Tom Jackman
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Dad, ally, and keeper of receipts. Former archivist. #pwME since 2004. #LongCovid since 2020. ❤️≠endorsement. 🇨🇦
Vancouver Island
Joined August 2006
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.
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🚨 Nov 5, Dr Bonnie Henry, BC's PHO and Dr Reka Gustafson, Island Health's CMHO, were part of a panel. In her opening remarks Dr. Gustafson repeated BC Public Health's lies about children not transmitting Covid in schools and not getting seriously ill. 🤬 https://t.co/JYGhh6GrUs
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I just wonder if Canadian journalists are ever going to contend with their role in getting us to this point. In not challenging governments' & and public health pandemic mishandling - in continuing to enable pandemic minimization, they helped to get us here. Welp.
BREAKING: Canada has lost its measles elimination status. Public health officials announced the news following review from the Pan American Health Organization which confirmed “sustained transmission of the same measles virus strain in Canada for a period of more than one year.”
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Infants younger than six months old get hit the hardest with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, making up almost half of all patients hospitalized for the illness in Canada, according to a new study from UBC. 1/3 (link to study next) https://t.co/Jim8yqCIvM
thetyee.ca
Researchers say the province should do more to protect the very small and vulnerable.
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@ianwrob @Interior_Health Exactly! Heard my rural town has run out of Covid vaccines as have these smaller communities. Public health messaging? “Keep trying!!” Love how they blame the pharmacies…🙄
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The insanity of limiting covid vaccination, as compared to flu vaccination, when covid persistently causes a lot more severe illness and death than flu. Why are public health authorities like this?
Covid currently causing significantly more emergency hospitalisations in NI than flu. And JCVI *reduced* vaccine eligibility this winter. I think this decision will prove to be a mistake.
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With many BCians not having a family doctor and #LongCovid not well recognized by many doctors, this would be the key part👇 "To access the leave, workers would have to obtain a certificate from a doctor or nurse practitioner saying they’re unable to work due to medical reasons"
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VSB: “We can’t provide your funded child with supports because of how many unfunded and undiagnosed children need them.” Also @VSB39: “We can’t support your undiagnosed child, as they don’t have funding.” Pick a lane.
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Is Covid-19 Airborne AIDS? "While antiretroviral therapies have reduced AIDS mortality and effective prophylaxis (PrEP) is available, no comparable treatment exists for Long COVID or persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection"
Our new review compares SARS-CoV-2 & HIV on key similarities & outcomes: –Immune cell (T&other) depletion & dysfunction –Increases in other infections after COVID –Rising incidence of signature diseases of immune deficiency –Limitations of public response https://t.co/cGBjR37FwM
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Remember how they told you that kids would be fine catching Covid and now long covid is the number one chronic illness in children.
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Robinson, the disgraced former BC cabinet official fired over anti-Palestinian racist comments, is openly defaming Vancouver City Councillor Sean Orr. Does she realize we have defamation laws, and that you can't just make up harmful things about people and say them in public?
Cllr @seanorr has consistently shown his hatred of Jews and his alliance with the terrorism perpetrated by Hamas and his support for Samidoun. He had a choice to make on October 7 and he chose to stand with terrorists. The hate is real.
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Brainstem damage found to be behind long-lasting effects of severe Covid-19
news-medical.net
Damage to the brainstem - the brain's 'control center' - is behind long-lasting physical and psychiatric effects of severe Covid-19 infection, a study suggests.
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Dr. Bonnie Henry would never.
Just had to pop back to post this. Bravo to staff in Manchester hospitals wearing the correct PPE for #COVID ffp3. @ManchesterNHS
#Covidisairborne
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Behold! The Ballemification of BC Healthcare 👇
When @bcgeu and others talk about bloated management at the expense of the front lines, they're talking about a systemic failure of management from BC govt. Look at health. This is the growth of head office bureaucracy under NDP. That $3.7B would pay for a lot of doctors.
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Other provinces have income limits on their programs. “In the B.C. model, a lot of the benefits are going to the higher income folks. … It’s something that affluent people take advantage of” “Why would you be subsidizing some of the most wealthy homeowners in the province?”
How B.C.'s property tax system delivers big benefits to multimillionaires, and why some say it needs to change https://t.co/UspupeLqFr
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1/Early Pandemic at a WHO/4SD briefing, I warned that if governments chose “let it rip” over simple public health measures, we’d face a tsunami of cardiovascular disease — including a wave of early-onset vascular dementia 1/ https://t.co/lpbm6AGouq
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Canada is on track to lose measles elimination status from the Pan American Health Organization on Oct 27, 2025 https://t.co/VDE5qyZBBf
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See a stock that setting up for big gains? Let’s help you be the first one to it.
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When they told you that kids would not be harmed by reinfection, they lied.
New study in The Lancet Infectious Disease analyzing 460,000 patients across 40 US hospitals found that children’s risk of developing LongCOVID more than doubled upon reinfection, with no significant variation by vaccination status.
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How many more kids’ lives are our leaders going to ruin before they decide to implement clean air and mitigate COVID? How many more kid’s futures will you steal before you understand that “living your life” is empty when it comes at the expense of innocent bodies? Mask up.
“Children and teenagers are twice as likely to develop #LongCovid after a second coronavirus infection as after an initial infection, a large new study has found. The study, of nearly a half-million people under 21, published Tuesday in Lancet Infectious Diseases”
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I will just leave the first paragraph of the new @TheLancetInfDis study discussion here and y'all minimizing Covid can tell me if you think it's a good idea for our kids to keep getting this virus
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