That #bcpoli continues to throttle testing is not some conspiracy. Since 2nd wave criteria has been restrictive, requiring specific symptoms or # of symptoms. And asymptomatic testing has never been allowed even asymptomatic spread is a fact. And now very few testing sites open.
This is the opposite approach to jurisdictions that have kept community transmission very low including Nova Scotia, NZ, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Australia, & some countries in Europe. To deny BC’s approach is at odds with effective testing strategies is to deny reality. #bcpoli
PHO argument has been to 'balance' health w/ lack of restrictive measures & economy. But 3x times now, we've seen that there is no 'balance' when the test & trace policies aren't structured to actually stop spread. This 'balance' is elusive; it ignores math of exponential growth.
Emphatically, not PHO's job to 'balance' anything beyond preventing infection, disease, and death. There are plenty of other institutional forces, dominated by $ short-term interests, pushing for end of certain measures. PH0 job isn't to focus on econ growth & pleasing biz lobby.
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