Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis).
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The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.:
A TIMELINE
[A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.]
1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate.
2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies.
3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed.
4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed.
5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January.
6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program.
7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3.
8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dy4l7kqcar73iaezbjxzwiui/bafkreibyc7hcwrwtwlid453tk3fv523vx3cziv4g5qksvdrks6b3ymxo2a@jpeg)
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/?
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Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Public healthcare is not going to survive without public oversight.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
There's no reason for it. Just that the public that benefits from it isn't allowed to see what goes on under the hood. We're prevented from looking out for our own interests by people who insist they're entitled to do it for us.
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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/?
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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/?
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Hey folks, this isn't me! I don't have an active public Facebook page right now (though this is making me think I need one).
They're taking my work and photos.
I've tried reporting it, but it didn't work (thanks Meta).
So if you guys see any posts from this account please report it!
They're taking my work and photos.
I've tried reporting it, but it didn't work (thanks Meta).
So if you guys see any posts from this account please report it!
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Hey folks, this isn't me! I don't have an active public Facebook page right now (though this is making me think I need one).
They're taking my work and photos.
I've tried reporting it, but it didn't work (thanks Meta).
So if you guys see any posts from this account please report it!
They're taking my work and photos.
I've tried reporting it, but it didn't work (thanks Meta).
So if you guys see any posts from this account please report it!
Wastewater surveillance: useful for bird flu tracking.
GISAID: useful for bird flu tracking (though the tardiness in submitting HPAI sample data isn't entirely the provincial government's fault www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Reprin...)
Aren't governments supposed to, you know, prepare for contingencies?
GISAID: useful for bird flu tracking (though the tardiness in submitting HPAI sample data isn't entirely the provincial government's fault www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Reprin...)
Aren't governments supposed to, you know, prepare for contingencies?
November 9, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Wastewater surveillance: useful for bird flu tracking.
GISAID: useful for bird flu tracking (though the tardiness in submitting HPAI sample data isn't entirely the provincial government's fault www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Reprin...)
Aren't governments supposed to, you know, prepare for contingencies?
GISAID: useful for bird flu tracking (though the tardiness in submitting HPAI sample data isn't entirely the provincial government's fault www.zoology.ubc.ca/~otto/Reprin...)
Aren't governments supposed to, you know, prepare for contingencies?
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re-upping this ‘cuz it’s such a good read.
wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.?
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.?
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
Liberals joined conservatives to mainstream anti-vax beliefs about viruses and public health
Viruses are bad for kids' health. Public health is a collective effort. Liberals no longer believe either.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
re-upping this ‘cuz it’s such a good read.
wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.?
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
wanna know how we got here—the constant illness & infection, “tougher & longer” flu seasons, resurgence of measles, etc., etc., etc.?
@juliadoubleday.bsky.social absolutely nails it—libs/progs et al., know thyselves! www.thegauntlet.news/p/liberals-j...
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Please note that I'll be deleting the rest of the thread in a week in order to fix some accessibility issues with the slides. If you would like to share the thread, be sure only to share the first post (for now), not the rest.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Please note that I'll be deleting the rest of the thread in a week in order to fix some accessibility issues with the slides. If you would like to share the thread, be sure only to share the first post (for now), not the rest.
Oh my god. It gets worse.
Except that they weren’t testing communal care residents. Over 2024 I followed many accounts at the bad place where people were begging for their loved ones to be tested when they became ill in LTC.
And people going to emergency with bad Covid symptoms were also not being tested.
And people going to emergency with bad Covid symptoms were also not being tested.
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Oh my god. It gets worse.
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/?
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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/?
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This thread is a good reminder of why many of us are still wearing masks. Indoor air is filthy! We need more public awareness of the importance of clean air because we are never going to get it if the public does not demand it
Hedged my bets last night and went to a show for the first part of the evening. I’m so sad to see that the Capitol theatre in Moncton has such poor ventilation. I think the Imperial theatre in SJ made major HVAC investments. Ventilation this poor is bad for artists and audience. /1
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
This thread is a good reminder of why many of us are still wearing masks. Indoor air is filthy! We need more public awareness of the importance of clean air because we are never going to get it if the public does not demand it
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...for everyone else:
The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid...
...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.
The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid...
...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.
Controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 'a tempest in a teapot,' Dr. Bonnie Henry says | CBC News
Dr. Bonnie Henry says the controversy over airborne transmission of COVID-19 has been overblown, after hundreds of scientists signed a letter calling for the World Health Organization to revise its re...
www.cbc.ca
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
...for everyone else:
The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid...
...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.
The people who made that very big mistake, minimized the reality of long-range aerosol transmission, and now refuse to even admit the fact that they made it, let alone apologize for the price we've paid...
...are grabbing for the power to tell *you* what "misinformation" is.
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Australia awards the top science prize to a scientist who proved #Covid is airborne, and yet we do nothing, because simple things like masking and filtration are apparently too 'woke'
Make it make sense
#Covid19 #Flu
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Make it make sense
#Covid19 #Flu
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Researcher who transformed COVID transmission science wins PM's prize
Lidia Morawska, an internationally renowned expert in air quality and its impact on human health, has won Australia's most coveted prize for scientific research.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Australia awards the top science prize to a scientist who proved #Covid is airborne, and yet we do nothing, because simple things like masking and filtration are apparently too 'woke'
Make it make sense
#Covid19 #Flu
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Make it make sense
#Covid19 #Flu
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
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Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty. In full: buff.ly/xZl50ee
66% HK domestic workers struggle to afford menstrual products, NGO finds
Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty.
buff.ly
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty. In full: buff.ly/xZl50ee
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Every word of this. It has made me question staying in healthcare because being faced with the intentional refusal to learn and do better every single day is so harmful to me. I’d rather be the airborne weirdo in another location than the… hospital. Every interaction is pain.
I’ve seen posters promoting Patient Safety Week around my hospital and I just…I mean we aren’t even wearing surgical masks. So like what are we doing here.
lol it’s once again Canadian Patient Safety Week and yet hospitals and healthcare facilities and leadership across Canada all pretend that COVID is not predominantly airborne, which causes vast harm to patients because effective protections are not in place.
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Every word of this. It has made me question staying in healthcare because being faced with the intentional refusal to learn and do better every single day is so harmful to me. I’d rather be the airborne weirdo in another location than the… hospital. Every interaction is pain.
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Links to sources aren't working for me, but with public health and IPC AWOL on ventilation and PPE it'd be pretty irresponsible to start back-pedaling on vaccines now too without considering #longCOVID.
Is there even a plan to deal with the impacts in this thread? Thoughts and prayers? Ignore them?
Is there even a plan to deal with the impacts in this thread? Thoughts and prayers? Ignore them?
From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID.
Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD.
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD.
www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Links to sources aren't working for me, but with public health and IPC AWOL on ventilation and PPE it'd be pretty irresponsible to start back-pedaling on vaccines now too without considering #longCOVID.
Is there even a plan to deal with the impacts in this thread? Thoughts and prayers? Ignore them?
Is there even a plan to deal with the impacts in this thread? Thoughts and prayers? Ignore them?
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October 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Nobody knows that the RAT Kit Distribution Program was killed by the BCNDP. This could very well be their last chance to stockpile RATs.
Nothing says 'collective denial' like a pile of free COVID tests up for grabs that no one is claiming
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(Spotted in Vancouver today)
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(Spotted in Vancouver today)
October 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Nobody knows that the RAT Kit Distribution Program was killed by the BCNDP. This could very well be their last chance to stockpile RATs.
God fucking damnit.
my neighbors on Keats Island are saying a humpback whale washed up, dead, at hard-to-come-by cove on the south side of the island.
it's likely the young whale that was hit in English Bay last week.
DFI has been notified.
it's likely the young whale that was hit in English Bay last week.
DFI has been notified.
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 AM
God fucking damnit.
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Respirators don't have the issue of "this vaccination has run out" or "the virus has mutated to reduce vaccine efficiency." They also help you avoid spreading COVID or ANY airborne illness to people who can't get vaccinated or whose immune system doesn't strongly respond to vaccines.
October 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Respirators don't have the issue of "this vaccination has run out" or "the virus has mutated to reduce vaccine efficiency." They also help you avoid spreading COVID or ANY airborne illness to people who can't get vaccinated or whose immune system doesn't strongly respond to vaccines.
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BASED
My unpopular take is that the government should mandate masked (respirators) shopping hours at essential grocery stores/pharmacies or provide a tax credit for delivery so disabled & immunopromised folks don't have to pay extra fees just to keep themselves safe and alive
October 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
BASED
I knew I wasn't dreaming when I thought the BCCDC's GISAID uploads have gotten less voluminous and more dated.
October 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I knew I wasn't dreaming when I thought the BCCDC's GISAID uploads have gotten less voluminous and more dated.
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erasing the public works projects of pre-colonial indigenous populations, claim instead that they're the work of nature
but the truth is that humans have been transforming the world for tens of thousands of years and no one in recorded history has witnessed true wilderness
but the truth is that humans have been transforming the world for tens of thousands of years and no one in recorded history has witnessed true wilderness
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 AM
erasing the public works projects of pre-colonial indigenous populations, claim instead that they're the work of nature
but the truth is that humans have been transforming the world for tens of thousands of years and no one in recorded history has witnessed true wilderness
but the truth is that humans have been transforming the world for tens of thousands of years and no one in recorded history has witnessed true wilderness
This. Restoration of native ecosystems entails restoration of Indigenous lifeways.
hot take: leftists who yearn for a restoration of the natural beautiful of pre-colonial North America are harboring a fascist fantasy about a wild, untamed nature, when the truth is that a large amount of the "natural beauty" they love is indigenous artifice
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This. Restoration of native ecosystems entails restoration of Indigenous lifeways.
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1/ Where do HKFP donations go? buff.ly/rtdeO2W
HKFP is powered by Hongkongers: When you support us, your donation does not disappear into a giant conglomerate, enrich a billionaire owner, or end up as shareholder pay-outs.
HKFP is powered by Hongkongers: When you support us, your donation does not disappear into a giant conglomerate, enrich a billionaire owner, or end up as shareholder pay-outs.
October 24, 2025 at 7:31 AM
1/ Where do HKFP donations go? buff.ly/rtdeO2W
HKFP is powered by Hongkongers: When you support us, your donation does not disappear into a giant conglomerate, enrich a billionaire owner, or end up as shareholder pay-outs.
HKFP is powered by Hongkongers: When you support us, your donation does not disappear into a giant conglomerate, enrich a billionaire owner, or end up as shareholder pay-outs.
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Pecuária ilegal devasta áreas que deveriam ser protegidas na Amazônia
De uma perspectiva indígena e da população tradicional, um ponto de não retorno ecológico e social já está acontecendo
De uma perspectiva indígena e da população tradicional, um ponto de não retorno ecológico e social já está acontecendo
Pecuária ilegal devasta áreas que deveriam ser protegidas na Amazônia
De uma perspectiva indígena e da população tradicional, um ponto de não retorno ecológico e social já está acontecendo
www.ecodebate.com.br
October 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pecuária ilegal devasta áreas que deveriam ser protegidas na Amazônia
De uma perspectiva indígena e da população tradicional, um ponto de não retorno ecológico e social já está acontecendo
De uma perspectiva indígena e da população tradicional, um ponto de não retorno ecológico e social já está acontecendo