Joseph McLean’s Facebook group has become essential reading on the Sunshine Coast.
andrea bennett is an editor with The Tyee and the author of
Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp), a CBC Books’ pick for the top Canadian non-fiction of the year and one of Autostraddle’s best queer books of 2020. SHARES Joseph McLean created and moderates a COVID-19 group for his small city on Facebook. ‘I wanted a discussion that could be fact-checked, so that it wasn’t just a free-for-all.’
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“What a century this year has been,” wrote Joseph McLean. It was the end of December, and he was opening a long, reflective post about COVID-19 for the qathet COVID-19 Awareness Facebook group a post that would range across the globe from Wuhan, China, to Powell River, B.C., a small city in the qathet Regional District on the northern Sunshine Coast.