I will have a much longer piece on the sad and desperate grift on behalf of Annette Lewis, wherein the sleazy, opportunistic vultures in the Canadian grift-o-sphere are taking advantage of a dying woman, but I want to make one observation right now -- over at the Give Send Go fundraiser, if you read the updates, you can see that, back on July 3 of this year, the fundraiser had hoovered up close to $115,000.
While this is impressive, it is now July 25 -- more than three weeks later -- and the fundraiser stands at only a slightly more impressive $124,138. At this rate, there seems little chance that Lewis is going to hit her target of $600,000 (CAD), which is the actual cost of the double lung transplant if she has this done in the United States. Which raises the obvious question:
What happens to the money collected when it becomes painfully obvious that Lewis can't afford the operation?
Unless there is a virtual tsunami of donations in the near future, there is zero chance of Lewis raising her target, so what happens then? Do the lawyers take their cut, wish her good luck, and move on to the next desperate victim? This is serious money, and donors have the right to know how this is going to play out.
More soon ...
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I don't think it's even true that that money is going towards the "testing" she is talking about. From what I read, Lewis already has substantial legal fees from taking her case all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, and not only did she lose all of those, she was hit with what I can only assume are substantial costs all along the way. I'm betting the money she's raised so far doesn't even cover the above, much less anything related to her medical care. The only people making money here are the lawyers.
Hmmm ... noted on the crazy groups in Telegram that rumours are flying that "she's reached some kind of settlement". I'm not sure what that would mean here, nor how reliable those rumours would be given the sources.
MgS: Read far enough down in that article to note that, whatever the "settlement" was, it most emphatically did not include Lewis getting reinstated to the transplant list in Alberta; she clearly is still fundraising to get the operation in the U.S., so the AHS is not backing down on its vaccine requirement.
Fair points - I really didn't bother to dig any further into the matter beyond seeing the post on Telegram ... Western Standard is only marginally above Telegram for reliability (snark).
Frankly, any of these convoy-adjacent grifters are likely to be lying when anything gets said - and that includes WS.
MgS: That was an important point since, as the settlement is confidential, it's easy for people to speculate wildly that it might represent some sort of massive victory for Lewis. It's only when you poke further do you appreciate that it's a minor "victory" at best, if even that.
And that's why you read CC HQ.
The nice thing about GiveSendGo is the option you have to leave a prayer instead of a crass, cold contribution of money. Since the power and value of prayer outweigh mere cash, I'm quite sure Annette and family would prefer a nice Hail Mary to coarse lucre.
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