Alberta woman dies after being denied transplant for refusing to get COVID vaccine

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So you are saying there is a house on the market now?

Step 2: find out

On the flip side, transplant given to person who follows medical advice

She died rather than accepting a free to her, safe, and effective vaccine.

Trusts doctors enough to be cut open and have someone elses organ inserted into their body. Doesn't trust doctors enough to get vaccinated

I had a double lung transplant 6 years ago. You have to be EXTREMELY compliant to even get put on the list.

So many meds and tests and shit stuff you need to follow EXACTLY, every 12 hours, every day, for the rest of your life.

If you refuse a vaccine you're never going to care for your new lungs. It's not easy.

What do you mean I have to stop drinking gin if I want a liver transplant?

Patient dies because she didn't follow doctor's advice.

Better the organ saved the life of a non-moron.

If you aren’t gonna take steps to protect yourself, you’re not worthy. There’s a long list and many people who will work hard to safeguard such a gift.

“Taking this vaccine offends my conscience. I ought to have the choice about what goes into my body, and a lifesaving treatment cannot be denied to me because I chose not to take an experimental treatment for a condition — COVID-19 — which I do not have and which I may never have,” Lewis said in an affidavit.

I guess she died with a clear conscious. 🙄

Seriously though, taking an organ from the waitlist and then inevitably getting COVID while immunocompromised is .. not very cool.. for the next person on the waitlist.

They don't give organs to alcoholics who don't stop drinking either.

Good luck getting a heart of you refuse to quit eating a hamburger an hour.

Look, you have to pass a baseline level of taking care of yourself to qualify for an organ, and vaccinations are the bottom, base level first line of defense.

She probably should've gotten the vaccine, huh?

Transplants are incredibly strict about you not just wanting to live, but doing everything you can in order to live. It is good that the transplant went to someone with a sense of self-preservation. Utter waste on the likes of her.

What a bonkers hill to literally die on.

"Taking this vaccine offends my conscience. I ought to have the choice about what goes into my body, and a lifesaving treatment cannot be denied to me because I chose not to take an experimental treatment for a condition"

Hun, you're not the only person who is looking for a transplant. If you're not going to protect yourself from COVID-19, you don't get the organ. Plain and simple.

Freedom isn't freedom from consequences

Woman chooses to die in favor of the comfort of stupidity.

The important thing is that she stuck to her principles. :/

rip bozo. That was her fully conscious choice to die

Solution: Get vaccinated. (It's Postmedia, so odds are pretty good the story is exaggerated or outright fake)

Tragic, one more victim of a toxic belief

Good. These people paid their nickel and took their chances. It's not anyone else's fault that they made a stupid bet. It's no different than those whiners suing over their stupid NFTs being bad investments.

damn that sucks better luck next time tho

sure owned them

one less cooker, more air for everyone else

Natural selection. Idiots will remove themselves from the gene pool.

I can't understand this. She was fine retaking the childhood vaccines but the one for COVID. What kind of misinformation led her to believe that?

I'm sorry she was ignorant, but I'm not sorry to have one less ignorant person around.

Sure, she might be dead, but the libs have been owned! Who's the real winner here?

I can respect her. She was stupid, but hey, at least she was not a hypocrite. If there were more stupid people who weren't hypocrites at the same time, life would be a little bit easier.

Ok

Looking forward to reading the comments section of this article right after I finish my broken glass cocktail.

Oh no! Anyway...

Is this the new location of /r/HermanCainAwards?

I don't want medical assistance, but not like that!

You can't fix stupid.

Covid sure did kill a lot of people with Passive Eugenics .....

Apparently, being argumentative about topics she didnt understand was more important than being alive.

Stupid people commit suicide in lots of creative ways. It's not news.

Bye.

@MapleEngineer Herman Caine award

Good.

Unfortunately, natural selection.

[Lawyers for AHS] cited a national consensus statement — developed in November 2021 and subsequently accepted by all Canadian transplant programs — which found a 25-30 per cent mortality rate in patients infected with COVID post-organ transplant.

July 2022 - Court of King’s Bench, Justice Paul Belzil - "...subjecting clinical decisions to charter scrutiny would create “medical chaos,” with patients seeking “endless judicial review of clinical treatment decisions.”"

November 2022 - Alberta Court of Appeals, Justices Frederica Schutz, Michelle Crighton and Dawn Pentelechuk - “Ms. Lewis’ COVID-19 vaccination status is not who she is,” the court wrote. “It is not an immutable personal characteristic … her choice not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is just that — a choice.”

June 2023 - Supreme Court of Canada - refused to hear appeal.

She got what she wanted. Post it everywhere.

bummer

Colonel Nicholson: Yes, Clipton. I understand, truly. But don't you see it's a matter of principle? If we give in now, there will be no end to it. No!

Major Clipton: Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere. We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way. Principle? No one will know or care what happens to us! Give in, sir! Please!

I guess she thought she'd win like Nicholson.

Good

Wonder if she gets any of this funding

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-vaccine-injuries-compensation-canada-1.6704655

A stubborn Darwin award winner. Way to hang in there.

Those of you seemingly celebrating need to slow down and take a look at yourself.

Can we tell that canada is a failed state?

Shit like this is why I took myself off the organ donor list

Canada is a fucked up place

That is sad and discriminatory.