Another important piece of info for #PEI journalists to consider: every province and territory received information that #COVIDisAirborne - and did NOTHING. They abdicated their responsibility to warn us. This has caused many needless deaths and disabilities.
Why does this matter? If people knew how Covid was REALLY transmitted, they’d be much more likely to take steps to protect themselves by wearing respirators and demanding clean air.
The vast majority, especially in #PEI, are operating under a false sense of security that plexiglass, sanitizer and social distancing will be enough to keep them healthy. Sadly this couldn’t be more wrong. :( Covid floats like smoke in the air and stays there for several hours.
Governments failed to declare that #COVIDisAirborne because they mistakenly believed it will be too expensive to clean the air via ventilation and filtration. This is also sadly very untrue. The medical and economic cost of letting Covid rip unmitigated is astronomical.
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“When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. /1"
"But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life..." /2
"places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish..." /3
In preparation for the #PEI election, PoP PEI member @ntqrt invited Island @saltwire readers to complete a survey and provide input on Covid-19 and the privatization of healthcare. Here's what he found:
"Over 50 percent of respondents supported the need for government mask mandates in public buildings (9 percent more were uncertain, while 40 percent disagreed)."
"Regarding mask-wearing, there was a roughly even split between those who reported they always masked when grocery shopping versus those who did not. This may reflect the fact that about half of respondents thought COVID is like a flu, with little or no severe long-term impacts."