Jason Kenney disappeared for at least 10 days during his 2nd quarantine, then came back and introduced laughably inadequate half measures on Nov. 24 that were obviously never going to have an effect. 1/7
During that whole time the case numbers, hospitalizations, ICU patients & deaths escalated alarmingly. In his arrogance, he ignored science, examples from other areas, and hundreds of doctors *begging* for meaningful action. 2/7
We heard a lot of blather about ‘fundamental freedoms’ and a lot of reliving the past glory of being 1st & best with pandemic measures back in the spring (not sure that was ever true). He refused the most minimal, no cost actions like a mask mandate, enabling #covidalert or 3/7
allowing schools to go to scenario 2 much sooner. What did he hope to accomplish by all that obdurate stalling? It was obvious that restaurants and small businesses were floundering with people afraid to go out and spend money. 4/7
It was obvious that the science-denying mouth breathers who follow him would be upset no matter how minimally he ‘infringed’ on the rights he kept insisting on. It was obvious that more drastic action was needed to avoid the situation we’re in now. And still he stalled. 5/7
For nothing it seems, and less than nothing. He hurt the economy even MORE by utterly removing any chance to have a profitable Christmas when they waited so long. His followers are still upset and saying they will refuse to comply. The curve he wants to bend is FAR beyond 6/7
where it was when he was asked to act. And so many needless deaths. It will take enormous effort even to bring our case numbers back to early November levels. And he takes NO responsibility for any of it. Ideology has no place in true, effective leadership. 7/7
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