Salim Jiwa
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🇨🇦Multiple award winning Vancouver journalist and author of The Death of Air India Flight 182 and Margin of Terror. Editor and Publisher of online News.
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Joined January 2009
@AMike4761 @imwiththeband9 Why? Are we not allowing freedom of expression? She can freely choose to wear what she wants of her own free will. She's free to take it off. Wear it if she wants. It's a constitutional right is it not?.
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@TPagain @AMike4761 @imwiththeband9 This is a modern woman who has chosen to wear it. Support her constitutional right to express herself just as you have the same right.
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Vancouver General Hospital is a mess this morning. It's at surge level 2. A source says that means patients are being sent home. No one mops the floors. No one does beds. It's chaotic and wards packed like a can of sardines. @adriandix. Fix our hospitals. This can't go on!.
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@TPagain @AMike4761 @imwiththeband9 Wear a scarf .Today will be the coldest day of the week with much below normal temperatures in the Northeast. Wind Chills of zero to minus 25 degrees are forecast for portions of the Northeast. Dress in layers for the cold, and cover exposed skin in Wind Chill Advisory areas.
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#bcpoli When testing system collapses they say there's no need to get tested. When contact tracing collapses they say it's not useful. When they can't to afford to have isolation for 14 days they tell you 5 is enough. Truth - they failed to prepare for worst case scenario. .
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#bcpoli We have no clue how many BC citizens have died in nine days. Imagine hiding the death toll from covid to protect DBH. Shame on you Adrian Dix. @adriandix @jjhorgan.
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#bcpoli A frontline physician has filed a complaint against Dr. Henry and Dr. Gustafson. The complaint to the College of Physicians alleges the two public health officials have failed in their duty to protect the public. The complaint is 5 pages long.
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Mount St. Joseph's Hospital - people waiting in a tent to see doctor. Others waiting outside in the cold and rain. Oppenheimer Park might look more organized. Dix doesn't get it. Will never get it. He does cosmetic things to appear to be acting. What a mess.
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#bcpoli A personal note. My friends. A few days back I fell down stairs. A hard fall. One vertebra lost half its height. But spinal cord remained intact. I'm now 5' - 11.5" tall. Spent 7 days at best hospital in BC - Mount Saint Joseph. Best docs. Top nursing.❤️@Providence_Hlth.
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#bcpoli Exclusive: Between 50 to 60 residents of Long Term Care unit on the 2nd floor of Mount St. Joseph's hospital have been infected with Covid. But no one has declared an outbreak since deliberate data blindness was implemented by public health.
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I'm hearing of very high levels of absent pupils in many schools. Some reaching 40% reporting ill. One of the sources is a school principal. What does it take to push Bonnie Henry to take preventive actions? She has so much inertia, she'll do nothing unless she's pushed.
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#bcpoli One of the facts revealed in batch of leaked documents is that some areas of Surrey had 20% positivity. Keeping schools open in these areas was an unconscionable decision. Not even red states in US would have done that. WHO threshold was 5%. Reckless endangerment.
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#bcpoli Major Vancouver Island hospitals are struggling with capacity volumes and the morgue at Nanaimo Regional has been closed for those who die in community. NRGH has 26 covid patients. At 120% capacity. RJH at 120%. VGH at 117%. Severe staffing shortages everywhere. .
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#bcpoli Our ICU capacity is almost gone. Hospitals are overwhelmed. In response Bonnie Henry increases capacity at events. Great job DBH.
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#bcpoli So my late mother's first cousin ( my first cousin once removed) went on a short holiday to Edmonton. She was fully vaxxed. Got covid. Died in ICU in Edmonton. Funeral was held here the other day. 71. So even if you're vaxxed, take care. Breakthrough cases can kill.
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#bcpoli Six children in southern Alberta masked up during 1918 pandemic. Very pleasing to see that a 102 years ago people had more sense than some of today's epidemiologists. Photo from Canmore Museum. @jjhorgan @DrEricDing @DrZoeHyde @DFisman @DrVictoriaLeeFH
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#bcpoli It took me 9 days to get a negative covid test. I wonder how people, including HCW, manage to come to work on day six. My symptoms were oxygen issues, headache, fever and sweats. Chest and nasal congestion but thank God the nightmare is over.
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It was an expected snowfall. Yet our highways were not ready for vehicles. Second fail within just a few days. It's time to reexamine contract with company in charge of taking care of provincial highways.
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#bcpoli Some schools have 20 to 25% absence rates. Some schools are keeping up to ten kids in isolation rooms waiting for parents to pick up. If govt had any sense they'd offer online for 3 weeks until surge is over.
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#Christmas From this Muslim to my Christian friends - I wish you a Merry Christmas in celebration of birth of Isa (Jesus.) To Muslims he's the Messiah and his mother Maryam the most high of all women. I wish you good health and happiness.
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It's my birthday on the 14th but I'm in the midst of a health crisis. I have 3 broken vertebra from a fall. Enormous pain. I've been diagnosed with CMML - a rare leukemia. But thank you friends for always being there. All my love!.
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#bcpoli The most ominous statement from Dr. Henry was that everyone will get an infection. One would think that if no one will be spared, you'd give people a fighting chance to survive by providing boosters rapidly.
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#bcpoli Friends are asking why I'm not posting. I've been through a broken vertebra, pneumonia and covid. So I'm taking a few days off in Palm Springs. Carry on the fight. I'll rejoin you soon. ❤️.
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#DrHenry I see a Twitter rebellion against Dr. Henry. People want to see action. They're tired of playing ping pong with virus. They want safer schools. They want seniors protected. They are tired of being preached to - and preaching to converted is useless.
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#bcpoli Nanaimo Regional Hospital morgue has no capacity left today. Overall hospital is at 110% capacity. Medicine is at 147% capacity. 33 covid cases. HAU has 2 in ventilators. ICU 6 in vents. The Pandemic is over only in Capt Janeway's out-of-body experiences.
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#bcpoli Vancouver School Board unanimously passes motion to extend masking for K to 3. The mandate will be identical to masking requirements announced provincially. Bravo.
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#bcpoli Dr. Henry made the following points today. There's widespread covid in our community. Our hospitals are stretched thin. So question is: How's it safe to open up?.
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#bcpoli About 90% of BC citizens eligible have voluntarily vaccinated. We are in the majority. We stand with our HCW and we'll not allow fringe extremists to disrupt our society and mess with our sick people. #IStandWithHealthcareWorkers.
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#bcpoli Putting all eggs in vaxx basket is a tragic error. A family member is floored after getting Covid-19. Three doses of vaxx. Public Health needs to bring back mask mandate. BA.2 rampant in BC. 7 kids absent from just 1 class today.
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#bcpoli Bonnie Henry is vague on why we don't have rapid tests. Dix is vague on boosters. I don't see a change in 6 month time frame. What's going on? BC is lagging and once again unprepared.
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#bcpoli How do Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix justify vaccinating COSTCO employees today ahead of teachers? Tell me @adriandix @DrVictoriaLeeFH.
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#bcpoli NEW: CDC of BC confirms in an email that 5 cases of XBB.1.5 Omicron variant have been detected in BC so far. The ramifications of having this mutation here are not clear but it's sweeping through the US rapidly.
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Adrian Dix welcomes Covid-19 tests for travellers from China, Hong Kong and Macao. But there's no PCR testing for most BC residents! 1).
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After a respiratory crisis I was taken to VGH by paramedics. Arrived 8 pm. Parked on stretcher in front of triage. Doctors chatting, nurses pass by, all very rude. When will I be seen? Answer wait time is 6 hours. 1).
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#bcpoli Layer upon layer of lies. How long do we have to tolerate Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix?.B.C. has 1.3M rapid tests in a warehouse, officials confirm after top doctor called it an 'urban myth' | CTV News
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#bcpoli In week ten of the year MSP paid PCR tests dropped to only 2,800 per week. This in a province with government lab capacity to test 20,000 per day. A shameful deception to create a false impression of covid going away even while ICU numbers rise. This is BC's big lie.
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It's clear that the NDP manipulated communications to create the image of an "infallible Public Health Officer" and also sucked in the Liberals to remain silent during our ongoing pandemic. It's sad that some members of the media knowingly helped NDP in deifying Bonnie Henry.
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#bcpoli Covid situation is in a tailspin. Testing has obviously collapsed, lab capacity is at max, hospitals rising slowly. It gets worse if care facilities are attacked - hospitals, LTC. DBH has work to do. Bring this under control. Schools should go online for starters.
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#bcpoli NEW. White Rock nurse dies from Covid-19 complications. My love to all heroes. To Diana's family. God bless and Rest in Peace. Diana Law @PennyDaflos @ybrend @j_mcelroy
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#bcpoli I'm told by top sources that a concerning rise in hospital admissions is people coming in sick with single dose vaccinations. Obviously a single dose is not enough when variants are dominating.
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#bcpoli Have you ever been hospitalized for 'mild' symptoms? .Did you ever hear that 819 people have been hospitalized for an infectious 'mild' virus? .Have you ever heard of a 'mild' virus keeping thousands (10k HCW) home from work in health care and schools?.
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#cdnpoli 26 cases of Indian variant and Melbourne enters lockdown: BC has 500 cases of B1617 and we open wider.
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#bcpoli 86 people died from Covid related causes between May 1 to 7. Another 86 died May 8 to May 14. This, latest, reporting week's incomplete figures show 42 deaths. How's this acceptable to BC with this hands-off attitude?
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#bcpoli Bonnie Henry's circuit breaker didn't work. Now we'll see more patchwork. Regional travel restrictions possibly but that'll not help push numbers down to sufficient levels. Stop exposing people to the virus. Lock down for three weeks. Take schools online.
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Real Reporter filed his final story tonight. My father, Salim Jiwa, passed away early this morning surrounded by family. To say he was one of a kind, would be an understatement. He was a tremendous husband, father, son, brother, grandfather, colleague, and more.
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#bcpoli A central Island school is an outbreak with kids barfing, diarrhoea, cough and cold. 30 were absent, grew to 60 by early in week. At least two of them have tested positive. Seems to be a major outbreak but no notification from @VanIslandHealth. (Impeccable source.).
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#bcpoli Dr. Henry's worst case scenario modeling of 2,000 cases per day was reached 6 days ahead of projection. So what will she do?.I think she'll try to restrict testing as opposed to additional actions to stop spread.
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#bcpoli Breaking News - BC Ministry of health concedes there are dozens of people who remain in hospital after their covid infection is over. These are not revealed to the public in daily counts. Confirmation comes in email from Ministry. 1/.
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#bcpoli Expert pushes back on Bonnie Henry's claims schools are not a major source of transmission. The claim a school is safe is bogus. No contact notification will help BC conceal spread. It's a strategy to obfuscate not mitigate school infection.
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#bcpoli I was so disappointed hearing a relative say: Covid is over. It's far from over and science is just beginning to learn how devastating it is. A young relative who visited is still having trouble with his lungs, with racing heart. And that's 1 year later. Take good care.
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#bcpoli BC Human Rights Commissioner calls on Dr. Henry to restore mask mandate - BC News. She's no goddess. Speak up.
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Let's have the premier hold a news conference to explain why people were stuck on approaches to Akex Fraser Bridge for 14 hours. What a nightmare. One guy, a diabetic senior, texted me at 3.25 a.m. Got home after 12 hours.
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#bcpoli For one day, just one day, I was praying that I wouldn't have to say anything harsh about Bonnie Henry. But she made my head spin with statement that influenza is more dangerous in kids than covid. @DrEricDing @DFisman @DrZoeHyde.
Dr. Henry should be fired for this statement. Dr. Henry should be prevented from ever practicing medicine again for spreading this type of disinformation.
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#bcpoli BC has the highest case count of any major province today. 206 in Alberta. 139 in Ontario. 184 in Quebec. 342 in BC.
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#bcpoli NEW - A Surrey school teacher is in ICU after suffering from complications of Covid-19. I can confirm ICU status as of Thursday but have no progress report from over the weekend. I wish this teacher a speedy recovery 🙏🏾.
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#bcpoli There's an unannounced outbreak of Covid-19 in grade 5 and 4 at St. George's school in Vancouver. Some classes have gone online. No formal announcement made either by school or Vancouver Coastal Health. @VCHhealthcare tell us more and clarify please!.
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#bcpoli 44 deaths in 96 hours . 1 British Columbian died every 2 hours and 18 mins from covid.
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#bcpoli Ontario PHO holds a briefing. Alberta PHO holds a briefing. Where's Bonnie Henry? Principals and teachers are telling me absence is going up. BA.2 is running rampant in BC but public is not warned. WHY?.@adriandix.
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#bcpoli BC has suffered a shocking loss of life over the weekend with 32 deaths reported, for an overall total of 2,707. With 59 who died in first four days of February death toll is now 91 in 7 days. 987 in hospital. 141 in ICU. Not endemic this tragedy. 23,739 active.
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#bcpoli EXCLUSIVE - The biggest tragedy in care homes since vaxx began is unfolding at Willingdon Care home in Burnaby. This is because of DBH not moving fast on boosters. 82 Residents infected. 30 staff. 12 seniors dead. The rest of horror is here👇🏽😢@SrsAdvocateBC
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#bcpoli Today you saw classic Bonnie Henry Modus Operandi. Reactionary. Restrictions in Interior. Then restrictions in Northern. Now eastern Fraser Health. How does she think she'll prevent people from Abbotsford from going to Surrey for socializing?.What was needed was BC-WIDE.
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#bcpoli Naive PH officers say masking and precautions against covid should be personal responsibility. We could do same for seat belts, helmets, texting. When hospitals are flooded one would think reducing spread of covid would ease the burden. A mask mandate is needed now.
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@TPagain @AMike4761 @imwiththeband9 Have a great weekend over Thanksgiving. My love to you and all American neighbours. The US is a second home for me. I have travelled im more states in the US than most Americans.
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#bcpoli Bonnie Henry cautioned against the narrative that Omicron is mild. It's not an "innocuous" illness. Some people are suffering from serious illness for up to 12 weeks, she said. That's a large bucket of water being dumped on some of her underlings and cohorts.
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This is a hospital that has staff with changed attitudes. A world class facility with lack of compassion and urgency. This is your BS Dix. Fix it. Or quit! 4).
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Henry finally levels with public on flu deaths. "The children who died included one who was younger than five years old, three who were between five and nine, and two adolescents who were between 15 and 19.".
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#bcpoli If the expectation is that one-third of workforce across the board will be down with covid, what makes her think schools will not be affected? Expect mass functional school closures and hospital staff shortages which automatically affects capacity to treat.
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#bcpoli Darlene Lourenco - music teacher from closed Cambridge school is stable. "Darlene remains stable!!! Although she is tired and still has a ways to go, her oxygen needs are stable and do not increase as she moves. This is very good news! She is a fighter." - from friend.
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#bcpoli 240,000 people invited for boosters have not taken up the offer. Unbelievable. What are you waiting for? And since pharmacies are on board why not proceed with anyone over six months? Let anyone over six months direct book - even without an invite.
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#bcpoli Bonnie Henry has finally come to understand that something more needs to be done to cut down on cases involving kids. She reacts after the horse has bolted. On Tuesday, indoor public masking order will be extended to include anyone over 5-years-old. What took so long?.
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#bcpoli BC is not about one author who miraculously conquered pandemic. It's about 5.1 million people. We can't keep on pretending or look other way to sustain her ego. The time has come to make a move. We've been on BBC, CNN, TSN, WSJ and not in good way. Trudeau is not happy.
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#bcpoli I already see people planning on leaving town for Christmas. And I think many are planning to get together. That's very sad. We will pay a huge price for this. I'd not mind a short stay at home order to stop a major post-Christmas surge.
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#bcpoli @adriandix Your credibility and @jjhorgan will be dragged down if you don't bring Bonnie Henry under control fast. Academics, journalists are beginning to challenge the obfuscation, half truths.
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I can't shake the image that keeps popping up in my head. Bonnie Henry driving a truck in Ottawa and honking away.
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#bcpoli Reporters who have been threatened for their work on subjects such as terrorism are aware how life-altering those threats can be. I've lived through threats for nine years. It's a nightmare. It's absolutely not ok to threaten Dr. Henry regardless of nature of your beef.
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#bcpoli Dear Minister Dix. Mask mandate needs to be back for all of BC because there's no way of isolating Interior Health. Delta will spread. @adriandix @mikefarnworthbc.
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#bcpoli This Island Health letter is scaring daylights out of parents. Jesus. "However, all signs indicate that there will be significant numbers of exposures at schools in the weeks to come. As families prepare for children to return to school.".What the hell? Do something.
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#bcpoli Remember Dix admonishing people - Bend the curve, don't bend the rules?.The minister is now busy bending the rules and not the curve. From isolation of just 5 days to concealment of school outbreaks by absence of notification. Not fixing testing, not fixing tracing.
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The BC Centre for Disease Control has identified British Columbia's first case of a person infected with the BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in an individual from the Fraser Health region who has not travelled outside the province. First case in Canada.
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New Zealand announces a nationwide lockdown . over one Covid case. Dear Lord give us a leader like Jacinda Ardern 🙏🏼.
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#bcpoli It's clear that Dix has no real solution to fix our health care crisis. Two people need to go - 1 Bonnie Henry and 2 Adrian Dix.
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#bcpoli NEW - Lifelabs temporarily closing 11 locations and adjusting hours as staff get infected! Wow!
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#bcpoli Thank God academics and scientists are now speaking out in BC. UBC biomathematics professor Sally Otto says she’s alarmed that the province hasn’t provided clear and current information about the more-contagious and virulent variants. "
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#bcpoli Update on Surrey teacher who was in ICU with serious complications. There's some good news. The teacher has now been taken off a ventilator and that's progress. I wish this teacher well. Still long way to go but at least breathing on own power.
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#cdnpoli Washington State enters 4th wave despite 5 million vaccinations. Let this serve as a warning. Vaccination is not enough to get out from under VOC. They are using Pfizer and Moderna.
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#bcpoli Nanaimo Regional Hospital shuts down ICU because of staff covid cases. See memo below about challenges faced here. Patients in ICU moved to HAU.
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#bcpoli Reckless BC government is allowing dozens of companies to charge exorbitant fees for private covid testing. And scared, vulnerable people are coughing up the cash. Plus these companies are getting a free mention on CDC of BC website @adriandix
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#bcpoli Bonnie Henry doesn't give a rat's ass that our Covid-19 numbers are so high, that our people are being hospitalized and dying. As experts warn of a dangerous trend here she is, no mask, frolicking and taking closeup selfies with people.
Dr. Bonnie Henry was @BCLion den tonight, and fans had lined up to take selfie. Greg was happy to be back at the CFL game. #BCLions 16 - #ELKS 21.
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#bcpoli So Dr. Bonnie Henry. What's the plan. Capt. Janeway's starship crashed. Huge casualties being reported. 820 new cases, 9 more dead, 22 care facilities ignited. Seniors dying like before. If anything a BC-WIDE circuit breaker is needed. Unfortunately you'll not do it.
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Some friends were wondering where I'm at. I had bilateral pneumonia and spent 5 days in hospital. I'm ok. Thanking god!.
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#bcpoli Another child has died in BC. The child was from Interior Health. A coroner's report identified covid as cause of death. Youngest child in Canada. That makes two BC infants to die from Covid-19. Both younger than other child deaths in Canada. 🤔.
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#bcpoli All eggs are in one basket - vaccines. No straight answer to any question by DBH. Specific question by @PennyDaflos was dodged. But no new measures. No acknowledgement of fourth wave or more protection. So what was this conference about? We're watching. Good to know.
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We know that DBH has failed to anticipate anything since the first wave. She has failed time and again. she was so confident that she systematically dismantled all pandemic measures and is now trying desperately to rebuild systems that were in place.
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