Thread by @nb_covid_info

If your job was to protect people from a disease, and there was a huge public breakthrough from another nation clearly delineating how to stop transmission, wouldn’t you be singing from the rooftops about it?

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If your province was still stuck on #dropletdogma and was using outdated information to try to fight the pandemic, and information came out strongly from a trusted ally that differed significantly from your approach, wouldn’t it be a BIG DEAL for your CMOH and DoH?

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I feel the silence on this makes them
complicit. Why no public acknowledgment of the huge change from the US?

One month ago on March 17, the EPA came out with its clean air in buildings challenge.

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epa.gov/indoor-air-qua…

The next week, on March 23, the White House issued this incredibly clear and strong statement about airborne transmission of COVID - and a *laundry list* of things we can do to more effectively stop transmissions.

whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…

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People in power no longer have plausible deniability regarding the route of transmission for COVID and the fact that many of our mitigation measures are ineffective because they target routes of transmission that aren’t the airborne route.

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It’s been a whole month since the EPA issued their press release. If your job involves dealing with COVID, you don’t have an excuse anymore. There’s no reason why you wouldn’t have seen these two websites.

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It’s time that anyone in power is directly asked about the facts in whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda… and why this life-saving information hasn’t been conveyed to the public in Canada.

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We deserve to know that COVID is airborne just as much as our American neighbours. We deserve to be told that respirators are superior and why. That ventilation is important and can be addressed. That filtration helps, not harms, and that HEPA and CR are *encouraged,* not banned.

Our CMOHs have largely not been spending their time on public briefings or on mandate enforcement anymore. Not on communication with the public. It’s been a month since this came out.

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A month is a long time with COVID. A month is a lot of transmissions. A month is a lot of exponential growth. A lot of long COVID. A lot of cases that will have severe outcomes. A lot of missed days of school, work. Impacts on the economy.
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As much as our provinces are pretending that COVID is over, it’s clearly not and it’s having massive effects on our schools, healthcare systems, labour force, and our social fabric.

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If your job was to protect the healthcare system, and a trusted ally issued such a strong statement backing an approach so different from your own to date, why would it take you over a month to acknowledge and incorporate the vital information from this breakthrough? /12

If you felt a duty to save lives, to reduce the burden of COVID, to reduce rates of disease, to protect people, to avert disasters - and something this clear came out about effective ways to help - why wouldn’t you be singing it from the rooftops?

whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
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14/13 :)
The GNB website with the now-known-to-be-false-and-misleading COVID info is here: www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en…

I have been contacting MLAs, mayors, superintendents, and people in the healthcare system about airborne transmission regularly since October.

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Once I watched Dr. Prather’s webinar I felt duty-bound to sing it from the rooftops. The info here *saves lives* and once you know this how can you stay silent about it?

healthandenvironment.org/webinars/96581

People in power in NB have been getting this info from public for months.

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You want to ignore and dismiss me for months because the facts about COVID are inconvenient? Fine. But time’s up on you ignoring institutions as big as the White House and EPA.

Those in power need to be asked direct questions about this.

We deserve an accurate briefing.