It's official. Medical Officers of Health have a duty of care as Doctors, and can't hide behind the role as "public officials". They MUST follow the science, not the politicians.
And politicians have to use proper regulations, not just make decrees.
If you or your kids/family got sick from airborne communicable diseases since Feb that could reasonably be attributed to increased infectivity from schools w/o adequate airborne protections...
Now you can do something about it. UCP & School boards are liable. Make them fix it.
Public Health is a collective responsibility.
Access to safe kid's education is a right. Safe workplaces are your right.
Advocate now, file complaints now, HRC filings now. They're uncomfortable losing their govt backing & may be amenable to improvement instead of liability.
Surgical masks can approach the efficacy of formal respirators if used w/ a good "mask brace". Filter material of medical grade surgical masks is adequate, but the design leaves gaps around the edges. Brace prevents leaking through gaps around sides.
To work adequately, they must:
* have medical-grade filter of efficiency similar to N95
* not permit air to slip around edges or bypass the filter (no gaps)
NOTE: most washable masks do not work as well as N95...
But what if you have a negative RAT or PCR test? Doesn't that mean it can't be COVID?
No, it doesn't mean that. Especially early after symptoms emerge, false negative RAT or PCR can be common. PCR had 80% sensitivity on the BEST DAY early in the pandemic, worse at other times.
I'd be very glad if we stopped using the word "hysterical", especially to describe "excessive negative emotion".
It's mysogynist, ableist and usually intellectually dishonest.
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Hysteria means "wandering uterus". It was a diagnosis for women deemed "neurotic" in antiquity-1900s. Incl. misdiagnosed physical illness, claiming they're imagined/faked/mental.
It ONLY applied to women
bc women were less rationale, controlled, intelligent & mature. (/s)
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It was also a way to reinforce the idea that their experiences are less worthy of consideration and belief.
And literally used as justification for locking them away, indefinitely, in asylums. (Or sometimes, treating with vibrators, but that's a WHOLE different thread.)
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Do not reply unless you're ready to treat these data in rigorous, scientific, dispassionate ways. It won't make you or your msg look good, it will just drive traffic to my argument.
But if you *do* have legit, scientifically-rigorous rebuttals or questions, pls give feedback.
Main Argument:
Where vaccination does not affect LC symptoms, lacking vaccination also cannot have a statistically-significant effect.
And where vaccination improves certain outcomes, it cannot simultaneously worsen them.
Other scientists suggest basic safety precautions. (#BringBackMasks)
Immediately trolls blame the vax & use slurs & ableist language.🧵
It's shocking to me how vitriolic, irrational, ignorant & frankly crap-tastic these people's behavior is.
Most folx here are in societies where even basic precautions have been abandoned. Yet trolls come hunting to vilify & belittle those providing real medical science. Why?
Is it ego preservation? Can they not cope w/ those "sanctimonious" medical experts who know better and act to avoid infecting themselves/others?
Do they fear, deep down, "What if I've been wrong about everything? What if infecting my family by ignoring safety was a bad choice?"