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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: "This is a call out for staff for Vancouver Island vaccine clinics."

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FFyYB_BUYAM_tRM?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Lindsay Brown on Twitter: "This is a call out for staff for Vancouver Island vaccine clinics. It's incredible - so in short, they might have some people in these positions in 10 days? At the fastest? And this was only posted internally? What's going on, @AdrianDix @CDCofBC ? #bcpoli / Meanwhile BC kids' vaccine clinics are closed for a long stretch over the holidays, with #Omicron coming, and showing up strongly in kids in South Africa? And when they're open, in some areas kids are only vaccinated Fri-Sun? / BC booster rollout is so slow I've heard docs & nurses I know wonder if a circulating theory might be true, that @CDCofBC is studying long vax intervals vs case #s, hence the delay. They (& I) are 100% non-conspiratorial generally. But CDC does have history of this sort of study. / I don't even want to contemplate a study that unethical, that frankly criminal. As a friend pointed out, population-wide medical studies cannot cause harm. I bring this up to show the talk CDC is exposing itself to, & how deep HCWs are digging to explain the inexplicable delays."

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Subject:   Vaccinations BC Centre for Disease Control,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern

Title: [BC's 6 waves of COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/1508874832628178946/

Description: Lindsay Brown on Twitter: "Review of BC's 6 waves of #COVID19 1. Original wildtype Covid (OG), late 2019, took off Spring 2020 2. 2nd wave of OG, Fall 2020 3. Alpha (morphed into Gamma) Dec 2020/Spring 2021 4. Delta, Summer/Fall 2021 5. Omicron (BA.1) Dec 2021/Jan 2022 6. Omicron (BA.2) March 2022 #bcpoli / Lindsay Brown - Wear A Mask @Lidsville · Mar 29 Replying to @Lidsville If you want the specific variant and sub-variant alphanumerical designations, see @WHO https://who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/ The dates in prev tweet are general, roughly suggesting when the 6 main waves hit & then waved in BC (timing may be different (usually earlier) in other countries) / Quebec has officially warned of the 6th wave, Omicron BA.2. BC has not. Why? #bcpoli / Why is BC failing, yet again, to apply the precautionary principle? We have had 5 waves of Covid, ample chance to learn what to do. This morning there are multiple cases of Covid in my disabled sister's LTC - AGAIN. Friends report MANY colleagues off sick from work. / And ICYMI, important thread on the precautionary principle, and BC yet again failing to adopt it and get ahead of yet another Covid wave: #bcpoli #BA2 / The BA.2 variant wave is hitting hard. BC is not prepared. #bcpoli 1. Boston https://twitter.com/bostonherald/status/1508893200722845705 2. Ontario"

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Subject:   Alpha Variant Gamma Variant Delta Variant,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern

Title: [Comment on connection between lack of mask mandate and travel cancellations and hospital waits]

URL: https://twitter.com/Lidsville/status/1546226518073847808/

Description: Lindsay Brown on Twitter: "I'm just curious what most British Columbians think is causing BC Ferries to keep cancelling multiple sailings, Air Canada to cancel 9500 flights this summer, & ER waits of up to 16 hrs? Obvs not something that could be prevented by an indoor mask rule, eh @adriandix ? #bcpoli / Since this is taking off, FYI you can actually get your 2nd booster in BC now - even though they are saying no & trying to name it the "fall booster" to distract from the fact people are past the 6 month interval - by calling this number & demanding an appointment: 1-833-838-2323 / We have a BC govt doing zero on the pandemic file other than vaccines, while delaying a needed second booster to chase some unknown future update designed for BA.5 when BA.5 will have been replaced by then, when masks are right in front of them. Negligent. / It's funny how many people on this thread are coming up with other explanations for the travel cancellations and hospital waits. Yes, we have starved/mismanaged our critical systems & services for years. And yes, it's still Covid that is breaking them this extravagantly. / The Mystery Staff Shortage of 2022 That Is Not Related to Covid In Any Way"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia BC Ferries Air Canada Dix, Adrian Vaccinations,  Omicron Variant ,  Variants of Concern

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