Canadian by choice.📍#yegdt. Leftie. Foodie. Multilingual. Urban/international in outlook. Social scientist by trade. Not a Tweet-sized communicator by nature.
Nov 25, 2022 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Don't get me wrong: I'm broadly for mask mandates when conditions warrant. Voted in favour of one just last week, in fact. But here's the thing: if you're saying "people won't mask without a mandate", you don't know that for sure. We haven't tried all the alternatives yet.
This thread is a story of one possible alternative that was broadly successful. I don't know that it would scale--no one can know that. But I do think it would be worth trying, certainly in a political climate where most people want to do the right thing but mandates are toxic.
Jun 26, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A little thread on why I’ll still be opting to wear a mask indoors for the foreseeable future, despite the #yegcc decision. (I’m 51, female, no “underlying health conditions”, fully vaccinated as per June 18th and fully immunized—two weeks post-second-dose—as per July 2nd.)
The Delta variant (and close cousins) is the world’s current COVID worry, as it’s more transmissible and because it has some “immune escape” features. Scientists/public health experts have been gathering data on how it affects the fully vaccinated, & this is the emerging picture:
My own “fully vaccinated” status will tip over into “fully immunized” on July 2nd, so I won't be terribly worried about catching COVID from the unmasked. But many YEG residents are still waiting for those 2nd-dose appointments. They will not be fully immunized in early July. 2/7
