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Although there is a growing resistance to the masks, and in my area it seems to be about 50/50 , quite a few people seem to have no problem with this, it's like they don't even notice or question the constant contradictions, they just instantly adopt the most recent thing they are told and even worse then proceed to act as enforcers of whatever the latest commands are. It is the most bizarre thing to observe this, they literally act like machines being reprogrammed periodically with new orders.
I can't remember where in Canada you are
@manitoban , if you are still in the province of your forum name or not, but here on Van Isl, B.C. we seem to be an example of low cases and lower fatalities.
A couple of days ago I posted a rant about the Canadian Nazi Chief Public Health Officer, Teresa Tam, issuing a "Non-medical" mask wearing order for Canadians.
That "ORDER" seems to have been overridden by Dr Bonnie Henry, the B.C Provincial Health Officer and our own Island Health Chief Medical Officer Richard Stanwick.
They say:[...]" it’s critical we continue to take precautions to protect ourselves and our loved ones by physical distancing, washing our hands regularly and practising good cough etiquette.”
Vancouver Island hasn’t seen a new homegrown case of COVID-19 in two weeks
Island’s low and steady transmission rate chalked up to several factors
NINA GROSSMAN
May. 25, 2020 11:55 a.m
.Experts say that geography, demographics and strategy are all contributing factors in the success – thus far – of Vancouver Island in fighting the transmission of COVID-19.
On Vancouver Island, new cases of COVID-19 were stagnant for two weeks in late May, rising only by one new case on May 22. With only two active cases and the lowest cumulative incidence per 100,000 population across all the province’s health regions, Vancouver Island appears well poised for phase two of the B.C. restart plan.
On the Island, the new case reported Friday was a person associated with the Kearl Lake outbreak “who completed their self-isolation in Alberta and has since recovered,” a statement from Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix noted.
“People within Vancouver Island have done an exceptional job in flattening the curve,” Island Health Chief Medical Officer Richard Stanwick told Black Press Media. “We have not had any additional COVID-19 test positive cases in approximately two weeks and it appears the virus is not circulating widely on the Island right now. The people who have had the virus are recovering, so that’s really good news.”[...]
Island’s low and steady transmission rate chalked up to several factors
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When this whole Plandemic thing started, I had contacted Bonnie Henry, on behalf of the First Responder Paramedics.
They were being overwhelmed and frustrated due to the way the dispatchers were Mandated to handle Emergency Calls.
Dispatchers were only allowed to use the scripts, and step flip charts, then,they dispatched the Paramedics.
This led to the ALL the Paramedics being constantly sent out on LOTS of Calls, back to back busy!
Mostly making House Calls to the CNN News Watching, Scared and lonely shut-in Elderly.
Most with only a cough and sniffle, and the paramedics still had to do full paperwork, and health checks.
Meanwhile, ACCIDENTS and Real Emergencies were STILL happening.
Dispatch needed some changes, a little tweak, so they could at least refer the callers to a Health Nurse hotline.
I have a background with Emergency Dispatch, so I called her office, sent Bonnie a few ideas, AND, they were all implemented!
So, I quit calling her names, when I saw her on T.V.
I had been rather..cynical, I guess, because she cried during a couple briefings.
So, I was calling her "Bawling Bonnie".
I stopped doing that, because she actually did seem to care, and ACT on it.
The First Nations Gitxsan Tribes out here are in general very caring and compassionate people.
They did this, in her honor:
Dr. Bonnie Henry given new name in B.C. First Nation ceremony: ‘one who is calm among us’
The provincial health officer was honoured in a May 22 ceremony at elementary school in Hazelton
THOM BARKER
May. 26, 2020 8:40 a.m.
Dr. Bonnie Henry has been given a Gitxsan name.
In a ceremony conducted at Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary School (MGA) in Hazelton and attended by Dr. Henry via Zoom May 22, the province’s top doctor was named “Gyaksit sa ap dii’m” meaning “one who is calm among us.”
“It’s a pretty apt description,” said Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson, who also attended via Zoom and described the ceremony.
“They had a number of teachers and hereditary chiefs in the gymnasium at MGA, and they were all self-distancing, and like is done in the feast hall, her name was called out three times to verify it by different people chosen to call her name.
“She seemed very, very touched. She spoke and thanked the Gitxsan, she was emotional for sure.”
A number of other people also spoke, Donaldson said.
“It was really nice, it was an uplifting ceremony.”
School District 82 acting school superintendent Janet Meyer also spoke, thanking Henry for her work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meyer said she appreciated Henry’s calm approach, noting that she has used some of Henry’s own words in her communications with school district staffers and families of students.
Donaldson, who has lived all his life in the Hazeltons, said while it is not uncommon for Gitxsan houses to adopt people based on family connections or skill sets needed within the house groups, this was a bigger deal.
“I’d say it happens infrequently enough that it’s still special,” he explained. “In this case, it was clear it was an all clans ceremony and just in recognition, people thanked her so much for her work and obviously her (Gitxsan) name certainly reflects that.”
Black Press Media is also reaching out to Dr. Henry for a comment.
Henry came to daily prominence in B.C. after the coronavirus pandemic reached the province and has been lauded by other governments and the international media for her methodical and reassuring approach to the crisis.
She is largely credited with the success B.C. has had in flattening the curve of virus transmission and keeping the province’s number of infections and death rate relatively low.
Henry has been provincial health officer (PHO) since 2018. Prior to that she served as deputy PHO, executive director of the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, coordinated Toronto’s response to SARS in 2003 and worked on the front lines of Uganda’s Ebola outbreak in 2001.
The provincial health officer was honoured in a May 22 ceremony at elementary school in Hazelton
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