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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"It is unfair for me to look at my children, and tell them that 2/3 are not Disabled enough for supports... and it is inequitable that one of them should receive stable supports while the other two continue to fall behind after years of injustice and struggles." #BCPoli #Elxn #BCEd
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
cc #BCMedia @thetyee.ca @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social @timescolonist.bsky.social @cheknews.ca @globalnews.ca @vancouversun.bsky.social @theprovince.com @pennydaflos.bsky.social @sobittersosweet.bsky.social @brishti.bsky.social @kehyslop.bsky.social @andreawoo.bsky.social @robshaw.bsky.social
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please Stop the Cuts to Disability Funding for Autistic Kids: An Open Letter to the Leader of the BC Greens @emilylowan.bsky.social @bcgreens.bsky.social #BCPoli #Elxn babybytes.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/p...
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Please Stop the Cuts to Disability Funding for Autistic Kids: An Open Letter to the Leader of the BC Greens
Hi Ms. Lowan, I am reaching out to you today as both [sic] a former (BC)NDP voter. Currently, the BCNDP is cutting stable Disability funding to thousands of Autistic kids in BC – and shocking…
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey #BCEd: Does anyone know if @bctf.bsky.social endorses the FSAs now? Additionally: is it actually true that they are mandatory? Thanks!
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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am not at my best and if I get worse I will need some help to be on the safe side. a 30$ for safety ok that's vague. im doing very badly right now, ok cut off is 9pm (because bank) etransfer: thefool.ward@gmail.com
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👇 In all of this, those who I despise the most & respect the least are 'Orange MAGA' - who run interference for the BCNDP bet'n elxns (instead of pushing them as promised), & then tone police alienated & disenfranchised voters w valid criticisms of their party @ elxn time. #BCPoli
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Terri Brandmueller @tbrandmueller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The sheer audacity of NDP supporters urging voters not to vote Green to avoid splitting the vote and handing the win to the Cons when their leader called an unnecessary, unwanted, opportunistic election. Sorry but Eby is the author of his own misfortune if the NDP loses their majority. Unbelievable
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Also, @bcgreens.bsky.social @emilylowan.bsky.social should be capitalizing on this, because the majority of the parents abandoning @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are looking to move Green, not Con. #BCPoli
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honestly think @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social = underestimating how many votes they've lost in parent community. In the past 5mins, in 1 grp alone, I've read 20+++ comments indicating ppl are no longer voting BCNDP. Wild to deliberately alienate so many.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still cutting funding to Autistic kids, tho, @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @nikisharma.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social? #BCPoli
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#BCPoli By the way? I'm among the former @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social voters who will never vote NDP (@ndp.ca), at any level, ever again.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Of course we don't know how this all plays out, but I will repeat: "Picked a really great time to disenfranchise 30k+ parents of Disabled kids, hey @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social?" Because there are so many former BCNDP voters in parents groups around the province looking not to vote for you ever again.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#BCPoli #WhatTheNDPHaveWrought
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So disappointing. There's a whole culture of dismissing masks as excessive here and I think the BCNDP helped reinforce mask wearers as being slow to get back to normal. Remember this?
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'Everyone is moving forward at their own pace. Consider others' 

With a hummingbird, rabbit, moose and turtle. The implications is that people still masking and not going back to normal are slow turtles
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And they continue to do so. For example: No mask mandates in #BCPoli #BCMed last winter - even though other conservative provinces had them in their healthcare facilities.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Observation: 'Dippers' attacking and/or blocking BCians, including former @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social supporters, who are critical of the BCNDP & have been alienated by the party's rightward shift, is peak 'Orange MAGA.' THEY are a massive part of the problem, and how we got here. #BCPoli
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm so tired of the BCNDP. Calling an election right now is undemocratic and leveraging our very real fear about Trump to advance their agenda seems manipulative. We need much better from a 'leftist' platform than 'not Trump'
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AT A GLANCE Broken @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social promises since 2017: ❌Properly fund classrooms & school equipment ❌Replace portables w classrooms ❌Seismically safe schools ❌Ensure faster access to school & public MH services ❌EAs in every elem. classroom ❌No cuts to funding for Autistic kids
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If @davidebybc.bsky.social calls a snap elxn, remember: He & @jodiewickens.bsky.social, instead of correcting a decades-long injustice, & lifting up ALL Disabled kids in this province to ensure ALL of them receive equitable direct support, decided to deliberately cut supports to thousands. #BCPoli
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Please consider donating to this GoFundMe, to fund a legal review of David Eby's BCNDP changes to Disability funding for kids in #BCPoli. While at first these changes most heavily negatively impact Autistic kids, other Disabled kids are facing cuts, too. gofund.me/9f00cd59e
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Donate to Fair Autism & Disability Funding BC — Legal Opinion Fund, organized by Fair Autism and Disability Funding BC
Stand With BC Families for Fair Autism & Disability Funding … Fair Autism and Disability Funding BC needs your support for Fair Autism & Disability Funding BC — Legal Opinion Fund
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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Misinformation within the medical profession is a huge problem, especially within close knit subgroups like infection control and public health. Even major errors are routinely buried behind the Thin White Line in favour of protecting colleagues and the facade of infallibility. By putting the...
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Science, Pseudoscience and Public Policy - WHN
In this presentation from December 2025, Mark Ungrin discusses “How did things get this bad, and what can we do about it?”—looking at how science and pseudoscience shape public policy, and what practi...
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
A final fun fact: By 2021 when I was being pretty horribly attacked on a daily basis for being a public epidemiologist, the truly nastiest ones ... were physicians. For real. They *aggressively* defend faulty foundational knowledge to protect their authority. Fixing this won't come easy. 10/10
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We need to have more conversations about how to prevent physician expertise like this from causing mass harm. The most obvious move is to not let physicians be in charge. We need interdisciplinary leadership in public health. This requires calling out the harms of physician supremacy. 9/10
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
When physicians have faulty foundational beliefs (no symptoms = no disease being one of them), policy fails and people get sick. Because physicians protect each other, the status quo persists. That is what my Op-Ed was about (even if The Star watered it down against my objections). 8/10
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Let that sink in. Shame on this doctor for his lethal ignorance. Shame on UBC for letting him anywhere near students. Shame on the Globe and Mail for platforming him. For the record, large crowds gathering from all over is called population mixing and it's damned dangerous, full stop. 7/10
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Kids and those around them were brutally harmed by asymptomatic COVID cases while public health docs insisted that taking people's temperature at airports kept everyone safe. That's how unchecked community spread went on to kill millions. Murthy is a pediatrician who teaches med students. 6/10
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Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH @furnesscolin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
At the time, COVID minimizers insisted schools be open because kids were clearly "immune". (That was debunked by April 2020.) Remember that disease symptoms are caused by the immune system's response, NOT the virus. Any virus that evades the immune system can do massive harm without symptoms. 3/10
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
If Medicine was truly evidence based, we would have public health officers requiring 95 masks for Covid and explaining why they’re better than leaky surgical masks or the inferior cloth masks that BC’s public health officer wore in public as an living example of how to increase your infection risk
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
In a world where BC's physicians, public health & government reps threw BC's kids to the viral wolves, I will always be grateful to the Ontario-based scientists who stepped into that void, and advocated for our kids. Dr. Furness was one who stood up for my kids. Please take a moment to read this🧵👇
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
If you live in #BCPoli, take a moment to watch the video linked below. And then ask yourselves: Why are @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, @davidebybc.bsky.social, & @jodiewickens.bsky.social targeting the Autistic traits girls and those who are AFAB are more likely to exhibit, for exclusion from supports?
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No.1 Female Autism Expert: What Female Autism REALLY Looks Like (It's not what you think)
YouTube video by ADHD Chatter Podcast
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
And after age 70?.... (Hint, that's why politicians and public health types don't care to meaningfully protect elderly people from the ongoing pandemic.) Stat taken from Pg 17, here: www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/media/xbdp3t...
Screencap of section of a report from Deloitte.

Black and green text on white background reads:

(this first part is in black text) McKinsey Global Institute’s study also estimates that (the remainder from here forward is in green text) every $1 invested in children’s health generates $2.7 in economic benefits across the population under age 70, globally.1,2
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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This is Yaroun in South Lebanon. One of the oldest villages on Earth. Israel has annihilated everything. Every home destroyed. Every sign of civilian life erased. A village that stood for over 3,000 years — wiped off the map.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Current status: ✔️Adopt white cat ✔️Realize you can never wear any piece of black clothing ever, ever again
A medium hair white cat sits on a stair case of beige-brown carpet.

Except, he's sitting like a human, slouching back against the wall behind his back, his belly exposed, his tail hanging down toward the stair below him.

He's staring to the left of the picture frame, his expression gives the impression that he's contemplating how he ended up here. And/or that maybe he's seen some things.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
ICYMI: Update: According to government's published numbers of AFU kids, it's actually closer to TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND kids being removed from stable, accessible funding, by @davidebybc.bsky.social @jodiewickens.bsky.social @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social. #BCEd #BCPoli
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Who isn’t being honest @BC NDP, @Jodie Wickens? Less stone throwing in glass houses, more actual support for *ALL* Disabled kids, and kept election promises, please. #BCEd #BCPoli #Autism #FairFunding...
TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In 2022, @davidebybc.bsky.social promised that he would maintain stable funding for Autistic kids in BC. He lied. Another broken promise in a long line of broken @bcnewdemocrats.bsky.social promises. #BCEd #BCPoli #BrokenPromises #FairFundingForAll #SYKE @jodiewickens.bsky.social
A four panel comic.

In the centre of each panel, we see a hand, rising up out of a blue body of water, grasping for help.

In the top left panel, the hand is set against a blue sky, and above it we captioned in white, all caps lettering:

PARENTS OF AUTISTIC AND OTHERWISE DISABLED KIDS IN BC

In the top right panel, the hand is still reaching, and still against a blue sky, but this time from the top left, we see a hand reaching in, as though to help; above this, captioned in white, all caps lettering:

DAVID EBY:
"We will work support all disabled kids, and we won't take away stability from Autistic kids"

In the bottom left panel, this time the sky is pink, and the hand ostensibly there to give help, is actually just giving a high five to the struggling one; above this, captioned in white, all caps lettering:

DAVID EBY:

"SYKE"

In the bottom right panel, the sky is blue again, the 'helping hand' has disappeared, and the original hand is now foundering.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Well I'll be damned. @bcndp.bsky.social MLAs *CAN* stop toeing the party line, display integrity, and stand up to inequity. Amazing. How about it, @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social? How about doing the same and standing up for the 26,000+ Autistic kids you're planning to shunt off of equitable funding?
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Who isn’t being honest @BC NDP, @Jodie Wickens? Less stone throwing in glass houses, more actual support for *ALL* Disabled kids, and kept election promises, please. #BCEd #BCPoli #Autism #FairFunding...
TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉
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Tom Jackman @frozen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Governments of British Columbia have never seemed fully committed to the reconciliation between the province and Indigenous peoples; rather, B.C. governments were and are committed to telling everyone how committed they are to reconciliation. www.timescolonist.com/local-news/b...
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B.C. premier says changing DRIPA is 'non-negotiable' and will pass this session
B.C. Premier David Eby says the process has been "rushed" and "incredibly challenging," but the government has no other choice because of the legal risk facing the province.
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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Infections in Canada this week are expected to result in 2,000 hospitalizations, 380 premature deaths (people who die at least 1 year earlier than they would without COVID) and 13,000 new long COVID cases serious enough to limit daily life activities.
3 tables showing total expected hospitalizations since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), total expected ICU admissions since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%), and total expected deaths since Dec 2/21 by province (error range -/+ 10%)

Tables available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
Page 19 (Reported deaths, ICU, hospitalizations by age)
Graph showing Estimated new daily infections resulting in daily life activity-limiting symptoms lasting >3 months, by province, since Dec 2021. (5 week rolling averages)

Graph available at: https://covid19resources.ca/covid-hazard-index
Page 13 (Long COVID)
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I mean. Duh. Same in #BCPoli, but obsequious, ladder climbing PH reps would have you believe that our excess deaths are all due to a different PH failure, and not the ongoing pandemic-even when datasets adjusted for other deaths prove otherwise. Misinfo to curry favour from their misinfo leaders.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Important reminder: @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are removing EIGHTEEN THOUSAND disabled Autistic kids from AFU, into an inequitable, inaccessible, income-tested pgm; meaning many 'missing middle' families -earning $50K net/yr and up- will exp a CoL increase, and/or loss of long est. supports. #BCPoli
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Gov't gfx show: @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social are removing 18,000 disabled Autistic kids from AFU, into an inequitable, inaccessible, income-tested pgm; many 'missing middle' fams earning $50K net/yr and up will exp a CoL increase, and/or loss of long est supports. #BCPoli www.tiktok.com/@clearancesc...
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As always, further challenging @BC NDP rhetoric with regard to the harmful cuts to funding (and therefore supports) for thousands of disabled Autistic kids in British Columbia. #BCPoli #Disability #Ex...
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Setting aside her early 2020 "you can still ski" BS, when every other province was like 'wait a second, maybe we should think about prevention here,' plus ça change (how many times does history have to repeat before either she is replaced, or she learns to follow science?):
SARS1 Report screencap black text on beige BG reads:

"SARS Commission Final Report: Volume Two + Spring of Fear
The Story of SARS
The travel advisory was sort of a shift in the whole psychology in the city, and all of a sudden everyone was together. I mean when the travel advisory came down it was the City, the Province, Health Canada, everybody was outraged and fighting together, and when the travel advisory turned back, everybody celebrated about that, and then, once everybody was getting back to normal ... there should have been somebody that says, well what do you mean it's getting better? Nobody questioned it. [Dr.] Jim Young went off to China to talk about our successes and how we controlled it and [Dr.] Bonnie
Henry went with him and [Dr.] Tony [Mazzulli] went with him and nobody said, well how do you know its over, including myself. None of us said that, well, just because. And it is such a simple question to ask and we blew it. I mean, it is just amazing that everyone blew it."

Also, sidebar, noting: Noting: they [BCNDP/gov't] don't want to replace her, because she has the same values as they do: money money money, no matter the cost to actual living people.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Super encouraging that the science in #BCPoli still hasn’t advanced, and @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social’s PHO still believes we breathe through our hands (and that she controls all viruses, to service travel & tourism season)! 😆😆 BC continues to be a scientific backwater.
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Preventative measures with spring travels ahead

While the health officer has declared an end to the illness season, she's also reminding people to practice preventative measures, especially with spring break travels ahead for many.

"It's important that you continue to clean your hands regularly using soap and water or alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and cover sneezes and coughs. These practices help keep you, your families and your communities safe, healthy and happy."

"And as spring break approaches and many families are travelling, I remind you to check that your and your family's vaccines are up to date."
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Heartwarming scene: Black Cyber Truck driving past local school, at the end of recess. A large amount of children run for the school’s fence, yelling “boo” and giving the thumbs down gesture. 🥰
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
. @davidebybc.bsky.social's @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social has never met a piece of evidence or science they didn't like to ignore, hey? COVID is Airborne; masks, clean air work✅ Safe Supply works✅ Decriminalization works✅ Early Intervention (Autism) works✅ Standard Time is the better option (not DST)✅
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Please consider signing this petition. #BCPoli #BCEd actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Please consider signing this petition. Their goal is to get to 20K, and they are just over halfway there.

We have already seen that the type of system BC is proposing didn't work in Ontario, and many disabled kids there have fallen through the cracks (search the hashtag #50KIsNotOk).

There's no reason to expect that it will work here, either, especially given that many of the promises the BC NDP are making in terms of increasing "community based" (aka watered down HUBs) supports are promises they've made since 2017, and failed to deliver.

If they've failed to increase these promised and much-needed supports in eight years, how will they now do so in three? (To say nothing of the bottleneck they will create in removing current supports within a year, but not even trying to have their new system up and fully running for three - thousands of kids are going from supported to unsupported in a year, but the government is already telling us, before the change is in place, that lack of staffing is a problem.)

Don't fall for government doublespeak.

Fight for ALL disabled kids to be supported, not for some kids to be told that they aren't disabled enough, and have their vital supports removed.
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
February is Inclusive Education Month. Seems like a good time to remind parents that: Integration does NOT equal Inclusion/Inclusive Education. Inclusive Education means disabled students having access to ALL of their needed educational supports, in order to succeed in their goals. #BCEd #BCPoli
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
TikTok video pertaining to this important study, and highlighting why cutting supports to certain disabled kids in BC right now is so underhanded. #BCPoli #Disability #Exclusion #GreenScreen 👇🏻 www.tiktok.com/@clearancesc...
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Important study highlighting why cutting supports to disabled kids in BC is so underhanded. #BCPoli #Disability #Exclusion #GreenScreen
TikTok video by Jac of Too Many Trades 🍉
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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her) @jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Leaving this here for the people advocating for a reduction in supports for disabled kids in #BCPoli. And yes, our politicians and public health reps are well aware of findings like this. (What’s that about early intervention?) H/t @dlingenfelter.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Screencap of tweet from David Lingenfelter, PhD, white text on black background, reads:

Children with in-utero COVID-19 exposure showed altered brain structures at birth and lower cognitive/social scores by age two, with 52% high-risk for developmental delays.

This study links these brain changes to anxiety-like behaviors.🧵

Tweet contains screenshots of linked study, incl some of following:

The study…compared 39 mother-baby pairs exposed to COVID-19 during pregnancy w 103 pre-pandemic "normative" pairs.
Key Findings
• Altered Brain Structure: Newborns exposed to COVID-19 in utero showed significant differences in regional brain volumes. Specifically, they had:
• Increased volumes in cortical gray matter and the left hippocampus.
• Decreased volumes in subcortical gray matter and white matter.
• Cognitive & Social Delays: By age two, toddlers in the COVID-exposed group scored significantly lower on cognitive and social-emotional assessments…
• In the study cohort, roughly 52% of exposed toddlers were flagged as high-risk for developmental delays
• Internalizing Behaviors: Exposed toddlers showed higher scores in "internalizing" behaviors, which include early symptoms of anxiety and depression.
• The "Mediation" Link: The researchers found a statistical link suggesting that the changes in cortical gray matter seen at birth partially explained the lower cognitive scores at age two. These lower cognitive scores, in tum, were linked to the increase in anxiety-like (internalizing) behaviors.
Conclusion & Takeaways
The authors conclude that while most children exposed to COVID-19 in utero will likely develop normally, there is a measurable risk for subtle neurodevelopmental changes. They emphasize:
• Monitoring: The importance of consistent developmental screening for children born during the pandemic
• Early Intervention: Earty identification of these subtle differences can heip parents and clinicians provide support (such as speech or occupational therapy) sooner.
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