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15 Apr, 20 tweets, 14 min read
PAY ATTENTION TO BC🇨🇦—BC now reports “the highest age-specific incidence” in many ages. Teenage age 15-19 cases ⬆️84% in last 3 weeks; 20-29 ⬆️76%; Age 30-39 ⬆️83%. Positivity in ages 10-19 ⬆️~50%. Young adults also carry the most #B117 & #P1 & #B1351. 🧵
bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Si…
2) Isn’t this a pretty chart? Tell us almost nothing. From out of 10 pages of charts and tables, **zero** figures or tables on the 3 major variants.

Wait til we dig into those number. #bcpoli
3) In the abstract, barely any mention of the 3 key variants of concern... except for this blurb with ZERO context whatsoever...

...until the VERY last paragraph of the 10 page report. #bcpoli
4) So, what does the last paragraph of the damn report say?

📍Of the variants, #P1 is now fully 29% of all the variants.

📍young adults 20-49 make up 61% of all VOC cases, and fully 70% of all #p1 cases!

➡️that’s it: No incidence rate data! No relative time trend data! Nada.
5) but c’mon, there must be nothing to write home about, right?

WRONG! Tell me if the chart showing the surge in #P1 & #B117 below look normal or not.

📍SERIOUSLY—BC🇨🇦 leaders are attempting the biggest gaslighting of its citizen I’ve ever seen outside of authoritarian govts!
6) And ON and Alberta has more data, BC has none today.

worse, BC has now stopped sequencing actively identified #COVID19. Look how other provinces still many sequencing.

Asterisk: “Cases where a mutation has been detected but full genome sequencing has not yet been completed”
7) Seriously, people, please **stare at this figure** for 10 seconds and let it sink it how bad #P1 crisis is. This is not Brazil 🇧🇷 or another Latin American overrun country, this is tiny British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦 for Christ’s sake!
8) c’mon, anyone else having #P1 surge? Yes, UK 🇬🇧 for one...
9) Is #P1 really the fastest growing variant? Ummm yes.
10) Are BC and UK data just flukes? Nope. Netherlands too.
11) Well, are Dutch experts really worried about #P1? Ummm yes!
12) This is bad. Canada 🇨🇦 needs travel quarantines from high risk hotspots. Or else it may need travel quarantines for BC.

Also “current treatments & vaccines may not work as well on cases of this [#P1] variant,” says BC Centre for Disease Control.
theglobeandmail.com/canada/british…
13) BC 🇨🇦 hospitals also soon could be overwhelmed by #COVID19 patients as as early a next month if we don't get infections under control ASAP, warns BC experts.

By @PennyDaflos #bcpoli
bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-in-danger-…
14) Personally, I love the warm & kind people of BC 🇨🇦. Members of our family have spent many years there. But #P1 too hot right now, so it pains me to say— but I think there should be travel quarantines for anyone entering / exiting BC until #P1 crisis is under control. #bcpoli
15) BC variants plotted versus daily total cases... and the projected spike in coming weeks by BC COVID modeling team. This is ominous.
16) #P1 is going to endanger all of Canada and North America if BC cannot keep it contained. It’s incumbent on BC health leaders @DrBonnieHenry @adriandix @jjhorgan to do so. @CDCofBC.
17) If you’re Canadian (or resident / have family in 🇨🇦), please sign this #ZeroCovid petition to take action.

📍 Canada Must Adopt Zero Covid to Avert Catastrophic Deaths and Long-Term Health Problems. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

zerocovidcanada.org/take-action
18) The #P1 variant is definitely more transmissible. 2-2.5x. And possible reinfection risk.
19) Holy shit this scathing OPED on BC 🇨🇦!! “a pattern of behaviour has emerged within this provincial government that fails to provide timely, accurate, detailed and frank information about the pandemic. This is deeply worrisome for the public” #bcpoli
biv.com/article/2021/0…
20) All these BC 🇨🇦 leadership shenanigans to hide the #COVID19 data is very... Florida-like.

(Whisper)... can we finally acknowledge the possibility that BC is the Florida of Canada 🇨🇦 when it comes to COVID data and management? Asking for my BC friends.

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CONFIRMED—the very infectious #P1 variant is cause of @Canucks outbreak, team’s general manager confirmed. He also said P1 variant is why its hockey players were hit harder than other NHL—the virus “buckled” & sickened many of the players #COVID19. 🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/br… Image
2) “What was different with our situation is with the regular COVID it seemed that after 10 days players were ready to get back on the ice and start working out and performing," he said. "But we had players that when they did that, they still had symptoms."
3) Benning said the virus "buckled" some of the players, and that three or four regulars likely won't be ready when games resume.

Head coach Travis Green, who also contracted COVID-19, has yet to return to practices.
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17 Apr
HOTEL ROOM CROSS-INFECTION: Australia 🇦🇺 hotel outbreak suggests #COVID19 jumped between hotel rooms—7 returned travellers cases arriving from different countries at different times have same genetic sequence—likely jumped between neighboring hotel rooms.
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr… Image
2) “The seven cases came from two family groups who arrived from different countries on different days. They stayed in adjacent rooms on the 12th floor of the Adina Apartments Hotel at Sydney’s Town Hall.
3) “Staff who worked on the floor when the original case was believed to have been infectious – between 8 and 11 April – are self-isolating.”

It’s possible it was either transmitted via hotel staff or via the air.
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17 Apr
LEAKY BORDER—Despite pandemic “closing” the US/Canada border, 30,000 truck drivers continue to travel between 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 daily—and with **no mandatory #COVID19 testing** and **no quarantine requirements**. Let that sink in—30,000 truckers per day! Not safe.🧵 vpr.org/post/most-us-c… Image
2) On an average day, about 30,000 trucks roll across the U.S.-Canada border, carrying more than $1 billion in trade.

Truckers are exempt from any COVID testing rules. And the industry’s trucking association opposes any mandatory COVID test restrictions.🔥google.com/amp/s/cdllife.…
3) If we know air travelers brings #COVID19 cases between countries, why don’t truck drivers?!?! It makes no sense.

I get they are essential, but cmon, allowing 30,000 truckers to cross 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 border unfettered by no mandatory testing or quarantine is BEGGING FOR OUTBREAKS!
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16 Apr
Oh boy. “some scientists are increasingly concerned that, because of a quirk of our own biology, future iterations of vaccines might not always be quite as effective as they are today”—due to **imprinting**. And maybe worse if you had natural infection. 🧵
statnews.com/2021/04/16/nex…
2) “The concerns stem from a phenomenon that is known as imprinting, sometimes called original antigenic sin, which is believed to affect how we respond to some pathogens.”
3) “In short, when your body is introduced to a particular threat for the first time — either through infection or a vaccine — that encounter sets your immune system’s definition of that virus and what immune weapons it needs to detect and protect against it in the future.”
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16 Apr
Did you know... of the survivors of the Titanic, 6 were Chinese. What happened when ship survivors arrived in New York? The 6 were deported ASAP under Chinese Exclusion Act. Then UK🇬🇧 deported again even after marrying Englishwomen—forcibly removed from the kids. Racism’s legacy. Image
2) In NYC, The Brooklyn Daily Eagle called the Chinese survivors "creatures" who had sprung into the lifeboats "at the first sign of danger" and concealed themselves beneath the seats.
But the documentary team's research showed this claim was untrue.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-…
3) They built a replica of the Titanic's lifeboat and found that it would have been impossible for the Chinese men to hide unseen. "I think we see the same thing today. We find immigrants [were] scapegoated by the press," Mr Jones says.
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16 Apr
At a school board meeting in Michigan, with worst US #COVID19 rate, maskless parents protests at a school meeting to demand no mask reqs.

Meanwhile, BC🇨🇦 leaders refuse to have mask rules for K-3rd grade students either—& now has the worst #P1 outbreak.
2) Meanwhile just over the Michigan border to Ontario... a humanitarian crisis is looming.
3) The new theory is that Michigan surge is due to Ontario. “Where do we have big surges? We have big surges in Michigan & in Minnesota, and also kind of around Buffalo, New York State. Alright, so what (do) those 3 have in common? They all touch Ontario”
nationalpost.com/news/world/mic…
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