It hurts - I want the only remaining[1] data stream in #BC to be something I can lean on directly, but that's not possible.
At least we have a risk dashboard from @MoriartyLab in Canada, but there's no guarantee that will continue.
But wastewater? It's not useful beyond "yes we're in a sustained flood, maybe with waves."
This isn't a hot take; experts in the field say "the idiosyncrasies of the shedding trajectories highlight the potential complications of using models to directly predict epidemiological parameters such as community prevalence." [4]
The flight is a group of five civilian planes based at the #Langley Airport, that have been flown in formation over the #cenotaph ceremonies at communities across the #BCLowerMainland each Nov. 11 for the past two decades.
Anything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. 40 years of declining worker power shattered the American Dream (TM), producing multiple generations whose children fared worse than their parents, cratering faith in institutions and hope for a better future.
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Where did the guts to do this come from? Not from labor law, which remains disgustingly hostile to workers (though that's changing, as we'll see below).