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Look, we all hate Trash-Stat Tuesday, none more than myself, but we're here now so we may as well just get it over with. #nbpoli #covid

It's me, in crayon, expressing my ire by grinding my teeth and not-so-carefully placing the whole of this "data" where it belongs; the fucking bin.

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Il y a des actions simples et efficaces que vous pouvez entreprendre pour aider à améliorer la situation du SARS-CoV-2 au Nouveau-Brunswick et assurer votre sécurité ainsi que celle de votre famille et de votre communauté.

Aidez à réduire la transmission de la COVID-19:
Recevez une vaccination régulière contre la COVID-19.
Portez un masque adéquat et bien ajusté.
Utilisez des tests rapides aussi souvent que vous le pouvez.
Restez à la maison quand vous êtes malade ou que vous ressentez des symptômes de la COVID-19, même s’ils sont très légers.
Demeurez informé sur les impacts et les données de la COVID-19 , les risques liés aux activités et prenez des décisions éclairées.
Améliorez la ventilation et la filtration de vos lieux d’habitation et de travail.

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If anyone reads this far, there are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

Infographic titled Help Reduce the Spread of Covid-19.
An icon of a needle with description: Stay up to date with Covid-19 vaccinations.
An icon of a mask with description: Wear a well-constructed, well fitting mask.
An icon of a rapid test with description: Utilize rapid tests as often as you are able.
An icon of a person inside a house with description: Stay home if you are sick or experiencing symptoms, even if mild.
An icon of a graph next to a person with a thought balloon with description: Stay informed about Covid-19 impacts, data, and the risks of activities and make informed decisions.
An icon of an open window with description: Improve indoor ventilation and filter indoor air.

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PoPNB @popnb.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"SEASON" SUMMARY (*subject to change) • 1305 PCR cases • 501 "hospitalizations" (11 under 19) • 37 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 30 "deaths" • 131 lab confirmed outbreaks

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Our work is paying off. So many thanks to @ryan-murphy.bsky.social for documenting this monumental success!

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Our work is paying off

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Ryan Murphy @ryan-murphy.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Our work is paying off. Today, Mandate Letters from Premier Susan Holt incoming Ministers were shared with the public. The Hon. Chuck Chiasson, Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure, will take the lead on the party's commitment to improve the air in public buildings.

A screenshot of the mandate letter to the Honourable Chuck Chiasson, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure. It outlines his responsibilities, including to update the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act, to require new schools, hospitals, long-term care homes, and other public buildings follow ASHRAE 241, and to add suitable air filtration and cooling units to existing infrastructure.

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Chris @hallwayorchard.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

With so many new people arriving, it's a good time to repost this dive into our FOI/RTI work which exposed how every provincial and territorial public health office knew about the severity and prevalence of Long Covid in July 2020 and did nothing. #cdnpoli #longcovid #covid #COVID-19 #SARS-CoV-2

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Please continue to be safe and continue to cultivate your interest in the safety of others. Fight to strengthen your impact. Rest to strengthen your resolve. Let care be your radical act. Let community be your foundation. And I will see you next week.

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Comme toujours, il y a des actions simples et efficaces que vous pouvez entreprendre pour aider à améliorer la situation du SARS-CoV-2 au Nouveau-Brunswick et assurer votre sécurité ainsi que celle de votre famille et de votre communauté.

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There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

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Updated sequencing to January 12. We see JN.1 and its ilk now making up almost 42% of cases, up from a max of 6% of cases in December. JN.1 is thought to be more immune evasive and has fuelled recent C19 waves globally.

New Brunswick Covid-19 Sequencing: January 2024

BA.2.86.1: 2.1%
EG.5.1.1: 2.1%
GK.2.1: 2.1%
HC.2: 2.1%
HK.3: 10.4%
HK.3.3: 2.1%
HV.1: 18.8%
JD.1.1: 2.1%
JE.1.1: 2.1%
JF.1: 4.2%
JG.3: 10.4%
JN.1: 14.6%
JN.1.1: 2.1%
JN.1.2: 4.2%
JN.1.4: 18.8%
JN.1.5: 2.1%

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I'd like to pause here and note that our official Covid-19 death count is 999. 999 New Brunswickers have been killed by this virus in under four years. What should be an atrocity is broadly accepted as normal, inevitable and not worthy of active mitigation. god help us.

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"SEASON" SUMMARY (of the demonstrated-to-be-incorrect numbers) • 2643 PCR cases • 1154 "hospitalizations" (20 under 19) • 76 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 64 "deaths" • 283 lab confirmed outbreaks

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Despite influenza being prevalent, we can still see that C19 is not just a flu. The impacts of C19 are deeper and more deadly by orders of magnitude.

Bar chart titled New Brunswick Respiratory Season (Aug 27, 2023 - Jan 13, 2024)

Hospitalizations: Covid-19: 1154, Influenza: 359
ICU Admissions: Covid-19: 76, Influenza: 40
Deaths: Covid-19: 64, Influenza: 17
Outbreaks: Covid-19: 283, Influenza: 32

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It is wishful thinking that the posted data represent what is in our communities. It may or may not. Current NB C19 "data" are unburdened by reality. They are poorly sampled and questionably analyzed and represent only what is happening in particular buildings in the province.

A Venn Diagram showing two circles labelled "People sick and/or dying due to Covid" and "People who happen to be in hospital."
The overlapping space, representing a very small proportion of either circle, is labelled "NB Covid Data."

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Anneke @littleann4ever.bsky.social · 07/01/2024

Wake up, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. The bad news is the virus and its associated gruesome impacts, which have been thoroughly and successfully normalized, continue to kill and disable NBers. The good news is, according to the fake numbers, the virus is slowing down a notch. #nbpoli #covid19

It's me, I'm back from a much needed break to express my ire in this internet cesspool by grinding my teeth and not-so-carefully placing the whole of this "data" where it belongs. In the fucking bin. Seriously, fuck this shit.

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All my investigative pieces to date about all that was known in B.C since Apr, 2020 about #LongCovid -including in kids- as per B.C’s own post-C19 interdisciplinary clinical care network, B.C F.O.I documents & PopNB’s @hallwayorchard.bsky.social @popnb.bsky.social comprehensive RTI work.

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There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

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So... We protect each other. Power does not want people helping people. Communal care emancipates us and fosters a security in opposition to the widespread, manufactured precarity leveraged against the public by systems of oppression and extraction.

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Here's some not-wrong data which is likely why NB PH steadfastly refuse to provide it to public or media; updated sequencing to Dec 27. HV.1 and HK.3 (related to Omicron EG.5) account for over 50% of cases, while their progenitor accounts for approximately another 10% of cases.

New Brunswick Covid-19 Sequencing December 2023

BA.2.86.1: 1.8%
EG.5.1: 5.1%
EG.5.1.1: 3.3%
EG.5.1.4: 1.2%
EG.5.2.1: 0.6%
FL.1.5.1: 0.3%
FL.1.5.2: 0.6%
FY.5: 0.3%
GK.1: 1.2%
GK.1.1: 2.4%
GK.2: 2.4%
GK.2.1: 0.3%
HK.1: 0.3%
HK.3: 19.3%
HK.3.2: 0.3%
HK.3.3: 0.6%
HK.6: 0.3%
HV.1: 35.7%
JD.1.1: 6.0%
JF.1: 3.9%
JG.3: 9.5%
JN.1: 2.1%
JN.1.1: 1.2%
XBB.1.16.11: 0.3%
XBB.1.16.17: 0.3%
XBB.1.16.6: 0.6%
XBB.1.5.70: 0.3%

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"SEASON" SUMMARY (of the demonstrated-to-be-incorrect numbers) • 2412 PCR cases • 1066 "hospitalizations" (15 under 19) • 64 "ICU admissions" (0 under 19) • 54 "deaths" • 254 lab confirmed outbreaks

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May auld mitigation be forgot and never brought to mind... it's Trash-Stat Tuesday 2024 edition. Fake numbers continue to be higher than the previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. Some fake numbers are pretty shocking maybe question mark? #nbpoli #covid19

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As we approach the holidays and are presented with the weight of our cultural traditions, consider which of your decisions and actions have occurred because of a desire to please and which have occurred because of a desire to protect.

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No one survives alone. No one can hold the space necessary for perpetual crisis. No one can be expected to achieve normalcy in the midst of abject physiological, psychological, and social precarity. We need a community to achieve the capacity necessitated by our grief.

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So, as always we continue at the expense of our own sanity and faith to do our best. There are simple and effective actions you can take to help improve the SARS-CoV-2 situation in New Brunswick and keep yourself, your family, and your community safe.

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A peculiarity here is that, with the exception of deaths, those totals, gleaned from the most recent respiratory watch report, exceed the sums of the individual reports since August. Seems as though NB PH is updating hospitalizations, ICS admissions and outbreaks.

Bar chart titled New Brunswick Respiratory Season - Weekly Data vs. Most Recent Summary Data (Aug 27, 2023 - Dec 2, 2023)

Hospitalizations: 738 vs 817
ICU Admissions: 46 vs 48
Deaths: Covid-19: 35 vs 35
Outbreaks: Covid-19: 179 vs 190

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For the "I just have a flu" crowd, and the "Covid is just a flu" crowd... doubtful and no it isn't.

Bar chart titled New Brunswick Respiratory Season (Aug 27, 2023 - Dec 2, 2023)

Hospitalizations: Covid-19: 817, Influenza: 27
ICU Admissions: Covid-19: 48, Influenza: 6
Deaths: Covid-19: 35, Influenza: 0
Outbreaks: Covid-19: 190, Influenza: 1

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Please note that NB Covid "data" is poorly sampled and questionably analyzed and represents only what is happening in particular buildings in the province. All pretence of representing reality has been wholly abandoned at this point.

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O come, all ye spiteful, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. Fake senses of calm prevail as fake numbers remain roughly the same as previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. #nbpoli #atlCanada #covid19

It's me, grinding my teeth and not-so-carefully placing the whole of this "data" where it belongs. In the fucking bin. Also I am wearing a Santa hat.

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Recognize and name deathmaking wherever you see it and recognize within yourself that while you are not solely responsible to abolish them, neither can you turn a blind eye to their work. Don't abandon your strength and don't abandon yourself.

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NB PH steadfastly refuses to provide sequencing breakdowns, so we have to do it ourselves. Sequencing is updated to November 24. HV.1 and HK.3, related to Omicron EG.5, account for approximately 40% of cases, while their progenitor accounts for another 30% cases.

New Brunswick Covid-19 Sequencing - November 2023
BA.2.86.1: 0.8%
BA.5.2.13: 0.4%
EG.5.1: 5.8%
EG.5.1.1: 7.8%
EG.5.1.3: 1.2%
EG.5.1.4: 5.1%
EG.5.1.6: 1.6%
EG.5.1.7: 0.4%
EG.5.1.8: 0.8%
EG.5.2.1: 5.8%
EG.6.1: 0.4%
FL.1.5.1: 2.7%
FL.1.5.2: 2.7%
FL.10.2: 0.4%
FL.15: 0.4%
FL.15.1.1: 0.4%
FL.20: 1.6%
FY.5: 1.9%
GK.1: 0.8%
GK.1.1: 3.1%
GK.2: 0.4%
HK.3: 16.0%
HK.3.2: 0.4%
HK.3.3: 0.8%
HV.1: 23.3%
JD.1.1: 1.2%
JF.1: 4.3%
JG.1: 1.2%
JG.3: 2.7%
JN.1: 1.9%
XBB.1.16.6: 1.2%
XBB.1.5.72: 0.4%
XCH: 1.2%
XCH.1: 1.2%

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For those of you with contacts who are positive they "just have a flu," the stats suggest otherwise. If they're not testing, but are labouring under the misconception that whatever is going around is just a flu, or that Covid itself is just a flu, see below.

Bar chart titled New Brunswick Respiratory Season (Aug 27, 2023 - Nov 25, 2023)

Hospitalizations: Covid-19: 765, Influenza: 14
ICU Admissions: Covid-19: 42, Influenza: 5
Deaths: Covid-19: 33, Influenza: 0
Outbreaks: Covid-19: 177, Influenza: 1

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PoP Nova Scotia @popns.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

You better not cringe, you better not bray, you better not disassociate, it's Trash-Stat Tuesday. Fake numbers remain high compared to previous fake numbers beginning at the fake commencement of the fake season. #nbpoli #covid19 #atlCanada

It's me, grinding my teeth and not-so-carefully placing the whole of this "data" where it belongs. In the fucking bin.

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Covid is the third leading cause of death in Canada. More than accidents. More than flu. Most of these deaths are preventable. When will Tim Houston act to save lives? Make your #TellTimTuesday call, Nova Scotia! 902 424 6600

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Covid Briefing for the Premier

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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

Why do people seem to be getting #sick more often now? For yet another year we are already seeing earlier and significantly higher #hospital #admissions for #respiratory #illness than pre-pandemic levels. Are there new mysterious #pathogens starting to attack us now? 🧪🧵1/

Graphic of a person's body with a target on their chest and a COVID-19 arrow sticking in the bullseye, depicting an artistic representation of immune dysfunction. Prompt: "Create a graphic of immune dysfunction" by Microsoft Copilot.

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Nosferatu @realnosferatu.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Breaking News: Health Canada approves Novavax. canada.ca/en/health-ca...

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Chris @hallwayorchard.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

We will not counteract abandonment and dismissal by working in isolation. We won't overcome by trying to destroy the system through the system. We must create alternatives in which we enact the reciprocal care and solidarity we are denied, and we must grow in those places.

Chris @hallwayorchard.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

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The ongoing pandemic is only one of the many facets of a larger, overwhelming crisis of abandonment. The solutions to the problems we experience here are tied wholly to those needed to address the organized abandonment we encounter from all quarters.