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What if @bcndp @CDCofBC are approaching this pandemic all wrong?
Drs Henry & Gustafson say fear of “stigma” is the reason for not releasing data.
Boom. There it is. The underlying driving force behind many #Covid19BC decisions.
But does it have to be this way?
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Drs Henry & Gustafson say fear of “stigma” is the reason for not releasing data.
Boom. There it is. The underlying driving force behind many #Covid19BC decisions.
But does it have to be this way?
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Attaching stigma to an illness is a social construct. That means we have control over whether we do that or not.
There are many illnesses, even communicable ones, that have no stigma attached. Flu, colds, chicken pox, measles.
No one is “at fault” for catching/spreading.
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There are many illnesses, even communicable ones, that have no stigma attached. Flu, colds, chicken pox, measles.
No one is “at fault” for catching/spreading.
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We also have illnesses where stigma *has* been attached. The HIV virus comes to mind. And that stigma proved to be damaging in so many ways. It’s taken many years of activism to reduce the stigma there.
How is it that public health has not learned from that experience?
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How is it that public health has not learned from that experience?
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