Thread by @Norlaine

I listened to the press briefing this morning. I have take-aways and I have questions.
Main take-aways:
- Kenney is sucking up big time to faith groups, probably certain faith groups
- Kenney is basing the whole plan on the opening date for Stampede, July 9.
1/10

Questions:
- What about communities with lower than average vaccination uptake? This was asked by a reporter and it's an excellent question. The answer was that they are looking at the health of the population as a whole. 2/10

But, people travel, people are going to be going all over the place with summer and, apparently, stampedes... So what stops unvaccinated people from mingling with the general population, who have mostly only had 1 shot, or no shot if under 12, and making people sick? 3/10

- What about the under-12s? They have not been eligible for vaccination. You start letting everyone do whatever and what keeps the non-vaccinated from making the kids sick? 4/10

- What about variants? How much protection do we, with one dose of vaccine, have from the variants? I saw a figure of around 33%. That doesn't seem like enough to throw caution to the wind. 5/10

- And what about people coming from out of province? From outside the country, potentially bringing in variants we don't even know about yet and may not have any immunity to? 6/10

- If everything opens up and everyone is all happy and hanging out at restaurants and bars and stores and not worried about COVID anymore, what will motivate them to get that second shot when they become eligible? What happens if they don't? 7/10

- What happens if we see another spike in cases related to kids going back to schools this week? That would start shortly after Kenney promised everyone we would be in stage 1. Will he roll things back if that happens? Or do we wait until it gets really bad to backtrack? 8/10

- What if the Stampede and all the people coming from all over to attend sparks another wave? Is that OK because Stampede got to happen? It all seems a bit rushed, a bit too early, and a bit too focused on an arbitrary date based on an event that could make things bad again. 9/10

- Finally, will stores continue to offer curbside pickup once everything opens up? For those of us who trust the UCP as far as we could throw them, and those of us who just really prefer it to having to spend time in stores? 10/10