Now They Know!

February 19, 2011

Now They Know!

While wandering around on Facebook this morning, I found an article on Tysabri.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110217-718604.html

To say it made me mad is a huge example of understatement. It made me furious! So furious that I sent the following letter to the two women in my life who have the power to do something but who do nothing. Sent a cc to my on MP also.  Here it is:

    NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Biogen Idec Inc. (BIIB) disclosed 10 more cases of a rare brain infection among multiple sclerosis patients taking Tysabri, a medication it sells with Elan Corp. (ELN, ELN.DB), bringing the total number of affected patients to 95 as of Feb. 2.

    The Weston, Mass., biotech company reported that four more of those patients have died, bringing the total to 20.

Are you two ladies still listening to your "Experts"?  If you are, I hope the family of the next Canadian that dies because they were treated with Tysabri on the advise of your experts sues you and your party and your useless experts and the pharmaceutical company. In fact I hope the families of anyone who has ever died from taking this "safe" drug sues you. Ms. Matthews, I know you are only responsible for things that happen in Ontario but I include you because the odds of an MSer in Ontario dying from this legalized drug pushing is quite high due to the number of people you represent here (and because you and Leona appear to have the same standard letter writer). There is a precedent for suing the government. Mr Mulroney did quite well doing it didn't he? And his case was a tad questionable. Ours is not so questionable I don't think.

Knowingly prescribing a lethal drug - Hmmm I would think there is a case for the homicide division of the RCMP here, don't you think. It should not be that hard for them to find a money connection for a motivating factor.

Are your experts telling you that tysabri is safer than Vascular angioplasty? Come on, girls. You both cannot be this brainwashed or is this just stupidity? We voters do expect you elected representatives to use your own heads.

One other thing - Have you noticed there is a total lack of respect here? That is because it is impossible to have any respect for people, especially fellow females (We female voters do expect more heart and less greed or stupidity as the case may be, from females), who have upheld my death sentence by MS. You insult my intelligence. You treat me and my fellow MSers with a total lack of respect. Be happy Leona that I call you Leona. The only other option for me is to call you The Dishonourable Minister.

I think it is time for me to go have a little daydream. My favourite day dream? Why it is where you two ladies find yourself suffering from MS and find yourselves broke from all the law suits and stuck having to live with your own rulings.

I have sent you the news item. Do not say "I didn't know."

Sincerely

Karen Copeland
MSdragonslayer

We Expect Our Women in Politics to Roar, not Mewl

December 20, 2010

           My Letter to Ministers of Health, Ontario and Federal - it went out today.

Until 1929 women were not legally recognized as “persons” in Canada. We, women, fought long and hard for that distinction. We, women,  followed that battle with one that allowed us to vote and then another to allow us to have seats in Parliament. One would think that having fought so hard, we would work even harder to convince everyone that we deserved it because we were, after all, capable of reasonable thought. And furthermore we could now use that status to help other Canadians in ways that only other women know are important. You know - women as nurturers.

Well that was the idea until you two ladies showed up and proved that theory wrong.

More women than men suffer from MS. We need help. Help is out there. But instead of acting like women and having us hear your roar, we are instead subjected to drivel that comes straight out of the mouths of self serving men such as Mark Freedman, Alain Beaudet and Yves Savoie but it is served up by two women, who should be our champions.

But champions for women and men with MS you are definitely Not! How do I know? Well aside from the fact that you parrot three men who have their own agendas, you can't be bothered to respond to anyone who writes you; the odd time you do it is a form letter and clearly the wording on cigarette packages is more worthy of your time than the 76,000 Canadians with MS.

Well the cigarette thing is getting old and stale. It is sometimes downright idiotic - eg  Vogue's package warns that it causes impotency. Here is a wee history lesson. After WWII, hoards of people were smoking, including women who would not have dreamed of smoking before the war. After the war we had a baby boom. Correct me if I am wrong but if smoking causes impotency, how the sam hell did a baby boom come about.  It is not even logical. Do not mistake this for a pro smoking statement - it isn't. But I fail to see how packaging of anything is more important than people suffering from MS.

Form letters are insulting.

And those three men are the last men on earth you want to rely on. Read the drivel from Alain Beaudet at December 7th's Parliamentary Subcommittee on Neurological Disease. Listen to Mark Freedman on CTVs w-5 show or go and read all the misrepresentations on the MS Society site that Yves Savoie obviously approves of.

When are you going to start thinking................like women who care. When are you going to cast aside those props and start acting based on logic and compassion? When are you going to start listening to the Canadian people - 75%, according to Angus Reid,  who think vascular angiopathy should be allowed in Canada.

When, ladies?

Sincerely

Karen Copeland