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@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.
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):
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
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?"
@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.
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."
@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
The BC govt can fudge the death stats from Covid all it wants ("that death wasn't FROM Covid, it was WITH Covid" etc).
The real truth is the "excess deaths" number - that is, how many of us are dying now vs. before pandemic, minus other factors like poisoned drugs & heat dome.
This is why data modellers like @MoriartyLab focus on excess deaths as the real statistical truth of Covid impacts over time. The problem tho is that over time, elevated deaths from Covid will start to be the "normal" death rate, against which we're comparing new Covid deaths...
This problem is being discussed in several chats I'm in that include Covid science & medical types and public health advocates. What happens when we can't use excess deaths as reliably to get around the govt's obfuscation around Covid's serious health impacts on the public?
@KeithBaldrey has been issuing inflammatory tweets again, abusing citizens who advocate for better Covid measures. In the process, he falsely deems a "conspiracy theory" the proven yet media-ignored fact that oil &c money has been funding opposition to any mitigation of Covid. 🧵
Baldrey is free to call facts "conspiracy theories" because due to media's dereliction of duty, the public knows ~nothing of the influential, oil-funded attack on Covid measures known as the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) whose views Keith resembles. desmog.com/2020/10/26/ame…
The GBD stance (let Covid rip, don't mask, the population will become immune) demonstrably failed to produce pop'n level immunity to Covid, with deaths in 2022 far higher than in 2020 or 2021. But GBD's influence remains strong & its spokesdoctors are still given media platforms.