1/🧵Important Thread
For those working in unsafe conditions, this thread highlights which sections of the Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Act may apply to your situation. You can highlight them in an unsafe work claim. It’s BC specific but may apply elsewhere.
#bced
#bcpoli
2/ “I don’t want to stop living my life because of
#COVID19
. “
I replied “wearing a mask doesn’t stop me from living. It allows me to live more safely & ensure I can live a healthy life well into retirement.”
I don’t understand why people equate wearing a mask with not living?
1/ Had a conversation with a nurse recently.
She told me how sick she got after she got
#Covid19
, almost died.
I told her that I knew of many Teachers that have died after infections which is why I continue to wear a KN95 mask at work.
Her response:
#bcpoli
Elderly patient tests positive for COVID in ER yesterday night. They don’t tell her or the family. Her husband is also in his final day at VGH and all his elderly siblings come to the hospital to pay respect. No one is masked because they didn’t know wife had COVID.
#bcpoli
So many students are sick again. They all assume it’s COVID because they can’t smell or taste anything.
A big COVID wave is happening. Graduations & AP exams are not helping. Prediction: Hospitals will be full in a month or so.
I am so tired of this.
#bcpoli
#bced
You know, if I were a politician in British Columbia & saw that pretty much the whole Province was on fire & filled with smoke—all while 2 new variants are taking off, before school starts in 2 weeks—I’d order HEPA machines for every classroom in BC. We need clean air.
#bcpoli
Shift change happens. Nurse gowns up. Family asks why and that’s when they found out.
There is COVID everywhere at VGH and nobody is telling patients.
How is this acceptable,
@adriandix
?
#bcpoli
British Columbia never closed schools or daycares after May 2020. Masks have hardly been mandated as they were actively promoting infections in schools.
Explain how exactly there could be immunity debt here? BC Children’s Hospital’s ER is over capacity.
#bced
#bcpoli
@2closetocall
People who don’t wear masks in public. Why did you stop? There isn’t a single peer reviewed study that says that in the conditions we’re living in, it’s safe. Vaccines wane after 15 weeks. So no mask, no protection from an immune evading variant. Long COVID awaits you!
@germfreegangsta
When people start acting weirdly or say that they can't hear me because of my mask. I point out that I'm a teacher and that over 20+% of my class is off sick at the moment. I say that I'm wearing the mask as much for them, as for me. They usually look grateful at that point.
If
#bced
is forced to reopen, all decision makers must be required to join us in schools on opening day. MLAs, Trustees, Superintendents, Board Staff, & Union leaders. Every stakeholder must join staff & students for the whole day.
Please come experience the magic.
#bced
#bcpoli
COVID-19: B.C. Centre for Disease Control now accepts virus can linger in the air | Vancouver Sun
Where is this acknowledgement in any of the K-12 mitigations or post-secondary,
@CDCofBC
?
#bced
#bcpoli
@JM_Whiteside
#COVID19BC
Hearing that there are quite a few people who got infected at the Canucks vs NJ game.
How is that not a health hazard & outbreak scenario? Why is Dr. Henry allowing no masks in such a large venue?
It is irresponsible & malpractice.
#bcpoli
Dr Bonnie Henry conducted a population based experiment that went contrary to all peer reviewed science and exposed the entire population of BC (& tourists) to a RG3 biopathogen that, when infected, causes massive vascular, neurological & cognitive harm.
#bcpoli
#bced
#COVID19
@StillTooCold
💔SARS CoV-2 is considered a category 3 biohazard. All workers have a right to be notified of hazard in the workplace—anywhere in 🇨🇦. Employers have a duty to report to WorkSafe when there’s a hazard in the workplace. Joint Health & Safety committees are supposed to be told too.
Anybody happen to know what happens when you mix airborne measles (Ro of 15) with airborne COVID Ro 12-15 and billions of people with compromised immune systems that are in varied states of inflammation and manufacturing microclots? We’re about to find out. No bueno.
#bcpoli
Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 17-Mar 2, 2024
SEVERE: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, PEI, SK
VERY HIGH: CAN, North, ON, QC
HIGH: none
ELEVATED: none
MODERATE: none
LOW: none
About 1 in 47 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
Pretty incredible that over 30 people died in BC and it doesn’t even make the news. 4th worst day of the pandemic and we have no precautionary measures in place. All preventable deaths.
This is madness and negligent,
@bcndpcaucus
. Blood is on your hands.
#bcpoli
#COVID19BC
@fitterhappierAJ
Teachers keep on catching it—most of all, apparently. Imagine that, the people who spend the most time in a room full of kids and poor ventilation are getting
#LongCOVID
the most.
Who could have foreseen this?
This is the preamble to the Canada Health Act.
Does anyone else think that not allowing testing for the majority of BCians when the rest of Canada is able to get tested violates the fundamental values of the 🇨🇦 Health Act?
#bcpoli
#bced
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
#COVID19
#topoli
It amazes me that Florida provides their citizens with more protectionary measures than BC, AB or ON.
In Florida, anyone can get a free PCR or rapid test, community transmission is under 5% and if a student tests positive the whole class is notified.
#bcpoli
#bced
#COVID19BC
It is fascinating that municipal city halls are still closed to the public in BC.
How can we be allowing 17,000 people to sit together, many privileged unmasked, while our local govts won’t open their doors to citizens? If schools are open, shouldn’t govts be?
#bcpoli
#bced
1/ Today, let’s discuss the term gross negligence. Why you may be asking?
Because it would appear that Superintendents and Trustees need to be reminded of their fiduciary responsibilities —to their staff and students.
#bced
#bcpoli
@gurlfromthebus
Vietnam, Rwanda, Bhutan, S. Korea— not islands and surrounded by other countries. All successful in containing the virus.
Even resource starved countries are able to do it when their governments prioritize the health and well being of their citizens over the Economy.
Today is the day that it really sunk in that all levels of Govt in 🇨🇦 are prepared to let the masses get infected.
They haven’t educated citizens or Health Care Workers about long COVID either. Our govts are knowingly doing nothing to stop a Health Hazard. 💔 This is not my 🇨🇦.
So, did I get this right? Omicron is very infectious. Only testing essential workers. Contact tracing can’t keep up. We are all likely to get exposed in the weeks ahead. When we do get it, we should do whatever we can to not spread it to others— but be back at work after 5 days.
Great turn out at the
#COVIDsafeSchools
rally today!
Thanks to everyone that participated in rally in person & online.
Special thank you to the speakers for sharing their heartfelt stories. 💛
We need masks, clean air and online options!
#bced
#bcpoli
@JM_Whiteside
BC is DELIBERATELY not collecting data on schools. They’re doing min. contact tracing & refuse to attribute any transmission to anyone in school—where children sit for 6 hrs a day.
Today we’ll hear that data shows schools are perfectly safe. Don’t believe it, it’s a lie!
#bced
JFC! Can’t even count the number of people coughing up a lung or sneezing on their way to the beach. One guy stopped to barf on our lawn, too.
If this is what they meant by “living with it”, I’m out.
.
@DrEricDing
was on CTV news this am. Gratifying to see an epidemiologist speaking about how BC should change tact & suppress VoCs. Confirmed children need to be masked, wearing double masks, need HEPA filters in class, & everything we’ve been saying for a year. Thank you!!
#bced
DBH: “we’re in a different pandemic now. Omicron behaves differently indoors.”
Spin Translator: we refuse to admit we were wrong but need to recognize that
#COVIDisAirborne
. It is simply much more transmissible now & our lies are catching up with us.”
#bcpoli
#bced
#COVID19BC
Why did we move heaven and earth so children wouldn’t get polio but we refuse to do anything prevent children from being infected with a deadly virus?
We need pictures and images to educate the public. Where is the media?
#LongCovid
#COVID19
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#onpoli
This is scary. Sadly, US families quite literally can’t afford to cocoon their very young babies. The US infant mortality rate increased for the first time in 20 years & we also reported the largest increase in pediatric mortality in over 60 years. It will get worse.
When will the penny drop for EMPLOYERS that if they require workers to wear N95s, they won’t get sick, worker shortage stops and the economy will stabilize?
Pretending
#COVID19
is over is killing workers and our economy.
It’s not rocket science.
#bcpoli
Looking forward to having the anti-maskers pay for taking the PHO to court in a class action suit.
Also, looking forward to PHO providing all the science that shows that masking works & her having to explain why we’re not doing it now.
#COVID19
#bcpoli
Please ask
#BonnieHenry
to explain this
@ianhanomansing
. Why is she continuing to minimize the long-term damage
#COVID19
is doing to children? Better yet, ask her why she’s so adamant to have zero mitigations in
#bced
.
#bcpoli
Comparative study showed that children faced a 78% higher risk of new-onset conditions after they had COVID-19 (0-14y/ early Pandemic period)
➡️Study provides evidence of the increased risk of new conditions after
#COVID19
disease in children.
- mental health issues(aHR 1.8, 95%
The fact that
@bcndp
allowed this movie to be made encapsulates everything wrong with the party.
They’re beholden to corporate masters (Telus) & care more about their image than the massive conflict of interest making the movie has for citizens.
#bcpoli
It’s time for Federal & Provincial Leaders to call off Dr. Bonnie Henry’s unethical experiment on children and schools. No consent was sought, no science was followed and harm was inflicted on subjects—daily. Lives were lost as a result.
Call it, now!
@jjhorgan
@JustinTrudeau
In the past 6 months, BC has dealt with:
🔥Wildfires
🥵Heat dome
🦠Delta pandemic
🌪Tornado
🌊 Flood
💨 Wildfire smoke
🏥🚑 🧑⚕️Health Care crisis
👻Invisible govt & Premier
☠️000s dead from a preventable disease
📈Data obfuscation
While
@bcndp
comms failed at every turn.
#bcpoli
You know how Ontario protected their children?
Parents got loud, Medical community spoke up, media shed light on hospital system collapsing & increasing in pediatric cases, unions spoke up & politicians saw that their polling was tanking.
Let’s make it happen,
#bcpoli
&
#bced
🧵For 2 yrs, many of us have pointed out how peer reviewed science shows
@bcndp
’s COVID policies are wrong. Pointed out how laws are being broken too.BCNDP appointed DBH & they continue to allow anti-science HOs to continue their crusade to “use” our immune systems.
#bcpoli
#bced
7 Provs/Territories in 🇨🇦 are going for
#COVIDzero
. ICUs aren’t full. Citizens aren’t dying of a preventable airborne virus. Families don’t live in fear from sending kids to school. Citizens aren’t gaslit with lies. PHOs follow peer reviewed science, too.
#bcpoli
#bced
#cdnpoli
Let’s be very clear. In not notifying staff and students, this is a clear violation of the Health Act and
@WorkSafeBC
requirements of notifying staff about hazards in the building.
Eyes wide open here. What are you doing about it
@JM_Whiteside
?
#bced
#bcpoli
@WestcoastBCLife
@Fraserhealth
No notification has been sent at this time. We received confirmation from the individual of the positive test result in the email used to notify the school. FH directed the family to isolate. Exposure occurred on Sept 7th.
BC owes a debt of gratitude to
@DFisman
for speaking up & challenging the spin we’re being fed in
#bcpoli
by
@DrBonnieHenry
&
@bcndp
.
His guidance is grounded in the latest science & he’s been the 1 epidemiologist that I could trust the past 18 months.
#DoNotCancelDavidFisman
Omicron’s infectious period is longer than 5 days, there are growing calls for return to the previous 10-day isolation policy.There was no scientific or medical reason to shorten the isolation period to 5 days, it was purely driven by economics & politics.
“Four teachers at (Armstrong Elementary) have signed it and all are staying home presently because, in their opinion, it is unsafe to work with one-third of their students unmasked in their classes,”
#ItWorked
#bced
#bcpoli
#COVID19BC
#UnsafeWork
If Dr. Henry has always said that COVID spreads in the air, who exactly was stopping the use of masks in schools for 1.5 years?
More puzzling even, why haven’t masks been mandated in
#bced
schools if
#COVIDisAirborne
? What is the purpose of leaving kids unprotected?
#bcpoli
So many of the people that I know that were infected were doing things that were permitted by the PHO.
If people are doing what they're told and still getting infected then it's not the people that are the problem. It's either the policies that are in place or the PHO.
#bcpoli
Dear
@BCNDPCaucus
,
✴️By now you may have heard that BC has not been following what peer reviewed science is saying.
✴️You may have also learned that the
@CDCofBC
is deliberately not contact tracing or collecting data in
#bced
so they can say that schools are safe.
#bced
#bcpoli
Never have I ever received so many death notices, cancer diagnoses or heart attack/strokes amongst teaching staff over the summer.
Bonnie Henry is majorly obtuse if she thinks we “got through” the pandemic. She’s killing us all, slowly.
#bcpoli
#bced
Thank you to the BC Human Rights commissioner for making her letter to the PHO public today. Read about how the PHO and the
@bcndp
are violating the Human Rights of thousands of British Columbians.
We are better than this in BC. We need to protect our vulnerable.
#bced
#bcpoli
Yesterday, Public Health in BC set a dangerous precedent for dealing w/ a pandemic. No one in media is outraged & unions just rolled over as they have for 2 years. As a result, the public is largely unaware of how their legal rights are being trampled. WTF?
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#bced
Would it surprise you to learn that two thirds of school absence in England right now is sickness absence?
And would it surprise you more to learn that the absence rate peaks when covid cases peak, whatever time of year it is?
And would it surprise you even more to learn that
@michael_hoerger
We only closed schools for a few weeks in April 2020 in British Columbia, Canada. Never closed schools again. All the same problems.
Schools were closed longer over summer than they were for the pandemic.
Please explain to me how school closures are the source of the problem.
To all those people who take their mask off at their desk.
Help me understand your logic.
#COVIDisAirborne
. Do you think that air stops moving when you take off your mask?
Really don’t understand your logic.
#bcpoli
#bced
#COVID19
How is it that PHAC designated
#COVID19
as a level 3 biohazard that needs a level 3 lab with a negative pressure room for scientists to work with it because it is lethal if breathed in.
But it’s just fine for a level 3 biohazard to float around schools?
#bced
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
Somebody please ask Dr Henry if COVID is a vascular disease that initially can present with respiratory issues.
Follow up: How does she think micro-clots are factoring in to long-COVID.
#bcpoli
#bced
Did you know that most Independent schools in BC have HEPAs in their classrooms, offices, change rooms, lunchrooms and have had since Sept 2020?
They receive 35% funding from public taxes. Why don’t public schools have the same?
@BCNDPCaucus
#bced
#bcpoli
#equity
Looks like Bonnie Henry’s plan to “live with the virus” in reality means “dying from it”.
79 deaths last week and then 68ish over the weekend? WTF is happening?
And the media is silent?
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#COVID19BC
#bced
Checked in with some of my elementary colleagues.
It is not going well. Many classes with well over 30% of students absent. One school had more than 50% of students absent.
Kids are terrified of getting sick and living in fear. How is that good for their mental health?
#bced
@ianhanomansing
Educators are taught to use more gender inclusive words so that we don’t discriminate.
Things like folks (new gender inclusive spelling is actually folx), everyone, people, etc.
Your listener was trying to help you understand that you’re still promoting patriarchal norms. 🛑
Anyone else think that the only thing that will stop Dr. Henry & the
@bcndp
is if we do a general strike?
We demand a new PHO & health authority model. Community based leaders. Gustafson & Daly need to go. No more deaths.
#KidsB4COVID
#bcpoli
#bced
#COVID19BC
Is it time for a class of 30 students to visit the offices of every MLA in BC?
They can sit <1 m apart in their office for 5 hours, eat their lunches together, share the same washroom, breathe the same air—with no masks on. DBH said classrooms are the same as her office.
#bced
Violet Affleck is my new hero. She was the only party goer at an A-list billionaire party to wear a mask—and a 3M Aura at that.
May she guide all our youth to protect themselves when the adults won’t.
Be sure to watch the CBC National tonight -- they do a segment on the fact that there is overwhelming evidence that COVID is airborne and discuss how Conly is holding Canada back by focusing on droplets. Who else is focused on droplets and holding us back in BC?
#bcpoli
#bced
How incompetent is the
@CDCofBC
and
#BonnieHenry
?
They sequenced a total 3 (!) COVID-19 positive tests for the week of Nov 28th & expect the public, to whom they serve, to believe that COVID-19 is diminishing in the Province.
This just proves that they've stop looking.
#bcpoli
Just spoke to BC’s Patient Client relations for a third time this week. Asked to speak with someone who can provide me with the science that says it’s safe for staff/students to take masks off in schools with BA.2 at 70%. Told I needed to FOIPA it. Seriously,
@adriandix
!
#bcpoli
Help me understand.
BC is the only Province in 🇨🇦 that still has a “Very High” rating for
#COVID19
in Canada. 1 in 68 people are infected in the Province.
So what does
@adriandix
do? Remove the mask mandate in hospitals for no valid reason. COVID-19 is not seasonal!
#bcpoli
Canadian COVID Forecast Mar 30-Apr 12, 2024
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VERY HIGH (no change)
About 1 in every 68 people infected
Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:
-Infections ~17X higher
-Long COVID ~6X higher
-Hospitalizations ~7X higher
-Deaths ~8X higher
Oh look, Canadian
#LongCovid
research is being discussed on Scottish television. Wouldn’t it be grand if the media in Canada and British Columbia did the same?
38% of people who’ve been infected with COVID 3 times will get long
#Covid
.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
Martin: “In Canada, they’re finding if you’ve had 3 or more Covid infections, you’ve got a 38% chance of getting Long Covid. Can that be right?”
Dr Rae Duncan explains how many studies show that, the more times you get infected, the higher your risk of developing Long Covid.
3/
1/4 of our staff of 100 had COVID this past week. Many came back after 5 days and aren’t wearing masks.
Someone please ask Bonnie how this isn’t a health hazard?
We better get a huge effing raise,
@bctf
.
#bced
#bcpoli
Dr. Henry says masks in
#bced
:
-hinder learning
-will promote kids touching their face
Millions of children across 🇨🇦 & the world seem capable of still learning.
Masks act as a barrier from touching nose & mouth.
Also, why does none of this apply to private schools in B.C.?
@Harvard
Umm, there is no such thing as "hybrid immunity". It's a made up term by minimizers.
The fact that
@Harvard
is propogating disinformation is shameful and degrades the institution. Please stop.
What it is with
@bctf
and the incessant emails about renaming schools?
If only they worked as hard to force the
@bcndp
to reframe COVID from droplet to airborne.
Enough with the emails.
#bcpoli
#bced
Let’s create a list of questions that the media should ask Dr. Henry —but won’t.
1. Do you think the virus is aerosolized?
2. Is BC using schools for herd immunity?
3. What peer reviewed science justifies not having a mask mandate in
#bced
?
Feel free to add.
#bced
#bcpoli
I have more teachers as patients than any other profession.
#longcovid
@JohnSwinney
I’m seeing the most long Covid patients in Scotland.
It’s time it was defined as an occupational disease.
I got Covid multiple
Times in a 6 month period in 2022. For doing my job. 2 TIAs. 🧠
Every BC MLA must now be required to spend 1 full day at a
#bced
school in their constituency, once a week (incl lunchtime).
They need to experience how safe schools are and what it’s like to get notification letters.
Don’t want to? Do something to make schools safer.
#bcpoli
British Columbia is now the only jurisdiction in the world that has no masks required in classes and no physical distancing required in schools that have positivity rates above 3%.
Sweden was the only other one, but they have now moved classes on-line.
#bced
#bcpoli
@jjhorgan
Canada’s Chief Scientist acknowledges that Long COVID is real & will have devastating economic/societal impacts.
Provincial governments can no longer ignore or pretend that it doesn’t exist. Bring on the precautionary principle.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
💡Did you know?
When a class in
#bced
is told to self-isolate, students are also told not to get tested.
Wonder why Dr Henry can confidently say there’s “low transmission” in schools even though they don’t have data ? It’s because it’s the way she designed it.
#bced
#bcpoli
Negligence Cases Against Hospitals for Negligent Transmission of Coronavirus
The negligence lawsuits against hospitals are beginning in the US.
When will they start in Canada?
#uspoli
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#onpoli
Are the Feds really ok with just letting PHOs declare that Omicron is just a cold? We deserve better.
Public health is a shared portfolio. There’s checks & balances. It’s time for Feds to withhold $ for not sharing data or following definitions.
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#COVIDisAirborne