Hinshaw and UCP MLAs are quick to bemoan the ‘harms’ from restrictions (while they brag about how few restrictions we’ve actually had) Surely there has been more long term harm in 1.5 years of inadequate half measures and relying on ‘personal responsibility’? 1/4
#FirebreakAB
In October last year and again in the spring when doctors said we needed a circuit breaker to slow the spread and UCP did nothing, they only succeeded in making the problem drag on and get worse, and then inevitably eventually having to impose restrictions. #FirebreakAB 2/4
Retailers lost their Christmas business, kids lost their graduations, and everyone suffered emotional, mental and financial harm because of their inaction. It is even worse now than it has ever been. #FirebreakAB 3/4
Can’t everyone see that a #FirebreakAB that is for a finite, defined time (with government supports for those who need it) and where we see real progress to bring this under control and end it, would do less harm in the long run? Imagine having a real end in sight. 4/4

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26 Sep
When the 1st covid wave hit, the Alberta government acted quickly to put restrictions in place, close the schools, etc. Overall, I can’t fault their initial reaction to a total unknown. But I also can’t help but think of how differently NDP/Rachel Notley would have responded 1/14
Rachel Notley would never have stood in the #ableg in May 2020 and undermined ALL future pandemic efforts by calling covid ‘an influenza’ that is primarily a problem for old people who have already outlived their life expectancy. 2/14
(By the way, did you know that the average age at death for covid has gone down from 82 to 79 since then?) That set the tone. The anti-vaxxing and anti-masking covidiots still spout some version of that. 3/14
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23 Sep
I wonder what it would take to get Hinshaw to admit that covid spreads in schools?
Even now, talking about the schools with an outbreak of 10% of kids absent (about 100 and counting), it’s like she’s talking about a fire drill or some minor incident. But with a lot of jargon-babble.
Janet French is asking why parents don’t have the right to know if there are covid cases in their child’s school. Hinshaw says “large scale transmission is schools is not common.” They don’t “drive transmission outwards”. Absolute, unadulterated B.S.
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1 Sep
Listening to the Protect Our Province update. @jvipondmd says if the doubling trend continues, we’ll have more than 400 patients in the ICU by Sept. 19. ICU staff says they are full now.
Interesting point about asymptomatic spread—some people have zero symptoms but can still spread the virus. Unlike the flu where if you have it, you *know* you have it and feel bad, so you know to stay home, with covid, you may not have any idea.
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28 Aug
So now we know for sure, no more speculating, that UCP’s plan was to use Alberta’s children as herd immunity lab rats for the economy. In yet another example of how stunningly indifferent they are to the people they were elected to represent, we know their plan for school 1/5
this fall is to “see what happens”. And the anticipated mid-Sept. peak of cases would be after allowing covid free rein to run out of control among the unvaccinated (including kids), after which covid ‘would have nowhere else to go’. But, never content to be just apathetic 2/5
if not downright immoral, UCP always has to compound that by also being utterly incapable of foresight or critical thought. Because we’re not seeing that sudden surge of cases followed by a rapid decline in cases, as they thought was happening in the UK (except, not) 3/5
Read 5 tweets
27 Aug
It’s interesting how one of UCP’s curriculum advisors cherry picks a somewhat complimentary 1st sentence from a school board that is not piloting the curriculum and also identified multiple concerns with it. Quotable if they compliment, but ‘special interest group’ otherwise? 1/4
School divisions across the province reviewed the new curriculum draft, involving the time and effort of THOUSANDS of Alberta teachers and producing hundreds (or more) pages of feedback. The feedback is objective and comprehensive. 2/4
All the feedback I’ve read through does point out strengths and things to build on or that need only slight revision or proofreading. However, because these are professionals who actually have and will work with the curriculum in real classrooms, they can also spot problems. 3/4
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24 Aug
O’Toole seems to be *saying* all the right things. His message is carefully crafted and CPC counts on people forgetting things he’s said & done before (like about residential schools and criticizing the vaccination program, among others, plus the juvenile port-a-potty video) 1/6
Since he became leader, his *main* tactic has been attacking Trudeau and trying to start controversies. I am not a Trudeau fan, but I can see that clearly. What is playing out is *exactly* like what we saw with Jason Kenney and the UCP in Alberta. 2/6
They said what people wanted to hear. They attacked NDP and Rachel Notley constantly. Many of us could see through it, but unfortunately, enough people fell for their lies that they got elected. 3/6
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