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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: "#BCEdEnhancedMeasures trending #3"

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

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "You’re rock , concerned citizens of #BC! #BCEdEnhancedMeasures trending #3 now…."

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Subject:   Twitter Social Media

Title: "#BCedEnhancedMeasures is trending #2"

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FIT-OrqVUAEDrJl?format=jpg&name=900x900

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "So #BCedEnhancedMeasures is trending #2 in #Canada. Can we make it #1 ?"

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Subject:   Twitter Social Media

Title: COVID-19 in British Columbia by the numbers | August 20, 2021

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9Z2X7fWUAo0o8T?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Look 👇👇 at where we were in #BC last July/Aug 2020 in the left & look where we are now—far right—heading into fall #BCEd #k12 reopenings. We need #COVIDsafeSchools with #maskmandates & healthy air quality https://cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-bc-update-aug-20-1.6147651"

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Subject:   BC Centre for Disease Control

Title: [3 of 20 students in a VIU class test positive for COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1477699712744493058/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Hearing that 3 of my 20 something students in 1 cohort—who were triple vaxxed already—got #COVID19 is not comforting for this 50 something prof who still hasn’t even been contacted by #BC #PHO to schedule a booster appointment …"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Vaccinations

Title: [Air quality during first day back to face-to-face teaching at VIU]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1436581536082501640/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "First day of teaching F2F #VIUEd. Used my CO2 meter —windows/door open most of the time. Highest we got was ~900ppm when door got closed. Once open it dropped back down ranging from 400s-high 600/700s most of the time / Shared the @HarvardChanSPH & @CUBoulder indoor air quality needs calculator & how to use with my #teachered students & showed them estimates of ventilation alone or adding 1 then 2 small #HEPA Units—& positive effects on air quality. / Many thanks to @AZEdUnited for allowing me to join them & teaching me how to use the @HarvardChanSPH & @CUBoulder indoor air quality calculator for classrooms.🙏❤️ (Since we’re in Canada had to measure room in ft vs m 😉) & our ceiling height was just over 9ft."

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Ventilation

Title: [COVID-19 poem based on WWII poem by Pastor Martin Niemöller]

URL: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E84QXNsWEAAtDRP?format=jpg&name=large

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Little did I realize how accurate the 4th stanza of this riff on Martin Niemöller's WWII poem would be when I wrote this in 2020--now in the 4th #COVID19 wave of #Delta. #MasksSaveLives & Kids deserve #COVIDsafeSchools"

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Subject:   Hengstler, Julia Delta Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [COVID-19 policy and practice limericks]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1485442435517804545/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "My #BC #COVID19 policy & practice limericks so far….feel free to add your own …. / 1 -'There once was a place we called BC, Where COVID ran amok quite badly; The problem you see, Was just Bonnie Henry Refusing to see it was airborne. #COVID19 #BC #BCNDP / 2- 'BC under Bonnie don’t fare well, With COVID in numbers we can’t tell. When confronted with facts, She jumps like on tacks, And dances a jig for the pressers.' #COVID19 #BC #BCNDP / 3-'My Bonnie lies over the numbers; My Bonnie lies over the facts; My Bonnie lies over the numbers, Oh please take that Bonnie to task, to task… Take that, Take that, Please take that Bonnie to task!' Not a limerick but 🤷‍♀️ #COVID19 #BC #BCNDP / 4 - 'Trudeau sent RATs to BC, & Dr Henry found it quite funny; Poor Justin believed they went to BC, But they were all hoarded by Bonnie.' #COVID19 #BC #RATs #rapidtests #BCNDP @JustinTrudeau @theJagmeetSingh / 5-'COVID patients were considered contagious, And rooming with others outrageous, 'Until omicron see', said Bonnie Henry, 'Through hospitals you can all become vectors!' #COVID19 #BCNDP"

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Subject:   Henry, Bonnie Trudeau, Justin Rapid Antigen Tests Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Christmas market at Cowichan Community Centre not requiring proof of vaccination]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1462165714387681286/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Briefly toyed with idea of attending indoor holiday market at #CowichanCommunityCentre in #Duncan #BC this weekend. I called Centre office & when I asked they said they are not checking #VaccinePassports. So it was a definite No-Go for us. @DuncanCowichan @CowichanCitizen / For those interested in managing their #COVID19 risk exposure at public events, here is the link to #CowichanCommunityCentre #Duncan #BC Christmas Chaos fair’s ‘ communicable disease prevention plan’ https://cvrd.ca/DocumentCenter/View/102047/Chaos-Communcable-Disease-Plan---2021 @DuncanCowichan @CowichanCitizen / According to @mycvrd 'Indoor Markets: [are] exempt from Proof of Vaccination. …Proof of Vaccination is not required to attend & capacity numbers are not limited to 50 at a time; Masks will be required for people age 5+ since it is an indoor public space' / FWIW my husband just finished a indoor craftshow in #Vancouver that required proof of vaccination for both vendors & attendees. Other shows in other facilities also require proof of #vaccination. / BTW vs #CVRD not requiring #vacvinepasdports for INDOOR Christmas chaos…another person pointed out to me via a private group that the #Vancouver OUTDOOR Christmas Market requires #vaccinepassports for attendees. @DuncanCowichan @CowichanCitizen"

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Subject:   Cowichan Community Centre Vaccinations BC Vaccine Card Cowichan Valley Regional District

Title: [Classroom CO2 monitors and HEPA filters discussed in VIU Education class]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1568382741355593728/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Discussed use of #CO2 meters & #HEPA filters in a classroom this week with my #VIUEd students in #EDTE431 —along with a wireless mic to boost instructor volume ( also why a wirelesss mic & speakers don’t replace accessibility equipment like a #RedCat system)"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University | Education Vancouver Island University Ventilation

Title: [Comment about fuel consumption's apparent importance over COVID-19 exposures for inter-school sports]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1466296593741615105/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "And in #BCEd #k12 — @BCSchoolSports & #BC #PHO apparently thinks Inter-school competition is safe for schools—with no #vaccine mandates —but they are clearly concerned about fuel consumption for travel in this #COVID19 pandemic but not exposures via travel https://bcschoolsports.ca/sites/default/files/files/news/pdf/BCSS%20Volleyball%20Championships%20and%20Winter%20Sports%20Update%20-%20Nov%2030%202021.pdf / Just pointing out @BCSchoolSports is advocating “carpooling, public transit or busses” for travel in concern for gas consumption. Sounds safe on eve of #omicron, right? / So @BCSchoolSports is this what a safe school sporting event sounds like to you? You might want to find out what school this was—looks like in #FraserHealtb.👇👇 / Also hearing about #BC schools that didn’t get the memo about volunteers/coaches from community needing to be fully #vaccinated —letting non-vaxxed (& not employed to work with school kids) people work directly with #k12 kids in #BC."

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Subject:   Vaccinations BC Schools Sports Henry, Bonnie Omicron Variant Variants of Concern

Title: [Comment about how COVID-19 testing works on Vancouver Island]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1432739153859338240/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "So you want a #BC provincial health test for #COVID19 on #VancouverIsland in #VIHA —you will need to call (844)901-8442 , and wait for your opportunity to press 3 to request a CALL BACK to just TRY to book an appointment. Call backs may take up to 24hrs…."

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Subject:   Island Health

Title: [Comment about mask usage outside of BC Ferries cafeteria areas]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1490552882029944832/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Uggh. Why can’t @BCFerries just make sure people outside cafeteria areas are actually keeping their masks on. Moving away from dude with in 1 area who took it completely off—then bunch of folks with them below their noses in other areas. Seriously, WTF @BCFerries ? / At least we, ourselves, have close fitting #KN95s on…If I hadn’t had to move oldest to Vancouver this weekend—I wouldn’t ride @BCFerries unless I could just stay in my car! 🦠🙄😡"

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Subject:   BC Ferries

Title: [Comment about possibility of long COVID]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1523697020417961984/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Since having #COVID19 in late January 2022 & coping with my husband’s #lymphoma surfacing just after infection—coincidence? 🤔—I have noticed myself struggling for very common words on occasion. NEVER before in my life have I EVER been at a loss for words. #longCOVID ?"

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Subject:   Long COVID

Title: [Comment about unvaccinated volunteers working in schools]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1466496099355561984/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Just got off the phone with #VIHA —under Sect AA of 11/16/21 provincial health order all schools are ENTIRELY EXEMPT from the order. So it’s totally permissible for adult non-vaxxed volunteers to be freely mixing about with our kids in schools during sports & clubs / Sect 8 & 9 specifically prevent any fully unvaxxed volunteers working with kids in other capacities— BUT NOT SCHOOLS / The full health order: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer/covid-19/covid-19-pho-order-gatherings-events.pdf"

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Subject:   Vaccinations

Title: [Comment on lack of COVID-19 testing site in the Cowichan Valley]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1443099547446628352/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: ". @SoniaFurstenau @ElizabethMay @AMacGregor4CML @VIHA @VIUniversity How is it possible with the numbers of schools & #VIU campus in #Cowichan that we now have no #VIHA testing sites for #COVID19? Surely that’s a mistake? If not, something needs to be done ASAP!"

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Subject:   Island Health Vancouver Island University Cowichan Valley School District

Title: [Comment on mask exemption for post-secondary presenters who are two metres from audience]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1433616034368573444/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "UGGGH. New ministerial order in BC #highered exempts staff or students presenting from wearing a mask if 2 meters from the audience. Does no one want to recognize the #aerosol transmission of Delta & COVID???? See Sept 2/21 https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/office-of-the-provincial-health-officer/covid-19/covid-19-pho-order-face-coverings.pdf sections 7(k) & 8(i) / Tell me how many university students will be willing to ask a professor to take a step back when teaching? To keep doing it? What recourse will students have! / Ideas for making sure profs & others keep distance when presenting? Pool noodle in every room? Someone else just suggested water guns? LOL. / . @CDC Marin County case study mean anything to these folks? / What about @jdribo experience at FSU where fully masked, vaxxed prof--in classroom with masked post sec students--with only AC for ventilation--GOT COVID! / He thinks it may be possible he picked it up elsewhere but given extended exposure and lack of ventilation & previous role of AC in spread of COVID, it seems likely the classroom setting had high exposure risk"

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Subject:   Delta Variant Variants of Concern Ventilation Larkspur Corte Madera School District Ribó, John Florida State University

Title: [Comment on number of September COVID-19 school exposures on Vancouver Island]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1437966941797249027/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "So in #VIHA looking at @BCschoolCovid info tonight, last year #VIHA schools had about 2 #COVID19 exposures logged for the MONTH of Sept. 2020; This year, #VIHA schools are already at 20 notices logged for LESS THAN A FULL WEEK 9/7-10/21 of exposure info."

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Subject:   BC School Covid Tracker Island Health

Title: [Cowichan Secondary students test positive for COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1482140265599012870/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Neighbor’s son attends #CowichanHigh —in Duncan —tested #COVID19 positive ( 2xRAT results positive) after small teen gathering with 4 more teens positive. Told parents to contact @BCschoolCovid on Facebook via private message. Kid’s exposure was likely Sunday. / Dropped off box of #kn95s along with info on how likely biggest threat for them is shared air; kid has own room—now with fan set up blowing air out. Nearby bathroom—told them he needs to mask any time leaving bedroom for bathroom; feed him on paper plates & disposable cutlery… / Keep garbage bag in room for contaminated paper plates, used tissues masks etc They took screen out so can be dropped out window for later pick up. If parent needs to go in bedrm -#kn95s needed, etc. Masks good for 8hrs use; kid should hang & not handle mask or leave lying around / Was in town & saw more #kn95s for sale—called neighbor & asked if he wanted more. He had me pick up 2 boxes. Store has them behind the counter now, so you have to get them at register."

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Subject:   Cowichan Secondary School Cowichan Valley School District Island Health BC School Covid Tracker

Title: [FIsherman hears that COVID-19 situation on Pender Island is "bad"]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1436903320203841538/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: ". @realreporter My husband selling from his boat on Pender Is. today & local customer told him the #COVID19 situation on Pender is “bad” & that actual info not being shared publicly. You have any more info?"

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Title: [Libraries to start lending CO2 monitors]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1510814179552243720/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "What about you @VI_Library @VIRLCowichan 👇👇?"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island Regional Library Ventilation Peterborough Public Library Toronto Public Library

Title: [Mother of teen patient refuses to wear mask in doctor's office waiting room]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1508572885803155456/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "At Dr’s office in waiting room in Duncan—mother of teen stalks off when told she’d need to wear a mask in waiting room: ' I’m not wearing a mask,' she says as she gets up to leave & turns to daughter. 'I’ll wait for you outside. ' Daughter grabs mask, done, & sits down. / Who is more responsible? Who empathetic? 🤔🤔🤔"

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Title: [Planned COVID mitigation measures for teaching at VIU]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1561022305722986496/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Someone just asked if I’ll #mask when I return to teach in #VIUEd @VIUniversity #pistsecondary classroom-with #COVID19 most infectious variants circulating & #monkeypox on horizon….👇 @VIUFA @UVicFA @SFU_FA @CUFA @FacultyUbc @rucbc @BCAIU / I’ll also be using my #CO2 monitor to ensure healthy air quality for everyone in the room—my biggest challenge is getting another portable air filter to haul around. With both my sons away now—gave them my 2 portable filters for their apt/dorm rooms. / I guess I could build a #CorsiBox (but I’m kinda lazy…) 😳🙄🤣 / But apparently building the #corsirosenthalbox is easier than I thought & a lot cheaper than other air filtration units…I may just shame myself into it: Here’s the ‘how-to’"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Monkeypox Variants of Concern Ventilation Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes

Title: [Question about air quality on BC Ferries]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1490564144122130434/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Anyone know what air filtration standards are on #BCFerries ? Website talks about “adequate ventilation to maximize the flow of fresh air” ( https://bcferries.com/in-the-community/projects/covid-19-coronavirus-disease) @BCFerries what does that mean exactly?"

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Subject:   BC Ferries Ventilation

Title: [Questions about rapid antigen tests for Cowichan Valley students]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1485729691516375040/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: ". @SoniaFurstenau @AMacGregor4CML Can you look into why #VIHA might be actively dissuading school communities from providing donated #rapidtests even to SYMPTOMATIC students & families in Cowichan Valley when they can’t get them elsewhere right now? @CowichanCitizen @PennyDaflos / Please ask #VIHA about messaging sent to school admin in #CowichanValley about possible school community funded (via families or community donations) provision of #rapidtests when they health authorities are no longer providing them! / And why not allow school communities to self source #rapidtests especially now that your constituents’ #CowichanValley has its first functional closure for #COVID19 ? 👇"

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Subject:   Rapid Antigen Tests Island Health Cowichan Valley School District Cowichan Tribes Quw'utsun Smuneem Elementary School

Title: [Slides from a VIU education class:] Teaching F2F in the era of Delta COVID-19

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1468708880028864514/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Some slides my Sept 21 class on #COVID19 & teaching #F2F / Slides starting at # 40ff / +4 / +4 / +4 (close up of scale was for capture & use later by my students & thanks to @jeremychrysler for his graphic too! ) / +4 / +4 (Thanks to @AZEdUnited for teaching me about the calculator & welcoming me to their sessions!) / +3 (BTW my 18 yr old said every school admin should have to read the @CDCgov case study I cited here—see https://cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…; all my year 4 #teachered students had to do it) Let me know if you’d like my question set / I didn’t post my references slides as they covered the entire presentation but happy to do so if anyone wants"

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Subject:   Vancouver Island University Vancouver Island University | Education Delta Variant Variants of Concern Ventilation

Title: [Spouse of COVID-positive neighbour told no need to isolate]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1439432504998383616/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: "Neighbor in her 70s —double vaxxed—in #VIHA —now positive with #COVID19 —& #VIHA told her husband since he’s vaxxed & doesn’t have symptoms—he can go out and about like anybody else. 🤯🤬 / Btw her husband has significantly compromised lungs. / Going to drop off a rapid test & our pulse oximeter for them to borrow."

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Subject:   Rapid Antigen Tests

Title: [Vancouver Island children's camp closed for 12 cases of COVID-19]

URL: https://twitter.com/jhengstler/status/1430273261112279048/

Description: Trapped in Covid Ground Hog Day on Twitter: ". @realreporter Just heard from parent on #VancouverIsland kids --her children's camp just closed for 12 cases of COVID in #VIHA"

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Subject:   Island Health

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