Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #Alohagate
Most recents (4)
Virtually ALL the polls in 2012 predicted a sure win for Danielle Smith and Wild Rose. They were wrong. Albertans were rightfully wary of having her as premier. Has she changed or improved? I’m so sick of her ‘Hey, I’m new at this’ schtick, as though that didn’t happen. 1/
As Nenshi and others have pointed out, if she now claims to disavow things she has been touting and advocating for for YEARS, like privatizing health care, what does she even stand for? Danielle has proven that she will say anything to get what she wants. 2/
Right now, Dani wants a 4 year mandate as premier, and what people *don’t* want is an Alberta Pension Plan, privatized health care, and Alberta Police. So she has either said she won’t talk about those until after the election or lied about them in order to mislead voters. 3/
Here's a short history of #COVID19AB in quotes from @jkenney, UCP MLAs and staff.
Spoiler: from consistently undermining the threat, to spreading vaccine misinformation, to declaring "Best Summer Ever,"™️ they have got this wrong at every. single. stage.
🧵 THREAD 1/19 #ableg
Spoiler: from consistently undermining the threat, to spreading vaccine misinformation, to declaring "Best Summer Ever,"™️ they have got this wrong at every. single. stage.
🧵 THREAD 1/19 #ableg
1. On 27 May 2020, @jkenney called COVID-19 “an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly.”
#ableg 🧵 2/ calgary.ctvnews.ca/concern-arises…
#ableg 🧵 2/ calgary.ctvnews.ca/concern-arises…
2. “One thing I think we’re learning epidemiologically is that (homeless) population has a very high level of immune resistance, of immunity, and resilience against an influenza of this nature.”
- @jkenney, May 2020
🧵 3/ #ableg theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…
- @jkenney, May 2020
🧵 3/ #ableg theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…
A long thread...but I am so done. Today I live in a province where @UCPCaucus is more concerned with a Netflix film about #Bigfoot than the FACT that 1000 people in our largest city lost their jobs in O&G this week. #ableg #cdnpoli #RealTalkRJ
I live in a province where the @UCPCaucus thinks we believe that they have properly funded education and healthcare since they came into power despite classrooms bursting at the seams and a rural hospital fundraising for toilets. #ableg #cdnpoli
I live in a province where the @UCPCaucus thinks we support them taking from those on AISH while funding a $30 million/year joke of a O&G War Room and giving billions of dollars to rich corporations telling us it will "trickle down" to the rest of Albertans. #ableg #cdnpoli
Mayor @doniveson warns Albertans not to flout Covid19 precautions just because the @Alberta_UCP MLAs & staff did. We refer to the impact from politicians' bad modelling of public health advisories as the #DominicCummingsEffect. It's measurable. It's dangerous.
#CummingsEffect happens when the public stop adhering to public health messages after learning that a political figure personally flouted the same advice. It is a measurable danger during an epidemic. *This* is the real danger from the #UCPvacations. (2)
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
The effect is named for Dominic Cummings, an aide to the UK PM @BorisJohnson. Cummings & his family flouted health advisories & travelled from London to Durham. Both felt ill; later covid19 +ve. Their action shocked locked-down Brits, & scandal ensued (3) bbc.co.uk/news/uk-528111…
