Thread by @Norlaine

Our MLA, @MirandaRosinAB penned an article for the local High Country News in which she expresses how upset she is with public health orders and the "loss of freedom". 1/25+
highcountrynews.ca/mla-update-mir…

Ms Rosin is not stranger to controversy or conspiracy theories. Oct 2018, while campaigning, Rosin said about healthcare: "I think we need to look at a two-tiered system, so that we can get those who have worked hard for their money out of the system if they would like to.”2/25+

She said COVID concentration camps would only be the work of the federal government, and in November released a statement declaring the worst of the pandemic was over. 3/25+

I have written Ms Rosen a letter in response to her High Country News article, which I would like to share. I hope it inspires some of you to write to your MLAs expressing your feelings. 4/25+

Ms Rosin,
I am one of your constituents. I read your “update” in the High Country News and I must say I am actually shocked. You bemoan public health measures to keep people safe from COVID. You suggest that we should not be having a mask mandate, 5/25+

yet research shows that mask use reduces transmission. You urge people to stop worrying about this disease and worry, instead, about the economy, and their apparent “loss of freedom”. Your words have consequences. 6/25+

Did you not see what Donald Trump’s words caused in Washington on January 6th? He did that. He fanned the flames of rage among his supporters. You are doing exactly the same thing. I know people who have been harassed for wearing a mask at the store in small towns in Alberta. 7/

It is people like you, and this thing you wrote, that empowers bullies to attack people for following the rules.
Public health measures are not some sort of conspiracy. Wearing a mask is not oppression. It is an act of kindness, of solidarity with one’s fellow citizens. 8/25+

We wear masks and wash our hands to keep ourselves and others from becoming ill. Honestly, what is wrong with you? You are a public employee. Your job, literally, is to work for the public good. Not to work for donors. 9/25+

Not to dog whistle Proud Boys or other right-wing supremacists. And certainly not to mislead the public into thinking COVID is no big deal, or some sort of conspiracy to enslave us. 10/25+

You are doing your constituents and all of Alberta a disservice when you take this attitude to a public health crisis. I know I should not be surprised. The UCP is the party of conspiracy theorists and science deniers, after all. 11/25+

However, if the UCP does not get its act together and get the vaccine delivery ramped up, your ratings in public opinion polls are going to continue to plummet. You come across as sounding like you don’t even think people should be vaccinated. 12/25+

Your government’s reluctance to get the vaccination process up and running quickly and effectively makes it appear that you are hoping to not vaccinate the general public. 13/25+

It’s outrageous. This is not something to play partisan politics with. People are dying. I don’t imagine you care because, after all, they aren’t people you are interested in, like the elderly and the poor. What was your Premier’s phrase? 14/25+

Oh yes. “People of lower human capital”. I think it’s absolutely shameful that you think the things you said in this article, and I think it’s even more shameful and disappointing that you wrote them out and published them. 15/25+

I really believe that the UCP is not here for Albertans. You demonstrate it at every opportunity, from making life more difficult for AISH recipients, to cutting health and education services, to opening up our pristine wilderness to coal mining. 16/25+

Your party does not seem to understand the concept of public service. It’s all about helping out the wealthy donors (including Australian coal companies, for some reason) and Albertans can just screw off. 17/25+

Jason Kenney clearly thumbed his nose at the entire province on New Year’s Day when he stood at a podium and lied to all Albertans about what he knew and when he knew it. A lot of Albertans have taken that to mean we are on our own to combat COVID. 18/25+

Our provincial government doesn’t care if we live or die.
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No concern, no respect, no humility, no compassion, instead, cruelty, callousness, and a blatant disregard for the lives of people you consider to be inferior.…. This describes the UCP and what your party has been doing to Alberta. 20/25+

Apparently it was far too much to expect that your collective responsibility for the wellbeing of Albertans would cause you to rise above your usual agenda of scorched earth greed. 21/25+

You should be ashamed of this article. You should be ashamed of your party. People are suffering and you can only encourage the anti-maskers and pretend that some political force is influencing the world’s response to a PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. 22/25+

COVID is not political. It should not be made political. Your job, and the job of all members of government, is to do everything you can to help ensure that your constituents are safe. 23/25+

Not mock and belittle the measures that have been proven to be effective in achieving that safety.

Do you really believe in what Jason Kenney is doing and saying? Do you really believe that some people are inherently more important than others? 24/25+

Do you see children as “trainees” as opposed to students (something Kenney said in another press conference), simply being prepared to be labour inputs into the wealth machines for the few? 25/25+

Do you have such little regard for science, the environment, and your fellow human beings that you willingly go along with UCP policy and agenda? 26/25+

I feel very little optimism so long as the UCP govern/rule Alberta for the benefit of donors and themselves. Albertans are alone in the fight against COVID. We have no representatives among the UCP.
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Ms Rosin will receive paper copies of this letter at both her constituency offices and her legislative office in the next few days. I am under no illusion that she will ever see them. 28/25+

The UCP does not care about Albertans. They are dangerous and dogmatic. They do not listen to criticism. (remember the earplugs Jason Kenney handed out to his caucus so they could shut out the voices of Albertans' representatives? thecailleach.blogspot.com/2019/06/on-ope…) 29/25+

The UCP are about as helpful to Albertans as a sack of rotting dingo kidneys. Please write to your MLA and tell them we have had enough. They have lost the confidence of the province, and the moral authority to govern. #DropTheWrit #ABVote2021 #ResignKenney 30/30