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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

4 years

I’ve noticed an increasing chorus of voices advising high-school graduates to take a gap year rather than start their college education online. This strikes me as *spectacularly* bad advice.

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More from @Caltech : air purifiers in literally every indoor space, including classrooms, cafes, toilets (in this case quietly humming away under the @CDCgov fomite propaganda). @UBC , how about taking a leaf from their book?

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Guys, I took Econ 101, actually got a PhD, and have taught Econ 101 for the better part of a decade. You know what? Econ 101 is not conservative propaganda.

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4 years

First, what are they going to do with their gap year? Travel the world? Get a job in the worst labour market in a century, competing with many overqualified unemployed people?

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3 years

8 kids with COVID at one of the UBC daycare centres. Of course, they all caught it from their families; no transmission could have possibly happened at daycare. The virus knows better than that.

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4 years

If by some miracle they land a job… how is a job over zoom (or a job that can give you COVID) somehow better than an education over zoom? If higher education is constrained by COVID, the rest of the world is as well.

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3 years

For the first time in the pandemic, @UBC is going against the explicit recommendation of the PHO and starting T2 classes online. Hopefully a harbinger of more independent thought and action in the face of an increasingly unhinged public health policy.

COVID-19: Planning for 2021/22 Winter Session, Term 2 - UBC News

As we approach Winter Session Term 2 in January, we would like to update you on recent discussions around COVID-19 and the emergence of the Omicron variant.

news.ubc.ca

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2 years

The single blood products organization in Canada dropped its mask mandate to cater to the anti-science crowd. Apparently the anti-science crowd is not that big on donating blood. Surprising no one, supply is now critically low. Great move.

CBC News

@CBCNews

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Canadian Blood Services says it has three days worth of O+ and O-, five days worth of A+, A- and B- and six days worth of B+ blood products, according to its national inventory.

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Wastewater COVID levels in BC now in the same order of magnitude as with the onset of omicron. That was so much fun that we decided to do it all over again, giving it an extra push by ditching masks in hospitals. Enjoy playing Russian roulette!

lower mainland wastewater covid bot

@YVRCovidPlots

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Metro Vancouver wastewater COVID surveillance data was published April 16. The most recent test was April 10. @CovidPoops19

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1 year

When British Columbia institutes a therapeutic approach that significantly differs from standard worldwide practice, you can bet your last dollar they are running an experiment on the population without informed consent.

Nirmatrelvir and Ritonavir and COVID-19 Mortality and Hospitalization

This cohort study examines the association of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir with prevention of death or admission to hospital in individuals with different risks of complications from COVID-19 infection.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

What is the procedure to have a Provincial Health Officer declared unfit to discharge her duties?

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@MDrelichman

4 years

You do not feel like paying brick-and-mortar tuition fees for an online education. I get that, and think universities could make some goodwill gestures. But large tuition cuts are not going to happen. Teaching online is actually costlier than doing it in person.

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4 years

Yes, none of this is as good as it would be without COVID, but that world no longer exists, and is not coming back. Systemic shocks hit everybody. The faster you adapt, the best chance you have at thriving in the new statu quo. This still means getting the best education you can.

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@MDrelichman

2 years

The sky at @UBC today be like…

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@MDrelichman

4 years

How much is that job going to pay? The salary differential between high school graduates and college graduates is enormous. Looking at your life as a whole, would you rather maximize your low wage or your high wage years?

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2 years

Vancouver Island healthcare workers must isolate for five days if they test positive for covid, so CMHO Reka Gustafson is recommending they do not test at all. And, with sterling logic, if they test against her recommendation, then the five day period does not apply. #covidReka

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@MDrelichman

2 years

There is a right way to do things.

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@MDrelichman

4 years

Apply next year? Sure – you’ll have to compete with next year crop of high-school graduates, plus all those who took a gap year like you. New graduates will have fresher recommendations, knowledge, and grades.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Travel from Tsawwassen to Hope = all good. Vancouver to Whistler? No prob. Kelowna to Williams Lake = check. Cross from East Van into Burnaby = blowing it for the rest of us. BC's government mantra is to never fail to disappoint.

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@MDrelichman

2 years

Dr. Henry's position as PHO has become untenable by any ethical standard. The first indication of whether David Eby truly intends to change the tune within the @bcndp government will be whether he requests the resignations of Henry and @adriandix .

Sonia Furstenau

@SoniaFurstenau

2 years

Today I asked @AdrianDix to explain how we can trust his or the PHO’s word after this @CapitalDailyVic & @bbybeacon story. BCers have been misled about #COVID19 transmissions in schools. There needs to be accountability. 1/ #bcpoli #bced #COVID19BC

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Since schools will not provide stats on absenteeism we’ll have to make do with anecdotes. In my daughter’s @VSB39 3rd grade class 12 out of 24 kids did not attend yesterday (her included). Much to Bonnie’s chagrin, parents do not seem to be signing up for mass infection.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

#DBH just said 5-11 year olds that get COVID can bring it home. I thought they were getting it at home? They are certainly not getting it at school, are they? 🤡

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@MDrelichman

3 years

The way Dr. Henry is twisting herself in knots to reconcile the "COVID in children is no big deal", "schools are safe", and "every child needs to be vaccinated" messages is remarkable.

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@MDrelichman

4 years

What you are paying for is the option of having your remaining seven semesters be brick and mortar, and a degree from a recognized institution. This has not change, and captures the bulk of the value of your degree.

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@MDrelichman

4 years

That said, I am not worried at all about high school graduates taking the wrong advice. Our program currently has the highest number of accepted offers of admission ever, and that seems to be the case for universities all over. The kids are all right.

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@MDrelichman

2 years

Two days to go until my first fall term lecture at @UBC and the COVID absence emails are already coming in strong. My students are covered: all my lectures are live-streamed and recorded. Faculty? There but for the grace of God go we.

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@MDrelichman

10 months

Would your spouse like to work while you pursue your degree? The US won’t let them work. The UK won’t even let them live with you. Come and join us at @ubcVSE !

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@RishiSunak

10 months

From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

. @VCHHealthcare materials are now flagged by twitter as spreading COVID disinformation, and rightly so. Good job guys.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

If the university makes me switch my exam online with less than 24 hours' notice I'm going "everyone gets 100% on the final, enjoy the holidays!"

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@MDrelichman

3 years

There’s a pot of gold in Buchanan Tower. #UBC

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@MDrelichman

4 years

Have you thought about the world you will graduate into? When you start your college degree determines when you finish it. If the COVID situation resolves in the next 12-18 months, then 2024 sounds like a good time to be hunting for a job.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Dr. Henry is now an international celebrity, and not in a good way. Her anti-masking, pro-infection ways have earned her the attention of epidemiologists and aerosol scientists. Her net contribution to BC public health has long been negative. It's time for her to go. #bcpoli

Eric Feigl-Ding

@DrEricDing

3 years

This is misinformation—Dr Henry (BC🇨🇦 health chief) believes infection on top of 2 shots gives “longer/stronger” protection—NOT TRUE vs boosters. She also callously forgets possible side effects of hospitalization, infecting others, & #LongCovid . #bcpoli

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3 years

I gave my two main exams last week, but still have a make-up on Monday. Yesterday I decided to move it online. I can't fathom forcing students and invigilators to spend two hours locked up in a room after all that transpired with large exams at @UBC these past few days.

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@MDrelichman

2 years

BC's Ministry of Health accidentally publishes scientifically sound advice, deeply regrets error.

Elana Shepert 🇺🇦

@elanashepert

2 years

The B.C. Ministry of Health told me that it 'accidentally' published new advice on face masks for the public. The webpage stayed up for a day before it was changed. #COVID19 #COVID19BC #Vancouver Full story>>

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Four family members, four different appointments for flu shots, at four different locations, on four different days. Last year: one 15 minute appointment for all four at the pharmacy. Brilliant job fixing what wasn't broken, @ImmunizeBC . This is sure to foster vaccine uptake.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Any given day, about 5% of my students @UBC miss class/exams because of respiratory symptoms. Of those that voluntarily share more, 0% are getting tested for COVID. @UBC , meanwhile, brags that there is very little COVID on campus. See no evil...

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@MDrelichman

3 years

I’m having trouble interpreting the tweets coming from the Ontario side of my feed. Are people offered Moderns shots actually turning them down and holding out for Pfizer? What fresh idiocy is this?

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@MDrelichman

3 years

I am glad @jjhorgan can receive his needed surgery today. I wish that was true of all of those whose surgeries have been postponed, canceled or not even scheduled because of his dismal management of the pandemic in BC. #bcpoli

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@MDrelichman

3 years

#DBH now is saying that rapid test are only useful for people who have symptoms. How much more obtuse can you get?

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@MDrelichman

3 years

It is now exceedingly clear that Dr. Henry does not have the faintest idea of what goes on in a modern university classroom.

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@MDrelichman

1 year

Another children’s hospital telling patients not to go to the hospital if they are sick (because we all take our children to the hospital when they are feeling great). They would rather deny care than require masks. The brain rot runs deep.

BC Children's Hospital

@BCChildrensHosp

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Not feeling great? Your appointment can wait. If you or your child are coming to one of our clinics but are feeling sick, please call & rebook your appointment for when you are well. Thanks for helping keep our patients and staff safe & healthy.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Can we award BC the prize for "most obtuse place on earth" already? Maybe it will then stop trying to win it.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

So @VCHhealthcare states, on the basis of ZERO scientific evidence, that asymptomatic testing is “not accurate nor useful”. Might want to chat with, for example, @GovCanHealth , which requires negative PCR tests to enter the country. Or anyone with a brain for that matter.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

The @CDCofBC #DBH approach of telling people to “be prudent” in holiday gatherings while denying them rapid tests is equivalent to telling people to rely on cycle tracking for birth control because they cannot be trusted to put on a condom properly. #FreeTheRATs

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Just so it is clear: - There is no way to get a COVID-19 vaccine anywhere in the vicinity of UBC. - The only way to get tested for COVID-19 if symptomatic at UBC is to go to the ER of UBC Hospital. - There is no data on prevalence or transmission of COVID-19 on campus.

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@MDrelichman

2 years

"We have shown, multiple, multiple times, that what happens in schools reflects what's happened in the community." When Bonnie Henry says "we have shown" she means "I have repeated a falsehood so many times that you should take it as truth already."

Schools not to blame for high COVID rates among B.C. youth: provincial health officer

British Columbia's provincial health officer says the findings of a study she co-authored showing children and youth have had the highest rates of COVID-19 in parts of the province should not be...

www.nationalobserver.com

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@MDrelichman

3 years

British Columbia also believes contact tracing is pointless, no one "needs" a test, cloth masks are fine, children don't get sick, covid is not airborne, unicorns are real, and its citizens were born yesterday.

Richard Zussman

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3 years

NEW - British Columbia believes it has hit the peak of new COVID cases due to Omicron wave. #bcpoli

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Your silence is deafening, @UBC .

U of T News

@UofTNews

3 years

#UofT will require all those intending to be on campus be fully vaccinated – as vaccines have proven to be one of the most effective ways to minimize the dangers of #COVID19 .

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@MDrelichman

4 years

I never thought I would say this, but if there was a provincial election today, I would vote Green.

Sonia Furstenau

@SoniaFurstenau

4 years

For us to feel “we’re in this together” we need leadership that brings us together, shows respect & trust for people, & is willing to acknowledge mistakes are inevitable, but that they can be corrected. Humility, compassion, and empathy are needed right now. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC

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@MDrelichman

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We’re back to the heady days of “you should wear a mask but we won’t make them mandatory”. That didn’t work in October and it won’t work now. But why learn from experience when you can double down on bad ideas?

COVID-19: B.C.'s top doctor says residents should still wear masks in indoor public places

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@MDrelichman

3 years

#DBH says she wants to get out of the order business. I have a really good idea of how she could accomplish that. #ResignBonnie #firebonnie . Also, thank goodness we are focusing on really important matters, like the Canucks. Schools can wait.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Funny how rapid tests in NS can stop outbreaks from expanding, but can't possibly work in BC.

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Strang: we discovered this outbreak quickly because students were taking advantage of the rapid tests.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

There goes the “in Israel vaccinating the adult population eliminated transmission in children” narrative.

Eric Topol

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3 years

The Delta variant is gaining in many countries in Europe and the US @AnnaSophieGross @labboudles @jburnmurdoch @FT And in Israel, the most fully vaccinated country, there have been 2 new school Delta outbreaks @TimesofIsrael

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@MDrelichman

3 years

BC has found the formula to defeat Covid. If you don’t test for it, you don’t have it. If you don’t have it, you can’t spread it. If you can’t spread it, you don’t need to isolate. Genius! And to think it was staring us in the face all along… #bcpolinsanity

Penny Daflos

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NEW: BCers who haven't been tested for COVID but have symptoms can now go back to work/life whenever they feel better The health minister is defending new instructions quietly posted on the @CDCofBC & health authority websites @CTVVancouver #bcpoli

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@MDrelichman

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NS: 38 cases -> no travel in/out of Halifax, schools online in Halifax, masks mandatory for *ALL* students elsewhere, no gatherings > 5 people. BC: 1,000+ cases / day, signs go up at the Alberta border. Schools in person, no masks under grade 4. And we ask people to be nice.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

How on earth is a *monthly* report going to help parents make decisions to avoid covid exposures in schools? #bced #bcpoli

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@MDrelichman

3 years

In a striking development, Ontario's PHO acknowledges that dropping mask mandates has caused a new wave, children are likely to get very sick, and masks should come back. Meanwhile @CDCofBC obfuscates hospitalization data and @VCHhealthcare officials engage in twitter fights.

Ed Tubb

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1/n PHO has a new risk assessment on the spread of the current BA. 2 wave. Among other things it says: - The wave is associated with lifting mask mandates - We're likely to see ++ serious illness in children - Reintroducing masking would be an effective + practical intervention

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@MDrelichman

3 years

Hey Siri, show me some completely made up numbers.

Justin McElroy

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3 years

B.C. government has provided #COVID19 case counts for the last three days: - Dec. 24-25: 2,552 new cases - Dec. 25-26: 2,023 new cases - Dec. 26-27: 1,713 new cases but there's no details on hospitalizations, active cases, or testing, so no real point in analyzing or charts

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@MDrelichman

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Right on cue, the day before 8-year old is due to be vaccinated, there is an exposure at her school. Those kids could have been vaccinated over a week ago, but doses had to sit in a freezer so #DBH and health officials could get photo-ops with their kids first. #bcpoli

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@MDrelichman

3 years

British Columbia, where you cannot get tested unless you are -GET THIS- an unvaccinated adult. And to think bioethicists are grappling with the question of whether the unvaccinated should be denied care. In BC, it's the vaccinated that are denied care!

Dr. Rebecca Metcalfe

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@LisaJ456 It doesn't actually look like older adults are eligible for testing unless they meet other criteria, like living in congregate settings. These are the current testing recommendations from the BC CDC. It's pretty boggling.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

The Argentine Senate is considering a bill to create a “sovereign debt default day”. You truly couldn’t make it up.

Senado Argentina

@SenadoArgentina

3 years

🔗 Podés descargar el proyecto de ley que instituye el 10 de septiembre de cada año como el “Día Nacional de la Reestructuración Soberana de la Deuda de los Estados” a través de este link 👉

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3 years

What's the over/under for BC reinstating indoor mask mandates? I'm going with May 3rd.

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@MDrelichman

3 years

This is the Provincial Health Officer of #BC , unmasked at an indoor mass sports event, in the middle of uncontrolled exponential growth in #delta cases, with health workers reassigned between areas and surgeries delayed. And BC universities defer to her on campus safety policies.

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Hospitals can't admit any more patients, ER wait times are through the roof, but surely the story is that the Premier said "fuck" in the legislature.

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@MDrelichman

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BC has one of the lowest COVID-19 mortality rates in the world, despite middling infection rates. Public Health has consistently boasted of this "success". The most likely explanation for it, however, is that they attributed COVID deaths to other causes. Sickening to the bone.

Penny Daflos

@PennyDaflos

3 years

Have BC's COVID cases & deaths really been that much lower than QC, or have they been looking harder? That's one of the big questions arising from a bombshell report by @MoriartyLab et al, who believe the death toll could be DOUBLE. 1/ @CTVVancouver #bcpoli

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The correct adjective is criminal, not stupid. Rapid mass infection of school children was engineered from the top quite transparently in BC. It was not even about masks: uncontroversial interventions like air purifiers were explicitly forbidden in the name of "equity".

David Fisman

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I find it very troubling to think that there may have been Canadian public health officials stupid enough to believe that intentionally infecting school children with SARS-2 en masse would end, rather than worsen, a public health crisis.

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It's heartbreaking to see the public appeals from parents whose children's urgent surgeries have been canceled because the public healthcare system can't cope. BC is now doing worse than many countries with fewer resources in terms of timely access to care.

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@GlobalHigherEd @marktmaclean All 4 candidates were interviewed on the same day, taken to dinner, and seated next to each other. We were told one of us would get the nod during dinner via a tap on the back. Thought it was a joke. It wasn’t (and it wasn’t me).

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Amalfi coast? No, @ubcVSE !

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@MDrelichman

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No messing around at ⁦ @Caltech ⁩. And they know a thing or two about science.

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@MDrelichman

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After two years of aiding and abetting unsafe school environments that made both students and their own members sick, @bctf is finally changing its tune (and trying to rewrite history a bit). That’s how outrageous Dr. Henry’s ethical violations are. Better late than never, BCTF.

Teri Mooring

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I’m thankful this article was written as it confirms what teachers have known all along about school transmissions of #Covid and that unwillingness of Drs at the BCCDC to honestly report what was happening. 1/8 #bced

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Third question on why BC is waiting a full week longer than other provinces to start vaccinating children. Dr. Henry now trying the "we are delaying to be more efficient line". It would save everybody's time if she just truthfully replied "because we just don't care that much".

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Imagine cracking down on service dogs as violations of infection control policies while ordering workers that have tested positive for COVID back to work in hospitals. That's @VanIslandHealth for you.

Doctors call for Island Health executive’s resignation due to North Island struggles

Nataros says the relationship between North Island physicians and Island Health is a strained one

www.northislandgazette.com

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Holding press briefings in which you purposefully dodge every single question is neither transparency nor accountability. It’s propaganda. @jjhorgan @adriandix #DBH @mikefarnworthbc @JM_Whiteside @AnneKangMLA

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Chart of the day. @CDCofBC continues to maintain that schools (where K-3 are unmasked) are not a significant source of transmission. Clearly those 5-8 and 9-11 are partying hard after school and ruining it for the rest of us.

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@MDrelichman

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@adriandix No, there are certainly way more than 442 cases of COVID-19 in BC since yesterday. 442 is the small fraction detected by the public testing system, which is off-limits to the general public.

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Over the past two weeks, @UBC held a series of "listening" town halls to gather concerns from faculty and staff about the return to campus in September. Today it posted its gasl... er, "response".

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IMPORTANT INFO for @UBC students that have tested positive and want their classmates and professors to be aware of a potential exposure. @VCHhealthcare will most likely not inform them. You can ensure they know, but you have to do the legwork yourself. Here's how.

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Doubling down on their BS, @PHSAofBC would like you to know that the insane wait times at BC Children's are because they implemented a new electronic health records system. That was in February. It obviously explains why wait times skyrocketed this week.

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Love how BC COVID pressers routinely call on @richardzussman first; he gets about 6 softball questions in with his "one question and follow up", which in turn take up about half the Q&A time. They've got a good thing going there.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Then send out the effing invitations already!

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

3 years

Dix says there are 32,000 unbooked vaccine appointments over the next two weeks. #bcpoli

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

2 years

In BC, if your second COVID infection kills you, you didn’t die “from Covid” or “with Covid”. You died from something else. Maybe you didn’t die at all, so you can continue to vote @bcndp .

Sarah Otto

@sarperotto

2 years

@SusanDavidsonM2 @JaneWin18032569 @bad_batch_rex @corman_irene Even more disconcerting, it seems that reinfections are not considered in the death toll in BC: "deaths are any COVID-19 lab positive cases who died from any cause recorded in Vital Statistics within 30 days of their first positive lab result date" [first excludes reinfections]

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

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The Provincial Health Officer of British Columbia is now the butt of jokes of aerosol scientists. Great show. But make no mistake: the joke is on all of us, and it’ is a deadly one. Resign, Dr. Henry. Go already.

Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez

@jljcolorado

3 years

BREAKING: Dr. Bonnie Henry, Top Public Health Official of BC, Canada ( @CDCofBC , @PHSAofBC , @BCGovNews ), says that "the droplets have changed" with Omicron She is right! Scientists have pointed an electron microscope to the #OmicronMagicDroplets and this is the shocking image!

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

2 years

Gotta love that the Davos WEF uses PCR testing, air filtration, and far-UV germicidal light to protect attendees, but @adriandix and DBH tell us that schools and universities are perfectly safe without.

Kashif Pirzada, MD

@KashPrime

2 years

The world's elite at the Davos forum are enjoying every possible protection from Covid, including PCR testing, air filtration, UVGI light. Why isn't this being offered to everyone else? Every school, every workplace should have the same protections as the rich and powerful.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

This will totally not happen in BC. In fact, it is not happening already among UBC students, who are totally not missing class in large numbers because of not getting sick with COVID, for which they are not testing positive. #bcooli #bced @VCHhealthcare #covidcult

Eric Topol

@EricTopol

3 years

Europe's BA.2 variant ascent continues

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@MDrelichman

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Pierre Poilievre

@PierrePoilievre

2 years

Liberals say common people should shut up and do what the “experts” tell them. Here’s the thing: the common people are the experts. Don’t believe me? Listen 👇

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

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In the real world, no one could decide to entirely stop doing their job and still collect a paycheck every month. No, not even a tenured professor like me. Yet that's exactly what @adriandix , #DBH , and the sorry lot at @CDCofBC and @VCHHealthcare have done. Just walk away.

Mary Haines

@FrenchFryPug

3 years

And then the worst part, they did fuck all for vulnerable people. Fuck. All. They are putting everybody together in hospitals now COVID+ or -. HCWs aren’t wearing respirators. What are they doing for at risk children in the school system? 17/

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Nobody has as many control measures as we do. Beautiful control measures. The best control measures.

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

3 years

There is no evidence of transmission in on-campus classrooms or workplaces due to the many control measures that exist on the UVic campus. #bcpoli

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Brain inflammation akin to that caused by chemotherapy and cognitive effects that parallel dementia really scream “let’s make sure as many people as possible -especially children- catch this virus now.”

Toronto scientists are trying to crack one of COVID’s biggest mysteries: Its impact on the brain

Susie Goulding, pictured near her home in Oakville, says she still suffers debilitating memory, focus and concentration issues almost two years after getting COVID-19.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Your periodic reminder that: - When an unvaccinated person at @UBC refuses to submit a "mandatory" declaration, no action is being taken. - There is no way for symptomatic persons to get tested within 50 minutes of campus by public transit.

B.C. university staff and students ask for more clarity around COVID-19 protocols | CBC News

University staff and students in B.C. are asking for more clarity around COVID-19 exposures, rapid testing and remote-learning support one month into an in-person fall term.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Since Public Health will not give out centralized information on @UBC covid prevalence, @ubccovidtracker is a place to report any exposures you know of and keep abreast any new incidents. Not scientific, of course, but science isn't very much en vogue these days.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

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Two final observations: - Our health minister @adriandix is in a CEV category. How convenient. - Ourprovincialhelathofficerdrbonniehenry wisely kept her name out of the study this time. Though you can be sure it was her who waived the ethics review.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

That @VCHhealthcare *STILL* does not operate a testing site on campus is unconscionable. That @UBC happily touts absence of evidence as evidence of absence... too.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

2 years

Looks like we are going to go down to the wire once more while @UBC ponders whether to bring back a mask mandate at the peak of an immune-evading variant wave.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

4 years

In #BC the PHO stated in a press conference that school closures *increase* COVID-19 transmission. This fantastical, anti-scientific thinking is not funny any more; it’s downright costing lives. @jjhorgan @adriandix , you and Dr. Henry are blowing it for the rest of us.

David Fisman

@DFisman

4 years

As noted now, repeatedly, school closure has one of the largest impacts on reducing reproduction number, among all interventions available to us. h/t @spaiglass

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

One week behind the rest of Canada. No vaccine invitations being sent out. Some appointments given at random over the phone. A complete clusterfuck. Par for the course two years into this. What does a top ranking civil servant have to do to get fired in this province?

Rational Inattention

@dedrie77

3 years

@beansprouts_mom About 1:05

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

We're going to need a bigger warehouse.

Richard Zussman

@richardzussman

3 years

NEW - British Columbia is expected to receive 16.9 million rapid tests from Ottawa over the next few weeks. #bcpoli

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

4 years

BC Public Health officials be like

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

3 years

Let's see if BC is a place of laws. Secrecy has no place in a democratic society, especially when it concerns the health and safety of the population. Volunteers file 60 access to information requests for all 60 BC K-12 public school districts.

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Mauricio Drelichman

@MDrelichman

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Vancouver tonight.

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