🇨🇦 CANADA Campaign, File a Freedom of Information Request ❤️ National Nurses United virtual event: Quad-demic 🎙️ NY Call Governor Hochul to reinstate masks 😷
Empty Chairs and recognition.
Contents:
- Events, Actions, & Campaigns
- Pandemic field notes & “Living with the virus”
- In the News (virus & adjacent media, science, news, and op-eds)
- This is NOT Fine section (gaslighting & other outrages)
- He(a)rd Scuttlebutt (the pandemic grapevine)
CANADA: Campaign: File a Freedom of Information Request
With Freedom of Information requests, we can legally compel provincial governments responsible for the failed pandemic response to share the information they used (and ignored) to make their decisions; the data they have on Long COVID which they have refused to publicize; what, if any, work they're doing to improve ventilation in public buildings; and any correspondence between public health officials and other bodies which would show what they've been hiding, and why.
by Covid Reality Project
https://www.covidreality.ca/foi
NEW YORK STATE Petition & Call & write Governor Hochul & urge her to reinstate the transit mask mandate!
518-474-8390 or web site contact page
by @MandateMasksNY
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/urge-governor-hochul-to-reinstate-the-mask-mandate-on-public-transit/
Facebook Live virtual event: Quad-demic: RSV, Influenza, Covid-19, and Crisis Standards of Care
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2022 AT 5:00 PM PST (8:00 PM US Eastern)
By National Nurses United
Join NNU experts to learn what nurses and other health care workers need to know about the quad-demic we are now facing — and what is needed to protect ourselves, patients, and public health.
https://www.facebook.com/events/871603297197982?akid=163909.45194.DskZT4&rd=1&t=3
Empty Chairs and Recognition
I heard at the APHA conference in November there was an empty seat left for Leana Wen, who backed out of presenting at the convention after there was a lot of objection. Somebody should’ve put a sign on the seat to hold it for the many who could not attend that or any other event because of Long Covid or, worse, death.
I found this on twitter:
Here’s some text that covers more ground:
This chair is to be left empty as a memorial of those who have died, those who are still sick with long covid, and those who are high risk and cannot be in a place where others are not masking to keep us all safe.
Thanks to Shea, The Maskers Comic for suggestions.
🗞️ In the news
🇩🇪 BBC: Reichsbürger: German 'crackpot' movement turns radical and dangerous By Jenny Hill BBC Berlin correspondent (Reichsbürger members demonstrated alongside anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers (indeed some share those positions) as well as QAnon supporters during mass street protests in the last few years. They were there when a mob from a Covid demonstration tried to storm the Bundestag in August 2020. Many have been surprised at the depth to which conspiracy theories in general have permeated German society - particularly during the pandemic. I've experienced it myself while reporting on various demonstrations over the last few years. Plenty of people have told me that the Covid vaccine is a poison or repeated the commonly voiced conviction that the German government plans to "replace" the "native" population with foreigners.)
🇺🇸 Government Executive: A Union and the EEOC Have Reached a Settlement Over the Agency’s Failure to Negotiate Office Reentry by Erich Wagner (The deal requires health and safety inspections of all EEOC work sites, reduces the number of days employees must report to their offices to three per pay period, and opens the door to negotiating a remote work policy for employees.)
🌽 BBC: Infectious Covid virus can stay on some groceries for days By Michelle Roberts ("For most food products tested there was a "significant drop" in the levels of virus over the first 24 hours. But in some cases traces survived for about a week, the University of Southampton team found. "For a highly infectious agent such as Sars-Cov-2, which can be transmitted through touching contaminated surfaces and then the face, these findings are highly noteworthy," they say. "The public may be interested in the finding that virus may persist in an infectious state, on foods and food packaging surfaces, for several days under certain common conditions.")
🇺🇸 National Nurses United applauds OSHA for sending Covid-19 permanent standard for health care workers to OMB for review, urges OMB to take prompt action, Press Release (“As of Dec. 7, more than 5,500 health care workers have died of Covid, including nearly 500 nurses,” said Burger. “And many nurses continue to experience the devastating impacts of long Covid. This is why we need a permanent standard and why we must continue to maintain multiple measures of infection control, including masking, vaccinations, testing, ventilation, contact tracing and notification, proper isolation, and quarantining. We’re all in this together.”)
This is NOT fine
Hello Magazine: Sharon Stone reveals unlucky outcome following doctor's visit as she catches Covid
Sharon Stone: "I managed to not get Covid for so long, do you know how I got Covid - because they stopped wearing masks. And do you know where I got Covid, from a nurse!"
This is NOT "unlucky" — it is preventable harm that was caused by a doctor's office that refused to take measures against nosocomial spread.
The change in mask requirements at healthcare providers is dangerous, unethical & based on flawed data. A petition:
I have a letter, with some reference links, and I invite anyone to use it for your own advocacy purposes: Essential Services Need Mask Requirements
He(a)rd Scuttlebutt… pandemic grapevine 🍇🌱
Howie Klein was on a recent episode of the
where he described how Gabe Bankman-Fried went from being a mail opening staffer of Rep Sean Casten & went to financial services committee meetings on cryptocurrency, then later went on to work at Guarding Against Pandemics PAC, which Klein speculates is not doing much of anything about the pandemic. I looked and the GAP PAC web site proclaims “preparing for the next pandemic” which does seem to be normalcy bias speak for “this pandemic’s not happening la la la la la.”Klein also mentioned how 3 crypt-billionaires have died young & unexpectedly recently and seemed to think that was suspicious. Sean Casten’s teen daughter also died recently of a sudden cardiac cause, “after occasional positive asymptomatic COVID tests” — which seems to sadly be a not uncommon thing nowadays — to die suddenly after covid. @meetjess has posted several tweet threads of numerous sudden death stories. Even covid with mild symptoms puts a person at higher risk for blood clots and death: Fortune: Even a mild case of COVID can put you at higher risk for blood clots and death, according to a new study By Erin Prater
That said, I wonder how many people are getting away with deliberately infecting high risk people with the virus since preventable spread happens at hospitals!
“The pandemic is over” attitude is pervasive and blatantly off-base. Ignoring the circulating virus doesn’t and won’t make it go away. — Eric Topol