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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SNEAKY, Premier Smith. You restricted mandate of Judge Wyant's "third-party investigation" to eliminate over $500m of AHS purchases alone from MHCare Medical.
No rapid tests
No PPE (Vanch masks, BYD KN95, fast food masks).
@alanna_smithh @DuaneBratt @JenLeeCBC @kim_siever @ByMatthewBlack @TimmCTV @Lorian_H @BarryHunt008 @JMeddings @PfParks Premier, I know the "Proposed Audit Scope" I hastily drew up isn't very neat, yet, but I was planning to put it into nice PDF for Auditor General (with footnotes to my source material) very soon.
Why don't you work from that?
@CarrieTait @markusoff
Premier @ABDanielleSmith maybe Health Min @AdrianaLaGrange hasn't told you yet, but former AHS CEO alleges:
"AHS bought ~$614m supplies + services from MHCare and other companies affiliated with Sam Mraiche, incl 2022/2023 contract for childrenβs ibuprofen/ acetaminophen."
Starting on π¦ this time, with Charles Rusnell's excellent work on MHCare Medical & Sam Mraiche v @NatePike and @TheBreakdownAB, I did some analysis on several kinds of journalism in this story:
β’ 2 mainstream
β’ 1 independent
β’ 1 new media
β’ 1 blogger
I wondered why Charles had been quiet on this story all day.
β’ he takes THOROUGH hand notes
β’ doesn't try to simultaneously live-tweet
β’Β not even 3 tweet summary afterwards.
Now I see why. Answering questions on that would have distracted him from thisπ.
π§΅Earlier this morning, I received attached chat messages from @KatyET #ABResistance, on BlueSky where I had not thought to block her, claiming they are acting "with the absolute knowledge and complete support of Nate".
I don't believe this is true - not to the extent stated.
@Katyet @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt @reportrix @gthomsonink @TimmCTV As someone unaware of the chat replied to my thread yesterday, in Nate's goodbye video on Sun 16 Feb, he said he would follow the rules of society, and not be like the people he criticizes (eg. TBA)
He would not circumvent the court order to criticize Mraiche through others.
@Katyet @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @DuaneBratt @reportrix @gthomsonink @TimmCTV Maybe Nate had emotional response to video made with audio clip from his show, and maybe the best rock song warmup ever.
That is NOT an endorsement of #MraicheMob, "ratfucker", tagging police, "Corruption Partnered with Mraiche", and the "rally" now in revisionism.
Very ugly things happening around MHCare Medical v Nate Pike lawsuit, especially approaching hearing Friday afternoon.
Many in #abpoli know ‡οΈ
I feel terrible for my friend Nate:
β’ Big "allies" like DKGray/ABResistance treating Mraiche like KJJ treated Mohamad Fakih, IMO
Like Mr Mraiche and Mr Fakih, I am Canadian and Muslim and born overseas. (Kenya, not Lebanon).
I can be those immutable things + CFL fanatic + engineer + father + advocate for ethical government and safe PPE/meds + free press + many other things simultaneously without conflict.
I don't know much about Mr Fakih or Paramount Fine Foods. Unfortunately, mainly through the terrible defamation and harassment he _truly_ suffered.
From KJJ and the mob he incited. Unlike Nate, and the self-appointed mob getting him in serious trouble.
Here's the Procedure Card I obtained this afternoon from Calgary Courts Centre for MHCare Medical v Nate Pike.
I understand from court clerks there is no publication ban and no sealed document.
Not tagging anyone on this because it might blow up your notifications. Bracing myse
I understand people want to demonstrate Friday to support Nate.
IMO, TERRIBLE idea. People may put up defamatory signs, and convoy or Coutts people who hate Nate could make things uglier. That will work AGAINST Nate.
The Justice will decide from what's IN Court, not OUTSIDE.
Procedure Card confirms report (CTV Calgary?) that Nate would file for appeal.
Not a lawyer, but IMO, STUPID WASTEFUL IDEA!
β’ Already have review Fri 28 Feb
β’ What Error in Law did Court make?!
β’ Appeal Court gives deference to trial court on Facts
β’ $200K GoFundMe π₯π₯π₯
@kim_siever @BarryHunt008 @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @PfParks @JMeddings @DanielleLarivee @gilmcgowan @reportrix @DuaneBratt But until last week, when they succeeded at muzzling my friend Nate Pike @TheBreakdownAB (I can't even tag them on this!) as part of their $6m suspected SLAPP, I hadn't looked into it the way I sometimes do.
@kim_siever @BarryHunt008 @alanna_smithh @ByMatthewBlack @PfParks @JMeddings @DanielleLarivee @gilmcgowan @reportrix @DuaneBratt @TheBreakdownAB It appears Orion Registrar Inc certified or re-certified MHCare Medical on 25 Nov 2024 for "Distribution of Medical Devices Class I, II, III, IV".