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Henry had won an early prize of two electric bicycles in the May 10 draw, using a random number generator, for a lottery that benefited the $ 10 million Emerge Stronger fundraising campaign.
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June 7, 2022 • 6 hours ago • 3 minutes reading • 42 comments A screenshot of a tweet, later deleted, from the Victoria Hospitals Foundation saying that Dr. Bonnie Henry had won a raffle for an electric bike. jpg
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VICTORY – The Victoria Hospitals Foundation says it deleted a post on Friday about Dr. Bonnie Henry winning a prize in a fundraising lottery “because it fueled so much unnecessary hatred.”
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Henry had won an advance prize for two electric bicycles in the May 10 raffle, using a random number generator, for a lottery that benefited from the $ 10 million Emerge Stronger fundraising campaign to buy more than $ 200 million. equipment for Victoria hospitals.
A Twitter post from the foundation included a photograph of Henry wearing a bicycle helmet with electronic bicycles. More than 4,200 tickets were sold in the lottery.
Avery Brohman, the foundation’s CEO, said Monday that information about lottery winners is published regularly for “total transparency.” In this case, however, “instantly, we received negative tweets that were neither real nor real, so we decided to withdraw the post, because it was of no use.”
In many responses to the publication, Henry is criticized for not preventing enough infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. The foundation was also criticized for a perceived conflict of interest, although it is an independent charity that raises funds for medical equipment, special projects, education and research at Victoria’s two main hospitals and Gorge Road Hospital. dir Brohman.
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He said anyone can buy a raffle if they are not a member of the foundation or a member of the board. The foundation also noted that any public lottery is fully regulated by BC Gaming.
An account identified as that of Moira Stilwell, a former Liberal MP for BC, wrote on Friday: “DBH had the option to ask for another draw. No class.”
One commenter said it was a public relations failure to post about a polarizing figure, but Brohman said the reaction to Henry “did not resemble anything he had seen before.”
“Anyone who supports our hospitals with a lottery ticket is doing something good. And receiving so much negativity, around something that is really doing good, has been annoying.”
Brohman said health workers had been subjected to “a lot of discrimination and hatred”, including protests in hospitals and people who left messages full of hate on employees’ windshields.
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Henry was traveling on Monday and could not be reached for comment, according to the Ministry of Health.
Although a March poll by the Angus Reid Institute found that 68 percent of British Colombians believe Henry has handled COVID-19 well, giving him one of the highest approval ratings in the country. , former provincial health official Perry Kendall says continued vitriol towards his successor is probably a mixture of misogyny and distrust of authority.
“I think it’s a lot of misogyny,” said Kendall, who retired at age 74 in January 2018. “How much is hate or mistrust, maybe 50 to 50? And there are a lot of people who are just stupid.”
Kendall said he never experienced hatred on the same scale, though he addressed hate and written mail campaigns: “But it wasn’t as personalized or nasty as this one. But we didn’t have a social network. so vitriolic … with algorithms that don’t really support empathy. “
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He argues, however, that the misbehavior comes from a minority of people whose voices are being spread online.
Kendall believes that British Colombians will live with COVID and its strains for many years, which may be part of the problem. While some people will want controls, “this won’t make much sense from a public health perspective,” while others will continue to fight it, he said.
“Bonnie Henry is very resilient,” he added. “I think she must be very, very tired.”
• The Victoria Hospitals Foundation’s fundraising lottery continues until Wednesday with the chance to win big prizes, including a 50/50 raffle with a grand prize of more than $ 68,000 and a $ 20,000 plane ticket dollars for two.
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