I don't know who needs to hear this, but a "mild covid infection" that results in chronic, lifelong disability is not—and will never be—a mild covid infection.
This is brutal.
Hallway medicine has become such a fixture in BC, one hospital is now experimenting with providing ear plugs and eye masks to help patients sleep.
Not surprisingly, it is helping patients stuck in hallways get about 50% more sleep.
#BCHealthCrisis#bcpoli
1. Remember that any attempt to paint Long Covid as psychogenic in nature deliberately and completely incorrectly biologically decouples SARS-CoV-2 infection from Long Covid. In essence, this rhetoric shifts the causative factor for LC from the virus to the patient's mind.
Dear @jbtwickens@Dave_Eby@bcndp:
The Disability Supplement cannot be both:
-a replacement for lost stable funding
AND ALSO
-a cost-of-living bump
for the kids arbitrarily considered by your gov’t to no longer be disabled enough.
Those are diametrically opposed.
#BCPoli
I find it a bit jarring that none of the media reports mentioned the fact that BC's health officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is a founding owner of a BC winery and has a lifelong passion for wine. Henry directly profits from sale of what she calls "a leading cause of preventable death."
@canuckbcinbc I didn't know this detail (or had forgotten), but you're right! Perry Kendall also tried to exploit a public health issue for financial gain. Bonnie Henry, however, is doing it while still at her government post!
COVID-19 ➡️ "...significantly increased hazard ratios for all six allergic conditions...asthma and rhinoconjunctivitis were significantly associated with infection. In children, all conditions except food allergies were significantly associated with infection."
This CTV headline from Dr. Bonnie Henry's presser reveals a serious COI.
She is part owner of Clos Du Soleil winery, benefiting financially from its success.
As PHO, she called for the @bcndp to make spirits more expensive, thus pushing people to buy wine, with its lower proof.
@markroseman@CityNewsVAN In order to square this circle it's important to remember that the report recommends taxing spirits more than beer and wine, due to their higher alcohol content. Bonnie Henry, as a maker of wine, stands to benefit directly from this change.
@markroseman Indeed. I mean it's entirely possible Henry herself needs help on this issue. A lot of people do! But at minimum journos should have included the winery ownership as a relevant footnote.
Heads need to roll from this @bcndp government scandal.
Education Minister Lisa Beare tried to reframe this as an "inadvertent error". It was not.
The Justice on the case was clear it was intentional.
Beare should lose her ministry.
The Deputy Police Chief should be removed too.