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Advocacy opportunity 
A human rights complaint is in progress against Fraser Health Authority, regarding a policy banning patients and visitors from wearing N95 masks 
This is a class complaint, meaning it’s on behalf of a group/class of people: in this case, those at higher risk for severe COVID-19.
If you fall into that group, and were asked to remove your N95 in favour of a surgical mask at a Fraser Health facility when accessing care in 2021-22, please reach out to lenapatsa on Twitter or BlueSky, or email amoore[at]clasbc.net. Your support is CRITICAL to move this complaint to the next stage.
And be sure to share widely to reach folks who were affected!
![Against a photo of an N95, yellow text reads, advocacy opportunity: demand accountability for N 95 mask bands in healthcare. For those in Fraser health. A screencap of a post from lenapatsa on BlueSky reads, Long-overdue [UPDATE]. Wrt. my BC Human Rights Complaint against Fraser Health on their policy prohibiting the use of N95 respirators at their facilities: The class complaint has moved to the next stage and we are now asking members of the class to come forward in support of the complaint. /1](https://media.zeroes.ca/media_attachments/files/114/195/247/544/994/179/original/4e8ea913b9a0bacf.png "Against a photo of an N95, yellow text reads, advocacy opportunity: demand accountability for N 95 mask bands in healthcare. For those in Fraser health. A screencap of a post from lenapatsa on BlueSky reads, Long-overdue [UPDATE]. Wrt. my BC Human Rights Complaint against Fraser Health on their policy prohibiting the use of N95 respirators at their facilities: The class complaint has moved to the next stage and we are now asking members of the class to come forward in support of the complaint. /1")
I seriously cannot deal with some #covid ignorant knobheads who don't mask up.
Just had someone I know confess they caught 'something' bad but it's not covid(it is fucking covid) - from working a crowded local dance competition event. She is still sick & going to go work last day, catering at this multi days event. People attending will be infecting each other & then others in our community.
Freaking unnecessary madness!
Accompanied my Mom to doctor's appointment this morning. This was mainly for getting another prescription for her recurring gout issue. She got a physical checkup too. Her doctor & his MOA were masked up. None of the other medical clinic staff & no other patients were masked.
Location of masking report: Burnside Medical Clinic - office in lower part of building - there's a different office with same name on main level.
En route to pharmacy to pickup prescription refills. A #SelfPortrait in the car.
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Rebecca Bligh, #Vancouver city councillor on DTES homeless & crime:
"There are real challenges around organized crime, level of targeted predatory behaviour, criminal activity in the Downtown East Side. That is police work.
{more context in interview, here}
...but organized crime who are driving challenges in the DTES do not live in the DTES. We know & heard that from the police. Throwing more $$$ at that...is a very blunt approach to a complex challenge"
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Rebecca Bligh, #Vancouver city councillor:
"The public is relying on people who are elected, in office, to work with the [BC] province, Coastal Health, and the policy department in a collaborative way. We are not going to police our way out of the challenges of the Downtown East Side."
"My role now as an Independent is to continue to build those relationships, attend those conversations, and make requests of higher orders of government and stakeholders."
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Rebecca Bligh, #Vancouver city councillor's examples of core value disconnects with the ABC Party:
"One of the policy approaches that we did not run on [during 2022 election] which was to repeal the natural gas ban on new construction [and did so in Fall 2024]. And, I took issue on the upheaval and targeted conspiracy against the Integrity Commissioner's office last Summer [2024]. Most recently, also the ban on supportive housing"
#LifeLabs rotating work stoppages at locations around #BritishColumbia are scheduled to begin at 11am Sunday.
You better check LifeLabs’ website if you have an appointment in the coming days.
Workers at LifeLabs, largest provider of lab testing services in BC, could go on strike on Sunday morning.
#BCGEU representing about 1,200 LifeLabs workers, issued 72 hrs strike notice on Thurs.
https://vancouversun.com/news/lifelabs-strike-what-you-need-to-know
vancouversunThe looming LifeLabs strike: What you need to knowRotating work stoppages at various locations around B.C. are scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. Sunday. Read here for more information.
The first in office appointment with my new family doctor has just been booked for this Friday morning. I have the first appointment of the day & the doctor has assured me that he & staff will be masked up, as I've requested 
I tend to ask for first slot of the morning when booking medical appointments - to avoid running into a bunch of unmasked patients in waiting rooms.
I'll be asking if he will consider taking on my youngest brother as a new patient too because that bro still doesn't have a family doctor. He's been on the government waitlist for 2+ years.
I'm off to get mammogram now & then working on updating client files all afternoon. Remote(safer) work today 
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FYI - I got this new family doctor due to pursuing an in office lead from my osteoporosis specialist. He works in same medical clinic. I asked to be put on their internal wait list a few months back. I kept following up, weekly.
I want to be very clear on the fact that the BC government didn't help me obtain this new doctor whatsoever. I was on their huge waitlist for over a year & nothing happened. I pursued 4 different doctors from private leads & that is how it happened. However, our shifty, lying BC government is trying to take credit for work they did not do in me finally having a new family doctor. Their self congratulatory, canned email was insulting to receive today. Bunch of dishonest wankers.
The BC government has treated disabled patients like me as disposable for years. They've greatly harmed our disabled community as a whole much more than they've ever tried to really help us.
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All except 1 staff is masked at Burnside Medical Office, lower level office with bad air ventilation. There are 5 other patients in waiting area & only one is masked(blue surgical mask). Mom & I are only ones here wearing N95s. We have opted to sit closer to entry/exit & around the corner from the unmasked open mouth breathers.
I blast highway to hell, almost every time I have to go to hospital for work or personal related reasons. It's hellish for #ZeroCovid disabled folks like me because our hospitals aren't really covid safe & they haven't been safe for a few years now. It is where Dad & big Auntie were infected. Mask policy returned to hospitals recently but almost all staff just wear the flimsy surgical blue masks. I wear my own N95s & use a nasal spray for additional protection.
I'll be playing highway to hell again at 10am because I have to go to VGH for a client meeting.
I've been on the phone almost all morning. Trying to get some medical appointments & follow-up meetings booked/confirmed for both me & Mom. I'm having better luck getting Mom booked than for myself. I'm beyond frustrated with our #BCMedical / #BCHealth situation. I want to know where the hell do we find all those new family doctors that #BCNDP #BCgovernment had bragged about - WHERE ARE THEY??
*My social justice activist friend, Crystal, was interviewed for this article.*
As the City of Victoria conducts what outreach workers say are deadly sweeps of Pandora Avenue, those who facilitate unhoused individuals into addiction rehabilitation centres say there’s not enough spaces to meet the needs of those who are left on the capital city’s streets.
“What I’m faced with is, where am I sending them?” said Theresa Reeve, executive director of the relatively new non-profit Westcoast Recovery Outreach.
Reeve says private treatment centres only take a select number of government-funded clients, leaving empty beds open for higher paying private clients.
“I could fill up their treatment centre if they would allow me,” said Reeve. “But they only let a few government-funded beds. We need to increase those government funded beds. These people deserve a chance just like everybody else.”
“People having to wait anywhere from two weeks to three months waiting to get into a detox bed is not acceptable. We need a better system now. We just had an election about. Where are all the beds they promised they were going to build?”
The Minister of Health told CHEK News in a statement that her government is adding new services without specifics.
CHEK · Not enough housing or rehab beds for Victoria’s most broken, says outreach worker
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I'm back on yet another wait list for a different orthopedic surgeon because the one I was referred to is an unkind, unhelpful jerk. His RateMDs reviews are filled with multiple complaints from patients who were also treated in similar unhelpful ways. I'm pretty frustrated. I've been on 3 different wait lists for years prior. I still have no medical help with my elbow bursitis which causes me to lose sleep because the pain often wakes me up in middle of the night. I don't have a family doctor(on wait list for that too) to help me with my multiple health/medical needs.
It appears likely it was The (wild) Birds.
“B.C. health officials say they still don't know how a teenager became infected with the H5N1 strain of avian flu but say no further cases have been identified.
Earlier this month, health officials announced they were investigating what was believed to be the first human case of H5N1 avian influenza caught in Canada.
The teenager is still in critical condition, the province said Tuesday. "
#H5N1 #BCPoli #BCHealth
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cause-h5n1-avian-flu-unknown-1.7393759
GIF
Temporary service interruption at South Okanagan General Hospital emergency department
November 9, 2024
#Oliver and area residents are advised of temporary changes to emergency department hours at South Okanagan General Hospital.
Emergency services will be unavailable from 12 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10. Patients can access care at Penticton Regional Hospital during this time.
#InteriorHealth #BChealth
Interior HealthTemporary service interruption at South Okanagan General Hospital emergency department | Interior HealthEmergency services will be unavailable from 12 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10.