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My pandemic fatigue has nothing to do with respirators or opening windows. I’m fatigued by suppression of evidence, efforts to highlight risk and mitigation to loved ones in the absence of govt transparency, watching people get sick, disabled, and die in gross numbers. Exhausted.
It is complicated to test positive for SARS-CoV-2, when you’ve been a noisy advocate for masking, IAQ, public health doing public health’s job. My husband and I have done pretty much everything we could; no indoor dining, masking with everyone who has adopted vax/relax.
And also knowing this is not something you can really talk about off of this app, because most believe it’s not a big deal and you’re being a bit “extra” at best and conspiratorial at worst for knowing the things we know.
Frankly the first few days after testing positive, I felt emotionally pretty devastated in addition to feeling unwell. The reality of ‘individual public health’ coming home to roost in your own home. Knowing we didn’t have a choice in becoming infected .
So now we move forward. Knowing that our bodies are worse for wear. We continue with caution. And make noise about the ineffective public health approach of every person for themselves. But a little more fragile than we were before infection.
Knowing we are now at risk for long effects, at increased risk for cardiovascular damage, brain damage, blood clots, organ damage. That our immune systems have been subjected to significant disruption and compromise.
Once upon a time, there was this doctor who was super smart. He noticed that other docs put their hands into cadavers and then without washing their hands, delivered mothers of their babies! He’s like - wash your hands fellas!
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Almost 3 weeks after getting Covid and I’m still super fatigued. Not tired - exhausted. I’ve had to move appointments so I only see two patients a day, and complete some admin work/supervision. If you’re self employed this is not tenable for multiple infections a year.
I told my husband this week I’m sick of masks. But it doesn’t mean I’m not wearing it everywhere. I’d rather be sick of masks and healthy than maskless and sick.
I wrote a thread a week or so ago about a difficult discussion my partner and I had about precautions. Seems like he just wanted to voice his frustrations as he’s asked me for masks this week. So he hates doing it but he’s still doing it.
Kind of like me.
Hi. I’m Hilary. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfecting are inevitable - I will continue to do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
Hi. I’m Jon. I live in Canada and I refuse to accept that infections and reinfections are inevitable - I will continue to do my utmost to break chains of transmission. What about you?
#COVIDIsAirborne
I don’t want to get SARS-CoV-2. Why is that so controversial? Why is it increasingly unlikely that I’ll be able to remain negative? Our government should be PROTECTING ALL CITIZENS. By making it a personal responsibility they protect no one.
I’m a doctor. This is rage farming. No one is having surgeries. Even if they wanted them, gender affirming care in this place is notoriously difficult and expensive.
Opinions aren’t data. Your interpretation of the Old Testament is not an acceptable healthcare policy guide.
When discussing trans kids today,
@PremierBHiggs
said doctors should be speaking up about "irrepairable surgeries happening to young children."
No gender-affirming surgeries are happening to young children in New Brunswick. It's not happening.
Hand washing - a huge inconvenience and dismissed as unimportant for maternal mortality. So ridiculed and ostracized and chased from his profession, this smart doc was eventually put in an asylum, cuz wow germs aren’t real. He died of gangrene.
Dr Russell’s comments that masks impact mental health of children is at best, anecdotal, but in reality patently false. She’s conceding to that nonsense that masks are the scarlet letter of the pandemic.
The non hand washers were like no. We won’t. Who does that? Who washes their hands - weird. And when smart doctor dude was delivering the babies, more moms stayed alive. When the hand washing poo-pooers delivered the babies lots of the moms died.
Guess what, Jen? Most people don’t *like* masks. Disliking something is not a mental health issue. You say it’s a balance? Balance the mental health outcomes for children who lose brain volume, children who lose their parents. A mask weighs very little in that equation.
My elderly uncle, whom we learned today has terminal lung disease, is lying in a bed at a hospital in Toronto without his loved ones to comfort him, because of a Covid outbreak. Arrogance, lies, and greed won, not the needs of the vulnerable and the truth.
#heartbroken
I’m not a lockdown fanatic. I just liked that period when, during the (ongoing) SARS-CoV-2 pandemic we could largely safely exist with masks, timely access to tests, and isolation periods. That was smart and made life accessible for more people.
You know that as it stands, people are out there willingly contracting what they’ve been lead to believe is a cold, but is actually an airborne pathogen that will cause broad systemic damage including brain volume loss? PH has NOT informed the public of the risks off not masking.
Your kids’ shoes don’t fit, and you can’t buy fruits or veggies, and the lights are going out because you didn’t pay the bills. Now imagine you had extra money and were socking it away for later. That’s the NB budget. A surplus when people are hungry, homeless, and dying.
#nbpoli
I’ll be leaving “this place” once my stepson turns 18. Why would I pay taxes to live in such a cruel place, where few can afford housing, our chief public health employee is showing wanton disregard for health and lives of NBers, and we build prisons, not treatment facilities.
@Surgeon_General
Failing to communicate the importance of masks, which ones are effective at cutting transmission, and cleaning the air during an airborne pandemic, and giving in to short term economic interests over lives, means the most vulnerable are effectively left to be lonely. Thoughts?
Dear whoever works at public health. Please advise on how to prevent contracting monkeypox. Also ditto Covid while you’re at it (ie it being airborne) and give appropriate guidance on differences in masks(cloth vs n95 for eg). Thanks so much!
The fact that Susan is willing to step out on this, not only provincially, but nationally, says a ton about her integrity and willingness to LEAD, and not simply follow. Thank you Susan. You’re the change we need.
@Pam506King
@harlickjen
@erincandy
We will modernize the clean air act to reflect current standards (ASHRAE), and ensure all schools, hospitals, govt buildings and LTC facilities have air quality monitoring and improvement to reach standards.
I’m so tired. Tired of Covid, tired of people using their opinions as substitutes for scientific evidence. Tired of profits over people. Exhausting times demand rest between advocacy efforts.
@DominicCardy
@AirCanada
You do see though, don’t you, that emergency room closures in NB, businesses closing for a few days because of staffing issues (due to illness), airline cancellations, are all happening now that mask regs are mostly gone, right? This had not been an issue before now.
Horizon has introduced mobile device charging stations in the emergency departments of Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital in
#Fredericton
,
#SaintJohn
Regional Hospital, The
#Moncton
Hospital, and
#Miramichi
Regional Hospital! 🔋
.
@ChrisCuomo
yes!! This!! Please please please!! Members of our citizen activist group did an FOI request / the results of which you need to read!! Please! Long effects have been communicated to leaders since the beginning. See
@HallwayOrchard
pinned tweet.
Wearing a mask and cleaning the air are apparently super oppressive and anything that mitigates Covid is apparently a lockdown and living in fear. Ok then.
We have such a big surplus! But we don’t have enough:
Teachers or EAs
Doctors or nurses
Psychologists
Clean air to breathe
Affordable housing
Affordable food
Safe places for the LGBTQIA+ community
Good relationships with Indigenous communities
.
@premierbhiggs
you are doing enormous harm when you speak the way you do about gender dysphoria being popular and trendy. Distress is not a trend. But it seems hateful diatribes are.
Doesn’t learning to live with Covid mean we should have learned something? And then implemented the things we learned? We’re just pretending it’s 2019, we haven’t demonstrated that we’ve learned a thing.
Interviewing a former student tonight to recruit him back to NB to our practice. Fingers crossed, we need more qualified psychologists in our little province.
Hi there! There is currently no evidence that masks impact mental well-being! Please stop using that old chestnut for your defence against mask mandates in school. Thanks :)
You cannot staff the capital city emergency department with 4 nurses, during a viral surge that in some leads to respiratory distress and cardiac issues, with a population marked by ~ 2 years of unchecked COVID. It’s going to end in tragedy and resignations.
SOMEONE DO SOMETHING
My husband just got accepted to STU for part time studies this fall!! So proud of him for seizing the opportunity to make a career change at this point in time!! So proud of him ❤️
@Gov_NB
Safe until they reach school, a primary source of Covid-19 infection for them and subsequently their community.
An estimated 138 New Brunswick children have lost a primary or secondary caregiver to Covid-19. 89 of those (65%) have occurred since mandated protections were removed.
Soooo, Covid is everywhere, SJ is/was on fire, hospital wards are closed for outbreaks, and classrooms are overcrowded and underresourced . Go Blaine, am I right?
I’ve been at the DECH ER for 11 hours following advice by 811. The staff are amazing! They are completely overrun in a space too small with too many patients, traumas, and codes for the small number of staff that are available.
Now imagine if
@IPACCanada
would tell hospitals to put respirators on their staff, in maternity clinics, on delivery and post partum wards, in neonatal wards.... imagine if they did that on top of sharing this type of information! That would be awesome!
@premierbhiggs
I wish you were as disturbed by hungry children, sick seniors, and poverty. That would be refreshing. Less divisive though, so I see where you’re going with this.
@hillygirl1939
Also “Semmelweis Reflex” is a pretty important addendum to your thread, that shows despite all the talk, many doctors today are no different to doctors in the 1850’s and are just as ignorant
@ottawalifers
@OCDSB
Grotesque. Dr KM is engaged in health promotion and fighting antisemitic, anti lgbtqia+, racist rhetoric. She’s a hero and your publication is a disgrace. Retract.
.
@PsychToday
- this is DANGEROUS. COVID is not a rite of passage. Mild symptoms belie damage silent damage.
I’d suggest a retraction. Watching a Disney video on how the immune system works is insufficient and outside the scope of psychology
Attendance and reasons kids miss school or have spotty attendance are varied and in many instances reflect mental health, felt safety, neurodevelopmental status, socio-economic factors, NOT disinterested children and parents.
For all your SAFE safe and lock needs, Capital Safe and Lock in Fredericton still encourage masks!! I went in today and everyone - staff and customers were masked!! Yay!!
With Dr Russell’s apparent interest in youth mental health, I am eager to hear how public health plans to address the inadequacy of child and adolescent mental health systems in our province (other than no mask mandates, which won’t have a positive impact on mental health.)
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The Tesla thing breaks my heart. Literally every week I learn about kids who can’t access psychiatric care for years, child protection workers overwhelmed/underresourced, no public health, and yearly cuts to education that leave struggling learners and disabled kids behind.
I’ll wear one forever inside if it means kids can live and families can live unharmed. I’ll never eat in a restaurant again if the vulnerable can be safe. We are at the bargaining stage of the grief 💔😢
It is completely abhorrent and unconscionable that union leaders, who have historically been meant to protect workers rights and safety, are throwing some of our most valuable human resources in harms way. Don’t tell us you’re working with public health and relevant govt delta.
It is impossible to “manage your own Covid risk” in families with joint custody of children. If one half doesn’t mitigate, you are running on borrowed time until your next infection.
Dear .
@adamsmiller
and
@CBCNews
, my husband is clinically vulnerable. We have both had SARS2 once and I do wonder what that means re: immune function. We do not support unmasking in healthcare. Many doctors are willing to speak with you about negative impacts of this change.
Dear
@adamsmiller
and
@CBCNews
, my mom and I are both immune compromised, my dad has cancer, my son has autism. We do not support unmasking in healthcare. There are lots of doctors who are willing to speak with you about negative impacts of this change.
My uncle is in a shared room on an oncology unit at Sunnybrook. He has Covid but so far none of his roommates do. Hopefully the cordon has magical air cleaning powers.
What WHO said when they declared the emergency over was :
"One of the greatest tragedies of Covid-19 is that it didn't have to be this way. … But globally, a lack of coordination, a lack of equity, and lack of solidarity
Today, New Brunswick MLAs voted on a motion to improve the air in nursing homes.
It called on government to present a formal plan to bring all nursing homes up to the most recent departmental design standards.
73% do not meet those standards.
@pcnbca
defeated the motion.
My mum has listened to my (sometimes inflamed) pleas to continue masking. And she had heeded the pleas. Yesterday she said she’s “wondering if we’re “
crazy”, as she sees no one else using this basic protection. But- she won’t take off her mask regardless. Proud of her.
Blaine - you want to show parents they count? Invest in their kids’ education by paying teachers their worth, and don’t cut EAs. Invest in mental health. Start building general peds practices that don’t take 12 months to get into. We certainly pay the taxes to fund these items.
.
@premierbhiggs
went off-script yesterday & showed us what he really thinks. It’s not about parents - it’s about him not agreeing with trans healthcare/accommodations, even when parents involved. He cannot be trusted to keep his personal beliefs out of it or kids’ healthcare.
Our government will ensure a safe, welcoming, learning environment in schools for all children including LGBTQIA2S+ while still respecting the role of parents.