“To me, it’s a collective failure at many levels of government, public health, the health-care system to address what we saw as declining rates of vaccination…that got much worse since the COVID-19 pandemic and really set the stage for measles to spread like this..." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🫠 WELP. Public health is dead and buried. Congrats everyone! Xoxo

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In a statement, CBC told me: "After reviewing the interview, we concluded that it needed to be re-edited and re-posted to include further context and questions around the procedure and treatment Deacon experienced. That has now been done." Will update the story with this soon.

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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. 2/?

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/?

Filtered air for chickens, but not for students, workers or patients: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🪦 Public Health — “Canada overall has recorded more than 5,100 confirmed and probable measles cases in 2025, and two deaths of babies born with congenital measles who were infected in utero. The country hasn’t seen this scale of measles transmission in decades.” www.statnews.com/2025/11/03/m...

30 if it won’t do what’s right to keep its own people safe at work, how can you trust it to tell you how to protect yourself at yours, and to demand better of your government? i loved my job. and i still i believe in the public broadcaster. but you can’t compromise with COVID. or the truth.

29 and that’s how the CBC has not only failed me and the rest of its employees, it has also failed you and the rest of canadians. it has failed to protect us and our families from the real harms of COVID. and it has failed to adequately inform you and all canadians of the risks of this disease.

27 but COVID is incompatible with business as usual. because COVID is a workplace safety issue—one that demands a complete occupational reset to adequately deal with it. like most corporations, though, CBC is unprepared to lead that vital transformation of the status quo. it can only follow.

26 this is known science. what is still unknown is the cumulative impact of dozens of COVID infections over a lifetime. but on most days, that’s not the messaging you hear on CBC or other legacy media. the quirks episode was an exception, not the norm. for the most part, it’s business as usual.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

the police want $17,000,000 more for THIS YEAR'S budget something shady is happening with this process cc @isabellazavarise.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social council.vancouver.ca/20251105/doc...

Ontario has stopped hosting the report of the SARS Commission. It looks like it is still available via archive-it, but this is a reminder of how vulnerable digital records that embarrass powerful people can be. wayback.archive-it.org/17275/202203...

In the editing room! 🎙️ Bad Press: how the media manufactures consent in the era of COVID. Public health is often in the news but it’s not always covered well. Power influences the narratives we hear from outlets and journalists. Coming soon w/ Julia Doubleday + Kayli Jamieson. Don’t miss it! 🩷💚💀

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CLOSES TODAY!

🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them. This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people .. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr... 1/2

Some important reporting in this @rollingstone.com article on the lack of school accomodations for LC kids, but really disappointing to see #LongCOVID denial given so much space. You don't need to quote denialists and minimizers. Good journalism doesn't both side established fact!

Amazing to see one of my favourite podcasts getting the recognition it deserves! Wahoooo, keep killing it Daniella!

Daniella’s podcast has won a couple more awards. This is a well researched and wonderfully produced podcast that discusses the current state of public health. Interesting, timely, and award winning. Great job!

Our skeleton crew 💀 won TWO Signal Awards today! Best Education Podcast (Gold) and Best Science Podcast (Silver). There was some stiff competition but it held its own. Grateful the judges recognized our work and thanks to everyone who’s been supporting this project! 💀🩷💚

If you live in Canada and want a Flo Mask here’s your chance to win one + some PHiD stickers 🩷💚💀 There are 5 prize packs of med-high nose bridge masks. (Check their site to see if those will fit you!) 🔗 for rules and more info www.publichealthisdead.com/flomask

If you live in Canada and want a Flo Mask here’s your chance to win one + some PHiD stickers 🩷💚💀 There are 5 prize packs of med-high nose bridge masks. (Check their site to see if those will fit you!) 🔗 for rules and more info www.publichealthisdead.com/flomask

More on this soon, but join @deathpanel.bsky.social Patreon for early access to the podcast we recorded with them recently 💕 Support Sameer Project by getting Beatrice and Artie's Health Communism from our curated online bookstore (which we discuss in the episode). www.patreon.com/posts/worksh...

Runs until March 22, 2026. museumofvancouver.ca/living-with-...

The #LongCOVID exhibit @museumofvan.bsky.social did get media coverage, tho! 🙏 @globalnews.ca.web.brid.gy bsky.app/profile/bhan...

Disappointed but not surprised that the only person not wearing a mask at the packed Long COVID exhibition event in Vancouver yesterday was the doctor who runs the pan-Canadian Long COVID network. I guess “masks required” didn’t apply to her.

Daniella is doing incredible work on a critical subject. I'm so happy to see her work being recognized on a broader scale. CONGRATS!!!!!

There are many other important things happening but Public Health is Dead took home Gold at the W3 Awards in Science & Tech for our work on Something’s in the Air: The Airborne Transmission Error with @ukhadds.bsky.social and Katie Randall. Feel free to let a public health leader near you know.

This is a policy choice

This is so preventable. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Former CDC leaders hand-wringing about the death of public health and how bad RFK Jr is like some of them in recent years did not pave and polish the way for this to happen by clinging to the nonsense of droplet dogma, going full anti-mask, and prioritizing profit at the expense of public health

“[We hold] Israel fully responsible for the deaths of hundreds of cancer patients and for deliberately obliterating any opportunities of treatment for thousands more by destroying their treatment centers and depriving them of travel. Such acts fall under the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.”

Oh look it’s everything @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social warned us about 🫩. Go read Automating Inequality!

“CDC is dead!” “Public health is dead!” First time, huh?

Black surveillance scholars have beeeeeen warning 🫠

It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air

This article is also a *masterclass* in Canadian “colourblindness”, erasing racism and historical context, and its warped idea of uncritical “diversity” 🥴 AI is a backwards-machine sweeping up the past into its output. This is what you get. Also, SFU, so much for “listening and learning” 🙄 in 2020

Canada is always up to some wildly racist activities 🧐

“With our new virtual servant program, you can have the blackness and the subservience that you need without the uncomfortableness of having to talk to an actual black person”

Breaking! City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism. We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.

Huge and well-earned success for @nicktsergas.ca - his piece in @bmj.com is 👉the #1 BMJ output for its age!👈 (also an equally huge and well-earned smack upside the head for all the corporate media drones who insist no one wants to know about the harm COVID is doing to us)

Yet another example of how not taking the ongoing COVID pandemic seriously has paved the way for more fascism

Signed on? GREAT! Now, for the next few days you can directly comment on the standard. Respirators in healthcare will protect patients and workers. Workplace health and safety doesn’t need to be in the 18th century — airborne disease transmission is preventable 👍🏾 (see next)

I’ve signed on. Join me! People should be able to access healthcare without the threat of a COVID infection killing or disabling patients (and providers) or derailing care. Why not use the brilliant technology we have to prevent airborne disease transmission? www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca