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COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North)

Collected by: Vancouver Island University

Archived since: Mar, 2020

Description:

In March 2020 the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC) stated: "The deadly flu outbreak of 1918-19 is often called the ‘forgotten pandemic.’ Our responsibility now is to ensure the lessons of COVID-19 are not forgotten. Our collective efforts to capture and preserve the essential online elements of this unprecedented event are critical." (CARL-ABRC). The COVID-19: Vancouver Island, BC (Central & North) Web Archive reflects community experiences and responses to the pandemic in the region served by Vancouver Island University, documenting and supporting diverse aspects of scholarly inquiry, creativity, and community life. The Web Archive is intended to provide a body of information that will support scholarship, creativity, and study. Information rights related to web archiving include considerations of copyright and fair dealing, and of individual and community privacy. The following are among principles and resources that guide web archiving decisions: Ethics of care, for example in VIU Library’s Pledge to our user communities; OCAP® principles, and awareness of relationality and accountability to Indigenous communities, and potential impacts related to web archiving; Good practice and expert advice, emerging and accessed through communities of practice, e.g. the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition (CWAC); and VIU Library, Evolution of Physical Collections: 2017-2021 VIU Library, Special Collections Guidelines (Under review 2020). Web archives are informed by available capture technologies and also by affordances of the content source; not all websites can be successfully crawled or rendered, and quality of archived versions varies. This project is supported by VIU's Special Funding for COVID-19 research projects and carried out in coordination with the University of Victoria’s COVID-19 Collection and the Canadian Web Archiving Coalition. Contact us at research.help@viu.ca with questions or for more information about content included in the Web Archive. [Working description 2021 April 6]

Subject:   Spontaneous Events Society & Culture Science & Health Vancouver Island COVID-19 (Disease)

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Title: Newsletter update | [November 2022] | Sonia Furstenau

URL: https://mailchi.mp/414f8c550dec/provincial-vaccine-rollout-14193283/

Description: We’ve been living with the COVID-19 virus for nearly 3 years, and I think it’s safe to say we’re all exhausted. I wish I could say we’re almost in the clear, but unfortunately that is not the case.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Long COVID ,  Influenza Respiratory Syncytial Virus Protect Our Province BC Safe Schools Coalition BC BC Children's Hospital Province of British Columbia Eby, David

Title: Guest BC Green leader Sonia Furstenau | And Now the News ... with Bill Amos

URL: https://rr4---sn-a5msenes.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1653949093&ei=Re6UYvyWM8makwba3oLoBQ&ip=207.241.232.81&id=o-ALQ57JKgA2w0BjAbKcDYs00NKxesqVBzrlJot7WeeXzC&itag=18&sour...p;ms=ltu&mt=1653927394&mv=m&mvi=4&pl=20&lsparams=mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl&lsig=AG3C_xAwRAIgelv_-UUoe8bcs3BxUnfcTkZxwQuyTd11XaLuItYrw80CIHdkusatlrJh6Ol-_0TEFTFFZqEcqujM7MwhS_hysO32

Description: BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau worries that Long COVID cases could soar among both children and adults following the NDP government's decision to relax COVID protections. She also says firm standards are needed to prevent the pandemic from spreading through the air in schools and other indoor spaces.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie,  Long COVID ,  Province of British Columbia Ventilation,  Furstenau, Sonia

Title: [Comments about BC's COVID-19 back to school plan]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1422675261414277121?s=20

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "The school year is right around the corner, but our #COVID19 plans are outdated. The #DeltaVariant has taken over - and it is more transmissible. This puts unvaccinated kids at risk, as we saw with the 150 kids <10 yrs old who tested positive in June and July. 1/ #bcpoli / A US report found that w/o masks, 70% of a classroom could contract the #DeltaVariant. As it stands, kids will not be adequately protected in schools - no vaccines for those under 12, no masks, even physical distancing of 2 m is no longer recommended. 2/ #bcpoli / It is important to prepare for a safe return and set realistic expectations in classrooms, but this gov’t needs to show they are continuing to take the risks of #LongCOVID seriously for unvaccinated children. 3/ #bcpoli / We need smaller class sizes & proper distancing, enhanced ventilation, mandatory masking, & contact tracing. All of this needs to be in place before children and teachers return to schools in September. 4/4 #bcpoli"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Province of British Columbia Vaccinations Variants of Concern Ventilation,  Long COVID ,  Delta Variant

Title: [Comments on BC after two years of COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1502034738906763288/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "It has been a long 2 years for British Columbians. Many people are eager for the pandemic to be over, and others are still anxious about opening up. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / I am deeply concerned that without a plan for the future and clear information on why we’re making decisions, removing these measures will create more confusion, allow for greater transmission of COVID, and risk distrust in government. 2/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / Learning to live with this virus should not mean pretending it is over; it should mean that we keep simple, universal basic protections in places where they keep us safe and provide a predictable plan that we can work towards and anticipate. 3/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / We should be providing free N95 masks to all who want one, installing filtration in schools & public settings, subsidizing HEPA filters for other settings, and making rapid tests widely and freely available. We should be protecting everyone from the risk of #LongCovid. 4/ #bcpoli / Removing masking entirely sends a signal that the pandemic is over. Yesterday we had 14 deaths, a new variant is circulating around the world, and many epidemiologists and our provincial health officer have suggested we could see a fifth wave this year. 5/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / We should have kept masks in place for essential services like public transit and other high-transmission settings with low ventilation. This would protect our most vulnerable, while opening up elective activities for people who are comfortable. 6/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / British Columbians deserve the same predictability and clarity they received last summer with the re-opening plan. Without a plan and tools in place, we risk repeating the damaging cycle of imposing and removing mandates. 7/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / Rebuilding and maintaining trust should be this government’s top priority. This government’s lack of transparency over the past year and failure to explain their decisions has resulted in an erosion of our collective sense of responsibility to each other. 8/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / Without clear guidelines for imposing or rescinding mandates, British Columbians will only grow more disenfranchised. 9/9 #bcpoli #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Province of British Columbia Ventilation Rapid Antigen Tests,  Long COVID ,  Variants of Concern

Title: [Comments on BC's government's COVID-19 briefing]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1511452814404321280/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "In what was their final #COVID19 briefing for the foreseeable future our PHO and government have failed to educate British Columbians on the risks of #LongCOVID, of the airborne spread of this virus, and of the benefits of well-fitting & high-quality masks. 1/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / This is a failure to provide essential information to the public, at a time when this government has transferred all responsibility to individuals to try to keep themselves and others safe from #COVID19 infection. 2/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC / In P.E.I & Quebec mask mandates have been extended until the end of the month in order to manage rising cases. It’s clear that the B.A.2 variant has taken over in BC, and yet we continue to act as though we're somehow going to avoid the impacts we’re seeing elsewhere. 3/ #bcpoli / This government is desperate to maintain its narrative around its management of this pandemic, and is doing so by limiting testing, monitoring, and reporting. They have closed down community monitoring at the beginning of a sixth wave. 4/ #bcpoli #COVID19BC #COVID19 / We've seen data transparency & public guidance be the focus of a responsible public health body, like in Peterborough. It's not an impossible task for a gov't to provide clear guidance to the public on the level of risk they are at. 5/5 #bcpoli #COVID19BC https://peterboroughpublichealth.ca/covid-19-risk-index/"

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Province of British Columbia,  Furstenau, Sonia ,  Long COVID ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Comment on Twitter post by PHSA]

URL: https://twitter.com/SoniaFurstenau/status/1513932460538703876/

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Instead of providing up to date data about the sixth wave, guidance on how to avoid infection from an airborne virus, or information about #LongCovid, the PHSA tries to rewrite history. #bcpoli #COVID19 #COVID19BC"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Provincial Health Services Authority Rapid Antigen Tests Twitter Social Media,  Long COVID ,  Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Comments on the necessity of collecting long COVID data]

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1374152502803800072

Description: Sonia Furstenau on Twitter: "Today in Question Period I again asked @adriandix if his gov’t is collecting #LongCovid data, if they are working to help those affected by chronic symptoms, & if they will listen to #bced calls for more safety measures. I didn’t really get an answer to any of the Qs. 1/ #bcpoli Instead he noted other figures, programs gov’t is funding and reiterating the seriousness of the virus. This misses the point as to why collecting #LongCovid data is so important - because it allows us to create better policy and increases trust in gov’t decision making. 2/ If you want to read the full thread on today's Question Period or the rest of the work we do in the House follow the @bcgreencaucus ! 3/3 #bcpoli #COVID19 #LongCovid"

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Dix, Adrian,  Long COVID ,  Province of British Columbia

Title: BC Green leader responds to lifting of mandates | BC Green Party

URL: https://www.bcgreens.ca/bc_green_leader_responds_to_lifting_of_mandates/

Description: In response to the province announcing an end to the use of the provincial mask mandate tomorrow and the B.C. vaccine card in April, Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, has issued the following statement.

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Subject:   BC Green Party,  Furstenau, Sonia ,  BC Vaccine Card Ventilation Rapid Antigen Tests Province of British Columbia,  Long COVID ,  Variants of Concern Vaccinations

Title: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau denounces NDP government's historical ignorance in response to COVID-19 | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/living/bc-green-leader-sonia-furstenau-denounces-ndp-governments-historical-ignorance-in-response-to/

Description: B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau thinks that the NDP government is ignoring the lessons of history in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Province of British Columbia Ventilation Amos, Bill,  Long COVID ,  Henry, Bonnie

Title: Furstenau accuses B.C. government of failing to educate public on risks of Long COVID and airborne transmissions | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/living/furstenau-accuses-bc-government-of-failing-to-educate-public-on-risks-of-long-covid-and/

Description: The B.C. Green party doesn't think the NDP government is doing enough to help people understand the threat of COVID-19.

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Subject:   Furstenau, Sonia ,  Province of British Columbia,  Long COVID ,  Henry, Bonnie Biden, Joe Nelson, Alondra Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health BC Vaccine Card Variants of Concern Omicron Variant Barton, Adriana

Title: University of Toronto researcher raises a thorny question about COVID-19 death count in B.C. | Georgia Straight

URL: https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/living/university-of-toronto-researcher-raises-a-thorny-question-about-covid-19-death-count-in-bc/

Description: An associate professor in the University of Toronto faculty of dentistry has publicly questioned whether B.C. might be under-reporting deaths due to COVID-19 to a degree far greater than other provinces.

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Dix, Adrian Province of British Columbia Moriarty, Tara Omicron Variant Variants of Concern Morgan, Steve,  Furstenau, Sonia ,  Protect Our Province BC,  Long COVID ,  Vaccinations

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