🧵 1/ It’s become quite apparent re: complete lack of media coverage that likely only these 4 (& those they chose to share it with) were privy to this 2nd letter dated Apr12/22 from HRC Govender: Dr. Henry herself w/CCs to @adriandix & 2 DPHOs. #bcpoli bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/upl…
2/ What happened? Well, on the newly updated HRC “Key Issues: Covid-19” Sec, it incl this link to “Discrimination Media Release” page that was last updated on Mar28/22. Which was the media release date of the Mar16/22 letter & comes before the 2nd letter. bchumanrights.ca/news/commissio…
https://twitter.com/humanrights4bc/status/1605236094450434049
3/ So, I took a trip down memory lane to rehash the cascade of attention that this 1st HRC letter received after Henry’s Mar10/22 mask repeal. bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/upl…
4/ Right out of the gate, here’s @charliesmithvcr w/interesting timeline summary. Apparently, the HRC had rec’d media requests relating to the lifting of the mask mandate & they ‘were advised that a letter h/b issued to the PHO…’ straight.com/covid-19-pande…
5/ And here’s Charlie again, the next day, putting it plainly “that nothing changed” since there was no reinstatement of indoor mask mandates in schools, on transit & ferries. That the HRC now has choice of next steps AKA “options 2 thru 5” (see article): straight.com/covid-19-pande…
6/ Meanwhile, @SoniaFurstenau took @adriandix to task in QP for disproportionate impacts on vulnerable. His reply that “focus was always on those most clinically vulnerable…b/c of the ethical values & approach by our PHO” will forever be on the Hansard: videoarchive.leg.bc.ca/Harmony/en/Pow…
7/ Then there’s this re: @CTVVancouver where Dix has to defend actions after Govender said “req’ing masks is…min impairment & we balance hassle of wearing a mask against serious life-&-death or…illness risks for immune-comp & it just doesn’t balance out.”bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-defends-ma…
8/ And this article from @moirawyton at @TheTyee states that “since the mask mandate was lifted, 50 more people have died due to COVID-19, nearly 3 per day.” And finds Dix running interference & working hard to justify mask repeal w/vax only strategy. thetyee.ca/News/2022/03/2…
9/ And this too from @CityNewsVAN titled: “‘Profoundly unequal’: BC HRC says mask mandate end harmful to vulnerable people” which has Dix arguing “that nowhere in Cda have needs of clinically vulnerable been considered as the priority they have in B.C.” vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/03/29/bc-…
10/ Well, you get the picture. A full media cycle. W/Dix working harder than ever in QP & in media to shield #DrHenry’s brand from some very well-deserved criticism/scrutiny. So maybe this 2nd letter, dated 15 days after the 1st letter’s media release would h/b less than ideal?
11/ Especially since this 2nd letter was also a thorough & effective take down of Henry’s Mar31/22 reply to HRC Govender. Poking holes in all justifications from Henry for lifting masks & her assertions that the vulnerable were not at higher risk: www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/hea…
12/ So even tho HRC 2nd letter is 9mo late, w/the tripledemic crisis upon us, all arguments like this one have never been more relevant since all children are vulnerable & those at risk even more so now. And #bced resumes in less than wk w/no universal masking. @RachnaSinghNDP ⬇️
https://twitter.com/littleann4ever/status/1605269124137222149
13/ So really hoping that this Apr12/22 HRC letter from Govender to Henry suffers from at least the same #bcmedia amplification & on the spot task-taking that the 1st letter received. But hopefully more so. A lot more so. It has never been more needed. bchumanrights.ca/wp-content/upl…
14/ And finally, echoing option #7 in @charliesmithvcr’s 2nd article above, if you are a B.C. resident & you still haven't signed this petition by @OhCasavant, calling on our HRs Commissioner to initiate an immediate inquiry into BC's #Covid19 policies, PLEASE DO!⬇️🙏
https://twitter.com/ohcasavant/status/1600260131014709248
15/ For more context, here’s previous thread with breakdown of HRC Govender’s Apr12/22 Letter to Dr.Henry:
https://twitter.com/littleann4ever/status/1605242477891710977
Oops meant *option #5 !
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