Why do David Eby’s freshly re-elected BCNDP, whose Health Minister swiftly promised my BCED K-12 wife Novavax availability in the election lead up months ago, now refuse to even respond to her emails?

Must we join Elon’s right wing hate site just to communicate with our out of touch BC govt!?

Politicians like David Eby deflate the BCNDP’s legitimacy by making false promises like this in an attempt to mislead voters.

Does Eby think we voted BCNDP because we enjoy having to beg the apathetic Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix for basic means of covid mitigation?

David Eby’s campaign clearly lied to us about providing Novavax access (just as John Horgan’s BCNDP feigned support for TMX opposition in the 2016 election) simply to steal our votes. As soon as they have them, they toss our concerns aside and abandon us.

Power corrupts, and re-elected govts often forget that those whose voted them back in, did so for good reasons. To ignore those reasons is to ignore our democratic voices.

ALL in BC should have equal access to covid vaccines. Pfizer is not an viable option for many vulnerable.

Those who must take Novavax for health reasons should not be, yet again, abandoned by Bonnie Henry’s BCNDP.

We demand access to Novavax now or Eby and his cronies can expect a landslide Conservative win next election in BC.

All my future votes in this province will go to the Greens regardless of threat from the magaCons.

I just cannot continue wasting my vote on this flip flopping, out of touch BCNDP.

They ignore covid, they ignore long covid, they ignore Novavax requests from teachers, they ignore covid transmission in hospitals, they ignore the societal damage this unmitigated pandemic is reeking on our schools and communities.

All of us abandoned to a virus by their well paid, capitalist, economy focused health officials.

This BCNDP govt has embraced societal sickness and now refuses to provide viable vaccine options. Disgraceful politicking. Vote them out.

#bcpoli #bcndp #bced #covid19bc #immunocompromised #teachers #MakeSchoolsSafe #novavax4canadians #vaccines #vaccinessavelives #NovavaxAccess #VaccineAccessForAll #cdnpoli #canadianhealthcare #NoVulnerableLeftBehind #proportionalrepresentation

My wife is an #immunocompromised #k12 #bced teacher who has yet to be vaccinated in BC this respiratory season despite her pleading to our BCNDP govt for access to #novavax.

She had to send another snifling, sneezing child home from her school recently. It seems parents have been knowingly sending their kids in sick and unmasked again. Quite upsetting.

Her covid conscious principal decided to send out a letter to the whole school, reminding them, yet again, not to send their kids in sick.

This should have been Dr. Bonnie Henry’s job to educate awareness and prevention, instead she gets a three figure salary to spread the covid immunity misinformation which emboldens these parents currently ignoring covid.

My wife has also been the only teacher masking for months at her new school. Recently, two other teachers remarked on her mask and began masking themselves after seeing her set an example.

This too could have been our Lead Health Official’s achievement; to inspire masking rather than pretending an ethical request is nothing but a personal restriction.

We deserve Public Health Leaders in Canada who educate and inspire action on covid rather than repeatedly encouraging complacency with constant sickness.

Dr. Bonnie Henry is paid with our tax dollars to spin lies which deceive and gaslight those few still listening.

We desperately need new public health officials in Canada. Officials who are covid conscious and aware of the havoc this virus is reeking on our communities, our province and our country.

Dr. Bonnie Henry has long since surrendered to this virus and given up on basic covid prevention for personal comfort.

Our current “health leaders” will never be able to inspire hope after publicly accepting defeat and embracing hopelessness as our new norm.

The sooner Health Leaders like Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix are replaced, the sooner we in BC and Canada can truly start working towards a safer, healthier, more covid conscious pandemic life.

#FireTheDoctor #HireATeacher #foryourhealth
#bcpoli #bcndp #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #cleanair #masking #MakeSchoolsSafe #BonnieHenry #covidminimiser #covid19bc #cdnpoli

This is so disheartening. #HealthCanada just continues to drop the ball on combatting #covid.

This is beyond infuriating, and it’s all because of shady deals #Canada made with #Pfizer and #Moderna.

#Novavax is the only vaccine my #immunocompromised #bced k-12 wife can take without heart palpitations. It’s also the only vaccine I will take period due to health complications with the others.

Health Canada has also always made Novavax difficult to get. Despite living in busy Burnaby, we regularly had to drive to Surrey or the back of Port Coquitlam to get a dose.

They always made it a long awkward drive because they wanted us to choose moderna or pfizer out of laziness. The other “govt preferred” options were always available at the Walmart 5 minutes away.

They have now decided to force us into these other options or simply not get vaccinated at all.

Looks like my #bced partner and I will not be vaccinated this fall due to #HeathCanada’s careless decision to forget about us again.

I have absolutely no faith this #bcndp #bcgov will care about this either. Wouldn’t be surprised if this decision came directly from #BonnieHenry herself. They have abandoned the vulnerable yet again.

I now wonder if we will ever get vaccinated in Canada again. Looks like we will have to start traveling to the #US just to get proper coverage. Shame on #HealthCanada.

They should all be fired and replaced by #vulnerable people who actually still care to fight this pandemic with ALL tools available.

This decision by Health Canada will only result in more sickness and death.

#Masks are now our only line of defence, how long before they take those away?

#bcpoli #unvaccinated #cdnpoli #cdnhealth #CovidIsNotOver #MakeSchoolsSafe

@MatWright

I probably shouldn’t post about this… It’s just that watching my wife suffer through covid this last week and rush back prematurely to an unmasked #bced school is beyond disheartening. I feel sick.

After barely 6 covid sick days off, bced staff started calling, desperate for her to return to work. There were no substitutes available to cover for my wife, who previous to covid has had to live with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

She is now slowly recovering from a #covid infection she received from the unmasked #bced class she’s so hastily been thrown back into.

This is truly unsustainable #bctf. Covid sick students should be masked. Fellow staff and teachers should be masked. My wife got sick while wearing an N95 everyday simply due to the unchecked viral load being accepted and normalized in #bced schools.

If we’ve learned anything this last year, it’s that one way masking is just not good enough. Does #worksafebc even care? I’m sorry but your child’s maskless attendance should not be more important than my partner’s lifelong health.

Due to my wife’s diligent masking while sick, I managed to avoid covid this time. We also slept apart every night and barely saw each other this last week.

It’s not lost on me, however, that had parents and teachers done the same and masked their sick kids, this all could have been avoided.

In the end we’re all only as strong as our weakest link. In this case our weakest link is our covid minimizing, uncaring “top doctor” health minister #BonnieHenry.

Teachers are not expendable. Society should be #masking to protect them. I can’t believe I’m begging people to care at year four of this tragic pandemic but that’s where we’re at.

Our #educators lives matter, care for one another and #MaskUp ‘cause this #bcndp govt has long since signed off on sickness.

#MakeSchoolsSafe
#SaveOurTeachers
#FireBonnieHenry #Masks4All #MasksForSchools #schoolsaresuperspreaders #bcpoli #cdnpoli

@Geoffberner This would not be the new norm if we were all wearing #masks, but that’s not our culture right Bonnie?!

This bought off #TeamAccess #CDNmedia works solely for our gutless, slimy, covid defeated govt who desperately want to normalize societal sickness so people forget how government policies welcomed it all along.

#BonnieHenry, #AdrianDicks and this #bcndp profit off continued societal sickness. It drives their greedy push for privatized #TelusHealth.

More sickness means more money to these #corrupt government figures, simple precautions are too pricey to even consider.

This #BCndp will soon brag about how much they saved (how little they’ve spent) protecting our ailing communities as part of their upcoming campaign.

They will soon get re-elected despite their unrepentant callousness by using bribe money to buy expensive nonstop virtue signalling ads which will run daily on #youtube.

This #BCndp always have $$ for campaigning but won’t ever spend a cent to educate the public out of this horror show of their making.

#VoteThemOut
#NoDataParty #FireBonnieHenry #SavePublicHealth
#MakeSchoolsSafe
#CleanAir #BCed #MasksForAll
#CovidIsAirborne
#CovidIsNotOver #bcpoli #cdnpoli

from @dgbassani (but he only posted it on that other site.)

"From NIH: Kids were significant sources of infections to workers as Delta and Omicron became dominant. Findings serve as an updated assessment of the significant role of children in transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which can be extended to other common airborne pathogens."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.07.23297422v1

#CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #MakeSchoolsSafe #MaskUp

The impact of SARS-CoV-2 variants on the likelihood of children identified as sources of infection in the NIH workforce: a cohort study

Abstract Background: Children (<18 years old) were not initially considered significant sources of infection (SOIs) for SARS-CoV-2. Risk mitigation strategies were thus prioritized for adults, and vaccination was inaccessible for children until mid-2021. Emergence of novel variants led to significant increases in COVID-19 cases in both children and adults. Whether these emergence events and increased vulnerability of unvaccinated children had a synergistic effect resulting in increased caseloads in adults requires further exploration. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted among 3,545 workers diagnosed with COVID-19. Case details were compiled during contact investigations. Variants of concern were identified following sequencing of biological samples collected through employer-based testing programs. Logistic regression was performed to compare the odds of having a child SOI based on the dominant variant in the workforce. Results: One-fourth (24.5%) of the cohort reported having a child in-residence; 11.2% identified a child as their SOI. In Alpha-dominant months, the odds of having a child SOI were 0.3, and the child SOI was likely older (5-17 years old). The odds of having a child SOI increased to 1.3 and 2.2 in Delta- and Omicron-dominant months, respectively. The odds of having younger child SOIs (<5 years old) were significantly higher in Omicron-dominant months. Conclusions: Children were highly likely to acquire the virus and posed a significant risk of transmission to their adult caretakers during Delta- and Omicron-dominant months. Without proper mitigation strategies in both the home and the workplace, child-associated transmission can threaten operations in the forms of staff shortages. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement This work was supported in part by the Division of Intramural Research (DIR) of the NIAID/NIH ### Author Declarations I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained. Yes The details of the IRB/oversight body that provided approval or exemption for the research described are given below: Analysis was conducted using deidentified data that were collected for public health purposes and determined as exempted from IRB as assessed by both National Institutes of Health IRB and George Washington University IRB. I confirm that all necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived, and that any patient/participant/sample identifiers included were not known to anyone (e.g., hospital staff, patients or participants themselves) outside the research group so cannot be used to identify individuals. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines, such as any relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material, if applicable. Yes All data produced in the present study are available upon reasonable request to the authors

medRxiv

Wessen Kind hatte am Mittwoch Schulschwimmen (bei Schwimmen ist eine Maske kontraindiziert)?
Und wessen Kind ist heute Morgen mit Husten und kratzigem Hals aufgewacht?

#MakeSchoolsSafe #SchoolsAreSuperspreaders #BildungSicher

The #BCndp pay #BonnieHenry upwards of 400 grand annually to professionally lie to us.

She’s paid to deny masks are useful while peddling her hand washing book. She’s paid to hide hospital outbreaks and rising death rates while minimizing #covid transmission in #bced schools and hospitals. She’s paid to publicly claim victory over a virus she’s silently embraced in pursuit of private health.

No one in #BritishColumbia voted for #BonnieHenry, yet as #PHO she calls the covid shots for all of us. No one polices #BonnieHenry, as “top doctor” she outranks us all.

I’m no longer sick of #masks, I cherish them; they’ve kept us healthy this entire pandemic. I unfortunately can’t say the same for #BonnieHenry and #AdrianDix.

Truth be told, I’m past sick of both of them. Their faces are the faces of defeat and a constant reminder of this #bcndp’s #eugenic surrender to #covid19bc.

Their briefings only serve to trigger the ongoing sadness and despair I feel for a govt I helped vote to power, who gave up on control of transmission and instead focused on restricting covid information and minimizing societal sickness and death they caused by giving up.

For #bcpoli to move forward, both #AdrianDix and #BonnieHenry must be replaced with someone less #corrupt who actually cares to combat covid.

#BonnieHenry will forever remind me of my loss of trust in public health. Whenever I see her I’m reminded of the daily lies, misinformation and all the disgusting praise she got for surrendering our province to #covid.

We in #BC deserve a fresh new #PHO. One that is less tired of lying or distracted by her next book. One without #GBD motives and a winery in addition to the exorbitant salary she gets pretending to be a doctor.

We in #BC deserve a true public health leader.

#COVIDisNotOver #CovidIsNotMild #COVIDisAirborne #masks4healthcare #MakeSchoolsSafe #Masks4All #cdnpoli

My #bced wife and I were up at 3am the other night doing #covid tests again.

First time she’s been sick since she started masking 3 years ago, luckily all tests were negative.

It honestly feels like just a matter of time before we get #covid sick with #BonnieHenry and #AdrianDix calling the shots.

@chris

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #MakeSchoolsSafe

#BonnieHenry and the #BCndp don’t want to see #BC residents masking in malls due to negative connotations to other shoppers.

#BCed schools don’t want to see air filtration or masks due to negative connotations to students.

#BCferries doesn’t want to see customers masked or hiding in their cars due to negative connotations to visiting tourists.

Hospitals under #BCndp #DBH rule can’t call an outbreak an outbreak due to negative connotations.

Testing, tracing, vaccination; all dropped by this #BCgovt to avoid negative connotations.

Tragically, there are no negative connotations to prematurely declaring an end to a raging pandemic while claiming victory over the virus you intentionally surrendered our society to; otherwise we might have avoided this whole mess.

#BCPoli #CDNpoli
#COVIDisAirborne #CovidIsNotMild #COVIDisNotOver #NoDataParty #masks4healthcare #MakeSchoolsSafe