...for everyone else: The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid... ...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.

If they cared to learn, they'd have the experts up on stage, and public health leaders would be in the audience, listening. The fact that the people who made the mistakes are the ones platformed, shielded from questions they can't answer about mistakes they can't justify, tells you everything.

🧵This "public" Nov 5 forum highlights the hypocrisy of public health institutions. Topics include misinformation and public trust, and an attendee sent me this: questions for the panellists must be submitted in advance (so hard ones on e.g. PPE, aerosols etc can be censored). ubccdc.med.ubc.ca

We (tried to) ask Billionares in their Vancouver mansions - what’s an oligarch? 🤔💰 #billionares #oligarchs #fighttheoligarchs #wealthtax #bcgreens fighttheoligarchs.ca

If the province weren't so invested in boosting productivity by normalizing COVID-19, they'd see that more can be gained by not sickening entire workplaces. Promote regular testing & airborne precautions, provide more job-protected leave days so people return to work RAT-. 32/?

When the stakes of going without COVID-19 testing are so high, why should it be singled out for payment? What little the province can save on RATs, we will pay in exponents to expedite waitlists & provide for those who are now permanently disabled from repeated infections. 30/?

2: "Provincially supplied kits do not expire until 2026". Will SARS-CoV-2 have ceased to exist by then? Doubtful. What about the people who had no idea that the distribution program had ended? Stocks have dried up & they've been left with no way to replenish their supply. 20/?

Thread in essay format + unedited slides: docs.google.com/document/d/1... I will begin with a brief timeline of how the BCCDC has worsened COVID-19 related programs & why they matter: 4/16: The amount and timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID deteriorated. 3/?

This is the second iteration of a thread I posted on November 6. It doesn’t contain a great deal of new information, but I have responded to recent changes that the BCCDC made to the wastewater dashboard. 2/?

Pls read this entire thread &/or this stellar google doc piece in the post below. It provides a crucial timeline summary about the purposeful erosion of safeguards - namely RATs & wastewater surveillance - & info to help keep our population safe. Giving #Covid19 & #LongCovid full reign.

I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?

You’re our blueprint, Mayor Mamdani. The 1% have done everything in their power to starve us of hope. To rob us of a dignified life. But we are making hope normal again. We are building a big, beautiful movement to reclaim BC’s economy for the 99%. Let’s do this thing⚡️ #bcpoli bcgreens.ca/join/

As per the photo portion below, I’ve updated my timeline summary to include Dr. Henry’s Sept 28th, 2022 press conference where she said a high rate of #Covid19 infection in kids does not translate to long term consequences. And that she would have known the opposite was true. #bcpoli

5/ And finally, this. A condensed version of the above piece. My Protect our Province B.C blog contribution: protectbc.ca/public-healt...

4/ A complete timeline of the behind scenes knowledge via B.C’s PC-ICCN & F.O.I.s, as per above, as well as a breadth of long Covid/PCC facts & recipient information gleaned from Protect our Province New Brunswick’s incredible R.T.I work. My third piece: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

3/ B.C F.O.I documents reveal indisputable proof that our health ministry & senior PH officials have all known about long Covid risks as far back as April 2020. This 2nd piece also compares & contrasts timeline of public health messaging & legislature reveals…& more: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2/ As far back as Spring 2020, B.C was ahead of the pack when it came to access to real-time updated evidence about long Covid & PC multi-system damage via it’s recovery clinics & it’s one of a kind Post Covid-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network. My 1st piece: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🧵 1/ Since the carefully crafted walls of secrecy about all that was known about #LongCovid #PCC by public health & government officials are starting to crack, I thought I’d share, in order, the pieces I’ve written to date on this subject as it relates to British Columbia 🇨🇦… #CanadaSky #Covid-19

Working on the campaign on the flight home, thinking about all the conversations I had with Londoners in this trip. People don’t understand what #LongCovid is - that’s what I learned from meeting people and sharing what I know with them. The root cause of Long Covid is Covid.

The pandemic has revealed a disturbing number of people in healthcare (especially leadership) are there just because they were good at memorizing stuff, rather than because of any real depth of understanding of health (or empathy for patients).

Can’t help cycling thru the gaslighting as I sit here sick w/what is still unconfirmed, but what I suspect is #Covid19. Like the time when I took my son to the doctor about his heart palpitations & fatigue & after saying I was worried about POTs, she replied, “Yes, that’s all the rage right now.”

13/ And all these PCC reports were just portion of what was revealed in PopNB's RTI work. Just imagine learning all this & being in a position of power to protect/inform & doing nothing instead. While watching countless lives- incl kids- forever altered, disabled & lost. bsky.app/profile/hall...

If I sound angry, that’s because I am.

This Sept 2022 press conference where Dr. Henry said a high rate of #Covid19 infections in kids did not translate to long term consequences: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZiX... (23 min mark)… She & all her fellow CMOHs had knowledge of & were involved in this Cdn #LongCovidKids research (thread below)

And serious cardiac problems in children caused by #Covid19, both in those with & without underlying conditions were particularly known, even on the front lines, back in early 2021. And while they were informing providers, they were simultaneously hiding this truth from families.

11/ As matter of fact, in BC, instead of presenting this in her PH briefing 2 mths later, Dr Henry said: "It shows us that children...have very high rate of infection, but what that has not translated to is hosp, severe illness or long-term consequences" (23min mark): www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZiX...

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Just to be absolutely clear, this verbatim quote by Dr. Henry, especially that the high rate of infection in children has not translated to long term consequences, was a willful lie. As per all the known evidence in the below thread about long term #Covid19 harms in children.

Reposting since historical records preserving truth never gets old. And b/c more kids are suffering. And families are still being gaslit or told their child’s heart/cognitive problems, fatigue, skin conditions, lung issues, frequent infections etc are b/c of other causes or are mysteries. #Covid19

If you’re a person who cares about not disabling and harming other human beings, including children, you must know that nearly half of COVID cases are asymptomatic, that Covid spreads before symptoms begin, and that you have a responsibility not to harm others. That is simply humanity.

“Doing what you can to avoid spreading it to other people” is masking , until we have clean air - and in the meantime , you all need to be advocating for clean air, which none of you are showing the urgency around when you fail to mask. 40%+ of Covid cases are asymp and Covid disables people

🧵1/ Since July 2021, there’s indisputable proof 🇨🇦 PH & gov’t officials were receiving evidence that children were suffering from post Covid-19 conditions incl prolonged fatigue, headaches & joint pain to serious cardiac issues, cognitive impairment & potential liver damage. #LongCovid #CanadaSky

So, I did some digging. The Special Advisory Committee on #COVID19- the force behind our federal/provincial/territorial pro-infection pandemic train since January 2020- was indeed a tangled web w/an overlapping power hierarchy held by a very few. 🧵A thread..

The deliberate absence of respirator masks in medical settings while Covid-19, a fatal airborne disease, is spreading everywhere, constitutes one of the worst moral scandals of our time. Countless patients have perished, and will continue to perish, as a result of willful negligence. #COVID19

In examining this list of people fighting *against* protections for infectious diseases, it is worth thinking about the liability (and resulting COIs) that each might be expected hold once it becomes widely recognized that respirators are a reasonable step to protect against aerosol-borne diseases.

Section 217.1 of the Canadian Criminal Code would be a good place to start. The medical professional associations where influential MDs have so many strings to pull have no jurisdiction, and the "get out of jail free" cards provincial politicians use to keep their cronies above the law don't apply.

I used the phrase "the time of COVID" to synchronize the combination of rising fascism (& in the U.S., totalitarianism), ascendant Trump/MAGA/Q, a mass traumatizing & disability-creating event (that is still happening, regardless of the existential gaslight) & the rise of A.I. capitalism...

It's so bad that Canada's Chief Science Advisor had to call out our public health leaders for their failure to do their job and educate the public ("gaps" in messaging)! But it's hard to get that story out because public health can throw around huge PR slush funds. science.gc.ca/site/science...

A good time to recall that the people whose job it is to tell you when it's time to wear an N95 to protect yourself against airborne H5N1 just spent 5 years pretending they don't work, to bury their liability for lying and telling you they knew COVID wasn't airborne. 🤷 www.npr.org/2024/12/18/n...

Episodes like this illustrate why criminal charges are appropriate for the public health and infection control leaders suppressing information about prevention of COVID and long COVID - the "gaps in public messaging" called out by Canada's Chief Science Advisor. They are killing people.

A few weeks ago there was a #Covid19 outbreak on my Mom’s memory care wing. The whole section was quarantined. Family could still visit but before entering a resident’s room, they were req’d to put on full gowns & gloves. They were even told to remove their shoes. But masks were optional.😡

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

"Governing vs activism" is a totally false dichotomy, Andrew. Especially now, when massive inequality has predictably produced oligarchs, fascism, social fraying, & democracy in retreat as Emily Lowan said in her acceptance speech as new @bcgreens.bsky.social leader. "Activism" is loaded 🧵 #bcpoli

So happy to see Emily Lowan @emilylowan.bsky.social decisively elected as the leader of the BC greens. Respect to Emily & her team for running a stellar campaign Do watch her acceptance speech - a fine assessment of the political moment, and an encouraging plan for how we can fight and win #bcpoli

BC Greens have a new leader - Emily Lowan has won on the first ballot with 60% She turned 25 last week This is a huge win #BCpoli

Congrats to 67% of you new BC Green members who verified to vote - that’s ~2500 out of 3700 new members. Today’s your last day to cast your ballot - VOTE if you haven’t already 🥰🔥💚

Back in April 2022-right after masks were lifted in schools!-the 🇨🇦 Fed health minister announced that the CIHR was investing 6.7mil into Canada-wide research platform to better understand Covid-19’s impact on children & young people. Hmm, I wonder what they’ve learned, don’t you? #LongCovidKids 🧵