BC is moving to suspend its Indigenous rights law as soon as it seems to carry more weight than a land acknowledgement.

In any case, why do this when the province can expand its network of drug testing sites or even guarantee a safe supply? Wastewater data can't be used to derive even a general location, unless samples are being taken from sewers near to the site of the suspected drug use. 59/?

bsky.app/profile/ratn... Called it.

Toxic Drugs are Circulating YouTube video by GovernmentofBC

“and we're not going to do anything about this, the actual cause of the emergency. instead we're talking about ADDICTION and blaming the dead for their own deaths, and this is working because we've dehumanized 'addicts.' anyway, good luck not dying.”

youtu.be/D2hSYmBhflY

Wow, and I thought the Vancouver Sun puff piece was stupid.

"...PCC may not be a totally separate biological state. It may be the more symptomatic, more clinically apparent end of shared post-infectious process."

Saw that coming. E.g., me, 2023:

What if Long COVID are the unlucky ones for whom COVID damage manifests more obviously, faster, earlier?

“If it was really that bad you would go to the hospital”

Chronically ill people hear this all the time.

People in our lives struggle to understand the hospital is a dangerous place.

There’s no easy “fix” for chronic illnesses & a myriad of ways we could potentially be harmed.

I don't trust that they'd extend accommodations to every one who would need them. Symptoms can also be transient or cyclical. The surest way to serve everyone who might have trouble accessing a community mailbox is not to use community mailboxes at all.

Looooord.

Haha, mine isn't. 🙃 I get to get the 'vid while I get the mail.

Not to mention ableist. Mail collection will be turned into a burden for people with mobility and energy limitations.

Press Release: Lyackson First Nation Denounces Premier Eby’s False Crisis Narrative and Blame of First Nations Leadership on UNDRIP - Lyackson First Nation News Release: Lyackson First Nation Denounces Premier Eby’s False Crisis Narrative and Blame of First Nations Leadership on UNDRIP Lyackson First Nation is denouncing Premier David Eby’s public framin...

“First Nations leadership has consistently shown a willingness to engage, problem-solve, and co-develop,” she said. “What we have asked for is dialogue, not ultimatums; partnership, not public pressure.” lyackson.bc.ca/lyackson-fir...

Public health and infection control leadership summed up in four images. Krever Commission 1997; SARS Commission 2006, which cited Krever; the UK COVID Inquiry last month, conspicuously NOT citing the SARS Commission indicating IPC / PH managed to bury it; and total excess deaths from the pandemic.

On this point, it's funny how the Chinese nationalists also seem to believe that China is the leading and liberatory light of Asian revolution and then are also immediately like this toward people they perceive as SE Asians

Every person who decides to get boosted because Novavax is available is a person who may be spared the worst consequences of a COVID infection.

We need access to Novavax vaccines.

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feeling like you want to try and reduce human suffering today? even if we, as an individual, can’t do everything we wish we could, we can do more than pretend everything is fine—wear a respirator and break some denial today.

Sim & his ABC council said to Vancouverites without housing that they don't really want to solve homelessness

the people without homes can solve it themselves

Sim is proud of this but I figure Vancouverites are ashamed because of course we can do better
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This Iranian music school was a haven for children. After an airstrike ‘there is nothing left’ | CNN Classical Persian music used to fill the rooms of the Honyak Music School in Tehran. Now, it has all been “wiped out.”

www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/m...

Speaking up is too dangerous for me on account of transnational repression.

Please, if you can sign up to advocate for 1. more frequent wastewater draws, 2. better variant monitoring and data access, 3. the restoration of the RAT Kit Distribution Program, do so.

We can collaborate on a script.

THIS is why the housing crisis will become even worse.

its a CHOICE the government made

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B.C. First Nations criticize suspension of DRIPA as ‘absolute betrayal’ Leaked transcript of meeting between Indigenous leaders, Premier Eby shows them accusing him of colonialism

Speaker after speaker in the 17,000-word transcript of Thursday’s meeting, obtained by The Canadian Press, criticize Eby’s handling of DRIPA, which he says needs to be suspended for up to three years.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Image of racoons on a fence. 📷: Andy Langager/Flickr cc

State public health labs are stepping up as the CDC pauses testing for various pathogens, including rabies and mpox.

The pause, which could affect disease surveillance, is due to the CDC’s ongoing review of its testing efficacy.

Read more: ow.ly/PR1Q50YCVkY

📷: Andy Langager/Flickr cc

Speaking up is too dangerous for me on account of transnational repression.

Please, if you can sign up to advocate for 1. more frequent wastewater draws, 2. better variant monitoring and data access, 3. the restoration of the RAT Kit Distribution Program, do so.

We can collaborate on a script.

This story has been updated. In lieu of the amendments Premier David Eby has been vowing to make for months, he is now proposing to suspend parts of the Declaration Act for up to three years while the province appeals a December 2025 decision by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

"We’re at the mercy of your Covid paranoia"

The decision to mask to prevent repeat Covid infections is not paranoia. People who put others at risk are not the victims here

Hahaha...