Tom Jackman

Dad, ally, and keeper of receipts. Former archivist. #pwME since 2004. #LongCovid since 2020. ❤️≠endorsement. 🇨🇦

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

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.

[Inspired Aquariums @InspiredAquaCA]

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

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@Brick_Suit @DJSnM Imagine fearing a bit of fabric touching your skin. Do you also oppose seatbelts? Scuba gear? Jock straps lol

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

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.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@markroseman Agreed. It's brutal here.

[Jaclyn "Cool Gamer Mom™️" Ferreira - 😷 (she/her) @jaclynmacrae]

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

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@callingcrow @ClosduSoleil

https://t.co/TJkdUrquQD

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

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."

[Times Colonist @timescolonist]

People in B.C. drink more alcohol than national average: report https://t.co/vyxAnVO7g9

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@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!

[Bean & Sprout's Mom @beansprouts_mom]

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."

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@ShabbyHoffman Because of course. Henry's conflict of interest on this has always been so obvious and egregious.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@ChristineGuent8 Quite. She even bragged about how often she met with the "beverage associations."

[Dr. Lyne Filiatrault @DrFiliatrault]

From a public health officer who co-owns a winery.

https://t.co/jTfmNdiM4y

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@DrFiliatrault Quite. One suspects there has been no actual recusal by Henry concerning wine and wineries at any point in the last 8 years.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@ChristineGuent8 @markroseman I totally missed this! Thank you! All the other pieces I saw didn't include the info.🤦‍♂️

[Inspired Aquariums @InspiredAquaCA]

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.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@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.

[Tom Jackman @frozen]

@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.

[Inspired Aquariums @InspiredAquaCA]

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.