COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
Mike and Shannon’s Story Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:13:11.040 - 00:13:34.680
About This Clip: Victim details their prior condition; Victim's fam
Excerpt: "we wanted to see the awake. ... she was alert and awake. She knew who everybody was. She could've had the ventilator in her throat at that time.
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Timestamp: 00:20:20.085 - 00:21:12.994
About This Clip: Evidence of lying or dishonesty; a hospital staff
Excerpt: "the ethic board president called me knowing full well that my brother was the decision maker, and he was trying to force me into making decisions, basically harassing me, telling me that I was the decision maker and that, I that even it didn't matter if Michael was still sick that I had to make decisions and that they were gonna have this meeting, without me...And I said, I never told anybody that I was the power of attorney.
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Timestamp: 00:18:35.019 - 00:18:48.880
About This Clip: Evidence of ethical breaches and possible dehumani
Excerpt: "the ethics board at the hospital had approached us and said that we needed to have a family meeting, that they were going to move forward with taking her off of the ventilator because she was considered nonessential care.
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Timestamp: 00:26:17.955 - 00:27:18.424
About This Clip: Victim discusses being pressured into palliative c
Excerpt: "And I said, honestly, I said, she got way better overnight, so we're not gonna do that anymore. And you could tell that she was extremely angry with me. She had an attitude... they see her laying there with sedation and just write her off as being dead.
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Timestamp: 00:07:14.029 - 00:07:52.865
About This Clip: The victim discusses being pressured to sign a DNR
Excerpt: "They wanted me to sign a DNR, and I said no, that I needed to talk to my family. ... I feel like they treated her only with the minimal, things that they could treat her with because they knew that she was just gonna die.
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Timestamp: 00:30:27.945 - 00:30:32.339
About This Clip: Perception of being held against their will and fi
Excerpt: "there's nothing we can't they they had her hostage there. There's nothing to do.
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Timestamp: 00:23:02.815 - 00:23:13.950
About This Clip: The family expresses feeling forced to make a deci
Excerpt: "what kind of compassion do you have as people if you are trying to force a family to murder their mother at Christmas time? Like, it was just unreal.
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Timestamp: 00:10:26.029 - 00:10:34.555
About This Clip: The interaction referred to where a doctor casuall
Excerpt: "At one point, I had a doctor come in and turn up his ventilator way up and said turned around and looked at me and said, oh, yeah. That works. Good luck. And walked off.
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Timestamp: 00:39:47.969 - 00:41:04.525
About This Clip: The speaker describes the healthcare team's failur
Excerpt: "We didn't find out that they'd stopped the Lasix until she was, like, really swollen. They sort of they didn't tell us that. And when we finally asked why, it was a lot they neglected to tell us about that part until we asked specifically days later. ... I asked them every question every time. ... Oh, well, we haven't been giving her her Lasix because it's affecting her blood pressure. And I said, well, but it's always affected her blood pressure, and you guys have given her blood pressure medicine, and it goes back to where it needs to be.
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Timestamp: 00:31:08.849 - 00:31:23.115
About This Clip: Describing a situation where compassion was discus
Excerpt: "you're talking about compassion, but you want us to kill her. They're like, well, it's not we're not killing her. And I said, well, then what do you call it? Because you're taking a person in there who is alive. She is still up and talking.
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Timestamp: 00:09:41.774 - 00:10:13.485
About This Clip: The victim recounts episodes where ventilator sett
Excerpt: "They would come in and just change her ventilator settings for, like, really, literally no reason... they gave me the runaround.
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Timestamp: 00:10:56.345 - 00:11:51.794
About This Clip: Denied alternative treatments; Victim was denied t
Excerpt: "November seventh, we asked them to give her ivermectin. We said, you know, it's a right to try. She is basically going to die. You've told us that. Like, we should have the opportunity to try it. Try anything and everything. ... They refused to try it, would not even listen to it.
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Timestamp: 00:23:47.930 - 00:24:26.615
About This Clip: The mention of a "big push" to take the patient of
Excerpt: "there was a big push to just take her off... so many people have lost their loved ones from December twentieth through Christmas day.
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Timestamp: 00:27:35.305 - 00:27:59.109
About This Clip: The speaker mentions the hospital staff's repeated
Excerpt: "They just kept asking, oh, is she is she vaccinated? ... You could tell. They just didn't when you said that if she wasn't vaccinated, they just didn't it just didn't seem like they had the drive, but they would've if it she would've been vaccinated.
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Timestamp: 00:40:04.075 - 00:40:43.230
About This Clip: The speaker expresses frustration over the lack of
Excerpt: "What made me so mad about the whole situation was the fact that I called in there every single night at, like, midnight to get an update on her before I would go to bed because I wanted to know what were her stats, ... I would always ask them, is there anything new? Did you take anything away? Is there any new medications? And it was always like, nope. It's it's the same. It's the same.
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Timestamp: 00:19:17.244 - 00:19:24.144
About This Clip: Evidence of denial of informed consent; Shannon's
Excerpt: "And they said their answer to that was too bad. We're gonna move forward with the meeting anyway.
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Timestamp: 00:22:38.549 - 00:22:45.470
About This Clip: The family describes the push from the hospital st
Excerpt: "they were saying that we needed to take her off. We needed to just They were gonna force us to take her off. Take her off as she was getting better, and we were arguing with them.
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Timestamp: 00:33:05.799 - 00:33:08.779
About This Clip: Victim's account of police presence in a hospital
Excerpt: "they had police there. They had security there.
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Timestamp: 00:32:37.440 - 00:32:48.994
About This Clip: Victim describes a feeling of helplessness and the
Excerpt: "they intentionally made her organ shut down. She she would mouth like, help me. Like, she wanted us to help her get out of there. It was a very helpless feeling to have.
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Timestamp: 00:38:23.539 - 00:39:11.514
About This Clip: The victim's deterioration and lack of proper medi
Excerpt: "They were giving her was it Ativan? ... But over the course of two days, she went downhill. ... the second day that I was there, she was nonresponsive. ... I was like, what's going on? Like, why is she, you know and why is she retaining so much fluid?