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Open Letter from Protect Our Province BC to the BC Government Urging A Safe Return to School in September 2023

To BC Premier Dave Eby, Health Minister Adrian Dix, Education Minister Rachna Singh, and to all BC parents: Unbelievably, we are approaching the fourth unsafe return to school during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In September, BC parents will be sending their children back to school just as newer recombinant SARS-CoV-2 variants will be circulating. As… Continue reading Open Letter from Protect Our Province BC to the BC Government Urging A Safe Return to School in September 2023

Write your MLA – Demand Clean Indoor Air for British Columbians

Elected officials in Ontario and New Brunswick have put forth private members’ bills for legislation that would require improved indoor air quality in all workplaces and public spaces.

Protect our Province BC has provided a draft letter that you can customize to send to your MLA demanding that they bring forward or support a similar bill here in BC.

May 31, 2023: COVID and Pregnancy

“COVID-19 vaccination is safe during pregnancy and may protect newborns from infection, especially if vaccines are given in the second or third trimester. This is similar to what we are already doing with other maternal vaccines, including TDaP and seasonal influenza.” – Dr. Eastabrook

Letter of a concerned citizen and healthcare professional to their MLA

This is the first time I have ever written a letter to my MLA. As a constituent who is a healthcare professional, a parent, and a recent cancer survivor, I feel compelled to reach out after the removal of mask mandates in BC hospitals, and I ask you, as my elected representative, to hear and, I hope, understand how serious this issue is, and how urgently change is needed in our provincial government’s pandemic management strategy.

Anonymous letter to Premier Eby from a concerned British Columbian lawyer with Long Covid

Our health officer has previously advocated for kindness. But as someone with a disability (long Covid), I need you to know that resting under this rubric of “personal choice”, many of us who are disabled actually experience this framing of the matter as a personal choice, rather, as your government’s complete and abject disregard of the disabled and elderly, for how else are we to understand why our lives and health don’t matter?

Write your MLA – Demand the Return of Mask Protections in BC Healthcare Facilities, Long Term Care and Assisted Living Homes

Now is not the time to remove indoor masks protections in spaces where vulnerable British Columbians seek medical care. No one should come to the hospital for one condition and leave with a COVID-19 infection. Or, not leave the hospital, and die from Covid? A recent leak from the Victorian Health Department, Australia suggested a 10% or more mortality for patients who acquired COVID-19 in hospital between January and October 2022.

A BC Public Health Scandal: Long Covid, Failure to Warn

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, her medical health officers, Minister of Health Adrian Dix, and his health ministry have never warned you about post Covid health impacts beyond an acute infection. They’ve never told you about the chronic debilitating medical condition that can affect every organ in the body, including your heart, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, brain, gut, blood vessels and more. But they’ve all known about these harms for three years.

POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare

POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare Today, in a BC government press conference with Dr. Bonnie Henry and Minister of Health Adrian Dix, Dr. Henry announced the removal of mask mandate in BC healthcare settings, despite a high number of Covid cases continuing to strain BC’s… Continue reading POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare