Lindsay Brown @Lidsville Twitter profile

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Lindsay Brown

5 years

For those asking for links to some of my past Twitter threads & livetweets on BC issues, here's a selection: 1. Fracking quakes cracked a major BC dam in Northeast BC not far from #SiteC , the #PeaceCanyon dam, & the BC gov't covered it up. Jan 2020:

Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

5 years

BREAKING: One of BC's major dams, the Peace Canyon dam upstream of #SiteC , was compromised by fracking quakes but the info was not made public. More stories to follow - here's the initial release in CCPA's Policy Note by journalist @BenParfittCCPA . Stay tuned for more. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

If you think you're on the left and you're not wearing a mask in public indoor spaces, you're not. I don't know why this is hard to understand.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Being "done" with Covid is like being "done" with climate change. These things don't care what you're done with

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

5 months

@AriDrennen I love that the Post Millennial has now put up a 7-word temporary homepage containing a full 3 spelling mistakes

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

For those who think kids should be exposed to ‘germs’, a useful article: “Almost no virus is protective against allergic disease or other immune diseases. In fact, viral infections mostly either contribute to the dev;t of those diseases or worsen them.”

Is the Hygiene Hypothesis True? | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The hygiene hypothesis says exposure to germs helps kids develop healthy immune systems. But many viruses didn’t circulate as widely during the pandemic. Are there downsides to missed infections?

publichealth.jhu.edu

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

7 years

It’s interesting that we talk about minimum wage & the poverty line but never discuss maximum income or limits to wealth? Why do we allow people to become rich enough to buy every level of govt & indeed bring down civilizations? And yes, that’s actually happening

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

The left's failure on Covid is, of all of the left's failures of the last few years, one of the most disturbing to me. It's a horrifying confirmation of just how empty the left's talk about concern for workers & those less privileged & abled is. Silence on a libertarian hell.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Again! A relative went to a friend's in-person funeral in Vancouver 8 days ago. Many who attended caught Covid. She was the only person in an N95 (didn't eat or drink). This is the 2nd superspreader event she has attended, & both times remained unscathed, thx to N95. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 months

Just FYI, we are in the middle of a major Covid wave right now. I'm surrounded by people with positive Covid tests. If you have "cold" symptoms you should check. With every Covid infection your chance of Covid goes up, even if your symptoms are "mild," & you can pass it to others

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

9 months

Heart disease and stroke are 33% higher than expected, vs. before the pandemic Public health isn't going to tell you this, but actuaries will. Also note the other main two causes of excess deaths have also been linked to Covid: respiratory infections & diabetes #bcpoli #cdnpoli

stuart mcdonald

@ActuaryByDay

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For ages 50-64, deaths involving cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke were 33% higher than expected. Other causes with significant excess deaths at ages 50-64 were acute respiratory infections (43% excess) and diabetes (35% excess).

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

There's an intense debate underway: is the disordering of the immune system after Covid (Long Covid & more) permanent or not? Too early to prove 100% definitively, but see this 18-year-followup of SARS1 survivors. More than *half* still show damage.

Multiomic characterisation of the long-term sequelae of SARS survivors: a clinical observational...

Although health outcomes continued to improve, our study suggested that SARS survivors still suffered from physical fatigue, osteoporosis, and necrosis of the femoral head 18 years after discharge,...

www.thelancet.com

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

Day 12 of hospital-acquired Covid. This thing is not "mild." The lung congestion feels very close to pneumonia (I've had pneumonia so I know). Crippling exhaustion. BC public health is criminally negligent for downplaying this virus esp given Long Covid. PS got a booster in April

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

It's only 28 days until the days start getting longer, everyone. This has been a Public Service Announcement.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

From a forestry chat I'm in: "This washed out section of the Trans Canada in the Thompson River Canyon has extensive clearcutting in the watershed above it." #BCForestry #OldGrowth #FairyCreek #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Hi @CBCSunday , I was hopeful when I heard you start your show with 'We thought we'd have a break from Covid this summer but we find ourselves in a 7th wave thanks to the BA.5 variant." Then you said 'we'll be joined by renowned virologist Angela Rasmussen," who minimizes Covid...

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Repeating because I can't believe what's going on: the health system is crumbling around us, but we're not masking in classrooms, transit and public spaces even though it's 100% proven to reduce Covid levels and reduce the crisis in our medical system. Why? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@KarinaZeidler And to anyone, left or otherwise, who imagines the pandemic is over despite this impressive collection of stats that it is now more deadly than it has ever been and disabling millions, I can't help you.

Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Andrew Nikiforuk: "Why have our leaders surrendered us to rising deaths and widespread deteriorating health? Should We Shrug at COVID? These Numbers Say No" #bcpoli #vanpoli @TheTyee

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

I'm just curious what most British Columbians think is causing BC Ferries to keep cancelling multiple sailings, Air Canada to cancel 9500 flights this summer, & ER waits of up to 16 hrs? Obvs not something that could be prevented by an indoor mask rule, eh @adriandix ? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Hey people: An elderly family member doesn't feel comfortable asking a few dinner guests to rapid test when they arrive. She asked me if I'd come over early & run a fun rapid test station (cocktail while you await results) so she doesn't have to. So I will. Such a good idea.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

9 months

Why weren't Vancouver's roads salted? We had plenty of warning. Black ice everywhere, and check out this line of stranded buses. Friend just now on Ken Sim failing at another core service: "Slipping and sliding on the ice is swagger" #vanpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Just heard that at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, Covid cases just doubled overnight - and that's before all the test results are in. They expect it to go higher. We now also have immune-escaping variants rising exponentially in N. America. Where is the mask mandate? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

For one thing, the union move't got its very start on occupational health and safety issues. Also, interesting read: "Sewer Socialists of the 1900s knew how to make healthy cities (we can learn a lot from them)" by @KarinaZeidler

Dr. Karina Zeidler: Sewer Socialists of the 1900s knew how to make

A Vancouver candidate for school board says there are lessons in this story that can be applied in the fight against COVID-19.

www.straight.com

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

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

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

@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.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

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

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@frozen She’s engaging in straight up disinformation, and that’s putting it… kindly

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Well, a relative's cataract surgery was just cancelled. The surgeon called & the entire nursing team has Covid (theory is they share an unmasked break room). There's no replacement team, & she can't be rescheduled until nursing team tests neg & the surgical backlog is dealt with.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

A friend's whole family has Covid. They're on Days 10, 8 & 2, all still testing +. The mom on Day 10 is a HCW who was orig told by her workplace to go back after 5 days, tho still + & sick. One of her sick colleagues had a + test on Day 15, & her workplace *accused her of lying.*

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

9 months

Viruses aren't like calisthenics for your immune system. They're more like smoking, drinking & a concussion for your immune system. Viruses are linked to serious autoimmune diseases: Epstein Barr (->mono) -> MS Covid -> diabetes ME/CFS, more Genital warts -> cancer Etc

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

!!! From a BC doctor just now when I asked why so many doctors are finally speaking out this week: "It is much worse. Before primary care was collapsed & everything else was highly strained. The entire system is collapsing now." This on you @bcndp @adriandix @dave_eby #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

This train is off the tracks. Dr. Henry was just on @CBCStephenQuinn Early Edition saying 2 vaccine shots is the same protection against #Omicron as Delta & downplaying need for boosters. Has she not read the ample data?! Deal with this, @adriandix @jjhorgan . #bcpoli #Covid19BC

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

8 months

It is because measles vanished for so long that people have forgotten how deadly it is? Is it because it has a funny name, or has red spots? It is a severe disease that can lead to hospitalization & long-term complications - developmental disability, neurological conditions, &..

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

BC Children's Hospital has declared a "Code Orange - Mass Casualty/Disaster" and the current listed wait time for babies and kids to be seen is over 8 hours. What are you doing, @dave_eby ? BC public health's do-nothing approach has failed, as so many warned it would. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

@jjhorgan Armed provincial RCMP aiming assault weapons at Wet'suwet'en on behalf of a fracked gas corporation under your watch - that's the way forward?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

If I got this right: BC's top doctor just gave an urgent last-minute press conference to announce no change to policies and implying that COVID can be managed 'like the flu,' despite yesterday's minimum of 2150 cases, 15 deaths, & ICU overwhelm. This govt isn't a govt. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@frozen It's heartening to see that @DrFiliatrault , the doctor who defeated SARS1 in Vancouver in 2003 at the same time Dr. Henry was failing to do that in Toronto, has a major op-ed in @theprovince today calling for mask use. Who should we trust? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

8 months

Let's compare the way BC mainstream media treated Sanjiv Gandhi of the BC Greens for liking a tweet vs. how they're dealing with the overt bigotry of NDP cabinet minister Selina Robinson. I'll start with Katie DeRosa & add more as I find them. Please add your own. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Let's just call this "it's okay to go back to work after 5 days of Covid!" thing what it is: 1. Arbitrary and unscientific 2. A punitive labour practice 3. A strategy that inevitably increases infection in the community & makes workplaces unsafe.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

7 years

Hey Canadian media - Trudeau tells us with a straight face we can't fight climate change without a pipeline, & our Environment Minister wears an Enbrige apron at a public barbecue event and it doesn't make the news. What are you doing with your time? #cdnpoli #bcpoli #pipelines

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

8 months

After many months of people losing their jobs for expressing pro-Palestinian solidarity, this may be the first loss of office for someone who has been fired or forced to resign for anti-Palestinian bigotry. #SelinaRobinson

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

6 years

Whoever said “Like buying Blockbuster the year Netflix took off" deserves today's prize for succinct analysis of Trudeau's announcement the Canadian public has to buy #KinderMorgan 's Enron-style boondoggle. (Quote is being circulated sans attribution) #bcpoli #cdnpoli #stopkm

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Just saw an internal hospital report. Summary: ~20% of staff now off sick, highest rate in pandemic. Cold/flu viruses going seasonally lower but not Covid: rate in patients & staff remains high. New variants show high levels of immune escape from vaccine & prior infection #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

4 years

For the anti-distancing, anti-lockdown and antivaxx people in your life

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

4 years

@foundavein Nearly 50 years late to this party, mate. #Bowie

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

5 years

As a friend just said, Well so much for Mr Trudeau's statement that no nation would leave billions of barrels of oil in the ground. Norway just did. #cdnpoli #climatechange #fossilfuels #ClimateStrike #bcpoli #ableg

Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised...

Move exposes rift in Norway’s Labour party as climate change competes with union concerns

www.independent.co.uk

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Doctor I know: "I was called in to cover a doc sick with COVID today. While here I learned I have to cover a different doc tmrw, also sick w/ COVID. I just treated a little girl with pneumonia secondary to COVID. Meanwhile I keep hearing on the news etc about COVID being gone"

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

It feels surreal - Twilight Zone-level surreal - that a majority of British Columbians are v upset about the collapse of our medical system (long ED waits, hospitals closed), while a majority of BCers also feel the pandemic is over. Guess Covid had nothing to do with it? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

8 months

Has Selina Robinson resigned yet? is the new good morning in BC

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

6 months

@deonandan That guy reminds me of this

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Almost exactly a year ago I learned of 3 superspreaders in restaurants, incl. a family party that infected many of my relatives. I tweeted about it & Jody Vance, who had just told a large radio audience that restaurants were safer than home for Xmas dinner (bec plexi), jumped in.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

I am completely surrounded by close friends - who are all very careful - getting Covid for the first time in the pandemic. We are seriously in the thick of it. Everyone blithely going around maskless in indoor public spaces - would you jump off a cliff if the PHO told you to?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Just so we're clear, "personal responsibility" isn't public health. It's some form of private health. It's what you'd get if Ayn Rand ran BC "public" health. Bonnie Henry removing all measures, Mark Lysyshyn of @VCHhealthcare touting personal choice on TV - why do we pay them?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Message from a friend who works in the labour movement just now, on Dr. Henry withholding a 4th shot from most BC people but not from certain lucky groups like cruise ship passengers - even though frontline workers, including cruise ship workers, can't get it. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

CBC Cross Country Checkup today... Come on. First topic today: "How has extreme weather impacted your summer holiday plans?" I dream of a CBC phone-in show on "how do you feel about the oligarchs who've doomed your descendants to extinction, and what should we do about them?"..

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

I told my friend who works for a BC health agency that Dr. Henry just said she hasn't had Covid because she "washed her hands." Their response? "Wow. That's a f*ck you." #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Well, a predictable number of trolls here (hiding & blocking), plus another set of people who seem to have misread this thread. It was specifically addressed to self-proclaimed leftists, whom I expect to find some guts & set an example on a major public health crisis.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Just with my mother in a Van hospital ER for 6 hours (she's ok). 6 hours for an 80+yo is not OK. An hour of it she was stashed in a tiny room with obvious Covid patient, & the ER was *packed* with those. Staff all v nice but not a single nurse, doc or HCW in an N95. WTF. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Still in shock that a BC journalist, when asking the acting premier why the BC govt wasn't more prepared for the #BCstorm , would end her question with "or are we expecting too much?" Can media at least pretend this is a government, and stop letting it off the hook? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Just to summarize, Vancouver is about to elect as mayor a man who couldn't name the provincial or federal housing minister when asked, who runs a predatory business, has as his quasi-patron a billionaire who loves Ayn Rand, & is involved with the creepy Landmark thing.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

!!! From a HCW in a #BCpoli hospital just now: "They are now making it difficult to test people in hospital - they're refusing to authorize PCR tests on people who become symptomatic. There's a NAAT PCR machine in ED but inpatient can't use it without special authorization.."

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Another spreader event in my extended family. A guest at a small dinner party asymptomatically infected 4 others. Everyone said they didn't need to test beforehand as "we're all careful." I don't understand people's resistance to self-testing before entering another's house.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

You just did it again, @cbcnewsbc radio news (Vancouver 8:30 am) You announce Covid hospitalizations are going up, then again platform Brian Conway, a doc who's been consistently wrong. His FIRST response is to advise people to *wash their hands.* For an airborne virus. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

6 years

the fascists do not dance in our darkness via via @kghiggins

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

The Govt of Canada's recent report on Long Covid contains stark facts you've never heard from Bonnie Henry & Adrian Dix. Their conservative estimate: 15% of people will get Long Covid. That's 4.6% of all Canadians over 18, or 1.4m people. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@CBCSunday Who at @CBCSunday chose Angela Rasmussen for a CBC show with an audience this large? Is this your way of chasing a false "middle" in the Covid discussion? There's science & there's denial - it's not your job to find some "middle" between these.

Andrew Longhurst 🇵🇸🇱🇧

@a_longhurst

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It is no doubt a more difficult task than ever for journalists as certain ID MDs and virologists have built an enterprise downplaying the science and real world evidence, and precautionary principle. They are consistently wrong and shouldn’t be platformed.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@frozen So first, newscaster dude says 'less severe' which she didn't even say & she doesn't correct him, and meanwhile both of them ignore the fact that more transmissible means this thing is far more severe for our health system, as we already found out with Omicron. WTF is going on?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

@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.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

So children are disposable too? The lack of reaction to the paediatric crisis in BC is chilling. Does no one find it odd that unlike in Ontario, no doctor from BC's Children's Hospital has called for protections for children, like masks generally or at least in schools? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@CBCSunday CBC recently improved its reporting on Covid, or so we thought, by admitting that as many as 50% of cases can lead to #longcovid , but then you choose as your experts people who controversially downplay the known risks of repeated infection. Why?

Bean & Sprout's Mom

@beansprouts_mom

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"The more diseases you acquire, the healthier your immune system will be." Angela Rasmussen, probably

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

5 years

I’ve never seen this many people march in Vancouver. They’ve been pouring off the bridge for so long and it’s not stopping. KEEP IT IN THE GROUND #climatestrikecanada #ClimateStrikeVancouver #bcpoli #vanpoli #cdnpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

BC had to throw out about 700,000 vaccine doses. BC paid Penny Ballem $760,000 to run BC's botched & inexplicably delayed vaccine rollout. Perhaps if Ballem repaid us a dollar for every dose she threw out, we'd be about even. Colossal waste and mismanagement. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

I'm a little surprised #BCmedia haven't been looking at the number of times Bonnie Henry and/or her cohort have run studies on British Columbians which examine the effect of withholding vaccines, treatments or protections. This isn't a conspiratorial Q; it's documented.. #bcpoli

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@frozen I’m wondering if the exactly 6 months of maskless hospitals formed the basis for one of her “studies”. I mean she had no problem doing it to school kids, why not vulnerable sick people and HCWS?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

7 years

Hey #CBC - there was a gargantuan rally against the #KinderMorgan pipeline today in Burnaby, and a puny pro-pipeline rally in Vancouver. Why did you report these as if they were equivalent? Come on. #vanpoli #bcpoli @cbcnewsbc

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

!!! 1 in every 13 people in BC is infected with Covid right now, according to @MoriartyLab #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@CBCNews This is both unscientific and dangerous. It minimizes Covid risk without taking any responsibility for the consequence of readers feeling newly lackadaisical about Covid, predictably getting infected & then helping crash our health systems. The article should be retracted.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

9 months

BC parents: BC health agencies originally said 2 kids died of flu. Then admitted it was from secondary bacterial infections. But when kids die of secondary bacterial infections with Covid, these aren't counted as Covid deaths. Q: So why do they call these flu deaths? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@CBCSunday CBC is losing credibility among international scientists as well as the community of Covid-aware citizens in this country when it platforms controversial minimizers of Covid like Rasmussen. Please think about what you're doing - & about the real world consequences of your actions

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

@CDCDirector Are you trolling us? You provide a list of diseases that are predominantly airborne, and then you provide a list of precautions and don't mention masks once? You include handwashing, which is not as preventative here, but not mask-wearing? Resign.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

So Baldrey, who is not even a trained health journalist, is telling a group that includes epidemiologists & doctors - including the doctor who contained SARS1 in Vancouver - that they don't "get it"? Does @KeithBaldrey 's conduct reflect well on you, @GlobalBC @cknw ? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Today one of BC's #covid19BC deaths is someone I have known for decades & loved. A really sweet person, a real character & irreplaceable to all the worlds he participated in. He was vaccinated. Vaccines mostly work but we must also do more to protect each other. Please be safe.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

From 2017, Bonnie Henry advising against masks for wildfire smoke and making a variety of questiinabke statements, such as it’s too hard to breathe indoors wearing an N95. How did this person become BC’s PHO, let alone manage an airborne pandemic? #bcpoli

Masks Don’t Work On Fire Smoke

BC health officials say they do not recommended using a mask to try to minimize the impact of wildfire smoke. ...

vernonmatters.ca

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Just try to defend this right now, @mikefarnworthbc @jjhorgan @bcndp . This is a good use of helicopters in a catastrophic flood emergency? Harassing Indigenous people & ramming a fracked gas pipeline through? This is grisly, morally vacuous, & inarguably evil. #bcpoli

Gidimt’en Checkpoint

@Gidimten

3 years

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

"Hollywood actor & Avengers star Mark Ruffalo is using his voice to support land defenders at the #FairyCreek Blockade in B.C." #FairyCreekBlockade #oldgrowth #bcpoli #cdnpoli

'Avengers' Star Mark Ruffalo Is Supporting Land Defenders At The Fairy Creek Blockade

"Tell John Horgan & the BC NDP to protect these ancient forests," he tweeted.

www.narcity.com

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

I've just heard 3 stories about superspreader events at 3 different restaurants. Omicron is insanely contagious, it spreads beyond your own table, & barriers don't work. We're all sharing air. It's time to assume every restaurant is a superspreader event. Hi #bcpoli ? #covid19BC

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Media: Yesterday Dr. Bonnie Henry announced no more school exposure notices because they're "anxiety provoking." Today she said BC won't use rapid tests because they're inaccurate, despite their proven worldwide success. Are you going to challenge these statements? #Covid19BC

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

8 months

This is becoming weirder & weirder. Rob Shaw *himself* launched the witch hunt against Sanjiv Gandhi of the BC Greens (not his first bizarre attack on the small party). Now he blames widespread comparisons to Selina Robinson's case on..BC Greens. #bcpoli

Rob Shaw: Score-settling on the minds of some as Selina Robinson turfed from cabinet

Premier calls former post-secondary minister’s dismissive remarks no small ‘screw-up’

www.theorca.ca

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

6 years

@CTVVancouver Oh come on. Regardless of how anyone feels about Butts right now, that was an invasive, cheap paparazzi level stunt. How about doing actual journalism.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

We can pretend everything is fine and it's okay to catch Covid 10x but it's a bit like denying climate change. Doesn't have a lot to do with the developing scientific consensus.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

So tired of having to ask "is this evil or incompetence?"

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Is the medical system itself working for the virus?

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 month

BC media letting the far-right call the NDP "radical" (ha!) unchallenged puts the lie to its claims of "balance." That's how media helps move the Overton window right. This will be an ongoing 🧵chronicling every time a #bcmedia journalist does this up until the election. #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

If I were a betting person I'd put money on AJ Leonardi @fitterhappierAJ who has maintained since 2020 that a lot of the immune damage from Covid will be permanent (the study above is h/t AJ)

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Omicron has now hit my developmentally disabled sister's LTC. She is 7 months post 2nd shot, even tho the community living association pushed BC public health to speed it up. Booster isn't for another week. So furious. #bcpoli

Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

So tired of having to ask "is this evil or incompetence?"

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

From a nurse who has been vaccinating people in BC lately, on slowdowns in the booster rollout: "They're laying off all the team leads in vaccination here on January 3 and rehiring people in part time positions to start January 4. No joke." #covid19BC #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

1 year

Paxlovid, which is for mild to moderate Covid, increases your chances of not getting Long Covid. A friend visiting Quebec (doesn't have Quebec MSP) asked pharmacist for Paxlovid; pharmacist sold it to them for $79. FAR EASIER THAN BC. What is your game, @adriandix ? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

4 years

The BC Govt likes to blame the populace rather than its own #COVID19BC policy, but if it's going to blame the public, & it's admitting $$$$ Whistler has been a key driver of spread, why is it young people's behaviour at fault in BC, not rich people's? Who's travelling? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

2 years

Can anyone explain why the new BC museum will take almost as long as #SiteC to build, will cost 3/4 of a billion dollars when the new Alberta provincial museum in Edmonton is larger and costs only $325M? Won't be ready until 2030? What? What is even going on in BC? #bcpoli

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

7 months

Rob Shaw & Katie De Rosa are close friends of Selina Robinson & should not be reporting on her. Why do you not have anti-fraternizing policy, @CHEK_News @vancouverSun ? Once upon a time reporters wouldn't be caught dead chumming up with politicians like this. #bcpoli

Khalil Jessa

@khaliljessa

7 months

@vyassaran These are not objective journalists and should not be reporting on this. The absurdity of the media saga around this is so absurd and riddled with conflicts.

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

3 years

Why are so many people in BC, especially those born here, inherently disinclined to question what the BC govt is selling? It's true no matter which party's in charge. We lack a culture of healthy skepticism here. Why? It's not 100% down to BC's particularly monopolized media..

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Lindsay Brown

@Lidsville

11 months

The EU passed the updated 2023-2024 Novavax vaccine on October 31. What is Canada doing, @GovCanHealth ? Novavax has fewer side effects and may be more appropriate for people with various conditions. Canadians should have the choice of a protein-based vaccine. #cdnpoli

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