jasonm. bsky. social Still N95 masking. Not fooled by the minimizing propaganda constantly spewed at us by the government ,"health" officials, and the media.
🧵 It's been one month since I lost sweet little Benz. I'd like to share some pictures of him. He was a precious, loving, gentle little guy who will never be forgotten. Beamer and I still miss him terribly.
Since I first posted about my immunocompromised friend contracting covid and being put on a ventilator, the amount of replies I have received laying the blame on her and not the lifting of mask mandates has saddened and disgusted me. 1/2
My immune-compromised friend, who caught covid just days after the mask mandate was recklessly lifted by our public "health" officer, is now on a ventilator. To say I'm angry at the callousness and indifference shown by Henry, Dix et al. would be a massive understatement.
🧵 A couple weeks ago I came across a single mom & her son I know in my building, in the lobby. The little boy was very upset & inconsolable. Turns out his Lego Homer Simpson was lost down a drain at the building's entrance. They're not sold anymore. I found one on Ebay, 1/2
ordered him, & today he arrived. Went to give it to them, & got some very bad news. They both have covid & the little boy is hospitalized. His mom is beside herself with worry. It's so heartbreaking. Sorry Homer, you'll have to wait a bit before you go to your new home. 😢 2/2
She always wore a professionally fitted N95 mask when in public. Due to her income she could not simply “stay at home and hide in her basement like immunocompromised people should”, and was forced to use public transit. 2/2
Once again some plague rat “back to normal” piece of shit living in my building has lodged a complaint about my masking. Why does it matter to them? It isn’t hurting them in the slightest. I don’t push masking on them. I leave them alone. I’m just trying to survive. 1/2
@marcanada54
He does know. He has his iPad with him at the hospital and has been sent a picture of his new Homer. His mom says it really perked him up when he saw it! 😀
Just ran out to buy milk at the convenience store across the street from me, wearing an N95 mask as always. One person in there told me masks aren't allowed anymore "that's what Dr. Henry said", and another one of course called me a "sheep". I'm so f*ing tired of all this shit.
He explained that he's been harassed so badly by residents of the building for masking that he'd just rather not bother anymore. People have lodged complaints against him because of it. So instead he's inhaling gawd-know-what into his lungs. 🤦♂️🤬🤬🤬
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Came across my apartment maintenance guy doing some drywall work in the building yesterday. Every other time I've seen him doing similar work, he's worn a 3M Aura mask. Yesterday he was maskless, while drywall dust was everywhere. Asked him why this was. 1/2
🧵 Had a phone conversation with a relative last night. If I didn’t recognize their voice I would’ve thought I was talking to the wrong person. I mentioned my fear for my mom’s safety in her LTC home. Relative’s reply? “She’s 90. She’s done. It’s time for a clear-out”. I hung up.
My first covid infection damaged my immune system. Damage still evident 1-1/2 years later. If I catch covid again I could die. I guess that would make them happy.
I truly despise what this world and the majority of people in it have become. 2/2
I have just found out that my immunocompromised friend who spent many weeks in ICU after catching covid on transit when masking was removed has now tested positive again. I don’t know how to react. I have had it, I’m done. I despise everyone responsible for this. We are in hell.
Just found out that the fan that I bought and provided for my mom in LTC has been removed from her room by an employee of the facility and given to "someone who needed it more". I totally empathize with another resident needing a fan, but come on. I'm so fucking angry right now.
“A clear-out”? Holy shit. This relative used to be a kind, caring, decent human being. Now they’re selfish, antimask, and apparently pro-eugenics. What changed? The only thing I can think of is the fact they’ve had covid 4 times.
So of course my thread on getting a new Lego Homer Simpson for my neighbour’s son who currently had covid has gotten numerous hateful replies from absolutely despicable trolls. Twitter sure can be an awful place sometimes. It’s really brought me down this morning. 🙁
A relative I haven't spoken to in ages due to their YOLO attitude on C19 phoned me after seeing the 60 minutes story, asking me if "covid is really airborne" and "is it actually dangerous". Then proceeded to hang up on me when I informed them that yes, it is in fact dangerous. 🤷♂️
I've just been informed by a formerly very close friend that I'm a "selfish piece of crap" and a "coward" for continuing to wear a mask. No amount of trying to explain why I do this had any effect on them. Their head is too full of misinformation. I give up.
Well this f**king infuriates me. People like this are one of the main reasons that I don't hold out much hope of us ever getting out of this disaster of a pandemic. 🤬🤬🤬
Bonnie Henry if there was a zombie apocalypse: "What we're seeing in BC is a different, milder zombie. Their bites are not painful. I'm out of the business of issuing restrictions. If you see a zombie, give them a hug. If you become a zombie, be kind & calm. Wash your hands."
This is happening on a population-wide level. Repeat covid infections are changing people for the worse. Damaging their brains. It won’t happen to everyone, but it’s happening to enough people that we’re seriously in trouble. I’m at the point where I’ve basically lost all hope.
The “little cold” as they call it landed them in the hospital last time. They were already changing for the worse, but the last infection completed their transformation from Jekyll to Hyde. Multiple covid infections has turned them into a psychopath.
Just found out that an elderly long-time friend of my parents who was recently admitted to Lions Gate Hospital after a relatively minor fall has contracted sars-cov-2 there and is now in dire condition. This will never end. 😢🤬
My mom who lives in a LTC home needs monthly trips to an eye specialist. I just found out that she made her trip yesterday maskless. She & her caregiver were stopped at the door of the LTC facility by staff & told that their masks were no longer necessary and are frowned upon. 1/
As I've mentioned before, my mom's LTC home is in the midst of a huge unreported cσvid outbreak. I was just speaking to her on the phone, & she tells me she suddenly has a bad "cold". Sore throat, runny nose, red eyes. Staff blaming allergies. I am livid, and scared for my mom.
A 🧵. I'm feeling really down and pissed off about the attitude that's developed towards those of us who choose to protect ourselves and others with masks. This morning I went to the Westview Safeway in North Vancouver. As I was shopping an elderly woman appeared beside me, shook
I'm very sad to report that my dear, sweet buddy Beamer passed away on June 9. He dramatically went downhill that day and I had no choice but to say goodbye to him at the emergency animal hospital. He's with his little brother Benz again now.
I'll never forget either of them. 💔
🧵 I'm completely wrecked. Visited the covid disaster that is my mom's LTC home the other day, to find out how bad the unreported outbreak is & if mom is safe, as I could get nowhere on the phone. Even in person I couldn't find much out other than the obvious. Many sick residents
I unfortunately caught covid in January. It was very “mild”, milder than most colds I’ve had. The problems came later. Fatigue, weird pains everywhere, shortness of breath, gastrointestinal problems and horrible new allergies. 1/2
Mom's LTC home is now recommending visitors meet with their loved ones outside, since there's so much c_v1d in the place. Despite this, staff still refuse to mask to protect the residents. "Dr. Bonnie says we don't have to". So f**king angry and so worried about my mom.
Well, it's happened again. My "covid is over" roommate has been sick for a few days, and has given me covid. Very worried about my diabetic cat Beamer, and myself as I have long covid from the last infection the roommate gave me in 2022. F**k all of this. 🤬
Just tested myself before I go visit my mom in her LTC home today, since they don't test visitors at the facility anymore. Unlike the maskless staff and visitors, I still give a damn about not transmitting the virus.
An update: I had my appointment. Much to my surprise and relief the office has reinstituted a mask requirement. Additionally, my regular doctor was back and masked as well. No mention from him of "covid anxiety".
Tomorrow morning I have an in-person doctor's appt at an office that has abandoned masking with a doctor who has written my health concerns off as "covid anxiety". I'm very nervous, to say the least.
wearing a mask. I'm not one to wish harm on anyone, but if karma came knocking and gave her long covid, I wouldn't shed any tears. I'm just so goddamn fed up with it all.
I am LIVID. Angry at the antimask staff of the LTC facility and at the caregiver who accompanies her on these trips for going along with it. Most of all though I'm angry at myself for obviously failing to get the message on the importance of masking across to my mom properly. 2/2
@sentientsixp
No, I didn’t sign anything even remotely similar to that. I just had the misfortune of buying a suite in a building that turned out to be filled with antimask, “freedom” loving jackasses.
Just got word from their family that they've passed away. Went in for a relatively minor issue, lost their life to no proper infection control, horrible staff apathy and basically a total disregard for their safety,. The family is devastated. How much longer will this go on? 😢🤬
My mom has covid. A PCR test has confirmed it. F**k her LTC facility, the BC Govt and Bonnie Henry for letting the virus run rampant, allowing this to happen. I'm absolutely devastated and very, very worried about her.
A neighbour on the same floor as me in my building has just been taken to the hospital by ambulance. Before this they had been incessantly coughing and hacking for days. Looked out my door's peephole to see unmasked, coughing patient being wheeled away by unmasked paramedics. 🤦♂️
The LTC facility has returned my mom's fan. Spoke to my mom and she informed me that an employee with a terrible attitude placed it back in her room. Didn't plug it in or anything though, and my mom had great difficulty doing that herself.
So now some of the staff at my mom’s LTC facility are giving her trouble and attitude because I had the gall and audacity to request they mask around her, a vulnerable person in her 90s who has already been infected in the place at least twice before. I am at the end of my rope.
covid again". She looked at me for a second, then said "it's not the same thing. I hope you get it and die". I'm not joking, that's what she said. The look of hatred on her face was pretty intense. I just don't get the seething hatred some people have for others simply for
My mom in LTC had an infected tooth pulled the other day. Just spoke with her on the phone. She’s very hoarse, coughing and fatigued. The dentist had apparently returned from an overseas trip just days before seeing her. No masks were used. Worried about my mom all over again. 🙁
And so it begins. From the Facebook group of the Legion branch my roommate frequents. Still rambling on about the paint. The denial and ignorance are astounding. 🙄
I suspect the approximately 52% fatality rate of H5N1 is actually going to be considerably higher now that the vast majority of the population likely has impaired immune function from multiple sars-cov-2 infections.
Just found out from their daughter that yet another family friend who was in LTC in Vancouver died from covid last week. Met the eligibility requirements for Paxlovid but prescription requests from 2 doctors were inexplicably denied. I just have no more words. So sad and angry.
My little friend Beamer is not doing well at all this morning. I feel so very sad and heartbroken. I'm hoping this isn't the case, but I really fear my time with him is even more limited than I initially thought after his diagnosis. Please send positive thoughts and love to him.
I have a very bad hunch that in several years’ time it will become horribly evident that nearly EVERYONE infected with C19 will develop some form of long c*vid, which will send a healthcare system already teetering on the edge right off the cliff. I sincerely hope I’m wrong. 🙁
It is abundantly clear that the majority of staff at my mom's "care" home do not in fact care in the slightest about the welfare of the residents they're supposed to protect. Maybe they figure their jobs will be easier if most of the frail residents die off from forced infection.
I just spoke with my mom on the phone. She's in the dining room of her LTC home. The coughing in the background was worse than I've ever heard before. Last night I received an email informing me of the increasing amount of covid cases in the facility. 1/
I have a horrible update. Beamer has rapidly progressing cancer that has spread throughout his little body. There are no treatments available other than pain relief and possibly steroids. Our remaining time together is limited. I am devastated.
Not good news in regards to Beamer, I'm afraid. While we're still waiting on biopsy results, his imaging yesterday has revealed what is most likely cancer in his abdomen that has spread. Feeling very, very sad. My poor sweet little buddy. I'm heartbroken.💔😢
So my strata's response to this is to ask me to "refrain from masking in common areas of the building as it is clearly upsetting residents, and is wholly unnecessary as the pandemic is over".
I am so f**king angry right now I'm seeing red. 🤬🤬🤬
Wow. Just went down to the mail room in my building (masked as always). A guy down there called me a "f**king germ factory sheep" and then did the whole fake-coughing routine. I have such wonderful neighbours. 🙄🤬
I still find it hard to believe that we’ve ended up in a world where going to the hospital if you’re sick is more likely to get you even sicker than to make you well.
Just spoke with a staff member at my mom's LTC. The virus is everywhere in the facility. Staff member themself was sick and coughing. Let it slip that masks are "strongly discouraged". Sick residents are not being tested at all as per Bonnie Mengele's directives. I can't cope. ☹️
Here I am yesterday, on my way to visit my mom in her LTC home, which is full of vulnerable people who need protection from getting infected. I guess that makes me a hardened criminal. A menace to society.
#NotACriminal
Since covid, everytime I eat anything with wheat in it I sh*t blood and spend the next 2 days with horrible stomach cramps. So to all those telling me it’s “just another cold”, “just another flu”, I’m “paranoid”, “overreacting”, or calling me a hypochondriac, f*ck you. 2/2
Mom's LTC facility has sent out an email warning family members against bringing in rapid tests to test their loved ones in the facility because "the accuracy of outside tests cannot be verified". The facility rarely tests residents, but when they do they only use BTNX tests. 🤦♂️
My roommate infected me with c19 earlier in the month, an infection he caught at one of his many visits to the local Legion. Now that same legion is wondering if all the coughing, sickness, & hospitalizations its members are experiencing are due to the fresh paint on the walls.
Forced to remove my mask to do any in-person banking at RBC. Forced to remove my mask to pick up a UPS package. Forced to remove my mask if I want to enter certain shops. They sure as hell want to force infection on us any way they can. How long until public mask use is banned?🤬
Beamer is really sick again. Vomiting, not wanting his food, lethargic, etc. I'm really, really worried about my little buddy. He has a vet appointment this morning at 10:30 to hopefully find out what's wrong. Please send positive thoughts his way.
I wanted to share some happy news. A little while ago I adopted to little girl kittens. They are not replacements for Beamer and Benz, but they help ease the hurt and missing them quite a bit.
Meet Oreo (on the left) and Sammi 😺😺
Hey, everyone. FYI, I did not say "masks don't work". Trolls cropped a screenshot of one of my tweets to make it look that way. I've been blocked by some allies today, and that means the trolls won. 🤬
Here is one of the trolls' tweets, followed by my actual tweet.
@laurieallee
With pretty bad GI symptoms being reported with the new variant, we'll probably be hearing of quite a few more diarrhea and vomit planes before too long. ☹️
I don't think there's anything at all that could get me to set foot on a plane right now. 🤢
Feeling very sad today. Sad about Beamer after his ultrasound found an abdominal mass, sad about my mom whose cognition & memory are rapidly declining, and really depressed about the disastrous hellscape the world is rapidly turning into. There is very little to look forward to.
The staff at my mom’s LTC facility began to be required to wear masks again yesterday. Mom reports the grumbling and moaning about the unfairness of it all began almost immediately. 🙄
Not good news in regards to Beamer, I'm afraid. While we're still waiting on biopsy results, his imaging yesterday has revealed what is most likely cancer in his abdomen that has spread. Feeling very, very sad. My poor sweet little buddy. I'm heartbroken.💔😢
The following screenshot is from the FB page of the Legion my roommate frequents. He's now sick with all the common C19 respiratory symptoms, as well as bad GI symptoms. To say I'm worried about the safety of my cat and myself would be an understatement. ☹️
wrap-around dark glasses that people with eye issues wear. I asked her why she was wearing them. "I have a medical eye problem and need to protect my eyes". I responded with "well I have medical problems too from getting covid in January so I need to protect myself from getting
Just found out that the caregiver that was supposed to take my mom to her eye specialist appt tomorrow wasn't feeling well and decided to give themselves a rapid test. Positive. My mom's appt will be postponed. Thank goodness they tested themselves.
Just got back from Whole Foods. I was the only one in the place wearing a mask. Got snickered at by a young couple and one of the clerks stocking shelves. A few people hacking up a lung. I'm ready to give up. We're goddamn doomed as a species. No saving us at this point.
@KSgirlCarrie
I think a lot of people are angered by seeing masks as it pulls them out of their little denial-filled "everything is fine" fantasy world. Masks are a reminder that nothing is in fact fine.
Wow. Just went down to the mail room in my building (masked as always). A guy down there called me a "f**king germ factory sheep" and then did the whole fake-coughing routine. I have such wonderful neighbours. 🙄🤬
her head, made a "tsk" sound and muttered "pathetic". I've had it with people like her, so I confronted her. "Did you just call me pathetic?" She responded with "yeah you're pathetic for being afraid of a cold and wearing that stupid mask". I noticed she was wearing those
I’m noticing a real decline in my mom’s cognitive abilities since her LTC facility allowed her to become infected with Covid again last month. It breaks my heart.
I just spoke with her on the phone. She is terrified and said she would rather die than go on a ventilator again. I hate that I did not know what to say in response to that. I’m so worried for her. I feel broken.
I’ve noticed some TV shows, like last week’s Law & Order: SVU are now portraying criminals hiding their faces with medical masks, and then stating variations of “ we couldn’t ID them because they were wearing covid masks”. Some people are going to take this the wrong way…
In order to visit my mother in LTC, I have to gather in a tiny room with other visitors, take off my N99 mask in order to get tested for covid, wait 15 minutes in that tiny room, and then put on a baggy blue "medical mask". No N95s or better allowed. It's "against protocol". 1/2
Just had a phone appt with the dr who's filling in for my regular doc (no idea what's up with him). Got the whole minimizing spiel. "Covid is no worse than a cold or flu". "Living in fear". "Anxiety". And this zinger: "The media has overstated the dangers of covid". ☹️
🧵My immune compromised, CEV friend, infected with covid a 2nd time is now in hospital, after her oximeter reading dropped to 89 last night. Her 73 year old mother who has been taking care of her since her 1st infection is now also positive. I'm filled with sadness and rage.
None of this is ever going to get better, is it. Everything is going to continue on its downward trajectory towards suffering, misery, sickness, and death. Not sure what the point is anymore.
Just dumped another fair-weather friend. Apparently I'm "pathetic" for continuing to wear a mask everywhere. I had covid in January & am still having a ton of issues from it. According to them that makes me a "wimp". And I "must be a f*g" (their words) if I'm worried about mpx.🤬
@DebraJ43
Thank you. It really is criminal. Until the mandate was lifted, she had remained covid-free. She was very careful, distanced, wore an N95 mask at all times. Unfortunately she relied on transit to get to and from work. I'm sure that's where she was exposed. I'm so sad and angry.
Beamer has suddenly gone downhill starting yesterday afternoon. He vomited twice in the evening, and his blood glucose readings are extremely high despite his insulin injections. He's seeing the vet at 10:45 this am. Please send him lots of positive thoughts. I am very worried.
Well, I just got an email from my mom’s LTC facility. More covid cases in her section. Second time I’ve received such an email since Dr. Bonnie “liberated” the province. What a f*ing nightmare this has turned into. Thanks for doing your job as public health officer, Bonnie. 🤬
@Team2Jb
Someone complained to the strata council about my masking again, yes. I opened my email inbox this morning to find another strongly worded email from them. It doesn’t make sense to me either, but that’s what happened.
@asbinvancity
If I refuse them entry I'll just have to pay for them to come back and do the inspection at a later date.
One way or another though, they are not entering my suite unmasked.
My mom's LTC facility, which currently requires masking in common areas, is once again attempting to force visitors to remove their N95s and replace them with ill-fitting baggy blues. It's "provincial health policy" dictated by Bodybag Bonnie apparently. What a crock of shit. 🤬
Thanks to everyone who offered to bring my mom a fan. It's been returned to her room by an employee with a bad attitude. My mom then had to struggle to plug it in herself (she's in a wheelchair).