6/ It is clear that #LongCOVID is damaging #PublicHealth. We need urgent investment to continue our response to a pandemic that is far from over. But most governments have taken the view that they will continue to ignore the pandemic & concomitant increase in #LongCOVID cases...
7/ ....& leave this tab for the next government to pick up. This is not only irresponsible governance, it is morally reprehensible. The @yukongov has taken the same position, incidentally.
8/ The territory is not counting or surveying how many Yukoners are now living with #LongCOVID, because the @yukongov does not want to collect this data. Or it might have to act on it. The Yukon Government is also, cleverly, not warning Yukoners about the symptoms...
9/ ...(many Yukoners haven't heard of #LongCOVID and don't know that they're living with it); #YukonDoctors not wearing masks obviously don't read about the condition (or they would all be wearing #N95 masks);
11/ Why the ongoing reluctance of the @yukongov to acknowledge #LongCOVID? Because, at some point, the government will have to take responsibility for providing #CleanAir in all public spaces indoors: this will chew into its handsome budget surpluses,
12/ ...& also give local unions more leverage in terms of health & safety provisions in the workplace. & then there are also #YukonSchools ... So it's one big can of worms that the @yukongov has decided to sidestep. This is not how a government should behave in a pandemic.
13/ Notice that this culture of #PandemicDenial applies to ALL #YukonPoliticians, of ALL parties. Not one policymaker in the @yukonassembly mentions the #OngoingPandemic, #COVID, #LongCOVID, or the need to clean shared air in public indoor spaces. Not one.
14/ Same goes for #YukonJournalists. @CBCNorth @yukonnews @WhitehorseStar
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