Last week I decided to dig into the life-threatening Precondition & Excuses from Alberta Health to resist enabling the National COVID-19 Exposure Notification App.
Frustrated with the lack of answers, or evasive answers from provincial elected officials, municipal officials and provincial media have been asking @CMOH_Alberta.
One problem is that the information AB Health has collected with the AB-only App is restricted to specific, limited use only within AB Health & AHS. It cannot be pushed to the federal government without informed user consent.
AB Health does not even use its own App if you test Positive.
• 5% use (at best) by Albertans ≠ enough useful info
• AB Health starts conventional contact tracing (with the phone number you provided when tested) before you can upload. @AntibioticDoc@RajBhardwajMD@DFisman
Contact tracers can be overwhelmed when # of daily new cases grows exponentially, many times faster than staff can be added.
This is why Govs worldwide use technology to provide exposure notification *before* conventional contact tracing.
The technical issues caused by AB Gov's unnecessary, and life-threatening Precondition, first cause problems for AB Gov.
The Precondition from AB Health also places impossible demands on the federal government, Apple & Google.
The federal (or any) government cannot force an app into your phone, with your private data, and pretend you opted in, just because AB Gov says so.
"Notification" Excuse is misinformed.
If Minister @shandro means he wants the App to push Exposure Notification from someone who tested positive to exposed contacts, the AB-Only App cannot do that. Not from User, nor from AB Health.
Premier Kenney claimed his rejection of the National App was based on "public health efficacy" advice that any app must feed into AB Health's contact tracing.
But AB Health's own contract tracing instructions STILL make no mention of the AB-Only App.
Premier Kenney quotes BC's Dr Henry verbatim that the National App "very non-specific" reporting is a reason that Alberta does not enable it.
But BC Health apparently wants an App to report your GPS location to them.
#COVIDAlert is not enough surveillance for Premier Kenney?
Apparently, BC's CMOH is Premier @jkenney's Boss now.
Premier Kenney is standing firmly with BC's NDP, against the rest of Canada, even Doug Ford's Conservatives in Ontario, Brian Pallister in Manitoba, and Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
Premier Kenney claims the "Suboptimal User Experience" of the AB-Only App was fixed in September.
(It wouldn't even work in the foreground on iPhones if the Screen Lock kicked in.)
Obviously, Albertans disagree. Alberta's downloads dwindle into insignificance anyway.
The AB-Only App seems to allow a False Positive Report, by design. This would waste the time of Alberta's busy Contact Tracers.
I didn't go to the next step. Don't do this maliciously, or by accident.
This needs verification. If true, the AB-Only App needs to be withdrawn.
Here's the link to @cspotweet thread with video of Premier @jkenney 's outright, life-threatening rejection yesterday to enabling the National #CovidAlert App in Alberta.
What Dr Hinshaw described instead is how National #CovidAlertApp would respond *if* provided the Code from AHS Contact Tracer, as occurs in 8 other provinces.
Chief of Emergency Management Agency @iceTyyc + my family = why I started this thread 2 Sundays ago.
I've debunked every bogus precondition, excuse & mistruth from AB Gov, often with their own words. Premier @jkenney just made new ones at your expense.
Health Min @shandro - on 5 July, Singapore Devs behind the code Deloitte put into LATEST ABTraceTogether admitted it STILL does not track iPhone-iPhone contacts. 25% in Singapore.
After careful consideration, for safety reasons, I have deleted ABTraceTogether from my phone, and asked AB Health to delete my mobile number from that database, per alberta.ca/ab-trace-toget…
I will continue to support AHS Contact Tracing and use #COVIDAlert with other Canadians.
The HIA Helpdesk needs to speak with you by phone to confirm, before removing your mobile number and ID from the ABTraceTogether database.
Just a reminder to be nice. If you have an issue with a politician, don't take it out on regular working people in the dept.
Developer @mfenniak has carefully documented how ABTraceTogether fails btwn iPhones.
He wasn't paid $950K in June, and isn't getting $100K/month on sole-source contract from Min @shandro.
@DeloitteCanada needs to disclose its tests just as openly. Now.
"The App Store should always be a safe and trusted place for users to download apps. Now more than ever that commitment takes on special significance as the world fights the COVID-19 pandemic."
Another Developer, @ekryski, started a thread criticizing ABTraceTogether and recommending #COVIDAlert. He examines the source code and how it is maintained.
@mfenniak gets deep into the communications between phones.
In Oct & Nov, you repeatedly rejected it, and told us to use ABTraceTogether - while you knew it had worked just 19 times in 6+ mos.
As @CMOH_Alberta, you reasonably ought to have known ABTraceTogether - which you were claiming ~ daily in Oct/Nov was feeding @AHS_media Contact Tracing - has only worked 19 times in 6 mos.
You have no leverage w cabinet after covering up for @jkenney.
"First Ministers reiterated their support for the Team Canada approach to fighting COVID-19, in order to minimize the impacts of an increase in cases and support economic recovery."
$1.03m to implement open-source Singapore App - proven fails to log contacts - so poorly it only uploaded @AHS_media 19 times since 1 May @AuditorGenAB
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But the City doesn't tell you the $17m/yr is a mortgage payment, of which only the interest portion is operating revenue.
The City lies to you these are all Lease Payments.
On this mortgage, at best the City is getting a breakeven. The City is showing no Interest Income on it.
Let's pretend this is a lease:
• payments starting at $17m/yr
• rising at ridiculously low 1%/yr
• as if CSEC is an affordable housing client needing a rent cap.
CSEC gets ALL the revenues of $1.2b of taxpayer dollars, custom-built, for only $17m/yr.
🧵 Stampede Park Arena aka "future Culture & Entertainment District Event Centre"
City of Calgary's presentation of the financials is deceptive:
• overstating direct benefits to City
• overstating CSEC investment
• understating City investment
• especially from Reserves
Citizens of Calgary do not get a referendum on the deal. In fact, "public consultation" was limited to an announcement on 25 April 2023, releasing this deceptive report.
Our "Referendum" is the Provincial Election Monday 29 May, and its advance voting.
How is City's report deceptive?
• Pretends $316m worth of CSEC mortgage repayment over 35 yrs is upfront capital investment
• Hides the fact the City needs another $316m up front to build arena complex - from Where?
• Disguises $17m/yr of mortgage payments as Lease Income
@JorgeDe83010797 Hi. The other night we chatted briefly about locomotive axle bearings on @MriyaReport and I decided to get up to speed on it a bit. If you want to chat about this on the Spaces, let me know. I can cover generally while you dive deeper.
@JorgeDe83010797@MriyaReport This video goes deeper into the assemblies. I gathered from the Spaces that Russia does not make the bearings themselves, but was curious about their domestic capability for fabrication and maintenance of all parts of the axle box, or even the bogeys.
Let me know if I misunderstand.
• 2 wheels + axle + gear = WAG = wheel set
• 2 or 3 wheel sets assembled into bogey aka truck(?)
• axle box contains the (tapered) roller bearing and transfers load to axle
• have to track roller bearing wear & replace
🧵 Gov of Alberta's Backdoor Prohibition
on School Mask Mandates
IMO, this is the policy holding back EPSB and other school boards in mandating masks in any school, for any period of time, no matter how bad the outbreak.
How is a 6 Sep 2022 Policy a collateral attack on a 26 Oct 2022 Decision?
Because Justice Dunlop made it clear in August that Minister Lagrange would have to enact a Regulation to prohibit masks, not just write a letter and threaten school boards.