🧵Just a friendly reminder that at this time a year ago, social gatherings of more than 10 people were illegal in Alberta. Furthermore, those gathering had to be vaccinated. In other words, even family members couldn't come to your small Christmas party. 1/
A year ago, this was considered a normal way to broadcast a hockey game. 2/
A year ago, showing a vaccine QR code to enter a restaurant was considered normal. Today, asking if someone who recently had a heart attack was vaccinated is not. 3/
A year ago, making people spend up to a week in a quarantine hotel after returning home from a vacation was considered normal, even if they were healthy and had no symptoms.
A year ago, filling a skateboard park with sand to prevent kids from using it was considered normal.
A year ago, Alberta legalized discrimination through its Orwellian double speak program called "The Restriction Exemption Program". Some businesses even got money to promote discrimination.
A year ago in Alberta, the government was handing out $100 gift cards to encourage people to get vaccinated. The government even gave $1 million to a lucky Albertan, a teacher of course.
Don't forget what the politicians did to us. Remember that this was encouraged by senior bureaucrats and supported by an army of middle managers at every level of our governments.
A year ago, Alberta was arresting kids who just wanted to play outdoor hockey. In one instance, they even threatened a kid with a taser and knocked him to the ground with violent force.
Germany's transition to "green" is a monumental failure, and a clear example of reality vs. political ideology (ie. lunacy). Canada should do the same quickly, and drop it's carbon tax. 1/
A few years back, I was the Vice President of Pieridae's Goldboro LNG project. We signed an agreement to sell Canadian LNG to a German utility company called Uniper, back on May 31, 2013. That contract was for 20 years and valued at $35 billion. 2/
he contract was quietly executed in a Halifax hotel because the German government basically didn't want anyone knowing about it. It was an early admission that their transition to "green energy" was failing badly. 65 million German citizen need a lot of energy. 3/
🧵 For the morons in Alberta who want to bring back masks, here's some real science. Below are two screenshots of the Alberta Health "Severe outcomes" tab . Left is the latest (Nov 7), and right is start of current school year (Aug 29). 1/
During that time period, a total of 2,103 Albertans ended up in hospital. Of those, 1,335 (64%) were folks over the age of 70. That cohort is over 85% triple boosted and over 95% double boosted. That group doesn't move about a whole lot in the winter. 3/
My great-grandfather Rufin Arsenault. In his memoirs he recounts how a Maj. McManus from BC called him Lt. Arketnot, to which he replied "I beg your pardon sir, my name is ARSENAULT". The Maj replied "I can't pronounce those f**cking Irish names". He was French. 1/
He went on to become the editor of the largest French Canadian newspaper west of Quebec, L'Evangeline in Moncton, NB. He later moved his family to Ottawa, where he had an impressive political career. Him on the right, my grandmother on the far left. My great uncles in uniform 2/
My grandmother (previous post) married my paternal grandfather, Benoit, at the start of WW2. He served 3 years. I heard stories about him at the legion when I was a university student. By all accounts he was quite the character, but war "broke" him, and he didn't live to be old.
Quick Alberta COVID Update. Hospital admissions (brown line) continue to lag the roll-out of the 4th dose campaign (red dots). Draw your own conclusions. We have more people in hospital with COVID than during the first 4 waves. I bet 80%+ are vaxxed. 1/
Alberta is on track for almost 1,900 COVID deaths in 2022. Almost 3 years into the pandemic, and nothing has improved, nothing has worked. It's obviously endemic at this stage. 2/
This chart is interesting. I plot deaths vs. ICU admissions [Different scales for analysis]. To me, the gap is an indication of survivability of the strain and/or the vaccine's effectiveness. Looks like the virus has been "deadlier" in '22, or the vaccines are not very effective.
🧵Just a quick recap of 2022 so far. It started out with Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergency Measures act on the advice of the RCMP. The RCMP told him there was a fringe element called "Diagolon" whose aim was to overthrow the government. 1/
Turns out that Diagolon is a meme created by a retired CAF member-turned comedian. The RCMP sent a team from Ottawa to arrest a single mom named Tamara Lich in Medicine Hat. Her crime? Posting on social media and making fun of Justin Trudeau. 2/
Trudeau's crime? Massive government overreach. Tamara spent 2 months in jail, without bail. Back in Sask., some loser with a rap sheet 14 pages long gets arrested and released 59 times by the RCMP. On his last release he goes on a rampage and kills 10 people with a knife. 3/
What's going on here? Alberta recently updated it's "Causes of death" statistics for 2021. The leading cause last year, with 3,362 recorded deaths (yellow bars), was 'Other ill-defined and unknown causes' . 1/
All the other causes, except COVID deaths, are trending with the population growth, so the 'unknown causes' appear to be mostly excess deaths. Other than COVID, what could be causing so many excess deaths in Alberta (and in Canada)? Draw your own conclusions. 2/
The beauty of the big government machine is that thousands of clerks just go on recording data every day. In the end, government censors won't be able to suppress all the damning evidence about COVID and how the pandemic was mishandled. 3/