This train is off the tracks. Dr. Henry was just on @CBCStephenQuinn Early Edition saying 2 vaccine shots is the same protection against #Omicron as Delta & downplaying need for boosters. Has she not read the ample data?! Deal with this, @adriandix @jjhorgan. #bcpoli #Covid19BC
@CBCStephenQuinn @adriandix @jjhorgan Are we to assume Bonnie Henry hasn't only failed to read Pfizer's own data, but also the data that UK public health has put out on the superior protection of 3 doses over 2? What the hell is going on? She just boldly spread misinformation on our national broadcaster. #bcpoli
@CBCStephenQuinn @adriandix @jjhorgan There is no reality principle here. It's not just the NDP mistaking optics for actual governing ; it's BC public health. This isn't science, or health; it's spin.
@CBCStephenQuinn @adriandix @jjhorgan What she specifically said is that 2 shots is good protection against Omicron, tries to distract by distinguishing between antibodies & cell-mediated response, uses the term "the same," chuckles condescendingly when assuring value of 2 doses (desp warnings from key global bodies)
And I'd like to nip any accusations of "you're undermining public health" in the bud (not that anyone's saying that anymore).

It's becoming more & more evident to British Columbians that at this point, BC public health authorities are successfully undermining themselves.

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16 Dec
This briefing by @Protect_BC is today at 12:30. I'm volunteering to live-tweet it. I'll use the #covid19bc & #bcpoli hashtags, but sparingly. Follow this thread.. this is tweet #1. See you at 12:30.
The @Protect_BC briefing on #Omicron is in 5 minutes. Here's the link to the 3 livestreams (no reg'n required).
protectbc.ca/Livestream/
You can watch via YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter. I'll be on the YouTube:
youtube.com/channel/UCvTh-… #covid19BC
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14 Dec
Today's BC govt briefing on #Covid19BC was even more disappointing than anticipated. In response, there will be a briefing from @Protect_BC on Thursday, with lots of time for media Qs to PoP doctors, incl. @DrFiliatrault who stopped SARS in its tracks in Vancouver in 2003
#bcpoli
@Protect_BC @DrFiliatrault Why was today's BC govt #covid19BC briefing disappointing?:
- NO rapid tests for BCers before Christmas/NYs! Nothing til mid Jan. Dangerously slow compared to other provs..
- rapid tests misinformation (see next tweet)
- NO acceleration of booster shots or kids vaxx shots
#bcpoli
@Protect_BC @DrFiliatrault Misinformation on rapid antigen tests (RATs) from Bonnie Henry today:
1. 'BC has different RAT kits than elsewhere' - she has said this before & it's UNTRUE.
2. Her strange false distinction between lateral flow tests & RATs; they're the same: #covid19bc
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11 Dec
"It’s hard to look this in the eye. But COVID’s worst is coming" - Bruce Arthur, @TorontoStar

thestar.com/opinion/star-c… #covid19BC #Omicron #cdnpoli #bcpoli
@TorontoStar “Honestly, I’m not sure I have been as worried as I am now. Probably not..." - Dr. @beatesander

"It’s hard for the human mind to grasp; part of that is the sheer bloody wall of exponential math. The numbers feel imaginary."
@TorontoStar @BeateSander "With a 400 % increase every week, Sander points out the numbers do something like this: 145 today, 600 in a week, 2,400 in two weeks, 9,600 in three weeks. That would be New Year’s Eve, and left unhindered it would mean almost 40,000 cases per day a week after that." #Omicron
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10 Dec
I sent this quote to a friend who works in health policy. His reply (pardon expletives):
"That is just.. f'g violent, what she said. Putting the onus back on people to deal with the fallout of her policies. But the thing I don’t understand is... " (cont'd)
.."But what I don't understand is this thing of "x is not a silver bullet, y is not a silver bullet.” Vaccination is not a silver bullet! Should we stop vaccinating? I mean, #Omicron proves that vaccination is not a silver bullet. None of these things are silver bullets"...
.."Hasn’t Dr. Henry herself used the 'layers of Swiss cheese' metaphor? Isn’t she the one who talks about “layers of protection”? How can she have it every which way? She’s just a politician.

Somebody just needs to say none of these measures are silver bullets.."

... (cont'd)
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9 Dec
You need to respond to this, @adriandix. Your ministry openly dodged reporter @PennyDaflos's questions. We don't pay you to run an opaque operation. You work for us. Come clean, start talking, and release the rapid tests to the public now. #bcpoli bc.ctvnews.ca/ministry-staff…
@adriandix @PennyDaflos Shall we review how much evidence there is that rapid tests work, and that BC health officials have been evasive, uncooperative, even negligent on this issue? This goes back a year. Start with this fantastic thread by @npescod #ReleasetheRATs #bcpoli
@adriandix @PennyDaflos @npescod Here's Bonnie last December & this December making untrue statements about rapid tests, followed by a counterpart in Nova Scotia who says that rapid tests work and are a crucial public health tool that should be handed over to the people. #FreeTheRATs
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8 Dec
BC public health is not doing math. We know that a chunk of transmission of #covid19 is by asymptomatic people. How can you break those chains of transmission if you're only testing symptomatic people? I don't understand. #math #bcpoli #FreeTheRATs

There's a whole component of epidemiology that involves stats. It's math: how many people does one person infect; how many of those go on to infect others, & over what space of time; what is the Rt value & is this exponential spread? You want to catch even ONE asymptomatic case.. Image
Breaking *one* chain of transmission can stop countless cases down the line. By not distributing #rapidtests to the public, isn't BC public health admitting they grasp neither asymptomatic transmission NOR the exponential function? #bcpoli #FreeTheRATs

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