Hattip to Amanda Servello. Pictured above is a stage 4 cancer sufferer indicating her joy that “non-essential” surgery will begin again, as the expected horde of covid-19 sufferers, outside of New York City and parts of New Jersey, never materialized.
I wonder how long it will take to compute the “friendly fire” casualties in the war against the Black Sniffles? If the media is any guide, a very long time indeed.
Don, I asked my doctor over the weekend if I could get an antibody test. She sent me a script for it and I went into a local Quest clinic for the blood draw this morning. I think I had it in February. I think this is one of the paths moving forward: sane people have to get documentation that they had it, to show people that we’re not all gonna die, and we are ready to move on. I hope it comes back positive.
They will be shocked Brian at how many people have the antibodies. The whole social distancing business is a farce.
I’m somewhat puzzled a ‘stage 4’ cancer patient is having surgery. ‘Stage 4’ generally means there are distant metastases, and I don’t think doctors generally chase down tumors with scalpels in that circumstance. I think they can generate good outcomes treating stage iv leukemias and lymphomas and that you have a certain number of patients with thyroid cancer or colon cancer that survive stage iv. In re just about any other site, stage iv means the patient is terminal.
This won’t be PC at all, but I blame the medical community–not just the administrators, but the doctors–for a chunk of this. Stage 4 cancer not dealt with? Mohs surgeries for skin cancer not performed? Cardiac patients in Limbo?
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In a combox on a Michigan paper, a commenter claimed one area hospital saw a 400% increase in DOA heart victims.
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I would like to think the “non essential” doctors would fight for their “non essential” patients’ needs, but few seem to be willing to do that. At least I’ve not heard of many.
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I hope I am wrong.
NY did random antibody tests on 3,000. They found that 15% had antibodies. That means it’s probable (more likely than not) that 1,200,000 New York City inmates and 2,925,000 state victims have been exposed and developed antibodies. That gives us a China Murder Virus death rate of 0.99% of those exposed and 0.15% of all destitute, desperate – worst on the Planet – New York City inmates.
Ergo, it made ‘sense’ to evil morons and CCP stooges like Biden, Cuomo, DeBlasio, Pelosi, Schumer that 27,000,0000 Americans should lose their livelihoods.
I know! I’m heartless. And, I am not a CCP employee or useful idiot.
Stage 4 cancer not dealt with?
If I’m not mistaken, it’s nearly always dealt with through chemotherapy and radiation treatments meant to contain the disease for a time. That’s done through ambulatory clinics, commonly off-site. There’s something quite off about this story.
What about the “Heros”?
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/04/21/nyc-coronavirus-ticker-tape-parade-strategic-reserve/
Now think about who these parades were for in the past…. Quite a difference.
The story behind the picture:
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Stage-4-cancer-patient-looks-forward-to-elective-15226686.php
“You get the government you deserve – good and hard.” H. L. Mencken
28 April 2020: Mark Tapscott at Instapundit refers us to Issues & Insights blog. CDC data shows “the current average U.S. overall death rate, even amid the coronavirus pandemic, is actually lower than it has been for much of the past seven years and well below the long-term average.”
They were forced to kill 27 million jobs; murder state, county, and municipal tax bases; and slay The Bill of Rights because they said we ALL were going to die.
I’ve heard of people surviving stage 4 colon cancer, though IIRC, your chances of doing so are in single digits.
I suppose every case is different and some drugs and treatment courses differ from others. I had a cousin who went through chemotherapy in 1977 and it was a hideous trial for him. However, lots of new treatments have come online as well as medications to contain side-effects. Our last bout was in 2007. None of the people at that clinic looked ruined by side effects. Hair loss, fatigue, abdominal pain, mental fogginess. We have a shirt-tail that had to take some sick leave due to fatigue. No clue, really, but something seems off here.
I wish that only having to take some sick leave due to fatigue was normal side-effects. I know they’ve managed to get some routes of treatment to be less aggressive, because my aunt is in the mid range, but even she is wiped out the day after and can barely get out of bed on the second day after.
Ambulatory clinics are pretty much the gold standard of declaring a surgery elective and not being able to get them to agree it’s really needed. As I’ve mentioned before, family friend had his heart surgery canceled because it was “elective.” He’d been told there was a very good chance he wouldn’t live to the surgery date. (His wife called and persuaded them otherwise.)
Per Stop Colon Cancer Now, stage IV means the cancer has moved to other organ(s), and is usually treated by removing the affected parts of the organs.
https://stopcoloncancernow.com/spread-awareness/news/colon-cancer-survival-rates
It has an 8% five year survival rate, and prompt treatment is the biggest determining factor.
Gov. Dr. Gosnell closed down all surgical clinics except of course where abortions are performed. Also prohibited chemo and radiation because of the need supposedly to save PPE. There are occasions when invasive procedures are performed on hospice patients. It’s called palliative care..