Thread by @jmcrookston

Decision doing the rounds about health care workers not getting proper PPE. In French for now. Google translate if you need.

canlii.org/fr/qc/qctat/do…

I haven't had time to read it but here is a brief summary. Just the first of many many many.

https://twitter.com/jljcolorado/status/1375105758946328576?s=20

All that garbage advice about droplets. Going to be litigation for years as I (and others) have said since April 2020.

This is earliest I can find.

https://twitter.com/jmcrookston/status/1277813048007364608?s=20

Back in April posting that ALL of the lessons of the SARS Commission were not learned and the errors were happening all over again.

Plenty of bad advice here and it was glaringly obvious from the start.

And imagine: the nurses probably won that case without having to walk through the past 100 years of a joke of a theory of droplets.

It's even more glaring if you go right back to the start and realize its based on Chapin's hunch from observing spread at close quarters plus a few experiments that thought spread only w in about 6 feet.

Hey don't take my word for it. I understand this guy had a little something to do with masks at the beginning of all this ... He knew.

https://twitter.com/jeremyphoward/status/1277813848867667968?s=20

Anyway, take screenshots of your favourite commentators' feeds now, because this is going to move fast from here on out. Variant + this win is going to snowball in a real hurry. That's my prediction.

Decision. INSPQ intervened, to provide "expert advice" (@lisa_iannattone oh no, right?)

Precautionary principle is mentioned, employers in absence of perfect evidence should take care.

Just like the SARS Commission found.

This is lives on the line.

How is this not common sense?

Workers represented 25% of all confirmed COVID-19 cases and had a rate of infection 10x more than the population generally ...

Public health body _CONTRARY to the claims of its lawyer_ does not have special status. Doesn't issue binding guidance (this is true - in Ontario PHO is constantly disclaiming its "guidance").

Wow. This is no holds barred decision writing.

(I shouldn't read too much into that because I'm snipping from a machine translation because I post in English. I'll read the French version later.)