This federal survey is a complete #farce. My Dad got covid in hospital. He died from long covid cardiac arrest. My Aunt got covid in hospital & now suffers from long covid.....
@msquebanh@chris haven't participated, I wouldn't trust PHAC or any provincial health authority to handle ANY data - still gobsmacked Ontario is stopping ALL surveillance - wastewater is the last thing we have left - it's delusional
My experiments going out with my CO2 monitor are discouraging. Tonight, with COVID in wastewater at its lowest in 11 months in my city, we went out to eat. We hoped for outdoor dining, but it rained, so we sat inside. CO2 readings:
4:30 pm: 50% crowd in a brewpub: 1548
5:45 pm: 75% crowd in a Mexican restaurant: 1341
7:45 pm: Long line at ice cream shop: 1896
I thought businesses upgraded air filtration & ventilation, but these readings encourage me to stay home. #COVID19 taught us nothing.
@augieray there is no incentive - either tax provisions, encouragement by public health, grants, or even public pressure
the entire clean air movement is being actively suppressed, you can't bring C02 monitors into schools in British Columbia, as a staff member or student - school boards, local, provincial and national politicians run away at the very suggestion
and it's literally the cheapest and simplest thing they could do
#PaperExcellence has hired McMillan at least six times over the last six years to advise on more than $6 billion US in transactions, including its takeovers of #forestry companies #CatalystPaper, #Domtar & #ResoluteForestProducts. It also represented a Paper Excellence subsidiary in a dispute with CN Rail.
Multiple #legal#ethics experts said they felt the FSC's decision to hire McMillan was problematic.
@MatWright I have a heavy phone appointment with BC Health patient services complaints & I requested manager/supervisor attend meeting too. Is there any covid related concerns that you want me to mention, during my lengthy phone meeting? I'm still dealing with BC Emergency Comms screwing up on night my Dad died & me & family were extra traumatized by bully antimasker cop - who is president of Saanich Police Union. I found that out, after he traumatized us, in our own home, while Dad was dying.
@msquebanh hit indoor air quality hard - Covid, other airborne diseases, high C02 impacting quality learning and productivity, smoke etc. - there are new ASHRE standards, which no Gov seems to admit
Areas like Boston schools have standards, and public access web pages showing AQ in buildings - BC could easily do that - hospitals, schools, Gov buildings
@msquebanh it is literally the easiest thing any Gov can do, not hugely expensive, and who is going to blow back at that politically? Are they afraid of convoy types trying to occupy legislatures and city halls over 'woke' air?
@msquebanh great band, incredibly under-rated - had a really odd moment meeting Greg Keelor - his taxi had broken down ahead of me in Vancouver, saw him take out a guitar, I pulled over and asked if he needed a ride (vague notion I knew his face) - he gratefully accepted as was late for rehearsal, drove him there and he asked for my email - got free tickets to a concert and invite to the after party - so fun
looks like most of British Columbia will get an even better show than last night, which was pretty spectacular - best viewing will likely start after full dark, 10:30pm
Something I've read of being a successful tactic in several primary sources from the '30s - '40s is using bureaucracy as much against a fascist state as they're trying to use it against you.
One of the traits that I feel helped get us where we are now is that people cede power far too easily. They despair or get cynical and just never try.
Bureaucratically drag your feet every chance you get to thwart shitty stuff. Not all resistance is the obvious stuff.
@meganL I've been in politics, Federal, Provincial - and watched new Govs flail because they simply failed to realize how deep the previous admin critically owned the bureaucracy, and especially communications
The students are just asking the schools to divest from Israel, until the genocide stops and Palestine has self-determination, like with South Africa…. Why is this considered differently? And is asking a university to change their investment portfolio cause for tasering them?
They’re tasering the students begging for…. peace.
@LALegault When my father was a senior UBC prof, they literally had a program to recruit South African academics, help get them out, get visas - we hosted a PHD candidate for months until his family could join (escape)
Now UBC is threatening faculty, student groups with penalties for protesting the Gaza war - I hope there is US/Canada campus strike - let the admins wallow in ethical failure
there are D.C. scum calling #StudentSpring "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the #Biden admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with #Democrats.
so all liberals on here screaming #VoteBlue no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.
am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.
@blogdiva hoping to expose this soon, Uni of British Columbia is apparently actively suppressing faculty, the student union, anti-war groups on campus from even expressing their own views on their own personal SoMe accounts - threatening potential disciplinary actions
We saw Admins lose the plot over Covid, and they have completely abrogated their duties of inclusion and academic freedom over campus Gaza protests
It's truly mind blowing - all this does is create a win for the fascists
Eyes on Taiwan, lots of earthquake damage especially in Hualien City on the east coast, constant aftershocks, tsunami warning as far as Guam and the Philippines
east coast of Taiwan is a sharp mountain drop to an alluvial plain, so liquefaction played a role in building collapses
difference is Taiwan has major EQ building standards, so even if the building rocks off a foundation, it stays together, does not pancake, saving lives