My partner, Anne, was diagnosed with a sarcoma (cancer of the connective or soft tissue) in 2009. She received good care and continued to do so when the malignancy metastasised to her lungs in 2017 (sarcoma often causes secondary sites in the lungs or in the brain). Anne died in May 2019.
I doubt that Anne would have received that level of care now. Shaun Lintern, writing in the Sunday Times, claims that 27 thousand people have an incidental cancer but don’t know of it because they have not been seen yet. They, of course, are ordinary people, just like Anne, who taught in the economics department of a sixth-form college.
However, if you are rich and privileged and can be admitted to a private hospital, you can be examined almost immediately, and your cancer, seemingly discovered on the off chance, can become the subject of world news.
For me, the monarchy is an outdated throwback to the Middle Ages, but as a fellow human being, I do not wish Charles Windsor any personal ill, and equally, his family problems do not outweigh mine or those of millions of others.
Of course, Mr. Windsor’s diagnosis and the media circus following it came at a perfect time for the ruling class. It has certainly knocked the atrocities being carried out in the Middle East off news editors’ agendas with the hope that it provides breathing space for the Israeli government to continue following its genocidal policies.
When the world is in deep trouble, a royal birth or death (or, in this case, serious health issues) always pulls the fat out of the fire.
It also guarantees an outpouring of loyalty from the great and the good. If I wasn’t so sick and tired of hearing about the Windsor clan, I would have found what I read in a LinkedIn thread yesterday laughable. One business owner or wannabe entrepreneur after the other lined up to proclaim God save the King, bragging about how long they had personally known him. I only saw red when one took upon himself to claim that he was speaking for everyone by expressing with good wishes loyalty to this one particular cancer patient. I can’t stand LinkedIn (I had to have it for my previous job), but as is rare for me, I had to reply that no one has the power or authority to speak for anyone but themselves.
However, from the messages that I have been getting and in reading material away from the mainstream media, I am clearly seeing that many are fed up with this news management supporting the Windsor family and actually angry, given their own health or the health of loved ones, that this one man is getting first-class care when they or theirs often can’t get appointments or treatments.
Our health service is in a mess because of neglect and a lack of investment by governments, and it is in utter crisis because of the get-rich-quick policies of the present one. Let’s torture the masses further by reporting nearly every single incident in the life of a very rich and privileged 75-year-old.
Finishing where I started, I will always be very grateful for the NHS care of my late partner, but only these few years on, it seems to me that the only way to guarantee the same service is to be a member of the ruling class with private provision. Perhaps, in spite of what I said earlier, the Middle Ages are still with us.
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