Beth Something

She/her, settler, parent, #BEY resident, me navigating Twitter is like watching my parents navigate a VCR in the 90s.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@GraphicMatt Has @BradMBradford not himself voted against increased snow removal? I remember the video of him “teaching” us to remove snow and ice ourselves…

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@BradMBradford How does this align with ⬇️

[Jennifer Pagliaro @jpags]

Part 1 of the requests for more information on budget issues that failed at budget committee, with Councillors @BradMBradford, @CllrCrawford, @FrancesNunziata and @McKelvieWard25 voting them down:

[Dr. Kwame McKenzie @kwame_mckenzie]

Interesting graph from Australia…

[Kate Dupuis @DrKateTO]

We’ve known for weeks now that @fordnation @SylviaJonesMPP will be removing 90% of our wastewater surveillance testing sites next week. Why aren’t all opposition MPPs speaking out against this?? Where is my MPP @marymargaretbey? We need these data to help keep Ontarians safe.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

Just in time for @fordnation to cancel Ontario’s waste water testing 💩🙄

[CTV News Vancouver @CTVVancouver]

Number hospitalized with COVID-19 in B.C. hits highest level since March https://t.co/u9D1Lz14kg

[Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott]

Deeply disappointed to learn that funding has been cancelled for the wastewater surveillance program in Ontario.
This has been critical information not only for COVID-19, but other infectious disease threats (Influenza, RSV, MPox, Polio & now H5N1) in Ontario.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

This is completely unacceptable @fordnation and @SylviaJonesMPP

[Julia Malott @AlottaMalotta]

Dear @fordnation, @SylviaJonesMPP and our entire Provincial Government.

I've written you this video essay—recorded while my child underwent surgery—only after 36 hours of sleep deprivation and social maneuvering to get our healthcare system to pay attention to my daughter's acute appendicitis.

This would be unacceptable if my daughter were unique—but she's not. Her case of appendicitis is as routine and standard as emergency surgeries can get. And if we botch it so badly on something so straightforward, then all Ontarians should be very, very concerned about our future health prospects.

In my anger from the last 24 hours, it's tempting to blame @StMarysGenHosp and @grhospitalkw. Both hospitals did an atrocious job of prioritizing care for my daughter. But I know that blaming these institutions, and especially the healthcare professionals within them, would be misplaced. These are good, hardworking, caring people, who have been trapped in the impossible place of running emergency departments that are so wholly under capacity there's simply no way for them to meet their mandate.

That is unacceptable.

For as long as I've been alive, @ONThealth has provided the healthcare system that we all know and hate. During the triage at Grand River Hospital—I told the triage nurse that I was going to very publicly share our experience.

Do you know what her response was? "Good. Please do!" Was her reply. She's spent much of her career raising the alarm of how our emergency rooms are failing our citizens and her—along with her colleagues—have been entirely ignored.

For our children and for our seniors. For our doctors and our nurses.

Do better. For all of us.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@DrKateTO @Sflecce @tdsb Yup. @tdsb

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@DrKateTO I just emailed @TOPublicHealth my @tdsb trustee, @fordnation, @Sflecce @SylviaJonesMPP to get a policy to have the publicly funded air purifiers actually turned on & enough money for caretaking staff to fix the soap dispenser. Just a classic "tell me you hate children without..."

[Beth Something @beth_something]

Turns out the reason that my kid hasn't been washing their hands at school is because @fordnation's cuts to #PublicEducation means less caretaking staff to fix the soap dispenser. Don't even get me started on the publicly funded air purifiers being unplugged #CutsHurtKids #OntEd

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@SMmamashack @Billius27 I hope it goes well. I know of other who have been successful 💉💉

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@SMmamashack @Billius27 Would be worth trying to get in Ontario, no? Some are eligible every 84 days.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@osstf I wasn’t allowed to put a #CorsiRosenthal into our kid’s @tdsb school. Why is there a policy to keep them out but there isn’t a policy to turn on the #HepaPurifiers that the province bought? I keep seeing them unplugged in the school @TOPublicHealth & @fordnation have failed us.

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@TOPublicHealth can you please explain why you are shutting down vaccine clinics? I assume it is related to provincial funding cuts @fordnation

[Tara Moriarty @MoriartyLab]

Canadian COVID Forecast update: Nov 25-Dec 1

We've revised the forecast, based on this week's data.

Number of people infected:
🔴1 in 14: AB, MB
🔴1 in 15: QC, SK
🔴1 in 18: CAN, North, ON
🔴1 in 20: NB
🔴1 in 22: NL
🔴1 in 23: BC
🔴1 in 27: PEI
🔴1 in 37: NS

GET YOUR SHOTS!

[Beth Something @beth_something]

Be right back, just going to have a little cry over this.

[Sheila Colla, Ph.D @SaveWildBees]

Love this. 💜

[Beth Something @beth_something]

1 in 29 infected right now. Be safe out there friends.

[Tara Moriarty @MoriartyLab]

Canadian COVID Forecast
Sep 23-Oct 6, 2023

SEVERE: CAN, BC, NB, NL, North, NS, ON, PEI, QC, SK

About 1 in 29 people are currently infected

[Dalia Hasan MD MSc CCFP @DaliaHasanMD]

If you think masks aren’t political, think again

The Ontario Ministry of Health has not only omitted their respirator recommendation linked on their website from their tweet, they actively hide mask-related comments

It’s Public Health not Political Health #onpoli

Ht @g_edmonds

[Beth Something @beth_something]

Just because @ONThealth is failing to take care of us, doesn't mean we can't take care of ourself and others. #WearARespirator #WearAMask #Mask @SylviaJonesMPP

[Ontario Ministry of Health @ONThealth]

This fall, take steps to reduce your risk of infection from #RespiratoryIllness:

- stay up to date with your #COVID19 vaccines and #FluShot
- stay home when you feel sick
- wash your hands often
- cover your mouth with your arm when you cough/sneeze

https://t.co/AIkw7TWUYA

[Beth Something @beth_something]

@jasmith_yorku If you think of the definition of 'post' to something that is used to prop something up, we are indeed 'post' COVID. But, yes, otherwise, I agree, we are not post COVID.