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Feb 11 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
Vancouver Coastal Health's chief medical health officer Patty Daly says there's "great debate" over whether #COVIDisAirborne.

It's like saying climate change is still a debate. No, it's not.

Deal with this disinformation, @adriandix.

straight.com/covid-19-pande… #bcpoli
@adriandix The US CDC has stated #CovidIsAirborne. So has the WHO.

Do @CDCofBC and @VCHhealthcare think BC has a different pandemic with a different virus? #bpcoli
@adriandix @CDCofBC @VCHhealthcare For context: y'day BC Children's Hospital openly denied #CovidIsAirbone on Twitter. VCH's Patty Daly seems to feel a need to support them today. We knew VCH was peddling droplet dogma, but this is bold. VCH can't protect us if they deny the virus's proven route of transmission. ImageImage
And this: BC Public Health agencies should be following PHAC @GovCanHealth on #COVIDisAirborne

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Feb 13
Hi @checkupcbc, it strikes me that your guests & callers are treating the convoy as a grassroots protest & not a highly orchestrated political strategy on the part of large interests. Sure, such interests easily harness free-floating anger, but their money & agenda come first.
@checkupcbc Yes, some are upset about the pandemic, some are racist & hate-motivated, others may have other grievances, but it looks as if they're all being easily recruited by good corporate strategists. I work as a strategist & I recognize the signs. There's money behind this. Follow it.
@checkupcbc In short, your frame of 'are the divisions in Canada growing more extreme' is a false frame. The frame should be 'how are large interests harnessing Facebook to create astroturf movements like Yellow Vests & the convoy to advance their own interests, usually resource extraction.
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Jan 25
If Dr. Bonnie Henry or @AdrianDix use the term "mild" in this 3 pm press conference of theirs, I will lose it. It wasn't "mild." It was dangerous, painful & terrifying. Sure, downplay a virus with unknown long term effects, high rates of #LongCovid, deaths high & hospitals full.
@adriandix In ten minutes @Protect_BC will be livetweeting this BC COVID press conference. If you saw their last livetweet, you'll know it's worth following along. Sharp. #bcpoli
@adriandix @Protect_BC In the meantime, an assessment of BC's COVID performance from a well-known BC doctor: #bcpoli
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Jan 24
!!! From a HCW in a #BCpoli hospital just now:

"They are now making it difficult to test people in hospital - they're refusing to authorize PCR tests on people who become symptomatic. There's a NAAT PCR machine in ED but inpatient can't use it without special authorization.."
..I ran this past a nurse who replied: "And we all know why that is! Families are threatening to sue if their relatives get nosocomial [hospital-acquired] COVID" ie. from infected patients placed in the same room. Hospitals covering rears? If you don't test, there's no proof...
Respond to this news please, @adriandix. You're the health minister! I have an elderly aunt with a broken hip, with preexisting heart trouble, in a Vancouver hospital in a shared room with a Covid patient right now. She has stayed uninfected all pandemic, but it won't last now.
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Jan 23
BCers aren't allowed to wear an N95 into hospitals, but BC govt staff and ministers appear to be wearing them for pressers. #bcpoli

1. Is this the same civil servant who has described Omicron as the sniffles? (Genuine Q)
And is this not BC's Health Minister in an N95 under a surgical mask, at a press conference? How is that acceptable when visitors to @Fraserhealth hospitals are forced to remove N95 masks? #bcpoli
@Fraserhealth These are the same hospitals where COVID patients are being crammed into the same rooms as uninfected patients.

The feds need to step in. The BC govt is incapable of managing this pandemic competently, transparently, & in a manner that protects the rights of Canadians in in BC.
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Dec 25, 2021
"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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Dec 24, 2021
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.
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