Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)

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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...

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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🧵👇

Colin Furness MISt PhD MPH@furnesscolin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My Toronto Star Op-Ed last week pointed the finger at physician thinking & physician culture to explain why they just won't let go of certain beliefs even when drowning in evidence to the contrary. Today the Globe and Mail provided a tragically shining example, quoting Dr. Srinivan Murthy ... 1/10

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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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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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

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...

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Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)@jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

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?

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...

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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...

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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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
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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
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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.

CNN@cnn.com · 5mo ago

The Covid-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official US count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. https://cnn.it/3NtbZYM

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

Jaclyn Ferreira - 😷 (She/Her)@jaclynmacrae.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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.