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@jillpromoli
Sep 22, 2020 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
Alright. I'm seeing a lot of reaction and questions re: today's announcement from @fordnation re: the #flushot. Let's talk about it.
1) 'Why is the #flushot a top priority in their pandemic response?'

It's early September and we're already stretched beyond our testing capacity, before flu season has started. Symptoms for flu and COVID are similar, and fewer flu cases means fewer people needing COVID tests.
2) 'What does the flu have to do with #COVID19?'

They're 2 different *serious* respiratory illnesses. Early this year we heard a lot of 'just a flu' or '*not* just a flu'. Please forget this phrase. Flu kills ~3500 Canadians each year. We don't know what both together are like.
3) 'Does the #flushot help with #COVID19?'

The quadrivalent #flushot protects against four strains of influenza. COVID-19 is a coronavirus. The flu shot will not prevent COVID-19, but it will help protect you from another respiratory illness, and that's vital during a pandemic.
4) 'Why would the #flushot be part of pandemic response?'

Every flu season our hospitals are overburdened by seasonal flu. ~5000 flu hospitalizations in Ontario means 5000 beds filled with preventable illness, instead of being available for other needs - like #COVID19.
5) 'Why did they order 5.1 million flu shots for 14.7 million people?'

Dear Ontarians,

We do not get the #flushot at the rate we should be to protect ourselves and each other, and it's costing us people's lives. That's what that order represents. We need to do better.
Let me be clear: the #flushot is not the answer to our #COVID19 problem. The pandemic is an urgent concern and our current trajectory is dangerous. The flu shot is a vital measure we should all take to save thousands of lives every year. We can do better. #forjudeforeveryone Image
6) ‘Do I need a #flushot with everything we’re doing to prevent #COVID19?’

We may have lower rates because of the work we’re doing to protect ourselves and each other, but no one measure is a guarantee and every step helps. We still see COVID spreading. Please get a #flushot.

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Jan 7, 2022
🧵Let's make it clear that caring about a child's physical health and wanting kids back in school is not a binary choice, and it should never be positioned that way. Kids need to be in school. We should also reduce their risk of infectious disease, now and always.

#onpoli #onted
Learning about children lost to #COVID19 is devastating, and will hit home hard for many of us. While children's risk is lower, this is a powerful reminder that risk is not absolute, and kids and the people they love need our protection, too.

#onpoli #onted #SafeReturn
For two years we've left the needs of children on the back burner. Their health, both physical and mental, and their education. Ontario has taken too much from our youngest people and they deserve better from us. We must move forward with their well-being in mind.

#onpoli #onted
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Jan 4, 2022
🧵While we still haven't had our PCR results from Dec24 following a classroom exposure before the break, yesterday our asymptomatic kid tested + on a RAT before their planned 2nd doses.

I'm testing negative on RATs, but I'm unwell and all signs point to #Omicron.
#COVID19Ontario
With higher risk loved ones and front-line workers in our lives, we've always been more cautious with infectious disease - especially in the 5.5 years since losing Jude. With rising cases in mid-December we canceled all our holiday plans and started staying home. #Omicron
Grandparents watched from the driveway as the kids opened Christmas gifts. Groceries were picked up curbside. I'm so glad now that we didn't put our family and friends at risk, and so frustrated that we're here after all the care we've taken.

#Omicron #COVID19Ontario
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Dec 27, 2021
Keeping schools open without ensuring they're safe during a pandemic also takes a toll on kids' mental health - especially if the consequence is long-term impact on their health or the loss of a loved one.

We are not seeing enough done to ensure safe classrooms. #onpoli #onted
More than 10,000 Ontarians have died from #COVID19. More people that we know personally are currently sick with COVID than we've known throughout the pandemic to this point. It's everywhere and many can't access tests. We're facing a different challenge with #Omicron. #onpoli
#WhereIsDougFord with one week left until schools are expected to reopen? What measures are his government planning to implement to protect the health and learning of kids and educators across the province? Ontario is not prepared to face #Omicron in schools. #onpoli #onted
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May 24, 2021
An average of ~3500 Canadians die from the flu in a typical year.

That number sounds so small in the wake of #COVID19, but that's a lot of people lost to a preventable illness.

But this year all our illness prevention efforts wiped out the flu. Compare to previous years. 1/5
People over 65, kids under 5, pregnant women, and people with underlying health concerns are at greatest risk from the flu's most serious complications, but risk isn't absolute and perfectly healthy younger adults die from this preventable disease, too. 2/5

#ForJudeForEveryone
I don't know what the flu might look like in the next year or two, but my hope is that the lessons we've learned through the pandemic will carry forward and we'll do a better job protecting ourselves and each other. In all this devastation, we saved kids this year. 3/5
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May 23, 2021
I appreciate the interest and enthusiasm I'm seeing to find creative solutions for the remaining weeks of school. We advocated tirelessly for many of these options throughout the pandemic, and found they require a significant amount of planning and new resources.#onted #onpoli 1/
I'd love for my daughter to finish her final year at her school in-person with friends and educators who have seen her through these seven years. With four weeks left my hopes are now pinned on better when our kids return in September. #onted #onpoli 2/4
This school year never had to be this way. Our government chose not to prioritize the necessary steps to keep schools consistently, safely open. The way Ontario has experienced #COVID19 was preventable, and our kids have paid a high price. #onted #onpoli 3/4
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May 3, 2021
I'm tired of listening to our provincial government blame everyone but themselves. Teachers, unions, the opposition, Bob Rae(?). They've been in power for three years and the entire pandemic.

What do they feel they're responsible for? Is there a list they can provide? #onpoli
There are issues that are older than their govt. Absolutely.

That does not absolve them of responsibility to take action now.

We've seen them choose not to plan. Not to take proactive steps to reduce community transmission. To reopen too fast while building field hospitals.
They chose not to bring in the military to LTC during the second wave of the pandemic.

Why?

The situation continued to be desperate. Help was needed. How many people died? What did they not want exposed during the second wave?

Nothing changed, and we'd have seen it.
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