Thread by @marialavis

You may be familiar with the graph below, showing increasing #COVID19 deaths every yr, that illustrates the failure of of to the BC PHO to effectively manage the pandemic, and keep ppl safe.

#bcpoli

https://twitter.com/lidsville/status/1533265849439555584

But when you look at excess deaths, the situation looks even more grim, especially when you compare BC to other provinces.

This graph is fm last Aug & ppl may also be familiar w it.

When you continue to zoom into the details, it becomes even more concerning.

One might expect that the high excess deaths in BC might be among the oldest demographic group, since they have been hardest hit in terms of mortality by the pandemic.

But that’s not the case.

The graph below shows that it’s in the youngest cohort of ppl 0-44 that the excess deaths have been really taking off.

What’s going on here?

(Many thanks to @MoriartyLab for their continuous provisioning of this & other data.)

Thanks to reporters like @VaughnPalmer @j_mcelroy @charliesmithvcr @PennyDaflos for previous coverage of excess deaths in B.C. and those like @SoniaFurstenau who have called out @adriandix & the PHO for late and incomplete data reporting on excess deaths in BC.

There have also been numerous calls for a public inquiry into not only the PH office’s unacceptable COVID-19 excess death monitoring & reporting, but also gaslighting /obfuscation, failure to protect children (as evidenced by them being disproportionately infected to 70-80%),

lack of providing clear and helpful education and tools to keep people safe—especially in the face of mounting info on post-COID19 sequelae, including #LongCovid (where patients feel the effects compared to subclinical sequelae which may still be doing things like heart damage).

As w many other areas, and as evidenced by BH’s own publication, the PH office appears to have pursued implementing policies that were based on achieving high levels of hybrid immunity as a way to boost herd immunity to purportedly lower transmission.

cmaj.ca/content/194/47…

What this governance path ignored, in prioritizing risk to the oldest cohort, was:

• considerable mounting evidence of damages of SARS-CoV-2 infection to multiple bodily systems & a diversity of chronic effects to all ages
• their duty to inform the public in a transparent &

timely way of their decision to apparently pursue hybrid immunity as a goal, neglecting to disclose other policy options that were not pursued
• potential policies to address the shift to recognizing aerosol (ie airborne) transmission of the 🦠 (so now BC lags behind other

jurisdictions that did recognize air quality engineering improvements as a way to prevent harm and reduce transmission

(Quebec: montreal.ctvnews.ca/air-quality-an…

France: 2021 leglobal.law/2021/12/16/fra…
in classes: leparisien.fr/societe/purifi…)

So the question remains. When is this public inquiry going to happen?

Stalin infamously said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.”

This view always sounded like an anathema to human decency—reflecting the horrors safely in the past—

hearing this in history classes growing up.

And yet, hear we are. Thousands of deaths, lumped as “extra”. And tomorrow & tomorrow rolls along and still there seems to be no clear action on that inquiry?

Are we really that numb and overwhelmed that after at least a year?

Hopefully not so comfortably so that we continue to let “excess deaths” slide off our backs like a nightmare we just hope ends soon so we can continue to ‘get on with our own lives’.

Yes we are overwhelmed. But we cannot continue to coast without a public inquiry into questions like the above re @bcndp handling of the pandemic. An inquiry that most people in this province also support.

globalnews.ca/video/8780248/…

cc @DrFiliatrault @SKGandhiMD @AdamPOlsen @jheighton3 @BCCPAC @SuzanneAnton @NikiSharma2 @GreatDismal @JonathanWNV @Lidsville @TheTyee @ianhanomansing @VancouverSun @CBCStephenQuinn

what’s going on here? @DFisman @TRyanGregory @MoriartyLab @DrRupaMarya @EpiEllie @Wikisteff @DrEricDing @BogochIsaac @RARohde @DrTedros @CPHO_Canada

Some more perspective & context

https://twitter.com/MoriartyLab/status/1620105111442948097