While it is continually shown that the pandemic's harm to those it infects is only a small portion of the wider health crisis, and that the majority of C19 deaths occur outside of hospital, the *totality* of NB metrics are taken solely from hospitalized people.

I go on and on about this and the manufactured legitimacy of essentially non-existent social systems every week.

The concept of the system allows privileged people to ignore risk.
The reality of the system removes impacted people from view.

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Chris

@HallwayOrchard

Mar 5

You know the drill... it's Trash-Stat Tuesday.

Let's look at the numbers attributable to less than one half of one percent of the population and use them to infer the pandemic's impact on the community at large.

When I say "less than one half of one percent" I mean NB C19 "data" represents only what is happening in particular buildings (hospitals) in the province and only to particular people (inpatients) in those buildings.
It's provided to create an imaginary PH due diligence.

This information cannot be used to gauge what is happening in communities. Since Aug 2023, we can only watch to see if a particular place with a non-representative population is more or less impacted than prior weeks. From this all conclusions are supposition.

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Chris

@HallwayOrchard

Jan 12

James Cantor, a psychologist who has never worked with trans kids, is now speaking to media on behalf of @pcnbca, citing repeatedly debunked numbers in attempted support of Higgs' regressive policy changes and transphobic rhetoric.

Since 2021, Cantor has testified in over 25 cases, including bills to restrict transgender healthcare, to ban trans students from school sports, and to restrict student use of school bathrooms.

All despite having zero practical experience treating minors with gender dysphoria.

Cantor also lacks first hand knowledge of diagnosing minors with gender dysphoria, or in working with them to monitor their progress. He has little to no awareness of the treatments and methods used in gender clinics.

None of this stops him from claiming competence on the topic.

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Chris

@HallwayOrchard

Dec 20, 2023

Newly installed christian nationalist candidate and vile anti-trans "activist" Faytene Grasseschi calls legitimate questions about the implications of her theocratic extremism "radical, extreme, woke, left-wing conspiracy theories."

If you're presented with erroneous accusations about your beliefs or your character, you refute them.

If the accusations are true and you're interested in hiding that truth, you make up elaborate strings of buzzwords and dog whistles in an attempt to obfuscate and distract.

Grasseschi can't address concerns of christian nationalism or refute its implications because they're based on her own words.

To her detriment, her narcissism demands every scintilla of puritanical garbage in her mind be written down and broadcast for all to see.

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Chris

@HallwayOrchard

Nov 1, 2023

As one of her last acts as NB CMOH, Dr. Russell will be questioned by the Standing Committee on Public Accounts Nov 2. During the 2 hour session, the committee will ask her to provide justification for decisions made by her office during the province’s pandemic response.
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While the much anticipated AG’s report on the pandemic response had little substance, opting instead to focus on the absence of structure, procedure, and documentation, it made one thing clear. The CMOH was at the bottom of the decision making process.
cbc.ca/1.6959112

Perhaps it was for this reason the Auditor General neglected to interview the one individual to whom every government office deferred and with whom every government pandemic policy was publicly said to originate.

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