Posted on 02/10/2021 1:02:52 PM PST by george76
Ryan Bentson, 53, was arrested and ticketed at Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital as he claimed his face shield was enough protection..
A Vernon man who underwent a double lung transplant has been ticketed for not wearing a COVID-19 mask in hospital.
Ryan Bentson, 53, was arrested and ticketed at Vernon’s Jubilee Hospital as he claimed his face shield was enough protection.
RCMP Const. Chris Terleski said the officers were called to the hospital about 2:45 p.m. on Sunday but the Bentson had left the facility. He called police at 6:40 p.m. to discuss the situation and was told if he returned to the hospital and didn’t war a mask, he would be fined.
But Bentson did come back about 9:45 p.m. wearing a face mask. He recorded his interactions on a cellphone and posted it to social media.
The video shows him telling the admitting clerk he has a medical exemption from wearing a mask after a double-lung transplant in 2011 and that his shield was enough protection. The clerk responds it’s the hospital’s policy for everyone to wear a mask.
He alleged the security guards had thrown him to the ground in the afternoon incident.
An RCMP officer is then seen walking towards Bentson and tells him to leave if he won’t abide by hospital rules.
The volume goes silent as another staff member seems to be explaining the policy to him. The RCMP officer finally moves towards Betson, grabbing his cell phone, as the video ends.
“When it became clear the individual was not going to abide by the requirements, the officer arrested the man and removed him from the property,” RCMP said in a statement, adding he was handcuffed, given a pair of tickets and driven home.
“Our health-care professionals have a responsibility to ensure that regulations mandated by the provincial health order are followed in order to safeguard all patients and members of the public,” Terleski told the Abbotsford News.
“Our emphasis has always been to encourage compliance of COVID-19 restrictions through education and awareness. However, when required we will take the reasonable and necessary enforcement action to support the Public Health Order and safeguard members of the public.”
Bentson was supposed to go back to the hospital on Monday for a breathing test but opted out.
“I don’t feel safe going to the hospital anymore,” Bentson told the News.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Wow...that’s crazy.
So the gestopo arrests him for not wearing a mask from a box that states: “these masks do not protect the wearer from transmitting covid 19”
Full out CrAzy!!
As the British often say “They have lost the plot!”
....and their humanity too.
Sorry Doc, I thought BREATHING was important!?!?!?!
He doesn’t need a mask, he has the lungs of a 30 year old.
Thank God a renouned team of qualified doctors are blowing the whistle on those that want to treat Americans like prisoners, and platforms that choose to censor decent rather then engage in debate.
Trudeau made Canada fascist in just a few years.
“As the British often say “They have lost the plot!”
....and their humanity too.”
Police, politicians and bureaucrats. A deadly combination.
maybe he needs to get one of those “i can’t breathe” shirts...
This will be normal for all government rules that are for our own good. Speeding, not washing hands, not voting the right way...
I heard about an elderly couple here in Maryland in their 80s—the man has dementia, but his wife brought him to a Meritus Hospital for a scheduled cardiac test. They told her she could not go in with him, even though he no longer understands or can remember what is said.
Later they came out and told her they were keeping him overnight but she still couldn’t see him. When she came back to get him the next day, they released him with no discussion or instructions to her. Finally she called their local GP, who called the hospital cardiologist to find out what happened. Turns out the hospital put in a stent, all without any informed consent by him or her, or any instructions to her.
This pandemic is bringing out the evil tyrant in healthcare workers.
‘Police, politicians and bureaucrats. A deadly combination.’
healthcare bureaucrats and don’t forget the media in the gruesome mix...
‘This pandemic is bringing out the evil tyrant in healthcare workers.’
the absolute truth...
I forget the healthcare fascists. They really love their newfound power.
Surprised Fake Wokesters didn’t ask for lungs back😮
I let my nose out in the grocery store and on the bus.
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