Title: "78% of Salt Spring adults have gotten a first vaccine dose"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1427713568221241345?s=20

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Ten weeks later, 78% of Salt Spring adults have gotten a first vaccine dose (lower than anywhere else in the capital region district), compared to 91% for the rest of the southern Gulf Islands. anyone who lectured me about the gap being entirely due to supply want to chime in?"

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: "Anatomy of a coastal crime scene"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1538717679707488257/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "anatomy of a coastal crime scene / Justin McElroy @j_mcelroy · Jun 19 Replying to @j_mcelroy i escaped the island! my secret hack for the last 20 years has been "only be a foot passenger" and it worked again bc ferries: it works perfectly so long as you don't have children or pets and only go to the four biggest locations"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: "Congratulations to Kitimat for having a 101% vaccination rate"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1445183570314764295/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "congratulations to kitimat for having a 101% vaccination rate a number that is definitely accurate and not a reflection of counting people in work camps in the numerator but not the denominator"

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: "How is the test-trace-isolate strategy going?"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1474101194964430856/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "How is the test-trace-isolate strategy going? Tests: days to get one on Vancouver Island, people turned away in Vancouver, less rapid tests than anywhere outside Newfoundland Trace: signs it's already being overrun Isolate: see above on testing + no Christmas travel ban"

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Subject:   Island Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: "In the last 12 months, there have been 4,406 recorded deaths in B.C. as a result of the heat dome, opioid crisis, or pandemic."

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1458499262279413760/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "In the last 12 months, there have been 4,406 recorded deaths in B.C. as a result of the heat dome, opioid crisis, or pandemic. That's more than 1 in every 1000 adults in this province. / It is stunning to think of the sheer number of people that have died in the last year as a result of tragedies that are unique in their size or nature but we have yet to "solve" in any meaningful manner. Sort of makes everything else feel small. / (anyhow stay tuned for summer 2022 when we rank every ice cream in the city!)"

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Subject:   British Columbia Toxic Drugs Crisis,  2021 Western North America Heat Wave

Title: "Still thinking about how untrue this is."

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1513905618091921410/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Still thinking about how untrue this is. The province spent months telling people who called for rapid tests to be made “widely available” that they weren’t a silver bullet, and made a point in December of saying they would only be used in targeted fashion. / the province claiming rapid tests were widely available when in fact they were anything but is very bad but the ratio? friends, the ratio is very good / Communications people sometimes get defensive when I say the first rule of political communications is never to acknowledge you've done something wrong. But this is a pretty straightforward example of how that works — and how it's not really helpful. https://twitter.com/PHSAofBC/status/1513923335557582848"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Provincial Health Services Authority,  Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: "The Pacific Buffet remains steadfast"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1523523206652383232/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "masks are no longer mandatory, vaccine cards are gone, cruise ships and concerts are back, but the pacific buffet remains steadfast / bc ferries is like a lot of us the last two years: sitting tight, cautiously making plans, cancelling those plans, and now chaotically saying 'summer? fall? who knows honestly'"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: "The buffet isn’t coming back"

URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/1649494215616004096/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "anyhow the buffet isn’t coming back"

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Subject:   BC Ferries,  Jimenez, Nicolas

Title: "The province still believes they are on a good course outside the Okanagan."

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1423755509778157571?s=09

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "'These steps we believe will allow us to contain the transmission of the virus,' says Dr. Henry, pushing people to get vaccinated. The province still believes they are on a good course outside the Okanagan. We'll see."

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Henry, Bonnie,  Vaccinations

Title: "There are a number of signs that B.C. has entered into a 3rd Omicron wave"

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1544054073187479552/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "There are a number of signs that B.C. has entered into a 3rd Omicron wave, the length and severity of which is yet to be determined. Let's take a look at what we know at the moment. / #COVID19 measurements have risen in four of Metro Vancouver's five wastewater treatment plants the last two weeks. Prior to this, only one had been going up, the rest falling or stable. Thus far it has not been a huge spike up, but we've been down this road before. / In addition, hospitalizations had been dropping for the last six weeks. But that trend stopped last week — which by itself might not be a huge worry, but combined with global tends and local wastewater measurements, should give pause. / Lagging effects being what they are, we've seen in the last couple weeks a big fall in immediate deaths attributed to COVID. Hard to do comparisons because of the government changing measurements, but 2nd Omicron wave was similar to the 1st Omicron wave in terms of deaths. / Many places are seeing similar waves at the moment, driven by BA.4 or BA.5 variants. It's showing signs of being more transmissible and dangerous than BA.2, which fuelled B.C.'s second Omicron wave in March/April. So what is the B.C. government doing? / At this point, B.C. isn't providing data on the newest Omicron variants. One can see the growing "Other" section of variants in the chart and probably put two and two together, but it's another way in which B.C.'s lack of data makes it hard to paint a full picture. / At this point, B.C. has provided the lowest number of 4th doses of any Canadian province releasing data. Given the high numbers of British Columbians who received 1st/2nd/3rd doses, this is likely a result of government strategy to restrict access relative to the rest of Canada / Forecasting what comes next is difficult for a few reasons: - Few countries have seen a BA 4/5 plateau yet - Countries have quite different immunity profiles at this point - The quality of B.C.'s public data, which was uhhhh open to debate at the best of times, is much lower now / Will be worth watching if B.C. changes its 4th dose strategy soon, if BA 4/5 waves plateau in other countries, and what that plateau looks like in terms of health outcomes. But in the short-term hard to imagine a scenario where transmission in B.C. doesn't go up. k thread over"

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Subject:   Omicron Variant,  Variants of Concern,  Province of British Columbia,  Wastewater Surveillance,  Vaccinations

Title: "Video games on BC Ferries are BACK"

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6HvvcHWEAk1XJg?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "video games on bc ferries are BACK* *40% were still broken, why would you spend the pandemic fixing this, or ever upgrading a service that has seen a huge boom in popularity from nostalgic millennials with disposable income, that would make too much sense"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: Active confirmed COVID-19 cases in B.C. by health region | January 8, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErQVLvtW4AEc636?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "The number of confirmed active #COVID19 cases has fallen by 40% in the last three weeks, and is now at 6,118, the lowest number since Nov. 15. This is primarily due to Fraser Health, which is on a good trendline. Trendline for Island/Interior/Northern still not ideal."

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Subject:   Fraser Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health

Title: B.C. hospitals with the highest occupancy rate | January 17, 2022

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

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "anyhow a) i messed up with my first chart and put two kelownas; this is the accurate one, b) hopefully that was somewhat interesting, if frustrating and depressing much like most of this"

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Subject:   Royal Inland Hospital,  Interior Health,  Nanaimo Regional General Hospital,  Island Health,  Kelowna General Hospital,  Lions Gate Hospital,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Richmond Hospital

Title: COVID-19 cases in the 4th wave in B.C. have dramatically shifted to people in their 20s | August 6, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8JC0DaVcAQlb_w?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Anyways, he was wrong then. But if he said it today, he would be sort of be right."

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control,  Horgan, John

Title: COVID-19 cases per million residents on Vancouver Island: January 22 to May 31, 2020

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZs4pOnU0AAhba3?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "On Vancouver Island, there's been a huge difference in #COVID19 cases in the northern half of the Island (everything north of Qualicum Beach, essentially), and the southern half"

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: COVID-19 in British Columbia by the numbers | March 25, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExW7Fs3VoAMXO8z?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "800 new cases of #COVID19 in B.C., the highest number since the very height of the second wave, as the province's trendline is going up VERY sharply now. Active cases jump by almost 300, now the highest since January 8. Five new deaths and hospitalizations up. Today's chart."

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: Epidemic curve for COVID-19 cases among BC First Nations | February 23, 2020 - April 26, 2021 | First Nations Health Authority

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0Pz9s2UUAAA38i?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "On January 13, there were 753 active #COVID19 cases tracked by the First Nations Health Authority. On February 15, it was 438. March 15, it was 337. April 13, it was 168. April 26, it was 96. We're moving in the right direction."

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Subject:   First Nations Health Authority,  Fraser Health,  Interior Health,  Northern Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health

Title: Epidemic curve for COVID-19 cases among BC First Nations | February 23, 2020 - May 13, 2021 | First Nations Health Authority

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1oNOopVUAIVEib?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "On January 13, there were 753 active #COVID19 cases tracked by the First Nations Health Authority. On February 15, it was 438. March 15, it was 337. April 13, it was 168. May 13? Just 61. A 92% reduction in four months. We're getting there."

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Subject:   First Nations Health Authority,  Fraser Health,  Interior Health,  Northern Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health

Title: Highest % of people in local health areas with positive COVID-19 cases in February 2021 | CBC News

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwE9ipKXMAQh3a2?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "And transmission of #COVID19 is very high in Prince Rupert right now! Here's a new chart, looking at the % of people in each local health area who got the virus last month. Literally 1 in 62 in Prince Rupert got it last month, and no other urban area was close to that ratio."

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Title: July 2021 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, in B.C. local health areas with 100,000+ people | August 11, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E8kISNKVoAUcjO0?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "There are 21 local health areas in British Columbia with at least 100,000 people. Adjusted for population, here's how many cases each of them had in July. In fact, it makes the Kelowna area look even worse."

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: July 2021 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, in B.C. local health areas with 100,000+ people | August 11, 2021

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1425680249195405318

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "There are 21 local health areas in British Columbia with at least 100,000 people. Adjusted for population, here's how many cases each of them had in July. In fact, it makes the Kelowna area look even worse."

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Title: Location of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. by health authority | June 18, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4Mn0vRVcAAbyXH?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "ZERO CASES in Island Health, for the first time in many many months. As with Northern Health earlier this week, it's hard to imagine it consistently staying at zero, given B.C.'s strategy. But it's easy to imagine it staying around 0-5 a day for quite some time."

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Subject:   Fraser Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Interior Health,  Northern Health,  Island Health

Title: Location of new COVID-19 cases in B.C. by health authority | June 8, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E3ZLPj6VUAEUqux?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Overall this is a very good space for B.C. to be in when you consider three months ago — but between the slowdown in our decline and first doses, and questions about variants, we still have to live with uncertainty and caution for a while yet. Keep making smart choices."

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Subject:   Fraser Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Interior Health,  Northern Health,  Island Health

Title: Media advisory | February 3, 2021 | Ministry of Health | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EtUjj4aUUAMv6ri?format=png&name=4096x4096

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Looks like changes to B.C.'s policies in schools re: #COVID19 could be coming. "Enhanced health and safety guidelines" being announced at 10am tomorrow. Let the speculation commence!"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Education,  Whiteside, Jennifer,  Henry, Bonnie,  Higginson, Stephanie,  Province of British Columbia

Title: Per cent of British Columbians who are unvaccinated | July 23, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E7UaAgXVIAMJGoB?format=jpg&name=medium

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "There are approximately 900,000 eligible British Columbians who have not gotten a vaccine shot yet. As we've talked about in recent weeks, they're disproportionately outside the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island."

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Northern Health,  Interior Health,  Fraser Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health

Title: Percent of men and women in B.C. over 50 with one vaccine dose | May 2, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E001dTLUcAMQc91?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "It's important to talk about vaccine hesitancy in B.C. But it's also important to remember that just 90% of people over 70 are choosing to get a shot. Trendline for people in their 60s looking good too. If we can keep up that level in younger age groups, it'll be helpful."

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: Positivity rate of COVID-19 in B.C. by health region, 7-day average | June - December 2020

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpPgRpWUYAIE-RF?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Let's look at a reassuring #COVID19 chart, the weekly positivity rate in Vancouver Coastal Health and Island Health. This is encouraging, particularly Island Health, which is now under 1% again, with around 10 new cases a day."

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Subject:   Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health

Title: Reasons for essential travel | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EzrGimWUcAEBfbm?format=png&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Here is B.C.'s list of essential reasons for travelling between Vancouver Island/Lower Mainland/Beyond Hope"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia

Title: Rolling average of COVID-19 cases by health region in Omicron wave | January 5, 2022

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIX8jKfVEAADaVj?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "3,798 official PCR cases of #COVID19 today, but it looks like Fraser could be stalling out due to capacity issues in the same way Coastal Health did two weeks ago. Still a steady and steep increase in Interior and Island though."

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Subject:   Omicron Variant,  Variants of Concern,  Fraser Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health,  Interior Health,  Northern Health

Title: Test positivity in B.C. by health authority in July 2021 | August 11, 2021

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1425631749363490821

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "What happened is pretty straightforward: the Interior was less vaccinated than the Lower Mainland, and had higher rates of ongoing transmission when the Delta variant swept in. If there's anything *encouraging*, it's that their positivity rate may be plateauing. But still."

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Subject:   Interior Health,  Fraser Health,  Northern Health,  Vancouver Coastal Health,  Island Health,  Vaccinations,  Delta Variant,  Variants of Concern

Title: Weekly COVID-19 cases in Prince Rupert, pre and post-community vaccination | CBC News

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ey-arQKVEAINdQb?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "The newest weekly reports on #COVID19 cases in all local health areas in B.C. is out, and there is very good news for Prince Rupert. Two weeks removed from 85% of adults getting a vaccine shot, the community's weekly total of new cases is down 77% from its peak."

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: Weekly COVID-19 cases in Prince Rupert, pre and post-community vaccination | February 13 to April 17, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ezi2_alVkAEbP1q?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "I have tremendous news about Prince Rupert. In March, the B.C. city of 12,000 had the highest #COVID19 transmission rate in the province. Every adult was offered the chance to be vaccinated. At the peak, there were more than 100 weekly cases. Last week, there were 3. / For those outside B.C., there isn't a city with more than 15,000 people within 500 km of Prince Rupert, and it's effectively surrounded by water on three sides. It's an ideal place to measure mass vaccinations in an urban setting. And the evidence is wonderful."

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Northern Health

Title: Weekly COVID-19 cases in Prince Rupert, pre and post-community vaccination | February 13, 2021 to May 22, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E2W_XqsUUAIT0rP?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "ZERO CASES PRINCE RUPERT"

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Subject:   Vaccinations,  Northern Health

Title: Weekly COVID-19 cases in Prince Rupert, pre and post-community vaccination | May 1, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0qjM9cVkAAdAcT?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "News out of Prince Rupert continues to be good. Two months ago, it was the hotspot for transmission in British Columbia. 85% of adults were given a vaccine shot. Weekly #COVID19 cases fell from more than 100 to 3. Then they went to 2. Last week, there was ONE CASE."

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: ["Video Zone" closed on BC Ferries]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4xWjMzWUAE6VY-?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "i mean spiritually it’s been closed for like 11 years"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: [BC vaccination data by health region and age] | May 2, 2021 | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0kjlpuVkAEjYUr?format=png&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "The B.C. government has just provided vaccination data by health region and age. Unsure if this will become a consistent thing like in other provinces, but happy to have for today!"

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: [COVID-19 restrictions:] Starting on Feb. 16, 11:59 p.m. | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FLqwSl3UUAAhNbB?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "All major #COVID19 restrictions on public gatherings and businesses in B.C. are being eliminated tomorrow."

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  BC Vaccine Card

Title: [COVID-19 testing delays on Vancouver Island]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1473772586412560384/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Question for folks on Vancouver Island who have tried to get tested the last few days: how long was your wait? Did you have to book an appointment instead of waiting in line? If so, what was the turnaround? / Island Health has confirmed to CBC what obvious: that there are delays of 2 to 5 days to get a test and that they didn't ramp up capacity in time to meet the current demand / The Omicron spike is happening at literally the worst possible week of the year — both for families that want to gather, and health agencies who had long ago given people time off after an immensely stressful 2021. No happy choices right now."

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Subject:   Island Health,  Omicron Variant,  Variants of Concern

Title: [Comment about how British Columbia provides COVID-19 case information]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1478839984161312772/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "still remains funny that 22 months into the pandemic the only way british columbia provides total cases by local health area is a static jpeg where some of the areas aren't even labelled / you see those 398 and 462 case counts side by side? one of them is enderby, and one is armstrong/spallumcheen every month it's my own personal geography quiz it's fun, we're all having fun"

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [Comment on BC Ferries onboard services]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1543709367983226880/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "bc ferries: the buffet is closed and the tv is off and the video games don’t work but the quiet relaxing area that requires no maintenance but would allow more space on crowded sailings? yeah that’s also closed indefinitely"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: [Comment on BC Ferries signage]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1574065342300684288/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "bc ferries: what do you want improved everyone: less cancellations, the buffet opened, the coffee bar opened, the lounge reopened, the arcade machines fixed, really it’s about having existing services open and working bc ferries: what if we put 50 signs up about this instead"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: [Comment on lack of updates on COVID-19 cases]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1377414047381946370

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "The BC Centre for Disease Control hasn't updated its dashboard on cases today, there was no update on the number of variants, and information on regional cases haven't been updated since Monday. it's fine, it's fine, things are going great, don't blow this for us folks"

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control,  Variants of Concern

Title: [Comments on anticipated COVID-19 case numbers]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1474093264617672722/

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "When you factor in the rapid growth of Omicron, the delays in testing in Vancouver, and many people on Vancouver Island are being asked to wait 2-4 days to get a test, the numbers on the 29th could be unfathomably high. However... / What we saw last Christmas was a decrease in testing the days directly around Christmas because people didn't want to get tested so they wouldn't have to cancel plans — but then testing and cases shot up quickly right afterwards. Which *could* happen again! / All of which is to repeat what we've been saying for the last week: cases will go up massively, other jurisdictions will give strong hints of where we're heading, exact accuracy more difficult than ever right now. It is frustrating, but the unfortunate reality. / UPDATE: the government phoned me back, and said they are looking at ways to provide data about the deadly pandemic over the four days where no information is currently scheduled. Unsure if the two people that told me there was no data were wrong, or if government is scrambling. / (we're all having a good time, aren't we) / How is the test-trace-isolate strategy going? Tests: days to get one on Vancouver Island, people turned away in Vancouver, less rapid tests than anywhere outside Newfoundland Trace: signs it's already being overrun Isolate: see above on testing + no Christmas travel ban / Quebec has over 9000 cases today, Ontario nearly 6000, goodness knows lots of places are struggling with the incredible transmissibility of Omicron. But it feels like if the optimistic projections for Omicron's virulence are wrong, we're in a less than ideal place to respond."

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Subject:   Omicron Variant,  Variants of Concern,  Island Health,  Rapid Antigen Tests,  Province of British Columbia

Title: [Comments on how BC government provides COVID-19 data]

URL: https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1423032753822466049

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Every day somebody asks if there is info on new cases/hospitalizations by vaccination status. The government doesn't provide that data with any regularity, as they always lag behind other jurisdictions in transparency of new pandemic metrics. If I had the data, I would share. / The same things that we talked about in the last week still hold: - You are at much decreased risk with two shots - The variant is very transmissible and without new restrictions cases should grow - Hospitalizations/deaths will be much lower this wave - It's still a pandemic / While we have evidence from other countries that 4th wave Delta surges plateau at a lower level than 2nd or 3rd wave, we still don't have data on how much lower they will go. And we have reopening up of schools and universities in a month. Choices ahead for the government."

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia,  Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Vaccinations,  Variants of Concern,  Delta Variant

Title: [Details on BC's proposed paid sick leave program] | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1H7VzWVkAEV5Vn?format=png&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Here are the details from the B.C. government on the new paid sick leave program that's being proposed"

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia

Title: [Island Health's statement on increase in demand for COVID-19 testing]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FHU-6MWVIAI82dl?format=jpg&name=small

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Island Health has confirmed to CBC what obvious: that there are delays of 2 to 5 days to get a test and that they didn't ramp up capacity in time to meet the current demand"

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: [Map of coastal B.C. with Prince Rupert identified]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwE8o0QXIAYwQZJ?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "So, first off, a map is handy: here's where Prince Rupert is. There's about 12,000 people in the city, but it's 150km from the nearest urban area. In other words, it's manageable to ship a small portion of B.C.'s AZ supply there, and immediately stomp out transmission."

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: [Message from BC Public Service regarding Ministry of Health employee testing positive for COVID-19] | Province of British Columbia

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnomjSoVgAERQpe?format=png&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "Rumours that someone in the Victoria office of B.C.'s Ministry of Health tested positive for #COVID19, causing contact tracing involving hundreds of people. The government says they "are aware of reports that a Ministry of Health employee tested positive," but that's it."

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Subject:   Province of British Columbia | Ministry of Health,  Province of British Columbia

Title: [Screenshot of Twitter post about Dr. Bonnie Henry visiting a Kelowna sandwich shop]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5Y1OdNVIAMdd9G?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Justin McElroy on Twitter: "this website continues to be free"

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie,  Mackin, Bob,  Little Hobo Soup and Sandwich Shop,  Simpson, Shane,  2021 Western North America Heat Wave