Thread by @AB_MD_WarRoom

Dr Hinshaw shows up wearing a mask for some reason and does the performative thing with the hand sani.
She says she's pleased to be back.
Then she talks about the numbers going up and blames unvaccinated people but not herself.

She says two doses of vaccines is important for delta variant but for some reason doesn't mention that her reopening strategy was only based on one dose %

She says numbers will keep going up for cases but it is less likely that hospitalizations and deaths will rise. That last part is probably written in pencil tho.

She says other viruses will increase now and that people will need to be tested for those other respiratory viruses....here it comes....

She says some anxiety is only natural about the shit she's about to say. It's going to seem drastic but really it's not because it's not like we were really keeping you safe much before.

Quarantine is voluntary now. If your close contact is sick you don't have to stay home. You should. But you don't have to. It's voluntary. Kind of like the travel restriction was voluntary for UCP MLAs even tho it was the law

No masks in schools in September. Because there are ???no kids under 12 there???

Testing for COVID will be going away by the end of August so that we never identify the stampede variant of COVID "West Denial Virus."

"COVID is not something we have to fear. It is something we need to respect." she says.
Unlike her boss who we should fear but not respect.

She ends with a "call to arms". Get it? The vaccine goes into your arm. Like the tube goes down your throat.

She says "Please use RELIABLE information to make your decisions."

Now she is taking questions.

First question: "The pandemic to endemic thing is a political thing, not a scientific fact right?"

Answer: "Well have to decide how to best use our resources."

Wait till she hears about that imaginary pipeline.

Follow up: "Are you getting some pressure about how much COVID is costing?"

Answer: "When I say resources I mean people [who are really cheap actually cuz we're going to be cutting all their salaries]"

"Other stuff is going on besides COVID you know."

yah climate change bro

Next question "Are there going to be outbreaks in schools?"

Hinshaw says she has kids under 12 and all parents know how to manage risks and THEN SHE BASICALLY SAYS COVID ISN'T AS BAD AS THE FLU.

Follow up "Will cases go up because you're stopping contact tracing"

VERBATIM ANSWER: "It's difficult to predict what's going to happen because of these changes."

She looks awful confident while giving this answer which is basically

Q: how about a 3rd booster of Pfizer
A: we are watching the data and recommendations on this
[buuuuut not on masking
not on contact tracing
not on quarantine
not on schools
not on ventilation.....]

Follow up Q: Alberta has worse vaccination numbers than the national average. If people need boosters don't you think hesitancy will grow?

Hinshaw says that's just musing.

Reporter doesn't point out that her whole fucking announcement was based on weaker musings. Polite guy.

Q: why doesn't anyone in High Level want to get vaccinated?

Hinshaw: there's a variety of reasons people don't get vaccinated. Maybe there are bumpy roads and they don't have pickup trucks.

Hinshaw says the rates of vaccination under 40 are really low maybe because people think COVID can't make them sick when they are young.

Her face stays totally straight so probably the light hasn't come on yet....
YOU JUST SAID THE FLU IS WORSE IN YOUNG PEOPLE HINSHAW

Question about the bull shit numbers on Friday. What do you say to Albertans about you not being transparent.

Hinshaw says she didn't MEAN to mislead people. It kind of just happens effortlessly

Q: How can you saying the stampede was no big deal when it hasn't even been 2 weeks since the end of stampede?

Hinshaw says they are still monitoring stampede cases [which is up to 84 today not 71] and then spends a lot of time explain all the work they do to try and attribute the case to something other than stampede such as a house party where there was no country music even at all.

Q: what is your tolerance # for how many cases before you do something? Lots of people get really sick and die without ever going to hospital.

A: ur right COVID is still serious [buuuut also not serious like I said before]

Q: what is your attitude towards people who voluntarily wear masks?

A: it's reasonable to wear masks and we are even looking at COVID in wastewater to give good advice

Reporter doesn't follow up with obvious question about if this shitty plan will be in the wastewater

Q: what else are you going to do to encourage vaccination?

Hinshaw says other groups will do a better job than governments on that. Groups like the doctors and pharmacists who AHS tells to shut up and who her boss Tyler yells at on their driveways.

She points out they also have a website so everything will be fine.

She says we should respect everybody's choice about if they wear a mask or if they get a vaccine or if they make the worst ever decisions as like the CMOH or something

Comms guy ends the questions by saying "have a safe evening" and everybody in the cafeteria who is watching this bull shit yells "HOW?"