British columbia public health

BC Public Health will not keep us safe from COVID-19

By: Charlie Ruiz, SFU Student After the worst COVID-19 outbreak this province has seen, cases are finally falling. This is the result of months of COVID-19 precautions — yet, we are once again beginning to lift restrictions. Most recently, BC has decided to drop mandatory masking, despite this being a key precaution in slowing disease spread. This new policy ignores the reality of COVID-19 and further pushes those who are already at-risk into higher risk.  As I would hope we all know by now, COVID-19 is airborne. This means COVID-19 floats in the air, sometimes for hours, and can easily be…

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