1/ Well, here is everything I can share with you regarding my complaint to Engineers & Geoscientists of BC (EGBC) against the Vancouver School Board (VSB).

Thank you to all who helped with legal fees. I will post the final accounting as soon as I receive invoice!

Here goes!
2/ Important background part 1: Building engineering is a regulated practice in BC.

#COVIDisAirborne #bced #bcpoli

3/ Important background part 2: 2.All regulated engineering work in BC must be backed by Authenticated Documents.

4/ Important background part 3: All registrants (individual and Firms) are bound by the EGBC Code of Ethics.

Guide to Code of Ethics
Engineers & Geoscientists of BC.

egbc.ca/getmedia/33d03… Image
5/ Now, once you have read the background, here is my correspondence with the VSB,

Email 1: From me to VSB Trustees Jan 30, 2022 Email to VSB requesting P.E...
6/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 2: Follow-up from me to VSB (no reply from VSB in between). Feb 2, 2022 Email from me to VSB, notin...
7/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 3: Reply from Janet Fraser. Chair, VSB
Feb 2, 2022 Reply from VSB to me (over ...Image
8/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 4: Reply from me to Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB
Feb 7, 2022 Email from me saying since ...
9/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 5: From me to Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB
Feb 18, 2022
Again requesting docs confirming District's reliance on Ron's [Director of Facilities & P.Eng.] prof'l advice, and description of technical rationale underpinning that advice. Image
10/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 6: From Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB to me
Feb 25, 2022 Email in which Janet Fraser...
11/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 7: From me to Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB
Feb 25, 2022 Email to Janet Fraser sayin...
12/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 8: From Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB to me
Mar 11, 2022 Email from Janet Fraser: &q...
13/ Correspondence between VSB and me, cont'd

Email 9: From me to Janet Fraser, Chair, VSB
Mar 11, 2022 Email from me pointing out ...
14/ End of email chain. Ms. Fraser never responded to my email above.

The VSB employs Ron Macdonald, P.Eng. as its Director of Facilities. His employer is has not produced in response to my request any Authenticated Documents prepared by him ...
15/ ... or a contracted Licensed Professional that provide the rationale & professional assurance for VSB’s undertaking or avoidance of ventilation & air cleaning works designed to protect children & staff from exposure to an airborne federally designated Risk Group 3 biopathogen
16/ Here is what @WBahnfleth, @ashraenews Epidemic Taskforce Lead, observed on Twitter after a brief review of the VSB guidance. ImageImageImage
17/ Based on the circumstances, I have the following questions:

a.Has the VSB developed building safety plans which purport to comply with ASHRAE standards without the legally required input of a licensed Professional Engineer?

#bced #COVIDisAirborne
18/ Questions arising from circumstances, cont'd

b.Has the VSB Director of Facilities prepared the required Authenticated Documents or advised the VSB about the need to prepare them?

#bced #COVIDisAirborne
19/ Questions arising from circumstances, cont'd

c.What advice has the VSB Director of Facilities provided the VSB about the risk to public health and safety posed by SARS-CoV-2 in VSB facilities?

#bced #COVIDisAirborne
20/ In light of the background information, my correspondence, and the questions above, I filed a complaint to the Engineers & Geoscientists of BC, which regulates and governs professional Engineers in BC, raising these questions.

#bced #COVIDisAirborne
21/ I look forward to your thoughts and comments. I really think it's important for everyone to see the challenges parents have faced in securing professional assurance that our children our protected in #bced, esp given #COVIDisAirborne.

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Sep 4
Here is the video of this interview by @AlissaMThibault w/ @SoniaFurstenau (🏆), teacher @jheighton3, and me - not-anxious-but-frustrated parent.

I applaud #bced taking some action as #COVIDisAirborne . But it's amateur hour.
The #bced safety plan that supposedly 'meets @ashraenews' doesn't even clear the pre-requisite bar!

Perhaps an objective could be fewer hospitalizations than last school year, when 679 kids were hospitalized from Sep 4 to Jul 2?!

No parent has been able to obtain Authenticated Documents from an Engineer of Record providing the professional assurance of public health & safety to which we are legally entitled.

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Sep 3
1/ I am livid.

#COVIDisAirborne. Washing our hands will not help. Mask 'choice' is unscientific - that's not how aerosols work. Mask 'choice' is ableist bs that endangers our high risk family.

Shame @VSB39 for propping up this dangerous nonsense & abdicating your duty of care.
2/ "Staff will continue to remind students of importance of regular hand washing/hand sanitizing and of coughing/sneezing into their elbow or a tissue. We will continue to ensure hand sanitizer is available."
This is NOT going to protect my kids from COVID. It's AIRBORNE. #bced
3/ "Wearing a mask, other than what is recommended by public health, is an important personal health choice for students and families. Some staff and students will choose to wear a mask throughout the day or for certain activities. Others will choose not to wear a mask." 🤬🤬🤬
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Sep 2
This post captured my (& many others) frustration. The masks-dont-work crowd feels like arguing with flat-earthers. @CPita3 is right - filters are everywhere!

It occurred to me that, besides ideology, maybe issue is people get solid, liquid, gas BUT don't grasp fluids. Short🧵
"In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that continuously deforms under an applied shear stress, or external force. They have zero shear modulus, or ... are substances which cannot resist any shear force applied to them." Wikipedia

Air moves like a fluid!
So, just like water flowing in a river, air moves all around. It can move around small solid objects, or be 'splashed' off larger ones, changing direction. It swirls like river currents.

Like a leaf in a river, air can move floating objects with it as it moves.
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Aug 31
.@ashraenews TC 9.7 - Educational Facilities Working Group released its new

DESIGN GUIDANCE FOR EDUCATION FACILITIES:
PRIORITIZATION FOR ADVANCED INDOOR AIR QUALITY

Apr 20, 2022

#COVIDisAirborne

nemionline.org/wp-content/upl…

🧵 Image
Here is the Table of Contents for the Apr 2022 ASHRAE Advanced IAQ guidance for schools

#COVIDIsAirborne Image
Apr 2022 Advanced IAQ Guidance for schools:

✅risk mitigation strategies

✅facilitate discussion between designers & stakeholders

✅id min recommendations & further considerations

🚨to reduce the risk of transmission of infectious pathogens and other contaminants of concern Image
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Aug 19
I am extremely frustrated with the level of obfuscation and lack of clear science and rigour underpinning our #COVID19 response in BC. I would like to share some correspondence as I think it's important for citizens to know what is happening.

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2/ My email to the Ministry of Health (I was bounced there by Attorney General. I might post that nonsense chain at some point).

Written just after removal of universal masking ('mask mandates').
3/ The Ministry of Health reply. You will note my questions are not answered, and the reply includes language exactly like the canned nonsense #bonniehenry provides at press conferences. It's also in line with the dreadful 'education' campaigns - posters, social media, etc.
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Jul 15
1/I am really upset at pic emerging wrt massive (& dangerous) overstepping of BC's Provincial Health Officer (#bonniehenry) & regional MHOs into building engineering, a legally regulated engineering practice in which they have no training or license to practice

#COVIDisAirborne
2/ To recap, building engineering is a regulated practice. The application of ASHRAE technical standards and guidance = building engineering. Only appropriate P.Engs can practice building engineering.

3/ Any regulated engineering work MUST be backed by a Responsible Engineer / Engineer of Record. There must be a paper trail ("Authenticated Documents") of work product and assurance that underpins engineering advice relied on by others.

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