i actually don’t get how governments aren’t responding to this. the implications are almost apocalyptic. the speed we’re going on this.

Certain roles tend to just fall into playing canaries in your organizational coal mine (often unexpectedly... sometimes unwilingly).

Folks like dev rel, build/release engineers, incident analysts (if you even have them), QA.

Who else am I missing?

Everyone has access to information about COVID evolution and ongoing impacts of the pandemic. It is not necessary to wait for word from public health officials or whomever the media interviews (more often than not, minimizers). Here is a list of resources you can check out. 🧵

The only thing you can rely on British Columbia's public health administrators for is misinformation.

There's no reason why you can't get a booster now, and in the fall.

If someone told you, on July 8 2020, months before clinical trial results, that the next two months would be the *safest time* for two more years, would you have believed them?

Hello Health Canada and PHAC, where is vax for our littlest ones? We’re heading into the worst wave — BA5. No pop immunity, no fourth doses for adults, no isolation requirements (5days isn’t evidence based), no indoor air quality standards, no strategic testing, no public communication.

BC's vaccination only strategy, which has been a failure for over a year, is going to continue killing people.

#NEW : People aged 12+ who feel they have 'unique circumstances' will be able to call and request a 4th COVID-19 dose provided their last dose was 6+ months ago.

Dr. Ballem says province's campaign will strongly encourage people to wait til the fall.

Capital Daily #COVID19BC

The uncertainty about COVID's airborne spread and the effectiveness of masks is largely manufactured.

As is the whole idea that the public is 'over it'. The public wouldn't be over it if they weren't nearly constantly lied to by public health.

One would normally look askance at a blog post about someone else’s outage while it’s ongoing, but this time I will make an exception, since getting anything useful out of Rogers is… unlikely.

These R values are in highly-vaccinated populations like Australia.

And R has a *very* intuitive meaning: a person with COVID BA.4 will transmit it to 18.6 people, averaged.

So just for context

Wuhan strain 👉🏼 R0 of 3.3
Delta strain 👉🏼R0 of 5.1
Omicron BA.1 👉🏼R0 of 9.5
BA.2 👉🏼 R0 of approx 13.3
BA.4/5 👉🏼R0 of 18.6

We still don’t know for sure what it is for BA.2.75.
The game has changed, make wise decisions and #WearAMask