Last updated: February 25, 2025

With #Postcards4PublicHealth, we’re harnessing the power of our personal stories to highlight the impacts of abandoning safety measures, and to demand change. Past waves of postcards helped to (partially) restore masks to BC hospitals and long-term care over the fall/winter for two years running, and resulted in a commitment of over $3 billion across three years for COVID-19 health measures – and they’re a great way to have an impact on our current campaigns!

Get postcard designs

We have a variety of postcard designs to support our campaigns! Check them out:

You can get your MLA contact info here, and get contact info for other BC policy-makers here. Postage to MLAs and Ministers is free!

If you’d like to send postcards but it isn’t accessible to you, share your message with us and we’ll send some postcards on your behalf (as soon as the Canada Post strike is resolved).

Our Demands

Current demands: Keep mask requirements in BC healthcare year round, and strengthen them with proper enforcement; N95 masks; and closing loopholes (like for patients, hallways, and private medical settings). Get our full demands here.

Past demands (and successes!) include:

• Supporting past campaigns for masks in healthcare (result: masks partially restored for fall/winter 2023-24 and 2024-25)
• Supporting DoNoHarm BC’s 2024 provincial budget recommendations to renew pandemic funding (result: over $3 billion in funding over three years)

How to Participate

1. Get postcards. Use premade ones, make your own, or print-and-paste our custom artwork. 
2. Write a short message / personal story. Say why YOU need masks to stay in healthcare. (If you want message ideas, check out these templates here.) You can sign your name, or leave it anonymous with just your postal code.
3. Share your postcards on social media! Tag @DoNoHarmBC and policy makers, and use the #Postcards4PublicHealth hashtag alongside campaign hashtags!
4. Mail your postcards and remember, postage is free to many members of government. You can get your MLA’s contact info here, and find more policy-maker contact info here.
5. Want us to help amplify your story (or send postcards on your behalf)? Share your statement by March 15 to help keep and strengthen masks in healthcare. You can also request that we send postcards on your behalf year round using this form.

Advocacy tip: Share stories that are personal, but not unkind or offensive. Ordinary staff members read these and convey our messages to politicians, and it’s important to win them over!

Looking for the older, longer guide for our previous #Postcards4PublicHealth campaigns? Find it here.