Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

[Higgenbotham]

Healthcare in the New Dark Age - Part I

Nobody can afford this and it's on its way out, in my opinion.

Woman who died after waiting seven hours in ER told husband she thought she was dying

Story by Shweta Sharma • 9h ago


A woman in Canada has died after waiting for almost seven hours to receive emergency care at a hospital on New Year’s Eve in what has been described as a “senseless death”.

Allison Holthoff, 37, from the Nova Scotia province, was rushed to an emergency room on the morning of 31 December after her condition worsened from what was initially believed to be an upset stomach.

Her husband, Gunter Holthoff, told CBS news, that she had to be carried on his back to reach the Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre in Nova Scotia’s Amherst town at 11am local time before they spent hours in the waiting room.

“She was obviously in pain,” he said on Sunday, recalling his wife’s excruciating pain and their ordeal. “I was rolling her in the wheelchair and she could hardly sit up.”

Ms Holthoff’s pain worsened as the two waited for more than six hours in the emergency department’s waiting room. They were only able to see a doctor after 6 pm in the evening, he said.

By then, the doctor said, it was already too late. She underwent a preliminary examination and the nurse asked for her urine sample.

Ms Holthoff then fell on the bathroom floor as she was not able to stand on her own and required the assistance of two other people to get back onto her wheelchair.

Her condition deteriorated to the point where she was unable to sit in the wheelchair and ended up lying on the floor, he said.

“I told the nurses and the lady at the desk there a couple of times, ‘It is getting worse,’ and nothing happened,” Mr Holthoff said. “So the security guards, in time, they brought a couple blankets out and they brought us a cup of water and I used it to put some ice on her lips.”

As they continued to wait, Ms Holthoff told her husband that she felt she was dying.

“I think that she actually started saying that she thought she was dying in the waiting room outside,” Gunter continued. “She said, ‘I think I’m dying. Don’t let me die here’”.

His wife was then taken to a room with a bed, but no medical equipment. A nurse checked her blood pressure and found it to be alarmingly low.

She then received more urgent care and a doctor came to see her. An X-ray was prepped, but she was unable to breathe.

“The next thing is [her] eyes rolled back in her head and her chest started rising. Something started beeping,” he said. “The next thing you hear is over the PA, ‘code blue, code blue in X-ray.’”

“Even if she would have survived at that point... she had too long a time without sufficient blood flow to the brain and vital organs. It would have been not a life worth living,” he said.

Mr Holthoff said the system is “obviously broken” and “we need change” as “I don’t want anybody else to go through this”.

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, a local MLA, wrote a letter to the provincial health minister to demand an “urgent investigation” into the case.

Alexandra Rose, the provincial co-ordinator for the Nova Scotia Health Coalition, said the situation is scary and the province’s healthcare system is in a “dire situation”.

“It’s so scary. And we have to wonder, when is the breaking point? Is this the breaking point now that somebody has passed away? It was a senseless death,” she said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medica ... 5d4e70af3d

[Higgenbotham]

Healthcare in the New Dark Age - Part II

This is the future of health care, again, in my opinion. Addie repeatedly said, "You can't improve on nature," while letting everyone within hearing distance know about the evils of bleaching flour, etc.

Adeline Post, 102, of Beloit, Wisconsin, passed on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 at her home in Beloit.

Adeline was born on July 11, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Louis Charles and Elena "Helen" Sophia (Zakis) Wasilis. In 1935 she graduated from Rockford High School in Rockford, Illinois and then graduated from St. Anthony's School of Nursing in Rockford.

Adeline owned and operated The Post Health House for 67 years which first opened up for business in South Beloit, Illinois before being located in two locations in downtown Beloit. Adeline was a strong, kind hearted woman who could also be lovingly stubborn. She lovingly cared for her mother until she passed at the age of 105.

https://www.hansengravitt.com/obituary/adeline-post

[Higgenbotham]

The above is not meant to imply that the future of health care will have anything to do with people seeing their 100th birthday. We are seeing the last generation that will see their 100th birthdays for quite some time. During the next dark age, many people will not see the age of 40 and maybe some will live into their 60s if they can follow good health practices, as Addie did. Pandemics, environmental damage, and pollution will see to that.

My more specific predictions would be:

• There will be a major global financial panic and crisis. Supply chains will break, resulting in unavailability of critical raw materials and components. Global trade will begin to shut down. As it begins to become apparent that the supply chain linkages are permanently broken, the global interlinked financial markets will shut down and cease to exist. This will all happen very quickly. It will not take years from the initial panic.
• The focus of governments will turn to controlling their panicked and hungry populations. Due to lack of availability of imported goods and adequate storage "sufficient to reconstitute" a system consistent with nation state government, this will prove to be too little too late and most government will devolve to the local level as populations lose faith in their national governments and the national governments lose the resources and ability to control their populations.
• There will be no large scale nuclear war. Instead, the population will be culled through starvation, local strife (including settling of long-standing scores) and disease. Wave after wave of pandemics will sweep the world.
• Similar to national economies and governments, centralized utilities will fail or become so decrepit as to be unsafe and unusable. All centralized utilities including the power grid will shut down permanently.
• The initial worldwide kill rate during the first couple decades following the financial panic will exceed 90%. The global population will be in the range of a few tens of millions when the bottom is hit in two or three centuries. Similar to the last dark age, the world's largest cities will have a population on the order of 25,000 and a large town will be 1,000.
• Life during the coming dark age will be similar to the last dark age but worse due to environmental damage and pollution.

[Higgenbotham]

Walter Crinnion, ND—Pioneer in Environmental Medicine. 1953-2019

Joseph Pizzorno, ND, Editor in Chief*

Introduction

This is one of the hardest editorials I have had to write. Walter’s death was personally devastating: he was a dynamic student in my very first class at the then named John Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine (1982 graduate), a good friend for decades, co-author of several IMCJ editorials, and coauthor with me of Clinical Environmental Medicine, published by Elsevier in 2018. With his booming voice, expansive gesticulations, wicked humor and colorful patient stories, Walter was bigger than life and his loss is felt deeply by many.

As the environment has become progressively more contaminated, a handful of courageous clinicians have been relentlessly pushing the boundaries of our understanding. Unfortunately, many of them paid a serious personal price for exploring and developing our understanding of the huge contribution of the growing load of environmental metals, chemicals, particulate matter, etc. on everyday ill health and disease burden.

Walter Crinnion, ND, Pioneer in Environmental Medicine

Walter was relentless in his efforts to understand and help develop the emerging field of environmental medicine. Even as a student, he was always very interested in exploring how traditional naturopathic detoxification techniques could help patients with complex disease. Soon after graduation, he founded a clinic in Bellevue, Washington, where he set up several saunas to facilitate depuration therapy. He extensively sought guidance early on from such luminaries in medicine as John Bastyr, DC, ND, and Associate Editor Jeff Bland, PhD, and later spent considerable time studying with environmental medicine pioneer, William Rae, MD, at his clinic in Dallas, Texas. He wanted to know not only historic practices but how to better understand the chemistry and biochemistry of toxicants and the best practices for assessment and elimination. Decade by decade, his skill and understanding continued to develop. Not surprising, with his engaging lecture style, rigorous study, and great clinical cases, he attracted a large following of practitioners and doctors seeking to better care for their patients.

He partnered with, Lyn Patrick, ND—another early Bastyr graduate—and Cheryl Gray, RD, to found SpiritMed and the Environmental Health Symposium to create an exciting educational environment where attendees could learn from the best and interact with others searching for solutions for their patients with very difficult health challenges.

His work and inspiration led to his creation of the environmental medicine curricula and departments at Bastyr University, University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, and the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine. His work was so compelling, his expertise was recognized and welcome far beyond the naturopathic community where he started. He founded the Naturopathic Association of Environmental Medicine which became the National Association of Environmental Medicine, was an adjunct faculty at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, a blogger at Huffington Post, and a reviewer for several journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pharmaceutical Biology, Science of the Total Environment, and the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.

He wrote many articles for diverse medical journals and consumer magazines, created multiple educational videos, lectured extensively in North America and throughout the world, and his monthly Crinnion Opinion is of such great value that my wife Lara and I have subscribed for many years.

Working with Walter to write Clinical Environmental Medicine, I learned a lot about the practical application of environmental medicine in a clinical environment. While I came to this body of knowledge from a public-health perspective, he was there in the trenches with real patients. He also authored/co-authored two books for consumers, Clean, Green and Lean (2010) and The Prediabetes Detox: A Whole-Body Program to Balance Your Blood Sugar, Increase Energy, and Reduce Sugar Cravings (2013).

More about Walter and his work can be found here: http://environmentalhealthsymposium.com ... -memorial/ and here: https://www.listenandcare.com/walter-crinnion-nd/.

Rest in peace dear friend. The world owes you a tremendous debt for your courageous, pioneering work.

Caution for In-Office Depuration?

During the past year-and-a-half, the 3 of the most prominent environmental medicine doctors who have for decades provided patients in-office depuration have become seriously ill, and two have died. Walter during his many lectures would comment on the weird smells emanating from his patients as they went through depuration in his office saunas. Obviously, whatever a person is smelling is entering their body. Could their inexplicable health problems and early deaths have been due to the toxins to which they were inadvertently exposed as they left their patients’ bodies?

Until we have clarity, seems logical to me for all practitioners engaging in in-office detoxification to be extremely careful about toxin exposure from their patients. I recommend we research practitioners engaged in in-office detoxification to determine if there is indeed a serious risk. Such a study would include such factors as:

Number of years in practice
Number of saunas in office
Sample air in the office during depuration
Measure levels of volatile toxins in the doctor and staff involved in detoxification procedures
Determine measures of toxic damage most likely to occur from volatiles released during depuration. Immune and neurological function seem best candidates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6601440/

[Higgenbotham]

When the total number of births per year peaks, several trends reverse. For all practical purposes, in terms of trend reversals, the total number of births in the US peaked in 1961.

When the number of births is rising, since men tend to marry younger women, there is always a surplus of women (and men able to start families are scarce and therefore valuable). When that trend reverses, men are now in surplus (and somewhat more so because of the sex ratio at birth being around 1.05 though it can also be argued that effect is reduced somewhat but not entirely because there are more homosexuals than lesbians, higher male prison population, etc.) and younger women are now scarce and therefore valuable. (Speaking of which, whenever there is a search party of hundreds out looking for a missing person, it is always a young white female - ever notice that? Hundreds NEVER come out to search for a young brown female or ANY male or old female. So not only can feminists tell us how valuable women are, our civilization is telling young women that every day by its actions. What a shock to find out that you are now a 60 year old woman and worthless, just like everyone else.)

Also, I think that once the numbers of births start to decline, that is the point at which the rate of physical expansion of the civilization also starts to slow down and, therefore, traditional male activities like building infrastructure begin to decline and the civilization enters into a maintenance phase before the inevitable decline. The mix of jobs begins to change and women are able to better do many of the jobs that become prominent during the maintenance and decline phase (like health care and education, which really just serve to milk out the surplus of the civilization before it collapses). This shift in the job mix has the effect of accelerating the decline (further reducing births and the effects that result from the further reduction in births).

The Idaho murders. And those chicks weren't even good looking, though it was said they were.

[John]

I disagree.

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/kaylee-g ... deo-noise/

Gimme gimme shock treatment...






Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Song by Ramones

I was feeling sick, losing my mind
Heard about these treatments by a good friend of mine
He was always happy, smile on his face
He said he had a great time at the place
Peace and love is here to stay and now I can wake up and face the day
Happy-happy-happy all the time, shock treatment, I'm doing fine

Gimme-gimme shock treatment
Gimme-gimme shock treatment
Gimme-gimme shock treatment
I wanna-wanna shock treatment

I was feeling sick, losing my mind
Heard about these treatments by a good friend of mine
He was always happy, smile on his face
He said he had a great time at the place
Peace and love is here to stay and now I can wake up and face the day
Happy-happy-happy all the time, shock treatment, I'm doing fine

Gimme-gimme shock treatment
Gimme-gimme shock treatment
Gimme-gimme shock treatment
I wanna-wanna shock treatment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PCfwjEx7mM

[aeden]

We are here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZZFnNwdgqQ
Our system is rather badly frayed and ready to snap also. Lucky for us we caught the very tail end of the
recent issues tridemic.
The current data fragilty study is 30 day or longer from release for base studies in treatment.
Just because they got released did not mean they got 36 month left from the actual virus infor many coincidences.
I cannot get into the data fragilty since it does not exist.
The new varaint has gained a foothold in California.
Seventy percent of air travel incoming are XBB.1.5 infected from Asia projected from sources.
See line one.

[aeden]

Find your Tribe. The Wifes people have one standard. Others. Given the complicated facts since 1678 in her side
values are known even when Hunted by the alleged civilized interlopers.
The seasons will come and go. They will be snared and fall like the leafs as we seen as Amos.
This includes to be seen events already written as we see transpiring.
The second variant we had to deal with had a severe carry cost. The educational cost
and actual solution was the data fragilty warning sent. The data sets are risk maps
then are not the ones we have at the moment. As indicated program data sets have been
structured from front line to VC data collection dat sets treatment plans and now settings for
best practice in that effort. Complicated but you can understand what was will not be correct
as these gain of funtion lunatic predators are the core issue.
We as witnesses to affairs have had Univercity and Pulmonary Specialist focus efforts.
What ever happens one they they cannot have. A Tribe they cannot even see.
As for the current virus vacine.
No.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZlRX03BzeA

[Higgenbotham]

Thus far, the elites have won out, encouraged immigration, and watched the angry deplorables cause minority pain. Thus far, this has worked roughly well for America, less well for the minorities. The cheap labor has become available, the deplorables inflamed. The object of the progressives is to get rid of the hate, oppression and pain.

This is all theoretical and obviously written by somebody with no experience living or being in inner city war zones, as is your propaganda about "spree shooters going into minority safe spaces," as if the incident in Waukesha, Wisconsin and dozens of others never happened. Here is a small list of my personal experiences:

1. While parked behind a liquor store in an inner city neighborhood, 2 blacks parked next to me and began to harass me. Finally, one of them said, "If that cracker turns his head, I'm going to blow it off." When I didn't turn my head he laughed and said, "He knows better than to turn his head."

2. A pack of blacks on welfare moved in next to me. There was an elderly couple on the other side. One of the black kids broke out the window of their garage so he could steal out of it. He was also caught stealing out of another neighbor's garage. After that, I threatened them and told them to stay the hell away from my property. They had the audacity and stupidity to ask if I had a problem with them, as if I was some kind of racist.

3. I was on the South Side of Chicago and pulled into a gas station where I was the only white person. You had to pay first to get gas at a window with bullet proof glass. I went over and paid her $5. When I went back and turned the pump on it didn't work. I went back to the window and asked her to turn the pump on. She screamed, "It's on," and everyone within about 30 feet turned around and looked at me. Then I went over and pumped my gas and left.

‘Don’t kill me’: Carjacked Amazon drivers want destination before taking gig

Spencer Soper and Jackie Davalos Mar 12, 2022

George Hunt took two bullets in a botched carjacking while delivering packages for Amazon.com in Chicago. Now he's pushing the e-commerce giant to notify contract drivers in advance about the neighborhoods they'll be traveling to so they can decide if $30 an hour is worth the risk.

Hunt left his 2015 Volkswagen Jetta running just before 5:30 a.m. on Feb. 23 to make a delivery on East 87th Place on Chicago's South Side. While running up to the stoop to drop off a package, he was startled to hear his engine revving. He turned around to see a man emerge from his car and point a gun at him. The gunman popped off several shots as Hunt ducked for cover. One bullet struck him in the shoulder and lodged in his back. Another passed through his left thigh and grazed his right leg. Hunt only realized later it was a carjacking gone awry, and the would-be thief most likely abandoned his car because he didn't know how to drive a stick shift.

“While I’m on the ground, I’m not being a hero,” said Hunt, 32, who also owns a car detailing business in Indiana with his brother. “I’m screaming ‘Don’t kill me. I’ve got a baby on the way." He didn't see what happened, he pleaded. "Just go. Just go.'”

His was the third and most extreme incident affecting Chicago contract delivery drivers over two days last month. Hours after the attack on Hunt, a 69-year-old Uber driver was carjacked. The following day, two armed men demanded van keys from a 36-year-old Amazon delivery driver and stole the vehicle full of packages, according to police.

Chicago is the epicenter of a spike in carjackings plaguing big cities around the U.S., leaving gig workers who spend their days ferrying meals, people and packages particularly vulnerable. Vehicular hijackings in Chicago jumped 30% in 2021 from the previous year. The city created a task force to fight the rise, and police have announced a string of arrests. New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans are among other big cities that have reported a rise in carjackings, often used by gangs to test the gumption of young recruits.

Hunt's shooting is galvanizing drivers who want more information about their destinations and caught the attention of U.S. Representative Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, a Chicago Democrat. "Companies like Amazon rely on independent contractors to dodge responsibility for wages, benefits, and workplace protection," he said. "I call on Amazon to do right by its workers and on Congress to fix these oversights in our labor law."

Most drivers working for Amazon's gig-style Flex service receive assignments via a smartphone app that tells them how much they can earn and about how long the trip is expected to take. But drivers don't know specifically where they're being sent until they get to the delivery station to gather their packages. If they decline a route, Amazon penalizes them, which can mean they get less work or no further work at all. The delivery station from which Hunt usually works, in Country Club Hills just south of Chicago, has signs posted to remind drivers that they can't decline routes or ask for new ones.

‘Route refusal'

"If you choose to not take a route based on location, it is considered a route refusal and appropriate action will be taken," reads a sign in the station, according to a photo reviewed by Bloomberg.

Amazon spokeswoman Maria Boschetti said the company has a "rigorous process" to evaluate dangerous incidents so it can prevent them from happening again, but she declined to reveal any details. Drivers taking delivery blocks don't know their destinations in advance because the routes haven't been assigned yet, she added.

"We're committed to the safety of drivers and the communities where we deliver, and we work hard to ensure Amazon Flex delivery partners feel safe on the road while making customer deliveries," Boschetti said. "If a driver arrives at the delivery location and does not feel safe, they are not expected to deliver their route and will not be penalized for refusing. At Amazon, safety is our top priority, and we want to ensure all Flex [delivery partners] feel safe delivering their routes."

Amazon isn't the only delivery service providing limited information about destinations. DoorDash couriers can see the minimum pay and distance of a delivery, but not the specific address until the order is accepted. At Lyft, drivers can see the distance to a pickup location, but not a passenger's destination before accepting a trip.

In the lead-up to Proposition 22, a California ballot measure exempting gig companies from a state law requiring them to classify workers as employees, Uber Technologies let drivers set their own prices for rides and see passengers' destinations before accepting a trip. The ride-hailing company later revoked the feature, saying drivers turned down too many rides. Since then, Uber has been experimenting with versions of the policy, giving drivers more visibility again in 24 U.S. cities. Previously, such information was reserved for drivers who accepted a certain number of rides.

Drivers simply want the same information supplied to most independent businesses, said Lenny Sanchez, director of the Illinois chapter of the Independent Drivers Guild, which advocates for drivers' rights and has about 250,000 members around the country. "Allow us to make an intelligent decision on whether we want to accept an assignment rather than making it a big gamble every time we hear a beep on our phones."

Drivers have voiced concerns about being sent to Chicago in the early morning when it's still dark given the number of shootings and robberies in the area, but Amazon hasn't listened, they said. Some drivers have resorted to carrying weapons, even though it's against company policy.

"Amazon intentionally leaves off where you're going because they know if they put up routes for certain neighborhoods, they wouldn't get picked up," Hunt said. "Do I feel bad for the people in those neighborhoods? Absolutely. But not so bad that I should have to go out there and get shot and be expected to go back to the same neighborhood the next day."

Any company that offers to deliver just about anything, anywhere, at any time will struggle to navigate crime-stricken areas. Amazon can stop dispatching drivers to specific addresses if they report aggressive animals or customer harassment. But ceasing or even limiting operations in entire neighborhoods — especially those with large minority populations — can run afoul of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits the withholding of services based on race. If Amazon shared destinations up front, drivers could demand more pay to go to neighborhoods they perceive as dangerous, driving up costs.

"On the one hand, withholding information reinforces the grip algorithmic management has on workers," says Lindsey Cameron, an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. "On the other, one of reasons you're able to get drivers into these lower socioeconomic status neighborhoods, is because there's no visibility. I don't know if there's a simple way to regulate this."

Crime statistics

Domino's Pizza in 2000 signed a consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department following complaints that it discriminated against Black people by providing limited delivery in some neighborhoods. The decree required Domino's to base such decisions not merely on an employee's perceptions but on crime statistics that demonstrated certain areas to be dangerous. In 2016, Amazon agreed to expand its same-day delivery service to minority urban neighborhoods in Boston, New York and Washington, D.C., after a Bloomberg investigation revealed the company excluded some predominantly Black zip codes in several big cities.

Hunt started delivering for Amazon regularly in January after learning his wife was expecting their first child. His detailing business suffered during the pandemic, and he wanted to earn extra money. He typically took four-hour routes that begin as early as 3:30 a.m. and pay about $120. His destination each day is random, and he can find himself 40 miles in any direction from the delivery station.

After getting shot, Hunt waited a few minutes on the ground, then jumped in his car and sped off. He parked in front of a drugstore a few blocks away and called the police, then phoned his brother who helped him stay alert until help arrived. He spent about 12 hours in the emergency room, his wife waiting outside due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Hunt wears a sling to help heal a broken scapula and said doctors told him it will be months before he can use his left hand again, which he needs for the detailing business. His lawyer submitted a claim for worker's compensation, and his brother is overseeing the business in the meantime. Hunt hasn't received a hospital bill yet, but said he has insurance and hopes his portion of the bill doesn't exceed a few thousand dollars.

Hunt said he won't deliver Amazon packages again for fear he wouldn't survive another shooting. But he says even if some drivers refuse to accept gigs in certain neighborhoods, Amazon knows hundreds more will take the risk. Once his wounds heal, Hunt plans to visit Washington, D.C., to speak with any lawmaker who'll listen. "We don't have any power," he said. "Amazon's gonna get us killed."

https://www.union-bulletin.com/seattle_ ... 71416.html