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Mar 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I’m wondering when the class action lawsuits can begin for every Canadian who developed #LongCovid, considering public health KNEW about it from @GovCanHealth, starting July ‘20 & building through ‘21, yet told no one.

People’s “personal risk assessments” are based on lies.
🧵⬇️
2/ Of particular note in a lawsuit should be public health’s decision to promote “it’s mild”, related to initial acute infection period, while staying mum about a significant risk of #LongCovid afterwards.

And removing mask protections in 2022, stating “personal choice”.
3/ Of course, gov’ts have passed laws where people can’t sue them or public health over their decisions.

But there needs to be SOME ACCOUNTABILITY. The harms done are egregious & shouldn’t be allowed. No one should be above accountability.

The moral & physical harm is huge.
4/ We are starting to see the breakdown of society as we know it, due to gov’t folly in staying silent on LC
- labour shortages, leading to child labour returning
- “uptick” in errors in the aviation industry

How long do we let this continue? Gov & PH *must be held to account*!
5/ So what can Canadians do? The harm is continuing as the majority of the population remains unaware of #LongCovid symptoms. They know they are sick, they just don’t know WHY. So Canadians continue to take risks, unaware of dangers.

Lawyers? Care to advise?
#LongCovidAwareness

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Jennifer Heighton Profile picture
Jan 20
🧵:
@BogochIsaac Understand the context behind the backlash:
-hospitals overwhelmed yet PH refuses to mandate masks
-vulnerable expected to isolate for??? years?

You said, “we’re not going to mask our way out of the pandemic”.

Perfection shouldn’t be the enemy of action.
2/ @BogochIsaac You also said, masks are “not going to eliminate the impact of COVID, that’s why we kept having waves despite mask mandates.”

Think about it. Kids in schools. Crowded workplaces. Mass transit. Did your words help or hinder those spaces?

Needed this instead:
3/ @BogochIsaac You could’ve referred to the many studies that show masks help to reduce transmission.⬇️

Meanwhile HCW are burning out, schools had unprecedented absences (learning loss) & hospital services in your province are on the road to privatization…

Read the room.
Read 4 tweets
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Dec 27, 2022
To @keithbaldrey,
Actually, COVID-aware *are* in step w/ science; it’s “if we have to live w/ this virus, let’s be smart about it instead of #LetItRip nonsense.”

Let’s look at the science, shall we? And about public opinion…let’s look at that too.

A thread 🧵…

@GlobalBC
2/ First, who are these people you deride as “COVID zero”? Many have good reason to seek out info to keep ourselves & others safe:
- front line workers
- caring professions (schools, LTC, hospitals)
- immunocompromised or live w/ someone who is
- have #LongCovid
- have empathy
…
3/ So, with the above motivations, COVID-aware looked for evidence to understand what the world is facing w/ this virus.

No 1 basic fact: #COVIDIsAirborne, but unfortunately political forces (incl 🇨🇦PH) deny & obfuscate that.

It’s a massive failure. Mario Possemai says it best:
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Dec 8, 2022
🧵:
Key debunking:
Experts @fitterhappierAJ & @FurnessColin explain COVID-19 immune dysregulation, including why that theory is attacked.

Part 1:
In our immune systems, what are T-cells, and how does COVID-19 cause immune dysregulation?

Immunologist @fitterhappierAJ answers:
Part 2: Why the attacks on "COVID-19 immune dysregulation", despite evidence showing it is probably playing out now w/ more severe outbreaks of a variety of pathogens?

What forces are at play? Is it the fact that "herd immunity" would be dead as a theory?
@fitterhappierAJ :
Part 3:
@FurnessColin explains why COVID-19's behavior & rapid changes means we shouldn't discount COVID's immune dysregulation effects as a contributing factor to the current crises.

"It's hard for some people to unlearn."
More in this clip:
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Dec 6, 2022
🧵:
Thank you @SoniaFurstenau & @SKGandhiMD for having your own press conference after the appalling @bcndp presser that had no real changes.

You’re right: the paediatric crisis in BC means more courage is needed. And that’s what WASN’T delivered by BC’s gov’t.
#BringBackMasks
2/ The Q is, how did our “leaders” let it get to the point where a simple health tool like masks is viewed as a “blunt tool” or “heavy handed” or a “stringent measure”?

All teachers know: words matter. If explained well, it becomes matter-of-fact, common sense.

No controversy.
3/ Instead, BC has a PHO who uses those phrases & makes the population 2nd-guess masks as a health tool.

Scientists who design, explain & study masks understand WHY they are effective as source control AND protection…does our PHO?

@bcndp, don’t you see the damage being done?🤷🏻‍♀️
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Oct 2, 2022
I’m wondering when influential proponents of 1-way masking like @j_g_allen will admit they were wrong & advocate to #BringBackMasks?

So much harm is being done, right NOW, due to their “focused protection/personal choice” strategy failures.

Universal masking keeps society open.
2/ For anyone wondering about @j_g_allen & his influential push to one-way masking policies, read his @washingtonpost article from Dec/2021.

That article had major traction among policy-makers, as Allen built up a substantial following by then w/ his work on Healthy Buildings.
3/ The majority of COVID-conscious advocates saw the folly in 1-way masking: that unmasked infectious people would be spreading more virus particles in poorly ventilated and/or crowded spaces, and therefore the person with an N95 would be more exposed than universal masking.
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Sep 23, 2022
Short 🧵:

Science-following #bced activists are right more than @CDCofBC, many times.

We predicted:
✅delta wave during BC’s “Hug Day” summer
✅removing mask protections during BA.2/5 would result in massive infection
✅schools are community hubs & need protections

Unlike ⬇️
2/ Now @CDCofBC claims mass infection is good for you because it gives “robust hybrid immunity”. Not proven.

They conveniently ignore #LongCovid, ⬆️heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, seizures.

And reinfections. @CDCofBC minimizing is ❌

Thread on reinfection risks, with links:
3/ @CDCofBC is also ignoring new variants on the horizon (they’ve done this EVERY time!).⬇️

Mass infection allows the virus the opportunity to mutate, & mutate it has. That fact has NEVER been explained to the BC public. One reason lowering transmission should be top priority.
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