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#COVID19AB Balanced Scorecard
Thu 23 Sep

Sorry for late start on this - was watching today's @PopAlberta broadcast for a third time. So many good shows there πŸ‘€

youtube.com/channel/UCXWbl… ImageImageImage
Last night between 4.16pm and 10.12pm, I assembled a monster Balanced Scorecard thread (rope?) of 31 tweets.

I wanted to give extra attention:
β€’ We're becoming 2 different Albertas with COVID-19
β€’ Non-ICU Wards have become ICU to prevent triage

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Finished reading ALL of it?

I'm going to build on it a bit. Remember my analogy that covid-19 under bad government is like riding a canoe on a rollercoaster?

We have two canoes now.
β€’ Calgary and Edmonton, leading/front going down
β€’ Rest of Alberta, leading/front going up.
Example: Test Positivity

AB average going down, now 10.33%
β€’ dominated by Calgary Zone down to 6.95% and Edmonton Zone 8.35%
β€’ while rest of Alberta goes up
β€’ Central 16.3%, North 19.37%, 14.24% and rising

alberta.ca/stats/covid-19… ImageImage
Despite the divergence:
β€’ which is both an outcome of divide-and-conquer strategy by our Premier
β€’ and also enables more
β€’ we still all share the same hospitals
β€’ and deaths outside Calgary & Edmonton are rising Image
We have an entire province glued to social media and news for the point ICU overload triggers triage.

IMHO (see last night's thread) we would have reached it on weekend if not for non-ICU Wards like Internal Medicine saying to ICU:give us as many of your patients as possible. Image
And @AHS_media media Dr Verna Yiu put it bluntly: we would have triggered triage already if not for people dying in roughly same quantity as new admissions.

Life-and-death "equilibrium". For now.

People are still arriving in exponential numbers.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
Even though today was part of the "Chief Medical Officer Updates" many people have tuned her out.
β€’ sticking to her model and stories about the UK despite the actual evidence from Alberta
β€’ keeping June model secret until too late
β€’ "Endemic"

They are there for Dr Yiu. Image
We're supposed to be getting province-wide wastewater testing results published on Alberta Health stats page soon, right?

@ucalgaryCHI is still publishing. While R for Calgary is slowing...

Trend since 1 July: Number of infected people in Calgary shedding virus still rising. ImageImage
So between the two threads, we're just about through the whole scorecard.

You're ready for the pop quiz now, right?

Deaths & Vax left.

I'll do Vax another day. Want to give it a deeper dive.
Deaths. What we are all trying to avoid.*

New graph, just on this. I don't want to extrapolate the trend out further, and I have already increased the vertical axis more than I want.

Many wonderful people are knocking themselves out to stop this.*

* Notable exceptions. ImageImage
Love and care for each other.

These are tough days now, and ahead.

We're making history - in realtime - that people in all sorts of disciplines will study later.

Influence that for the better, however you can.

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Mar 14
🧡Respected Alberta political scientist @DuaneBratt posted in the friendlier place this same-day review of Health Min LaGrange's Statement of Defence in wrongful termination lawsuit from fired AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.

I have some thoughts too...

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@DuaneBratt AB Justice Minister posted a link to the Statement of Defence from the Dropbox of a Heather Jenkins, who appears to be the Ministry's Press Secretary.

alberta.ca/news-spokesper…

x.com/mickeyamery/st… Screenshot of Min Amery's link showing the Statement of Defence on Heather Jenkins' Dropbox.
Screenshot from GoA "Media Inquiries" page showing role of Ms Jenkins.
@DuaneBratt GoA is again using external counsel rather than (excellent) in-house lawyers, just as they did in CM v Alberta in 2022, when LaGrange was Minister of Education.

Taxpayers paid for their representation + Justice Dunlop's penalty to pay Plaintiff's Costs.

canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/doc…Style of Cause for CM v Alberta Ruling on costs, from CanLII link in my tweet.
Scathing conclusion from Justice Dunlop's ruling, same link.
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Mar 13
🧡

The Honourable Raymond E. Wyant, former Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba, certainly has a sparkling resumΓ© and history of service.

However, there may be a problem with him providing these legal services to the Government of Alberta.

alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI…
That problem: no evidence that Judge Wyant is entitled to practice law in Alberta.

Search result from Law Society of Alberta directory, which lists lawyers of different practising statuses:
β€’ lots of Raymond___
β€’ no ___Wyant

/c @KathleenGanley

documents.lawsociety.ab.ca/wp-content/upl…no result for Wyant last name
Lots of Ray and Raymond, but none with last name Wyant
I've tagged my MLA Kathleen Ganley on this, as she is a lawyer and former Justice Minister. I am neither, so I would appreciate her review of this, with advisors at @albertaNDP as required.

It is baffling to me, but as a layperson I looked deeper...
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Mar 10
Hey Bath Fitter!

You're apparently renovating the bathroom above my friend's high-rise condo suite in NW Calgary, and here's what you (?) have done to her ceiling. Your "installer" apparently ran down to say he would "clean it up".

She called condo mgr.

bathfitteralberta.caPhoto of hole in ceiling - IIRC this WAS the access panel from suite below to tub in suite above.
Rain shower head in lower suite covered in junk
Way more debris in the floor drain of my friend's shower
Access panel from ceiling fallen into my friend's shower, likely because Bath Fitter or whoever did not come to "access" the bathtub below through it first.
My friend is worried about her safety. We recently had to get restraining order against a man who nearly sexually assaulted her there on 16 Dec 24.

πŸ’© condo manager GAVE THE PREDATOR her suite number and allowed him up to her floor, without checking ID or calling her.

@CBCMeg
@CBCMeg So this banging on her bathroom ceiling and shower floor today..

..is reminding her of the man banging on her door on Mon 16 Dec 2024..

..is flashing back to an abusive marriage where my friend hid/barricaded in the bathroom from a husband banging on the bathroom door.
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Mar 9
Sunday Brunch Buffet at @HyattCalgary with my sister for her birthday tomorrow. All this chef-prepared food, on heavy plates and silverware, and graceful perfect service for $45.

Don’t tell her I could probably afford this more than once/year.

thomsonskitchenbar.ca/promotions
And yes, my video work is extremely sub-par. @rodmaldaner would give it an F if he were teaching me in a class. 😏

But:
β€’ I’m hungry. Come film and eat your own.
β€’ I promised the staff no faces - chefs, customers, staff. Just food.
@rodmaldaner Before the pandemic, @HyattCalgary used to have a weekday breakfast buffet. Best value in town.

First course would be sliced melon, with more of my weight in smoked salmon than a sea lion would eat, by proportion or absolute. My plate today of buttery, fork-tender smoked salmon with assorted melon, capers and berries.
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Mar 9
🧡I remember when AHS was an arms-length agency that delivered health care, and left the politicking to Health Minister, currently @AdrianaLaGrange.

Now, "refocused" AHS is schlepping Premier @ABDanielleSmith self-serving idea to dump $80m MHCare/Atabay boondoggle on Ukraine. Screenshot of tweet 1/7 below.
@AdrianaLaGrange @ABDanielleSmith @JMeddings @alanna_smithh @TheBreakdownAB @JenLeeCBC @PfParks @LukaszukAB @reportrix @CheSkulskiCTV @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt We know 120 mg/5 mL is European concentration, and 160 mg/5 mL is N American.

Yet you paid MHCare Medical $70m for 5m bottles (10-14x Canada's annual demand) of European concentration, when Atabay would have happily mixed the Canadian concentration in this custom order for us. Image
@AdrianaLaGrange @ABDanielleSmith @JMeddings @alanna_smithh @TheBreakdownAB @JenLeeCBC @PfParks @LukaszukAB @reportrix @CheSkulskiCTV @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt This "risk was identified" AFTER this thick suspension clogged the tiny diameter gastric feeding tubes of infants in Neonatal ICU, not "children under two years of age".

Evasive minimizers!

And you still defended this off-label use afterwards.

albertahealthservices.ca/news/Page17971… Tweet 3 of 7
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Mar 7
I have friends in Ukraine, including one in the Armed Forces. I did not speak with him this morning (would never reveal when I did) but I spoke to other friends about this proposed unsellable, expiring inventory dump disguised as an "aid shipment."

Like me, they were disgusted.
🧡 to come later, after my Ukrainian friends and I have done some more research. Likely on the weekend.

#MHCareMedical #Atabay #ChildrensAcetaminophen #Boondoggle

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1851465…Photo of glass bottle of children's acetaminophen, manufactured by Atabay of Turkey, but customized for Canada and imported by MHCare Medical, as part of an $80m boondoggle.
I dream of the day I can join my friends for Shashlik in Kyiv in a free and peaceful Ukraine.

If I forgot to restrict replies to people I follow only, I guess I will got trolled for that.

Hide Reply + Block will be my πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ weapons instead of a πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ rifle.

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