Dr Markland is my favourite medical storyteller in Alberta, but I'm aching for the days when he can come home fulfilled from a great day at work, spend time with his family, then have the option to tell uplifting medical stories.
Dear @strombone1 - I hope you don't mind me referring to you for this analogy.
Most healthcare workers just want to make save after save, appreciated but not world-famous, and then go home to their families, and spend time recharging & enjoying life.
@strombone1 They want to be like this privately, or if called out in public, like this.
Instead, Alberta's healthcare workers are the world-class goalie, watching rest of team get pulled off the ice during sudden-death 4OT
1, 2 skaters gone - goalie yelling WTF at Coach
3,4 gone - goalie screaming up to GM & Owner
5 gone - goalie is begging to fans to get help.
In USA, leaders say "Hopes & Prayers" and "Don't exploit death for politics" when they must control guns.
Alberta?
• 2nd/3rd Wave "Personal Responsibility"
• 3rd/4th Wave "Get Vaccinated - Your Choice"
• 4th Wave "Endemic" and "Modelling"
Not real "Public Health Measures".
Correction: it isn't 816 Albertans in Hospital from COVID-19, it is 1084.
268 in ICU; 816 in non-ICU.
• Many of the 816 would be in ICU if it were not full
• So eg. Internal Medicine wards without Ventilators do their best to keep those folks alive until ICU spot w Vent opens
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Oops. I mistakenly left out @gilmcgowan and @ABFedLabour for not only providing funding, but for getting court approval to act as a party (plaintiff) in case the children became too sick to continue.
There are a lot of reasons to like Gil, but that one is special for me.
Just before Christmas, I was asked by a friend still traumatized by her harasser to help her report to the police, who recommended she get a Civil Restraining Order without Notice.
AB Justice website providing advice for this is flawed. Here's what to do until it is fixed.
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The @CalgaryPolice recommend this website, which AFAIK is OK for the majority of situations they attend: Restraining Order in Family Law situations.
But for the "Civil Restraining Order", aka Restraining Order from Civil Court, it is deeply flawed.
In Alberta, babies under 1 year old are getting clobbered by Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), and it is overloading our children's hospitals:
• Hospitalized at 36x the rate of average Albertan
• Hospital & ICU at 3x rate of COVID in babies under 1
Typical LaGrange-style quote in reporting by @JenLeeCBC:
"In a statement emailed to CBC News, a spokesperson said the hospital is seeing an increase in respiratory admissions, which "aligns with seasonal trends.""
Expecting mothers should speak with their family physician or obstretician (like @FionaMattatall) about getting vaccinated during their pregnancy to protect their newborns. (I'm not a doc)
RSV shots are $1000 each, but perhaps other immunizations.
Both last year and this year, peak weekly flu shots administered was in week 42:
• This yr, only 243,207
• Last yr, 330,264
Many of us are now off from school or work for the Xmas holidays. Good time to get vaccinated. It should help you for January return to school or work.
3-min video posted 31 Oct 2024 by Liricom & Plenary shows what they expect provincial taxpayers to build + operate for them between airport & "Grand Central Station".
Before I get into pros and cons, let me just help you figure out their bizarre colours:
🟧 for Calgary Airport Downtown Express track that is at grade or in the 80th Ave tunnel
🟦 Teal (close enough) for stations
🟨 for track that is elevated from Bow River near zoo to Crowchild
Why does it need to be elevated from south shore of Bow River near Zoo, to Downtown West End before Crowchild?
Because CPKC wouldn't let them stay parallel at grade though downtown. Needed to be elevated to not interfere with freight loading/unloading at grade.