"Protecting children through the influenza season" press conference, let's goooooooo! 🧵
Less than four minutes in, and Bonnie Henry is already pretending that COVID-19 only impacts old people.
Video jump at 5:31, when DBH just straight up lies about immunity debt.
Immunity debt does not apply to 5-6 year olds. She's just lying here.
Getting a flu shot is not, in fact, the best way to prevent getting the flu.
Universal masking so we don't have a massive flu outbreak while everybody's immune systems are suppressed is the best way to prevent getting the flu.
Bonnie Henry is, again, putting 100% of the social responsibility for this pandemic on individual family gatherings like Christmas dinner.
And, like, specifically instructing sick people to go outside?
If churches cared, even slightly, about the people in their communities then they would not have in-person church services.
Bonnie Henry just cares far more about the preferences of conservative religious leaders than she does about the lives of vulnerable people in our society.
Christmas church services is a stupid, selfish, unjustifiable risk.
Haha, oh man, they're defending the new system to make flu shots especially difficult to get this year.
BC ended almost all walk-in flu immunization this year. Pharmacies turn them away and direct them to a confusing website that requires an invite to get a vaccine.
It's a system pretty clearly designed to block young people, parents, and poor people from getting flu shots.
If you don't have a flexible schedule (ie: the type of people who would benefit from walk ins) there's a pretty good chance the new system means you can't get a flu shot.
There is no other reason to require this system.
The best way to get immunizations for the people who need them most (kids, poor people, front-line workers) is to go to them.
Do the vaccinations in schools and travel to public-facing workplaces.
The second best way is long hours at walk-in locations (like pharmacies).
Making people book ahead is explicitly denying medical care to anyone who isn't well-off and/or retired.
It's a weird trick that they're telling people only to wear masks if they're sick.
Like, they would absolutely be better off just not having this press conference, because they're both telling people to go out sick and telling people not to wear masks.
@steven I was thinking about exactly this earlier today. Instead of just saying "Hey, one of the ways we can get out of this mess we've created is to wear masks" they'd rather go with "If you're sick you should be a good person and wear a mask, but you're only sick because everyone else is refusing." It is really weird to go to those lengths of twisted logic and wordplay instead of just saying that masks work in the first place.
