Thread by @BarbLarochelle

Feeling a bit of outrage fatigue. I know UCP likes to make digs about ‘the angry left’ (ie everyone who doesn’t support them or believe their lies), and maybe they’re trying to bombard us with their screw-ups until we’re numb to it all, but it’s ALL justified. 1/11

While we’ve been watching Kenney immolate what’s left of his credibility as a ‘leader’ over this Keystone XL debacle, it’s easy to forget that it’s only 10 days since we found out about the veto AIMCo will have over ATRF’s direction on how to invest hijacked pension funds. 2/11

It’s only 3 weeks since Kenney first tried to absolve his MLAs of blame in their hypocritical Christmas vacations, and less than that since he kicked a minister out of cabinet and another MLA out of caucus. 9 of them travelled. 5/11

It was only last week that teachers and students went back into the classroom, and amid all the rest of this, it has barely made a ripple in the news that there are *hundreds* of new covid cases in schools, and *dozens* of those caught covid AT school. In 9 days back. 4/11

The media has also largely ignored that the government decided to wipe the school outbreak map clean for a ‘fresh start’ in January, and raise the reporting threshold for outbreaks. When Dr. Hinshaw says ‘outbreak’ now, it means 5+ cases in a school, but it used to mean 2+ 5/11

Meanwhile, businesses are asking for sector-specific stats on covid transmission, only to be told they’re ‘working on it’. Haven’t they had like 10 months to figure this out? What data is driving the decision to keep some types of businesses closed, but not others? 6/11

And if there is no data available, then what is the decision based on? Wouldn’t it help if we had #covidalert ? Stop trying to make ABTraceTogether happen. It’s not going to happen. Also, kudos to Albertans who followed health measures over the holidays, because it helped 7/11

but those numbers are going to ramp right back up again now that we’re one incubation period back into school. That’s when the numbers took off in the fall, and they’re doing nothing different, so why should it be different now? 8/11

Also, we are hearing that the government intends to sell off registry and land title offices in yet another move to pad their balance sheets while giving up all the future revenue these bring in. Then will hear again how we have a spending problem, not a revenue problem. 9/11

AND there are still no contracts for doctors, still all the coal mining mess and attempt to gaslight us that they ‘paused’ when it’s only a tiny fraction, and on and on. Like I said, it’s outrage fatigue. But, it’s also important to not let all of this slip out of mind. 10/11

Any ONE of these disasters ought to dominate the news cycle for months, but each fresh hell we learn about tends to quash the others or push them aside. It’s cumulative. We need to remember ALL of it. Each new thing is not a one off. This is what UCP is. 11/11

I think I will retweet this every day:
#ResignKenney
#handsoffmypension
#covidalert
#NoToCoalAB
#UCPcorruption