Hey guys it's Liana and I'm here today to react to one-star reviews from my favorite books. So I'm pretty sure people know that I quite frequently post rant reviews. I don't, despite the comments I sometimes get, I don't do this on purpose but I have a lot of feelings when I hate a book. So I don't set out to read books that I think I'm going to hate but if I read a book that I hate I don't hold back from ranting about it. So that being the case I thought it only fair to expose myself to rants about my favorite books. So I'm just gonna go on Goodreads and today we're gonna do three of my favorite books. Not like every favorite book in the world for me. So we're just gonna start there and then if this is fun for me and fun for you we can do it again because I have other favorite books. Today I'm gonna look at one-star reviews on Goodreads for A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie, The Lies of La Clamora by Scott Lynch, and The Wolf by Leo Caru. Let us away! A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie is the first book in the Age of Madness trilogy which is a new trilogy and the second book of that trilogy is coming out this month as of the filming of this video. It's not out yet. I don't know when this video is going up. I read A Little Hatred twice. I read it when it came out. Loved it, gave it five stars. It dethroned my former favorite Abercrombie book and became my favorite Abercrombie book. So I like it a lot. I picked this over like Besserb Cold or over Blade itself because I figure the one-star reviews are either gonna be from people who have read his work before and don't like what he's doing now because I feel like I mean I always recommend reading his other work first not starting here or it's people who read this first and probably shouldn't have but I guess we'll find out what their complaints are. But that's why I picked A Little Hatred instead of any of the other Abercrombie books I could have picked. Okay so just looking now the first one-star review. The whole thing has a strong whiff of epilogue to it. I wish I didn't read it to be honest. I wish I kept my memory of the hero. Okay so this person has read previous books before. I wish I kept my memory of the heroes intact and left off there. I wish I'd left off when there was some actual grimness and darkness mixed in with the nonsense back when it felt poignant and new instead of having to read about cowardly princes and brave princesses but alas. Um there have always been- excuse me but there have always been cowardly princes in Abercrombie books. Have you not read the first one? I mean all he mentioned was the heroes so maybe they didn't read the first actual G maybe. I don't know that'd be really weird to just read the heroes though. Apparently someone told Joe that he's really good at writing strong female characters in quotes and apparently he believed them so this time around there are about a dozen or so and they're all the same character. Disagree. Strong disagree. Let's let them finish their thought. The male characters two or three are just brutes and oafs and talkative incompetent fools wandering around in need of orders painfully cliche at this point like seven or eight books in. Okay so these are all felt like I was trapped in a CW show and couldn't get out only the grace of Stephen Pacy for comfort. That's the narrator of the audiobook and he is an amazing narrator so good. I really hope he was paid well enough by his publishers to justify this sub quality money grab. One star is a bit harsh. Abercrombie is still a master wordsmith.   It's worth two stars probably but I deducted one for sheer disappointment. I spent a lot of time looking forward to this only to have to suffer through chapters of Sivine complaining about tight corsets and other pirates of the Caribbean level shenanigans. Um oh my god I disagree with everything that this person said. Okay so Abercrombie does write females well in my opinion and there was always a bumbling okay so this this portrait that they're painting of bumbling males and strong female characters being like the whole thing. I mean literally in the first law trilogy when our little band that Logan I'm Fingers is with Logan and Baez and Giselle and Pharaoh.  She's really snarky. She's really good in a fight.   Like honestly Savine is a lot like her mother Artie. What books does this person reading that they think that this isn't something Abercrombie did before? And Savine is a great character and like Savine complaining about corsets isn't like a part of the Caribbean joke it's oh my god this person Savine complaining about it is actually really fantastic in my opinion. Savine complains about a lot of things internally where she's it's painting the portrait of her as a person who appreciates the power that image creation gives you and she knows that part of her power comes from her name but a lot of her and her money of course but a lot of power also comes from how she presents herself to people so internally she's like miserable because her corset is too tight and she's you know there's a part where she's actually started her period and she's like an enormous amount of pain because she's having cramps from her period but she's grinning and bearing it because she's the beautiful erudite rich lady so her complaining about and I think she there too complains about her corset when she's on her period and like all of this like as a woman I haven't don't have to work corsets but I mean like having to wear like office like slacks and trousers and that kind of thing like what I've been on my period is a nightmare it's really painful I can't even imagine wearing a corset so it just it was ever Cromby frequently talked about men and their junk and men talking about like all of men's issues so like it's only fair that he just the same for women so this person is like oh but if you're mentioning corsets you're like oh it's just so cliche like no if you writing about men you have different problems from the problems that a woman has if your remote woman is a main character that's the stuff she's dealing with so that's what she is thinking about it would be weird if Savine didn't think about those things oh my god oh oh I hate this review sorry where's my deal next one to review I'm going to make a for you back into the world of Abercrombie's grim dark which I had abandoned after thoroughly enjoying his opening trilogy but not so enamored with what followed and for why you ask with an ampersand well I heard the family name blocked I's involved and another ampersand that brought me a running media clock to brings me you're running to you so so far we are in agreement I hope I have made the right decision wait so they haven't read it yet for the evenster oh no they're taking us through their emotional journey well by page 50 I'm bored it's all dialogue there's no world building no revelations no detail but what's going on in this world just with no tea and less introductions of bland characters who are predominantly female to which is the negative and young for the most part giving it a predominantly white a vibe I can't really relate to this at all it's certainly not grim and it's not dark done by page 87 skip reading characters already and it's a DNF with the obligatory one-star rating I've read a few reviews which are DNF and giving it three stars knew I shouldn't have shouldn't have left well alone I think it they meant should have left well enough alone okay so being in it is like 30 years old so that's not young Rika is young but so was Giselle when we met him in the first law so like it's okay if your main character is a dude who's young but if it's a girl like oh no then that's why a like also there's there's a lot of other characters too like what's that guy's name who teaches them how to fight oh my god I can't remember his name but there's this new character who I absolutely ate up his chambers he's like an old hand at fighting and he's teaching them how to fight but also teaching them like also like fighting is like you want to avoid fighting about all possible like why do you think I'm still alive god damn it what was that character's name well anyway he's old yeah and and or so he's also like 30 years old they're not they're not young they're privileged so they're a little also um what's his name who comes back to his family after being in the war and he's got like major PTSD and also like rage issues his daughter is young but she's not the pb character he is and he's got to be like in his 40s I think I'm not sure it ever says what is this person talking about the only young young people are Leo Dan Brock and and rica everyone else is like 30 plus what what the fuck what the fuck I just love all the ones that bring up the fact that there's women in it as like an objective negative like fuck off okay next one's for you I'll just leave my review here I mean uh okay this is a site for reviewing so okay captain obvious because I can't seem to figure out a way to review everything by same author at once wait they're reviewing all abracame books what what dear sir and I really hope you'll get to see this what you know he has like a website and a blog and like an email like you can actually contact him if you want to it's an option you can also tweet at him and he's pretty responsive so there are options anyway I love you okay you have ruined me for fantasy wait thank you for one star review but you have made reading fantasy and some other genre is so much less enjoyable for me I used to be able to read almost anything without so much a twitch of an eyebrow but after devouring any and all of your writing all that seems to be in the back of my mind while reading is how would abracame have written this fight why can't anyone today except for abracame write a coherent and realistic battle how would abracame have made this flat piece of wannabe furniture that the author used as a character into a fully fleshed out person what would abracame do okay so far we are in agreement I feel the same way what is this one star review that's no way to enjoy reading please dear reader stay away from this man's writing it will ruin you too you won't be able to enjoy any book ever and the world will turn into a dim and dark swamp of sorrow because there just isn't enough abracame to get you through the time between publication of his new works you have been warned so they do like abracame that's fucked up why would you leave him in a one star review on his newest book um if he does see this I don't think you're gonna get the reaction that you wanted because that's so fucked up why would you do that I don't understand what's wrong with you um okay we'll do one more because that wasn't even a negative review tell us just weird hmm imagine sandan glocto were captured by the girkish and they threatened to torture him for years but then the cavalry arrived he was rescued safe and sound and for the rest of the books kept telling people what a traumatizing experience he'd had that's the vibe I got from this book bad things threatened to happen to the main characters but they don't happen I think from some other author it would be okay but Abercrombie is the master of grim dark after all I felt there was exceptionally little of grim and dark in this book it was toothless and kind of boring it actually read like a YA with lots and lots of sex did they finish the book because it's really fucking grim dark just thinking about the scene miles boilers where savine has gone to one of the factories that she owns and she sees the conditions of the workers and it's horrified just in time for there to be like a populist uprising that she gets caught in the middle of and nearly dies so the only way this person could have been satisfied is if savine actually died but that was pretty harrowing what she went through and she's like the most privileged character other than the fucking prince in the book I'm just Rick his entire village burns the the book opens with her escaping after her village has been burned so it happened before the book started but so did Glock just torture he oh we when we first meet Glock that he's already been tortured so that should what okay okay okay these people are just I don't I don't know what they want it okay moving on moving on to the lies of La Clamora now I scott lynch which I've read twice as well actually all the books I'm doing today I've read twice I didn't intend it to be that thing to unify this assortment but it's true I've read each of these books twice I read the lies of La Clamora the first time years ago years and years ago and then reread it like I think it was last year beginning of last year because I hadn't been a while and I was worried that I wouldn't still love it and I do still love it it's fantastic I had to give a one star because I literally hated this book I mean yeah that's what that means but I also have to say that I'm not being fair by giving it a one star because it was well written and would probably be a favorite among people who like this type of story and don't mind lengthy descriptions of every effing thing okay so as I mentioned this book was a buddy read when did you mention that with the awesome peeps at the BBB group they made it almost bearable because many of them felt the same way as me about the book and suffering with another person makes it better somehow it does the story is about a guy named Locke who is a thief he has absolutely no conscience that's not true although you think he might at one point he steals from the rich but doesn't give to the poor he murders he tortures he punches old ladies in the face you think I'm kidding on the last one I'm not but we are supposed to like him I guess and root for him when he gets screwed over by another thief that's a little tough for me because I believe in the old sayings live by the sword die by the sword and my favorite lie down with dogs and you're gonna get fleas okay like the book it's not when you open the book like unless you didn't read the synopsis you know it's about a thief so the book wouldn't be believable if he was like Dudley do right what was a thief so I was a huge fan of the main characters and I wasn't a fan of the pages and pages of descriptions that made me want to get a gun and shoot myself in the head well that escalated quickly then there was a bunch of time jumps I am not talking about alternating past present chapters although that was part of it but also time jumps within the time jumps it was the inception of time jumping what no it's not it just tells two parallel narratives one lock is a kid and one lock in the present day and you jumped back and forth between the two but that's it we got to read about something that happened then we backpedaled to an hour earlier oh yeah I did that kind of like Guy Ritchie movies do that to show you the crime and then how we got to the crime but it's not hard to follow to read about how and why it happened then we were 10 years in the past yeah because those are two different plot lines now we are learning something about some other people in another time period called an interlude should be called info dumb blue between many of the chapters just settle the fuck down people start your story from the beginning and tell it to me in a cohesive manner sheesh so you want to start one lock as a kid and not see him as an adult until book two mmm strong disagree finally I thought there may be a saving romance angle saving romance angle the book's only good if it has a romance in it fuck off when it was mentioned that lock had a lost love how cool I thought she might show up at some point and save the day also dressed up in part of a con but no don't get your hopes up this girl never shows up she I guess is a teaser to make us read the next book in hopes of meeting her frankly I don't want to meet her that badly I'll pass whole she's not in the next book so you wouldn't be happy I don't know what this person was expecting honestly like their complaints sound like they're from someone who didn't know they'd be picking up a book about a thief like the time-dumping thing is the only part where I'm like that's a matter of taste and I like the way that it plays with time I love Guy Ritchie movies and it's like a Guy Ritchie movie but wanting it to be told more linearly I think is more boring but I appreciate why they might feel that's needlessly gimmicky and confusing that's the only thing that I could say like you know fair play like that's a taste thing but there is like it's about a thief so like he's stealing things that just not on the moral good side so I don't know what you expected there you would only like to put out a romance idea like what and the descriptions I don't remember it being that description heavy honestly there's a lot of books that are description heavy like Name of the Wind is description heavy yeah I don't I don't remember Lies of Lachlan were being that way it's more bantery and quick and fun and there's a lot of descriptions of food I remember that because it always made me hungry but never night is description heavy holy lord this person should not read never night if they don't like morally reprehensible characters and descriptions never night well that will be their downfall okay here's the next one star of you this one looks kind of funny blah blah blah I'm a thief meh dnf okay okay so I get to be the odd man out this time the cranky old curmudgeon who failed to like a wildly popular book okay many of my good reads friends love this book which was hyped as a mix between the godfather and ocean's 11 and that sounded great I've never heard it compared to the godfather I've heard it compared to oceans 11 and robin hood but not godfather and that sounded great it also started pretty good with a fagan and artful dodger type situation yeah it definitely does have an oliver twist the kid's plot line when it locks a kid is very oliver twist I also thought the writing was akin to Brent Weeks and china meville I don't know either of those authors so I cannot comment and then the rest of the book happened I just did not care anymore about the story the characters and I'm foggy at why and how popular it is I mean I sympathize with that feeling because that's how I feel when I read things like kings of the wild and I'm like did y'all read the same book as me life's too short too many great books to read and I invoked my 100 page rule it was a stretch just to get that far that just made me sad they didn't really say why they didn't like it that'd take issue with they said they didn't like it but not why that's not a review you may as well just leave it at one star then if you're not gonna tell why you didn't like it okay well I can't really react to that much because they didn't say what they didn't like I can't be like you're wrong okay here's one that I take on bridge with I skimmed it quickly pick this one up on recommendation from someone here on goodreads couldn't finish it I was bored to tears by the horribly generic con heist plot I've seen it done better in about half dozen movies this year including ant-man which was a lot of fun so already I would like to say this person didn't finish it and they don't know where the plot goes because the beginning of the book the heist in the beginning of the book is not the whole book is about so maybe they also wouldn't have liked it but anyway spend your money on a ticket to see that one rather than on this book you'll probably have a better time of it that just goes to show how done to death this plot line is I mean freaking dickens used it almost 200 years ago and it was probably just as done to death then as it is now hell shakespeare used it more than 200 years before that even and it was still probably done to death even then something that has been done to death is not entertaining it needs something more or no one is going to care this book didn't have that something more and so I really have no reason to continue reading it to the end when I start having to force myself to read it's time to find something more to my liking again you may not have liked the writing style but the heist that is being set up in the beginning of the book is not what the book is about I even told my friends when we were buddy reading it I was when they were like it's it's okay but like I start my thing and I was like it's actually not about the heist so keep reading and then they got to the part where the book really goes gets going and they're like oh you're right it's not about that at all oh shit and I'm like yeah oh shit the characters are entertaining and the dialogue often amusing but I found the overuse of profanity to be annoying and necessary and somewhat childish I mean you just brought up Shakespeare and he's profan as fuck unfortunately funny characters and entertaining dialogue just couldn't carry a story that is just so bland boring and generic and another thing that really annoyed me about this book is that there are so many flashbacks and flash forwards that at times in the book it's almost impossible to tell what is actually going on and when it's supposed to be going on I never really cared much for the con heist plot because frankly they're usually all exactly the same some authors manage to make it work in a way that I enjoy most don't I can think of three fantasy books just off the top of my head right now that did it far better than this one but you didn't finish this one so you don't know that's the thing that kills me you're how that's what I don't when I finish books that I hate people always ask me would you not believe in dnfing I believe that I cannot review a book if I have a dnfed it and if I've put enough time into it where I've read you know a good chunk of it I'm not going to waste completely have to be a waste of my time and not be able to review it so no I don't dnf it because I want to be able to discuss it because I don't want to come off sounding like an ass like this person who's like the heist is just so like done to death like but the book's not even talking about a heist it starts out with a heist and then you just rule like well it's about that so dnf and I can state with absolute certainty and complete confidence that this whole book was about that heist but it's it's fucking not bro you're just wrong again you might have hated the book and that's fair but you can't say you hate the book because the heist is done to death because it's not about a heist okay I'm really frustrated by the review and last but not least to the wolf by leo caro which again I have read twice this is a less well known book um there's fewer reviews in general for it so who dared give this a one star okay first one oh this is a how long have you ever read a book that you were so dead certain you would love because it incorporates everything you're interested in but then are let down so horribly that you don't even know what you like anymore I was gonna say to does hit that spot for me it's everything I could want in the book well that is this book for me war Norse influence with a bloody twist and its own language it sounded so cool to me however it was only an interesting premise the less than engaging plot line such a cool idea for a story I really wish it delivered more for me but it's perfect what more would you want the writing style is really what did it in it was just so to the point with little to no emotion added to it it just seemed to drone on and on the chapters each getting longer as you continue and it really was a struggle for me to finish the book is very much found on politics but most of it is the kingdom's legions discussing politics and war but it all just seems to go around in circles and there are no decisive actions taken until the very end I would disagree the characters are also quite plain and it didn't seem like it was a priority to carry to actually flesh them out roper or main character is intelligent strong and a born leader but after fails as well as wins he doesn't seem to grow at all and just remains the same emotionless character from start to finish the rest of the characters each had a role to play but again they felt stuck in the role and didn't deviate at all where are the emotions and feelings in this I just couldn't connect to anyone at all and that contributed to my struggle actually talked about this in one of my videos that the books are written the the people in them don't believe in being guided by emotion they actively suppress their emotions it's like part of their culture that's discussed in the book it's not just like told to you and then we move on from it like they actively bring it up where like they start to feel emotion and then they're like but I shouldn't be guided by that or like people will call each other out on it it's called possession if you get to emotional and it's like an active part of the story the discussion of suppressing emotion so it's not just like there's no emotion in it because in the beginning we were told there wouldn't be they're constantly actively discussing how they are not going to be emotional about things so it's like it's it's conspicuous by its intentional absence that makes sense like emotion plays a part of it by necessity because by actively suppressing it it has to be present in the first place anyway the plot is actually interesting though to working okay so this person just thought it was boring whatever moving on 30 pages in i give up i wouldn't write a review if i only read 30 pages i would just say dnf in fact i don't read books at idnf i just i have a separate shelf on my goodreads called dnf where there's no rating on it it just takes it off of my other shelves because i you can't actually know like you can be pretty sure but you can't know anyway story takes place in albion a common name for mary old england plot manly men fight women are arm candy that's not the case what even happens in the first 30 pages you don't even meet katura roper's wife until like well into the book i've met this plot before in the last kingdom by bernard how do you know you've met this plot before when you read 30 pages how do you know you can't know i thought i'd love the book but i don't care about any of the characters the war is boring and the start between enemies or friends falls very flat you read 30 pages like maybe you weren't into it but how do you know you can't know oh my god this book was terrible i didn't finish it there was no central idea things happened for no reason and the author lacked a writing style where he should have been epic he wrote in third person where he should actually have described the battle that was that he was leading up to he skips ahead talks about something else entirely i think in one instance where that happens there's a very specific reason that happens narratively and i think it's brilliant but it was just the once and for that specific reason there should have been more critical editing there should have been more revisions sharpenings and focussings of this book before it went to press because it is not nearly realized enough to justify itself what the best part of this book by far was the world caro created great world building is tip-top chef's kiss but even this is confused it is not disagree the story takes place in a medieval european type setting but there are cannons and the protagonists use compressed gas for lighting i don't say this as a question i say it because it was confusing this book was not quite fantasy and not historical fiction and it was definitely not good enough to start its own genre but it's an alternate history fantasy it's not its own genre oh by page 350 other books were calling so i have moved so they dnf'd it um there are answers to those questions but i don't think this person cares okay well i think that's gonna do it for reacting to one star reviews for my favorite books if you enjoyed this video please let me know and i can do it again with other favorite books if there are particular favorite books of mine that like you know are my favorites that you really want to see me react to one star reviews for let me know and i can prioritize those for next time if you never ever want to see a video like this from me again let me know so i won't do it yep let me know all the things i post videos on saturdays and also other random times but definitely saturdays so like and subscribe and i'll see you when i see you bye


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Hey guys, thank you so much for coming back to this channel and thank you so much, it's mixed from the next question. What are we talking about? We are talking about what you call the recruitment agencies. We are talking about the manpower agencies. For any country or for those countries that you may be coming from, you may call them recruitment agencies or you may call them manpower agencies. But the question is that, which is a genuine manpower or which one is a genuine recruitment agencies? I know most of the recruitment agencies have ended up scripting or what you call eating people's commission because of the gains of disaving them to have the job in one world or the other. But by the way, the question is that, which one is a genuine recruitment agencies? I know it may sound weird but it may sound true to some extent or to any way you may want to take it but the truth is this is the truth and we need to share the truth in one world or the other. Unlike the two regions that we need to compare. For example, people are coming from Africa and people coming from Asia. There are two differences between these two regions or these two continents. There is a continent that has more benefits than even the other continent and what am I talking about? That people coming from Africa, we are so expected that we do not have the benefits that people coming from Asia that they have. That we have very many agencies that are not registered by the government or many agencies that are not even permitted to do the work and they've ended up eating what you call our money or eating your commission, ended up promising you even what does not exist. By the way, the question is that, who is, who is or what is that genuine recruitment agencies? Yes, before you go to any recruitment agencies I will urge you to first find out with that agency first find out the reputation of that agency try to ask people around for people who have traveled or for people who have traveled with that agency try to ask before even that agency advertises that job try to find out if that job exists so many times I keep on telling people you can try to trick these people in one world or the other although to some extent these people may not let us want to know of what is happening you can try to ask by the which company am I going to which company am I going to work to you can just go straight into Google that's a good thing with what you call the technology that is moving today you can try to go to Google, try to search that company whether that company exists if this agent really does not tell you the company you are going to work to definitely that is a fake agent is a fake agent is trying to eat your commission in that absence trying to get you covered and is not going to take you to a genuine that's why people have ended up to companies where you do not have the contract the company does not want to give contract the company takes you you are here you are dumped somewhere you are not paid you are not given for you are given poor accommodation you are somewhere you are dumped and you are left there forever you become a slave of your slave and that's what happens so before you go to that recruitment agency or before you go to that agency as yourself what initiative do you have to take as you the person try to find out the little information don't go into the beam of you trying to rush to hurry we are so much disadvantaged for example people are coming from Africa for the people coming from Asia are not have to complain about you because remember Kata has a lot of recruitment agencies or have a lot of what you call the visa section recruitment agencies in your country people coming from Philippines you are grieving people coming from Selinanka you are grieving people coming from Nepal you are grieving people coming from Asia you know where to go and people coming from Bangladesh you definitely know where to go but what about people who are coming to Africa where do you have to go there is no where to go because Kata does not even have Kata will not have visa centers in our countries so it becomes very hard for us to differentiate who is Ruwuz who is going to get me a genuine job and who is not going to get me a genuine job at one or the other but for the initiative to fight up these it has to start with you as a person also try to find out what is this company what is this company yes you can do that you can take the initiative to do that try to ask what job am I going to do which company am I going to work to and if that agents of that man power agents is telling you pay all the commission before I look for you the job or before I give you the job definitely you definitely know that this is a fake person that is trying to take advantage of you in that kind of spiritual period and it's going to let you fall in trouble when you reach here and that's where our brothers and sisters have ended up falling in what you call trouble being damned somewhere and nowhere no one has to take care of them there is no food they have not given food in one or the other so definitely what I would urge for anyone that will go to a lucrimate ages as it is one of the it is one of the fastest ways to come for example people are planned to come to Kata I think getting a lucrimate ages if you get one and it's genuine yes come with it because it's now the only option that we are left to come into the country if you are going to talk about a VC visa kufata a little bit very hard unless you are coming to what you call a family visa but still even the family visa itself there are some requirements that you are supposed to fulfill if you are coming under what you call a family sponsorship or what you call a family visa so definitely you find it's a little bit very tricky for you but what I would urge you before you go to that ages also try to find out in one or the other how does this company apply how does this manpower oh this lucrimate agents work ask around people try to ask people or try to move go to the social media drop in is anyone who knows about this company oh this lucrimate agents yes you will get the reaction of the people or you will get the comments of the people the people will let you know other than you keeping it yourself you will deposit money then after you begin crying and say this and so took my money yes get that agents advertises a job let's say for example this company most of these lucrimate agents even advertise companies or advertise salary that is even does not exist for example you find a one lucrimate agent advertising salary of a security guard and is applying is advertising 2.5 as a salary of a security guard in kata which has never existed which does not exist which is definitely they are trying to fake you around in one word that's up or try to share something for you I'm not being harsh but I want to share with you guys I want us to be the same I want us we all move because we all here for the reason and we came to look for a bread for ourselves thank you so much for coming back to Israel thank you so much from the next question see you again in the next video


In my video on henna, I talked about the study that proved lead could be absorbed through skin and into the body. Researchers applied lead to someone's left arm, and then they measured the level of lead in the sweat coming off their right arm over the next few days. There was a big spike proving that lead can go into your body, but also proving that lead can go out of your body. If we can lose lead through sweat, how about using sweating for detoxification? Look, no person is without some level of toxic heavy metals in their blood circulating and accumulating. And hey, cultures around the world have viewed sweating as health-promoting from Roman and Turkish baths to sweat lodges and saunas. But what does the science say? When I looked up saunas, I was surprised to see this, a study on the detoxification of 9-11 rescue workers, with a regimen of exercise, sauna bathing, and supplements. They reported on seven individuals, and evidently during the month before the treatment, PCB levels in their blood stayed about the same. In contrast, all rescue workers had measurable decreases in their PCBs following treatment. And they reportedly felt better, too. They had all sorts of symptoms, respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal, but felt better after the treatment. Improvements consistent with nearly 400 others they treated with the same protocol. Wait a second. If they treated 400, why are they only reporting the results from 7? That's a bit of a red flag. But not as red as this. The detoxification regimen was developed by Hubbard, as in L.R. Hubbard, L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the infamous Church of Scientology. And the lead author of the detoxification paper also appears to have failed to disclose his financial conflict of interest for presumably profiting off the treatments. Sweating does, however, represent a time-honored treatment in the field of medicine for mercury poisoning going back centuries, but time-honored medical treatments include drilling people's skulls open to release evil spirits, or even giving people mercury itself. Remember mercuricrome? What do you think the mercuro stood for? In fact, some believe Mozart died of mercury poisoning trying to cure a syphilis, though of course all the bloodletting he got probably didn't help either. Another time-honored medical treatment that makes Scientology saunas look pretty mild in comparison. But a case report was described of a person who had apparently recovered from mercury poisoning after six months of sweats and physical therapy, but maybe he would have gotten better anyway. You don't know until you put it to the test. Mercury wasn't formally studied, but lead was put people in a 200-degree dry sauna for 15 minutes. And based on sweating rates, those 15 minutes in the sauna would force out about 40 micrograms of lead from the body, with some people getting rid of 100 or more per session. So you could drink like a gallon of chicken broth, and even if you absorbed all the lead, you could be back to baseline after just one sauna session, even after drinking bone broth. Is it safe for children? Based on what we know now, sauna bathing poses no risks to healthy folks throughout the life cycle, no medical supervision couldn't hurt. Now this doesn't mean it would be as effective in children as adults sweat a lot more than kids, and of course kids are the ones who need lead detoxing the most. There's a clear need for robust clinical trials to test all this, but even if it works, it's not like some poor kid in Flint's is going to have access to a sauna. That's why I was so excited to find this paper, the change in blood lead levels of basketball players after strenuous exercise. Because aren't the only way to sweat, what about strenuous physical activity? Evidently, there was a study that found aerobic endurance training led to a drop in lead levels with rowing better than cycling. But for how long, how intense? I don't know. I don't read German. Verzeihung. But I did find the study. It looks like they ramped up the stationary bike 50 watts every two minutes until exhaustion, so probably just a few minutes with no significant before or after difference in blood or urine lead levels, whereas an hour-long endurance exercise of row did seem to drop lead levels about 12%. This one I can read, though, a single intense training session on the court, and college basketball players' blood levels dropped down to—wait a second, they went up a significant increase in blood levels? In fact, by nearly 300%. I suspect it's because where they were playing was so contaminated, this study was done in Turkey where the lead levels in the air are evidently so high that all that extra breathing evidently made things worse, which I think underscores an important point. All the dietary tweaks I've talked about for lead poisoning and sweating it out could be thought of as more expedient and cost less than primary prevention. Getting at the root cause, this, however, represents a retreat of sorts from a commitment to cleaning up the environment and getting rid of these hazardous pollutants in the first place, where lifestyle interventions should only be thought of as temporary solutions, and continued emphasis must be placed on eliminating lead in children's environments in the first place.


The study investigates the transcriptional architecture of cryptogenetic variation, CGV, in response to rapid temperature changes in kinohuptitis elegans. The authors analyzed regulatory variation in gene expression across a heat stress and recovery response in a recombinant inbred population. They found that exposure to heat stress affected the transcription of 3,305 genes, while 942 were affected in recovering animals. These affected genes were mainly involved in metabolism and reproduction. The gene expression pattern in recovering animals resembled both the control and the heat stress treatment. The authors mapped EQTL using genetic variation in the population and detected 2,626 genes with an EQTL in the heat stress treatment, 1797 in the control, and 1880 in the recovery. They found that a considerable fraction of trans EQTL, 40 to 57%, mapped to treatment-specific trans bands, while approximately 67% of the trans EQTL were only induced in a single treatment. The study illustrates the highly dynamic pattern of CGV across different environmental conditions and suggests that response-related trans regulatory EQTL play a significant role in determining CGV. This article was authored by Bass10LSnook, Mark G Sturkin, Woll PJ Beavers, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


briefing by pausing to acknowledge the preliminary findings at the former St. Joseph's Mission Residential School near Williams Lake. We acknowledge that news of these findings brings back many painful memories back to the surface for residential school survivors and their families and indeed for entire communities. Services are available for survivors needing support as they grieve and navigate this tragedy. For Indian Residential School Survivors Society phone 1-800-721-0066. For the Sotan Lalum Society phone 1-888-403-3123. These numbers and more information about support services will be provided as a backgrounder to our statement today and of course will be available broadly. I want to recognize the strength, leadership and courage shown by the Williams Lake First Nations and the communities of survivors and their families as they undertake the difficult but necessary work of telling the truth about our harmful history and legacy of the residential school system in British Columbia. And with that it's my honor to introduce Dr. Bonnie Henry. Dr. Bonnie Henry. Thank you very much and good afternoon. I also would like to extend my thoughts to the Williams Lake First Nation and all of the families and communities. Another 93 possible children who did not return home and my heart goes out to those families, those communities who have been living with this unbearable loss. And my hope is that this is a first step not only in acknowledging and grieving but bringing those children home. So today we'll I'll be talking a little bit about the our latest update on the COVID-19 public health response. Some of the changes that are coming in will be posted in the coming days and recognizing as well that we will be very soon at our two year anniversary from the very first case that we had here in British Columbia in our first breast briefing on Friday. We do continue to see a gradual decline in our case rates over time and a leveling off of the test positivity. And as you know, the numbers of daily cases gives us a sense of trends using that one piece of surveillance data. But we also have the other surveillance data that also supports that we are on that downward trend in community infections. But at the same time, the number of people in hospital remains high. And it's the highest it has been in our pandemic and it's putting significant strain on our health care system. As our pandemic evolves and Omicron brings these new challenges, we have evolved our pandemic response and I've talked quite a bit about that in the last two weeks. Last week, we made many changes that I had indicated in briefings before, but it challenges us when these things are different and new. As we shared last week and thinking at the heat map that we presented on Friday, we do know that even now with Omicron, some people are at much greater risks of hospitalization and severe illness. And we need to bear that in mind as we make these changes. The risk factors are clear. Number one and most important and one of the reasons why we are getting through this wave and the way that we are is vaccination status. We know that vaccines make a difference, a tremendous difference. The other one, of course, is age. And from the very beginning, we've seen that the older we are, the higher likelihood we have of having more severe illness and the higher likelihood we have of having other underlying conditions that may complicate an infection with something like COVID. And in particular, people who have compromised immune systems, what we've talked about is clinically extremely vulnerable. They are more at risk even with vaccination. We also know that with each vaccine that we receive, our risk of hospitalization goes down dramatically. Yes, we know that people who have been fully vaccinated have been infected with the virus, with Omicron in particular. And some may question that the effectiveness of vaccines overall. I want to assure you and we see these data coming more and more now. It takes time to put these pieces of the puzzle together when something new and a new strain of the virus comes on the scene. We now have had another month of time since Omicron came on the scene and we are seeing more and more pieces of this puzzle come together. And it shows us the effectiveness of vaccines and the importance of vaccines and protecting people from severe illness. And also now, of course, there's more and more data that shows that the booster doses also protect against infection even with Omicron. We do, however, need to continue the number of measures that we have in place in the community and those also have been working to try and mitigate those risks even when there is a risk of milder disease. So with that in mind, we will be extending the BC vaccine card program through to June 30th and it will continue to apply to people over the age of 12. If we are in a better place in June 30th, however, we will look to make adjustments early. The BC vaccine card program is specifically designed to address those and mitigate those risks that allow us to keep certain businesses and activities open during the period of the pandemic. As we move through this period, it will, I expect, no longer be necessary. But right now it is one of those important tools that we have. As mentioned has been the case all along with a sudden surge, it takes time to gather and reassess and assess the data. In recent days there have been a number of publications, three studies from the U.S. We have looked at additional information from Ontario, from Japan, from South Korea and it really tells us right now that those booster doses give good strong protection for the virus. It boosts up that protection for severe disease and hospitalization but it also decreases your risk of contracting the virus probably by about 50 to 60%. So it is not 100%. It is not as high as we saw with all of the other strains that we have seen and particularly that really important protection against the severeness of delta. But it is important and it does stop your risk of transmitting and contracting it yourselves. We do know, however, that I do want to also mention that people in the clinically extremely vulnerable groups, one in two, the people with compromised immune systems and we know that we have had a third dose to get them up to that level that most of us gets with two doses and we did announce when we announced our booster program and I just want to reassure people in that category that yes, you will receive your invites for your booster dose at six months and we know that people who have immune compromising conditions and the data from Friday shows us this again. That the risk remains high and you do need to take extra precautions and all the rest of us need to be aware of that and take those extra precautions and we need to be aware of the public health orders so that we reduce the risk to everyone because we all have someone in our circle, whether it is family, whether it is in our social contacts at work, who is immune compromised, who is older, who may have that extra risk right now when there is so much of this virus still circulating. Whether we know it or not, we need to take those actions. We still have provincial health officer orders in effect. We still have things like our BC vaccine card for those highest risk activities and we need to all take those actions that work. Our number one tool, not the only tool but our number one tool remains immunization, vaccination with both dose one, dose two and your booster dose but it also is things that we are gathering with right now when there is so much virus in our community. Wearing masks, good quality masks when we are indoor, public settings around other people, washing our hands regularly, staying away from others when we are sick, particularly if we have a fever and following those important things like our COVID safety plans that we have in our workplaces, like the plans that we have in our workplaces. This remains so, so important right now as we weather this wave of our storm. Today the national advisory committee on immunization updated their guidance around childhood vaccines, particularly for those 5 to 11. And you may recall when they first came up that the language was around may be offered. Well, they have strengthened that is because we still what we are seeing is that 5 to 11 year olds thankfully remain at low risk of severe disease but the number of children being hospitalized because of infections has gone up as the number of infections has gone up across our communities. In addition, we have new and reassuring real world safety data from millions and millions of young children vaccinated. And so they have strengthened the recommendation from to say that all children 5 to 11 should be vaccinated. We also want to this guidance also recommends that there is continues to be at least 8 weeks between first dose and second dose. That first dose will provide tremendous protection. It's that 80% protection once you've had your system started developing those antibodies and that will make the difference for what's happening right now. But we want to make sure that we're protecting children for the long run as well. And we know that that extended interval between doses gives our immune system a chance to respond and give extra strength to our cell mediated immunity and boost up our antibodies as well. And we want to make sure that we're giving the best priming of the immune system for the future, too, as we get through this wave. I do want to assure parents who have already had their children vaccinated with their first dose that you will receive an invitation to book your second dose around the eight week period. And sometimes it's a few days before or a few days after the gradual decline in cases in our community, combined with the increase in vaccination in children of all ages, I will be making some changes to the restrictions on youth sports tournaments. Starting February 1st next week, youth sports tournaments can once again resume. I know that this is an important time of the year for many different sports and especially team sports and we've been working with many different teams to be done in a safe way. So that means tournament organizers, you can start planning in anticipation of this change for next week. Right now, because of what we're seeing, adult tournaments remain paused for now. Today, this week, we saw many of our post-secondary institutions going back into on-campus learning again and I'm just really pleased and happy to be part of our institutions who started even before now. This really is so important and we recognize that and I just know that we've been working hard, working with all of faculty and staff and student organizations for all of our post-secondary institutions and we know that young people have been so differentially negatively affected by this pandemic and that these on the growth for their development for the research and all of the bright minds that we need to stimulate in our universities and colleges and I think this is really possible because young people have stepped up and gotten vaccinated and the high vaccination rates we have in post-secondary institutions make it safe and we've updated conversations and collaboration with the institutions and the Ministry of Advanced Ed the safe return to campus guidelines and that includes the program for accessing rapid tests and having those to support safe back-to-campus activities so I think that's going to be a great step forward for many, many students, faculty and staff across the province. Additionally we've been working with the early childhood sector and early childhood educators who have been in childcare operators who have been working so hard through this pandemic and I know these changes have led to lots of questions and concerns. We have last week posted the updated guidelines for the early childhood educators in childcare sector and we've been taking lots of questions over the last few days and working with them to answer these questions and address with some questions and answers for people and I know we have a town hall tomorrow night to walk through it with many of the providers and I just want to again express my appreciation for all of the early childhood educators and our childcare programs for the stellar job that they're doing caring for our children during a very changing and challenging time. In step with the changes that we saw last week, our care and assisted living facilities have seen a sharp increase in cases and our seniors and elders continue to bear the significant burden from this virus and that has not changed in terms of people becoming ill. However, the high rate of immunization and the high rate of booster doses that we're seeing amongst our seniors in long-term care and amongst staff means that the lower rate of severe illness in long-term care homes and assisted living homes and thankfully a much, much reduced risk of things like death. Because of this, combined with the severe impacts that come with the measures that we have had to take to try and suppress transmission in long-term care homes, we are working very closely with long-term care homes to make sure that we can continue to help every resident who has one and make sure that we have those all-important visits continuing even when we have some cases of COVID-19 and public health teams are actively monitoring, engaged with facilities across the province to manage these outbreaks and balance that risk that we have and the harms that come both from Omicron and from the measures that we put in place. The guidance for outbreaks, we are working on that now and that will be posted again in the coming days, balancing that need for restrictions with the severity of illness that we see on a case-by-case basis. So I have spoken last week in some detail about the fact that with Omicron it has changed some of the tools that we have used quite extensively over the past two years, in particular with that shorter time interval, the generation time, so the time between one person getting infected and being exposed and the next person getting sick and passing it on to others is much shorter with this new virus strain. So it is no longer viable for us to be able to rely on the contact tracing that we were doing that was really making a difference. And it's really that recognition that tested you have likely unknowingly passed it on to others. Previously with different strains when that was five or six days before the next generation, we had time. We had time on our side and the opportunity to find people and to help them isolate before they would pass it on to others. That is far more difficult now and why it is important for us to all go back to what we need to do as we are navigating our way through our days and deciding what it is safe for us to do individually for us and our children every day. We need to continue, as I've said, following those public health orders because they address some of the highest risk settings that we're faced with right now and those restrictions that are in place. But we also need to take into account, not only about our loved ones and ourselves, but those around us who we may or may not know are at higher risk, perhaps an older relative, a colleague that we work with or a close friend that we spend time with. Let's remember that they're sharing their risk with us and we share our risk with them. That's why those layers of protection continue to be so important. So in addition to focusing on where we need to make a difference in high risk settings, particularly long-term care, supporting post-secondary institutions, supporting schools, supporting some of those high risk accommodation settings, it means doing what we all have a role to do, doing what we have been doing. As I mentioned, getting vaccinated, wearing masks, washing your hands, keeping yourself cautious if you are at high risk, it means paying attention every day to how we are feeling, staying home if we're feeling unwell, particularly if we have a fever, staying away from others and returning to normal activities when we feel better. We also need to be aware that we have in our workplaces COVID-19 safety plans. That's one of those things that helps us mitigate that risk for people or may be infected asymptomatically. If we use the BC CDC symptom checker, which has now been updated, to help identify if you likely have COVID-19 and then follow the guidance on when you need to get tested. We do know that it is important to test certain people, particularly people where you might be eligible for treatment or you may be more at risk of severe illness or for people like healthcare workers to understand when it's safe to go back to work. If you are confirmed positive, then you must follow the self-isolation requirements. If you're unvaccinated, that means 10 days for adults. If you're vaccinated or if your child under the age of 18, that's five days. And we know that because we know that children have milder illness and we tend to have less virus and shed less virus . But it's important that we consider that risk doesn't drop off to zero after five days. But it does decrease quite dramatically after about five days in most people. So we need to, if you have mild illness and you're feeling well and your fever is resolved after five days, then you can go back to activities. But it's not back to everything all at once. We still need to realize that we may be shedding COVID safety plans at work wearing a mask when we're around other people in indoor settings and avoiding high risk settings like long-term care homes if we can during that next additional five days. So those are the things that we can all do that will get us through what we're dealing with right now with Omicron in the next few weeks. This has been a tough go for all of us and we've been changing. We've gone through many different iterations of how this virus has affected us over this last two years. And we're all tired of COVID-19. One more than me. And the impacts that the virus has had on all factors in our life. I think we would all love to be done with COVID. But as much as we would like that, our reality is that COVID has passed right now. And we're not yet over it. So let's offer each other that encouraging words, that warm smile, that connection, that kindness. Remember that this is ever changing and that creates a lot of anxiety for many people. We have more distance to go but we will see our way through this phase of our storm as well. Friday is, as I mentioned, the anniversary of the first case in our first briefing. And as I said this past Friday, Omicron has changed and forced us to respond differently. And this is a transition. But I do believe we will have a gentler summer that we will get to a place where we no longer need many of the measures and restrictions we have in place right now. We will also need to continue to support our health care that is being felt the most and prepare us for our living with COVID in the future in a different way in a way that doesn't have that dramatic effects on our lives. So I want to sum up today by saying thank you. Thank you, everybody, for being patient with each other, for getting through this, for doing the things that we need to do and being kind and being calm and being safe. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr Henry. Today I will be providing an update on rapid test inventory and distribution as well as the impact of COVID-19, the Omicron variant of concern on health care workers in our health care system and surgical postponements. First I want to touch briefly on our immunization efforts which have been extraordinary more than 350,000 doses administered in the last week 110,000 of those in pharmacies. Vaccinations for children aged 5 to 11 continue as Dr Henry has spoke. There is lots of available capacity more than 175,000 175,968 children have now had their dose 1 immunization against COVID-19. That number can be higher. We encourage everybody to register today at the get vaccinated website at 1-833-838-2323 if you want to call in. I would also note that invitations for dose 2 for 5 to 11 began as of yesterday with around 2,000 invitations already sent out. More than 27,500 dose 2 invitations for children 5 to 11 are being sent out this week based on an 8-week interval. The booster campaign as well continues full steam ahead. In fact, not just 350,000 doses but 350,000 boosters in the last week we project similar numbers this week. I want to say this, there are 644,000 people who have been invited for their booster in BC and have not yet booked an appointment. We strongly encourage them to book into our clinics or pharmacies. There is lots of capacity and I want to say a special note. There has been an extraordinary take up of immunization and if you saw Dr. Henry's presentation on Friday, you know the risk to those over the age of 70 from COVID-19 continues to be high.  It is urgent for them to get vaccinated as they are much more likely to be immunized if they acquire COVID-19 and we encourage them to do that as well as encourage everybody who has not received their dose one and dose two immunizations to get them today. With respect to rapid tests to date BC has received 6,931,175 rapid tests and deployed 4,130,656 of these tests to key strategic areas. This leaves an inventory of 2,800,000 tests 972,355 of which were received over the last four days. About 558,000 of the current inventory are not suitable for deployment for take away or personal use. That leaves us 2,242,000 tests in our current inventory that are suitable for self-administered use and we know that 319,860 tests are in transit and expected to arrive in BC in the days ahead. This week, subject to timely delivery from the federal government we will be working to deliver over 2,500,000 test kits as follows 351,000 for repackaging and distribution to COVID test sites across BC to replenish their supply 603,750 to replenish supplies at acute care centers for symptomatic health care workers and health authority programs for example emergency departments 3,000 to long-term care to replenish and continue to support symptomatic staff and to test visitors 50,000 to assisted living to support symptomatic staff and to test visitors 258,750 to support rural, remote and indigenous communities 300,000 more test kits to support K-12 education 311,000 to support businesses and organizations as part of the point of care screening program as more tests arrive we will continue to push the areas in greatest need and expand access across post-secondary and other areas as identified in the plan we presented on December 21, 2021 Earlier today the BCCDC announced it will be distributing rapid test kits to post-secondary institutions for employees and students with COVID-19 symptoms we are also allocating over 250,000 rapid tests for the childcare sector with the Ministry of Children and Family Development to consider best use and delivery of tests to licensed childcare operators across BC for testing of symptomatic staff and to support continuity of their operations we will have more to say about this as our supply from Canada is clarified in the week ahead the expected deliveries from our federal partners have changed somewhat since last week currently BC expects to receive 10,868,720 tests between today and February 25 in the middle of February this is a reduction from the 15,719,000 that we were expecting as of last Friday with that said 10 million is a lot of tests and we are very appreciative to receive them clearly the supply of tests will be substantial but there is continuing to be flux in orders and deliveries as they get firmed up by the federal government it is also worth noting that we have delivered over 370,000 rapid tests to long-term care facilities across BC since last December since late December I should say these facilities have a direct line to their health authority if more tests are needed and we are replenishing supply to long-term care facilities as tests arrive in BC in fact 210,000 more tests are going to long-term care facilities this week once delivered that is over 580,000 tests provided directly to long-term care facilities since late December and these tests are in addition to tests available if they choose to use rapid tests to help manage cases, clusters or outbreaks I would like to take the opportunity to provide an update on the impact of sickness on health care workers in our health care system first to acknowledge the exceptional work under very difficult circumstances of all of our health care workers in every community across BC in serving British Columbians in a challenging time health authorities have been closely monitoring sickness levels across health services especially in hospitals, long-term care and home support I can report that from September January 17th and 23rd at least 17,954 workers called in sick almost precisely a similar number as to last week this includes 4,252 in Fraser Health 3,265 in Interior Health 1,589 in Northern Health 1,840 in the Provincial Health Services Authority BC Emergency Health Services 2,836 in Vancouver Coastal 3,359 in Island Health and 813 in Providence Health Care this is the number of health care workers affected and does not reflect the number of days or shifts they may have called in sick illness could it be due to COVID-19 or something else the number of health care workers is relatively unchanged from last week and down from the week of January 3rd to 9th and finally now our weekly surgical renewal update Health authorities reported reported in the period January 16th to January 22nd that they had postponed 790 non-urgent schedule surgeries that 71 in Fraser Health 17 in Vancouver Coastal Health 401 in Interior Health 275 in Island Health and 26 in the Provincial Health Services Authority no surgeries were postponed in the Northern Health Authority cumulatively from September 5th 2021 to today to January 22nd I should say regional surges of COVID and factors including severe weather patterns have caused 5,895 for surgical postponements as noted and we've seen this it's compared to the postponements in the first wave in April and in May of 2020 at that time there were significantly more surgeries postponed we are of course wanting to postpone as few surgeries as possible at that time we dropped down I think one week under 3,000 surgeries which is a very low number when you consider that we do a base of about 7,000 a week we continue to do a significant number of surgeries of all kinds across BC but it is a significant challenge and the reason why we announced this is that we are aging these plans is to support our health care system and make sure that it's there for everybody when they need it most urgently every day now I would say more and more British Columbians are getting vaccinated and whether it's our first dose our second, our third or our booster it is an essential commitment we make to stopping the rapid spread of COVID-19 that critical action we take that makes the vital difference our efforts all of our efforts together slow the rapid spread we've proven this all of our efforts together result in surgeries being rebooked we've proven this again and again our efforts and all of our efforts will get us through we know this as Dr Henry has said on Friday at our briefing on Friday will be two years since the first briefing since the first case in the first briefing that was held in Vancouver has been a long and difficult time for everybody I would agree with absolutely everyone who wishes it were over and over soon but these are the steps we can do now all of us together are a way to control our situation follow public health orders and guidance get vaccinated and support one another and continue to support our health care system in difficult times and with that we're happy to take your questions if you want to enter the queue you'll be limited to one question and one follow up our first question today goes to Richard Zussman Global News Dr Henry a lot of the restrictions that have been put in place are based on the science applied to Delta and I know things have evolved with Omicron but one of the outstanding ones has been an impact on events like weddings the industry is frustrated with this I'm just wondering what in the science shows you that a hockey game at Rogers arena with 9000 people and people cheering and in large cases people without masks on how is that a safer environment than someone hosting a wedding event hosting a wedding event you know these are there's always this how come it's safer to go to Walmart when there's a bunch of people there and how come it's risk setting what you're doing in that setting and I presented that a couple of weeks ago you know the whole variety of things that we look at when we were talking about gyms for example so we do know that no matter what it's those group settings when we're coming together when we are with people that we care about weddings are a perfect example and I just want to clarify weddings and funeral services are not restricted it is the celebrations the parties afterwards and we know that unvariably those are the settings that we are seeing transmission not at every single one clearly but at many many many and that was what it's very challenging and we've all been to wonderful weddings where yes you all start off with the right intentions and we're sitting at tables but you're with people you haven't seen it's a positive joyful time and so at the end of the evening you know it it becomes more of a celebration which is a wonderful thing but also very risky right now so yes there are measures that we have in place that address in a sort of sequential way the highest risk settings and then we put in mitigation things in lower risk settings and so we look at a hockey arena it's a much larger space there's lots of ventilation there's small numbers of people that are allowed in with the capacity limits the vaccine card and yes we do know that some people but when you're at a seat with very small number of people around you and a large amount of space it's much less risky than when you're in a night club or an indoor venue where you're closely with people without a mask on so it is a gradation of risk and we all know that there's some settings that we are seeing a lot of transmission some are the very same thing where we don't see any at all so it is based on risk that has not changed the factors that we're seeing have not changed it's indoor spaces with poorer ventilation less space where people are not as likely to wear their mask consistently those are places where we see transmission and as we have more and more transmissible strains of the virus become less and less able to there are more and more risky depending on the setting Richard do you have a follow up we are seeing situations where pharmacies and other places are selling rapid tests and as you are aware there is a high demand for these tests and in some cases the price of those tests have escalated quite quickly just one anecdotal piece of evidence that was brought forward to us was a place selling 5 tests for $100 a week later it was 5 tests for $150 what do you think about this sort of price gouging for accessing rapid tests and also to the announcement you made today extending the vaccine card can you explain to us the science behind extending it all the way until the end of June so I can't talk about pricing of rapid tests on the private market I will tell you that there is a global shortage of rapid tests we look to our neighbours to the south where they have been trying to get large numbers it affects the amounts we have been getting from Canada so I expect that has something to do with it as well we will and will continue to make rapid tests available in those settings where they are most useful first and if and when we get to that place where there is an unlimited supply we are my aim is to make sure that everybody has access to them as much as possible in terms of the vaccine card it has been very effective again it does not eliminate the risk but we do know and we continue to see that if you are not vaccinated your personal risk has gone up dramatically with the amount of virus that is circulating but also your risk of passing it on to others has gone up so we still see that if people who are fully vaccinated that mitigates that risk of both getting infected yourself and passing it on to others and doing that symptom screen making sure we are not feeling well that we are vaccinated that we have all of those other measures in place it is one tool that allows us to have air on the side of having people in watching the hockey game in restaurants and it does not eliminate the risk but it absolutely has been mitigating the risk and I know it has been used quite effectively by many people in many settings and what I said is we are expanding the program when we put it in place in August we were looking at the way that we were dealing with at the time and Omicron of course has meant that it has extended and changed once again I have said until the end of June but as I have also said we will be reevaluating as we go through this next few weeks and hopefully we will see a decrease in hospitalizations we will see a decrease in the circulation of this virus in our communities and we will be reassessing on a regular basis the need for all of the measures that we have in place Minister I do not know if you want to add to that say I think Richard as you know from January 25 to the middle of February we expect to receive 10,800,000 rapid tests and they will be distributed in the way that we laid out on December 21 we will write the details as they come and we will be providing details to you as to how they are being provided around BC why are we giving priority to long term care and to acute care and to schools and to certain businesses and lots of congregate settings and so on, why are we giving priority because even though 10,800,000 is a lot of rapid tests it is in fact about 2 per British Columbian and we have to focus on those areas where they can most effectively use and that is what we are planning to do and that is what we will continue to do and we will continue to provide detail briefings as to how those are taking place obviously no one wants to see anybody gouged and that is something to look at it is outside of the healthcare system it is something we will obviously be looking at but this is the supply we are getting and it is significant and we have to use it most effectively I think people would expect us to do and that is why we have laid out a detailed plan to do that and we are following that plan assiduously Next question Now that you are extending the vaccine passport I know you have been asked this in the past but do you have any plans to include the third booster dose to be fully vaccinated in the next 6 months assuming that you keep the passport in place until the end of June I consider the vaccine passport is the federal card program but the BC vaccine card that is in place for the limited number of venues here I do not expect to add a booster dose as being part of it for a number of reasons one is not everybody has yet eligible or has the opportunity to receive their booster dose and there is still a large proportion of people although that is getting less and less by the day who have not received their booster dose and have not yet been eligible for it so it would not make sense to make it a requirement when a proportion of people are not able to get it yet and it is much more important for us to make sure that we do not have this wave I have confidence in that but we do not know what is coming next so we want to make sure we are giving the best, strongest protection that we can for the future and I am hopeful that we will be in a different place before June and that will help us understand what is needed in terms of the BC vaccine card but again we will be reevaluating this on an ongoing basis why philosophy our philosophy and my team in coming up with the measures that we believe need to be in places about the least restrictive means the least we need to do to make sure we are finding that balance of keeping things open as safely as possible and preventing our healthcare system from getting strained even more than it is right now Rob, do you have a follow up? Sure, thanks Could you tell us a bit about safety risk differences between youth and adult sports tournaments that one is in the case of children being allowed to start operating again next week and the other stage closed why are they different and what is the different risk? Well it is a little bit to do with risk and it has a little bit to do with benefit so part of it is we know that adult tournaments at this time of the year tend to be a very important social event and that is of course a riskier situation and part of it is adults have the opportunities to do that on an ongoing basis and there have been provisions for example for some of the high impact sports and Olympic qualifying etc but we know that sports has a different place for youth in terms of growth and development and future opportunities so we have always prioritized making sure that young people can access that part of these important aspects in their lives particularly at that age and that there are timing limits for things like university scholarships that become important so we have taken all that into effect and prioritized really making sure that we can safely restart youth sports tournaments first Our next question goes to Graham Wood, Glacier Media Hi Dr. Gary Can you walk me through the initial reasons out to why you didn't include masks for kids K-3 and what your findings are being since then in terms of the effectiveness of masks for the three kids Yeah so our thinking about masks globally has evolved over time and the comfort level I think in all of us we have been doing masks and where we need to wear them and what type of masks and what things work better and partly it's talking with young people in my life and understanding that they can adapt and that they're fine with it so we have as you know updated our protocols in schools based on what we were seeing in those schools based on what we were seeing I think the other thing that's really important over time is that the virus has changed and I've said this before when you have more of it circulating and it's more infectious each layer becomes more important so as we were moving into more infectious strains and having those outbreaks it became more important to have that extra barrier in place for younger students as well you know there's no it's really challenging to tease apart is it the mask that made the difference or was it because we changed seating or because we changed cohorts so it's very difficult to understand what proportion of the risk was attributable to wearing masks or not wearing masks it really is an overall function of all of the different pieces that need to be in place is more infectious or we have more of it in the community having every single layer becomes more important so I know that's not exactly the answer that you want but those are some of the considerations that have gone into it I will say as well that we look very carefully at all of the data that we see around the world around benefits and harms of every measure and the one thing that is clear is that there are very little harms from mask wearing in those settings and children can adapt to it we've seen that very clearly Graham do you have a follow up yeah obviously there's a lot to this but in terms of the harm you're saying there's no harm I'm finding that it may not be studying us in terms of the social emotional and the hearing the audiology the ramifications of masking and how long do you think that this can continue for if these kids aren't going to be provided respirators per say you've got a whole bunch of things packed in there but obviously as I've said all along we want to do the least restrictive means the least possible so I think as we move through this wave it's really important that we take all of those protective measures we see this strain of the virus transmitting really rapidly between people I don't believe and I don't think there's anything that shows that in the community setting particularly for children that wearing a respirator so N95 that's not fit tested gives any additional protection in the settings that we're talking about where there are multiple things in place than a well-fitting comfortable mass that a child will wear so those are the things that we try and balance I hope and expect that as we get through this wave and I said I expect that we'll have a gentler summer having said that this virus is changing and it's spreading very rapidly in many countries around the world what the next strain is going to be like whether it'll be milder or more severe whether it'll be more or less transmissible able to evade the vaccine or previous infection so those are all unknowns but I do expect and from history that we'll see different patterns over time and that it should as we have more and more immunity that will protect us globally from having more severe strains emerge many times I believe in the future where mask wearing in indoor public places will be important again as a way of trying to reduce our risk of spreading it to others more so than contracting it ourselves and it'll be one of those things that we do during that winter respiratory season Next question Binder Sajan CTV Hi there I'm just wondering if there's an update on the field hospital whether some space has been acquired and given what we're seeing with cases and hospitalizations it's sort of unclear to me if any hospitals in the lower mainland seem to be on the brink and whether that field hospital would be required and even if there would be enough staff to staff it if needed That's over to you minister Next Binder we have 9,229 basic acute care beds we have 2,353 surge beds in our system for a total of 11,582 and currently in hospital our census in hospital as of end of day yesterday in any event was about 9,050 in other words under the 9,229 number now that doesn't mean things are easy in fact we frequently in pre-COVID times would run well above that number in the number we often talk about in January of 2020 we were at about 103.5% capacity about 9,500 beds at that time prior to COVID-19 the challenge now is as I've described there are a number of healthcare workers off sick and we have just under a thousand people hospitalized with COVID-19 in BC so we're making adjustments accordingly according both to the staff compliment we have and to our capacity compliment but what that tells you is it's not a field hospital in need we need to continue to support our staff should they get sick to be able to come back to get well and come back and to support those in our healthcare system so with that many beds surge beds in our existing hospital it's not the beds or the space for people that is the most significant thing so yes we have space for field hospital should be required but that is an unlikely possibility but we did that in April of 2020 and we've done that again recently to ensure that that's there if required but we are far from that that's not the issue in our healthcare system right now the issue as ever is people and being able to provide the services we need to get back as soon as possible to delivering the surgeries for all those who've had their surgeries postponed so that they can get on with their lives that is critical to us so I don't think the short answer is yes the field hospital is there but right now the challenge isn't additional beds in addition to the 11,500 plus beds that we have based on surge it's ensuring that we have enough staff there to take care of the people and yet as of yesterday that was about 175 under base bed capacity or 9,050 Binter do you have a follow up I do just wanted to ask about kids aged 5 to 11 in vaccination rates I've seen in some places like some provinces seem to have much higher rates how big an impact do you think this now see strengthening its recommendation will have on those vaccination rates or do you think there's just maybe people are just not quite sure if this is the right move for their child at this point and perhaps that will lag behind because as you say the risk isn't necessarily as high as it is for other age groups there's a couple of things that I looked with awe to Newfoundland and Avedore and my colleague Janice Cheryl there earlier today you know where they traditionally have very high rates of vaccination and kids there have been vaccinated in communities all around Newfoundland and Avedore so we could learn from how they do it and I think there's a combination of things I was a bit disappointed when Nassie first came out and the language wasn't that strong and the things that we learn about from Nassie their guidance is directed towards healthcare providers and there's nuance in there and sometimes that can lead people to think that it means it's not recommended which is not the case and I think they made that very clear in their statement today that they look at the situation that they were in when the decision was being made, how much we knew and you know the fact that at that time we weren't seeing in our communities clearly that has changed with Omicron and they make reference to that where we are now seeing that young people are being infected and yes the rate of serious illness in hospitalization is still very low in that age group thankfully but more and more numbers of children are ending up in hospital and we're seeing that here as well and we know that kids can get really sick with this and if they aren't hospitalized it can knock them out and it's not an innocuous illness as I've said so we don't want kids to get sick the other thing that vaccination and you know this is not what Nassie looks at they look at safety and effectiveness and how it should be used but the other important things that we all have is it allows kids to more easily and safely get back to all of those activities that are so important to the people in my life in that age group they also it's important for them to be part of protecting their grandparents and older people in their lives or making sure that they don't carry that anxiety of bringing it home to a parent who's going through treatments or is on medication so I think there's a whole variety of things that make it really important for us to offer this protection Nassie has come out and said that that it is an important thing particularly now with what we're seeing Next question we go to Derek Penner, Vancouver Sun Hi, yeah you've been reporting on deaths due to COVID since the beginning of the pandemic at this point how concerned are you that the deaths that you're reporting might not be capturing all the deaths that might be attributable to COVID-19 considering the statistics Canada data on excess deaths estimates Yeah, and we've also looked at excess deaths here in British Columbia and my team has been analyzing those data and I'll present some of that in the coming up soon but one of the things we did from the very beginning is we have a relationship with the Coroner Service so any suspected death in the community whether it's related to whether they have a test or not is investigated for COVID so we are confident that there's not a lot of people dying in the community from COVID that we don't know about and we've done that analysis a few times I will say that if anything we over call deaths from COVID and we're looking at the deaths that we had here in the month of January for example there were 119 with a date of death in January so I know there's been more deaths reported but many it sometimes takes time for example if somebody dies in the community and the Coroner does an investigation and the test comes back positive it may be several weeks before that is reported to us so we had 119 people with a date of death in January but not surprisingly about a third of them 41 of them were people associated with an outbreak in long-term care so in long-term care or acute care and in that situation we count anybody who dies within 30 days of their positive lab test in a long-term care outbreak so some people had very mild illness COVID probably had nothing to do with the reason they died or very little to do with the reason they died in some cases and in other cases it was directed because of COVID and if we look at people in the community the two thirds about 78 people who died in the month of January so far who weren't associated with a care home overwhelmingly it's about two thirds again are people over the age of 80 so again it goes back to what we were talking about last week the number one risk factors for severe illness and death we have had four people who are in their 50s or under including a person in their 30s and a person in their 40s who died in the month of January who did not as far as we know have any underlying illnesses so it can affect some people more than others as we get older we're more likely to have other underlying illnesses we call them heart disease or lung disease that put us at increased risk as well and so all of those things compound your risk of having more severe illness and why vaccination becomes so much more important in older people as well so that's a little bit of a summary I am quite confident that we're not missing at least a lot of cases of people who have died related to COVID in the community Derek, do you have a follow up? Yes, looking at the data that you released of status by vaccination in the unvaccinated people who are contracting COVID-19 and dying it was considerably large number of people over 70 sort of represented in that group what new strategies are you looking at to try and reach that over 70 crowd to get vaccination what you've learned from this. It is as you know age is that most important risk factor but even younger people who are not yet protected with any vaccine also are more likely to end up in hospital or have severe illness or die from COVID all of the various strains even with Omicron it is the same thing that we're doing we've been trying to go even door to door many cases but community to community working with community leaders getting that message out to people where they might hear it it goes back to the same things that we've seen all along that there's one of the things confidence in the vaccine and there's some people that don't believe that they need a vaccine which is unfortunate and there's a small group of people that we probably the other part is confidence in safety and we have more vaccines coming of different types that may help for some people part of its complacency people don't feel that it would affect them that they're fine that they don't need it and so that's something we try and address by putting out the information around who is most likely at risk and then convenience so making it easy for somebody to get that vaccine and anybody of any age who has made that important decision to get your first dose you can walk into any clinic any pharmacy that has vaccine anywhere in the province and get your vaccine now think about it today it's going to make a difference in getting through this next few weeks but it's going to make a difference for how we're going to be able to live with this virus in whatever happens next to over to Minister Dix just to say the over 70 category and one of the differences between that category and younger children is that there's actually very little regional difference Derek there's a very high level of immunization over 70 in the northern health 30 interior health 30 in all of our health 30's across BC I think it's close to in the interior in the northern health 30 I think it's about 88 89 there and obviously province wide is 93% which is a very high level of vaccination 93% of people over 70 have got their first dose 91% plus have their second dose and of those 91% about 85 86% of those have got their third dose and so what I'd say today to those people first of all the 45,000 people who've received invitations to book who are over 70 for their booster dose received an invitation to book that group of people has already received two doses so they are they are by definition interested in the vaccine now is the time to get that additional protection and if you need any more evidence that was provided by Dr Henry last Friday I don't I think I'm sure there will be people including your family doctor including pharmacists people in the community who can provide that to you with respect to the small group of people over 70 and over 60 who have not received their first dose we just have to continue to make the effort to let them know that any time someone in that category wants to be vaccinated at our hundreds of locations across British Columbia of our new locations the pharmacies are giving booster dose hundreds of locations across BC they can get vaccinated today we are in that risk category and there are some and we just have to continue to drive that we saw the impact of the Delta variant for months and months and months on unvaccinated people how they had to be flown in many cases hundreds and hundreds of miles from their home to get critical care in many cases passing away right and so people need to get vaccinated first and second dose we just got to continue to tell them millions and millions of people more than 10 million doses have been administered in BC so far across the country significantly more than that I think the number is more than 80 million across the country across the world in the billions these are some of the safest vaccines we have and we are here ready for you today is the best day to choose to get vaccinated we have time for one more question about BC Hi there in English and in French please Doctor Henry we are wondering what rules for non-church quires in BC under the current guidelines if you could clarify please if such quires can rehearse in person right now if they have all the safety protocols vaccination, masking, distancing would such a rehearsal be allowed under the current public health order there is no restrictions on quires but no we haven't made any distinctions between singing groups in any setting but obviously there is space and we have guidelines about how to do it safely mask wearing over to Minister Dix there is no difference in groups right now there is no regulation but we have to be careful not to use masks of course and to follow a plan of protection for people and that is essential and that is what we have to do now Belle do you have a follow up Yes please the sub variant of Omicron is it in BC and if so what does that mean in terms of the provinces response to the pandemic and English and French please Yes so we have had a few cases of the as 4.2 I think it is we our first detection was about two weeks ago very small number so it is not a significant difference right now and there is still a whole lot we don't know we have seen in the UK particularly where they have seen it in pockets that there is probably increased transmissibility whether that translates into any other parameters that are different there hasn't been enough of it certainly not here and not in Canada to really see any impact we are not seeing it we have been following my lab team has been following it really carefully and we are not seeing it taking over from Omicron as we saw Omicron take over from Delta for example very similar to what we saw here where you get regional differences in variants if we look back at Delta for example we had regional ones that were here in western Canada 25 and 27 that were different from other places and that just is because the virus mutates a little bit in different areas geographically when it is spreading that rapidly so yet to know really what the overall impact is going to be if any Over to Minister Dix Yes we found a few cases two weeks ago and there are very few cases in the UK but very few here we saw some Delta and it depended on the part of the country or the province but in general we do not have the time to take conclusions but we are waiting to see that there are the truth and that was the case with other variants of concern and it is the case with Omicron variant of concern so few cases but very few here Thank you very much