Mat Wright
channelling @pluralistic enshitification - tried to log into CIBC online banking, and locked out 'you have received a text with the reasons' - and no, because I don't own a cellphone, and that account doesn't have a phone number attached - tried to call the customer service line 'you need to access the app to attain an operator'
mind bending circle jerk
this affects people with disabilities, and those who don't want constant tracking in their lives
Mat Wright
@ericjanusson oh, she's being doing that for over 2 years now, and files for compensation every month, which always get rejected, then files a union grievance who simply say claim it on taxes (useless twats) - then we fight with Revenue Canada every year as 'company should provide' - and spend months re-filing the compensation and rejection letters until they eventually give in
it's a circle jerk on health care workers, and they wonder why it's hard to recruit
Mat Wright
In this 5th year of Covid my wife will once again be nurse double shifting both Christmas and New Years due to staff illness & disease breakout among residents requiring more nurses to adequately care. All the while her employer restricting PPE AND demanding less overtime due to 'costs'
The disconnect is staggering
Mat Wright
@skinnylatte my nurse wife got issued new scrubs with no pockets - like WTF? her email to management was epic: 'might as well put us in a Mumu'
they literally carry around a pharmacy, trauma kit, and their lunch
Mat Wright
if you took all the money private insurers spend to deny/delay claims, and threw it towards a universal health system, the US would literally have one of the best free health systems in the world, with money left over for other nice things like child care
but somehow no one can convince the population that $2000 in taxes for free and comprehensive, is better than $8000, where you still have huge co-pays and fight every single step
I will never understand humans
Mat Wright
A health insurance CEO gets basically assassinated in New York - and it sparks the biggest SoMe explosion on the state of health care in the US, the AI fucked up refusals, the time limits on anesthesia, the fact the US spends more per capita than any other country, and has one of the worst outcomes
Yet the media is all about CEOs freaking out and hiring security
Maybe don't sell a product that people require, you end up denying anyway, and leave families in huge debt
Mat Wright
Nominee for new FDA chief Makary: “He was a proponent of natural immunity, saying it was "at least" as effective or even better than immunity provided by vaccines, ignoring the risk of infections. He also argued the nation would reach herd immunity by April 2021.”
He, and everyone else were obviously wrong even before the words were said
Mat Wright
Headlines basically saying hey look Trump is appointing actual doctors to health leadership positions, so he can't be that bad right?
Have you seen the list? Covid deniers, anti-vaxx, anti-airborne, against community protections among a host of other mind twisting past comments and assertions
if H5N1 takes off, these are NOT the people you want in those positions
Mat Wright
@datum @hannu_ikonen that's when we knew masks would come off in schools, and eventually in health settings, and testing would be so strangulated as to be useless for public risk assessment, even as she also said around that time it's all about individual choice to assess risk
Then she went onto chair the National Public Health committee on Covid and managed to slam down Tam, and the Nova Scotia PHO (who were great on Covid up to that point), and everything went to shit
Mat Wright
@hannu_ikonen burnt into my truly cynical addled mind about the mindset of modern medicine is Bonnie Henry saying 'Covid doesn't go around corners' - right then I knew we were fucked
Mat Wright
@jmcrookston @hannu_ikonen she's unmoving and incurious - I know BC CDC and Min Health staffers who were directly told by her, or close admin, not to send her new studies, or anything contradictory to the agenda which towards the end of 2021, 2022 was obviously full opening, and make certain all signs of the pandemic publicly removed - and nobody in the elect willing to take her on, except the Convoy types who think she went too far - they won, she took away vaxx mandates for HCWs
Mat Wright
@jmcrookston recently chatting with a hospitalist who was noting the incredible rise of kids and young adults with diabetes and cardiac issues needing tests and mediated therapies, and thought I was joking mentioning Covid - we are 5+ years into this and our medical community is in complete, deliberate denial and ignorance
Mat Wright
Remember, the American revolution began by basically a tax on tea - Trump is threatening to do the same with tariffs, but this time the 'King' lives in Washington
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-american-strongman-jack-smith-20241107.html
Mat Wright
Trump gets in, takes over Justice - every reporter, union head, environmentalist will be on the list for punishment
RFK jr takes over health policy - Canada becomes the new Underground Railway destination for abortions and vaccines
and this will be the last ever fair vote (if this was even one) in the US - it's a failed state
Mat Wright
well, I've actually had to block @press.coop because the server is spamming Home feeds with repeated articles from media accounts
getting a social media system that isn't a fuck up should not be rocket science (pun intended)
Mat Wright
in summary - that was the scariest debate ever, because Vance totally made Fascism nice, and too many will fall for it - so say good bye to health, women's reproductive rights, voting rights, unions....
Mat Wright
wavering GOP who look at Trump with disdain, are likely seeing Vance tonight as a potential saviour - he's lying through his teeth, he's insidious, he's couching Fascist forces with the semblance of 'nice'
This debate could be a big bounce for the Trump campaign - people might think Trump will cark in a couple years, and this dude looks presidential, and a decent replacement
Dems are cringing right now
Mat Wright
Schools are safe they say, kids don't get sick, kids don't spread, everything is fine - no masks or filtered air required, carry on and shut up
This is the BC school absentee numbers for 2022 - and it's insane, it was like pulling teeth to get the data through FOI - Government does not want this information public, they fight against release
Anecdotally, it's worse now.
Mat Wright
OMFG!! I have seen diplomatic cables criticizing allies on policies and messaging, I have seen (even helped write) speeches that laid out the 'slight differences' with close neighbours
I have NEVER seen this, during an election campaign - this would have been approved right up to cabinet and the PM's office - it's actual cannon fire
Mat Wright
Typically stupid that Canada won't have the newest Covid vaccines available until at least October - US has approved the Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax versions, this should be pro-forma
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