Thread time. I’m going to lay out all of the major concerns I have with the current state of affairs.
1. Well, we are in wave 4. The wave of delta. A more transmissible and virulent virus. We are seeing a rapid rise in cases and people getting sicker, especially the unvaxxed. /1
1. Well, we are in wave 4. The wave of delta. A more transmissible and virulent virus. We are seeing a rapid rise in cases and people getting sicker, especially the unvaxxed. /1
2. Not enough people are vaxxed. Our kids aren’t even eligible. Some parts of AB have barely 20% double vaxxed. Those same places have very high case numbers and high percent positivity (ex. 20% in the north zone). There is no new effort to increase vaxx rates. /2
3. Many unvaxxed pts I speak with are not anti-vaxxers. They are facing multiple social barriers to access vaccines. The province is not adjusting or ramping up its PH response to address this vaccination disparity, yet have stated that vaccines are what they are counting on. /3
4. People are coming in SICK and we are already having capacity issues. If we are this early in wave 4 and are dealing with capacity issues, boy are we in for a brutal fall. This is just the beginning. If the modeling out of BC is correct, our cases will quadruple in 1 month. /4
5. All of this and school hasn’t even started yet. COVID is about to let loose in an unvaxxed population. We have seen from the US that their pediatric beds are filling up because of Delta. Our children are being sacrificed for “freedom.” /5
6. Our case numbers are rising rapidly. Our hospitals are filling up. We are in a HCW staffing crisis and don’t have the ability to surge up like I’m waves 2 and 3. There are no field hospitals because we can’t staff them. We can barely staff our existing hospitals. /6
7. Our province is on fire and our leaders are MIA. It’s been weeks since we’ve heard from @jkenney @shandro or @CMOH_Alberta. We still haven’t seen the data we were promised either. They’ve gone into hiding as we we enter disaster mode and the public wants answers. /7
8. Barely any basic protective measures remain. Not even a mask mandate. No vaccine passports. No gathering limits. Nothing. They’re just letting Delta burn through the population.
When the do emerge, expect some deflection and gaslighting. I hope media asks tough questions. /8
When the do emerge, expect some deflection and gaslighting. I hope media asks tough questions. /8
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