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https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/01/04/BC-FOI-Missing-COVID-19-Data/
funny enough, before the pandemic, i requested copies of some forms from the ministry of health i had personally filled out. i needed them to figure out some personal information i had written but had forgotten what i had put down. i was actually given the option to request this information and i took them up on it. what a mistake that was. i was transferred to some weird department (i guess it must've been the privacy department?) and they asked me why i wanted that information. after i explained why, they told me they couldn't release it to me. i told them i was entitled to it under the privacy act and that they had even told me i could request the forms. the lady on the phone gave me the strangest runaround and weirdest excuse. i don't even remember what she said but she was trying to dissuade me from requesting it.
in the end, she budged. she quoted a delivery time that was ridiculously long. i think it was more than 30 days or something. i finally received the copies of the forms i filled out maybe 30 days later or so. the kicker: the information i needed from the form had been blocked out with black squares.
so, yes, i'm not surprised. we're all just sheep and do as the government says because we have no other choice. we're left in the dark about a lot of stuff through bureaucracy. they know they can get away with it. keeping us ignorant of the real details is how they control all of us. honestly, fuck the dumb provincial and federal governments.
― Punster McPunisher, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 04:44 (two years ago) link