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Various store fronts along Yonge Street that are closed up for 2nd wave of COVID-19 as Toronto continues in its limited lockdown.
By continuing to push for lockdowns to 'protect hospitals', authorities worldwide are denying millions of cancer sufferers and other seriously ill people essential treatment. This will lead to many unnecessary deaths.
It is shocking that in 2021, surgeries for cancer and other critical ailments are being delayed. But thanks to the hysteria over overcrowded ICUs, staggering numbers of patients are being denied life-saving treatments for up to one year.
UK media recently
reported a drop of around 350,000 urgent cancer referrals between March last year and January this year, compared to the same period in the previous 12 months. A researcher
described the situation as a "ticking time bomb." There has also been a decrease in surgeries and chemotherapy and radiology treatments, "with 44,000 fewer patients diagnosed with cancer starting treatment."
This problem is not unique to Britain. Canadian provinces face similarly unacceptable numbers of delayed surgeries and treatments. As of April, Ontario has a
backlog of 245,367 "medically necessary procedures." A 60% drop in cancer surgeries was
reported when the pandemic struck last March , leaving over 36,000 Ontario cancer patients in agonizing limbo.
Comment: Apparently the virtue of self-awareness is in short supply at the Post. Here is a small sample of the Post's lapses in 'journalistic integrity':