It was way back in April that The BFD reported on warnings that the panicked response to the Wuhan plague was going to cause more death and misery than lockdowns would ever prevent. Sadly, these are some of the few “expert predictions” about COVID-19 which have been proved right.
Aside from the horrific toll of economic devastation and the flow-on effects of authoritarian lockdowns on mental health, all-but shutting down the hospital system has caused an entirely predictable spike in other deadly diseases.
Cancer surgeons in Ontario are reporting a sharp rise in the number of people coming to hospital with advanced cancers, an unintended consequence of the sudden shutdown of non-urgent health-care services during the spring wave of COVID-19.
This is a health crisis created entirely because of government COVID policies.
In mid-March, the number of people getting routine cancer screening plummeted after the province halted its screening programs for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers.
Physicians say they’ve seen a corresponding drop in patients going for diagnostic imaging tests and that some patients are deferring care, over fears of contracting the coronavirus in hospitals or doctors’ offices.
Now, seven months into the pandemic, experts warn too many cancers are not being caught at their earliest stages, as patients arrive in hospital with more severe symptoms and advanced stages of disease. In turn, this leads to patients requiring more intensive surgery and longer hospital stays, and potentially seeing poorer long-term prognoses.
People are dying from cancer in order to be “saved” from COVID.
Dr. Sam Elfassy, gastroenterologist at Unity Health in Toronto, said he is seeing a higher concentration of very sick patients coming to his clinic at St. Joseph’s Health Centre.
“I’m worried for people,” said Dr. Frances Wright, the Temerty Chair of Breast Surgery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. “It’s upsetting as a cancer-care provider.
“Over the years we’ve made huge strides in reducing the mortality and morbidity for cancer, and this is a step backwards.”
Surgeons and physicians are seeing this stark trend even as they work through the backlog of cancer surgeries that accumulated after operating rooms were shut to elective procedures in mid-March.
In fact, governments and health bureaucrats have hit everybody who doesn’t have COVID (in other words, 99.5% of the population) with a double whammy: mothballed hospitals and clinics and a ridiculously exaggerated culture of fear.
At Unity Health Toronto, gastroenterologist Dr. Sam Elfassy said he is seeing a higher concentration of very sick patients coming to his clinic at St. Joseph’s Health Centre.
“When we’re doing procedures, the frequency of seeing cancers in very advanced diagnosis … I’ve never seen that many in my career in such a short amount of time.”
Elfassy said many of his patients say they are too nervous to come for the procedure — even though the referring physician has identified their case as urgent — for fear of the virus[…]
According to OHIP billings, screenings for colon cancer dropped from an average of 210,000 a year to roughly 60,000 so far in 2020, Hill said. Similarly, screening for cervical cancer has fallen from just over 200,000 a year to 80,000 this year.
At least they didn’t catch COVID-19, a virus with a near-93% survival rate.
After all, this is all about “saving lives”.
That’s what they tell us, anyway.
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