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Barbara Larochelle

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8 Aug

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

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Barbara Larochelle

@BarbLarochelle

6 Aug

To those who have been out at the rallies & protests: thank you. I’m sorry to hear you have had to put up with the confrontational anti-maskers and covidiots. Remember—their noise & vitriol is a sure sign of desperation. They are wrong. They have NOTHING to stand on. 1/6

They are deluded. And in some cases, they are evil to want to subject our children and their OWN children to what we see happening with this Delta variant everywhere else. Alberta is not exceptional and we will not avoid this. The reasons UCP has given us for abandoning 2/6

all basic public health protocols are lies and we all know it. They are covering up their own huge gamble and loss in having the Stampede open the way it did. All they have left is to hide the evidence of their incompetence and prevail upon their useful, brainwashed idiots to 3/6

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Barbara Larochelle

@BarbLarochelle

6 Aug

One question I’ve seen Dr. Hinshaw persistently sidestep is whether she presented any *other* plans in that July 8 cabinet meeting. Was this debacle-in-the-making the *only* plan? That date seems so significant. It was the *lowest* new cases and + test % in months or since. 1/4

It was one week past the July 1 ‘opening’—so before the 10-14 days when the cases would start rising as a result, with the added ‘cushion’ of the kids having been out of school for 12 days. AND it was the day before Stampede started. Very calculated. 2/4

So, again, is what we’re facing now the ONLY plan they discussed on that day? Or is this the ‘let’s call it over, no matter what happens’ plan? Or the ‘how do we cover if Stampede ends up being a super spreader’ version? And… 3/4

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Barbara Larochelle

@BarbLarochelle

31 Jul

For people wondering what ‘science’ Hinshaw was looking at to make this latest covid gamble, let’s review:
—doctors implored them in early November to do a short ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown. Kenney hid at home, they ignored it, and they still had to impose restricitons 1/6

in late November. They torpedoed Christmas retail and restaurant seasons while UCP staff & MLAs jetted off on vacations.
—in March, they were again cautioned that there would be a 3rd wave, they again ignored all advice, and again had to back down and impose restrictions. 2/6

Kenney had to close the #ableg to avoid answering questions about that.
—When they declared ‘open for summer’, they ignored all advice to go more gradually, or that the Stampede could be a super spreader, and bulldozed ahead. 3/6

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Barbara Larochelle

@BarbLarochelle

29 Jul

I don’t want to see anyone get suffer or die from covid, but I do have a wish list of things I’d like to see happen as a result of or complement to today’s dangerously reckless health announcements:
—companies considering investing/relocating here change their minds 1/4

—Albertans ‘managing their own risks’ by staying away from non-essential businesses with no covid protocols in droves.
—UCP supporters letting Kenney and the gang know they have lost their support for good
—Kenney confronted about this EVERYWHERE he goes or speaks 2/4

—other provinces closing their borders to Albertans
—UCP’s fundraising efforts to be absolutely decimated
—schools to develop their OWN protocols, including masking for students
—worldwide mocking and derision of Kenney and UCP, as they deserve 3/4

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Barbara Larochelle

@BarbLarochelle

28 Jul

We expected it and everyone else’s numbers are up too. It’s the people who aren’t vaccinated. We need more people vaccinated. Who’s surprised?

The “threat is shifting” Hinshaw says. The rising case numbers have “caused some anxiety”. Could she be any more of an automaton?

Hinshaw says “Today we are in a very different place.” We have to weigh the impacts of interventions, she says. In other words, UCP doesn’t want to do anything about this wave. We’re on our own.

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