Thread by @Norlaine

Anyone catch the gong show with Shandro and Hinshaw this afternoon? Asked flat out whether AB would get a vaccine passport program like other provinces, Shandro refused to answer. Several times. "It's not simple" he said. #ABhealth #COVIDAB 1/16

He offered up a word salad about inputs and managing things. A vaccine passport program is so darn tough to figure out that BC, Manitoba, Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, PEI, and Quebec have put together some form of vaccine passport. 2/16
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Asked why the much-touted models have proved to be so wrong, Hinshaw said she's doing her best. Asked why Albertans should still trust her, she said she can't control other people's trust. 3/16

Well, actually, she can. By being seen to do the right things for the health of Albertans despite what her political masters might want. By being honest, instead of hiding and saying the dog ate her data, or whatever excuses were offered. 4/16

Shandro had the audacity to suggest that Albertans were not onside with a vaccine passport system because it would violate people's rights and privacy. What about the rights of vaccinated people to go out and do things secure in the knowledge that they are safe? 5/16

What about the privacy of people who, even though they did all the right things, fall victim to contagion from the unvaccinated and find themselves in a hospital gown that flaps open at the back? 6/16

Just who is the UCP representing? Not me, that's for darn sure. Not the people I know. Who is benefitting from letting COVID spread? Not the people getting sick. Not the health care professionals working themselves to exhaustion. 7/16

Not the people whose surgeries and treatments have been cancelled. Not the hospitality industry who have been hit by this weird 10 pm drinking curfew (Hinshaw said people don't get drunk before 10 pm as explanation. How out of touch is that?) 8/16

Not the small businesses who are bracing for what seems to be an inevitable shut-down in the near future. Not the workers who will be laid off again if that happens (and if the CPC win the election there will be no CERB, etc to keep them afloat). 9/16

Not the under-12 kids who cannot be vaccinated, or their families, or their teachers. Not any Albertans who are incredibly tired and stressed out by the lack of any certainty or security in this ongoing saga of mismanagement. 10/16

So, who EXACTLY is benefitting from the way the UCP are running this pandemic response? Is it for-profit health and insurance corporations who will step in after the Alberta public health system collapses? 11/16

Is it undertakers? Is it "the base"? The yellow-vesters and truck-nuts crowd who deeply mistrust anyone with book-learnin'? Is there someone who would like to see Alberta's population reduced? 12/16

"Follow the money" is always a good strategy for digging out reasons and shining some sunlight on dark, creepy situations. Who stands to gain from soaring COVID numbers in Alberta? 13/16

It's not Albertans. So, who? Who is Kenney and Shandro and the rest of the UCP actually working for? What is the end game? It may be as simple as bull-headed ideology and saving votes from the base, but I think it's much more complicated than that. 14/16

It's honestly hard to imagine that anyone could be so very wrong at every step about how to manage this. There is motivation for their actions. We need some good investigative journalists to do some deep digging and find out what that incentive is. 15/16

In the meanwhile, we need to take up our sidewalk chalk and demand #VaccinePassportAB 16/16