Thread by @BarbLarochelle

The worst premier Alberta has ever had says ‘We must learn to live with covid. Simple as that.’ Like it’s no big deal. Like thousands of Albertans didn’t die from it. Like even more Albertans are not living with long term, possibly permanent, adverse health effects from it. 1/14

What he means by ‘learn to live with it’ is starting next week, by the end of August, you will have no idea what kind of risk you or your unvaccinated children are facing, wherever you go in Alberta. You can’t find out if you have covid. You can’t get a test for it. No one 2/14

has to stay home from work or anywhere else. You won’t hear if any of your co-workers, family or friends have it. They won’t know, but also, no one from AHS would contact you. You won’t know if you are walking into a business or restaurant where possibly the entire staff 3/14

handling your food, cutting your hair, cleaning your teeth, checking your eyes, providing physiotherapy, looking after your kids, giving you an Uber ride, or anything else, has covid. They won’t know either. Their co-worker with sniffles? Maybe it’s just a cold. Maybe not 🤷‍♀️ 4/14

Or, if you go into a restaurant or a movie theatre, or a concert, the guy who coughed in the seat behind you or beside you? Maybe just a tickle in his throat. Maybe not 🤷‍♀️ Maybe his roommate at home just has a cold. Maybe he has covid. No one will know. 5/

Until someone is on the way to the hospital. The anti-vaxxers out there who have scoffed at all health measures all along—in this scenario, you’re ALL going to get covid. The Delta variant is as contagious as chicken pox. We had nearly 400 cases a day the past 2 days, 6/14

and that is doubling in about a week now. So, by the time we are cut off from testing numbers, that will be 700-800 cases a day. Next week. And those are only the cases we know about, because already they have stopped letting people with no symptoms get tested, 7/14

even if they are a close contact of someone who has covid.
We’ll have 1000s of new cases per day before August is over. Even if the numbers are hidden and even if Dr. Hinshaw and UCP are denying it. That’s how exponential growth works. 8/14

There are 1.5 MILLION Albertans who haven’t been vaccinated at all who could easily catch this. And those of us who are vaccinated—we can catch it too. We might not get as sick as you anti-vaxxers will be, but we can pass the virus we catch along to you. Or your kids. 9/14

Or our own kids. Alberta is not exceptional. This is coming. This is what Kenney, Shandro & Hinshaw want us all to ‘live with, simple as that’. Are you okay with the idea that you might have no idea you caught or were likely to catch covid until your symptoms 10/14

decline to the point were you need to be hospitalized? No idea which places to stay away from until it’s too late? There are no health benefits in living like this. No credible medical expert anywhere says it’s a good idea to do this right now. 11/14

They’re doing this to blur all the lines so we can’t get a clear picture of what opening for Stampede actually did. In a matter of days (if not already) it will be impossible to trace any case back to someone who caught it at Nashville North or in a bar on 17th Ave. 12/14

The one thing Kenney has done consistently is make sure there is someone else he can blame. Probably most of the people who got through this thread know all this and already agree with me. I don’t know if anything can change obstinate minds so hellbent on destroying us all. 13/14

But—maybe this will get through to someone, somehow. We will have to learn to ‘live with covid’, but expecting people to do that while flying blind and having no data or basic health measures is only going to lead to tragedy. Simple as that. 14/14