his two grandkids, was in so much pain, unable to eat or walk, he opted for a medically assisted death on Nov. 24,” the National Post reported. “This was despite assurances from doctors that chemotherapy had the potential to prolong his life by a year.”
Throughout the agonizing wait, his family “prayed he would change his mind or get an 11th-hour call that chemo had been scheduled,” but were instead told consistently by the hospital that they were “backlogged.” The family is speaking out now “following the stories of two Vancouver Island women who went public with their decisions to seek treatment in the U.S. to avoid delays in B.C.” – and Dan’s wife believes that she could still have her husband today if he’d gotten the treatment he needed. In fact, wait times for cancer patients who are literally dying while waiting for treatment keep getting worse.
When Dan Quayle died by lethal injection, he still hadn’t been given a timeline for when he might get chemotherapy. It reminds me of the posthumously published obituary written by a Winnipeg woman who chose to die by assisted suicide after being refused the treatments she needed: “I could have had more time if I had more help.”
Indeed, one of the reasons Quayle felt that a lethal injection was his only option is because he didn’t have the financial resources to get help that was available elsewhere – but as a price. “If we had more money, we could have gone to the States,” his wife told the National Post sadly. “But we’re just regular people.”
She is likely referring to the two Vancouver Island women who decided to go public with their own experiences with the BC health care system. Global News published one story with the headline “B.C. woman gets surgery in U.S., says wait times at home could have cost her life” about Allison Ducluzeau, who paid $200,000 for surgery in the United States after she was told by a BC oncologist that she was not a candidate for the treatment that saved her life. After successfully getting treatment in the U.S., she recently got married – and is appalled by how she was treated in BC. In fact, she wasn’t offered life-saving treatment – but she was offered assisted suicide.
“There’s a lot of promises I’m hearing,” she told Global News. “But, you know, we need boots-on-the-ground action right now. What can you do to shorten these wait times? How can you prioritize cases so that people with aggressive stage four cancer get seen by someone and when they do get seen, they get offered treatment and not MAID like I was the first time?”
Another woman, 43-year-old Kristin Logan of Campbell River, was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer – but faced a three or four month wait for treatment in British Columbia. She went to Washington State for chemotherapy, instead – she could afford it because the treatment was covered due to her dual citizenship and veteran status. When the health minister responded to her case by saying that the system “doesn’t always get it right,” she responded with fury: “To suggest that the system merely ‘doesn’t always get it right’ is a gross understatement, bordering on denial. Our healthcare system isn’t tripping over minor hurdles; it’s plummeting off a cliff. We’re not dealing with ‘occasional misses’; we’re grappling with a chronically diseased system where inefficiency and neglect have become the norm.”
What does this mean? It means that people are dying on waitlists – and while they suffer, often horribly, they are offered assisted suicide when they are their most vulnerable. And if the Trudeau Liberals get their way, in March of next year the floodgates will open and assisted suicide will also be available to those suffering with mental illness. Waitlists for mental health assistance and psychiatric care are even longer – I know people who have waited for years merely for an appointment. Many Canadians simply do not have access to this care. And so not only will Canadians die on waitlists; many will be offered assisted suicide while they are on waitlists, and many will, out of desperation, say yes.
Health
RFK Jr. says ‘everything is going to change’ with CDC vaccine policy in Michael Knowles interview
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New Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the CDC’s own reporting system ‘captures fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries. It’s worthless, and everybody agrees it’s worthless.’
When Michael Knowles asked new Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. if anything will change regarding the public’s justifiable concern with the growth of vaccines, Kennedy quickly shot back, “Everything is going to change.”
Kennedy pointed to the Centers for Disease Control’s current flawed VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) online mechanism.
By way of example, he said, “None of the vaccines that are given during the first six months of life have ever been tested for autism. The only one was the DTP vaccine. And that one study that was done, according to the Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences, found that there was a link.”
But “They threw out that study because it was based upon CDC’s surveillance system, VAERS, and they said that system is no good.”
“That begs the question, why doesn’t CDC have a functional surveillance system?” he asked. “We’re gonna make sure they do.”
“They don’t do pre-licensing safety testing for vaccines” he continued. “They’re the only product that’s exempt. So what they say is, if there are injuries, we’ll capture them afterward.”
However, “they have a system that doesn’t capture them. In fact, CDC’s own study of its own system said it captures fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries,” Kennedy said. “It’s worthless, and everybody agrees it’s worthless.”
“Why have we gone for 39 years and nobody’s fixed it?” he wondered, promising, “We’re gonna fix it.”
“We have DOGE (which) knows how to manage data. We’re going to be able to get into these databases and give answers to the American public,” Kennedy predicted.
“We’re going to have gold standard science, we’re going to follow the science, we’re going to publish all of our datasets, which CDC has never done,” he said.
“We’re going to do replication of all of our studies, which CDC has never done. We’re going to publish our peer review, which CDC has never done,” Kennedy vowed. “So people are going to have real answers for the first time.”
The new HHS head also discussed more broadly his mission after taking over the department’s helm, the mess created by the Biden administration, his job’s challenges, and recent developments thanks to DOGE.
“HHS is a $1.9 trillion agency. It’s the biggest agency in the government. And during the Biden administration, President Biden increased its budget by 38% and increased the workforce by 17%.”
“And by every metric by which we measure public health, health accelerated its decline.”
“When I came to HHS, what I found was a sprawling bureaucracy,” with functional duplication of departments, rampant redundancy and overstaffing, with various sub-agencies often acting in a territorial, self-protecting manner rather than a synergistic one.
“Perverse incentives” sometimes drive employee’s work,” he noted.
Despite his short tenure at HHS, with the help of DOGE, Kennedy has already released 20,000 “bureaucrats” from the department’s ranks.
“We’re going from 82,000 personnel to 62,000,” said Kennedy, carefully pointing out, “We’re keeping the scientists and frontline providers.”
Kennedy said that it has been really hard to fight against the problems at HHS and NIH over the last 40 years from “the outside.”
But “now I’m on the inside,” he declared. “This is the purpose of my life. It’s what I’m going to do over the next four years.”
He concluded:
President Trump promised to return the American dream to Americans.
A healthy person has a thousand dreams. A sick person only has one.
From LifeSiteNews
By Stephen Kokx
Ivermectin has been praised by many doctors and natural medicine users as a remedy for COVID and other illnesses, despite being attacked by mainstream media and Big Pharma.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has approved ivermectin to be sold over the counter without a prescription.
Dismissed as “horse paste” by the mainstream media and Big Pharma during the COVID-19 outbreak, ivermectin was praised by many doctors and wholistic and natural medicine users for helping them overcome coronavirus symptoms.
Podcaster Joe Rogan was one public person the media was especially critical of after he announced he used ivermectin. America’s Frontline Doctors, actor Mel Gibson, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who now serves as the Trump administration’s Health and Human Services Secretary, have also defended ivermectin as well as hydroxychloroquine. Gibson has stated that he has friends who have been cured of their cancer thanks to the drugs.
Sanders signed the bill into law on Tuesday after it received bipartisan support from the Arkansas legislature, which approved it by a 78-14 and 29-5 vote in the state House and state Senate, respectively. The law will go into effect 90 days after the chamber adjourns for summer recess.
Medical freedom activists in the state are telling local media that they look forward to seeing how ivermectin can help alleviate illness.
“We don’t know what the future holds for the human drug, but to me it validates the doctors that were demonized for using it,” one person said.
GOP state Sen. Alan Clark likewise remarked: “I’m more trusting of my constituents’ and friends’ common sense than I am of the medical industry at the moment.”
Ivermectin won FDA approval in 1998 under the brand name Stromectol, produced by pharmaceutical giant Merck, and is intended to treat parasitic infections.
In 2021, comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore compared drug giant Pfizer’s expensive new antiviral drug for COVID with ivermectin, which is far cheaper.
“I’ve never seen the propaganda machine so hard at work as it’s been against ivermectin,” Dore said on his podcast. “Ivermectin won a Nobel Prize for human medicine in 2015, but the media really has everyone believing it’s for horses.”
Former NFL star quarterback Aaron Rodger also defended ivermectin during COVID. While appearing on ESPN, he said he was using the drug along with Vitamin C and zinc to manage his symptoms.
“Why do people hate ivermectin? … You can’t make any money off of it,” he remarked.
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