Again! A relative went to a friend's in-person funeral in Vancouver 8 days ago. Many who attended caught Covid. She was the only person in an N95 (didn't eat or drink). This is the 2nd superspreader event she has attended, & both times remained unscathed, thx to N95. #bcpoli
PS funeral was on a Friday & it sounds as if symptoms developed for most by Wednesday (some didn't get symptoms but still tested + on a RAT).
Just remember: even if your symptoms are mild it doesn't mean there isn't permanent damage. Cardiovascular & neuro/brain damage. Avoid.
In this thread, some studies on the effects and spread of Covid.
This trollbot is the perfect case study: it flags every wedge issue that the organizers of these campaigns use to recruit followers & then sow division: Covid masks/vax (note also puts location as "Wuhan"), trucks, Russia, anti-trans...Then uses hockey to recruit target audience.
This account joined Twitter only this last October, has few followers, and its header photo depicts aggressive white male masculinity... and I'm sure you can spot lots more. Most of these trollbots exhibit one or more of these things, but this one almost has it all.
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When journalists avoid challenging govt because they fear losing access to key politicians for interviews, that's called "access journalism." Related: when govts block a reporter from interviewing a politician in retaliation for a tough story, that's called "source chill" #bcpoli
..Or at least we called it "source chill" when I studied media.
In any case "access journalism" is considered a degraded form of media. Yet it's rampant in BC. Many of the highest-profile journalists in #bcmedia engage in it & for obvious reasons don't like you to point it out..
Many journalists are rightly very sensitive about being accused of access journalism. Rob Shaw finally blocked @frozen on Twitter, despite Tom Jackman having long been critical of Shaw's govt-friendly reporting, right after Tom replied to him with the hashtag #teamaccess.
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.
@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.
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
"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.
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.