Latest update - aurora forecast for British Columbia is as good or even better than last night - only issue might be clouds in some areas
Crank the Floyd folks!!!
Latest update - aurora forecast for British Columbia is as good or even better than last night - only issue might be clouds in some areas
Crank the Floyd folks!!!
This is so gobsmacking stupid I don't even know where to begin....
In the 'Urgency of Normal', which has been actively propagated since 2021, that vaccines would save us - the underlying theme was the already disabled, vulnerable would have to sacrifice, creating a façade of a past time
The reality is cases of Long Covid, secondary diseases due to immune suppression, are rising rapidly, while health measures are being undermined due to disinformation and stress on the system
It won't be long before ALL become the ignored
So, US CDC says Long Covid is declining, the disease is no longer a Bio Hazard 3, to justify reducing isolation times - when their own published data refutes that claim (LC is climbing)
This is just like Dr. Henry in British Columbia claiming kids don't spread Covid, schools are safe, then conducts a study which proudly proclaims 83% of kids got infected
And everyone is worried now about that 'persistent cough'?
@blogdiva actually fewer steps, nothing actionable - you just start limiting things like testing, data, information, mitigations - all it takes is an email
Adele has postponed her Las Vegas residency after bouts of Covid, saying she is 'sick again'
This after insisting on major airborne filtration systems in the entire Caesar's Palace complex, and PPE for close attending staff
It's like maybe the pandemic is not over folks
@blogdiva https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/20/dr_irfan_galaria_gaza_hospital
Somehow we went 5 years ago from masks are needed to save people, all people, then added test to protect with isolation, then vaccines as added to protection, and frankly the majority of the population went along fine
To: masks are not normal, testing is considered 'unreliable', vaccines (all of them) don't work?
Forces have usurped the narrative, won over public health where the majority wanting protections, became the minimum using populist politics
The Convoy idiots protesting nothing, just being assholes, are shining a light - the few of us still masking, advocating, pressuring for better, need to take a page from their play book - we can be health populists
Twist their own fuckery right back at them, force our politicians to accept reality.
We have to recognize, health IS politics
the idiocy continues - medical appointment today, of course an unmasked physio office, but also in the same building where public health have their regional office, holding a seminar for practitioners (unmasked, packed room) - title on the white board
'Countering Covid Anxiety'
We are at the point where it is more imperative for health leaders to fight the Covid cautious, than it is for them to fight the actual disease
There are like 100K people packed tightly together in Times Square, and electronic billboards advertising Paxlovid
Welcome to 2024 everyone
Both Covid and Climate are similar in the way capitalist captured governments have perpetuated mythical solutions for basically non or unworkable responses
Covid: non-existent 'herd immunity', made up 'immunity debt', vaccine only approach - basically let 'er rip, normalize the impacts
Climate: impossible 'carbon capture', unrealistic 'nuclear build', offset coal with methane
The system is designed to worsen outcomes, not heal
Every day, every new frightening study increases my fury at the Public Health Covid minimizers who can read the research same as all of us, and stay silent on the damage infections cause.
They are complicit in disabling generations, it's criminal.
"Over 50% of the SARS-CoV-2 exposed infants presented ASQ-3 scores below the expected cutoff, with about half classified with neurodevelopmental delay, mainly at 4 and 12 months,” the authors wrote.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study-shows-infants-exposed-covid-utero-risk-developmental-delay
Those pesky lockdowns still causing immunity debt 😜
Strep is back, big time
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/strep-throat-covid-fall-illness-what-know-rcna122152
with Strep cases rising, just like last year, and a looming shortage of effective antibiotics and treatments, the natural progression of this from public health eugenics folks is them saying the infections are good as it builds immunity
completely logical from the people who tried to blame the massive rise of post Covid secondary infections on non-existent lockdowns as immunity debt, when clearly Covid causes immunity theft
I still don't get why public health keeps minimizing the risk of Covid infections, mostly reinfections now, when anyone with an internet connection can research
'This cohort study including 354 527 individuals with COVID-19 and 6 134 940 controls identified a significant elevation in the risk of multiple incident autoimmune and autoinflammatory disorders subsequent to COVID-19'
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2810259
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
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
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
"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.
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