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Wife of Police Officer claims Toxic Mould killed him. · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi Jake Fallon, thanks for listening to the slippery slope.
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  So last night on the news I was watching, I was watching this
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  report regarding an officer, Queensland police officer from
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  from Logan, who had died. The wife of this police officer
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  claims that it was he died because basically toxic mold.
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  I'd heard about this report before, couldn't find a lot of
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  reporting about it. So we'll go.
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  Just go through this this this article about the about the
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  officer dying and I tell you what really stood out to me the
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  most in In one way I find it. Still find it very
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  disappointing, the reaction that comes from the Queensland Police
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  Service. On one hand I'm very
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  disappointed and yet on the other hand, I'm not at all
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  surprised because it's exactly how you think this organization
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  is going to react, exactly how they're going to react anyway.
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  Yeah, I'll just go through it quickly.
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  It's just a it's a fairly quick report anyway, so this headline
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  here. Justin Danny, wife of cop claims
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  toxic mold at the police station he worked at in Logan, Brisbane
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  claimed his life so he died from pancreatic cancer.
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  So a heartbroken wife has claimed her police officer
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  husband died because of exposure to toxic mold at the station
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  where he worked. Senior Constable Danny, a hard
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  working, hard working cop in Logan, South of Brisbane for 20
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  years, died in January. In his early 40s after
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  developing a rare and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer.
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  Now his wife Shari is campaigning to hold an inquest
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  into his death as she believes his condition was caused by the
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  mold he was exposed to at work, she says.
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  I still remember in the end he said to me, this really sucks,
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  he said I could. I could understand being shot or
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  something happening to me in the line of Judy, but mold?
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  Why? I said photos taken by Mr.
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  Danny. Sorry.
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  Photos taken when Mr. Danny was working at the station showed
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  mold on the ceiling and furniture.
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  This is inside the station. It's disgusting.
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  So on the furniture ceiling with his with his wife claiming it
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  even covered his gun if he left it in his drawer.
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  Not sure we should be saying that.
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  Miss Friadani said her husband complained about the issue 10
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  years before he fell ill but he was just told to paint over it.
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  I believe that it's a weird statement to make.
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  I believe the whole paint over is because he used to be a
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  painter before he joined the force, so but it's still it's.
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  This is a strange reaction but anyway, the husband, her husband
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  fell ill three years ago, age 38.
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  We walked into the GP and he said I'm so sorry.
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  Now you've got pancreatic cancer and it's spread to your liver.
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  I still remember the shock in his face.
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  So Miss Mr. Danny was initially given seven days to live but
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  survived 3 years. So going down here, says
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  asbestos and dust diseases lawyer Sean Sweeney from Slater
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  and Gordon is representing Miss Mrs. Frea Danny in a bid for
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  justice. He said that antibody tests.
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  Conducted by doctors found that Mr. Dani had high levels of
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  micro toxins, which are produced by some varieties of mold.
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  It's terrible what happened to Justin and it's sad that the
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  truth is it could have been avoided if more had been done,
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  Mr. Sweeney said. This this is what I'm talking
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  about when I'm said I'm I'm disappointed and get.
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  And yet, you know, this is the kind of reaction you you always
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  expect. I heard this on the news last
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  night. A spokesman for Queensland
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  Police said testing throughout Logan Central Station found it
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  to be a safe work environment and suitable for their
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  designated use. This is typical.
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  It's it's typical. Look it and.
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  Let's not say it's just QPS. It's typical of any big
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  organization, especially a government organization, to
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  immediately come up with the defence defensive posture and
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  say, well look, you know, we've done testing or we've done our
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  own studies and we've checked this out and it's can't possibly
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  be our faults. They immediately get on on the
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  front foot, start either attacking, you know, attacking
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  the people who are making these accusations or whatever.
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  Or you know asserting their position that they are innocent
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  and they they cannot be blamed and and but the I think the
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  thing that's most most disappointing is the Queensland
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  Police Service have this this that that this kind of branch of
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  the the Q PS:. Which they say or this not a
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  branch sorry it's a this initiative within the Queensland
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  Police Service and it's called our people matter.
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  We just quickly have a look at at this.
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  I'll bring up so you can check out what I'm talking about.
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  So our people matter when you click on it says well-being and
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  support services, supporting members and families throughout
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  their QPS career and beyond. I mean you see in the first
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  thing they say is news about COVID-19 update.
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  But I think this is what I found the most support and most
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  disappointing with with QPS and their response.
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  You know, they, they have this initiative.
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  Our people matter where they supposedly going to support you.
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  They're looking after your wellbeing.
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  I'm supporting you throughout your career and beyond.
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  So what? That's what they say.
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  And yet every time, every time there's something, every time a
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  situation raises its head and there's a possibility that the
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  Queensland Police Service are possibly at fault, they
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  immediately forget that our people matter.
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  Go on the defensive. Start attacking your situation,
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  pushing this narrative that there is no way they could
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  possibly be at fault. Completely forgetting our people
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  matter. Our people matter only when and
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  if it suits them. This is the and this is what I
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  saw. Everyone seen it over the last
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  couple of years as soon as people didn't like.
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  What came up with Well, with the mandates, with the the jab
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  mandates, our people no longer matter.
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  They no longer matter. Your decision making goes
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  against what the Queensland Police Service believe.
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  Our people no longer matter. This young man possibly got sick
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  because of the mold. That's what's being asserted
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  here. Because of the mold, Because
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  someone's obviously not cleaning the station properly.
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  First thing they do is go on the defensive and say, well, we've
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  checked it all out, what is it? Testing throughout Logan Central
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  Station found it to be a safe work environment suitable for
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  designated use. There was no there's no concern,
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  there's no compassion, there's no well, if this is true, there
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  is no way we want this in our stations.
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  Well, there's no way that the Queensland Police Service can
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  stand for for an unhealthy unsafe.
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  Unclean work environment. No, it's just we've had it
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  checked out and so safe. Our people do not matter.
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  Their people do not matter. That's the sad truth of it.
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  We'll be following this to see where where abouts it goes.
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  Be very interesting to see. Just another reminder.
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  But our people don't matter, their people don't matter.
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  It's my opinion. Thanks for listening to the
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  Super slow. They just feel the design.
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