As of yesterday Alberta reached the milestone of 500 deaths due to covid and it would seem this is all due to the Kenney government. States of Emergency have been formally declared Provincewide and in Calgary as well. The only new restrictions and actions are closing schools early and opening one week later in January, some capacity restrictions on stores some capacity restrictions on churches but only in the larger centres, so basically nothing really, mask requirements in Calgary and Edmonton but we already have these in place! The whole thing is giant smoke and mirrors show as no Provincial mask mandate has been issued because Kenney is too scared of the rural backlash and too mired in ideology himself. Kenney himself has said "we cannot be led by dangerous ideology" like what science? public health? I have said from the very beginning that this little twerp is dangerously ideological, in fact his ideology and practices in this pandemic are more similar to Republican governors like Rick Desantis of Florida and even Trump himself, more worried about economic damage (and thus political damage) than human lives. In fact we are just learning today about secret recordings where we can hear Health Minister Tyler Shandro and other conservatives pressuring the Public Health authorities in ways that are "combative and not collaborative", in other words Kenney was more worried about the economy than the public health. The CBC article where I first read this also accused Kenney of hiding behind Deena Hinshaw when he didn't want to appear too tough on restrictions. It's nuts, this guy and conservatives in general are such fucking idiots, overruling the experts and micromanaging Dr. Hinshaw herself and this is where we are folks! At an average of around 1,500 cases a day we are close to matching Ontario and Quebec who have populations 3 or 4 times that of Alberta. I just think well, it's likely your voting base Kenney, reap those rewards. The only unfortunate thing is that our next election is almost 2 years from now. Kenney is an anti-masker in the mold of so many Republicans. OK so just now listening to the live comments of Hinshaw who is saying the recordings are a betrayal of the "safe space" between the government and public servants, she is taking Kenneys side in a way, and I just want to scream into a pillow as these non-political idiots have no idea! They are Dr.s not pundits they have no concept of politics and really most of the time are total doorknobs, Gord's sister is a former public health official like this, such a Polyanna and enabler of the bad behaviour of her husband and father, these people are not schooled in the humanities or history, they have no clue about the world and the intentions of ambitious little men. And here I thought that on American Thanksgiving I was going to have a day off of the news! Sheesh!
Meanwhile in the good ol' USA Trump continues to hide, other than pardoning the turkeys named Cob and Corn and of course Michael Flynn this week! He also appeared for a 30 second speech to tout how great the stock market was and how it was all due to him but in actuality was in reaction to the formal signing of the GSA form that gives Biden the money and access to transition. The US is seeing around a million cases every week and is right on track for total disaster by Christmas. People are flying and driving all over for Thanksgiving, it's a disaster in the making!
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