In other news, the #NZ govt still plans to phase out free RATs by end of June.
This is a spectacularly bad idea, so please write to your MP and/or the MoH to ask they continue. Aotearoa #Covid Action has an open letter here: https://covidaction.nz/en/keepratsfree
Also, find your nearest location that dispenses free RATs and stock up over the next few weeks according to the size of your household.
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
Et en bon français : tout conseil pour gérer un #covid quand on a un diagnostic de #mecfs ou #emsfc et minimiser les chances d'un #covidlong est très bienvenu.
OODA Loop reminder: you need to constantly re-evaluate the situation and READJUST your assessment of a situation to fit; if you make a decision at one point in time, that is not a "philosophy" but a decision point at that point in time. #oodaloop#situationalawareness
@ai6yr I’m confused. What has changed with #covid that fundamentally reduces the risk of infection to you, or by you to others? Or is it that the consequences of infection, regardless of risk, are now acceptable? Why, objectively, would your choice change from one week to the next?
Not everybody becomes chronically ill from a disabling pathogen.
Live till you die is the goal, not suffer till you die.
You may not care if #Covid kills you, but will you care if you are so ill from #LongCovid, making food to survive takes every ounce of your energy for that day? Will you care then?
Because that's what way too many people are living right now.
Do you have somebody lined up who will take care of you indefinitely?
Again, please see pinned posts with videos of #antimasker#police abusing our #HumanRights & #HealthSafety rights - in our own home. After refusing to leave for a strictly #covid#CardiacArrest 911 call. After being told to leave. After being told my Dad has #PTSD from abusive cops in past. After being told, this is a #WarSurvivors family & #cops aren't welcomed unless absolutely necessary & it wasn't necessary.
I had to go to urgent care earlier today (nothing serious, needed antibiotics for infection).
I'm please to report that the nurse, the doctor, and all the patients I saw (about 8-9?) were wearing masks of some kind. I was pleasantly surprised! 😷😁
I've said it before but I'll say it again.
It's not that everyone I know who had #Covid has developed terrible new medical issues.
It's that everyone I know who has developed terrible new medical issues recently had Covid.
And in every case I'm thinking of, it's become a health crisis within about three months of their most Covid bout. (Usually not a bad bout, either.)
Chatted with a pharmacist this week about #covid boosters and they can only give them to folks over 65 and immunocompromised… unsure what kind of documentation that requires but province won’t pay for anything other… all the while movie industry folks I follow on social media show that everyone (actors don’t but everyone around them do) on movie sets still have to mask or they lose insurance coverage. So curious why #ottawa#cdnpoli#onpoli