Here are my initial thoughts on the announcement today.
YES I’m relieved measures are finally being implemented.
BUT they’re a hodgepodge of rules that still pander to the unvaccinated and are difficult to understand (see @UbakaOgbogu tweet), let alone implement: 🧵 1/n 1.The only ABSOLUTE restriction is for indoor social gatherings (10 max for vaxxed, no for unvaxxed) which is essentially unenforceable.

Let’s deconstruct these unreasonable, unscientific arguments one by one.
1. The monitoring measures that are being eliminated are not “extraordinary measures.” They are the basic tenets of public health for disease control and are continuing around the world.

https://twitter.com/AdamMacVicar/status/1422973750367203330

2. We are not yet at the stage of “living with covid.” That implies that it’s endemic (Rt=1, steady state). It’s not. We’re still in a period of exponential growth with an novel variant and insufficient vaccination to reach herd immunity.

The Alberta government has committed to infecting all children with the delta variant come fall. Why is this problematic? 1/n 1. There are over 500 000 children younger than 12 in the province. If even 0.05% get a severe complication like pneumonia or MIS-C, that’s 250 pediatric hospitalizations.

I never thought I would leave Alberta. I’ve lived in the US,Australia & BC but Alberta has always felt like home.Yes, even a minority immigrant female can be a prairie girl at heart. Under the UCP, my husband and I are seriously considering leaving. We are both physicians. Thread My sister is a physician. My brother in law is a physician. My sister in law is a physician. We all live in Alberta and we are alarmed by the rapid dismantling of our health, education, and social systems. The UCP values profit over people,