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Barbara Larochelle

29 Dec 20, 11 tweets, 2 min read

Kenney and Shandro both sound uncomfortable during the covid update. They also sound like they’ve been coached to try to sound more like they care about this situation, rather than downplaying it as usual.

Buuuuuut. Now Shandro is bragging about what a great job they’ve done. Or, in an alternate view, justifying the choices they’ve made.

Shandro is talking about ‘web tools’ they have purchased to track things. This would be a perfect opportunity for a reporter to ask about #covidalert

Why is Shandro spending so much time talking about what they government has done? It sounds like another shoe is going to drop. The field hospitals opening, maybe?

Ahhh. Now trying to explain what happened with the wage top ups. Are all the online complaints about these getting back to them somehow?

I hate how Shandro calls Kenny ‘Premier’ instead of ‘the premier’ or ‘Premier Kenney’. Other UCP do this too. It’s like “Great and Powerful Leader’ or something.

There is still a 7-8% positivity rate on tests. We have NOT put this behind us or anywhere near that. They are testing fewer people per day, but if they were testing 19,000 a day like they were, it would still be 1300-1400 cases a day.

Kenney’s excuse for why there will only be about 25% of the number of vaccines they had as a goal done by the end of the year doesn’t add up. Even if they held half back for a second dose, it’s far short. Now they’re vaccinating on Jan. 1 though. I wonder how that happened?

Oh! A reporter asked exactly that, just as I posted. Kenney still is not answering why the numbers don’t add up.

The doctor realizes the end of the calendar year is in 2 days, doesn’t she? They’re going to do 22,000 vaccinations between now and Thursday?

Kenney is concerned about ‘what we might see coming out of Christmas’ and that there might have been some socializing. Maybe after he said “If you’re not inclined to follow government rules, fine”? Also, the surge started 2 wks. after school went back in, not Thanksgiving.

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I’ll do what is asked and expected with the new health measures, even though I am really spitting mad at this whole thing. I was outside today for the first time in 2 weeks. We’ve been covid isolating because of a +covid case in our house. 1/7

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8 Dec 20

Kenney starts out by patting himself on the back and congratulating himself.

A long preamble about how the situation has become worse, all without acknowledging any responsibility for it whatsoever.

Now he is saying the measures they put in place in November were ‘significant’, even though it has escalated out of control. A dog whistle about the ‘secure government paycheques’.

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I don’t think I have it in me to listen to the covid updates anymore. I’m done hearing admonishments like “We must work together” when WE are so obviously not doing that, and when so much effort has gone into providing loopholes for people who refuse, but no consequences. 1/4

I’m sick of hearing ‘bend the curve’ when the goal always should have been to flatten it and then take it down to zero. I’m repulsed by the same people who equate the economy to the value of human lives lecturing me about behaviour that is not demanded of everyone. 2/4

It rings hollow to hear empty platitudes about personal responsibility and looking out for each other from the same people catering to others who are so selfish and weak that they can’t wear a scrap of cloth on their face for a few minutes or forgo their social activities. 3/4

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