Avoiding the Elephants in the Room Pt.1
1. ‘Mystery’ Staff Shortages
It’s getting crowded in here, with all these invisible elephants milling around in the dark! At least, ‘invisible’ as far as governments and mainstream media are concerned. But not to anyone still capable of thinking for themselves and doing even cursory independent research. As I wrote in “The Sound of One Hand Clapping,”[1] what to supposedly trained journalists is a ‘mystery’—the sudden labour crisis across all sectors of business—is no mystery at all. Soaring rates of adverse reactions to the Covid-19 injections—including tens of thousands of permanent disabilities and nearly 30,000 deaths[2] in the US alone (that we know of)—and the firing of medical staff who refused this dangerous experiment have created a ‘perfect storm’ that threatens to derail civilization itself.
Things we once took for granted—boarding a plane, driving on a highway, getting on a train, going to the emergency department—are no longer assured of safety. A recent hearing held in the European parliament discussed the very real concern of airline safety given the sudden staffing crisis afflicting airline companies,[3] causing the cancellation of thousands of flights and utter chaos at airports around the world. As a pilot and airline hostess testified, with so many staff succumbing to adverse reactions—some during flights—safety has been seriously compromised. There has also been an increase in anecdotal reports of fatal auto accidents due to drivers mysteriously crossing the centre line into the opposing lane. My publisher was injured in just such an accident, fortunately not seriously.
Thanks to the excellent reporting of Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Jessica Rose, Dr. Byram Bridle, Dr. Ryan Cole, Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Paul Alexander, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Dr. Mike Yeadon, Del Bigtree, Steve Kirsch, Natalie and Clayton Morris of Redacted, and other intrepid, truth-seeking souls, the data on these mRNA injections is now painting a crystal-clear picture. As Dr. Paul Alexander reported, there are now 1,300 reports and scientific papers testifying to the various harms caused by these inoculations.[4] (His Substack article contains links to downloadable PDFs with the complete list of references to studies.)
Dr. Sukharit Bhakdi, author of over 300 research articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology and parasitology, and Editor-in-Chief of Medical Microbiology and Immunology from 1990 to 2012, has been vocal in his condemnation of the experimental vaccines from the beginning. In a paper co-authored with Dr. Arne Burkhardt,[5] a pathologist who has taught at the Universities of Hamburg, Berne and Tübingen, they report on autopsies of 15 people who died subsequent to vaccination. Damage to critical organs was found in 14 out of 15—93 percent. The authors conclude: “Beyond any doubt, injection of gene-based COVID-19 vaccines places lives under threat of illness and death.”[6] In an accompanying video explaining the data,[7] Dr. Bhakdi makes an impassioned plea to end all Covid-19 vaccination campaigns. German Member of European Parliament Christine Anderson summed it up: “This vaccination campaign will go down in history as the biggest scandal in medical history and moreover, it will be known as the biggest crime ever committed on humanity.”[8] It is devastating lives and careers. So no wonder we have a sudden labour crisis crippling our international transportation system.
Just as critically, the labour crisis is crippling our medical systems. The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions was already reporting record levels of vacancies in October 2021, while again avoiding the elephant in the room. While the trend of increasing vacancies in healthcare jobs, particularly among RPNs (registered professional nurses), had actually begun in 2015, the OCHU reports that “RPN vacancies have exploded during COVID,” increasing 116 percent in just one year (2021).[9] In September 2021, CTV News reported: “Many nurses report having left the front lines after the stress of COVID-19 made their jobs more difficult and less safe, creating a shortage of health-care workers in certain regions and even forcing rural areas to temporarily close hospital units.” One nurse reported succumbing to burnout, “saying she was unable to withstand the long shifts in an understaffed critical care unit any longer.”[10] Statistics Canada reports that “health care and social assistance currently have the largest need for labour of any sector in the country,” representing 1 in 7 job vacancies in Canada.[11] Keep in mind that these reports are already nearly a year old, and the picture is unlikely to improve during 2022, as more people are boosted and end up suffering adverse reactions.
The US isn’t doing any better. “A nationwide shortage of clinical and non-clinical professionals is straining the healthcare industry,” explains one report. “Every part of the health ecosystem is making contingency plans for this ongoing and worsening labor shortage.”[12] A February 2022 report from Healthcare Facilities Today noted that hospital staff shortages have resulted in closures of entire departments. “Northeast Hospital Corp. (NHC) in Beverly, Massachusetts, has lost 40 percent of its nursing staff since July 2019, with more than 100 nurses leaving their positions in the last five months.”[13] Contrary to popular belief, this desertion isn’t simply due to older nurses reaching the end of their tethers and retiring early. As in Ontario, where an alarming number of nurses aged 35 and under are leaving the profession,[14] American graduate nurses are “voicing burnout so soon into their careers and fear for their licenses.”[15]
2. Bringing it Back Home
Which brings me to my own backyard—New Denver—a semi-remote village in the Selkirk mountain range of southeastern British Columbia. Our medical clinic is 100 kilometres from the nearest regional hospital with any diagnostic or surgical capacity. A hospital to the north of us can be reached in about 35 minutes by car but is no better equipped than ours, which is limited to a physician’s day clinic, diagnostic lab, emergency department, and a long-term care home for seniors. Due to the centralized model of healthcare in BC, most complex surgeries must be done in Kelowna, a four and a half hour drive to the west, where top cardiac specialists are located. The New Denver medical clinic has a helipad for airlifting critical cases to Kelowna.
Our facilities are managed by Interior Health, an agency mandated by the BC government to deliver medical services to residents. IH’s massive territory spans from Princeton on the west to Cranbrook on the east; from Trail—near the Canada-US border on the south—to Williams Lake in the north. To give you an idea what a vast distance this represents, from Trail to Williams Lake is a 756 kilometre (470 mile) trek, while from Princeton to Cranbrook is 559 kilometres (347 miles). Yet most expert medical services are concentrated at two ‘regional’ hospitals in Kelowna and Kamloops. As of 2020 Interior Health operated 16 community hospitals, 4 regional hospitals, 2 tertiary hospitals and 22 health care centers. You begin to see why we need a helicopter airlift for our most serious cases. There are only 5 regional Health Authorities like Interior Health in this massive province,[16] which could easily hold all of the British Isles with room to spare.
Prior to the establishment of these Health Authorities sometime in the late 1990s, most BC hospitals were governed by local volunteer boards that were responsible for managing operations, including providing laundry and food services and budgeting. I’m told that the New Denver hospital board prior to Interior Health’s inception never filed an unbalanced budget and the quality of food provided to the care home was first rate, often sourced from local gardens and farms. Since the centralization mania of Interior Health overtook us, laundry and food can be shipped from as far away as Kelowna. Inevitably, the quality of the food has suffered, which has a direct impact on patients’ health.
The bureaucracy has since mushroomed and top-level managers at IH are paid in the high six figures plus all relevant benefits. One practitioner I met recently told me she has four managers above her, only one of whom she has ever met. The scene was well set for the Covid-19 fiasco, with its military-style chain of command where people who work at desks tell doctors and nurses how to do their jobs. A retired head nurse here told me she worked her way up from the wards to managing entire hospitals and knew at any time where every piece of equipment could be found. She watched with growing alarm as the trend of managers with business degrees gradually replaced experienced staff in top hospital positions during the 1990s. These people needed no medical training, as they were indoctrinated at business colleges to believe that “if you have an MBA you can manage anything—from a pizza joint to a major hospital!” You thought healthcare was a vital service, like roads and schools? Nope—it’s a business. And business is business, as they say. Hospital administrators have become more consumed by the pursuit of finances than by patient health.
We’ve seen how US government financial “incentives” vastly increased the use of ventilators in the early part of the pandemic, leading to unacceptably high death rates in advanced Covid cases. The same was later true for kickbacks paid to hospitals for using the experimental drug Remdesivir as a first-line Covid-19 treatment. The same drug that had already been rejected for use in treating ebola due to high rates of liver and kidney toxicity and death. Naturally, these risks were downplayed in the media, but as early as May 2020, MedPage Today warned: “Adverse event risk involving the liver has been one of the clearest potential risks from remdesivir.”[17] Yet the drug was approved by the FDA—over the objections of some scientists. “At best, one large, well-designed study found remdesivir modestly reduced the time to recover from COVID-19 in hospitalized patients with severe illness.”[18]
Meanwhile, upper-level managers at Interior Health seem to have had it in for small regional hospitals and clinics almost since the beginning. Our community has repeatedly had to rally to save our clinic from closure. I wrote an entire novel on this theme, Mountain Blues, about events that occurred in about 2003.[19] Although fictional, in my research I interviewed many local residents who had been involved in the protest and incorporated some of their memories of the event into the story. About that time a volunteer group in the city of Nelson was formed to put a 24/7 watch on the hospital’s diagnostic equipment. Why? Because Interior Health had decided such facilities weren’t needed in a backwoods hospital and had plans to take the equipment away. The hitch? IH didn’t actually own any of it—it had all been paid for by community fundraising! Arrogance and MBAs are fellow travellers, it seems. Not to mention, an utter disregard for community needs.
About five or six years ago when we had one of our two doctors move to another community, Interior Health in its wisdom decided that he was actually doing the job of two doctors and therefore should be replaced by two. Fair enough. We formed a volunteer committee to help with research and recruitment. A local filmmaker used his drone to create a video with stunning images of the village nestled on the pristine shores of Slocan Lake, in the evergreen shadows of glacier-capped mountain ridges. “Imagine living and working here,” the tagline went, with a shot of our senior physician Dr. Charles Burkholder kayaking on the cerulean blue of the lake. Our mayor and council gave interviews to media. Interior Health promised to do their best to recruit new doctors. That is, until we discovered that the locums who had arrived to fill the vacancies were told by IH that they would not be offered a long-term contract. We lost a very promising doctor who decided she could hold out no longer without a commitment from IH. This is the very definition of negotiating in bad faith.
It’s hard not to assume that the agenda is to shut down our little mountain hospital. We are down to a 12-hour day for our ER and diagnostic lab hours have been cut back by more than 50 percent, supposedly a temporary measure. In our neighbouring community on Kootenay Lake, Kaslo, this proved to be a mere tactic. After many years, Interior Health has never restored their 24/7 emergency ward.
Business is business, after all, and in the 21st century, medicine is not about saving lives, but managing balance sheets and paying executive salaries.
COMING SOON: Avoiding the Elephants in the Room Part 2: Round 3: Post-Pandemic Collapse
[1] Sean Arthur Joyce, “The Sound of One Hand Clapping,” Substack, June 15, 2022:
[2] Megan Redshaw, “Nearly 30,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, Including 17-Year-Old Who Died of Myocarditis 5 Months After Pfizer Shot,” Children’s Health Defense, August 5, 2022: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/17-year-old-died-myocarditis-pfizer-shot-vaers-data/
[3] Tyler Durden, “Member Of European Parliament Labels COVID Vaccine Coercion ‘Worst Crime Ever Committed On Humanity’”, Zero Hedge, July 28, 2022; NOTE embedded video of hearing: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/member-european-parliament-labels-covid-vaccine-coercion-worst-crime-ever-committed
[4] Dr. Paul Alexander, “Over 1300+ COVID Vaccine Publications & Case Reports showing adverse effects, harms and deaths after COVID mRNA (Moderna & Pfizer) and adenoviral vector injections,” August 1, 2022:
[5] Sucharit Bhakdi, MD and Arne Burkhardt, MD, “On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination,” Doctors for COVID Ethics: https://doctors4covidethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/end-covax.pdf
[6] Sucharit Bhakdi, MD and Arne Burkhardt, MD, “On COVID vaccines: why they cannot work, and irrefutable evidence of their causative role in deaths after vaccination,” Doctors for COVID Ethics, ibid.
[7] Dr. Sukharit Bhakdi, “Organs of dead vaccinated proves auto immune attack,” Bitchute video: https://www.bitchute.com/video/fHIT55iM4Zv9/
[8] Tyler Durden, “Member Of European Parliament Labels COVID Vaccine Coercion ‘Worst Crime Ever Committed On Humanity’”, Zero Hedge, July 28, 2022, ibid.
[9] “Vacancies and Labour Shortages Affecting the Hospital and Health Care Workforce,” Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, October 28, 2021: https://ochu.on.ca/2021/10/28/vacancies-and-labour-shortages-affecting-the-hospital-and-health-care-workforce/
[10] “Stress, staffing shortages brought on by COVID-19 causing nurses to leave the front lines,” CTV News, Sepember 13, 2021: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/stress-staffing-shortages-brought-on-by-covid-19-causing-nurses-to-leave-the-front-lines-1.5582781
[11] Brooklyn Neustaeter, “These Canadian industries are currently facing the biggest labour shortages,” CTV News, October 5, 2021: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/these-canadian-industries-are-currently-facing-the-biggest-labour-shortages-1.5612004
[12] “How Healthcare Staffing Shortages Are Changing the Labor Market,” Avalere, March 28, 2022: https://avalere.com/insights/how-healthcare-staffing-shortages-are-changing-the-labor-market
[13] Mackenna Moralez, “Hospitals Growing Weary of Labor Shortages,” Healthcare Facilities Today, February 15, 2022: https://www.healthcarefacilitiestoday.com/posts/Hospitals-Growing-Weary-of-Labor-Shortages--27158
[14] “Vacancies and Labour Shortages Affecting the Hospital and Health Care Workforce,” Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, October 28, 2021, ibid.
[15] Mackenna Moralez, “Hospitals Growing Weary of Labor Shortages,” Healthcare Facilities Today, February 15, 2022, ibid.
[16] Province of British Columbia Health Authorities: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/partners/health-authorities/regional-health-authorities
[17] Crystal Phend, Senior Editor, MedPage Today, “Remdesivir Safety Forecast: Watch the Liver, Kidneys,” May 19, 2020: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86582:
[18] “The ‘very, very bad look' of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug,” Science, October 28, 2020: https://www.science.org/content/article/very-very-bad-look-remdesivir-first-fda-approved-covid-19-drug
[19] Sean Arthur Joyce, Mountain Blues, NeWest Press, Edmonton, 2018: https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/mountain-blues
Mr. Horgan, Mr. Dix and Doctor Bonnie have destroyed the health care system in BC. This is is Mr. Horgan’s legacy.