PoPNB

@popnb.bsky.social

PoP NB (Protect our Province New Brunswick) is a grassroots volunteer driven advocacy group with the goal to create easy-to-access information on Covid-19. protectnb.ca

Still wrapping my head and my words around this, but here is a peak at what I've uncovered. In addition to spurious rationale for abandoning the nationally established definition of a Covid-19 fatality, NB's reporting change led to approximately 44% of Covid-caused deaths to go uncounted in 2023.

A bar chart showing reported (sourced from New Brunswick Department of Health Covid-19 Watch and Respiratory Watch reports) and actual (sourced from a Right to Information request to Service New Brunswick vital statistics) Covid-19 Deaths for each month of 2023.

Jan: 33 reported, 43 actual
Feb: 20 reported, 28 actual
Mar: 23 reported, 30 actual
Apr: 15 reported, 27 actual
May: 8 reported, 13 actual
Jun: 12 reported, 17 actual
Jul: 4 reported, 5 actual
Aug: 7 reported, 10 actual
Sep: 9 reported, 22 actual
Oct: 12 reported, 42 actual
Nov: 14 reported, 32 actual
Dec: 19 reported, 46 actual

Total: 176 reported, 315 actual
Chris@hallwayorchard.bsky.social · 2y ago

In the next few days I’ll be releasing some newly acquired information about New Brunswick Covid-19 deaths, the frightening degree of undercounting, and what went in to the bafflingly negligent redefinition of what a Covid-19 death actually is. Stay tuned.

"A Day in the Life of a Longhauler" is a photography project that captures the daily life of individuals living with Long COVID. Longhaulers are invited to share up to 6 photos from their everyday life which will be showcased at the Museum of Vancouver in the Fall of 2025. We love this initiative!

A Day in the Life of a Longhauler

A Day in the Life of a Long Hauler Researchers at Simon Fraser University, in partnership with the Museum of Vancouver (MoV) and the PHSA Post-COVID-19 Interdisciplinary Clinical Care Network (PCICCN)...

longcovidtheanswers.com

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.

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.

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%

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.

"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

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."

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.

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.

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.

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%

"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