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Ian Young

21 May, 8 tweets, 3 min read

Yesterday, Dr Bonnie Henry phoned me for a long talk abt my reporting, outbreak protocols...and a document I had obtained revealing a deadly Covid-19 outbreak that WAS NOT PUBLICLY DISCLOSED. Day ended with Dr H scooping me at her press conf. A THREAD... scmp.com/news/china/dip…

DBH told yesterday's presser that undisclosed outbreaks were added to tally. What she didn't say: this happened only after I told health authorities I'd obtained documentation of undisclosed cases at the Terraces on Seventh: 10 residents infected, 1 dead (later updated as 2 dead)

What shocked me most was this: the VCH document I showed DBH suggested the Terraces infections were NOT considered an outbreak. Instead the document listed the fancy retirement high-rise in Sth Granville as being only under "enhanced surveillance". What??

Not so DBH told me. It was an outbreak. It was treated as an outbreak. She said same at presser. The problem is this: this morn I got this email from West Coast Seniors Housing Management that runs the Terraces: "There was nothing to disclose as it was not considered an outbreak"

"...but once the first case was discovered, enhanced monitoring measures were implemented to help find additional cases more quickly." Furthermore: I obtained written notes from a prev VCH meeting that also refer to the Terraces under enhanced surveillance, not outbreak status

Bottom line: Terraces outbreak wasn't on outbreak list. Manager says it was on enhanced surveillance. Docs say it was on enhanced surveillance. BUT THE TERRACES WAS NOT ON LIST OF ENHANCED SURVEILLANCE SITES given to me by VCH under the legally mandated FOI system either! WTH??

I spoke to DBH about these situations etc for more than 30 mins. Conversation ended with her telling me that "some people have as a result of your article blamed me for those deaths", referring to this story about the enhanced surveillance mechanism. OK. scmp.com/news/china/dip…

Anyway, please read this story, and let me know if you have any questions about this strange set of circumstances (I sure do). I'll do my best to answer them. scmp.com/news/china/dip…

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So, regarding Kevin Falcon and his probably run for BC Lib leadership. Falcon was instrumental in creating BC Panda Bonds, joined by HSBC on trip to China to pitch the idea of the yuan-denominated bonds. He left govt in 2013 to join the #VanRe industry as VP of Anthem Capital

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Attending the "Zoom to Free Meng Wanzhou" meeting , and speaker KJ Noh is right now sharing the love poetry of Chairman Mao

(I know I often joke on Twitter, but this is not a joke)

KJ Noh now discussing Canada's "rule of law", slide speaks for itself

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So, the NYT’s story about AI-generated faces is getting a lot of attention. It’s a phenom I encountered when I was recently mobbed by pro-CCP folk on Twitter and some of them used AI-generated avatars, like this one:

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Here’s another: a missing earring. AI faces often have missing or mismatched earrings

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21 Nov 20

https://twitter.com/thecyrusjanssen/status/1330167756419895301

You mean, you were invited to TRU by the TRU Chinese Students and Scholars Association, which like other CSSA’s falls under the CCP United Front Work Dept and which held this flag raising in military type uniforms?

https://twitter.com/thecyrusjanssen/status/1330167756419895301

The same umbrella organization whose McMaster branch was expelled from the university for ratting out a Uygur to the Chinese consulate, right? cbc.ca/amp/1.5298882

So what you really meant to say is that you were invited to give a speech by a group under the Chinese government whose members elsewhere have acted as informants for the CCP on Canadian soil, right?

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