Thread by @littleann4ever

🧵1/ So, back on Feb 4th 2020, BCCDC had their 1st pandemic briefing & Mel Krajden said: “Children have less developed immune systems so they shed respiratory viruses longer. And they are less symptomatic than adults. So understanding that dynamic is important.” #bcpoli

2/ And yet, as we all know, these words were swiftly swept under the rug of ideology, politics & spin to ensure #bced kids stayed in school & parents went to work.

Here’s Krajden reading from his slide during his presentation:

3/ Krajden also emphasized the following ingredients for a successful pandemic response:

“- Eliminate hierarchies
- Listen to interdisciplinary experts, trust their expertise & let them shine
- Focus on fixing the process bottlenecks
- Protect people from burnout”
Con’t…

4/ “- Use technology to create an accurate source of truth by pulling & pushing integrated data
- Have consistent, compassionate & honest messaging to & with all stakeholders
- Genomics is becoming part of the new diagnostic & epidemic response standard
- Adapt in real time”

5/ Reading the above list, after all the mismanagement, lack of transparency, mis/disinformation, refusal to adapt to knowledge or listen to experts…it is all at once angering & sad. Just imagine if BCPH had followed thru on even half of these, how much better off we’d be.

6/ The full briefing here: nexuswebcast.mediasite.com/mediasite/Show…