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Stephen Elliott~Buckley @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 20:43 UTC

@emilylowan.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming out to the commemoration.

Political parties bloated with a focus on incrementalist change and bare minimalism are such a waste of time.

138 workers should not have died last year.

You and your party's principled focus is so necessary now.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #WorkSafeBC

#worksafebc #ecosocialism #bcndp #bcgreens #canlab #burnaby

Stephen Elliott~Buckley @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 20:43 UTC

@emilylowan.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming out to the commemoration.

Political parties bloated with a focus on incrementalist change and bare minimalism are such a waste of time.

138 workers should not have died last year.

You and your party's principled focus is so necessary now.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #WorkSafeBC

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist

Stephen Elliott~Buckley @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 20:43 UTC

@emilylowan.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming out to the commemoration.

Political parties bloated with a focus on incrementalist change and bare minimalism are such a waste of time.

138 workers should not have died last year.

You and your party's principled focus is so necessary now.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #WorkSafeBC

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist

Stephen Elliott~Buckley @[email protected] · 2026-04-28 · 20:43 UTC

@emilylowan.bsky.social

Thank you so much for coming out to the commemoration.

Political parties bloated with a focus on incrementalist change and bare minimalism are such a waste of time.

138 workers should not have died last year.

You and your party's principled focus is so necessary now.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #WorkSafeBC

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:30 UTC

🙌 The Tyee has done amazingly well with this piece. And again, this is NOT a historic roundup - COVID-19 has ongoing community transmission and is impacting people's lives and health, today, right now.

People are tired of the COVID pandemic. There is a desire to move on. But even today, as we write this, there continue to be outbreaks in hospitals and long-term care facilities in Alberta and elsewhere in North America.

7/7 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:27 UTC

And the need for airborne protection, now, is not hypothetical, it's not in the past. it's now:

In Canada, government data shows that in the week ending March 8, 2026, 34 per cent of COVID patients in hospital acquired the virus while in hospital.

And yes, there is enough science to place the blame squarely on insufficient airborne protection for those people:

How many either communicated the COVID virus to a poorly protected health-care worker or received the virus from a health-care worker who was left without adequate defences, such as properly filtered air or an N95 mask, to ward off the virus? We know, because studies have shown that respirator masks are better than other medical masks at preventing an infected person from infecting someone else.

6/n 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:24 UTC

Now, technically it's true that

It’s difficult to know why the word “airborne” is avoided so consistently, but the impact is clear: without that word, occupational health and safety requirements can be evaded.

but ;lobbying is the reason for almost every decision that hurts all of Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy and Canadian international strength, so personally I think I only need one guess

5/n 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:22 UTC

And the Public Health Agency of Canada has been outright misleading us for years:

So how is it still possible that the Canadian OHS laws don’t apply, requiring the appropriate PPE for airborne spread?
PHAC, to this day, has never used the word “airborne.” It’s merely implied

Now, they still technically advised safe behaviour:

For years, the advice to the public was to wear the “best made, best fitting mask,” terminology that only describes a respirator-style N95 mask, essential for mitigating airborne transmission

But by not outright admitting the actual threat, they let Average Canadian, and Average Canadian Healthcare Worker keep falsely thinking that baggy blues are effective protection.

4/n 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:17 UTC

Protection means N95s or better :n95: and not baggy blues

medical masks were never designed as respiratory PPE

while

Respirator masks, which are explicitly referred to in OHS legislation as the appropriate PPE for airborne hazards, are designed specifically to prevent inhalation of threats like asbestos or COVID-19

3/n 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth #N95

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:14 UTC

It has never been impossible to improve worksite protections:

U.S. records showing a 60 per cent drop in workplace fatalities, and a 40 per cent drop in injury and illness, in the 30 years after the Occupational Health and Safety Act was enacted, despite a doubling of the country’s population of workers.

And the law already requires employers to protect employees and others on site:

In reading the legislation, it is clear that the employer has a responsibility to protect health-care workers ... from bioaerosol hazards.

2/n 🧵

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2026-03-28 · 03:12 UTC

I can't find high enough praise for this article today in The Tyee (on Fedi: @thetyee) https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/27/Human-Cost-Failing-Name-COVID-Airborne/

How is it possible for hospitals, nursing homes and other health-care employers to allow respiratory PPE that doesn’t fit the legal standard previously set for protecting workers against an airborne hazard?
Simple. They just fail to explicitly state the virus is airborne.

🤯 💣 💥

1/n 🧵

#COVIDIsAirborne #SARSCoV2 #COVID #COVID19 #SafeWorkplace #workplaceSafety #WorkSafeBC #CDNPoli #PublicHealth

#covidisairborne #sarscov2 #covid #covid19 #safeworkplace #workplacesafety

rhtunstall @[email protected] · 2023-12-14 · 18:22 UTC

I probably shouldn’t post about this… It’s just that watching my wife suffer through covid this last week and rush back prematurely to an unmasked #bced school is beyond disheartening. I feel sick.

After barely 6 covid sick days off, bced staff started calling, desperate for her to return to work. There were no substitutes available to cover for my wife, who previous to covid has had to live with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.

She is now slowly recovering from a #covid infection she received from the unmasked #bced class she’s so hastily been thrown back into.

This is truly unsustainable #bctf. Covid sick students should be masked. Fellow staff and teachers should be masked. My wife got sick while wearing an N95 everyday simply due to the unchecked viral load being accepted and normalized in #bced schools.

If we’ve learned anything this last year, it’s that one way masking is just not good enough. Does #worksafebc even care? I’m sorry but your child’s maskless attendance should not be more important than my partner’s lifelong health.

Due to my wife’s diligent masking while sick, I managed to avoid covid this time. We also slept apart every night and barely saw each other this last week.

It’s not lost on me, however, that had parents and teachers done the same and masked their sick kids, this all could have been avoided.

In the end we’re all only as strong as our weakest link. In this case our weakest link is our covid minimizing, uncaring “top doctor” health minister #BonnieHenry.

Teachers are not expendable. Society should be #masking to protect them. I can’t believe I’m begging people to care at year four of this tragic pandemic but that’s where we’re at.

Our #educators lives matter, care for one another and #MaskUp ‘cause this #bcndp govt has long since signed off on sickness.

#MakeSchoolsSafe
#SaveOurTeachers
#FireBonnieHenry #Masks4All #MasksForSchools #schoolsaresuperspreaders #bcpoli #cdnpoli

#maskup #bcndp #makeschoolssafe #saveourteachers #firebonniehenry #masks4all