“Whistleblower protection” - really? No help if you can't speak. Over the past 12 years, I was regularly asked by the media to comment on healthcare issues. Administration consistently “instructed” me to stay quiet. The current public health crisis was a tipping point. A 🧵…
Emails redacted for privacy of third parties…
1st warning email: Clearly what bothered administration the most was my named affiliation with the hospital in which I worked.
I asked for the policy that states I can’t talk. This is what I got. The work product of multiple VPs at PHSA. Word soup is common in the upper echelon.
2nd warning email: A complaint because my statements regarding the public health crisis were not towing the party line.
I pushed back and asked for specifics of the complaint.
To date, I’ve received nothing. All attempts to obtain specifics regarding what I did “wrong” were unsuccessful, followed by silence...
.. though, in all fairness, it was at this point that administration terminated my hospital email access… FOI requests pending. #bcpoli
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If gov’t/PH will not institute the directives necessary to protect the population, and it is all on individuals to conduct their own “risk assessment”, then let’s at LEAST provide honest, accurate information needed to do this. Education.
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COVID is NOT a respiratory disease. It’s a vascular disease. Blood vessels feed every organ of the body. We need to focus on MUCH MORE than the acute presentation of COVID. 2/12
For many, COVID has proven to be a chronic disease. The health problems are directly related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, NOT the vaccine. 3/12
Why haven’t we learned? 1. It’s not just about an acute illness anymore. COVID is a systemic disease. 2. It’s not “mild”. 3. COVID DOES hurt children. 4. Selective testing of a single nation accomplishes nothing. 5. Be proactive NOT reactive.
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1. Viral ACE2 receptors are everywhere. XBB.1.5 is more contagious, binds cells with more proficiency, and is more vaccine evasive. Even if the acute phase of illness is mild, the numbers infected, like Omicron, may be huge. Long term consequences could be dire.
2. No, it’s not about case numbers, which are a black box without testing. But, even if you define “severe disease” as death, there were more deaths in BC and in Canada in 2022 from COVID than in the 2 preceding years, despite gross undercounting.
The pandemic is novel. Placing blame for the many mistakes we’ve made isn’t helpful, but it's important for the health, safety, and well-being of our children to transparently acknowledge missteps and make proactive, not reactive, corrections. A 🧵... globalnews.ca/news/9349552/k…
What mistakes do we need to acknowledge?
First, there has been a refusal to admit the indisputable fact that COVID is airborne.
Secondly, COVID isn’t just a respiratory virus – COVID receptors exist on virtually every organ in the body and there is compelling evidence that COVID (the disease, NOT the vaccine) causes persistent dysfunction of the immune system.