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Damien Contandriopoulos Profile picture
Damien Contandriopoulos
@Faussenurse
Committed professional seppuku in 2018. Academic zombie ever since. Professor at UVic's School of Nursing. Held a CIHR Applied Public Health chair 2014-2019
Jun 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Since that paper was published, my reading of the situation just got more cynical. To me, the pandemic opened a new chapter in the story of post-truth propaganda. In many jurisdictions, such as #BC or Sweden, public health officials became agents of disinformation. A thread… There is a textbook approach to fighting against scientific evidence in the political and media spheres. The script was written by the tobacco industry and then refined by the oil and gas industries. It revolves around creating doubt and the mass-spreading of counter narratives.
Apr 8, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Recently, @GeorgeNDP, a @bcndp hack, went into a full Twitter-tantrum because @SoniaFurstenau appropriately and soundly criticized the nonsense Dr. Henry and the @CDCofBC have been spouting on Covid prevention. So here’s a thread on public health and science. All top positions in governmental public health agencies are occupied by MDs with a specialization in public health. And while MDs sure are doctors, they aren’t the kind of doctors trained to do science. They are the kind of doctors trained to do medicine.
Feb 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
A #LongCovid thread. I (likely) had Covid early in 2020. Now, almost two years later I’m stuck with some annoying (and scary) long Covid symptoms. I thought I would share in case it helps others. @brish_ti On Jan 25, 2020, before there were supposed to be cases in #BC, my wife got real sick. Very high fever, severe muscle pain, coughing. We thought it was the flu. She was bed bound for 3 days. But she had a funny symptom: she lost the sense of smell.
Apr 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
My PhD is in public health. So I went through all the disciplinary blah on equity blah blah transparency blah no victim blaming blah patient centredness blah…

But now I realize I have been fooled. In real life, public health’s motto is “You don’t need to know, shut up and obey” Public health, as a discipline, is a crossbreed between a state bureaucracy and medicine.

Both origins share a deeply engrained respect for hierarchy and discipline. With a healthy dose of paternalism inherited from medicine and a love for procedural logic from bureaucracy.