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@Lidsville
Jun 9, 2023 • 11 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
I’m a rural BC hospital taking an elderly relative to ER. No masks on staff & visitors but aggressive efforts to make everyone sanitize their hands, despite the fact that the diseases helping to crash the health system are airborne. We are truly living in an age of disinformation
*I’m IN a rural BC hospital. I am not a hospital. But you got that
Look at the handwashing fixation of @IPACCanada & the blindness to airborne transmission & masking stretching back many years. Every year they suggest infection control is largely a handwashing issue. It's as if all the airborne diseases do not exist. Why?
@IPACCanada PS I meant this image to be a photo not a gif, but the gif's jerky repetition is like a perfect echo of the bossy hand-sanitizing greeter repeatedly instructing all the unmasked hospital visitors to sanitize their hands, which I witnessed for HOURS.
@IPACCanada And... we both got Covid. The hospital is the only place we've been indoors. My relative got it (probably when unmasked HCWs treated her after taking her mask off) and then I got it from her. Well done, BC health system. You made an elderly patient sicker than she already was.
@IPACCanada And even though I'm in one of the highest risk groups, I can't access Paxlovid from the system that sickened us, even though people my age can access it all over Canada and the developed world - while BC restricts it the most.
@IPACCanada Why is @GovCanHealth allowing BC to withhold the Paxlovid the feds gave us? #bcpoli #cdnpoli
@IPACCanada @GovCanHealth It's fairly well known that BC IPAC (which is full of Urgency of Normal types like Dr. Jennifer Grant - anti lockdown, lots of Great Barrington rhetoric) is actively discouraging the use of Paxlovid in BC. Given that it reduces incidence of Long Covid: WTH, @bcndp? #bcpoli
@IPACCanada @GovCanHealth @bcndp If they truly think they're strengthening the herd by getting everyone mass infected and withholding any treatments - some kind of survival of the fittest delusion - they should be fired. Covid is weakening the herd thanks to the way it damages the population's immune systems.
@IPACCanada @GovCanHealth @bcndp Not to mention that this would be eugenics, regardless

They can't even do eugenics properly. Or maybe they actually want to weaken the herd
@IPACCanada @GovCanHealth @bcndp These remarks are not that far off what healthcare workers said in the unmasked rural hospital that infected my elderly family member with Covid (and then me too):

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Sep 13
Chasing the far-right by making cowardly concessions and U-turns is generally a losing strategy. Nice race to the far-right corner of the bottom of the barrel, Dave.

If you were in any doubt as to who Dave Eby really is, I hope today made things clear #bcpoli #carbontax
BC Greens should be explicitly campaigning up the left side of the NDP now and yanking this ever-rightward-shifting Overton window back. To do that they're going to have to abandon this kind of talk immediately.
#bcpoli insider on NDP nixing carbon tax: "people get more in personal carbon rebate cheques than they pay in fuel tax costs. I don't get why they did this; it's political insanity. They're literally scrapping a version of UBI, plus it'll put trade/ climate agreements in jeopardy
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May 25
Quite a bizarre performance by BC Conservatives leader John Rustad on CBC Radio today. For a populist demagogue he's very wooden - he just kept repeating “we have to get rid of the BC NDP with their radical agenda/policies” over & over, like a broken droid. 1/x #bcpoli
Frustratingly CBC's @BellePuri never asked Rustad which BC NDP policies he thinks are "radical." The BC NDP are so captured by the corporations at the trough - arguably more than the BC Liberals before them - that I'd be astonished to find anything really "radical" there...
@BellePuri The only difference is that the BC NDP are doing right-wing corporate capture with a veneer of rainbow crosswalks, while the Cons are corporate capture with social conservatism & toxic masculinity. Which flavour do you want your trickle-up of wealth to come in?
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Mar 28
Important WSJ article on Canada's rivers drying up while we keep building dams anyway, including #SiteC. It's paywalled so I'll include the whole article in this 🧵

Diversify into renewables now! BC can't until it ditches the deceptively named Clean Energy Act.#bcpoli #cdnpoli
1. The Canadian province of Quebec had big plans of becoming the "battery of the U.S. northeast" by feeding power generated from its dams and other hydro plants to millions of people in Vermont, Massachusetts and New York state. Now, dry conditions that have affected energy output worldwide are forcing one of the world's largest hydropower producers to cut exports. "There wasn't enough snow or rain in the regions where we needed it," said Michael Sabia, chief executive of Hydro‑Québec, the provincial utility. "We can't make it rain, as much as we'd like to.&qu...
2. "Drought is a big concern," said Lei Xie, a researcher with the International Hydropower Association, a London-based nonprofit group. She said it is becoming more difficult for forecasters to model the extremes of climate change, and predict from year-to-year how much electricity local hydroelectric systems will generate. Canada bet heavily on hydro as a means of cleaning up its carbon footprint; it is the third-largest hydroelectricity producer in the world. But with the climate becoming markedly drier in recent years, Canada's utilities are now investing hundreds of billion...
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Jun 19, 2023
Had Bing Thom not died prematurely, he would have gone after @AIBCconnected for its gentleman's agreement rule that architects can't criticize other projects. Reportedly a certain major arch'l firm in Vancouver reported Bing to AIBC for his letter opposing #105Keefer. #vanpoli
@AIBCconnected Bing Thom intended to go after AIBC's muzzling rule & publicly ask them:

"What is the point of architecture if there's no discourse? What is the role of the architect in society? Do we have a public responsibility or are we just hired guns?"

AIBC's rule is destructive.
#bcpoli
@AIBCconnected Bing's death was a terrible loss for public discourse in Vancouver. BTW he also helped us with a fight I co-founded against the proposed downtown casino expansion (we beat the expansion partly thx to him). You could count on him to do the right thing. AIBC tries to block this.
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Jun 19, 2023
My elderly family member, whom I kept free of Covid for 3+ years but who finally caught in in an unmasked BC hospital last week, is very sick on Day 9. Rapid test still shows a bright red line. For health issues she can't take Paxlovid. She's in a rage at you, @adriandix. #bcpoli
@adriandix "I'm furious at the hospital and at all the unmasked healthcare workers, but I'm more outraged by @adriandix and Bonnie Henry. The govt is ultimately to blame."
@adriandix She asks: "Why aren't they following science?"

"They kept taking my mask off for tests and procedures - and they weren't even wearing masks when they did it."
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Apr 20, 2023
Former BC premier John Horgan jumps to the board of Teck Resources, which had the largest environmental fine in Canadian history

Video: @BCGreens leader @SoniaFurstenau asks the NDP in QP about Horgan's role in Teck's pollution case.
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#bcpoli #cdnpoli
@BCGreens @SoniaFurstenau Here's the timeline of John Horgan's involvement with Teck Resources before he left office. Judge for yourself:

In Dec 2021 the feds indicated they were considering referring Teck's selenium pollution in the Elk Valley to the internat'l joint commission (IJC)
#bcpoli
@BCGreens @SoniaFurstenau Feds became involved because Teck's selenium pollution was a longstanding issue. (Recall the fines)

March 2022 Teck lobbied the feds asking that the Elk Valley pollution not be referred to the IJC.
April 12 Teck lobbied Horgan's Chief of Staff & deputy mins of Env & Energy+Mines
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