Covid AND lots of other viruses are airborne.
Public health has been doing doing almost nothing to stop flu deaths for years.
Doctors must be convicted of murder b4 losing license. Carry on.
Downplaying & denial are internationally interwoven in disturbing ways
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
Public health & IPAC have been quietly consolidating power to point they can overrule colleagues w/much greater clinical & specialty expertise.
IPAC needs to be handed over (or at least 50-50) - water treatment, wastewater treatment, air treatment.
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
There is little daylight between Horgan and Kenney & Ford.
The BC CDC is shockingly (and in some cases, purposely) bad at science ... and UBC would rather prop it up than correct it.
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
Most people don't care about regional inequality, let alone global.
Twitter is a surprisingly great place for sci comm, networking & dissemination (even as it spreads misinfo, tho). Seriously, it's a great place for science overall.
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
Canada is barely held together by scotch tape, with its residents at mercy of sociopathic provincial premiers.
Astonishing number of doctors, scientists, & parents are totally cool with mass infection of kids w/virus showing disturbing longterm effects
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
Wow. More people are moral cowards than I thought.
Wow. Majority of HCWs in hospitals are incredibly strong. I would be constant weeping puddle. But I fear we are psychologically breaking many of them.
Pandemic lessons, cont'd
There should be a medical, political, citizens oath every year - big humans are supposed to shield little humans and we agree to abide by the Precautionary Principle.
Fuck Hug Day or Freedom Day. Precautionary Principle Day. An oath every single year.
* handed over to engineers
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If your child is attending a school with insufficient aerosol mitigations, here is a brief letter you can use to withdraw consent for certain activities. Copy freely!
EPIDEMIC: unexpected increase in number of disease cases in a specific geographical area.
Notably, an epidemic disease doesn't necessarily have to be contagious. For example, West Nile fever and the rapid increase in obesity rates are also considered epidemics
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.@WHO declares PANDEMIC when disease’s growth is exponential. Each day cases grow more than day prior.
Has nothing to do with virology, population immunity, or disease severity. It means a virus covers a wide area, affecting several countries and populations.
"COVID-19, in ~ 1 year, killed twice as many children as influenza does most years, and hundreds more in the same interval of time, despite painstaking efforts to prevent infection. This easily makes COVID-19 a leading cause of death in children." medpagetoday.com/opinion/second…
"All estimates [for pediatric hospitalizations] far exceed the number of hospitalizations during the pre-vaccine period for several vaccine-preventable diseases on the childhood vaccination schedule."
Even if we allow the sketchy hair-splitting of with vs of #COVID19.
Don't forget MIS-C when considering not protecting kids from #COVID19.