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24 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
We imagine that Canada has socialized medicine and the US does not, but has anyone noticed that this appears to have flipped with respect to the pandemic? There's often more equitable access to testing, vaccines, treatment & supports in the US: #bcpoli

Chelsea's thread details supports offered to Covid patients by NY public health. They seem almost fictional from a BC POV. I said this to CBC when they interviewed me about the difficulty of getting access to the rapid tests I needed to try to protect elder family members here..
I have family in Washington State. All of us are surprised by BC's relative lack of access to easy care and tools for pandemic management. They're frequently sending news of relative ease of finding rapid tests (often free), free PCR testing, and faster vaxx/boosters in WA vs BC.
And this story about the contact tracing in New York just puts BC to shame.
And then there's this.

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Lindsay Brown Profile picture
25 Dec
"SARS: A costly error" - very interesting Globe article from 2003, detailing the mistakes made by public health authorities in Toronto, notably Dr. Bonnie Henry. They were mistakes driven by non-health-related calculations. #bcpoli theglobeandmail.com/news/national/… "How had they missed it? Was it inevitable that a sneak
‘More than 27,000 people were quarantined in Toronto's two SARS outbreaks, one in March and April and the second in May & June, according to @AP. AP put the number of deaths in the Toronto area at 39, including a nurse who died’
via @heynursekat
cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspecti…
@AP @heynursekat Also via @heynursekat:
"Learning from SARS: Preparing for the Next Disease Outbreak" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92467/

Or perhaps in BC's case, 'not learning from SARS.'
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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
@Protect_BC While we're waiting, this warning from @MoriartyLab:
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16 Dec
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.
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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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