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I've been shown several messages from other builders advising subtrades that only vaccinated workers are to be sent to their sites. Not sure if they're requiring proof.
 
Another sad story. One of my Dad's good friends from childhood. The ones you call uncle, but are not. Admitted to the ICU with Covid. My parents tried to talk them into getting vaccinated just a couple of weeks ago when they visited. So sad, so preventable.
 
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Brutal eh?

So many of the foxes in charge of the pandemic response henhouse are tightly tied to GOF research on bat coronaviruses carried out at the Wuhan lab, it's like discovering a city with a massive spike in arson has a fire department in which all the brass are members of Pyromaniacs Anonymous. Sure, maybe that's unrelated.

Did I ever mention here that the 2019 Military Games held in October of that year resulted in a really surprising number of athletes getting sick, and that their symptoms were classified?

The information is still classified but it got leaked: ground glass occlusions in the lungs, loss of sense of smell, double pneumonia.

One guess as to which city those games were held in.
 
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Wow...... Definitely worth a read. How is this not anywhere in the Canadian media??

nationalpost.com

Wuhan scientists sought to infect bats with coronavirus 18 months before first case, documents show

The research into cave bats in Yunnan may have gone ahead despite denial of funding, said Prof Angus Dalgleish, University of London
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Because it's click bait nonsenses and the real story is the meltdown in Alberta on why they waited 3 weeks to ask the feds for help or the news that Northeastern BC is flying covid-19 patients down south to Vancouver and Nanaimo because of the Anti-vaxxer nonsense that has taken hold there. I wonder where that came from. Guy's need a shinny object to look at.
 
I think it's important to separate the issues.

The antivaxxer stuff is crap and often hypocrital.


Same with the conspiracy stuff. That being said if there is something there it should be looked into. Worst thing we could do is ignore and have the conspiracy guys be right and then it's just more conspiracy stuff and we get further into this hole of not knowing what to believe.
 
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I know someone that runs a popular restaurant in CR. She said 70-80% of the people that come for dinner nightly are from Alberta . You guys been to Tofino in the last couple of months ? Absolute zoo out there . There are a lot of other factors at play here. Anti vaxxers are playing a large role in the hospitals but the vaccinated people travelling all over the place aren’t helping this situation either .
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I'll make this a simple as I can for you.
Where you have low vaccination rates you get high covid-19 numbers ending up in hospital.
In fact both provinces are flying people from low vaccinated regions to the city for treatment.

I have no problem with vaccinated people coming to visit. They are not the problem they are part of the solution.

In other news this hurts and I don't see this getting any better for sometime.

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Thunder21 said:
I don’t need you to spell anything out to me and I don’t care about your opinion one bit. Why on earth you think your opinion is the only one that matters on this thread is beyond me . Vaccinated people can carry covid also so it’s a factor. We have people here that cannot get the vaccine for various reasons . If 100k Albertans are showing up in Tofino every month they could be bringing covid along with them and spreading it to others. Is that too tough for you to believe? Buy a boat and post a goddamn fishing report already.
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You don't have to take my word for it you can look on the BC CDC website. Here is a graph that shows what is happening and a link if your are interested.

http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/data

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you could also watch this video.

 
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I sat in the 11:00- 3:00 closure lineup on Hwy 4 on Aug 27th on the way to Ukee.
The outgoers got to go first.
There were 375 vehicles leaving. 7 from Alberta, 3 from Sask, 1 from Manitoba, and 3 from Ontario. The rest were from BC.
I guess my wife and I had run out of thing to talk about, so I counted.
 

COVID Surge in BC’s North Overwhelms Hospitals​

Patients are being flown to ICU beds outside the region as vaccinations lag.​


Sept 22, 2021

The province is preparing to fly intensive care patients from northern B.C. to other parts of the province as COVID-19 cases surge in the Northern Health authority, filling hospitals and putting strain on local health services.

“When we talk about moving people, we do that with great reluctance,” Health Minister Adrian Dix said at Tuesday’s provincial COVID-19 briefing.

“We need to reduce pressure on the North and, as such, we’re adding additional capacity outside of the North so we can provide the care to the patients who need it.”

That capacity includes 10 beds in the Lower Mainland and five on Vancouver Island designated for patients from Northern Health, where vaccination rates have lagged well behind the rest of the province.

So far, Dix said, 12 patients have been transferred out of the region, nine of them positive with COVID-19.

“Clearly, this is less than ideal. It will be difficult for those patients and their families and their loved ones,” he said. “But these are necessary steps to ensure people in the North have access to quality care, and to support our health-care workers in the North.”

Across the province, 156 people with COVID-19 are in intensive care, 20 of them in the Northern Health authority. That number does not include six patients transferred out of the region Monday, Dix said.

Provincewide, there are 510 ICU beds, in addition to about 230 surge beds.

On Tuesday, the province said 76 per cent of ICU cases and nearly 85 per cent of hospitalizations between Sept. 6 and 19 were people who were not fully vaccinated.

In the North, 53 people are hospitalized with COVID-19, surpassing previous highs from the spring when hospitalizations hovered at about 45 for those battling the virus, Dix said.

Northern Health has more than 17 per cent of B.C.’s hospitalized COVID-19 patients, despite having only six per cent of the population.

Dix cited the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia in Prince George and the Fort St. John Hospital as facilities stressed by high COVID-19 caseloads. But other parts of the region are also struggling.

Last week, three local health areas in the North — Nechako, Smithers and Fort Nelson — were leading the province’s per capita case numbers by a significant margin.

In Smithers, that led to the Bulkley Valley District Hospital temporarily diverting those in labour and C-section deliveries to Mills Memorial Hospital, two hours away in Terrace.

Darren Jakubec, a Smithers family physician and anesthetist, said the hospital’s resources were stretched over the weekend with an influx of COVID-19 patients, the majority unvaccinated.

“Some seem really surprised that they’re sick. The majority of people I saw don’t really appreciate that although some vaccinated people do get sick, vaccines are really effective at keeping young, healthy people out of intensive care units,” he said. “It’s particularly frustrating because this was completely preventable.”

Northern Health authority media relations manager Eryn Collins said that operations have returned to normal this week.

“Over the weekend, the Bulkley Valley District Hospital maternity unit was impacted both by the additional pressure on the hospital, as well as some staffing challenges,” Collins said. “BVDH remained ready and able to manage any urgent or emergency maternity patients, but a small number of patients were advised to (or decided to) work with their care providers to plan for potential delivery at an alternate site.”

Over the past seven days, Dix said the northern region has averaged 41 new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population residents, compared with 19 in Interior Health, 11 in Fraser Health, nine on Vancouver Island and seven in Vancouver Coastal Health.

That’s despite additional health measures implemented for the region on Sept. 7 that restrict indoor gatherings in the North to one additional household of five people.

Northern and Interior health authorities are also leading the province in cancelled surgeries, Dix said. More than 500 non-urgent but medically necessarily surgeries across the province were postponed between Sept. 12 and 18 due to COVID-19 pressures.

Nearly 70 per cent were in the North and Interior.

“This is obviously not where we want to be during our B.C. pandemic. It’s not where we needed to be. These pressures experienced by our hospitals right now were preventable and can still be reduced,” he said, encouraging all residents who are eligible to get vaccinated.

Dix added that hospitalizations in the North are likely to drop as vaccinations increase, but that has been slow to happen.

Currently, 65 per cent of eligible people in the North are fully vaccinated compared with nearly 80 per cent provincewide, Dix said.

“The consequences of these vaccination rates are clear. We see them in our hospitals, and they put our health-care workers and our health-care system to the test,” he said. “I want to be clear — we treat everybody with the best health care in the world. Our outcomes in ICU are the best in the world. We are going to continue to do that... but we need people to understand the critical importance of vaccination.”

Dix added that there are large regional differences in vaccine rates. He noted that Kitimat, in the northwest, is one of the most immunized communities in B.C. at nearly 96 per cent. However, the province’s northeast has only 50 per cent of its population fully vaccinated.

When asked about the regional differences, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said access can be an issue in rural areas and the province is working to address those challenges.

But she added that there are a variety of reasons why some hesitate to get the vaccine, which was fully licensed by Health Canada last week after initially being approved for emergency use.

“There are some communities where there’s a real resistance and fear about immunization. There’s also some communities where some leaders, whether faith leaders or community leaders, are actively against vaccination,” Henry said.

“We hear that there’s a small proportion of people who are still in denial, even when they’re in hospital in ICU, that it actually is COVID-19 that is making them sick.”

The Tyee reached out to BC Emergency Health Services for information about how ambulance services have been impacted but did not receive a response before publication time.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/22/COVID-Surge-BC-North-Overwhelms-Hospitals/
 
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'We've had patients die waiting for a bed': Vancouver Island doctors frustrated with the unvaccinated​

Sept 23, 2021

VICTORIA -
An emergency room doctor in Victoria says patients who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 are causing unnecessary delays and even deaths in the health-care system.


"We’ve had patients die on hold waiting for 911. We've had patients die waiting for a bed," Michelle Tousignant said Wednesday. "I don’t know what a rock bottom is if we're not there already."

The vast majority of COVID-19 patients in intensive care are unvaccinated. With the Delta variant spreading, Dr. David Forrest, who works in the intensive care unit at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, worries we're far from rock bottom.

“I’m extremely worried to be perfectly honest,” said Forrest, speaking from the hospital’s ICU Wednesday. “I think that there is a significant likelihood that we’re going to continue to see a rise in cases in the hospital.”

Tousignant has been on medical leave for a few months because of a concussion. She hopes to return to work soon, but in the meantime, she's taken to social media to educate people about the safety of vaccines as well as their effectiveness.

She says it’s important some of the misinformation online is counteracted by accurate information, and recognizes that the internet has become a major source of information for many people.

A Facebook post she made last week advocating for the importance of vaccines and setting out the impact on the health-care system has been seen by more than 50,000 people.

Both she and Forrest say the recent anti-vaccine protests outside hospitals across B.C., including in Nanaimo, were very demoralizing for health-care workers.

“I’m frustrated. I’m angry about it frankly,” said Forrest.

Tousignant says that kind of backlash towards health-care workers is adding to the immense stress they’re already under during the pandemic.

“One of the reasons that we have the staff shortages that we have is the degree of burnout, the degree of stress.”

Their frustration comes a day after the province announced that more surgeries are being delayed because the system is overloaded and that it’s moving patients from Northern Health to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island because ICUs up there are full.

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/...rs-frustrated-with-the-unvaccinated-1.5597569
 
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