COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
Michelle Strassburg’s Story Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:03:16.290 - 00:04:06.335
About This Clip: The victim describes being denied alternative trea
Excerpt: "I begged them, can you please give him ivermectin in high and or hydroxychloroquine? They said he literally laughed at me. Literally laughed at me over the phone. He said, this does not work. I said, well, it worked for our president. So, I mean, I it does work. And he again, he laughed. I said, well, what are you giving him that can that's actually going to make a difference? Because, clearly, the steroids that they told me they were giving him and the antibiotic wasn't doing the trick. I told him, I said, I absolutely do not want you to give him remdesivir. And he says, well, we've already been giving it to him. And I told him, you'd you never you never told me that you were giving it to him. I don't want him to have it. He said that that's not your choice.
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Timestamp: 00:27:54.389 - 00:28:25.450
About This Clip: The frustration expressed over the difficulties in
Excerpt: "I got his medical records. I went in, and I sat there until they gave them to me. They gave them to me, and it wasn't until I talked to somebody who was in my grief share whose husband went through the same exact thing. And she said that she got the rest of the records. And I said, well, what do you mean? Well, they didn't give me any of the medical, the medicines or the nurses' notes or so I went back and requested all the nurses' notes, everything else, and they sent me an additional, like, three hundred and some pages.
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Timestamp: 00:22:17.845 - 00:22:35.299
About This Clip: Victim discusses taking photographs of blood from
Excerpt: "He was taking photographs on his phone of blood coming down his nose, and they put nothing but a towel on his chest. ... I've got all these pictures, so I've downloaded them and imprinted them, because I know he was trying to tell me something.
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Timestamp: 00:11:07.834 - 00:11:28.590
About This Clip: Victim expresses dissatisfaction with hospital sta
Excerpt: "I said, well, this is my husband, and I'll take all the pictures I want... Still to this day, nobody would tell me what happened. They have no idea. There's nothing in his chart, nothing in his record, nothing whatsoever.
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Timestamp: 00:41:40.440 - 00:44:04.135
About This Clip: The speaker expresses a belief that their loved on
Excerpt: "I call this project Avenge Richard's murder... I said, I'm happy. I'll roll it in the door to somebody. I don't care. They can have mine. I just can't even believe that they won't even entertain it... Because I was just not in treatment because he wasn't vaccinated... It's crimes against humanity. It's criminal. It's murder.
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Timestamp: 00:34:56.760 - 00:35:09.315
About This Clip: The speaker claims that the situation regarding th
Excerpt: "This is considered a crime against humanity. This is not medical malpractice... Richard was a casualty of war, and this is a crime against humanity...
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Timestamp: 00:34:41.054 - 00:34:44.255
About This Clip: The statement explicitly declares that the speaker
Excerpt: "you know, no. They killed him. And I wanna talk to somebody.
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Timestamp: 00:22:04.069 - 00:22:11.509
About This Clip: Victim mentions that she never got to kiss her hus
Excerpt: "Never in a million years, and I couldn't even be with him. I never got to kiss him goodbye. I couldn't stand there and and spend time with him.
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Timestamp: 00:12:55.284 - 00:13:13.649
About This Clip: Victim indicates feeling manipulated and misled ab
Excerpt: "I did not want him to go to the hospital, but everybody talked to me into trusting the fact that they were gonna take care of him... because that's what they do at the hospital. And, of course, that's not what they did.
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Timestamp: 00:14:19.985 - 00:15:41.459
About This Clip: The victim discusses being denied access to make d
Excerpt: "I tried getting a guardianship because they wouldn't let me make decisions for him. They wouldn't let me into his MyChart. They wouldn't give me access to his records. So I had an emergency Zoom meeting with the judge, for emergency guardianship. I know she thought I was lying because she said, you mean to tell me that they a lot of you or they asked you for permission to put or consent to put in a a line and to do dialysis and all the other stuff, but they won't give you his information. I said, no. They won't. So she, she gave a a suggested a guardian at Lightnam to come in and kind of do an interview to make sure I I'm sure that I was being honest and, find out what the situation was. I'm trying to call hospitals. I'm trying to call attorneys. I'm trying to call anybody that can possibly get me into a better situation, give him some ivermectin, give him, something that can help get him off of this ventilator. Sorry. Before he, before he dies. I'm frantic. I'm talking to the hospital staff. I'm talking to the patient advocates. I'm begging the doctors. And they they frankly, they don't care.
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Timestamp: 00:07:49.714 - 00:07:59.860
About This Clip: This statement reflects a strong emotional respons
Excerpt: "And she said, we're putting him on a ventilator. And I just started wailing and screaming. I said, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. You can't. You can't do that.
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Timestamp: 00:04:53.480 - 00:06:35.610
About This Clip: The victim details their distress over being unabl
Excerpt: "I would call the hospital, and the phone would just ring nonstop. I'd call the nurses' station. It would ring and ring and ring and ring and ring. The next day, which was Tuesday, they stepped him down to a regular room. I'm thinking fantastic. ... Nope. I can't come in until Thursday, which would have been Thanksgiving. And okay. So I'm I'm kinda buying my time.
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Timestamp: 00:19:19.890 - 00:19:35.434
About This Clip: A profound moment where the victim recounts the em
Excerpt: "So, I agreed to it. My family came in, and we spent many hours sobbing bedside, praying, and just trying to come to grips with the fact that this is what was gonna happen.
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Timestamp: 00:27:03.519 - 00:27:40.825
About This Clip: The statement "their thirty nine year old and fort
Excerpt: "I mean, the and and he was thirty nine years old. It's just sickening, perfectly healthy. Rambesadir, classic symptoms of rambesadir, renal failure, sepsis. My, my aunt and uncle were were killed. They were both killed by a removestadir, within days of each other when I begged to get him out. You know? And it's like these prisons turn into I mean, these hospitals turn into prisons. Prisons. Right. And and we're supposed to go to hospitals to get better, not to die, and they've turned it into death camps.
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Timestamp: 00:21:44.090 - 00:21:51.815
About This Clip: Victim reflects on the distress caused by her husb
Excerpt: "My life is destroyed. I'm fifty one years old. I just turned fifty one years old, and I'm a widow. This is my soul mate. This is my everything.
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Timestamp: 00:20:49.899 - 00:21:43.789
About This Clip: Victim describes how the hospital staff were disre
Excerpt: "She says they all die on the ventilator. She listened to the one doctor coming in. One of the patients down the room from where my husband Richard was, he asked her. He said, you know, what do you think about this ventilator? And she said, do you want me to tell you the truth? And he said, yeah. She says, I I wouldn't do it. She says, I would go on hospice first. And his eyes got real bitty big. He got real scared. ... She told me that the doctors go around the corner and they laugh and mock the patient's families and tell tell one talk to one another about how stupid and foolish we are. It's it's it's the most horrific nightmare I've ever been in in my life, and I can't wake up from it.
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Timestamp: 00:12:00.975 - 00:12:04.754
About This Clip: Victim discusses MRSA and expresses concern about
Excerpt: "now he has a lung infection, MRSA, I'm told.
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Timestamp: 00:18:52.190 - 00:18:57.730
About This Clip: Palliative care pressure, specifically being press
Excerpt: "if you agree to take him off of the vent, then you can have anybody you want come in and see him and spend time with them.
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Timestamp: 00:15:41.459 - 00:16:22.914
About This Clip: The excerpt indicates that the staff's actions are
Excerpt: "I've never seen one one of the residents come into the room other than rounding the entire time I was there. And the hospital wasn't busy. They were just everywhere else. Of course, I'm talking directly to, several of the nurses, one in particular, I mean, she she knew what was happening, unbeknownst to me because after we had met later, she told me, Michelle, nobody gets off of the vent. And, I said, what do you, you know, what do you mean? She said, no nobody gets off the vent. They all die. So what happened to telling me that it's just to give as long as the rest? It's just for a short period of time.
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Timestamp: 00:08:04.480 - 00:09:38.200
About This Clip: This segment indicates that the victim was denied
Excerpt: "She assured me it was just to give his lungs a rest, just just to give him a rest to put you know, and he was gonna be just fine. I begged if I could come up and see him and be with him...I tried calling the director. I tried calling the, patient advocate...I'm trying to find out what all they have him on. They won't tell me all the medicines that they have him on...I said, well, you won't give me absolutely. Do what you have to do, but you won't give me information, but you want me to give you my consent...