#CovidZero New Zealand 4,382 cases, 27 deaths 876 covid19 cases/1M Pop, 5 covid19 Deaths/1 M Pop https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Oct 4 2021 BC vs new zealand #CovidMinmal BC 187,694 cases, 1,973 deaths, 37,538 covid19 cases/1M Pop, 394 covid19 Deaths/1 M Pop BC & NZ basically same pop. #CovidZero New Zealand 4,382 cases. #CovidMinimal BC? 187,694 cases NZ 27 deaths. BC 1,973 deaths. NZ 876 covid19 cases/1M Pop. BC 37,538 covid19 cases/1M Pop NZ 5 covid19 Deaths/1 M Pop. 394 covid19 Deaths/1 M Pop

That sucks. You can get RATS here in BC at pharmacies for free

Too bad you can't get in New Zealand because for a while you guys were the best outside of Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam.

You actually had #CovidZero I used to compare BC's horrible covid infection and death rates with NZ in tweets

Man with visible mask lines on his face, holding a can of "Corona Cero" non-alcoholic beer.

It's the 5 year anniversary of UK schools "closing".

How much discussion of those events happened today?

#CovidZero #ZeroCovid #CoronaCero

Was having trouble typing before I restarted my phone.

Anyway, this is a transcript of Jimmy Dore interviewing Cornel West. Worth reading especially now that West is not running w/Green Party, for anyone interested in #CovidZero / #ZeroCovid.

You're telling me the Lions are good and the Pistons are bad?

What alternate universe have I wandered into, and why isn't it one where we did #COVIDzero?

The frustration can be valid, even if it's not a justification for ending masking. The difficulties is communication are definitely valid for the former!

We could all be safely unmasked if the people in power had taken a #COVIDzero approach. Heck, they still could. If they wanted to. If.

#nzpol #VisionZero but not #CovidZero 😥

This is my barometer for how long covid has been around. Received this 400g bottle in Feb 2020, weeks before everything went to hell. I hope we get to #covidzero before the end of the bottle.

If we fail to end this pandemic, I could not have done more to stop it. Can you say the same?

#COVIDisAirborne #ThinkBeforeYouBreathe
#SchoolStrike2021 #COVIDZero
#WearAMask #ventilation #Mitigations
#MeasureCO2 #GetVaccinatedASAP
#CombatCOVID #GetATestIfUnwell

(And I’m done. This was all known 1 July. All these deaths and #LongCovid were preventable. #shitfuckery through and through. When you set public policy that kills people, ‘oops’ doesn’t cut it. And now we’re in another lockdown trying to stamp out a wildfire. #covidzero)

"Everything we've been doing is to prevent death and illness"—except adopt a #COVIDZero approach #BCCovid

According to modelling by @GosiaGasperoPhD, we have the potential to get to #COVIDzero in less than 2 months by keeping restrictions in place. Do you think this should be our goal?

For those looking to understand the factors and drivers of the #CovidZero story in Australia, it was state leadership, not federal.
It appears that Canada has the opposite challenge to overcome.

h/t @SteveGibbonsXMP

Flattening case curve means getting to #COVIDZero. I don't think hammer & dance strategy of intermittently using restrictions to tame case growth as needed is working. Cases are exploding everywhere in the world using this strategy or they're on the knife edge of exploding.

#covidns #covidnb #covidqc #covidon #covidmb #covidsk #COVIDAB #COVIDbc #COVIDzero

Want to reiterate how much I appreciate how seriously our prov. govts are taking this in Atlantic Canada. E.g., #NovaScotia brought & mandatory masks *after* we'd already essentially hit #COVIDzero in summer. Thank you for being proactive. @nsgov...

So, to finally return to #COVIDZero. No, I don't think it's politically feasible before the summer. Or based on what our true case numbers likely are and holding the longest undefended border with a neighbour to the south that is in serious COVID19 trouble.

anyway--hopefully I'll be more clear later. I've been thinking a lot about #COVIDzero recently & about whether it's achievable on our current timeline. But last night I started thinking we may have no other option if we want to avoid one of highest excess mortality rates in world

I'll finally get to my major point, which is why I think Canada might have to aim for #COVIDzero not to actually achieve zero cases but because we likely have a much bigger epidemic than we think, so will have to aim for much lower case numbers than we think seem reasonable.

The province's public health goal is to keep cases low enough that we don't exceed healthcare capacity and we don't overwhelm contract tracing.

But any strategy other than #COVIDzero seems to me to be profoundly inequitable and ableist.