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We already have to worry about kids getting repeat Covid infections at school, now have to worry about them being hit by a car as they walk there in the dark

But cool some rich dudes can golf after work ⛳️

Sleep and circadian health matter. Many researchers warn permanent daylight time misaligns our biological clocks, which can lead to chronic health issues, especially in places on the western edge of time zones like Vancouver

Taking a short break from posting for a few days. The news about BC's move to permanent daylight time hit me harder than I expected.

The past half decade navigating COVID has already been a struggle. This feels like just another battle trying to get gov't to care about science

Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

I feel like John Oliver’s team said it best www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0N...

Patients say measles 'worse than expected' as Utah hits 350+ infections, doctors say Health officials plead with residents to vaccinate against measles as Utah hits 358 infections.

120 hospitalized

If any BC'ers want to move to Creston & start a Covid safe-commune with me lmk

Screenshot of headline "daylight savings time is bad for your health. This Canadian province just made it permanent"

TFW your province is in @time.com but it's not for good reasons

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Permanent daylight time will cause sleep problems, B.C. expert says While an end to the hassle of changing the clocks back and forth twice a year is welcome news to many, a sleep expert has health concerns about B.C.’s decision to remain on daylight time year-round.

Wendy explains it well here in this video I think. Melatonin release lags behind darkness and is delayed by evening light

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The centrists on here declaring they don't like selfish entitled jerk face behaviour while also punching down to disabled folks taking Covid precautions is truly something to behold

Would you include punching down to disabled folks calling for more Covid precautions in this behaviour?

One of the resident research projects I am supervising is a survey of the family planning/fertility intentions of people with #longCOVID. So far, our abstract has been rejected by 2 conferences. Is our abstract non-competitive or is there bias against acknowledgement of #longCOVID?

Love this story

The Health Impact of Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent The Canadian province of British Columba is making the switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time.

Sharing this because several experts are raising concerns about permanent daylight time & our population health. Darker winter mornings could also affect kids' safety during school commutes. Hoping this can be reconsidered

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from what I understand people in BC will lose on average 30 mins of sleep at night because of permanent daylight time because it tends to push bed times later due to the light at night. That's not so bad short-term, but when chronic, this translates to larger health risks

Switching is definitely not good. The research just suggests that permanent standard time aligns better with circadian biology, while permanent daylight time has some health risks due to increased insomnia and thing called 'social jet lag'

to boost retail spending because there is more evening light. A JPMorgan study found that DST was also associated with a relative increase in credit card spending, including higher utility and gasoline bills and health care spending." Although DST may save light energy it increases heating and cooling costs. 6-18 个 In terms of the overall workforce and productivity, the sleep and circadian rhythm disruption from pDST would negatively affect many outcomes related to performance and safety, including alertness, reaction time, procrastination, learning and memory, judgment, communication, creativity, and multitasking, and workplace injuries.2,19 Circadian misalignment consistent with pDST is associated with losses in productivity, missed workdays, and lower average salaries._

Important to note that economic gains from increased consumerism from DST are likely offset by productivity losses & healthcare costs

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Alberta’s premier consulting on scrapping clock changes, prefers more light at night | Globalnews.ca Danielle Smith says the Alberta government will consult on doing away with twice-a-year clock changes and says if a switch is made, she'd prefer going to permanent daylight time.

Looks like Danielle Smith may be the next to engage in science-free decision making by adopting permanent daylight savings time

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Calling for the continuation of mask mandates in health care settings B.C.'s Human Rights Commissioner urged the Provincial Health Officer to reinstate the mask mandate in health care settings to ensure everyone's protection. The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue today and ending the mask mandate in health care settings impedes access to care for those who are more vulnerable. Vulnerable people include those who are immunocompromised, older, Indigenous and racialized, disabled, and low-income communities. Many of these are protected characteristics under B.C.'s Human Rights Code.

Masks in healthcare are mentioned in the plan, which is fantastic - this has ALWAYS seemed like a human rights issue to me. But we need high quality respirator masks

💯 that's a good one. And the ones that are most in need of repair are often in the poorest postal codes

A few examples:
-Respirator masks still not in healthcare
-Schools without updated ventilation standards
-No protected shopping hours for vulnerable people
-Permanent daylight time vs standard despite health risks
-Ongoing burning of fossil fuels continue

Right to the highest standard of health | BC's Office of the Human Rights Commissioner Discover how our priority issue: The right to the highest standard of health, what we envision, and what we're working on

B.C.'s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has a new strategic plan that lists "right to the highest standard of health" as a prority

Several B.C. health policies are in violation of this

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So true. Imagine if we asked the public to vote on seatbelts or vaccines? I fear to think

'Scientifically not a good idea,' says researcher whose work informed B.C.'s daylight-time decision | CBC News Scientists who study sleep are warning B.C.'s decision to adopt permanent daylight time will disrupt sleep patterns and have a negative effect on overall health, especially for children, for whom adeq...

The BC Gov has somehow now managed to upset even the Stanford researchers whose work they misused to defend DST

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I love how they make cute typos too. Probably a real human behind their account and not a bot 🤖

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AuDHD woman who forgot to text you back a decade ago wondering if it’s too late An AuDHD woman who forgot to reply to your message ten years ago has spent the subsequent decade deliberating over how to re-instigate contact, sources have claimed.  Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly…

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

Typical Horgan

Horgan had pointed to his government's online polling in 2019, in which 93 per cent of almost 223,000 respondents - B.C.s population at that time was five million - were in favour of eliminating the time change and opting for permanent daylight time. But survey participants were asked only whether they would prefer to continue changing their clocks twice a year or to adopt daylight time year-round. Moving to year-round standard time - the time clocks turn back to in the fall - was not offered as an option.

It was a rigged poll, they never included permanent standard time as an option

I'm seeing a few posts about how this policy may be good for night people, but circadian disruption will likely be worse for them. Morning types may cope somewhat better, but permanent daylight time increases circadian issues for everyone

Let's put @durhamcounty.bsky.social in charge of global public health 👏🏼

Construction workers in dark over switch to permanent daylight time: trade group Construction trades were never consulted before the province decided to switch to year-round daylight time, says the Vancouver Island Construction Association.

B.C. construction workers in dark over switch to permanent daylight time and weren't consulted on the change. What could go wrong?

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