I think the coolest thing about the way B.C. is handling the pandemic is how the people in charge never think they could have done things better and always disagree when people ask why things are confusing or unclear
It's just really neat how despite me getting messages from people all weekend confused about whether they should be allowed to book appointments or not, the Minister just says "no, I think it's clear" when asked about it
You just really get the sense that they are willing to learn and get better when every time a question comes up about how people are confused by the rules or mesaging, the idea that they could be communicated better is dismissed out of hand
To be fair, Dr. Henry said they might want to get better at it, but Dix stepped in pretty quickly to say no it's perfectly clear
There are people coming out to say it's very clear to them which is awesome, great, but it's not clear to everyone. Different people communicate in different ways and are receiving information differently and it's maybe smart to try and make it clear to them, as well.
By the way, today Dr. Henry seemed to think Terrace was vaccinating everyone 18+ when in fact they are only asking everyone 18+ to register, so maybe it isn't super-clear language

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12 Apr
Well, just to add to the confusion of what is going on in Terrace with vaccinations, Dr. Bonnie Henry just listed it alongside Prince Rupert and Terrace as a "hot spot" where community-wide vaccinations are being given (they aren't unless something changed since this morning)
For those not following along:
- Vaccine clinic in Terrace was cancelled Friday after not enough people 70+ signed up
- Next day, after outcry, vaccine registration was opened to everyone 18+ in the community
- People thought this meant everyone 18+ could get vaccines and booked
Then Northern Health clarified that NO, they were only inviting people to REGISTER, not get vaccinated... and appointments for people in younger age groups were cancelled

and now... Terrace is listed in the daily briefing as a place getting full vaccines like Rupert and Whistler
Read 5 tweets
12 Apr
This whole vaccine registration in B.C. is a bit odd. You see it's opened to 60+ and might think — oh, people 60+ can get a vaccine now! Or at least book an appointment. But it's not necessarily the case. What you can do is REGISTER to be alerted when you can make an appointment
My question is: If registering is just registering... why not open it to everyone? Why the slow rollout to different age groups, even if some of those aren't going to get to book yet? Is the system not capable of handling more?
It's really causing confusion. A city councillor in Terrace - not unreasonably, imho - saw registration in Terrace open up to everyone 18+ and told people it's time to book their appointment.

Apparently people did... and then later had them cancelled?

Read 11 tweets
11 Apr
The Guardian has published a story about P1 variants in Whistler and (some) people are using it to dunk on B.C. media as if the issue hasn’t been covered. That isn’t true but I also want to talk about some of the dynamics of this that go into local vs national vs int’l reporting
I’ve seen this happen so many times: Local media is covering an issue for days, weeks, even months. Then some big outlet does a single story about it and a bunch of people go “Why hasn’t this been covered by local media?”

I’m not laying blame on anyone here: We all miss stories
There are three main issues that I think go into this dynamic:

1. Source
2. Framing
3. Timing
Read 17 tweets
11 Apr
Wow, for all the noise the B.C. Human Rights commission made about businesses not being allowed to ask people to prove they can't wear a mask, they sure are tossing out complaints from people for not being able to prove they can't wear a mask
Read 6 tweets
12 Jan
So I'm going to try and explain what's going on here as best I can at this late hour. I'm not going to look up exact dates right now, but just the gist of things is as follows. Back in 2017 a developer wanted to build something the city has long wanted: downtown condos
To make the deal the city agreed to contribute construction of a parkade.

The pricetag approved for this was $12.4M

cbc.ca/news/canada/br…
Now, somewhere along the way that pricetag went up, but it didn't go to council for approval. This is b/c changes had been made to a system called "delegated authority" which allows the city manager to approve budget increases within certain limits without having to go to council
Read 14 tweets
12 Jan
Prince George city councillors are openly discussing legal options against staff members after it's been revealed budget increases to a downtown project were approved in secret #cityofpg
The cost overruns on this project are insane. It is now projected to be nearly triple the original price, from $12.4M to $34M. You can do a lot with $22M in a city of this size. #cityofpg
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