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We're a nonpartisan action group in BC, Canada advocating for evidence-based safety measures in high-risk settings. 🐘: @DoNoHarmBC@zeroes.ca
Apr 14 6 tweets 2 min read
🧵 By popular demand – some questions to ask the PHSA! They may limit the no. of questions from each person, so it helps to have multiple people asking (& it shows more people care).

Email board.office@phsa.ca by 4:30pm April 15.

1/? Pastel pink purple and blue graphic with the DoNoHarm BC logo reads, 10 things to ask the PHSA. Email Board.Office@phsa.ca by April 15, 4:30 pm 1. BC gov says HCW masks & respirators will now be based on "risk assessments". Please detail what frameworks & policies will be used to make those.

2. Does PHSA/anyone you work with track trends in hospital-acquired illness, esp before/after changes in infection control policy?
Mar 19 10 tweets 7 min read
🧵 As part of #VulnerabilityIsntSeasonal, we’re amplifying stories from just a few of the vulnerable British Columbians who would be impacted by discarding mask protections in healthcare. Stories threaded below 👇 donoharmbc.ca/first-person-v… 1/2 Kayli Jamieson (she/her), 25-year-old Long COVID patient and Long COVID Researcher: “A single COVID infection completely upended my life.” #VulnerabilityIsntSeasonal donoharmbc.ca/first-person-v…

Pink gradient graphic featuring a young biracial (East Asian and white) woman with dark hair, wearing a black respirator and red and green plaid vintage outfit, holding a hand drawn sign reading, Keep Masks in Healthcare. A pull quote from Kayli (she/her) reads, "A single Covid infection completely upended my life"
Pink gradient graphic 1 of 3 from DoNoHarm BC with header reading, Vulnerability Isn't Seasonal. #KeepMasksInHealthcare. www.DoNoHarmBC.ca A quote from Kayli (she/her) reads, A single COVID infection completely upended my life two years ago by disabling me with Long COVID. This is happening to millions and yet public health is not treating COVID with the seriousness it deserves and preventing infections in all healthcare settings.
Aug 1, 2023 13 tweets 4 min read
1/8 - Today we launch #Postcards4PublicHealth and we need YOUR HELP! Our goal: send thousands of postcards to @adriandix demanding the Ministry of Health act on #KeepMasksInHealthCare, #CleanAirInSchools, #LongCovid, etc… It’s FREE to mail the gov’t! Here’s how to participate: Image 2/8 - Get any generic postcard, or get crafty and make your own! (Our toolkit can help: ) Next: share your personal stories & concerns about #COVID19 in BC.

(If only 1% of BC’ians send 1 card each, that’s over 50,000 cards! Two cards each = 100,000!)bit.ly/Postcards4Publ…
May 20, 2023 13 tweets 10 min read
Exactly 3 weeks ago today (April 28 2023) our group met for the first time to stage a die-in with 50 people at the office of BC Health Minister @adriandix in Vancouver to protest the removal of universal masking in healthcare. #DoNoHarmBC #KeepMasksInHealthcare #MaskWeekOfAction Two protest signs reading &...Two protesters on a sidewal...A group of eight protesters...Chalk outlines of bodies on... Prior to this protest none of us had never met, now we are allies and co-activists. What prompted us to do this was this tweet by @ElaineCarol3:
May 17, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
I wear my #N95 at the gym every day, 2 fans running on high, doors open, window open, & CO2 reading under 550. It's not hard. I do it because I don't know who was here before me, or if they were sick. 😷 Haters ask: "ArE yOu GoInG tO WeAr a MaSk FoReVerR?" Here is my answer: A CO2 monitor held by a per... I still wear a seatbelt more than 3 yrs after it became law. Still don't smoke indoors more than 3 yrs after it became law. Still use condoms more than 3 yrs after the HIV/AIDS crisis began. Still only drink clean water, still wear sunscreen when out in the sun. So do you!