The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports:
Scott Quiner, 55, of Buffalo, was flown from the Twin Cities to Texas over the weekend, an attorney representing the family said. Scott Quiner’s case drew widespread attention last week after Mercy Hospital said it would disconnect the ventilator on Thursday. Quiner, who was unvaccinated, had been in the hospital’s ICU since Nov. 6 with critically low oxygen levels and had shown little signs of improvement since his arrival.
Quiner’s wife, Anne, went to Anoka County court seeking an emergency restraining order to prevent Mercy from disconnecting the ventilator. Without a judge’s decision, “my husband will die,” Anne wrote in her petition seeking the court’s action. A GoFundMe has pulled in more than $28,600 as of Monday morning. A second fundraiser on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo was seeking to raise $100,000. As of Monday, the effort had brought in $41,000.
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As you can see below, among those riling up the rubes in this case is anti-vax extremist and QAnon leader Stew Peters. That’s Peters in the first clip below.
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I’m not sure exactly what’s going on here, but it sounds like the guy is “dead” and the ventilator was the only thing keeping him alive … but the wife wants him that way so she’s gone through an attorney to help her case … which, apparently, he did. So now he’ll essentially be in a vegetative state … but alive.
Is this the way you read it?
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Hello Nan. Yes. The guy’s lungs can not exchange enough oxygen to keep him alive because of the covid damage. He is being kept alive manually. The family is sure that Ivermectin will save him. You can see from the picture of them that they are not very respectful. They are sure their maga cures work and the hospital was just with holding them out of spite. Also it seems that grifting has started. The fund raising seems to have gotten the scammers attention. Time will tell, the guy will end up dying, they will sue and try to get some money. Ron tells me the hospital that the guy was in first is rated very highly and the Mercy system is very large profitable hospital system. The grifters lawyers are most likely hoping they will settle any lawsuit for a small amount rather than fight it. I had to take 16 units of insulin today. Not sure what is going to happen next. Can not afford this. Anyway, very tired going to bed. Scottie
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I’m curious who’s paying for all this? Cost a lot of money to more-the-likely airlift someone out of Minnesota to Tejas, not to mention 2 1/2 months ventilated, critical care. The (((Hospital Corporations))) are going to get paid, the question is who pays: the government/taxpayer? It’s doubtful he has insurance, more-so insurance that will pay.
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Hello Ten Bears. Great point. at first the government was paying for some Covid care, but last I red they had stopped. I think this is a great question, so here is what I found.
So the government was paying through Covid prorams but has or will stop doing so. Insurers have been billing the US government but now will be billing the patients. As for the man in the story, notice they turned to crowd funding and begged the christian sites for money. They wouldn’t protect themselves, wouldn’t protect others, but now want others to pay for their care. Typical. Scottie
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Wow. I did not know that the government was paying for COVID hospitalizations. No wonder these anti-vaccine people weren’t all that concerned if they were hospitalized. No skin off their nose! Unless, of course, they were totally uninsured, then maybe they would have to pay … ??
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I honestly think that if a person defiantly refuses to get vaccinated or wear a mask and gets Covid, hospitals should refuse treatment. Eff these whiny little friggin snowflake babies.
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I totally agree, but unfortunately, there’s that oath the docs take that makes it a bit difficult for them to refuse care.
However, since the HOSPITAL itself is essentially a business, it would seem they could do as you suggest.
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Yep. The docs can’t do that, but, as the GOP is always so quick to remind us about private businesses, THEY can do as they wish for their business and money-making adventures. After all, we simply MUST make government smaller and keep it out of such things. Thus, if hospital administrators wanna let Covid idiots die cause they refused vaccinations, more power to ’em! What good, decent, individual rights oriented member of the GOP could EVER disagree with that, eh. 🙂
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Hello Nan. The laws requiring hospitals to treat everyone who comes to the ER with only a very few exceptions are what Republicans use to claim everyone in the country has healthcare. Just show up at the ER they claim when asked and you are treated, what is the problem?
OT. Yesterday I watched a TYT show on Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where a teacher asked her students of wealthy / well off parents how much fast food workers make? Most of them thought hundreds of thousands of dollars. One student was sure them made 800,000 a year. These are the young adults who will grow up to be the corporate leaders, the members of congress, the assholes who think people are just lazy if they are poor. Scottie
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Well, I think people are lazy, ignorant shit-heads just because they’re republican, but, then again, I’m right cause they are. 🙂
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Hello Jeff. Well said sir, well said. Scottie
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Hello inspiredbythedivine1. There is a set of laws that limit very specific reasons when a hospital can refuse service. And being a right wing idiot is not one of them. Sadly. Scottie
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Sad, indeed.
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Hello Nan. I am not sure if the government reimbursed the insurance companies or the hospitals through Medicare / Medicaid. More stories in the news of people not able to get into a hospital for emergencies due to them being full of Covid patients. Did you see where Fox Laura Ingraham has a bit where she spotlights well known vaccinated public figures who get Covid. Then she mocks them in a manner that claims that vaccines don’t work. Yet she never mentions how sick these people get nor the untold thousands of unvaccinated that die from Covid. Scottie
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