all these news reports and notices of hospitals reinstating universal masking AFTER Covid outbreaks
How about BEFORE, to prevent an outbreak, and the inevitable consequences of staff illness, absence, infecting and making patients worse, extending their stay, potentially blocking a bed and delaying procedures for other patients
Also, baggy blues just won't cut it - N95s are the bare minimum
#Covid #Covid19
Stop calling it managed
Stop calling it seasonal
Stop calling people who have been directly impacted, and those who want mitigations - anxious
Reluctant fall mask semi-orders in hospitals will do nothing as schools and conferences super spread
#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli
It looked good on paper when the return to clinical masking was leaked yesterday, but as usual Henry and Dix sow confusion, and put health workers more at risk by leaving it a 'personal choice' for patients
There is well documented rise in violence against HCWs past years, this will put them more in danger if it's up to them to demand a patient masks
#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-enhanced-masking-health-care-settings-1.6980600
@46cd5609
Island Health, and I guess BC as a whole, will order a new clinical mask mandate from Thursday (we just got an email) - but all public areas are still optional, which is stupid
@46cd5609
hearing already from the nurses network BC hospitals are testing tents for parking lot triage and PPE is only surgical masks , 4 years in, we never learn
@9f7058a6 and Covid adds to coronary and dementia, so while it's not the primary right now, won't be long before our never ending pandemic is the leading cause of death
and we are waltzing into that seemingly blind
"I think many had hoped that this was it for COVID," said Dr. Brian Conway
"And probably we didn't make it clear enough that COVID was never gone and none of us who work in the field had an expectation that COVID would be gone. So, it's here, it never left."
The revisionism from some infectious disease specialists of their historical minimizing is infuriating
#Covid #Covid19
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-surge-normalizing-virus-1.6977974
adding to the former post - media constantly platforming public health and infectious disease doctors who consistently called 'final wave, or 'it's mild', or the worst, 'endemic' - need to call them out when they start screaming 'fire in the theater' now
It's that constant gaslighting that has confused the public. created distrust and division, and the continuing Covid crisis
#Covid #Covid19
Brownstone Group has been in the forefront of Covid disinformation, and lobbying especially the US Gov for fewer protections and research funding - not in the least surprised it's Morgan Stanely and Fidelity Trust as major donors, and they also fund a large number of also listed astroturf denial groups, who also donated
Big banks are right behind eugenics
#Covid #Covid19
https://www.importantcontext.news/p/who-is-funding-the-brownstone-institute
@f8da0a07@af2f1f05
My wife is a nurse, one of the few to still mask constantly, and has this to say about her denial colleagues getting constant #Covid19 infections
'No one has returned to work after their 5th bout of Covid - not one, they are either disabled or looking for different work'
Wonderful to see all the US folks booking their updated Covid vaccines for even today (some early shipments to pharmacies)
Really pissed off Canada will be at least a month behind, and provinces will likely roll out based on age, seniors first, so it could be into November before vaccinations are open for college age and kids (high risk for infection groups)
And many of us want Novavax - if/when that gets approved still in question
#Covid #Covid19 #CDNpoli #BCpoli
'The issue we face is we may not know the full extent of harm until it is too late to remedy it, and in the context of a virus that has infected most of the global population, including children, and continues to circulate and reinfect, this would seem to be an unacceptable risk'
Wear a mask, don't get reinfected
#Covid #Covid19
https://johnsnowproject.org/insights/a-new-disease-paradigm/
let's just add this to the thread - while BC Health 'debates' whether or not to reintroduce masks in clinical settings, a reminder that NEVER in the history of public health have authorities knowingly allowed an incredibly contagious and disabling pathogen to spread in hospitals among patients, staff and visitors
How can they reconcile claiming people should not avoid healthcare when the actual situation is it's incredibly dangerous
#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli
finally, let's make it very, very clear
The public have an absolute right to know the infectious situation in hospitals, long term care, schools and the community
It is the DUTY of public health officials to openly provide that information in a timely manner
Trying to cover their own inadequacy with claims of 'negative connotations' is egregious gaslighting
Sending people into known danger is illegal
#CDNpoli #BCpoli #Covid #Covid19
"infection control experts are looking into whether masking should be reinstated in these venues, said Henry, adding the province will release updated guidelines soon."
Masking in clinical settings should never have been removed - the 'experts' are idiots
Reinstate mandatory masking, and leave that basic protection in place.
#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-covid-cases-are-slowly-creeping-up-heading-into-fall-dr-bonnie-henry
let's just add this to the thread - while BC Health 'debates' whether or not to reintroduce masks in clinical settings, a reminder that NEVER in the history of public health have authorities knowingly allowed an incredibly contagious and disabling pathogen to spread in hospitals among patients, staff and visitors
How can they reconcile claiming people should not avoid healthcare when the actual situation is it's incredibly dangerous
#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli
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