Turning the NHS into a Covid service during the pandemic was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says leading cancer doctor Karol Sikora in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
Dealing with a stage one cancer is infinitely easier and consumes far fewer resources than a tumour which has migrated beyond its initial location to stage 3 or 4. The entire system is now clogged up with more advanced conditions, not just cancer, missed over the pandemic, leading to more delays and more suffering. This fuels more pressure and even longer waits for everybody.
Frankly, British cancer services should be put into special measures. Waits of months and even years for diagnosis and treatment would not have looked out of place in a third world country when I was the World Health Organisation’s cancer director. Data emerged last week that one patient in East Kent endured 1,000 days to have a diagnostic decision made; another in Lincolnshire had to wait 350 to see a specialist, with a patient in Hartlepool taking 469 to start treatment. These aren’t anomalies – thousands and thousands of vulnerable patients are being hung out to dry by a system which is failing the very people it’s supposed to protect.
The hands of NHS cancer staff – who are among the best in the world – are being tied behind their backs and criticism is not encouraged. NHS management should be hauled in front of Parliament tomorrow to explain these figures. For when I read statements from various politicians and NHS England sources, I’m appalled by the spin and sheer refusal to accept how dire the situation is. Meaningless word salad, created by highly paid PR managers, is spouted out at the taxpayer’s expense simply to protect reputations rather than benefit patients.
Politicians cannot say that they were not warned. It’s all a desperately predictable outcome to a pandemic response guided solely by opinion polling and incompetent modelling. The big unspoken truth in British politics is that an almost two-year long lockdown experiment was the greatest policy mistake in my lifetime. Any questionable benefits in terms of ‘protecting’ the elderly have been vastly outweighed by the immeasurable damage to the younger generations. Indeed, the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself.
Anyone who doubts the impact on cancer patients should look at my lockdown inbox. Stopping young, otherwise healthy, people’s chemotherapy was scandalous. But will that ever be accepted by an establishment which threw its incomparable weight behind the measures? Not a chance, nor will the discussion even take place. Instead, cancer patients will be used as a political football by all parties to further their own ambitions.
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“an almost two-year long lockdown experiment was the greatest policy mistake in my lifetime”
Have there been any bigger “mistakes” in world history? Some of the wars probably, but that’s about it. Also not sure about the word “mistake”. When you double down on your “mistake” in the face of evidence, advice etc, it starts to look like something else.
” Any questionable benefits in terms of ‘protecting’ the elderly”
See previous article.
“the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself. “
Er well given that the virus was an unavoidable bad flu season, yes…
I don’t want to start up a “hierarchy” of disastrous policy making, but I’m strongly of the view that the whole Covid scam was either introduced deliberately to turbocharge the 35 year old Climate scam, which by 2019 was becoming more and more obviously implausible, as even the bogus “extreme weather” tactic was slipping. Or, at least, the censorship, lockdowns, mask mandates, psy-ops agit-prop were tried out on the basis, “never let a crisis go to waste”.
Far too many of the same people behind zero carbon and zero covid and the same censorship and tyranical tactics, for it to just be a coincidence.
The same people made to suffer (and, preferably, die), the same “elite” bolstering their billions. The same destruction of the West whilst China laughs.
Yes, very true
When does the revolution start?
Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the song of angry men?
It is the music of the people
Who will not be slaves agai-
Well, no, actually. I don’t hear the people sing.
…
And if you thought the entirely foreseeable effects of lockdowns were bad enough.
Just wait until the dysregulation of the innate immune system caused by mRNA jabs takes effect :-
https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/how-covid-vaccines-cause-cancer_4952911.html
Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking said dysregulation was unforeseen or unforeseeable :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Yes exactly that. I haven’t read the full article but is Dr Sikora not addressing the death jabs as a major cause in increased cancers? Certainly Prof Dalgliesh went on the record as highlighting them as a culprit. All the clot shots have done in terms of public health is increase excess deaths, disabilities and illness due to their myriad effects on all of the bodily systems and their proven negative efficacy ensures people keep on getting sick due to their immune systems being tanked. The most warped part is that almost all of this was known before the shots were deployed on the mass market, bioweapon style.
A few of us have pointed out that the increases in mortality are exactly what was ordered by the Davos Deviants. There is no cock-up, no blaming lockdowns, the scenario is playing out as designed. It’s murder, simple as.
1000 days for a diagnostic decision. Holy clucking bell. I can’t imagine the mental torment of that patient quite apart from anything else.
Yeah and it’s hardly just the restrictions to be blamed for increased cancer, nor the inhumane neglect of patients by the abysmal excuse for a national health service. I spy an elephant in the room just waiting to be acknowledged…
An excellent and comprehensive take down of the death jabs by Dr Huber, who basically goes through the whole gamut of how they’ve failed at everything they were lauded as being able to do. If they never stopped transmission, infection, hospitalization or death what did they do that was beneficial?
”US mortality data at the end of 2020 did not support the allegation of a pandemic, because there was no more of an outlying peak in excess deaths in 2020 than other peaks throughout the past two decades, as reported at that time. Even now, the CDC shows that 3,383,729 people died from all causes in the US in 2020, [1] which was less than for 2021 (the year of the COVID vaccine), which was 3,464,000. [2] The 2020 mortality number remained at about one percent of the total US population, as in each of the previous three years, in which there was no pandemic. Notably, December 2020 had by far the highest deaths of any month in 2020 in the US, 32% higher than the average of the previous 11 months of what had been advertised to be the worst pandemic in a century, but in fact had no more than typical numbers of deaths in the US during that alleged pandemic.
Data released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) show that each of those last three weeks of 2020 in December 2020 excess deaths (number of deaths over those expected) had higher excess deaths than any of the previous weeks of the alleged pandemic. [3] Each of those last three weeks of December 2020 exceeded 25,000 excess deaths per week, whereas even the worst COVID hospitalization weeks, the first two weeks of April 2020, did not exceed 25,000 excess deaths per week.
The Pfizer vaccines were released to the American public on December 14, 2020.”
https://colleenhuber.substack.com/p/a-colossal-failure-around-the-world
Yes, I think Professor Dalgleish is more on the money.
Cancers don’t move that fast. Diagnosing many cancers early just means patients know they have cancer for a longer period of time, but doesn’t change the outcome. I call BS, unless these are turbo cancers a la Dalgleish….
It should be obvious that the start of the vaccine campaign 14 Dec 2020 cannot be blamed for the rise in excess deaths from week 2 of that same month.
Yes I clocked the exact same detail and even went through the comments to see if anyone else had picked up on it. I’d be surprised if the author has made such a basic mistake so maybe I’m misunderstanding something. Perhaps she’s counting the last 3 days of the month as a separate week when she states ”each of those last three weeks”, in which case it would make sense if people started dying immediately after the jab roll-out on the 14th Dec. I can’t really think of another explanation and it’s a shame she didn’t elaborate or share a reference for it.
In the US, the calendar week starts on Mondays, not Sundays. So if the week started on Monday the 14th, then that week would be the second week of December. (The first week started on the 7th, and the previous week starting 30 November would be counted as part of November.) Mondays the 21st and 28th would be the start of the third and fourth weeks of December. Would that explain the seeming discrepancy?
If you look at the detail of the Y axis of her chart, 2020 is treated as a 53-week year, with December having 5 weeks, so “the last 3 weeks” are indeed after the start of the vax rollout. The point that Steven made above remains valid though because, again from her chart, the second week of December shows much the same excess death rate.
My father died in 1998 when he developed secondary tumours. The first cancer was identified years too late because he was told he had indigestion.
In the later final attack he was at home until the last weeks and the treatment was morphine: cheap and easy and fatal.
Ethical Skeptic says at least in the USA, the pattern of extra cancers doesn’t fit the “missed screening” theory; the extra cancers are less common cancers that are not screened for. https://nitter.it/i/status/1648882315194519553
I think also Ed Dowd points out that many of the excess deaths have been in much younger people than those routinely screened for cancer. With the exception of cervical smears most cancer screening is for the over 50s.
Protect the NHS!
Remember the happy-clappy pan bangers?
I’m sick. Sick to the stomach of the whole charade.
I won’t ask the NoHopeService for help though.
Will it ever end?
Sorry, couldn’t help myself.
Lockdowns did exacerbate existing conditions and people did die due to LDs.
The stabs are causing the ‘aggressive cancers’. The Stabs. Yes Yes. Say it.
The Quackcines are causing cancers, neurological issues, blood clots, heart issues….Yes Yes.
The Stabs.
Not the LDs.
“The hands of NHS cancer staff – who are among the best in the world –”
Everything is best, world class and world beating in the UK.
But in reality- just see the emergency alert embarassment- it’s now the country of Catweazles again and just a world beating joke.
Any normal and sane person would recognize that dissonance and that it and this hubris is the major reason for its many failures and the main impediment to things being addressed properly and getting better.