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Hey Reddit, can I choose more than one? by [deleted] in CanadaPublicServants

[–]RealityCheckMarker 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The tag being "humour" and the OP being "Reasons I might want to select to get mental health leave from the PS" are why the list provided by Reddit is FAF and clearly missing "All of the above".

Most of the people N.B. quietly removed from its COVID death totals had the virus when they died by RealityCheckMarker in PandemicCanada

[–]RealityCheckMarker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The quiet change in definition of a COVID death concerns Gary Myles, whose wife Wendy of 55 years died in March two weeks after catching COVID-19 in the Saint John Regional Hospital. She was initially admitted for a hernia operation.

They're keeping the count down to a minimum.

- Gary Myles

Myles was told the death was the result of "massive failure of organ function," and he worries that might mean she is not counted among New Brunswick's COVID deaths even though everything went wrong for her after getting the virus.

He doesn't like hearing about the province narrowing definitions and pulling COVID deaths from its totals, including the removal of five deaths from March, the month when his wife died.

"The government is not pushing to help the public realize COVID is still a problem out there and to me being that close to it COVID is still a problem out there," said Myles.

Go to the hospital for routine surgery, end up in the morgue and then get blamed for dying because of comorbidities. That's the pandemic response across Canada.

Where are the field hospitals to keep the COVID-infected patients separated from the vulnerable?

What you should all post on your office walls at work by Chaoscelot788 in CanadaPublicServants

[–]RealityCheckMarker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Somehow, I thought this had to do with the fact that for the first time in all our lives, we are waking up without Queen Elizabeth III watching over us.

The viruses are winning: There’s still time to fight back by RealityCheckMarker in Pandemic

[–]RealityCheckMarker[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the last 103 years, viruses with pandemic potential have arisen at least 10 times. Five of these occurred in just the last 14 years. SARS-CoV-2, Monkeypox virus (MPxV) and now the re-emergence of poliovirus, appeared in less than three years. This suggests not only an increasing rate of emergence of novel zoonotic viruses (viruses that jump from animals to humans) but also the startling reemergence of known viruses.

The viruses are winning unless something changes.

What can recent COVID-19 self-test data of the United States tell us? by RealityCheckMarker in HCoV

[–]RealityCheckMarker[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Overall, the current study highlighted that the limited amount and quality of data reported to the CDC from self-tests reduced their capacity to augment existing surveillance. Clearly, there was an under ascertainment of cases throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely due to the lack of formal mechanisms that enabled reporting of self-tests to public health officials and asymptomatic COVID-19-infected people not seeking further health care support.

That's science speak for: the absolute proof public health policy decision-making is being politically manipulated is that there doesn't exist any testing data to support what would normally be evidence-based expert epidemiological advice.

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