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Of the 24,529 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I& #39;ve linked 17,387 deaths to 1687 residential facilities. That is 7 more deaths than last night. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_RzojK0vwF9nAozI7aoyLpPU8EA1JEqO6rq0g1iebU/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/spreadshe...
We are fewer than 500 deaths away from 25,000 deaths. I recall talking to @stphnmaher in like January about the prospect of Canada getting there, with vaccinations already have started and the second wave slowing down. I believe I was certain that we would.
Thanks to everyone for your supportive messages tonight in the wake of another set of journalism awards that recognized men reporting on LTC. It& #39;s funny that it seems to always be men! Of course, I couldn& #39;t be nominated and wouldn& #39;t win anyway ...
What I& #39;m doing isn& #39;t universally considered journalism. And for the team that won from the Star tonight for their work on deaths in private LTCs, I don& #39;t want people thinking they plagiarized me. I& #39;m sure they didn& #39;t. In fact, I think that Ed Tubb and I DMed last year about this.
But it isn& #39;t about copying these figures (which I made public on purpose and which have formed the basis of many many articles where I was not cited, this I know).
What I hate most about all of this is that there& #39;s no recognition of the work. Like, none.
What I hate most about all of this is that there& #39;s no recognition of the work. Like, none.
When the Star started collecting data, I had been on it for weeks already, When they did their investigation, my numbers were solid and big enough to prove that private care homes were more deadly.
Why didn& #39;t they call me to work together? Because it doesn& #39;t work like that.
Why didn& #39;t they call me to work together? Because it doesn& #39;t work like that.
It could work like that. Any journalist could reach out to me. Many have. Some even promised that it would turn into a collaboration, only to never be in touch again.
But it& #39;s better to have a Top Notch team of male journalists do serious journalism in house. Better journalism.
But it& #39;s better to have a Top Notch team of male journalists do serious journalism in house. Better journalism.
More serious. More awards. Maybe it comes with money. I dunno.
I don& #39;t think full-time journalists think much about how much of a grind (in the truest sense of the word) being freelance is. And I hate so many of them for being so clueless, if I& #39;m being honest.
I don& #39;t think full-time journalists think much about how much of a grind (in the truest sense of the word) being freelance is. And I hate so many of them for being so clueless, if I& #39;m being honest.
So anyway. On night 389 of me collecting this data, for free, with not a single example of an institution like the Toronto Star or the Globe and Mail or actually, yeah, not a single one reaching out to work with me (even if they reached out to ask me to help them) ...
... it& #39;s hard to not be a little bitter. But it isn& #39;t because of plagiarism and I don& #39;t know why I& #39;ve just written a thread kind of defending the guys that have taken just a little bit of shit on my behalf but anyway. Someone else can unpack that.
But if you& #39;re still reading and you& #39;ve sent me a note of support, I see it and I appreciate it. I do this because **literally no one else is doing this** and it& #39;s public and free because of how important it is ...
(and frankly its disgusting it is that corps like Torstar have paywalled their COVID-19 content but anyway)
And I& #39;d still do it if it was entirely thankless, but it has not been thankless. I know how many of you appreciate it. And I thank you back.
And I& #39;d still do it if it was entirely thankless, but it has not been thankless. I know how many of you appreciate it. And I thank you back.
You can see the data visualization here https://public.tableau.com/profile/andrew.lam3968#!/vizhome/CanadaLTCCOVID-19Deaths/LTC_Deaths_Canada">https://public.tableau.com/profile/a...
